“It’s pathological”
Eddie Glaude on Donald Trump’s suggestion that people with disabilities should just die.
Perhaps the best words I’ll read today
“MOUSE CAUGHT”: on the side of a Tomcat Kill & Contain Mouse Trap.
Current events
I am thinking of every post right now as a flight from current events. Those events are always on my mind. But I have no special insight into them.
“No mother”
“No mother, no mother — no mother — should go through what I’m going through right now”: RowVaughn Wells.
A letter to our representative
“It seems to us that your willingness to protect life begins and ends in the uterus.”
Darren Bailey posted to Facebook
And he said, among other things, “Let’s move on.”
Mary Miller has tweeted
Hours after the massacre in Highland Park, she tweets about monuments and statues and liberty and history. WTF, Mary?
Highland Park
“This scene has repeated itself over and over again because of the unfettered access to weapons of war,” said Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat from suburban Chicago.
Mary Miller, lying
Congresswoman Mary Miller (R, IL-15) questions Dr. Miguel Cardona, Secretary of Education and offers a crazy quilt of lies and irrelevancies ending in a self-own.
Aaron Rupar collecting
On Twitter, Aaron Rupar has collected today a number of Republican comments on the latest school massacre. The comments are either absurd (“When 9/11 happened, we didn’t ban planes”) or wholly evasive.
HCR on “the right to bear arms”
Heather Cox Richardson gives a short lesson about the history of a peculiarly American idea.
Red flags
Our household’s representative in Congress, Mary Miller (R, IL-15), has touted, loudly, repeatedly, her opposition to red-flag laws.
“Why are you here?”
Senator Chris Murphy (D, CT): “What are we doing? Why are you here, if not to solve a problem as existential as this? This isn’t inevitable. These kids weren’t unlucky. This only happens in this country, and nowhere else. Nowhere else do little kids go to school thinking they might be shot that day.”
“Coming back as a cat”
A gravedigger speaks, from Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield.
Birx’s merch
Dr. Deborah Birx has a makeover and a book. As she makes the rounds of ��the shows,” her praise of the defeated former president in 2020 renders irrelevant whatever she says now.
Seven vs. eight
Jon Gruber juxtaposes Jon events.
Thankful
Typed during the memorial service for William “Billy” Evans, Capitol police officer.
And speaking of AOC
She’s leading an effort (one of many, of course) to raise money for Texans in need.
“The antithesis”
“He’s like the antithesis of public health”: Dr. Irwin Redlener of Columbia University, speaking of you-know-who.
Love thy neighbor?
What might it take to persuade some people to take COVID-19 seriously and act accordingly? I’ve wondered if this message might work.
“The scale of betrayal”
On Trump*’s COVID lies: "The scale of betrayal is almost beyond political analysis": Mara Gay of The New York Times.
A reminder
TRUMP = DEATH.
Source?
“I’m not afraid of death. It just don’t suit me to be lookin’ at it.”
“We do language”
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
A baseline preference
Virginia Heffernan writes in the Los Angeles Times about Herman Cain, Louie Gohmert, and opposition to face masks.
In a parallel universe
“Sir, I’m guessing that you’ve had to much too drink, and if that’s the case, I’m glad that I found you asleep here and not on the road. Tell you what we can do, if you like: I can drive you home in my car. And if you’re willing to give me your keys, my partner can drive your car home for you, and we’ll make sure that you get there safely, because this is really no place to be sleeping, and I’m sure you’d agree with me about that. And in the future, please do not get behind the wheel if you’ve had too much to drink.” And so on. If only.
Not this time, lady
She yelled at me, or at no one: “I will run over you!” This poor old woman must have been suffering from the delusion that she’s George Wallace.
“Good practice”
Behold, an American president who sees the Secret Service as a violence-hungry death squad and fantasizes about massacres on the White House lawn.
Same as it ever was
remember talking on the telephone with my dad about the death of Amadou Diallo. My dad put it simply: “If he’d been white, he’d be alive.” That was 1999. And now again, with the death of George Floyd, as with so many other deaths: If he’d been white, he’d be alive. I think it really is that simple.
“Vote as if your life depends on it”
Tony Schwartz, Donald Trump*’s ghostwriter: “Understanding what we’re truly up against — the reign of terror that Trump will almost surely wage the moment he believes he can completely prevail — makes the upcoming presidential election a true Armageddon. “Vote as if your life depends on it, because it does.”