Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Nicolle Wallace - Military Leaders React To Gen. Milley Calling Trump A 'Fascist' In New Bob Woodward Book

Meidas Touch - Trump Panics With 1 AM Posts After Mental Breakdown

Jen Rubin - Donald Trump Is A Dancing Fool

Meidas Touch - Georgia Court Makes Major Ruling On Election…Trump Mad

The Bulwark - Look How Bonkers Trump's Become! There's No Excuse! With Tom Nichols

MSNBC - Questions Mounting Over Trump's Mental Acuity After Derailed Event Turns Into Dance Fest

Politicon - Why Trump Can't Hide The Crazy Anymore

Unstable At Any Speed

 Washington Post: Trump sways and bops to music for 39 minutes in bizarre town hall episode - Vice President Kamala Harris has called Trump, 78, unstable and questioned his mental acuity. By Marianne LeVine

He played nine tracks. He danced. He shook hands with people onstage. He pointed to the crowd. Noem stood beside him, nodding with her hands clasped. Trump stayed in place onstage, slowly moving back and forth. He was done answering questions for the night.

WTF?

 NPR: Trump town hall ends with 'musical-fest' while he stands on stage By Danielle Kurtzleben

Eyes


 

CNN - See Bill Nye's Response To Marjorie Taylor Greene's Conspiracy About The Weather

 This is from four days ago.

Michael Cohen - Trump Town Hall In PA Turns Into Total Disaster

MSNBC - 'Entertainer Not A President' - Trump Event Turns Into Impromptu DJ Session

Mary Trump - Donald Trump Has A Total Meltdown!

Decline


 

MSNBC - 'Beyond The Big Lie' Explores Why Republicans Lie More And The Consequences Lying Has

Meidas Touch - Fox News Pisses Off Trump With Coverage

Meidas Touch - Trump Loses It As His Deepest Secret Goes Viral

Jimmy Kimmel - Trump Gets More Erratic - Doubles Down On Kamala - Do MAGA Voters Even Know What They're Against?

Core Message

 Washington Post: Opinion - Why Trump is doubling down on racism - In the closing weeks of a tight campaign, the former president returns to his core message. By Jennifer Rubin.

..referring to non-White-majority countries as “s---holes” or preemptively blaming Jews for his defeat, Trump has never departed from a steady stream of racism, xenophobia and antisemitism.

The Onion - Mayor Explains Why He Changed City Named After Slave-Owning Founder To Salami Town

 The Onion: Mayor Explains Why He Changed City Named After Slave-Owning Founder To Salami Town

Curtain

 Axios: Behind the Curtain — Election scenario 2: Harris sweep By Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen

'Bird In A Burning World'

Have An Excellent Tuesday

 Sculpture By Ellen Jewett


 

Rachel Maddow - The Bluff Of Trump Supporters Who Claim To Be Making A 'Business Decision'

Meidas Touch - Trump Final Speech Calls For End Of US Constitution

Jimmy Kimmel - Patton Oswalt On Voting for Kamala, Crazy Phone Banking Call - New Comic Book Barfly

Meidas Touch - GOP Makes Worst Decision In History Of Party…Death Spiral

Stephen Colbert - Harris, My Opponent Is Weak And Unstable - Out Of Context Trump - Concert For Carolina

John Flannery - October 14, 2024

Solutions

 Vox: Colonial solutions to climate change aren’t working - What Indigenous knowledge could mean in the fight to curb global warming. By Paige Vega and Joseph Lee

Peace

 Good News Network: True Peace Advocates Use their Hiroshima Memories to Win the Nobel Prize By Andy Corbley

Obsessed

 The Bulwark: He’s ‘Obsessed’: What Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally Is All About Plus: The war of the podcasts. By Marc A. Caputo

Corals

 Inside Climate News: Biobanking Corals: One Woman’s Mission To Save Coral Genetics in Turks and Caicos To Rebuild Reefs of the Future - Alizee Zimmermann saw corals dying en masse and built a living biobank to hold corals on land. With ocean temperatures hitting unprecedented highs due to climate change, she doesn’t plan on putting them back. By Teresa Tomassoni

About As Crazy As It Gets

 Guardian UK: ‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge - Storms Helene and Milton have triggered rise of misinformation stoked by Trump and fellow Republicans By Oliver Milman

Pelosi

 Guardian UK: Pelosi says she still hasn’t spoken to Biden since pressuring him to drop out - Ex-House speaker also says on Guardian podcast that she thinks Trump is ‘a grotesque word’ and rarely says his name By Chris Michael

Win

 Washington Post: Opinion - Hey Dems, stop doomscrolling and go win the election - Votes, not vibes, will determine whether Harris or Trump wins in November. By Eugene Robinson

Snap out of it, Democrats. Take a deep breath and stop hyperventilating. Vice President Kamala Harris has maintained a consistent lead in the national polls, and there is no way anyone can be certain which way the swing states are swinging until the votes are counted. Stop all the doomscrolling and go win the election.

War

 Washington Post: Exclusive - Netanyahu tells U.S. that Israel will strike Iranian military, not nuclear or oil, targets, officials say - The signal is being seen in Washington as a sign of restraint after concerns that an Israeli strike on oil or nuclear facilities could trigger a wider war. By Shira Rubin and Ellen Nakashima

... the prime minister said he was planning to target military infrastructure in Iran, according to a U.S. official and an official familiar with the matter.

Restriction

 Salon: Donald Trump’s retribution will begin with a restriction of free speech - Trump’s threats against CBS show that he is in favor of free speech only for those who say nice things about him By Austin Sarat

 Salon: “Brain flaws”: Understanding MAGA as an epidemic disease - Epidemiologist Dr. Gary Slutkin: MAGA is a "dangerous and lethal syndrome" of “Authoritarian Violence Disorder” By Chauncey DeVega

The Market On Tuesday

 Good morning. At 6:10 a.m. ET DOW futures are -27, S&P futures are -3.5, and NASDAQ futures are -26. The market is poised to open moderately lower. Source

Monday, October 14, 2024

'Take On Me'

 Weezer

'Take On Me'

 a-ha

'Working For The Weekend'

 Loverboy

Insects

 Get Pocket: I Asked Leading Entomologists: ‘What’s The Smartest Bug In The World?’ Some insects can count, recognize human faces, even invent languages. By Dan Nosowitz

Rick Wilson - Disinformation And Polling Panic

Brian Tyler Cohen - Trump Crashes And Burns As Rally Instantly Takes Awkward Turn

Columbus

 BBC News: Columbus probably Spanish and Jewish, study says By Alex Smith

Washington Post - NASA Launches Mission To Study One Of Jupiter's Moons

Reuters - Nobel Prize Winner Calls Nov 5 'Extremely Consequential'

MSNBC - 'Tense And Confusing Dichotomy' - Where White Female Voters Stand This Election

Meidas Touch - Trump Can't Hide Plan After He Humiliates Himself On CBS

Threats

 Washington Post: North Carolina authorities arrest armed man after threats against FEMA workers - Rutherford County sheriff’s office confirms it made the arrest Saturday after learning of threat to Federal Emergency Management Agency employees working on hurricane relief. By Brianna Sacks and Dan Lamothe

After getting additional information the sheriff’s office was able to identify the suspect, William Jacob Parsons, 44, of Bostic, N.C.

The sheriff’s office arrested Parsons later Saturday and charged him with “Going Armed to the Terror of the Public,” according to the statement. He was armed with a handgun and a rifle, it added.

 

Sanctuary

 NPR: The U.S. gets a new national marine sanctuary, the first led by a tribe By Lauren Sommer

Borderline Crisis


 

Brian Tyler Cohen - Trump Squanders Final Stretch Of Campaign With Major Misstep

Michael Cohen - Trump’s Has Disaster Speech When Everything Goes Sideways

Tennessee Brando - Trump Uses Fake AI Images To Attack Children

The Bulwark - Trump - I’ll Unleash The Military On Americans

Meidas Touch - Trump Hides Medical Records After Latest Public Soiling

Meidas Touch - Trump Screws Over Cities And Contractors In Last Days

When

 Washington Post: Opinion - Obama put Trump in his place. But he also put voters on the spot. When did it become okay to normalize Donald Trump’s behavior? By Jennifer Rubin

Obama recounted felon and former president Donald Trump’s unhinged antics. (“Ranting and the raving about crazy conspiracy theories. The two-hour speeches, word salad, just — it’s like Fidel Castro. Just on and on. Constant attempts to sell you stuff. Who does that?”) 

The Onion - Tourist Impressed By Size Of Chicago Residents

 The Onion: Tourist Impressed By Size Of Chicago Residents

Day

 Axios: What to know about Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day By Kelly Tyko

Meidas Touch - Fox Loses Control Over Trump’s Mental Collapse

'Heartbeat'

Have An Excellent Monday

 Artwork By Jim Sande



 

Jen Psaki - ‘Pay Attention. Please’ - Carville Sounds Alarm On Trump’s Threat To Round Up Political Foes

Morning Joe - Harris Is Going Into The Final Stretch Joyful Yet Defiant

Way Too Early - Trump Suggests Woman Heckler At Rally Should 'Get The Hell Knocked Out Of Her'

Meidas Touch - Trump Judge Does It Again…In New Twist!