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Crazy is their name

Trump Team: Disgraceful Arlington Official Is Mentally Ill

Publicly claiming that someone is “suffering from a mental health episode” might be legally actionable.

Rick Scott Compares Harris To Venezuelan Dictator
Newsmax Host: Feds Were Behind Trump Rally Shooting
Felon Blames Biden And Harris For Rally Shooting
Newt Gingrich Blames Harris For Stranded Astronauts

One would think that as a former House Speaker, Gingrich would know that NASA’s budget is approved by Congress, specifically the House Appropriations Committee. (That’s a joke, of course he motherfucking knows.)

The committee’s current chairman is GOP Rep. Tom Cole. Additionally, the above-cited $4.5 billion contract was awarded in 2014 under the leadership of GOP Speaker John Boehner. GOP Rep. Hal Rogers was chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in 2014.

Knowles: Decapitating Dead Whales “Isn’t That Weird”

“But this isn’t that weird. People hunt. It’s cool. In fact, this makes me think more highly of of RFK’s environmentalism.” – Daily Wire host Michael Knowles.

TX Sues Another Blue County Over Voter Registration

Read the full article. Contrary to Paxton’s claims, Civic Government Solutions is a nonpartisan group.

Review of the Sunday news programs 9 11 2024

Let’s talk about Harris getting a letter from former senior military leaders….

Rep. Sharice Davids Promotes Bipartisan Affordable Childcare Act, Aiming to Ease Financial Strain on Families with Expanded Tax Credits

Yesterday, Representative Sharice Davids joined a Shawnee family to pick up their children from day care and discussed her bipartisan Affordable Childcare Act with them. The bill aims to ease the financial burden on parents by doubling three different tax credits, directly increasing their savings. With a report showing that working parents are spending 24 percent of their income on child care, Davids is advocating for urgent measures to reduce these costs.

Representative Sharice Davids’ bipartisan Affordable Childcare Act, introduced earlier this year with Representative Marc Molinaro (R-NY-19), proposes several significant enhancements:

Doubling the Child and Dependent Care Credit: This credit helps families offset child care and dependent care expenses. The Act increases the credit to $6,000 for one dependent and $12,000 for two or more, aiding working families in managing rising child care costs.

Doubling the Employer-Provided Child Care Credit: This credit allows businesses to claim expenses for providing child care facilities or services to their employees. The Act raises the credit to $300,000 per year, covering 25 percent of qualified child care facility expenses and 10 percent of child care resource and referral expenses, to encourage greater business investment in employee child care support.

Doubling Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account Contributions: This benefit allows employees to use pre-tax dollars for eligible dependent care expenses. The Act increases the contribution limit to $10,000, allowing parents to save more for qualifying caregiving costs. “Child care is essential not only for giving kids like Eli and Colby Zigtema a strong start, but also for allowing parents to earn a living and support their families,” said Davids. “Growing up with a single mom, I know how much a little extra money in the bank account can mean. That’s why I introduced bipartisan legislation to help the Zigtemas and other hardworking Kansas families afford the quality child care they need.”

Rep. Sharice Davids Promotes Bipartisan Affordable Childcare Act, Aiming to Ease Financial Strain on Families with Expanded Tax Credits

Exactly how Trump could ban abortion

Whether the US bans it completely is basically up to the next president

Sunday news shows video 3 9 9 2024

My review of the Sunday News Shows. I finished up on This Week, and started on Meet The Press.

Peace & Justice History for 9/9:

September 9, 1862
Minnesota Governor Alexander Ramsey declared that “The Sioux Indians of Minnesota must be exterminated or driven forever beyond the borders of the state.”
The previous month the Dakota, or Santee, Sioux, long burdened by treaty violations and late or unfair payments from Indian agents, killed four settlers and decided to attack settlers throughout the Minnesota River valley. The number killed was estimated between 300 and 800, until 9/11 the largest civilian death toll in the U.S. The number of Indian deaths was not recorded.
September 9, 1944
Religious conscientious objector Corbett Bishop was arrested after walking out of a Civilian Public Service Camp. During subsequent trials and imprisonments, he refused any type of cooperation with the government until he was released 193 days later.
 
“I’m not going to cooperate in any way, shape or form.
I was carried in here.If you hold me, you’ll have to carry me out.War is wrong. I don’t want any part of it.” – Corbett Bishop, 1906-1961
September 9, 1963
Students at Chu Van An boys’ high school in Saigon tore down the government flag and raised a Buddhist flag to protest the corrupt Diem regime in South Vietnam; 1,000 were arrested.
September 9, 1971
The Attica (New York) State Penitentiary revolt began. The interracial revolt was led by blacks but featured cooperation between prisoners of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.

It was finally brutally suppressed by the state five days later, upon orders from Governor Nelson Rockefeller who refused to become directly involved. 29 prisoners and 10 guards were shot and killed by attacking state troopers in the bloodiest prison confrontation in U.S. history.

The prisoners had been demanding improvements in their living and working conditions at the increasingly overcrowded facility.
September 9, 1980
Eight activists from the Atlantic Life Community were arrested after hammering the nose cones of two missiles at the General Electric plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. 
Read about Plowshares 8
 
The Plowshares 8 (in alphabetical order):
Daniel Berrigan, Philip Berrigan, Dean Hammer, Carl Kabat, Elmer Maas, Anne Montgomery, Molly Rush, and John Schuchardt.

This action would become the first of an international movement of dozens of “Plowshares” anti-nuclear direct actions.
 A chronology of Plowshares actions 
September 9, 1997
Sinn Fein (pronounced shin fayn), the Irish Republican Army’s allied political party, formally renounced violence by accepting the principles put forward by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell (D-Maine) who was mediating the talks between the Irish Republicans and the British Unionists on Northern Ireland’s future.
Senator George Mitchell
The Mitchell Principles:
• To democratic and exclusively peaceful means of resolving political issues;
• To the total disarmament of all paramilitary organisations;
• To agree that such disarmament must be verifiable to the satisfaction of an independent commission;
• To renounce for themselves, and to oppose any effort by others, to use force, or threaten to use force, to influence the course or the outcome of all-party negotiations;
• To agree to abide by the terms of any agreement reached in all-party negotiations and to resort to democratic and exclusively peaceful methods in trying to alter any aspect of that outcome with which they may disagree; and,
• To urge that “punishment” killings and beatings stop and to take effective steps to prevent such actions.

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryseptember.htm#september9

The Cases of January 6th

AP News

(I debated about putting this here; the page is a bit complicated for copy-pasting, but the material is important, as sometimes the passage of time blurs memories. There is work for justice being done on these cases and the whole of it, and here’s a nice gathering of information to date. Maybe a thing to read when you’ve got a few minutes. It is longer, but not TL;DR. You’ll want to know this stuff. )

by Michael Kunzelman, Alanna Durkin Richer, and Cal Woodward

Snips:

The Associated Press has spent more than three years tracking the nearly 1,500 Capitol riot cases brought by the Justice Department. AP reporters have reviewed hours of video footage and thousands of pages of court documents. They have sat through dozens of court hearings and trials for the rioters who descended on the Capitol and temporarily halted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory. These videos represent a mere fraction of the evidence that prosecutors have presented to juries and judges deciding these cases.

Inside Washington’s federal courthouse, there’s no denying the reality of Jan. 6, 2021. Day after day, judges and jurors silently absorb the chilling sights and sounds from television screens of rioters beating police, shattering windows and hunting for lawmakers as democracy lay under siege.

But as he seeks to reclaim the White House, Donald Trump continues to portray the defendants as patriots worthy of admiration, an assertion that has been undercut by the adjudicated truth in hundreds of criminal cases where judges and juries have reached the opposite conclusion about what history will remember as one of America’s darkest days.

The cases have systematically put on record — through testimony, documents and video — the crimes committed, weapons wielded, and lives altered by physical and emotional damage. Trump is espousing a starkly different story, portraying the rioters as hostages and political prisoners whom he says he might pardon if he wins in November.

There are no broadcast television cameras inside the E. Barrett Prettyman federal courthouse on Constitution Avenue. But the real story of Jan. 6 is found in the mounds of evidence and testimony judges and juries have seen and heard behind the doors of the courthouse where hundreds of Trump’s supporters have been convicted in the attack. (snip-go read when you have a little time)

https://apnews.com/projects/january-6-cases/

2nd Sunday news video 9 8 2024

More news on the Sunday shows. This time I talk about the Cheney endorsement for Kamala, Johnathan’s attempt to make drama, And how the cult of tRump is not law and order. I also talked about Gov Sanders from Arkansas tried to claim … wrongly that Harris did not talk to media or answer questions. I also talked about her claim tRump is willing to talk to media. Hugs. Scottie

 

Sunday news into video 9 8 2024

My preamble into my next video on the Sunday news.