Here are some tweets from reporters covering the Nazi parade: Violence erupts #charlottesville pic.twitter.com/yf9qUeGzX2 — Andy Campbell (@AndyBCampbell) August 12, 2017 Anti-Nazi protesters chanting, “We’re here! We’re gay! We fight the KKK!” Thousands have flooded Emancipation Park and the surrounding area #charlottesville pic.twitter.com/shweXns1Cv — Andy Campbell (@AndyBCampbell) August 12, 2017 Nazi scum chanting “Fuck you, …
Wee Hours Open Thread
Here’s what the moon looks like over my house tonight: One of my dogs licked a poisonous toad or something. Nothing to worry about — it happens a couple of times a year. The downside is, she spends the rest of the night vomiting onto throw rugs. She refuses to puke on the comparatively large …
“Nazis. I hate these guys.”
Nazi trash parading through Charlottesville, Virginia earlier tonight: #Charlottesville 9:56pm ? CHANTS: "One people, one nation, end immigration" & "blood and soil" pic.twitter.com/FbM1N8Ie1r — Alejandro Alvarez (@aletweetsnews) August 12, 2017 I’m with Indy: Makes my blood boil to see these vile scumbags on parade. It’s not like we didn’t know they were around. They’ve always …
AlieNation (Open Thread)
The only disagreement I have with the Harper’s Bazaar column excerpted below is the author’s decision to use plural pronouns to refer to singular antecedents:* IF YOU ARE MARRIED TO A TRUMP SUPPORTER, DIVORCE THEM I’m going to save you three years of therapy where you and your partner try to “agree to disagree.” If …
Single Payer 2020
Scott Lemieux published an interesting piece in The Week today about Kirsten Gillibrand’s support for a single payer solution as the ultimate goal for healthcare reform: “Kirsten Gillibrand is serious about Medicare for all.” An excerpt: It would have been easy for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) to rest on her laurels at the town hall …
A Fish Called Lefty (Open Thread)
Here’s Lefty, who is a dwarf gourami, pictured with some neon tetra friends lurking in the background as well as a panda cory acquaintance: He’s called “Lefty” because his political identity is based on opposition to whatever nominated or elected Democrats and their supporters do. If you took his policy wishlist and made it the …
Seems significant…
Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, got an unpleasant wake-up call from the FBI a couple of weeks ago. Via WaPo: FBI agents raided the Alexandria home of President Trump’s former campaign chairman late last month, using a search warrant to seize documents and other materials, according to people familiar with the special counsel investigation …