Today's Tweet

That shit we keep hearing from the "conservatives" about how everybody's on their side?

Yeah - looks more like bullshit practically every day.

Veterans "take a knee" during the Pledge of Allegiance at today's city council meeting to support athlete's protests against injustice. pic.twitter.com/qg1v7Quj4B

— Joe Michaels KFBK (@RadioJoe1530) October 4, 2017

A Tweet Thread

There's no good reason to feel at all sorry for GOP politicians who have "suddenly" discovered they represent a political party that panders to the darkest instincts of American Populism.

It's been going on for 30+ years, and we got here because this is where Radical Right Republicans have always wanted us to be. (see driftglass)

This is something of a reckoning, and while it seems kinda fun to watch, this shit puts us in grave danger.

Senator Bob Corker "begged" me to endorse him for re-election in Tennessee. I said "NO" and he dropped out (said he could not win without...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 8, 2017

It's a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.

— Senator Bob Corker (@SenBobCorker) October 8, 2017

Today's Tweet

Politicians keep telling us we don't trust the press - some politicians lie.

And I don't wanna name names or anything, but the name of the biggest lying-est sack of shit of 'em all kinda rhymes with Fondled Rump.

Is there any trust left in journalism?

Read more in #TheInsider: https://t.co/MANqAhfxmw pic.twitter.com/vOqq79bnzB

— PressReader (@PressReader) July 13, 2017

The ProLeft Podcast

The Professional Left

...Roger Ailes set up an entire apparatus so he could slander people like me. He set up his own little sexual predator petting zoo ... so his sexual predator viewers could get a half-mast over blonde cooch sitting on the crotch couch.

Today's Pix

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Today's Tweet

What made you think this would end up any other way?

"Religious Freedom" means you can't be forced to deliver a wedding cake -- just a rapist's baby. #HandsOffMyBC pic.twitter.com/eiVCwh7bbg

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) October 6, 2017

Blame The Brown People

History does not repeat itself - but it sure as fuck rhymes.

Jana Winter, Sharon Weinberger, Foreign Policy:

The report, dated Aug. 3 — just nine days before the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville turned deadly — appears to be the first known reference to “black identity extremists” as a movement. But former government officials and legal experts said no such movement exists, and some expressed concern that the term is part of a politically motivated effort to find an equivalent threat to white supremacists.

A former senior counterterrorism and intelligence official from the Department of Homeland Security who reviewed the document at FP’s request expressed shock at the language.
“This is a new umbrella designation that has no basis,” the former official said. “There are civil rights and privacy issues all over this.”

The concept of “black identity extremists” appears to be entirely new. FPfound only five references to the term in a Google search; all were to law enforcement documents about domestic terrorism from the last two months. One of those online references is to law enforcement training on identifying “domestic terror groups and criminally subversive subcultures which are encountered by law enforcement professionals on a daily basis.”

"Criminally subversive" - that language is unmistakably Daddy State.

La Musica

Joan Shelley w/ Nathan Salsburg

"Easy Now" 

"Stay On My Shore" 

"Not Over by Half"

Nathan Salsburg

"Affirmed"

"Eight Belles Dreamt the Devil Was Dead"

Keith

'Twas ever thus, and ever thus 'twill be.

Bob Cesca

Something I think most of us missed (I did anyway) - Jody points out the staging of 45*'s little paper towel stunt. (starts at about 11:00)

Which underlines this crapola thing that's been bouncing around Facebook:

see also - Snopes

Today's Pix

Today's Tweet

Only a year ago

Today at the White House - Trump's Access Hollywood video on loop all day, one year after the release. #WeGrabBack pic.twitter.com/XuFEhaSAlt

— UltraViolet (@UltraViolet) October 6, 2017

Today's Tweet

Obviously it's coming from the blue side of the aisle, and this "new development" is speculative for now, but holy fuck - this sounds a lot like they're zeroing in. 

We're not talking about whether or not the rat-fucking took the form of direct interference. 

We're not asking, "did that interference take the form of illegal/criminal activity?"  

It's not even, "How did Russia manage to target their shit so perfectly?"

Yes, it was direct interference
Yes, it's criminal.
Yes, the Russians had to have someone helping them from the inside.

Merkley is now asking, "Who provided the analytics the Russians had to have in order to put just the right messages in front of just the right eyeballs?"

“Very likely” that American citizens helped Russia hack the 2016 election -@SenJeffMerkley on #TheBeat https://t.co/j2feNG4bgK

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) October 5, 2017

In Other News

The Daily Beast:

During Wednesday’s Senate hearing on the Equifax data breach, a protester dressed as the “Monopoly Man” from the board game photobombed Equifax CEO Richard Smith’s testimony.

While the CEO discussed his company’s breach that affected 145.5 million people, the protester gazed skeptically through a monocle at the back of his head.

The protester, who is named Amanda Werner, tweeted a photo fully decked out in Monopoly’s Rich Uncle Pennybags attire, complete with the top hat, mustache, and monocle. Werner is a campaign manager for the Americans for Financial Reform coalition and the nonprofit Public Citizen.

In the tweet, Werner explained that the prank, while distracting, was meaningful.

Don't ever forget that "Tort Reform" is coded language used by coin-operated politicians to make it sound reasonable for their client corporations to fuck us out of our right to seek redress through the courts.

Today's GIF

Running it in reverse gets at the truth about the king of the laughing hyenas