Clear and Present Danger

 

 

This photo was made late Sunday afternoon, July 23, in front of the DC federal Prettyman courthouse — news vans from several networks moved in around noon, ready to report when Trump’s Jan 6 indictments are released Monday.

Meanwhile:  During a discussion on MSNBC on the uptick of frantic Donald Trump posts on his Truth Social platform, political commentator Molly Jong-Fast pointed out that the former president is in dire need of cash due to the growing avalanche of legal problems he’s facing since leaving office.

Speaking with MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin, Jong-Fast pointed out that the former president’s social media outbursts also ramp up when he is “scared” and that his legal fees are skyrocketing.

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NOTE:  All day Sunday, July 23, and into the late night hours, Trump has been firing off comments on his useless Truth Social account, attacking everyone from J. Edgar Hoover to the FBI janitorial staff.  The man is frantic.

Here are links to two lists of people, companies, and products that Republicons have or are cancelling.  Talk about “Cancel Culture”!!!

List of things conservatives have cancelled.

Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom WORKSHEET: CONSERVATIVES SHOULD BOYCOTT the FOLLOWING COMPANIES & PERSONALITIES

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted, tortured and killed in 1955 after he was accused of whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, and his mother, a White House official said Saturday.

Biden will sign a proclamation on Tuesday to create the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi, according to the official. The individual spoke on condition of anonymity because the White House had not formally announced the president’s plans.

Tuesday is the anniversary of Emmett Till’s birth in 1941.

The monument will protect places that are central to the story of Till’s life and death at age 14, the acquittal of his white killers and his mother’s activism. Till’s mother’s insistence on an open casket to show the world how her son had been brutalized and Jet’s magazine’s decision to publish photos of his mutilated body helped galvanize the Civil Rights Movement.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/biden-monument-emmett-till-black-civil-rights-6d26b248f906a4ce5654cb2f11c9ffa2

Adrianne Peterson, the manager of the Rancho Peñasquitos branch of the San Diego Public Library, was actually a little embarrassed by the modest size of her Pride Month display in June. Between staff vacations and organizing workshops for graduating high school students, it had fallen through the cracks and fell short of what she had hoped to offer.

Yet the kiosk across from the checkout counter, marked by a Progress Pride rainbow flag, was enough to thrust the suburban library onto the front lines of the nation’s culture wars.

Ms. Peterson, who has run the library branch since 2012 and highlighted books for Pride Month for the better part of a decade, was taken aback when she read an email last month from two neighborhood residents. They informed her that they had gotten nearly all of the books in the Pride display checked out and would not return them unless the library permanently removed what they considered “inappropriate content.”

“It was just kind of like, ‘Whoa, curveball,’” Ms. Peterson said. “I began to wonder, ‘Oh, have I been misunderstanding our community?’”

Soon, she would get her answer: Stacks of Amazon boxes containing new copies of the books the protesters checked out started to arrive at the library after The San Diego Union-Tribune reported on the protest. Roughly 180 people, mostly San Diegans, gave more than $15,000 to the library system, which after a city match will provide over $30,000 toward more L.G.B.T.Q.-themed materials and programming, including an expansion of the system’s already popular drag queen story hours.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/us/pride-books-library-protest.html

Every year, about 4 million Americans turn 18 and gain the right to vote. In the eight years between the 2016 and 2024 elections, that’s 32 million new eligible voters.

Also, every year 2½ million older Americans die. So in the same eight years, that’s as many as 20 million fewer older voters.

Which means that between Trump’s election in 2016 and the 2024 election, the number of Gen Z (born in the late 1990s and early 2010s) voters will have advanced by a net 52 million against older people (32 million new voters plus 20 million old voters who died). That’s about 20 percent of the total 2020 eligible electorate of 258 million Americans.

And unlike previous generations, Gen Z votes.

 

 

 

 

The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a motion from attorneys for Donald Trump to shut down a probe into attempts to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election.

On Friday, Trump’s attorneys filed petitions to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

The filings also asked the court to prevent Willis “from introducing any evidence obtained via the special purpose grand jury process to a regular grand jury.”

On Monday, the court unanimously rejected the petitions.

The speech by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) at the Talking Points Action conference left some progressives scratching their heads after her attacks on President Joe Biden appeared to be more like compliments.

Ranting at the far-right crowd, Greene attacked programs like Social Security, Medicare, and other infamous programs started by the late Democratic presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson.

She began by warning Joe Biden is trying to “finish what FDR started” by trying to address problems related to “education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, transportation, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and welfare.”

Greene — who has never been accused of being very smart — does not realize that Social Security, Medicare, public education, good roads all are very popular with both Democrats and Republicans.