Reaching out
This morning I have had a president, a vice president, and an undefeated former president reach out to me, one of them “personally reaching out.”
And speaking of AOC
She’s leading an effort (one of many, of course) to raise money for Texans in need.
“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.”
A “lethal aversion to reading”
“It's not a stretch to say that if the president read, thousands of lives might have been saved”: in The Week, Windsor Mann writes about Donald Trump*’s “lethal aversion to reading.”
Meltdown
From the Financial Times, an utterly damning summary of the Trump* administration’s response to pandemic.
A variation on a theme
Trump* equals death.
TRUMP = DEATH
Not too extreme an equation.
Emma González for Congress
She addressed a rally for gun control and called B.S.
A thought for these days
From Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
The New York Times : “End the Gun Epidemic in America”
“It is past time to stop talking about halting the spread of firearms, and instead to reduce their number drastically — eliminating some large categories of weapons and ammunition.”
Days and shootings
In the United States in 2015, mass shootings are outnumbering the days of the year.
Where were you when Nixon resigned?
I was at home watching television.
George McGovern (1922–2012)
“No man should advocate a course in private that he’s ashamed to admit in public.”
“Hope is better than fear”
“There are any number of American politicians who could learn something from Jack Layton.”
HCR
At last
One day to go
Pre-election stress 'n' Hi and Lois
2:14 a.m.
What if he loses?
I early voted
And I have proof
Dream with a typo in it
Columbain coffee?