The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    While we fiddle about who was a victim and who got privilege, most of Rome is burning right now

    By artappraiser on Thu, 06/18/2020 - 8:46pm |

    Republicans Against Trump Ads

    By artappraiser on Sat, 06/13/2020 - 4:02am |

    This one's a killer

    Ouch! pic.twitter.com/f5FiqtaMcq

    — Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) June 13, 2020

    Checkers and Wreckers at the Daytona 500

    By artappraiser on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 7:09pm |

    to go along with the news of NASCAR banning use of the Confederate Flag today

    DoJ Flynn Kraziness IV - Advanced Circuitry

    By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 4:31am |

    Long but worth it explanation onf Mandamus & options (including Marty's prior piece linked within)

     

    https://www.justsecurity.org/70656/four-remarkable-arguments-in-dojs-lat...

    Wherein I see how Sean Hannity makes big bucks

    By artappraiser on Wed, 06/10/2020 - 1:45am |

    Outrage sells. And it's little different from Wrestlemania:

     

    Poem for Martin Gugino, and Donald Trump

    By NCD on Tue, 06/09/2020 - 8:51pm |

    Trump Falsely Targets Buffalo Protester, 75, as ‘Antifa Provocateur’

    The president attacked Martin Gugino even as the activist was in the hospital recovering from a head wound sustained when the police shoved him to the ground.  link

    Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump

    Yoko taught him good!

    By artappraiser on Sun, 06/07/2020 - 9:29pm |

    Emptied Manhattan has now merely become Brooklyn's stage

    By artappraiser on Sat, 06/06/2020 - 6:40pm |

    Video links and Article Dump

    By A Guy Called LULU on Fri, 06/05/2020 - 6:25pm |

    Just a name change to be more indicative of how I expect to use it. 

    Strange glitch with Dagblog software just happened

    By artappraiser on Wed, 06/03/2020 - 6:58pm |

    a comment (a tweet quote) which I tried to post twice on my news thread about deflation numbers here, turns up twice in the running "Recent Comments," but does not appear on the news thread itself. Those entries on "Recent Comments" do take you back to the thread, but the comments themselves do not appear. Just noting the problem in case it happens to someone else.

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    Electric Reichstag Bugaloo

    By jollyroger on Tue, 06/02/2020 - 12:23pm |

    Be on the lookout for Hawaiin Shirts.

     

    Evidently the Brooks Brothers neo nazi uniforms from Charlottesville (ableit tastefully accessorized with indiscretely placed swastica pins) have morphed into Hawaiin Shirts (?1) as garb for the fashionable white supremecist out for a little provacateur ramble.

     

    I call upon my Anonymous comrades to penetrate the communications net that must underlie what I have no doubt is the false flag operation seeking to seize upon this moment as the time to foment the fulfillment of their nutty race war dreams..

     

    The old Krushchev ploy

    By artappraiser on Mon, 06/01/2020 - 3:41pm |

    One big flaw in conservative thinking along the lines of "laissez faire" attitude to addressing things like inequities and racism in the U.S. system is that their enemies know how to put it to good use:

    A sick and broken health care system during a pandemic

    By artappraiser on Sun, 05/31/2020 - 5:09am |

    DoJ Flynn Kraziness III - The Transcripts

    By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 05/30/2020 - 12:43am |

    PS/ The investigation ongoing into Flynn in late 2016 was a counterintelligence investigation; a criminal investigation came later. But the *concepts* undergirding the Logan Act, a criminal statute, are actually even more *richly* in play in a *counterintelligence* investigation.

    Go home

    By Flavius on Fri, 05/29/2020 - 12:20am |

    There was full justification for tonight 's riots. And they shouldn 't have happened..

    We are  partly civilized human beings, most of us  .I certainly don´t include the murderous cop. Heś an ass hole.

    But our protection from   the ass holes fully taking over    is refusing to support them.

    To the question" should I throw this petrol bomb΅'., the answer is ¨go home.΅

     

    Which states most reflect the U.S. as a whole and which are the most atypical?

    By artappraiser on Thu, 05/28/2020 - 9:17pm |

    What states most closely resemble the US as a whole?

    Here's a list from an algorithm that accounts for race, religion, density, geography, income, education, age, gender and presidential voting.

    1. Pennsylvania
    2. Virginia
    3. Illinois
    4. Michigan
    5. Florida
    6. Ohio

    — Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) May 28, 2020

    Just a reminder - Russian disinfo

    By artappraiser on Thu, 05/28/2020 - 1:39pm |

    Russian disinformation campaigns thrive on issues that are divisive to Americans. We are just tee'ing things up for nefarious actors to exploit & manipulate our society. We're our own worst enemy. I expect these issues to intensify in the lead up to the November 2020 election.

    — ColinPClarke (@ColinPClarke) May 28, 2020
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    Would be murderer caught in the act...Cy Vance, pick up the phone!

    By jollyroger on Tue, 05/26/2020 - 9:39am |

    You may not yet have seen this video of an attempted  murder (by cop) in progress.

     

     

     

     

    In involves a privileged high executive in the Templeton Fund terrorizing a birdwatcher for reminding her to leash her dog while in Central Park.

     

    What Noah Smith learned about twitter mobs (trolls) over time

    By artappraiser on Mon, 05/25/2020 - 2:46pm |

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    Mr. President, sir, we've lost Ann Coulter...

    By jollyroger on Sun, 05/24/2020 - 6:31pm |

    It may not be like Johnson losing Walter Cronkite, but one may hope that Trump felt a shadow on his grave when he read Coulter's responses to his (predictable) attacks on Jeff Sessions.  (o/t-only Trump could make that piece of shit Sessions sympathetic...

     

    One can only hope for a twitterstorm out of the orange pustule...

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    DoJ Flynn Kraziness part ii

    By PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 1:55am |

    Sullivan delayed twice so Barr's DoJ could make this statement:

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    A Word of Caution for Those Rushing Out to Celebrate Their Release From 'Captivity'

    By librewolf on Thu, 05/21/2020 - 9:29am |

    The pressure is on to "reopen" the economy (a misnaming of what needs to happen). The vision of what that means and the reality that will continue to evolve are in vast conflict. However, regardless of vision, there is a harsh reality that few seem to understand.

    It is more dangerous to be out in public now than at any time since January 22, when we first became aware that there was one person with the virus in the U.S.

    How many reading this are saying "Say WHAT!?"

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