Election Fraud From Those Claiming It

The subpoenas issued Tuesday mark the panel’s growing look into an effort to put forth false electors for former President Donald Trump as he sought to stay in office after losing the 2020 election. Last month, the committee issued a first wave of 14 subpoenas tied to the scheme.

Learning Tough Things

How will we raise children to push back against the cruelty of antisemitism and racism if they don’t know where in history those cruelties were rooted? If you didn’t know that the hundreds of people marching in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in August 2017 chanting “Jews will not replace us” were echoing the Holocaust, you might not be appropriately sickened by it. – Patty Davis, Ronald Reagan’s daughter

Ahmaud Arbery

I’m left scratching my head at the altercations that keep happening between black and white folks. Three dudes grabbed their guns and hopped in their trucks to chase down someone they assumed was stealing. Three against one With guns Over assumed theft without proof Using a truck to chase a man who’s on foot Asserting that he stop for them When nothing about their actions suggest they should be trusted to not escalate further As if they had the authority or were right to do any of this Obviously they didn’t think about the parallels to the time of lynchings.

Derek Black

Loved this recent episode of With Friends Like These. Here’s the summary: Derek Black thought he was done with the white nationalist movement when he wrote a public letter renouncing the ideology he grew up in. Then he realized that white nationalism wasn’t just the racists that used to listen to his white nationalist radio show and read his white nationalist website — white supremacy was everywhere, people just weren’t talking about it.

Doug Jones on Lap Dogs

On a recent episode of The 1A, Doug Jones categorizes the abortion legislation coming out of Alabama as the result of a gerrymandered legislature, and says we should step back to focus on the bigger picture of healthcare. Fully agree. He also had a most-excellent point about loyalty to presidents: The only issue for Republicans right now is who is going to be Donald Trump’s best friend – who is going to be Donald Trump’s best lap dog.

On Amash Leaving the GOP

Glad to see Justin Amash has left the Freedom Caucus and the GOP. He remarked: “I’m asking you to believe that we can do better than this two-party system - and to work toward it. If we continue to take America for granted, we will lose it.” Fully agree. Republicans have won two elections despite losing the popular vote. In my mind, they’re seeing popular opinion isn’t on their side and are desperate to seize and hold onto power.

Fox News has been stupid for a long time

Fox News has been stupid for a long time. It’s absurd the implication that a President must always put forth a manufactured image of oozing bravado as Putin does. What about the importance of every day people being able to “see themselves” in their President? A President must be relatable. We’ve all looked goofy on a bike. There’s nothing wrong with that.

Happier people and roadways by expanding society's hours

Along with getting rid of daylight savings time, I’d like to one day live in a world that doesn’t work against those of us who prefer late nights or early mornings. It makes no sense to funnel almost everyone towards 9-5 work schedules. It makes it harder for those who live in small towns to find work when the sidewalks are laid down at 8am and rolled up at 6pm. It makes it harder to commute when nearly everyone else in town is trying to commute at the same time.

Go away, Leslie Gibson

Only an asshole would attack Parkland students. But that’s just what Leslie Gibson, a Republican candidate for the Maine State House, did. May he never gain a position of leadership again.