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Wednesday Reads Open Thread

Posted: March 4, 2020 | Author: | Filed under: just because |31 Comments

This is an open thread…

31 Comments on “Wednesday Reads Open Thread”

  1. Minkoff Minx says:
    March 4, 2020 at 11:04 am

    Like usual, life happens… too many things going on to post anything more than this. Please help me out by posting some links.

  2. Minkoff Minx says:
    March 4, 2020 at 11:05 am

    • Sweet Sue says:
      March 4, 2020 at 12:47 pm

      Absolutely outrageous. Come on ACLU-sue everybody. As for Mr. Rogers: Sir, thank you for your service!

  3. Minkoff Minx says:
    March 4, 2020 at 11:28 am

    I found that image above on Twitter. Now I can’t find the tweet it came from… the context was not what I wanted to convey. So I will take it down.

    • Enheduanna says:
      March 4, 2020 at 12:12 pm

      Who is that? It’s certainly a provoking image….lol.

    • NW Luna says:
      March 4, 2020 at 2:19 pm

      No, leave it up! It’s Jill Biden doing a fabulous job of security for Joe.

      About 10 seconds later, another anti-dairy industry protester stormed the stage. Reacting with lightning speed, the former second lady swung around, extended her arms, grabbed her by the wrists and then blocked her with a stiff-arm.
      Wincing, she pushed the woman back as her husband and sister-in-law looked on with concern during the sudden confrontation.

      She was soon joined by Symone D. Sanders, the candidate’s senior adviser, who tackled the woman in a waist lock, and along with other staffers wrestled the protester offstage.

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/04/jill-biden-joe-biden-protesters/

  4. Enheduanna says:
    March 4, 2020 at 12:14 pm

    Ya’ll might like this – the image and headline made me feel good:

    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/03/joe-bidens-super-tuesday-wins-against-bernie-sanders/607429/

    Good analysis too I thought.

    • NW Luna says:
      March 4, 2020 at 9:01 pm

      Sanders has often sounded more as if he believes he’s leading his movement in a hostile takeover of the party than a merger with it. … “It turns out that shitting all over the party you want to win the nomination of is a bad strategy,” said one Democratic pollster who is not affiliated with any campaign but requested anonymity to comment candidly on the race./

  5. Sweet Sue says:
    March 4, 2020 at 12:45 pm

    Warrior Woman Jill Biden just won my heart.

  6. roofingbird says:
    March 4, 2020 at 3:00 pm

    I’m sitting in the Vacavalley Surgery Center lobby. Hubby is having cataract surgery and I’m sure it will go well. However, it’s a bemusing experience since I am in the epicenter (though different building) of the first community acquired COVID-19 infection. Life goes on.

  7. NW Luna says:
    March 4, 2020 at 9:12 pm

    What about all the threats Trump’s made? Guess Roberts thinks those are all right.

    Roberts rebukes Schumer for saying justices will ‘pay the price’ for a vote against abortion rights

    Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. issued a rare rebuke of a sitting member of Congress on Wednesday, chastising the Senate’s top Democrat, Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, for saying at a rally outside the Supreme Court that President Trump’s two nominees to the court would “pay the price” for a vote against abortion rights.

    In a highly unusual statement issued by the court, the chief justice recounted comments Schumer (N.Y.) had directed at Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh and said: “Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous. All members of the court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter.”

  8. NW Luna says:
    March 4, 2020 at 9:40 pm

  9. NW Luna says:
    March 4, 2020 at 10:00 pm

  10. dakinikat says:
    March 5, 2020 at 10:07 am

  11. dakinikat says:
    March 5, 2020 at 10:11 am

    • NW Luna says:
      March 5, 2020 at 10:16 am

      Funding for healthcare research has been cut each year for about 25 years now, from what I’ve seen in the field and in academia. We should move to federal funding of important public-health research but I don’t see that happening soon.

  12. NW Luna says:
    March 5, 2020 at 10:13 am

    Warren’s out.

  13. dakinikat says:
    March 5, 2020 at 10:14 am

    Sorry, i’m late to the game here. I had to finish grading midterms and prepare my lecture on swaps last night. I told my students that just when I think I’m going to talk about some disaster that happened in the past and it stays there that I think we’re about reading to see stuff unfold.

    And then I read that Connie Schulz article and I cried because all of the things I’ve fought my life for are still with us …

    I’m with Elizabeth and on this one from Connie Schulz and I cry for my daughters.

    “At my age, every act of sexism and misogyny is an encore production.”

    All three of us are in jobs nontraditional for women and all three of us still live the same shit in so many ways only know I’m an old woman and have that added burden.

    • NW Luna says:
      March 5, 2020 at 10:20 am

      Down to 2 old white men. Funny how this works. Don’t feel like saying much about it — too disappointing. I did come to prefer Amy over Elizabeth, and Kamala earlier, but any of them would have given me heart. Now the best we can hope for in Nov is for Biden to win. Seeing him in office when Hillary should be re-inaugurated will be hard. But at least we can get Trump out.

    • NW Luna says:
      March 5, 2020 at 10:21 am

      “At my age, every act of sexism and misogyny is an encore production.”

      (echoes this silently)

  14. dakinikat says:
    March 5, 2020 at 10:22 am

  15. dakinikat says:
    March 5, 2020 at 10:43 am

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