Don’t forget, Indigenous Peoples Day is Monday October 10, 2022. 🪶🪶 pic.twitter.com/Y8R4b8Lk5O
— Native American DNA (@nativeAmericadn) October 9, 2022
Indigenous Peoples Day is a holiday that celebrates and honors Native American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures. On October 8, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden became the first U.S. President to formally recognize the holiday. pic.twitter.com/6B143hpV4F
— IL ASCD (@ILASCD) October 10, 2022
Pretty extensive list of events linked here:
Earlier today, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation recognizing Oct. 10 as Indigenous Peoples' Dayhttps://t.co/Tq0aMkfUg1
— ICT (@IndianCountry) October 7, 2022
One year after President Biden became the first U.S. president to formally commemorate Indigenous Peoples' Day, more than a dozen states recognize some version of the holiday in lieu of Columbus Day. Here's the history behind it. https://t.co/aasFC7IVzS
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 9, 2022
… How do Indigenous groups feel about the day?
Activists in cities such as Denver and Seattle have protested Columbus Day for years and in many cases have fought to gain recognition for Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Unofficial celebrations of Indigenous cultures have also taken place, including on New York’s Randalls Island.
The Navajo Nation, the country’s largest tribe with about 400,000 people, has long voiced its support for renaming the day.
“Transforming Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day will encourage young Navajos to have pride in the place and people they come from and the beauty they hold within,” Jonathan Nez, the president of Navajo Nation, said last year in a statement before Mr. Biden’s first proclamation.
However, some say mere observance of the day doesn’t do enough, and point out that no American president has explicitly apologized for the country’s treatment of Indigenous peoples. Others call it an important first step.
“I think it really recognizes that Indigenous people are still here,” said Alannah Hurley, executive director of United Tribes of Bristol Bay, a consortium of Indigenous communities in Southwest Alaska, and a Yup’ik fisherwoman. “We just have been struggling for so long for the vast majority of mainstream America and culture to recognize that — that we are not just in history books.”
She added, “We’re still fighting for our lands and our waters and our way of life. That visibility is huge because we have struggled for so long with being made invisible by mainstream society.”…
What about Italian Heritage Day?
Some Italian communities have called for a day separate from Columbus Day to celebrate their heritage, as Columbus Day originated partly as a response to anti-Italian sentiment. It was designated a national holiday in 1934, and in 1971 the government declared it a federal holiday to be celebrated the second Monday of each October.
New York City schools have tried to compromise by labeling the day as both Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Italian Heritage Day, nixing the Columbus Day title. There are still large Columbus Day and Italian heritage celebrations around the country, including the long-running parades in New York and the San Francisco area.
Mr. Biden issued a separate proclamation on Friday for Columbus Day, saying that “the hard work, dedication to community and leadership of Italian Americans in every industry make our country stronger, more prosperous and more vibrant.
Ideally there would be separate days for both celebrations, but in the meantime, compromises arise…
Monday October 10th
Join Natives at Harvard College in the Yard at 1pm on Indigenous Peoples' Day! pic.twitter.com/zW7SyqE5Q7
— Harvard Native (@Harvard_Natives) October 4, 2022
Boston celebrates our vibrant Italian American communities, their legacy & heritage!
Proclaiming Italian American Heritage Day in Boston this Monday 🇮🇹 pic.twitter.com/GVGMIZoina
— Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 (@MayorWu) October 7, 2022
Baud
I support any decision that gives us more days off work.
OzarkHillbilly
Another sleepless night. Maybe I’ll get a nap in when the grandgirls do.
Benw
Respectful Indigenous Peoples day!
Here on LI Columbus Day is huge because of the Italian roots. Italian Heritage day seems like a decent compromise.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Shoulder?
The Oracle of Solace
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! I finally have a campaign idea for Thirsty Sword Lesbians. If I can talk folks into being my players, it will be the first tabletop RPG I’ve hosted since the Before-Time.
Patricia Kayden
I’m glad to hear that President Biden has formally recognized Indigenous Peoples Day and that it is being celebrated instead of Columbus Day in many cities. Another reason for me to love our President.
OzarkHillbilly
Eat your heart out, Elon.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: It contributed, but mostly I just couldn’t sleep for… god only knows why.
eclare
@Patricia Kayden: Same for me.
Burnspbesq
Bummer. Baseball is over for 2022.
Baud
Today show is basically all in on helping the GOP.
NotMax
Today is 10/10 which oddly enough in binary would be 1010/1010.
eclare
@OzarkHillbilly: Very nice!
rikyrah
Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) tweeted at 8:27 PM on Sun, Oct 09, 2022:
If we lose our American democracy, we will also lose our national security.
(https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1579282422851862528?s=02)
Low Key Swagger
@OzarkHillbilly: Welcome to the club, partner. We had jackets made. I suffer shoulder pain all Winter long, so I feel ya. Indica allows me to sleep. Option for you?
Really don’t want to hijack this important thread, but since I’ve been cleaning up storm damage for weeks and supervising in the installation of a new roof, I’ve only had time to speed read threads in a hopeless effort to keep up with this prolific blog…
But i think it was last evening in a thread where Goku rather clumsily made what I think is an important point. Food prices may be our Achilles heel more so than gas prices. Someone used the word significant, but I’d say severe. I notice it and am grateful that we as a family can afford the increases, but it is causing us to pull back in other areas of spending. Anyway, this is ALL people are talking about in my neck of the woods, and I’d like to see this acknowledged by our candidates even if there is no immediate solution apparent.
rikyrah
SayMaySmith (@saymaysmith) tweeted at 8:30 PM on Sun, Oct 09, 2022:
We have been sliding toward fascism ever since LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act. We are witnessing a half century of white rebellion against civil rights finally exploding in our faces.
(https://twitter.com/saymaysmith/status/1579283113829892097?s=02)
Tony Jay
And a very Happy Fuck Columbus Day!
Extra credit for the first person to quote a victim of rampant Conservyceps infection claiming that IPD only glorifies the ‘right’ kind of genocide because, as archaeology proves*, after those East Asian thugs immigrated illegally across the Bering Strait they wiped out the actually more-indigenous-than-them Solutreans and stole not only their advanced flint technologies but also their Gallic je ne sai quoi, or else why did they start calling themselves ‘Clovis people’? Eh? Eh? Answer me that, Snowflake.
* where ‘proves’ is used entirely wrongly.
rikyrah
Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) tweeted at 8:48 PM on Sun, Oct 09, 2022:
Republicans don’t care about our national security.
Once upon a time they did.
Or they said they did.
But they don’t now.
All they care about now is winning.
And power.
And whoever gets them there.
No matter how.
No matter what it means for US.
They’ll do.
And that’s sad truth.
(https://twitter.com/JoJoFromJerz/status/1579287620261011456?s=02)
germy shoemangler
One of the free to watch (with commercials) movies on youtube is Little Big Man.
I saw it in a theater back in 1971. Does anyone else remember it?
Great performances, especially Chief Dan George.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf027RTzcMs
Marigold
@The Oracle of Solace: Ooh, that’s so exciting! Can I ask what your premise will be?
I want to branch out from D&D, but since I’d also have to GM it, so far it’s been too daunting.
eclare
@Low Key Swagger: Where is your neck of the woods, in general?
BTW another supply chain/higher price issue: barge traffic on the Mississippi has been drastically curtailed because of drought around Memphis and Vicksburg. It is news here in Memphis, don’t know if the news has spread further.
rikyrah
Doug Jones on Senator Tommy’s racist remarks
Doug Jones (@DougJones) tweeted at 6:14 PM on Sun, Oct 09, 2022:
Tommy is at it again. Let’s talk about it. https://t.co/hssCuqEqwN
(https://twitter.com/DougJones/status/1579249025521692677?s=02)
NotMax
@germy shoemangler
Richard Mulligan as Custer was an inspired bit of casting.
OzarkHillbilly
Barely. I need to watch it again.
germy shoemangler
@NotMax:
Faye Dunaway as the preacher’s wife.
Aimée Eccles was great as Little Big Man’s wife.
NotMax
@germy shoemangler
“Ah shall avert mah eyes at the proper moment.”
Low Key Swagger
@eclare: I’m north of Nashville. I keep in daily touch with activist friends out West and they notice it too. One of them produces videos for the Governor race out there and he is from rural New Mexico and it is a huge issue there.
rikyrah
Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) tweeted at 11:25 AM on Sun, Oct 09, 2022:
Kanye West has 3 million followers. He just said he is coming to get the Jews.
6 million Jews were murdered in gas chambers within a human lifetime.
People are saying ignore Kanye because he is sick and a clown. They say he isn’t serious.
Those people are deluded.
(https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1579145926958256128?s=02)
germy shoemangler
@NotMax:
And she’s dizzy when she stands up, almost loses her balance.
At the end she decides to move to Washington and become a senator’s wife.
Tdjr
@germy shoemangler: My heart soars like a hawk.
eclare
@Low Key Swagger: Thanks. Hi to another Tennessean!
I haven’t noticed food prices much, but I’m single, no kids, so I’ll defer to those with families to feed.
germy shoemangler
@Tdjr:
Chief Dan George.
I thought his performance was the best.
Tdjr
@germy shoemangler: Agreed.
rikyrah
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🐝💉💉💉💉 Dr. Yadira Caraveo for CO-08 (@Needle_of_Arya) tweeted at 6:48 AM on Mon, Oct 10, 2022:
from NPR I found out about the “Warnock/Kemp voter,” white women presently disgusted at Herschel Walker’s messiness but who’ll nevertheless vote Kemp for the exact same reasons that white women in Virginia chose Youngkin over McAuliffe
(https://twitter.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1579438768549158912?s=02)
Anyway
@Baud:
Days off – what’s that?
rikyrah
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🐝💉💉💉💉 Dr. Yadira Caraveo for CO-08 (@Needle_of_Arya) tweeted at 6:55 AM on Mon, Oct 10, 2022:
I’m honestly thinking that a few people consistently vote Republican but also consistently lie about it.
It doesn’t have be very many; even 2-5% of the electorate is enough to flip a super-tight race that the Democrat would’ve won without all that voter deception & betrayal.
(https://twitter.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1579440390469746688?s=02)
rikyrah
Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) tweeted at 10:15 AM on Sun, Oct 09, 2022:
Eisenhower said in his 1961 Farewell Address that “only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry” can prevent dangers to “our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted.”
(https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1579128307689304066?s=02)
Betty Cracker
@Low Key Swagger: Gas price increases are easier to notice because it’s the purchase of approximately the same amount of the same product every time you fill your tank. But food prices have been through the roof for months, and that has to cut into discretionary spending for millions of people and make life much harder for people who were already struggling.
rikyrah
🐝💉💉💉💉 Dr. Yadira Caraveo for CO-08 (@Needle_of_Arya) tweeted at 6:57 AM on Mon, Oct 10, 2022:
at this point in American history it’s the only relevant reason why a white woman would ever vote Republican, especially for the offices like governor
they know exactly what they’re doing; Republican governors now openly promise to extend & fulfill segregation & white supremacy
(https://twitter.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1579440920956919813?s=02)
NotMax
Enjoyable documentary from 2005 on the Columbian Exposition of 1893 (one year late from the originally planned 400th anniversary of Chris’s first voyage). Trailer. Available in full on YouTube or streaming free on Kanopy or free with ads on Tubi and also Freevee via Prime..
Low Key Swagger
@Betty Cracker: I don’t disagree, but maybe we are all conditioned to accept fluctuations in fuel prices but wild upswings in food prices, especially at these levels, are noticed by those who do the family shopping. Stay at home moms and dads in particular.
rikyrah
Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) tweeted at 7:16 AM on Mon, Oct 10, 2022:
This seems esoteric but is about an incredibly important power grab. Also Big Money is now drenching even the smallest races 12 years after the Citizens United decision. https://t.co/qSSAbiBbNn
(https://twitter.com/JaneMayerNYer/status/1579445668526972928?s=02)
Soprano2
@Burnspbesq: Yep, for me too. :-(
Soprano2
@Baud: Is it all about how terrible everything is right now? How quickly they forget!
MazeDancer
Excellent day to write PostCards to Hold the House.
Otherwise, there will be few holidays worth celebrating next year.
Click on my nym to get addresses. Or visit http://www.PostCardPatriots.com
Soprano2
@Low Key Swagger: What I want to know, and wish the press would ask people, is what they think politicians can do about the price of food. What concrete actions are politicians promising to take that will lower the price of groceries? The true answer is “none”, since there isn’t anything they can do about it. I think it’s all about people’s perceptions, like how right after the 2016 election Republicans suddenly decided the economy was a lot better than it had been just two weeks before, and Democrats decided it was a lot worse.
MazeDancer
@rikyrah:
Great quotes from Yadira Caraveo.
For whom we also have addresses to write PostCards to get her elected.
PostCards have been shown to increase turnout by up to 4%. That crucial amount Dr. Caraveo mentions.
http://www.PostCardPatriots.com
rikyrah
FYI to Ohio jackals
Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) tweeted at 7:26 AM on Mon, Oct 10, 2022:
One more local story that matters: Ohio’s Supreme Court holds the key to redistricting in a state massively less conservative than it’s extreme legislature. 3 judicial races will determine if that’s legal.
(https://twitter.com/JaneMayerNYer/status/1579448273609191429?s=02)
NotMax
@Soprano2
Honestly, have you priced crudités lately?
;) //
rikyrah
Joe Madison (@MadisonSiriusXM) tweeted at 7:30 AM on Mon, Oct 10, 2022:
If you live in one of the below states, TOMORROW is the final day to register to vote in the midterm!
• Florida
• Georgia
• Texas
• Ohio
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• Indiana
• Illinois
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Nevada
• New Mexico
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
(https://twitter.com/MadisonSiriusXM/status/1579449223590084609?s=02)
eclare
@NotMax: Hahaha…never gets old.
Betty
@germy shoemangler: It was brutal, but remains one of my favorites.
Betty Cracker
@Soprano2: Agree. There are some things pols can do to help out on the margins, like with gas, but it’s limited. Still, I think LKS is correct about acknowledging the difficulties people face.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@rikyrah: That’s the race I’ve written post cards for
oatler
@germy shoemangler:
“I copulated with a white woman once. She seemed strange to me…”
rikyrah
Uh huh😒😒
Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) tweeted at 7:37 AM on Mon, Oct 10, 2022:
Listen to this interview to understand the collapse of ethics in US political journalism.
British Reporter: “What is your duty to the public?”
Haberman: “Books are Journalism”
Haberman is evasive around serious and legitimate questions like a rookie just media trained.
Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) tweeted at 7:37 AM on Mon, Oct 10, 2022:
3/ Apparently the British Journalist believes her duty is to hold powerful politicians, reporters and other organizations accountable in pursuit of the public interest. What a refreshing attitude. Haberman’s arrogance and evasiveness are telling and revealing. Must listen. wow
(https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1579451039404949504?s=02)
germy shoemangler
Low Key Swagger
@Soprano2: Yes. I think it is fine to acknowledge that while there are no easy answers for lawmakers on this issue, talking about it shows a connection to it and sometimes that’s a tipping point for voters. I’m reminded of GWB’s grocery debacle. Screamed “out of touch.”
Eyeroller
@Soprano2: The main problem with that is that most people are unable to think abstractly. Most “thinking” is basically magical, so the government should be able to do something, and they punish whoever is in power if they are unhappy.
I have read of actual psychological studies (caveat, this was reports on them, not the original papers) indicating that conservatives in particular are unable to think abstractly and analytically. Their thinking is very concrete. This is one reason for the divide by education level, since education is required to develop abstract thinking skills.
Soprano2
@NotMax: No, but we’re coming to Hawaii next week, so I’m readying myself for the price shocks. Not a fun trip, unfortunately.
Soprano2
@Betty Cracker: Sure, I agree that politicians definitely need to acknowledge the difficulties with grocery prices. I guess I get worn out with the idea voters have that just making a change of any kind will automatically make things better. Reporters do a terrible job of actually teasing out what government can and cannot do to help people. Ask “why would voting for you make food prices go down?”, don’t just let everyone assume it works like that.
rikyrah
Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) tweeted at 4:54 PM on Sun, Oct 09, 2022:
Kim Crockett, the Minnesota GOP Secretary of State nominee, again refuses to say Joe Biden was legitimately elected.
REPORTER: Did he [Biden] win fair and square?
CROCKETT: I’m a citizen, just like you. He was certified to be the President. He’s been in the White House… https://t.co/YBJSVY4rFE
(https://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1579228867461808129?s=02)
Betty Cracker
Russia bombed the crap out of multiple cities in Ukraine overnight. Reprisals for taking out the supply bridge, and it shows Putin’s weakness, in my nonmilitary opinion.
NotMax
@Soprano2
Price of paradise.
Realizing the somber reason behind your visit, might you consider a short break for a get-together? Don’t want to step out of line with the asking.
Soprano2
Oh yeah, and some of these same people will howl “socialism” when Democrats actually try to do something about any of these things! I hate how people seem to think that changing the party in power will magically make their lives better. It’s like how Republicans have already forgotten that the reason gas prices were so low in 2020 is because SO MANY PEOPLE WEREN’T DRIVING AND SO MANY THINGS WEREN’T HAPPENING BECAUSE WE WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF A DEADLY PANDEMIC! All they seem to be able to remember is “TFG was president and gas prices were low, that must be the reason why”.
eclare
@Soprano2: Same with crime. That is an issue almost completely under local control, not fed.
jonas
@Soprano2:
One thing that would help, but that no-one, particularly Republicans, will touch with a ten foot pole: immigrant labor. There are massive worker shortages all through the supply chain from the fields to packing houses to processing plants to transportation that are fueling food inflation. It’s not glamorous work, but historically it’s been where new immigrants to this country get their start. Handing out a couple hundred thousand green cards to people willing to do that work would be a relatively quick fix that’s virtually entirely in the politicians’ power.
Soprano2
@NotMax: Sorry probably can’t, hubby and his daughter are coming and we need to concentrate on getting stuff done. We’ll only be there for 3 days (not including travel days); I was trying to keep it cheaper to help my stepdaughter afford it. Thanks for asking, maybe if we ever come again. I loved Maui, I could see why my stepson loved living there even though it’s so expensive. He often said “I’m broke but I live in paradise”. He kept trying to get us to move there; I kept telling him it was way too expensive! I have no desire to live in a house with a bunch of other people just to be able to have a roof over my head.
As for it being the price of paradise, The Jones Act certainly doesn’t help that.
O. Felix Culpa
@Betty Cracker: My non-expert, nonmilitary opinion too.
ETA: That said, I’ve been reading Silverman faithfully, so my opinion is informed by the knowledge of people with actual, you know, expertise. :)
Soprano2
@jonas: It’s too bad they won’t talk about it, because you’re right that would help a lot. I’m sure Democrats could come up with a proposal to help with this, but Republicans would demagogue it as “open borders” or something equally stupid. That’s what drives me crazy, there are ways to fix this but too many people are against the very things that would help!
jonas
@Betty Cracker:
It shows that the brazenness of that bridge attack has *really* rattled the Russians and they’re flailing around trying to do something to show that they’re still in the game. Indiscriminately bombing a bunch of civilian targets to show “toughness” is very on-brand for Putin.
Soprano2
@eclare: Same thing, I wish the press would ask the same kind of questions rather than just assuming that the politician can indeed do something about crime from the House of Representatives or the Senate.
Gin & Tonic
@Betty Cracker: It’s awful to see places I know and have been to on fire.
Soprano2
I may have missed it, but I haven’t seen any discussion of this story about the members of the LA City Council. Who believes that a misbehaving 2 year old needs a beatdown? Holy cow….
O. Felix Culpa
@Gin & Tonic: Yes, I can imagine. I’m taking a seminar on postwar German literature, focused on the memories of people who were children during WWII, and the depictions of the bombing war against civilians are horrific. A big difference being Ukraine did not instigate the war they find themselves in.
rikyrah
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NewBluePolitics 🌊🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏈🍕🎳 (@qstarnews) tweeted at 1:54 AM on Mon, Oct 10, 2022:
Trump said tonight “we are a nation that surrendered in Afghanistan.” FACT is, Donald Trump negotiated the surrender to the Taliban. Donald Trump did that. Not President Biden. Biden simply carried out the withdrawal, which he should have. Trump surrendered.
(https://twitter.com/qstarnews/status/1579364821270958080?s=02)
Betty Cracker
@Gin & Tonic: It must be awful. :(
Eyeroller
@Soprano2: And the media happily plays along. I have an Echo Show on my desk and yesterday two consecutive headlines were OMG IMMIGRATION CRISIS brown people are coming to TEK UR JERBS or something like that. Every October, like clockwork, the media is all about the IMMIGRATION CRISIS. In reality, without immigration the US population would have shrunk over the past decade or two.
Soprano2
@Gin & Tonic: I cannot imagine the sadness and horror you are feeling. I’m so sorry.
Amir Khalid
Speaking of elections, the dissolution of Parliament was announced today by the PM, Ismail Sabri Yaakub. this means Malaysia’s 15th general election will be in 30 days, i.e. on 9th November. Opposition parties had said they didn’t want GE15 towards the end of this year; it’s too close to monsoon/flood season, it clashes with a major festival celebrated by the Indian community (Deepavali/Diwali), and it might clash with the public exams taken by high-schoolers. But the PM is an UMNO man, and UMNO believes its chances are best if the elections are held before the new year. Alliances among the various parties are still being worked out and I’m sure the party committees haven’t finished assigning candidates to seats. It looks like it will be an interesting GE15.
Soprano2
@Eyeroller: The press reports these dumb “caravans” with complete seriousness while questioning whether Biden pardoning federal pot users with simple possession convictions is “political” and done just because of the mid-terms. Besides, I would think most people realize that unemployment is really low and there are millions of unfilled jobs right now, so the threat that any immigrant is going to take their job is ludicrous.
MomSense
@rikyrah:
We’ve her number here since day 1. What is really frustrating is how many of her peers are carrying water for her. She and Woodward have blood on their hands.
zhena gogolia
So when do we declare them a terrorist state?
Baud
@jonas:
It’s kind of a general right-wing go-to response. Not necessarily bombing, of course. But hurting innocent people to show toughness.
jonas
@Eyeroller: They don’t even pretend it’s about jobs anymore — they claim now it’s racial replacement.
eclare
@Gin & Tonic: Seeing photos of bombed buildings, apartments, cars, and people walking past them…I keep trying to imagine what it would be like to walk down a major city street in my city that had been bombed, and I can’t. It’s heartbreaking.
FelonyGovt
@Soprano2:
@Burnspbesq:
Me three. 😕
zhena gogolia
@zhena gogolia: I see my senator Blumenthal is introducing a resolution.
catclub
A financial guy (Josh Brown) is trying to tell the working class that this new austerity is desgined to keep them down, and wipe out any memory of wage gains over the past two years.https://thereformedbroker.com/2022/10/02/you-werent-supposed-to-see-that/You weren’t supposed to see that
wow. almost socialist.
ETA: of course the working class mostly does not read Josh Brown
zhena gogolia
What a confluence of TFG and Putler. I do not like this moment in history.
Geminid
@Amir Khalid: A big November for elections this year; the US midterms on November 8, Malaysia’s general election on November 9. And on November 1, Israel will hold its fifth parliamentary election since 2019.
Would you care to give an appraisal of the PM’s job performance? Does he deserve to be returned to office?
FelonyGovt
@Soprano2: Horribly racist comments by the LA City Council President, on a call with others who didn’t say a word. I don’t care for Bonin but this is shocking.
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: He says “must listen” but I don’t see a link in his tweets. ??
Citizen Alan
@Soprano2: What pisses me off is just the naked. hypocrisy of it. The same people who scream in hysterical fear of socialism at the slightest government intervention in the marketplace will also scream just as loudly whenever unregulated capitalism does exactly what you would expect it to when demand is high.
MomSense
@Gin & Tonic:
I watched a video this morning of Ukrainian school children in class in a bomb shelter and I couldn’t stop crying. Their sweet, little faces.
Betty Cracker
@zhena gogolia: Someone on Twitter posted a clip that is purportedly Russian propaganda about how “woke” the U.S. is, and it’s so clear Putinists and the MAGA cult all live in the same fantasy world. I knew this, of course, but seeing that clip was clarifying. It could have been strung together from Tucker Carlson show clips, GOP agitprop producers like Rufo and Substacks from all the cancel culture jackasses. If dubbed into English, it could be a campaign ad for Ron DeSantis. I might do a post on it later if I have time.
Redshift
When I was in college, our marching band got kicked out of the local Columbus Day parade for putting “Lief Erikson was First” in the bass drum.
Doing our part!
Baud
@Redshift:
I’d take off work for Scandinavian Heritage Day.
James E Powell
@germy shoemangler:
The film & the novel are both on my top ten list.
Chief Dan George was a treasure.
Gin & Tonic
@MomSense: The attack were timed for Monday morning as people were going to work/school for maximum effect.
Sasha
IMHO, we should Columbus Day should be renamed Immigrant Day (because we are a nation of) and Indigenous American Day should be established in August since that month desperately needs a holiday (and one that won’t be overshadowed by other, more popular, holidays).
YMMV.
FelonyGovt
@Gin & Tonic: Fucking monsters.
MomSense
@Gin & Tonic:
@FelonyGovt:
GODDAMN FUCKING MONSTERS.
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker: It was horrifying.
James E Powell
@Soprano2:
I’d like to see them ask the voters, “Do you want to give the federal government the authority to control the prices of things like groceries & gasoline?
Suzanne
@eclare:
I have three kids, and I haven’t noticed a whole lot of change in basic grocery items. Have definitely noticed in the more prepared foods sections of the store and the things like salad kits. Mr. Suzanne and I were at Costco yesterday, and we noticed that the pumpkin pie was $6 this year, up from $5 in previous years.
I will note, tho, that I am weird, and my eating patterns aren’t really representative. We eat much less meat and more produce than other households. Meat always fluctuates in price, so I haven’t noticed much more fluctuation than normal, and we can easily absorb an incremental rise.
Betty Cracker
@zhena gogolia: Do you think it’s genuine? I couldn’t tell since I don’t speak the language.
Amir Khalid
@Geminid:
Ismail Sabri has generally been a run-of-the-mill UMNO party apparatchik and a feeble PM who sits atop a fragile coalition. If his coalition, however composed, wins GE15 then he’ll be PM, but I wouldn’t bet on him lasting very long.
I also wonder how UMNO will be affected by their very emotional support for Najib (ptui!). They’ve accused the legal system of framing their beloved Bossku; clamoured for a royal pardon no one else thinks he deserves; shared a big crying session at the recent party convention because he can’t get Starbucks caramel macchiatos in prison. I think it makes them look unfit to govern, but that’s only my own opinion. We’ll soon see what the rest of the country thinks.
Geminid
@Suzanne: We had very low inflation for 10 years during and after the recession. The way I see it, we’re getting the inflation of 12 years all at once.
But that’s easy for me to say. I doubt if this would be a very good argument for a Democrat running for office.
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker: I didn’t look into where it came from. The people were all speaking Russian in a native fashion.
There are a lot of approving comments under the YouTube version.
Steeplejack
@O. Felix Culpa:
Are you reading W.G. Sebald’s On the Natural History of Destruction (formerly Air War and Literature), by any chance? I like his fiction, especially The Rings of Saturn, and ran across this book from there. The main essay concentrates on Sebald’s own memories and the “meager portrayal in culture of the bombings of German cities during World War II.”
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker: Except, of course, for the Jamaican guy.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
I’m on the fence about nominating this for the rotating tag.
Geminid
@Amir Khalid: Interesting. Are there salient economic issues? Inflation seems to be an issue in campaigns everywhere, even in Israel which has plenty of other problems.
Cliosfanboy
@germy shoemangler: Love it. Have seen it many times….
“And the next time we meet I can kill you without become a bad person.”
Suzanne
@Geminid: Agreed. I will also note that we are fortunate in that we don’t have any large purchases on the immediate horizon. OTOH I want to purge instead. I have already told our kids that we don’t want to get them much for Christmas because, for God’s sake, there isn’t really very much that we want or need, and we’d rather save money for experiences. They readily agreed.
HOWEV, I will note, if you use that charcoal toothpaste, you can get a package of 4 tubes for $12 right now at Costco.
Steeplejack
@MomSense:
What kills me about Haberman is that there were many stories that she probably could have reported without jeopardizing her precious “access.” When she was hearing all around the White House that Trump was saying he would not leave, why not use her access to do an interview with him and ask him about that?! She could have done her fawning, toadying routine and still gotten some dynamite material for a genuine scoop! story. And it would have gotten the word out to the Village and us unsuspecting peasants.
Ditto for the stuff about Trump flushing torn-up documents, etc. Even if she just got him saying, “Whoa, that’s crazy talk,” it would have been on the record, and I don’t doubt that Trump would have said something crazy that would have been unintentionally damning.
I admit I am heavily biased, but I can’t remember any of Haberman’s “access” stories that really reflected negatively on Trump—unless of course the negative stuff had already broken and she was just piling on in CYA mode.
SiubhanDuinne
Just announced: Ben Bernanke is one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
O. Felix Culpa
@Steeplejack: Selections from Sebald are on the syllabus, but we haven’t got to them yet.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@germy shoemangler: It’s been on my to-watch list basically since it came out.
I was thinking about seeing it recently, but seeing Dustin Hoffman playing a Native American bugged me just from the trailer. Might be hard to watch with modern eyes.
Geminid
@Suzanne: I had to buy a car battery the other day, and was surprised at the high price. I bought my last one 4 years ago, and I don’t remember being surprised then. But that was during the period of low inflation. I think it wasn’t so much that the new battery was expensive as that the old battery was cheap. But many people aren’t going to see things this way.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Betty Cracker: I saw that. Or as much as I could stand. I gave up at the point of “in US America black guys have the right to cut in front of white people in line”.
I had sound off and was reading subtitles so didn’t realize he was Jamaican.
geg6
@Steeplejack:
I have noticed the exact same thing. She’ll pile on but won’t break the news, even if she got it first and has been sitting on it for days, weeks, months.
I read an Olivia Nuzzi interview with her the other day (I know, I know…) and it was appalling. She takes no responsibility for anything and does not see a single thing wrong with what she’s said and done. She keeps talking about “journalism” and how people don’t understand what that actually is. Sorry honey, but my mother was a journalist. I am well aware what the job is. And it’s not what Maggie is doing.
Baud
@geg6:
No wonder she has an affinity towards Trump.
geg6
@Baud:
Yup. Two turds in a toilet bowl.
Cliosfanboy
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: He doesn’t play a Native American. This isn’t redface. He plays a white man adopted into a Native American tribe as a boy. Chief Dan George is his adoptive grandfather. The movie involves Hoffman’s character moving back and forth between both societies.
Baud
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I didn’t make it that far. Reminds me of Jesse Helms, actually.
Amir Khalid
@Geminid:
Food price inflation is an issue everywhere. As noted upthread, it’s largely outside the power of local/national poiticians to do very much about it. A majorer issue than that has been a defence contract for six littoral combat ships, which are now past their due delivery dates. The fact that the Minister of Defence is Najib’s cousin only adds to UMNO’s rep for nepotism and corruption.
geg6
@Cliosfanboy:
Thanks for posting this before I could get my thoughts together. Yes, Hoffman is not playing an indigenous person.
I love that movie. Ran across it on tv about a quarter of the way through during the lockdown and enjoyed it as much now as when I first saw it thirty or forty years ago.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Cliosfanboy: Ah, OK. Thanks.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
It’s in the Crooks and Liars tweet that he links in his first tweet.
Betty Cracker
I don’t have any particular animosity toward Haberman herself; she’s playing the game according to the rules the media outlets that pay her wrote. The circling of wagons shows just how deep the rot goes.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
For those in California (and others, if you’re interested), I’d recommend reading A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California’s Indians by the Spanish Missions by Elias Castillo. When you grow up here, the Missions are treated like this lovely element of our illustrious past. You go on field trips to visit them as a kid, and I remember learning only positive things about them and the missionaries. Once I got a little older, I realized that was largely crap, and then reading this book when it came out truly opened my eyes.
Layer8Problem
@Suzanne: Charcoal toothpaste is a thing? I have to get out more.
Booger
@Amir Khalid: So you could say the ships are littorally overdue.
Steeplejack
@Suzanne:
My niece just had her eighth birthday, and I decided to give up on trying to think of presents for her and her brother. They want for nothing and are awash in toys and gadgets. So she got a $25 gift card from Target. My brother says that’s where she gets things that she wants, like accessories for her dolls, etc. She can manage the money and exercise the choice.
geg6
@Betty Cracker:
I do. She runs around defending herself by saying it’s “journalism.” No, it’s self-dealing. This is what journalism is:
https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/journalism-essentials/what-is-journalism/
Maggie is not a journalist and what she does is not journalism. She should be on the editorial or entertainment or gossip pages. But it’s not journalism. She is an insult to all journalists.
Another Scott
@James E Powell: It’s good to remind people (like with your hypothetical question) that there’s no such thing as a “free market” and that regulations have consequences.
DownsizingGovernment.org (it’s the first relevant link I could find!):
I’m of the opinion that US inflation was far too low for far too long, so the recovery from the pandemic shutdown, etc., gave companies space to dramatically increase their prices (mostly in a step-function way).
People should remember that TFG’s tariffs on steel, aluminum, lumber, etc., built-in big price increases, also too, that will take a while to resolve.
Rent increases are slowing a lot.
New auto sales are steady and at a relatively low level.
Framing lumber prices are back to near pre-pandemic levels.
Wholesale used car prices are still elevated, but are coming down from the peak.
I expect food price increases to moderate similarly. But, yes, it is causing problems for lots of families and one of the first things the new Congress should do in January (if not sooner) is renew the (lapsed) expanded tax credit.
Lots of things are possible with large enough majorities in Congress…
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Soprano2
@Citizen Alan: Yep, see for example gas prices!!!
MisterForkbeard
@Betty Cracker: That ad/propaganda is particularly weird because right-wingers are coming out of the woodwork to talk about how great it is.
When someone points out that none of the stuff in the ad ever happens and is completely ridiculous, they get all chuffed up and more enthused.
Soprano2
@James E Powell: Hey, that’s even better, because it’s what’s implied when they complain that the government should “do something” about things.
Soprano2
Same thing with wages, they were kept artificially low because of such low inflation, so we’re getting 10 years worth of wage increases in two years.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Listening to the latest of Jon Favreau’s Wilderness podcast, this week’s focus group is Latino swing voters in Vegas. As always, it’s pretty depressing how vague and semi-informed voters are, but this week there was an actual sighting of Tip and Ronnie. The guy didn’t mention bourbon, but they disagreed but got together and got things done. I’m curious how old he was. I’m 55 and I don’t know how much I was aware of Tip O’Neil in my pre-political junkie days. (Quick google check tells me I was twenty when he stepped down as Speaker.)
It’s hard to tell with just voices, but I think he’s the same guy who was trump>Biden, is Ron DeSantis curious for ’24 but likes AOC because she stood up to Nancy Pelosi. This group seems to be big on people who don’t just vote how their party tells them to, but they don’t seem very aware or engaged about what the parties want to do. The ones who liked trump liked that nobody had any influence on him.
Soprano2
@Suzanne: My hair stylist’s mother doesn’t get her family presents, she takes them on trips. I would much prefer that!
Kelly
Haven’t read the entire thread but renaming the many places that use the S-word for indigenous women happened in September.
https://www.opb.org/article/2022/09/08/us-changes-names-of-places-with-racist-term-for-native-women/
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Soprano2: I’ve been trying to get my siblings to give up on gift-giving for years. I’m just bad at it, and my sister who’s good at it always makes me feel guilty. Last Christmas my brother and SIL gave two fancy bottles of balsamic vinegar. I don’t really cook, and I don’t much care for balsamic vinegar. I can’t even think of anyone I can re-gift them to, or just say, here, take these.
Another Scott
@Another Scott:
edit
“renew the (lapsed) expanded child tax credit.”
Cheers,
Scott.
Paul in KY
@rikyrah: Took him 8 years to say that.
Soprano2
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It took all the kids on my husband’s side getting married to finally get them to draw names, but it was a big relief when they did. I always get their kids something because they’re still little; the real thing I’m doing for them is UTMA accounts that they will gain access to when they’re 18. It’s my way of investing in their future. None of my BIL’s kids went on to any higher education because they couldn’t afford it; this is my way of at least giving their kids a leg up if they want to go to some kind of higher education. I didn’t do a college-only account because what if they don’t want to go to college? I heard a story about a young boy who is a cancer survivor; some daytime talk show raised a bunch of money for a college fund for him, but when he became college age he had a lot of health problems and was unable to go to college. At the time of the story he was in his late 20’s and being taken care of by his parents. They said they could have used that money to help him, but because of the way the fund was set up the only thing it could be used for was to pay for a college education, and he was never going to be able to do that. It saddened me to think that they needed help with their son, there was all this money that was supposed to help him, yet he couldn’t use any of it.
sab
@rikyrah: Yes! Ohio S Ct Candidates: Brunner, Zayas, Jamison.
Brunner when she was Sec of State ensured that we woild have a paper trail for ballots. Zayas is running against Mike DeWine’s son who never recuses himself when Dad is involved in a case.
jeffreyw
@geg6:
Some times the magic works..
Steeplejack
@Paul in KY:
Yep. And Ike also gets big props for warning about the “military-industrial complex”—another thing about which he did squat for eight years and then mentioned on his way out the door.
James E Powell
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
No one will admit it, but they liked the fact that he was a loud-mouth swaggering asshole & got away with it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@James E Powell: Yup, that’s another way to put it
Stephanie Ruhle said that an “Ivy-leauge educated relative” (I remember the phrase cause it made me wonder where her husband went to college) told her his guilty pleasure was that trump just gets away with everything!
sab
@sab: Timed out above on my edit. Jamison is an experienced lower court judge. She’s a Democrata. She cares about voting rights and choice. She’s black.
A big frustration of mine this year is that the newspapers all keep writing stories about how incredibly important these three races are, but then the never mention any of the actual candidates by name except for Brunner, who already has lots of statewide name recognition. So voters will still go to the polls clueless.
Apparently they will be putting party affiliation on the general election ballot for the first time this year.
Betty Cracker
@geg6: I agree that what Haberman is doing isn’t journalism. The paper where she works when she isn’t peddling books has plenty of actual journalists on staff who could provide a model for how to cover stories in the public interest. But the Beltway press (not just NYT’s hugely influential political desk) has decided that access and horserace stories are how to do political journalism. That’s the problem. Because of her NYT perch, Haberman is just a particularly egregious example of how that shakes out for the rest of us.
Baud
@James E Powell:
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I’m sure that’d be just as happy if a liberal Dem got away with stuff, right?
Gin & Tonic
There is video of a pedestrian bridge in Kyiv taking a direct missile hit, with little or no apparent damage. That bridge was built with Azovstal steel.
HumboldtBlue
@Burnspbesq:
What? No it’s not, the LOLMets are over, but the Phightin’ Phils live on! Now it’s the march on Atlanta, well, Cobb County, the fucking Braves don’t even play in Atlanta.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
Saw this on Reddit
https://v.redd.it/sq7i9jb9rys91
rikyrah
Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) tweeted at 8:09 AM on Mon, Oct 10, 2022:
Columbus’s own men despised him and mutinied. The government that employed him locked him up in prison and he died a disgraced, penniless and broken man. But by all means celebrate him for the navigation skills that got his expedition to India as planned.
(https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1579459169895448577?s=02)
Amir Khalid
@Booger:
*Groan* Littoral combat ships are for fighting close to shore, like the name says. The Royal Malaysian Navy basically patrols only the Strait of Melaka and our part of the South China Sea, and doesn’t need deep-water vessels.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@rikyrah: My traditional Columbus Day song is by Tracy Chapman:
You were lost and got lucky.
Another Scott
@Steeplejack: Supposedly an earlier draft of that speech said “Military – Industrial – Congressional complex”, but they made him take the “Congressional” out.
Cheers,
Scott.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: She’s everything. Just the sound of her voice is incredible.
Paul in KY
@Steeplejack: Was thinking about that too, Steeplejack. Thanks for mentioning it!
Paul in KY
@rikyrah: Hah!
Amir Khalid
@Steeplejack:
Don’t dump on Ike. He gave the world rock’n’roll music.
//
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: Sorry, that’s “mature content.”
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
Oh wow. Try this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/y0carn/a_ukrainian_soldier_launches_an_igla_manpads?sort=confidence
ETA That doesn’t seem to work either.
Another Scott
@Baud: reddit link works here.
Some, deservedly, happy dudes there.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
Straight from the source.
Citizen Alan
@Kelly: I am embarrassed to say that until that story came out I had no idea that term was considered offensive and racist. I mean, it’s not a term I would use anyway as I thought it’s use was purely historical, but still.
Paul in KY
@Amir Khalid: I think that happened in spite of Ike…
Citizen Alan
@Soprano2: I’ve always felt like a bit of a scrooge for feeling this way, but it is bugged me for the past several years that that all 3 of my sister’s children are grown and gainfully employed. And yet, to this day, even though I buy an individual present for my sister, my brother-in-law, and all 3 of the kids, they still give me one joint present from their entire family. I’m not even expecting any sort of extravagant gift at all on the part of the kids, but just the idea that they put some indivudual thought into it would be nice.
Paul in KY
@Citizen Alan: See, you are helping them out by just being one ‘person’ and thus only needing one ‘gift’. Look at it as another gift to your beloved family
Edit: Maybe you could mention to your sis that, you know, Junior 1 2 & 3 are adults living their own lives now & maybe it’s time for them to start doing adulty things & sending their own presents…
StringOnAStick
@Citizen Alan: We saw that term used in nearly every episode of the TV westerns and movies many of us grew up on. Like you, I had no idea it was offensive until about 10 years ago.
Mo MacArbie
@Paul in KY: I think Amir may be Playing on the name.
Paul in KY
@Mo MacArbie: OK. Not a fan of wifebeater Ike Turner, though.
StringOnAStick
@Paul in KY: I want zero presents from anyone because all of us have enough stuff; if I want something, I go buy it. It took years to train my not at all close family out of obligatory gift buying, and what really did it was the 2 years I spent barely employed when my first career collapsed and I was barely scrapping by; once I didn’t send anything because I was too broke then they immediately stopping too. It was a relief to be honest. We have nearly zero in common and don’t interact at all by phone or in person, so it was just perfunctory stuff anyway.
After aggressively downsizing and moving several states away, having a lot less stuff is refreshing and feels liberating. Our prior house had a basement, and that’s where so much stuff just built up. Our new house is like 95% of them here, no basement. What we notice here is a lot of people just turn their garage into their basement and can’t park in there. We walled off the end of the longer parking bay and made it into our defacto basement with lots of freestanding shelves, half of which are empty and both cars still fit inside. We’re both pretty organized people so it stays orderly; I think that helps a lot.
Paul in KY
@StringOnAStick: I too have too much stuff.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Paul in KY: yeah, one of my un-finished (but started!) pandemic projects was just getting rid of stuff. Still a ways to go
Captain C
@rikyrah: Eisenhower, of course, had first hand experience cleaning up Fascist messes, so he knew what he was talking about.
Anyway
@HumboldtBlue:
bwahahaha! Yes, next to the Phils making it to the NLDS having the Mets lose after leading NL East was all kinds of awesome.
The Oracle of Solace
@Marigold: The premise is a secluded valley ruled over by a transmasculine maybe-vampire. It is always night in the Valley of Peaceful Repose, and the people happily live life at a pace they choose, but woe betide those who cross the Blood Collector. The community is a joyful and loving one, but teeters on the edge of soulless conformity—Midnight Mass and The Prisoner meet Gravity Falls and Bee and Puppycat.