I grew up two hours from Bismarck, ND – it was one of the “big towns” where we’d go to get specialist medical care or shop for anything fancy. So it pains me to hear that they had to have a fight to accept refugees, though I’m heartened to know that those who fought, won, …
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Monday Morning Open Thread: Seasons’ Greetings
I chatted today with the pastor of a Claremont church which erected a nativity scene depicting Jesus, Mary and Joseph as refugees separated in cages https://t.co/MGl82HTZ3n — James Queally (@JamesQueallyLAT) December 9, 2019 … Ristine, who has served as the church’s lead pastor only since July, said the church often uses its Nativity scene to …
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Some Context on the Naval Air Station Pensacola Shooting
NBC/MSNBC is now reporting that the shooter at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola is a Saudi national. Which will, of course, turn a tragedy into an absolute shitshow. I wanted to just take a moment and provide some context here for our readers and commenters who don’t have a lot of exposure to the US …
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Good news for basic human decency
BREAKING: Dr. Scott Warren found NOT GUILTY on all charges for providing food, water, shelter, and medical care to two undocumented men. Yet again, No More Deaths has withstood the government’s attempts to criminalize basic human compassion. — No More Deaths (@NoMoreDeaths) November 20, 2019 This was not a mistrial. This was not a judge …
Repub Stupidity Open Thread: Another ‘Forthright, Outspoken Conservative’ Disappoints the Pundits
A little late-night nostalgia bait for those of us who used to hang around TBogg’s site, back before Cole got smarter. Alternate title: ‘Another GHWB-vintage rightwing icon tries to update their Q score, overshoots, embarrasses former supporters’… Malkin 2004: japanese internment was good and we should do it again to muslims Conservatives: wow this is …
Veterans Day 2019: Veterans in Exile
Senator Duckworth is a national treasure. I refuse to let them believe that everyone in government has forsaken them. So I crossed the border to Tijuana to spend #VeteransDay with them, recognizing the sacrifices they made for the country they love. pic.twitter.com/JUyZNl9OBw — Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) November 12, 2019 These are daughters and sons who …
Pence Administration Declares War on Orphans
…and refugees, the sick, the elderly, the homeless… but only if they’re LGBT or the wrong kind of Christian, of course. These people aren’t complete monsters. Daniel Reynolds at The Advocate writes: The Department of Health and Human Services announced a new rule Friday that would allow adoption agencies and other programs that receive HHS grants …
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Some Good News to End This Week!
The Federal courts have worked diligently to make America great again and provided us with three items of good news to end this most infrastructure of weeks. 1: President Trump lost his appeal to stop a House subpoena of his tax documents: "In a 2-1 ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the District of …
Repub Venality Open Thread: Trump Wants His WAAAAAHll & He Wants It NAOOOOW
“When aides have suggested that some of his orders are illegal or unworkable, Trump has suggested he would pardon the officials if they would just go ahead, aides said.” https://t.co/eR13aozsqh — Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) August 28, 2019 They’re a bunch of damaged middle school boys drawing up plans for their Fortress of Evil. Disgusting …
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The Goal Is To Hold the Line
Those Who Seek to Control Others Know Power, Those Who Seek to Control Themselves Know the Way* — Lao Tzu; The Tao Te Ching There’s been a lot of sturm and drang in the comments recently, not just today, about all is lost, there’s no way out, we’re doomed. This has often been married to doom …
Election 2020 Open Thread: Pete Buttigieg Has A *Lot* of Good Proposals
There is clearly no strategy for dealing with the trade war—a trade war this president started—in a way that will actually lead to results for American farmers or American consumers. pic.twitter.com/qSW2jdXguB — Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) August 18, 2019 Whether or not those ideas take him to the Oval Office in 2020, all indications are that …
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Anti-American Open Thread: The GOP Wants to Make America Smaller
Here's acting USCIS director Ken Cuccinelli saying on NPR this morning that the Statue of Liberty plaque should be changed to read, "give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet, and who will not become a public charge." pic.twitter.com/q8OoNn3k6r — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 13, 2019 I asked …
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“Respite” Open Thread: Tucker Carlson on Unplanned Vacation
A monster turned a transcript of Carlson's show into a manifesto and then killed 22 people. His career depends on no one pointing this out. https://t.co/cJVZdr2eIQ — LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) August 7, 2019 What time of day does Fox News transition from "the celebrity used bad language" to "do not be deceived by the rootless cosmopolitans …
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Holy Toledo
This is just…well, watch for yourselves if you didn’t see it live: Donald Trump cares so little about mass shootings that he says it happened in the wrong city ("Toledo"). What's worse, he seemingly read it off the teleprompter, meaning the entire White House didn't care enough to get it right, either.pic.twitter.com/OKLVs6nj5V — VoteVets (@votevets) …
“The call is coming from inside the (White) House…”
While we wait for details on the most recent mass murder (the one in Ohio), further evidence is emerging that the El Paso shooter was a Trump-supporting, immigrant-hating white supremacist who was radicalized online and committed his horrific crime to achieve political ends. In other words, a terrorist. Many lines from the so-called manifesto the …
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