I am heartbroken to learn tonight of the death of my friend Mike Finnigan.
If you have listened to Hendrix’s “Electric Ladyland,” you’re familiar with Mike’s work. His interplay on the Hammond with Hendrix on “Rainy Day, Dream Away/Still Raining, Still Dreaming” is … legendary.
In recent years, he’s been a key part of Bonnie Raitt’s incredible band.
Mike was 76. Much too young, IMHO. I will miss him.
I am very sad tonight. It seems that K21 Cappuccino—the Southern Resident orca whose image serves as my avatar—has passed away, in a badly emaciated state, this afternoon.
Here’s the grim story. When whales reach this stage, they pass away within hours.
Good to see that our fearless free-speech warriors are now siding with the people who are trying ban teachers from teaching kids about racism and its history.
BTW, guys, it's pretty hard to debate people who believe you are part of a massive Marxist conspiracy and no amount of evidence to the contrary will ever dissuade them. If @ggreenwald and @mtracey want to give it a shot, they can be our guests.
The attack on CRT, particularly the legislation to banish any vestige of the idea from our schools, is the most serious threat to free speech we face right now. This, Glenn, is genuine censorship imposed by the state. And you don't care.
Yesterday's House Oversight hearing on the insurrection was significant in the way it demonstrated that the Republican Party is fully in the grip of the antidemocratic/ authoritarian/counterfactual insanity of Trumpism after Jan. 6. A video thread of the clown parade. 1/
The most obvious gaslighter was Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia: "Let’s be honest with the American people: It was not an insurrection, and we cannot call it that and be truthful." Followed by two definitions of "insurrection" that match the events of Jan. 6 perfectly. /2
Clyde later said: 'You know, but the only insurrection I’ve witnessed in my lifetime was the one conducted by the FBI with participants from the DOJ and other agencies under the banner “Russia Russia Russia.”' Which, regardless how you felt, was nothing like an insurrection./3
The worst aspect of this lede (and frankly, the rest of this piece) is how it utterly obliviates the asymmetrical nature of the dynamic that created this kind of 'sectarianism.' nytimes.com/2021/04/19/us/…
Democrats have only recently--mostly since Jan. 6--come to understand that the Republican Party is hostile not just to their party but to democracy itself, and that their worldviews are so irreconcilable that rapprochement or compromise really is nowhere in view.
Barack Obama spent the better part of his tenure reaching out to the other side and receiving back a bloody stump, literally on every issue: economic recovery, health care, immigration, gun safety. You name it, he tried hard to compromise.
Tucker Carlson trotted out this argument earlier this week to illustrate his “replacement theory” regarding immigrants and voting. It’s actually a perfect illustration of the up-is-down gaslighting of the theory. A thread. 1/
Carlson made this argument on Monday when he was doubling down on his claim that Democrats want nonwhite immigration in order to increase their power—an open embrace of white-nationalist dogma./ 2
Of course, we are familiar with Greenwald claiming there is “no evidence” of any connections to acts of violence and that claiming otherwise is merely “guilt by association.”