Three Sam Seder clips that are important to watch

Before I share the clips a personal note.  I spend the morning with Ron.  We went to get blood work done.  Then we did some other things.  Then he went shopping while I did housework.  Then after he got home I started working on a computer project a friend asked me if I would do for him as he couldn’t do it.  I agreed to.  I still have a lot of work on it but I will get it done today I think.  

The lab work came back and I think I have a reason while I have been so tired, short of breath, and not able to concentrate or think clearly.   My blood work shows I am very anemic again.  I once had it get so bad I collapsed as I was entering my allergist office.  They thought I was having a heart attack and I ended up in the hospital.  Turned out my heart is great, but my damaged large bones don’t produce enough red blood cells.  Their solution was to eat more red meat and take iron supplements.  For a long time they watched for it but as I always managed to stay right inside the ok zone they stopped worrying about it.  But my diet changed, red meat got too expensive and I just don’t eat much anymore.  But my lab work showed my hematocrit is very low.  So I imagine the doctor will ask me to do some more tests.  I hope I don’t need a blood transfusion, that sucks.  Now on to the clips, enjoy.

Peace & Justice History for 12/21

Some days I read this, and wonder how/why people want to allow some historical happenings to repeat, while ignoring history that ought to be recalled to keep earned progress. Then there are items that make me smile to recall how they were so bad when they happened, but wouldn’t it be great if misspellings were what is so bad these days?

December 21, 1919
Amidst a strike for union recognition by 395,000 steelworkers, the “Red Scare” was launched with the deportation of Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, and some 250 other radicals. They were deported to Russia aboard the S. S. Buford (“The Soviet Ark”).
 
Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman also organized against World War I
J. Edgar Hoover, heading the Justice Department’s General Intelligence Division, advanced his career by implementing to the fullest extent possible the government’s plan to deport all foreign-born radicals.
 
S.S. Buford 
“Sasha & Emma” 
Read more about Emma & Alex
December 21, 1956
The Montgomery, Alabama, public buses were officially integrated.
This happened following a successful boycott of city buses led by Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and initiated by Rosa Parks’s refusal to move to the back of the bus.

  
“UH UH, I’m not going your way!”
Bus Boycott cartoon by Laura Gray from 1956
December 21, 1965
American political activists Tom Hayden, Staughton Lynd, and Herbert Aptheker began a visit to Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam. Invited by the North Vietnamese, they went despite the U.S. travel ban.
Lynd and Hayden wrote “The Other Side” following their trip,
explaining the Vietnamese perspective.
December 21, 1968
Hundreds of supporters visited jailed Vietnam War resisters at Allenwood Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania, organized by the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
December 21, 1982
President Ronald Reagan signed, after Congress had passed it unanimously, the first Boland Amendment. Representative Edward Boland’s (D-Massachusetts) legislation prohibited the use of U.S. funds for either overt or covert efforts by its intelligence agencies to overthrow the Nicaraguan government.
December 21, 1989
Vice President Dan Quayle sent out 30,000 Christmas cards with the word beacon misspelled “beakon.”

“May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.”
— The Quayles’ 1989 Christmas card.
December 21, 1991
Eleven former Soviet republics and Russia peaceably declared an end to the Soviet Union and formed the Commonwealth of Independent States. Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,  Uzbekistan and Ukraine agreed to cooperate on the basis on sovereign equality.

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorydecember.htm#december21

Some Nancy Mace attention crying. Just realized I did not post this.

JoeMyGodMod2 days ago

Had a pro-tr*ns activist rush the stage during a speaking engagement

Another stupid lie.

As anyone who saw the video here on JMG knows, said activist stood up at her seat in the audience and was instantly hustled out by security.

She never even left her row of seats.

Enjoy having these people being forced to use the women’s restroom, according to your beliefs, dumbass.

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This trans man is ready to help!

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Mace wants this trans man to be forced to use the women’s public bathroom.

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From the merchandise site:

It’s Nancy Mace here. The Left wants to NORMALIZE the idea of a NAKED MAN walking into our private spaces.

Some Bluesky posts. I recommend reading the links to the anti-trans stories.

Yesterday, 37 Democratic Senators voted to pass the anti-trans NDAA.Those same Dems refused to allow Senator Baldwin to advance an amendment to remove anti-trans provisions from the bill.EITM has released an easy to read list of Senators who voted for it.Subscribe to support our journalism.

— Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com) 2024-12-19T15:34:29.396Z

This follows the Queensland and French reviews into care that found care to be safe and effective. The Cass Review was a political hatchet job. Guarantee the NYT and US media doesn't cover this.

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2024-12-19T13:18:58.565Z

In 2024, several New Hampshire Democrats, afraid that anti-trans attacks would work, voted in favor of a trans surgery ban and bathroom bill.They lost more seats than most other states. Now the R majority is ramping up targeting us.Capitulation didn't work.National Dems, take note.

— Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com) 2024-12-19T05:05:53.670Z

There is no joy in taking health insurance coverage away from any of our constituents, including trans children of active duty service members here in Virginia.You can’t support our troops by making it harder for families to afford medically necessary health care prescribed by their doctors.

— Sen. Danica Roem (@pwcdanica.bsky.social) 2024-12-18T19:09:58.939Z

This is the trans athletic scare that has half the nation in a tizzy. It’s manufactured fear, playing off of ignorance and bigotry.

— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2024-12-19T17:38:11.087Z

The result of puberty blocker bans means trans youth are just skipping to grey market hormones, not managed by a healthcare provider. So the result of bans is care that is not managed and worse for everyone involved. This is why gatekeeping doesn't work. People will get access anyways.

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2024-12-19T16:47:29.073Z

The only thing you do is make it less safe for trans people. Trans teens taking grey market hormones has been a thing for decades and had been declining until bans started kicking in. You'd think these idiots would learn that prohibitions never actually stops anything, you just make it less visible.

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2024-12-19T16:47:29.074Z

Rand Paul becomes the first to call for Elon Musk to replace Mike Johnson as Speaker. Which, if you listened to my podcast Uncovered yesterday, you already knew was going to happen before it just happened.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2024-12-19T13:06:10.248Z

Mitch McConnell ran a playbook of total opposition after the 2008 election and it resulted in Republicans flipping 6 senate seats and 63 house seats two years after the biggest Dem victory since LBJwhat the fuck are you people doing

— Micah (@rincewind.run) 2024-12-18T16:16:00.341Z

The government is going to get shut down because this oligarch dipshit believes blatant lies from the dumbest person on Twitter.

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2024-12-19T04:16:58.141Z

I don't think we're prepared for just how stupid things are about to get. The dumbest people on earth high on conspiracy theories will be making policy decisions like pandemic response based on disinformation from twitter.

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2024-12-19T04:21:54.369Z

We’re all going to have to continue to push back on this lie from Trump that he won a “mandate” of historic proportions.

— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2024-12-19T18:30:01.228Z

"2025 Will Be the Year of Trump's Crackdown on Islam"What Trump’s hawkish anti-Muslim appointees mean for the Middle East – and beyond, writes @attackerman.bsky.social for @zeteo.com

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2024-12-19T18:16:23.849Z

Jeffries: That bipartisan agreement has now been detonated because House Republicans have been ordered to shut down the government and hurt the very working-class Americans that many of them pretend to want to help

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2024-12-19T16:53:20.945Z

The police exist to protect property, not people.

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2024-12-19T16:06:02.492Z

This is why police unions are not real unions and no one should view them as such. They exist to protect power and property. That's it. There's no solidarity to be found there.

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2024-12-19T16:14:35.755Z

Peace & Justice History for 12/17

The first entry may be a clue as to why Musk is supporting the Don; he could wish to turn the US into S. Africa. As hard as we worked when we were young until now, progress doesn’t seem to have stuck, here.

December 17, 1982
The U.N. passed a series of 4 resolutions attacking apartheid in South Africa: To organize an international conference of trade unions on sanctions against South Africa (approved 129 to 2); To encourage various international actions against South Africa (126 to 2); Support of sanctions and other measures against South Africa including international sporting events (139 to 1); Cessation of further foreign investments and loans for South Africa (138 to 1). The U.S. was the only country to have voted against all 4 resolutions (joined only by the United Kingdom on two).
December 17, 1990

Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a radical Roman Catholic priest and opponent of the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier who had been deposed in 1986, was elected president in the first free election in Haiti’s history. He was overthrown in 1991 in a military coup led by Brigadier-General Raoul Cedra.

More about Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Jean-Bertrand Aristide Fast Facts
December 17, 2010
In Tunesia jobless graduate Mohmad Bouazizi starts selling vegetables. When police seize his cart, he sets fire to himself and later dies.
This event believed to be the ignition of Arab Spring
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A UK Guardian interactive timeline 

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorydecember.htm#december17

Janet Brings The Numbers

Still At It, She Is-

Former Nancy Mace Staffer Calls Out Her BS

Ex-staffer calls bigoted Nancy Mace ‘full of sh-t’ for attack claim.

By Walter Einenkel — December 13, 2024

Rep. Nancy Mace’s former communications director isn’t buying Mace’s claims that she was attacked by a trans activist. On Tuesday night, Mace wrote that she was “physically accosted tonight on Capitol grounds over my fight to protect women.”

According to reports, James McIntyre, cofounder of the Illinois chapter of Foster Care Alumni of America, was arrested and charged with assaulting a government official after an event at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, Tuesday night. Witnesses have said that what they saw does not match Mace’s claims.

Mace posted a picture of herself wearing a sling, writing on X “Just sitting here with your run-of-the-mill gentle ‘normal handshake,’” an apparent reference to the claim that she was assaulted. 

Natalie Johnson, who served as former communications director for Mace during her first year in Congress, responded to Mace’s tweet. “This is the same woman who told staff, myself included, during Jan. 6 that she wanted to get ‘punched in the face’ by a rioter so she could get on TV,” Johnson wrote. “She’s full of shit and her prop of a sling is a pathetic ploy for attention.”

According to the Washington Post, Elliot Hinkle, a foster-care advocate from Wyoming, witnessed the interaction between Mace and McIntyre.

“What we witnessed was a handshake, a passionate shake, but it didn’t look like an assault or intended aggression,” Hinkle said, referencing several people they said also saw the encounter. They said McIntyre told Mace, “Trans youth are also foster youth, and they need your support.”

Johnson has been critical of her former boss in the past. Recently, the former staffer slammed Mace after the lawmaker promoted a bill, disingenuously called “Protecting Women’s Private Spaces Act,” that bans trans women from using single-sex federally owned bathrooms. (snip-MORE)

Peace & Justice History for 12/14

December 14, 1917
U.S. peace activist and suffragist Kate Richards O’Hare was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for a speech denouncing World War I.
Occupying a neighboring jail cell was Emma Goldman, the well-known anarchist organizer, feminist, writer and anti-war critic was imprisoned for obstructing the draft. O’Hare was one of a number of prisoners Socialist Party leader Eugene Debs cited in his “Canton Speech” for which he in turn was imprisoned.
More about activist Kate Richards O’Hare 
Read the speech 
December 14, 1961
In a public exchange of letters with South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, U.S. President John F. Kennedy formally announced the United States would increase aid to South Vietnam, including the expansion of the U.S. troop commitment. Kennedy, concerned with recent advances made by the communist insurgency movement in South Vietnam, wrote: “We shall promptly increase our assistance to your defense effort.”

President Ngo Dinh Diem

President Kennedy and Secretary of Defense McNamara
Kennedy – Diem letter exchange 
December 14, 1980

At Yoko Ono’s request, John Lennon fans around the world mourned him with 10 minutes of silent prayer. In New York over 100,000 people converged on Central Park in tribute, and in Liverpool, England, his hometown, a crowd of 30,000 gathered outside of St. George’s Hall on Lime Street.
johnlennon.com  “You may say I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one.”
Time capsules to mark John Lennon’s legacy 
December 14, 1985
Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to lead a major American Indian tribe when she took office as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

Wilma Mankiller on the day in 1985 when her election as chief of the Cherokee Nation was announced
December 14, 1994
After eight years of negotiations, the United States finally agreed to honor New Zealand’s ban on nuclear weapons in its territory.
U.S. Navy ships armed with nuclear weapons no longer visited New Zealand’s ports.
December 14, 1995
Leaders of the states that were parts of the former Yugoslavia signed the Bosnia peace treaty, formally ending four years of bloody and vicious ethnic/religious conflict. The Dayton Accords, as they are known, committed the Balkan states of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina to accept a division of territory, a process to deal with the more than 2 million refugees, and the introduction of 60,000 NATO peacekeeping forces.
The negotiations were led by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, and held principally at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio.

The Dayton Accords 

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorydecember.htm#december14

Right-Wingers Are Spending Obscene Amounts Of Money On Democratic Party Primaries

Israel Executing Land Grabs In Syria