“Just spoke with my CDC sources. “They said Donald J. Trump, along with RFK Jr., has cut funding to study hantavirus the virus recently behind the deadly cruise ship outbreak. “The study, led by the WAC-EID focused on animal-to-human viruses including hantavirus.”
Well, of course they cut funding. Gotta save our pennies for the ballroom and B.B.'s filthy war. Oh, and, I forgot. funding tax breaks and other get-obscenely-richer-quick schemes for Trump and his friends, while shielding them from exposure in the Epstein files. No money for frivolities like health research.
Mike Johnson just had a meltdown on Fox News about "mini-Mamdanis" popping up everywhere. He accidentally told the whole country exactly why Republicans are about to get crushed.
The Speaker of the House went on Fox News and lost it. Not over a policy fight, not over a scandal, but over the fact that progressive Democrats are starting to win and people actually like what they're doing.
His exact words: "Mini-Mamdanis popping up all around the country, and they're openly avowed to socialist Marxist ideology. This is something we have never seen before in American history. This is about moving away from a constitutional republic to a communist utopian ideology. And that's a dangerous thing for the future of the country."
Translation: People are starting to like Democrats who actually fight for them, and I'm panicking.
And yes, the "mini-Mamdanis" are absolutely real. Graham Platner in Maine. Brian Poindexter in Pennsylvania. Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. All running on Mamdani-style platforms. All gaining traction. All scaring the absolute hell out of Republicans and the corporate Democrats who told you for decades that progressive policies are unwinnable.
Why is this happening? Because Mamdani just proved every one of them wrong.
He inherited a $12 billion deficit from the corrupt Eric Adams administration. He erased it without slashing public services and without raising taxes on working New Yorkers. He's investing $122 million to hire 1,000 new teachers.
He just turned the blocks in front of 50 NYC public schools into car-free "Soccer Streets" so kids can play in celebration of the World Cup.
That's the nightmare Mike Johnson is screaming about on Fox News. Not communism. Not a "utopian ideology." Teachers. Parks. A balanced budget. Kids playing soccer.
Republicans spent decades convincing Americans that government can't do anything well, that progressives will bankrupt them, that taxing billionaires will end civilization. Mamdani called the bluff. The math worked. The schools opened. The streets filled with kids. And now every red-baiting Republican talking point is collapsing in real time.
Mike Johnson isn't afraid of communism. He's afraid of competence. He's afraid Americans will look at New York, then look at the Republican-run hellscapes across this country, and start asking obvious questions.
Bring on the mini-Mamdanis. Every single one of them.
We spent five hours doing boat prep today. More tomorrow. Enroute to the boat it poured rain. But the sun was out at the bay. Yay! Wil worked wonders to prepare the stern for the new motor mount. Meanwhile, I washed the entire outside of the boat, then touched up the bottom paint where needed. Just after we packed the truck to leave, it began to sprinkle...! Tomorrow Eldest and Root*center*Son will join us to get the new motor mount in place and the main sail on, while I wax the boat.
So, I happened upon a photo of Shiloh I had never seen before, posted by one of his colleagues. He is sitting on the ground reading a book, and it's obviously up at a remote camp because his shotgun is beside him...and he only ever had a shotgun when he was required to have one due to nearby polar and grizzly bears. I wondered what book he was reading. But when I cropped the photo the book cover was too blurry to read. I thought I could read the word "Somebody" in the title...maybe. So, I went to the used book site Abebooks and entered "Somebody" in the "keyword" option. A bunch of titles came up, and one was "Mrs. Somebody Somebody." But it had a very different cover. So I googled the title to see if that book ever had a different cover...and there it was!!! He was reading the book "Mrs. Somebody Somebody" by Tracy Winn. So I looked up the book and found this description in Good Reads:
In this astonishing debut, Tracy Winn poignantly chronicles the souls who inhabit the troubled mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, playing out their struggles and hopes over the course of the twentieth century. Through a stunning variety of voices, Winn paints a deep and permeating portrait of the town and its people: a young millworker who dreams of marrying rich and becoming “Mrs. Somebody Somebody”; an undercover union organizer whose privileged past shapes her cause; a Korean War veteran who returns to the wife he never really got to know—and the couple’s overindulged children, who grow up to act out against their parents; a town resident who reflects on a long-lost love and the treasure he keeps close to his heart. Winn’s keen insight into class and human nature, combined with her perfect, nuanced prose, make Mrs. Somebody Somebody truly shine.
I love learning that he read such a worthwhile book and may read it myself yet. It's strange but sweet to learn something you didn't know about someone you love after they have died. You get to add a new little memory.
Four arrested at immigration protest
ReplyDeleteI know the person from Jericho, and have worked with him at the polls. Definitely a good human.
From the Covid-19 substack:
ReplyDelete“Just spoke with my CDC sources.
“They said Donald J. Trump, along with RFK Jr., has cut funding to study hantavirus the virus recently behind the deadly cruise ship outbreak.
“The study, led by the WAC-EID focused on animal-to-human viruses including hantavirus.”
Well, of course they cut funding. Gotta save our pennies for the ballroom and B.B.'s filthy war. Oh, and, I forgot. funding tax breaks and other get-obscenely-richer-quick schemes for Trump and his friends, while shielding them from exposure in the Epstein files. No money for frivolities like health research.
DeleteI HATE these monsters!
From “The Other 98%’:
ReplyDeleteMike Johnson just had a meltdown on Fox News about "mini-Mamdanis" popping up everywhere. He accidentally told the whole country exactly why Republicans are about to get crushed.
The Speaker of the House went on Fox News and lost it. Not over a policy fight, not over a scandal, but over the fact that progressive Democrats are starting to win and people actually like what they're doing.
His exact words:
"Mini-Mamdanis popping up all around the country, and they're openly avowed to socialist Marxist ideology. This is something we have never seen before in American history. This is about moving away from a constitutional republic to a communist utopian ideology. And that's a dangerous thing for the future of the country."
Translation: People are starting to like Democrats who actually fight for them, and I'm panicking.
And yes, the "mini-Mamdanis" are absolutely real. Graham Platner in Maine. Brian Poindexter in Pennsylvania. Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. All running on Mamdani-style platforms. All gaining traction. All scaring the absolute hell out of Republicans and the corporate Democrats who told you for decades that progressive policies are unwinnable.
Why is this happening? Because Mamdani just proved every one of them wrong.
He inherited a $12 billion deficit from the corrupt Eric Adams administration. He erased it without slashing public services and without raising taxes on working New Yorkers. He's investing $122 million to hire 1,000 new teachers.
He just turned the blocks in front of 50 NYC public schools into car-free "Soccer Streets" so kids can play in celebration of the World Cup.
That's the nightmare Mike Johnson is screaming about on Fox News. Not communism. Not a "utopian ideology." Teachers. Parks. A balanced budget. Kids playing soccer.
Republicans spent decades convincing Americans that government can't do anything well, that progressives will bankrupt them, that taxing billionaires will end civilization. Mamdani called the bluff. The math worked. The schools opened. The streets filled with kids. And now every red-baiting Republican talking point is collapsing in real time.
Mike Johnson isn't afraid of communism. He's afraid of competence. He's afraid Americans will look at New York, then look at the Republican-run hellscapes across this country, and start asking obvious questions.
Bring on the mini-Mamdanis. Every single one of them.
Never seen before in American history, huh? Guess Little Mikey never heard of a fella named Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
DeleteExcept the mini-Mamdanis are no more Marxist than Mike noJohnson is Christian. Susan
DeleteAh, that says it, Susan.
DeleteWe spent five hours doing boat prep today. More tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteEnroute to the boat it poured rain. But the sun was out at the bay. Yay!
Wil worked wonders to prepare the stern for the new motor mount. Meanwhile, I washed the entire outside of the boat, then touched up the bottom paint where needed. Just after we packed the truck to leave, it began to sprinkle...!
Tomorrow Eldest and Root*center*Son will join us to get the new motor mount in place and the main sail on, while I wax the boat.
So, I happened upon a photo of Shiloh I had never seen before, posted by one of his colleagues. He is sitting on the ground reading a book, and it's obviously up at a remote camp because his shotgun is beside him...and he only ever had a shotgun when he was required to have one due to nearby polar and grizzly bears. I wondered what book he was reading. But when I cropped the photo the book cover was too blurry to read. I thought I could read the word "Somebody" in the title...maybe. So, I went to the used book site Abebooks and entered "Somebody" in the "keyword" option. A bunch of titles came up, and one was "Mrs. Somebody Somebody." But it had a very different cover. So I googled the title to see if that book ever had a different cover...and there it was!!! He was reading the book "Mrs. Somebody Somebody" by Tracy Winn. So I looked up the book and found this description in Good Reads:
ReplyDeleteIn this astonishing debut, Tracy Winn poignantly chronicles the souls who inhabit the troubled mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, playing out their struggles and hopes over the course of the twentieth century. Through a stunning variety of voices, Winn paints a deep and permeating portrait of the town and its people: a young millworker who dreams of marrying rich and becoming “Mrs. Somebody Somebody”; an undercover union organizer whose privileged past shapes her cause; a Korean War veteran who returns to the wife he never really got to know—and the couple’s overindulged children, who grow up to act out against their parents; a town resident who reflects on a long-lost love and the treasure he keeps close to his heart. Winn’s keen insight into class and human nature, combined with her perfect, nuanced prose, make Mrs. Somebody Somebody truly shine.
I love learning that he read such a worthwhile book and may read it myself yet. It's strange but sweet to learn something you didn't know about someone you love after they have died. You get to add a new little memory.
The book was published 1 April 2009, so I'm guessing the photo of Shiloh was taken in Summer 2009 or 2010.
DeleteMeet the miniature horses that crashed Jericho race
ReplyDeleteNow they're celebrities. LOL