Finally a major news outlet calls it like it is.....the Republican Party is all about hate.....
Good story from the Guardian.....
Donald Trump waves at a rally to support JD Vance and Jim Jordan in Youngstown, Ohio, in September. Photograph: Jeff Swensen/Getty ImaRepublicans were in trouble. Mitt Romney, their US presidential nominee, had been crushed by Barack Obama. The party commissioned an “autopsy” report that proposed a radical rethink. “If we want ethnic minority voters to support Republicans,” it said, “we have to engage them and show our sincerity.”
Ten years after Romney’s loss, Republicans are fighting their first election since the presidency of Donald Trump. But far from entering
next month’s midterms as the party of tolerance, diversity and sincerity, critics say, they have shown itself to be unapologetically the party of hate.
The Lincoln Project with an ad about the Florida senate race ......good one!
I think I am pretty up to date on environmental news, but I hadn't heard of this crisis.....
If you google this there are quite a few stories on [figuratively] Page 3 but nothing about the implications or indeed the causes....
It's getting attention from serious media, but just the facts and stories about long buried stuff....
An excellent story from Jessica Wildfire on the next big crisis coming.....food shortages....
Just another brick in the wall....
The Mississippi River is pretty much gone. I don’t mean that figuratively. I don’t mean it’s happening slowly.
In Memphis, it’s gone.
There’s nothing left but dry river bed. It looks like a desert. I’ve driven across the Mississippi River countless times over the
last couple of decades. I’ve never, ever, ever seen it like this.
An ad called "No Choice".....powerful....30 seconds....
Umair on the collapse of the UK....
The joke heard round the world is that, famously, the lettuce lasted longer. Than Liz Truss, Britain’s PM, whose ill-fated term ended in just 45 days. 45 utterly disastrous days — in which Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng, her Chancellor of the Exchequer, both radical libertarians, proposed borrowing mega amounts for tax cuts for the super rich, which proceeded to instantly crash the pound, tank the nation’s savings, and send interest rates soaring. This was self-inflicted ruin like a developed country had never seen in modern history.
https://eand.co/why-britain-is-collapsing-e5590018e04c
Light relief - amusing animal photos, some charming ones here....
Andrew Sullivan draws parallels between the GOP and the British Conservative Party......interesting.....
People wearing masks of Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, and Rishi Sunak take part in a Labor Party photo-call in London
(Leon Neal/Getty Images)
There is political churn all over the world right now. A once-in-a-century plague, a hot war in Europe, massive public debt, and a huge global spike in inflation, will do that kind of thing. In Italy, a new government is now headed by the one figure, Giorgia Meloni, who was not part of the previous government; in France, President Macron has just used an emergency provision to get his budget past the parliament, and is facing a wave of strikes; and in Britain, of course, a party that won a triumphant, landslide 80-seat majority less than three years ago is now on life support.
Jordan Klepper goes to Michigan and interviews two doozies.....a quick one, 1 minute....
The news of last week you probably haven't heard of.....Matt Taibbi with some important stories.....
Just when you thought it might be safe to lay out in the sun for a mellow weekend, after one of those work weeks that glides uneventfully along a peaceful river of non-terrifying news events, social media explodes with yet another horrifying headline. After years of hints that grand showdowns may be coming in both the areas of censorship and nat-sec authoritarianism, word leaked Friday that an ultimate test case might just be arriving. Details on that story, and more, on America This Week.
Desi Lydic from the Daily Show "FoxPlains" Herschel.....very good 2 minutes....
Tom Tomorrow shows an alternate reality....
And a big story.....we have been told it was the Russians who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline, but are you aware that American
politicians [including Trump] were dead set against this pipeline?
Probably not.....Taibbi makes us think again.....
About a month ago, on September 26th, explosions rocked the undersea “Nord Stream” natural gas pipelines connecting Russia to Germany, sending boiling methane rushing to the surface in masses big enough to be seen from space.
We’ve all seen the video of Joe Biden promising last February, “There will no longer be a Nord Stream 2” and “We will bring an end to it.” The history of America’s bellicose threats with regard to Nord Stream were far more expansive than just a clip or two. Stopping Nord Stream was a central goal of American foreign policy for nearly a decade, with politicians from both parties pounding the table to stop it, and all that history was disappeared the moment the blasts took place.
We can’t say yet who blew up the pipelines. Matt Orfalea’s video captures three troubling things we already know about the Nord Stream blasts:
One, American officials have an extensive, years-long record of promising action to stop or disable the pipeline. Two: those earlier statements were ignored both by officials and press commentators in asserting ad nauseam that the West did not have motive for the attack.
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