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I am tied up this morning, but it looks like we could use a new thread!   I was tied up yesterday, too.

I did see that Schumer came out with a really strong message, but I know that’s already been covered.

What’s been happening this week?  I see Gov. Pritzker being very vocal about what’s happening in Illinois and around the country.  I see him repeatedly asking everyone to stand up.  Is anyone responding to that.  Are other states standing up in support?

I look forward to the day when the Statue of Liberty covering her eyes isn’t the image that speaks to me for nearly every post these days.

 

 

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    6. 6.

      Old School

      I see him repeatedly asking everyone to stand up.  Is anyone responding to that.  Are other states standing up in support?

      There are protests in Milwaukee proving this is more important than the Cubs-Brewers series to some people.

      MILWAUKEE — National Guard troops from Texas and Illinois are being deployed to Broadview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, drawing protests from activists in Milwaukee concerned about the federal presence.

      Reply
    9. 9.

      Annie

      In lighter and better news:  one evil empire went down to defeat yesterday, the Yankees lost to the Blue Jays.  I’m now hoping the Phillies can dispose of the Dodgers.

      Reply
    10. 10.

      Belafon

      The singers from KPop Demon Hunters, EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami, were in The Tonight Show on Tuesday. I watched the segment last night of their interview and performance, and one of the things that Jimmy Fallon got to do was present to them that the soundtrack to the move has gone platinum.

      Reply
    18. 18.

      Betty Cracker

      On topic-ish, I was impressed with something Dick Durbin (of all people!) said during Pam Bondi’s recent disgraceful performance on the Hill. Cant remember his exact words, but basically he asked her to remember that the lawless Trump regime won’t hold power forever. I’d like to see more of that.

      Reply
    22. 22.

      RedDirtGirl

      If I can share some personal news, the deep depression I’ve been in for the past few years is finally starting to lift, thanks to eventually finding the right combination of medication, and good talk therapy, that is (miraculously) covered by my insurance. I feel like I have been in a dark tunnel, and now the tunnel is much higher and a lot of light is getting in. More energy, more hope, and I’ve laughed for the first time in months.

      Thanks for letting me put this here.

      Reply
    29. 29.

      Old Man Shadow

      Cat queen Harvey has decided that none of the toys we have bought interest her today and is playing with a straw taken out of a cup that resident child 1 left on the dining room table.

      Watching her try to grab it and bounce it between her paws and toss it up into the air is amusing.

      I will pick it up and throw it away later. Right now it is keeping her distracted from the computer cords that she also loves to play with much to my chagrin and annoyance… okay, not annoyance, she’s too cute to be annoying… stupid cute kitty face with the widdle eyes and the adorable widdle whiskers…

      Reply
    35. 35.

      Geminid

      @Suzanne: This deal is also good news for the civilians in Israel, and the soldiers as well. And really, for everyone else in the region.

      I think the only real losers here are Hamas and Netanyahu. They are both claiming victory but this is not the settlement either wanted, not by a long shot.

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    38. 38.

      Tony Jay

      @Suzanne:

      I’ve sent in an order to my local serial-killer for extra digits to cross, but considering peace in the region is reliant on Netanyahu, who really, really, really can’t afford the fighting to end, I’m pretty sure the Palestinians on the West Bank have to be looking over their shoulders nervously. I’d expect the Settler attacks there to ramp up to unbearable levels to provoke some kind of cassus belli Netanyahu can jump on. 

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    42. 42.

      Baud

      @Tony Jay:

      some kind of cassus belli Netanyahu can jump on.

       

      Yeah, his excuse was always the remaining hostages. If they’re all released, I wonder what he’ll fall back on.

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    44. 44.

      Ohio Mom

      @RedDirtGirl: Thank YOU for taking good care of yourself. Too many people are afraid of medication and therapy, you were smart enough to forge ahead.

      Best wishes for continued good mental health.

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    46. 46.

      trollhattan

      @Tony Jay: ​
      No kidding. The courts evidently can’t touch his felonious ass while in office and it’s chaos that keeps him there.

      He’s not much younger than Trump but Bibi gives off big “I’m living five evah!” vibes.

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    47. 47.

      Suzanne

      @Geminid:

      I think the only real losers here are Hamas and Netanyahu. They are both claiming victory but this is not the settlement either wanted, not by a long shot.

      As both Hamas and Netanyahu are loathsome, anything that makes them equally miserable is probably a good thing.

      Again…. fingers crossed.

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    48. 48.

      trollhattan

      @Baud:

      But, what about mah firstest amendment rahts?

      was fully aware of the fear his post would cause and intentionally sought to create hysteria within the community,”

      Cats and dogs, living together.

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    49. 49.

      iKropoclast

      @Geminid: This deal is also good news for the civilians in Israel, and the soldiers as well. And really, for everyone else in the region.

      I think the only real losers here are Hamas and Netanyahu.

      Certainly agreed. Hamas and Netanyahu, from what I can tell, each derive support from dear of the other. They need perpetual war.

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    51. 51.

      Ohio Mom

      @Geminid: I remember how giddy I felt when the Oslo Accords were signed. I’m a little more cautious this time around, maybe cynical is a better word. I don’t trust either side to do the right thing.

      But wouldn’t it be something if this worked, even in the short term? We’ll never hear the end of of, It was all Trump’s doing (rolls eyes).

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    53. 53.

      rikyrah

      About Comey’s arraignment hearing yesterday:

       

      LarryO broke down the arraignment on last night’s show. Hilarious. The clown show. They couldn’t get anyone from that Virginia office to go in to represent the government. They had to get people from North Carolina to help the unqualified insurance lady
      🤣🤣🤣

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    54. 54.

      Tony Jay

      @Baud:

      Backchannel agreement with some extreme Islamic State linked cell. Israeli helicopters sent over the West Bank to ‘provide defensive support’ for Settler communities. Ground to Air missile strike. Press Conference declaring war on the PA. Troops sent in to ‘root out the terrorists’.

      Something like that.

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    58. 58.

      WaterGirl

      @Betty Cracker:

      …basically he [Durbin] asked her [Bondi]  to remember that the lawless Trump regime won’t hold power forever. I’d like to see more of that.

      So happy to see that!

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    59. 59.

      Baud

      Furloughs incoming

      Federal officials probe Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ over traffic violations

      The government’s auto safety agency said it had logged multiple instances where vehicles using the feature ran red lights.

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    65. 65.

      Enhanced Voting Techniques

      Off topic but my gwad this makes sense – I was just watching this British cartoon that was mocking the whole right wing Bruh thing and the animator flippantly said something about “Autistic Male Power Fantasy” and looking at them, the idiots around Trump, Trump himself; them having un-diagnosed autism does fit with the way they latch on to an idea and refused to be moved by any evidence or even their own failures, and how they think we are cheating because we follow successful polices.

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    66. 66.

      Suzanne

      @WaterGirl: This was my favorite part:

      “An extra gym membership and a weekend ecstasy budget used to be affordable, now millennials are lucky to afford their own healthcare and rent,” Pete Buttigieg confirmed.

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    69. 69.

      Shakti

      @UncleEbeneezer: In response to  posts in the other thread —

      A ceasefire absolutely has to hold in order for a celebration.

      I’m not taking chiding from a dude paid by the Israeli government advertising agency who  decided to claim dead children were really dolls or some Substack writer doesn’t care about any leftist issues (I checked his twitter) that who keeps yelling about Israel being libeled and engages in DARVO. Man is concerned about “neo-negationism” but keeps airquoting genocide.

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

      ve no sympathy for anyone.

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    70. 70.

      Rachel Bakes

      @Enhanced Voting Techniques: it also fits, in a backward way, their desperate attempts to vilify autism and give it a clear cause. I’ve felt for months that RFK must have been told recently that he acts like he’s on the spectrum and his response was, “oh yeah?!?!”

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    71. 71.

      Ramona

      @RedDirtGirl: I am so happy for you! I remember years ago after getting on the right medication asking my therapist, Is this how ordinary life feels like, this good?

      This is wonderful news!

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    74. 74.

      Shakti

      @rikyrah:

      I have to urge my brother to stay in his job — but I don’t know how these premium increases at this job will work vs his current premium for a non-subsidized grandfathered in preACA plan I pay for ($ ~1500/bimonthly). I told him several months ago, that was the cheapest way to do it and not to count on marketplace subsidies.

      I love this stupid state and it’s horrible governor with bad contouring.

      I have personally seen ACA subsidies being yanked back wreak havoc on taxpayer returns to the tune of $10K. And to think this is all at the behest of some jackwagon who was never made to release his tax returns in the first place.

      Reply
    75. 75.

      rikyrah

      THEE AUDACITY

      Aaron Rupar
      @atrupar
      SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close because of the big beautiful bill

      REP. MIKE FLOOD: Here’s the deal: Some hospitals in America that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being like an emergency room model
      x.com/atrupar/status/1976281352707219569

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    78. 78.

      Eyeroller

      @Enhanced Voting Techniques: “Autism” is so ill-defined now that all sorts of behaviors are being lumped into it.  So I am increasingly skeptical about all these diagnoses, especially self-diagnoses.

      That doesn’t mean there hasn’t been a genuine increase in its occurrence.  But it sure is getting thrown around a lot.

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    80. 80.

      TheOtherHank

      @WaterGirl:

      Do air tags come with the orange thing that’s around her air tag?

      They do not. But a wide selection of things that will hold them are available. I have one with no holder at all in my car. I generally remember where I park, but it gives peace of mind.

      Reply
    82. 82.

      TONYG

      @rikyrah: What’s remarkable to me is that Trump’s policies generally screw the residents of Trump-supporting red states the most — yet those people continue to support Trump.  It’s almost as though those people are idiots.

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    85. 85.

      Geminid

      @Ohio Mom: The Times of Israel posted this story today:

          Gazans cheer news of ceasfire deal as Hamas calls it ‘fruits of tremendous sacrifice’

      Palestinian Authority also welcomes agreement, as Islamic Jihad* argues it is not capitulation; Gaza City mayor tells Times of Israel of ‘relief,’ hope for peaceful future

      * Hamas’s largest militia partner

      This link might work:

      timesofisrael.com/gazans-cheer-news-of-ceasefire-deal-as-hamas-calls-it-fruits-of-tremendous-sacrifi…

      Times of Israel is a decent source for news on this conlict, and it is not paywalled. They definitely root for the home team but I think the reporting is fairly reliable.

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    86. 86.

      JBWoodford

      @Ishiyama: Tell me about it. Born in Milwaukee, and for my sins a decent-paying job have been working in Chicagoland for over 25 years. Soon I’ll retire, though, and move back to the correct side of the Cheddar Curtain.

      Reply
    90. 90.

      Shakti

      @Enhanced Voting Techniques:  Dude doesn’t have undiagnosed autism and I’m not blaming or crediting any of his behaviors on this.

      He’s fully neurotypical and horrible.  Some of his cabinet members and hangers on  may have it, but that’s not an excuse for them either.   Most people with autism, most people who aren’t white or cisgender dudes do not get an autism pass for their behavior.

      It’s entitlement. ENTITLEMENT, ok?

      John Elder Robison’s son has autism and got hauled up on federal bomb making charges which he got out of by arguing an intense autistic love of chemistry — which lol, he’d never been able to do if he wasn’t white (and his daddy wasn’t auto repair rich) Amazing, having so much privilege and so little street smarts that this is actually something you get into.

       

      @Rachel Bakes: They’re freaking out because autism can’t be isolated to a specific group of others and it doesn’t care about race or wealth. Maybe.

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    91. 91.

      lowtechcyclist

      @Geminid: ​

      This deal is also good news for the civilians in Israel, and the soldiers as well. And really, for everyone else in the region.

      It is a blessed relief for everyone involved. Except:

      I think the only real losers here are Hamas and Netanyahu. They are both claiming victory but this is not the settlement either wanted, not by a long shot.

      The icing on the cake.

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    92. 92.

      Melancholy Jaques

       Is anyone responding to that.  Are other states standing up in support?

      I was asking about that a while ago in the hopes that people in each state might give us a summary and review of their state’s Democratic electeds.

      Reply
    94. 94.

      Belafon

      @Eyeroller:

      “Autism” is so ill-defined now that all sorts of behaviors are being lumped into it.  So I am increasingly skeptical about all these diagnoses, especially self-diagnoses.

      That doesn’t mean there hasn’t been a genuine increase in its occurrence.  But it sure is getting thrown around a lot.

       
      Let’s try being accurate: What we understand about autism now is that’s it’s more than “can’t communicate with or understand other people” that you can’t just diagnose it by looking at someone or looking in a mirror.

      It was ill-defined before.

      Reply
    95. 95.

      Soprano2

      So I saw this story about a college professor at Rutgers who wrote a book about antifa. He is trying to flee the U.S. for Spain after receiving credible death threats from right-wingers The story about what happened the first time he tried to leave is chilling – he got all the way to the gate only to find somehow his reservation had been cancelled. This is what FFOTUS’ “war on antifa” is doing.

      Reply
    97. 97.

      Geminid

      @iKropoclast: I think Netanyahu understood that this war would have to end. But he never thought Turkiye would end up being one of the agreement’s four Guarantors along with Egypt, Qatar and the U.S.

      I checked out Israeli Twitter this morning and they were like, “Turkey? WTF! Turkey!!?.”

      They can thank their crafty Prime Minister for this. Netanyahu really stepped on his dick when he authorized that airstrike in Qatar last month. That’s what made Trump’s team realize Netanyahu could blow up the whole region if they did not bring him to heel, and that this war could not be left drifting sideways any longer.

      It also created diplomatic space for Turkiye to fill. Its brainy intelligence chief, Ibrahim Kalin, participated in yesterday’s critical negotiations at Sharm El-Sheikh. Erdogan told Trump last Friday that he would help deliver Hamas and he did.

      One thing I keep in mind is that Trump likes and respects Erdogan. Trump does not like Netanyahu and he does not trust him. Anyone who works with the Israeli PM long enough ends up either disliking him or hating his guts outright.

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    101. 101.

      p.a.

      @Geminid:Trump does not like Netanyahu and he does not trust him.

       

       

      Ever hear the snark about when two crappy people marry each other: “at least they’re only ruining one marriage.”

      Reply
    103. 103.

      iKropoclast

      @Geminid: Netanyahu really stepped on his dick when he authorized that airstrike in Qatar last month. That’s what made Trump’s team realize Netanyahu could blow up the whole region if they did not bring him to heel, and that this war could not be left drifting sideways any longer.

      Trump’s madman theory of foreign policy when it meets someone even madder than he is…

      One thing I keep in mind is that Trump likes and respects Erdogan. Trump does not like Netanyahu and he does not trust him.

      If Trump’s smart, he might realize that this situation turned around because he brought in partners and dropped his unreasonable and directionless demands.

      I anticipate Trump coming to this realization any moment know and announcing it to the public as something “nobody knew.”

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    104. 104.

      Suzanne

      @p.a.:

      Ever hear the snark about when two crappy people marry each other: “at least they’re only ruining one marriage.”

      “Rooting for injuries”.

      If ever there are two groups who should meet each other in Hell, it’s Netanyahu and Hamas. It’s almost enough to make me wish I believed in it.

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    108. 108.

      Rachel Bakes

      @Ohio Mom:  son is very autistic, college daughter was diagnosed in freshman year. Completely agree. Finding the cause and someone to blame is irrelevant and useless. Understanding and accepting would be awesome

      Reply

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