The president wants a sham prosecution of the former CIA chief John Brennan. I'm not sure the American intelligence establishment can survive this regime much longer. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...
But also in the AI cosplay camp at the same time.
Whoah
Always read Barb...
congrats and looking forward
WSJ Editorial Board: Tuesday’s results in Wisconsin are another warning of a potential Democratic wave.
www.wsj.com/opinion/wisc...
We improved the GA-14 margin by like 25%, flipped a mayoral seat in a stronghold in WI, & (bluntly more importantly) finally widened control of the judiciary in WI so it’s not constantly a 4-3 court we have to panic about so future elections there should be immediately secure. The sky’s not falling.
Chris Taylor, a Dane County state appeals judge, has secured a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a major win for Democrats heading into the midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Sounds nice…as is your blog. A nice calm way to read. Ahhhh.
The only way to have checks and balances is to elect more Democrats. It is that simple.
Chag Sameach!
Chag Sameach!
I bet he thought his presence would be enough
In smaller font below:
enablements and sundries
Yeesh. Nazi tattoos are forever.
Voted!
Remembering Billy Wilder, who passed away on this day in 2002. Listen to our episode of The Old Man is Still Alive on Wilder's work in the 60s and 70s: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
I wish Greg hadn’t followed that with a “vote for Lander” post.
Excellent point.
Double George Benson cassette requested and received for my 16th birthday.
I’m tired of the daily crying pretending Schumer isn’t good at his actual job as if CHIPS & Science & the IRA didn’t require rug-pulling the GOP, as if he didn’t get 235 judges through, as if Senate Dems don’t largely hold the line when it matters, & as if recruitment this cycle hasn’t been stellar.
Anyway, it was a great privilege to have worked on this with @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social Maggie Murphy and the rest of the Audible team. If you never read the Mueller report, or would like to honor the man with a refresher, give a listen. It’s free!
www.audible.com/pd/The-Muell...
Thanks JB. This is great. I remember yr support from back in the early 90s.
fwiw
Yeah it’s a real issue of our infowar times. Also, depending on ones algo..I bet many don’t know or believe (for example) Israel is ever bombed. The Jewish press is covering a lot and the Mamdani tweets for example were easy to see and many on twitter *who pay attn to MENA antisemitism* discussed
proxies, that it has genocidal goals…none of that is understood or believed by so many and the coverage and the permission structure to vent against / dehumanize / not show anything w the word Israel (even in Bloomfield Hills) as victims of harm has followed…
wasn’t Jewish. I think infowar and the frameworks are the most influential elements in the shift…(including the infowar/ mass martydom tactics of 10/7) along with the almost complete lack of understanding of IRI/Islamism’s (+Russian active measures) opposition to the west and the US, that it has
an avatar for the Quebecois story…in Capetown 6/7 years ago same there but for their story…then the Dyke March in Chicago in 2017 throwing Jews out for a magen david…a complete first for any dyke march to ban someone or one symbol or flag…and by then zero support from any NGO or queer group that
positioning (in Canada and commonwealth countries first) of Israel as “white” and Jew as “white and European” and Palestinians as indigenous and POC all framed to align as vector for the politics in the Bay where I was and re-framed in Quebec for example where it is
