Happy Birthday tomorrow to an important American who changed our country. . . . . .Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), abolitionist author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852).

Sixty years ago today, two heroic, courageous and idealistic young Black Americans, Vivian Malone and James Hood, entered the University of Alabama after JFK federalized the Alabama National Guard and Governor George Wallace stepped aside after trying to bar them: During a partially-improvised Oval Office speech, JFK declares civil rights "a moral issue" and pledges to send comprehensive bill to Congress, sixty years ago tonight:

Ex-President evidently no longer considers Jim to be Trusty. When Trusty and Rowley quit, did Todd Blanche?

Meadows sings: Ex-President’s lawyers photographed while leaving Justice Department:

Look, there's an accidental flood in the resort club room where we kept the surveillance logs! Resort club members watching secret classified documents as they float by:

Now why would anyone possibly think that a sudden, loud, unexplained boom in Washington DC on a Sunday afternoon might alarm anyone? We take you now to the Ellipse, near the White House in Washington DC, where a flying saucer has landed. U.S. military tanks have rolled up, and a nervous crowd has gathered. . .

DeSantis announcement still crashing after fifteen minutes--not an inspiring harbinger of his leadership competence as President.

Can’t possibly guess who might have been the ghostwriter of this letter: Maybe all Americans should call the lawyer’s mobile phone (the number is on this letter) and scream their outrage at the outrageous persecution of poor pitiful Trump.

CNN Republican Town Hall begins with standing ovation for Trump, after which he denounces the 2020 "rigged election." "They were stuffing ballot boxes."

Why shouldn't there be an investigation of not only Justice Thomas's finances but also existing evidence of any secret involvement by himself and his wife in the January 6 coup d'stat and insurrection that almost destroyed our democracy? So Thomas is reportedly granting himself a do-over on his failure to report his secret financial dealings. Do other Americans who are actually held to account by our legal system get the same kind of special privilege?

"Rigged and stollen," ex-President just posted about 2020 election. At least it seems as if he really wrote this himself. It's a little early in the year for stollen:

Pompeo announces that, despite the loud national demand for his Presidential candidacy, he will not run in 2024: No joke: in his Presidential withdrawal statement of today, the always-modest Pompeo says “how heartwarming and humbling it has been when strangers have told me they pray that I run to defend our nation’s Judeo-Christian heritage, our families and our country.”

Any news about what Chief Justice Roberts is planning to do in response to the Clarence Thomas revelations? Anything at all? And while we are at it, any update on who exactly leaked the early draft of the Dobbs decision? What was the motive? What is the punishment going to be?

So what do we Americans think about this new revelation? propublica.org/article/claren…

Chicago is the city of party conventions: FDR makes pathbreaking flight to Chicago, 1932:

Tennessee legislators have just taken a crowbar against American democracy. What is happening to our country?

At the beach club mansion, the ex-President is now asking Mar-a-Lago members if they would like to hear him recite "The Snake." And did you know that he singlehandedly built one of the great companies in the world?

Law enforcement arrives outside of Norma's mansion: Norma is alone inside the mansion, once again watching old video of herself being cheered at 2016 rallies:

This dramatic announcement appears today on the @WilliamsCollege website: @AmherstCollege "W-amherst" is not a bad name for a merged college -- but a better one would be "williams.i.am."

On January 6, I was a member of the Executive branch—no, the Legislative!—no, the Executive! And chant along with me, “I’m not getting in that car!”

"The final battle." "Shameful, corrupt and depraved."