From yesterday…
Today on Trinity Broadcasting Network, which senior NBC News reporter Ben Collins says bills itself as the largest Christian television network in the world, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee opened his most recent episode by saying that if former president Trump loses the 2024 election because of the many indictments grand juries have handed down concerning his behavior, “it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets.”
Such is the anxiety of the patriarchy…
From this morning’s walk…
… made with my Nikon… every time i bring it with me i think there is no other camera i should shoot with…
I don’t think Robert Reich is being liberal alarmist here. Among the suggestions he makes about things we can do is moving to a battle ground state. Hmmm… we could rent our house out and spend a fun year in, say, Ohio?
The question we must all ask ourselves, I believe, is what can we do between now and the election to help save American democracy?
2024, A Pivotal Year? You Bet! :: Essays On Attention Paid
As relieved as I was, I also knew we had only stopped the advance of the threat of authoritarian rule at that moment. We had not turned it back. As has been clear for some time, hard right conservatives had no use for a democratic republic form of government.
September 1, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Today’s attempted restriction of those who are supposed to be equal citizens from leaving extremist states raises a whole factory of red flags.
Really important read from HCR this morning…
September 1, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Meanwhile, Republicans continue to focus on ending abortion, and their determination is leading them to assert power over citizens of Republican-dominated states in a way that is commonly associated with authoritarian governments.
Having a rancid morning. Getting nothing done. Technology resisting me. Foul mood as a result. Maybe I should go back to bed.:(
A rich man with a beautiful house is like a jewel on a leper’s body…. Our business is not in jewellery, but in the body politic…. What good is it to a sick, unclean man, if he wears jewels.
–D.H. Lawrence
Got a card reader that allows me to transfer images from my Nikon to my iPhone and iPad for editing. Travel game changer!
