John Lewis and C.T. Vivian loved this country so much that they risked their lives so that it might live up to its promise. They gave all of themselves to the cause of freedom and justice, and inspired generations to follow their example. Now it’s up to us to continue the work. pic.twitter.com/LZNQHqIUAo
Good morning all from very hot, dry, smoky Montana. We’ve lived here for 40 years and have never seen it this bad. Fires all around us. Air is all smoke . I am very concerned and sad for this country and our world.
Good news is our son is home from Malaysia for 2 weeks. Then he’s off to China to teach for a year.
Thank you Nerdy Wonka for this wonderful place to be. And all who come here.
Floods, Fires & Heat Waves:
Michael Mann on the New Climate War & the Fight to Take Back the Planet
“We speak with leading climate scientist Michael Mann about the catastrophic impact of the climate crisis around the world. He says he and other scientists predicted the extreme weather events now wreaking havoc. “We said that if we don’t stop burning fossil fuels and elevating the levels of carbon pollution in the atmosphere and we continue to warm up the planet, we will see unprecedented heat waves and wildfires and floods and droughts and superstorms,” says Mann. His new book is titled “The New Climate War:
The Fight to Take Back Our Planet.”
This is so true. All the ranchers are talking about how dry it is and what they are dealing with, but of course for them its not climate change it’s just a weather cycle. They are all Republicans and don’t believe in climate change. It’s very frustrating.
Good Sunday mtmarilyn. Glad you’re able to spend time with your son. Yes, we are living in some difficult times with hot, dry weather and half the population living in denial. This virus has made sane people insane, exhausted, and wondering if the unvaccinated will care enough to get vaccinated. Be safe and praying you get rain to help the fires.
Hey mtmarilyn – am in your boat with the heavy covers on the windows for a couple of weeks. And of course my daughter visited during this smoky hot time, as did your son! Would love to hear anything he says about teaching in Malaysia. Pls take care.
Heath really liked teaching there, meeting the people and the kids. A new company bought the school and changed the way they were teaching and Heath decided it was time to move on. He wants to teach in all these different countries to know how they teach. That’s one of the reasons he is going to China for a year. He is very much into understanding all the different cultures.
It is on the citizenry now to take the reins…not shaming people but exhibiting no tolerance with fam and friends who REFUSE to be vaccinated…if they want to be in your space…attend family gatherings, etc…they must be vaccinated…
— Pretty Foot💃🏾 wears a mask😷 (@PrettyFootWoman) July 18, 2021
My daughter and I had to turn down an invitation for her best friend’s 30th birthday dinner. She and her boyfriend aren’t vaccinated. Not going. Will these kinds of things be tough love enough to force some to finally get vaccinated? I hope so.
That’s the way it is here. Most are vaccinated but we have pockets of those who won’t. Our numbers are going up and I keep my masks handy and wear them in the stores. I don’t trust people.
Finally someone says what i have been thinking for a bit…
Recent Monmouth poll finds 32% think Biden won only because of fraud. My question is why do people care so much about this 32% and not more about the other 68%?! Can we stop pretending that the 32% who think this are anything but absolute idiots?! All opinions are not EQUAL
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) July 18, 2021
We've often said, if they had Fox News in the 1950s, we'd still have polio. Dr. Fauci on Jim Acosta delivers the same message. Watching our society's capacity to perceive reality and take responsible collective action deteriorate so rapidly is shocking and frightening. https://t.co/LFeFvRdwgn
Even when he was confined to the darkness of a jail cell, Madiba’s light shone brightly. Today, as we reflect on his legacy, I see Mandela’s spirit alive in our @ObamaFoundation leaders. I’m inspired by their service, and the work they’re doing to create the change we need now. https://t.co/mvXFZCbYNM
Today we honor the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela, who led with courage, fought racism and discrimination, and pursued the path of healing. He is an inspiration to us all today. https://t.co/VxLHDuXV8jpic.twitter.com/a4UPzauLdi
Today is #NelsonMandelaDay! We honor and celebrate his extraordinary life and legacy, and commit to follow his rules for life: free yourself, free others and serve every day. Not sure where to start? Find inspiration at https://t.co/R4HZ80xi8s. pic.twitter.com/yqinMVcC1j
— My Brother's Keeper Alliance (@MBK_Alliance) July 18, 2021
“John Glenn changed the history of spaceflight for the U.S., becoming the first American to orbit the planet. Others of our country’s astronauts had been to space but Glenn was the first to actually orbit the planet we call home.
He also changed the language, adding a Yiddish term – glitch – to our lexicon. He wasn’t by training a wordsmith like Shakespeare or a musician (who often change the way in which language is used through song)
but change it he did.”
According to the Smithsonian’s Air & Space Magazine:
“Chutzpah. Kibitz. Klutz. Maven. Schmooze. Tush. These are words derived from Yiddish that have worked their way into the American idiom. Most were introduced through entertainment—radio, television, literature—by descendants of Yiddish-speaking immigrants who found no English words adequate to describe what they were trying to express. One word derived from Yiddish, glitch, was also introduced in radio, and found its way to the world of electrical engineering and, from there, to the hallowed halls of 1960s NASA, and thence, everywhere.”
(nasa.gov)
If stories like this don’t hit home, nothing will. Please get #vaccinated. Talk to your friends and family about the importance of getting the #COVID19#vaccine. The life you save could be your own or a loved one. https://t.co/9RGGmqPkK1
The most beautiful burial I’ve ever witnessed. After over a 100 yrs the children who died at Carlisle Indian Boarding School are laid to rest by the youth of this generation. Wrapped in buffalo robes and back to the comfort of Grandmother Earth in their ancestral Lakota lands. pic.twitter.com/K3Fykn4OqM
Stunning motorcycle led procession of the Lakota children’s remains who died at Carlisle Indian Boarding School. This is from Sioux City on route to Rosebud Sioux Nation. These babies didn’t have a police escort procession out of Carlisle but they’re being welcomed home w power! pic.twitter.com/7Q2u0UgTni
"It was a relief, and it's sad that it took so long to bring our children home," Rosebud Sioux Tribe member Malorie Arrow said. The children died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania more than 100 years ago. https://t.co/oNp8hYz3JA
Some photos I took at the burial of the 9 Lakota youth disinterred from Carlisle Indian Boarding School in Pennsylvania brought back home to their Rosebud Sioux homelands and buried with honour. pic.twitter.com/c1iSpJCotS
Repatriation of Carlisle Youth:
“Rosebud Sioux Tribe hosts prayer services in South Dakota for return of Indian boarding school students”
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe hosts prayer services for the return of nine Lakota students who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a boarding school that was operated by the U.S. government.
The ceremony took place in Wagner, South Dakota, on July 16, 2021.
The stop is along the route that the tribe is taking as it brings the children home to the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.
The children were formally transferred to the tribe by the U.S. Army on July 14.
The ceremony occurred at the Carlisle Barracks Post Cemetery, a military site, in Pennsylvania.”
‘We are bringing them home’
Lakota youth on long overdue journey from Indian boarding school:
“Our relatives
Ernest,
Maud,
Lucy,
Friend,
Warren,
Alvan,
Dora,
Dennis,
and Rose
are leaving the Carlisle Barracks after 142 years,”
the Sicangu Youth Council / Tokala Mentors said on social media as the solemn journey began.
“We are bringing them home,” the group consisting of youth and young mentors said.
(Indianz.com)
Am off tomorrow to our Chips country! En route to my nephew’s wedding! If it wasn’t for these sweethearts of mine, I for def wouldn’t make that trip! Plus gotta give that speech! Jaysus, too many loops to go thru, understandably coz of COVID times we’re in! On top of my 2 COVID tests, 2nd one early May, I also had to do an RT-PCR test 72 hours before traveling! All’s good. I have my masks, visors, wipes, etc. Makes my suitcases seem like runaways from Walgreens/CVS/Rite Aid. Yup, my COVID (Delta variant) paranoia is in high gear! 👀😷😂😷
Our story: Four family members, three fully vaccinated. Four positive COVID tests. Please be careful out there. We're not out of this yet.https://t.co/xUxcAtqagy
The most beautiful burial I’ve ever witnessed. After over a 100 yrs the children who died at Carlisle Indian Boarding School are laid to rest by the youth of this generation. Wrapped in buffalo robes and back to the comfort of Grandmother Earth in their ancestral Lakota lands. pic.twitter.com/K3Fykn4OqM
the fact that Biden approval is 58%, 20 pts more popular than Trump was at this juncture, isn't mentioned until the 18th paragraph https://t.co/3gmLiCjRy1
The article didn’t say she was not vaccinated. She had been in England which has had the Delta variant. She may have been vaccinated prior to traveling to England. The vaccine is only 95% effective and only 80% effective against the new variants.
Vice President Harris
Met wiith members of the Black Women’s Roundtable and other groups on voting rights:
“Members of the Black Women’s Roundtable said they had a good meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris
on Friday as they push to retain voting rights for all around the country.”
Here: (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-black-womens-group-meet-with-harris-at-white-house)
we should make it so elephant can go into building Pros: – You can have a elephants in your building – they can walk around – You can pet them if they're friendly
Cons: – Can't think of any
— Mister Gorbachev, Hit These Back Walls (@SAMOYEDCORE) July 18, 2021
Controversial British commentator Katie Hopkins will be deported from Australia for bragging about flouting hotel quarantine rules, says the government.
Ms Hopkins – who is known for her far-right views – had entered the country to star in an upcoming season of TV show Big Brother Australia.
On Friday she posted a video from her Sydney hotel room where she joked about putting frontline staff at risk.
Her comments sparked widespread condemnation.
In the video, Ms Hopkins said she planned to “lie in wait” for workers to deliver food to her room so she could open the door “naked with no face mask”.
She also called lockdowns the “greatest hoax in human history”. Australia’s two biggest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, are both in lockdown.
The post has since been wiped from her Instagram.
On Monday, the Australian government confirmed her visa had been cancelled, after she was also sacked from the reality show.
Who among us doesn’t miss seeing President Obama at White House ceremonies! They always were so well done and meaningful – both to attendees and to those of us watching.
It is really hard to comprehend which part of Covid ravaged scenes constantly shown on tv, or the ppl of the dead who appeared on tv etc … that failed to convince the masses that it wasn’t real, or potentially devastating.
I suppose these are ppl who think I’ll believe it when I get it … ?
And what’s with the anti-lockdown folks protesting in London???
Who’s paying these medical bills? If you have Medicare then the Government pays. If you have Medicaid the state pays. If you have no insurance, no Obama care, the states that did not take it will be hurting.
Had the US continued to vaccinate in the summer at the same rate as in the spring, the US would be near herd immunity by now. It took a lot of work by powerful people and institutions to prevent that outcome. It didn't just *happen.* It was *done.*
Contented and happy people don't embrace demagogues, and the authoritarians know this, which is why they're working so hard to discredit the vaccine. For authoritarians to thrive, they must prevent happiness from happening. /end
Is why they don’t want Universal Healthcare which gives you peace of mind, on equal footing with everyone. Imo we had a chance to unify post-Covid minus the trump garbage,
because of a new appreciation for the terrible challenges faced by all.
–O & G and the little russians didn’t want that.
Season 7 is here! COVID has laid bare the inequities of the healthcare system in this country. We’re talking about vaccination rates, what to do after you’re vaxxed, and how to make sure we’re taking care of ourselves in a world where COVID still exists.https://t.co/e7pKYakkKc
— The Brown Girls Guide to Politics™ (@thebgguide) July 19, 2021
Threatened With Arrest,
Texas Dems Draw Courage From History’s Civil Rights Leaders
“Texas State Rep. Jasmine Crockett
talks with Ali Velshi about the illogic that exposes the disingenuousness of the voting restrictions
being advanced by Texas Republicans, and expresses her appreciation for the people who sacrificed for voting rights in the past who have inspired her to make a stand.”
“You know, I am only the 22nd black woman ever elected in the Texas House.
The first ever elected black woman is actually here with us, Senfronia Thompson. And so when we look at the numbers, and I know the sacrifice that someone like Senfronia has made throughout the years to pave the way for somebody like me, there are plenty of people that died, that fought that were beat.
The least that I could do is give everything that I’ve got because I was elected to serve the people of House District 100. And that’s exactly what I’m doing. Whatever the sacrifice may be, it pales in comparison to what those that came before me were actually willing to do. I’m doing my part.” (TX State Rep. Crockett)
Ali Velshi: “In the weeks after the November election, Milley feared that Donald Trump was creating his own version of the Reichstag Fire, an emergency that justifies the suspension of the rules that demands an authoritarian response.”
James Madison: “tyranny may well be apprehended, on some favorable emergency.”
Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University:
“Well my personal response is that I’m grateful that General Milley reads history.
And I think the broad significance of all this is that our leaders and our aspiring leaders should be reading history.
There are two really important references in what you decided.
The first is “Federalist Paper 48” in which Madison, who himself thought very historically, recognized how fragile Republics are. And recognized that people who want to overturn them will use a real, or in the case of Mr. Trump this time, an artificial emergency.
And the second important reference is the Reichstag Fire.
And again, I think General Milley was right to be thinking in those directions. This idea that Mr. Trump was a victim, and therefore because he was a victim everything was permitted. That is familiar from fascism.
And using something that had to do with the parliament. In this case our Congress as the pretext, is also familiar. The idea that he lost the election and something dramatic had to happen to parliament. That’s terribly familiar.
So I’m grateful that General Milley is referring to history. I think that’s very important.”
The Reichstag fire illustrates how quickly a modern Republic can be transformed into an authoritarian regime….Timothy Snyder has been warning us. A month into the trump term he wrote:
“The Reichstag Warning” (2017)
Delta Is Driving a Wedge Through Missouri
“For America as a whole, the pandemic might be fading. For some communities, this year will be worse than last.”
The Obama Diary 
Good Morning Todville.
May John Lewis and CT Vivian rest in peace .
Good morning all from very hot, dry, smoky Montana. We’ve lived here for 40 years and have never seen it this bad. Fires all around us. Air is all smoke . I am very concerned and sad for this country and our world.
Good news is our son is home from Malaysia for 2 weeks. Then he’s off to China to teach for a year.
Thank you Nerdy Wonka for this wonderful place to be. And all who come here.
Here: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFt95wpXJ94)
Floods, Fires & Heat Waves:
Michael Mann on the New Climate War & the Fight to Take Back the Planet
“We speak with leading climate scientist Michael Mann about the catastrophic impact of the climate crisis around the world. He says he and other scientists predicted the extreme weather events now wreaking havoc. “We said that if we don’t stop burning fossil fuels and elevating the levels of carbon pollution in the atmosphere and we continue to warm up the planet, we will see unprecedented heat waves and wildfires and floods and droughts and superstorms,” says Mann. His new book is titled “The New Climate War:
The Fight to Take Back Our Planet.”
This is so true. All the ranchers are talking about how dry it is and what they are dealing with, but of course for them its not climate change it’s just a weather cycle. They are all Republicans and don’t believe in climate change. It’s very frustrating.
Full interview: (https://www.democracynow.org/2021/7/16/michael_mann_the_new_climate_war)
Thanks for posting this.
Good Sunday mtmarilyn. Glad you’re able to spend time with your son. Yes, we are living in some difficult times with hot, dry weather and half the population living in denial. This virus has made sane people insane, exhausted, and wondering if the unvaccinated will care enough to get vaccinated. Be safe and praying you get rain to help the fires.
😻💖🙋🏾♀️
Hey mtmarilyn – am in your boat with the heavy covers on the windows for a couple of weeks. And of course my daughter visited during this smoky hot time, as did your son! Would love to hear anything he says about teaching in Malaysia. Pls take care.
Heath really liked teaching there, meeting the people and the kids. A new company bought the school and changed the way they were teaching and Heath decided it was time to move on. He wants to teach in all these different countries to know how they teach. That’s one of the reasons he is going to China for a year. He is very much into understanding all the different cultures.
Thanks you. Hope the weather man is wrong in this but the say no rain in the next 2 weeks.
MT, blessings! Your son is visiting & hoping fires don’t “visit” you! 🙆😱😷
GM TOD…we will get by with a lot help from our friends and family….
My daughter and I had to turn down an invitation for her best friend’s 30th birthday dinner. She and her boyfriend aren’t vaccinated. Not going. Will these kinds of things be tough love enough to force some to finally get vaccinated? I hope so.
👍🏾
👍🏽
That’s the way it is here. Most are vaccinated but we have pockets of those who won’t. Our numbers are going up and I keep my masks handy and wear them in the stores. I don’t trust people.
Finally someone says what i have been thinking for a bit…
Hi! Take the quiz!
Ah, the calming ocean waves! 🐿 😌
Oops! I left this out! 😁
😄
Why will a comment about Exxon Mobil not post up?
Today is Mandela Day
Celebrating John Glenn’s 100th Birthday
“John Glenn changed the history of spaceflight for the U.S., becoming the first American to orbit the planet. Others of our country’s astronauts had been to space but Glenn was the first to actually orbit the planet we call home.
He also changed the language, adding a Yiddish term – glitch – to our lexicon. He wasn’t by training a wordsmith like Shakespeare or a musician (who often change the way in which language is used through song)
but change it he did.”
According to the Smithsonian’s Air & Space Magazine:
“Chutzpah. Kibitz. Klutz. Maven. Schmooze. Tush. These are words derived from Yiddish that have worked their way into the American idiom. Most were introduced through entertainment—radio, television, literature—by descendants of Yiddish-speaking immigrants who found no English words adequate to describe what they were trying to express. One word derived from Yiddish, glitch, was also introduced in radio, and found its way to the world of electrical engineering and, from there, to the hallowed halls of 1960s NASA, and thence, everywhere.”
(nasa.gov)
A Tribute To American Legend John Glenn
fabulous pictorial history….
(https://www.nasa.gov/specials/johnglenn100/)
“People are choosing death over vaccine.”
Love this! 😄
The vote…
This incredibly poignant moment is not justice, but long overdue.😢😭
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
ghoh-pah,
beautiful.
i’m so sorry.
with deep bow.
Repatriation of Carlisle Youth:
“Rosebud Sioux Tribe hosts prayer services in South Dakota for return of Indian boarding school students”
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe hosts prayer services for the return of nine Lakota students who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a boarding school that was operated by the U.S. government.
The ceremony took place in Wagner, South Dakota, on July 16, 2021.
The stop is along the route that the tribe is taking as it brings the children home to the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.
The children were formally transferred to the tribe by the U.S. Army on July 14.
The ceremony occurred at the Carlisle Barracks Post Cemetery, a military site, in Pennsylvania.”
https://www.indianz.com/News/2021/07/16/rosebud-sioux-tribe-hosts-prayer-services-in-south-dakota-for-return-of-indian-boarding-school-students/
‘We are bringing them home’
Lakota youth on long overdue journey from Indian boarding school:
“Our relatives
Ernest,
Maud,
Lucy,
Friend,
Warren,
Alvan,
Dora,
Dennis,
and Rose
are leaving the Carlisle Barracks after 142 years,”
the Sicangu Youth Council / Tokala Mentors said on social media as the solemn journey began.
“We are bringing them home,” the group consisting of youth and young mentors said.
(Indianz.com)
I Scream! You Scream! We all for Ice Cream! 🍦
Thanks Dudette, for planting ice-cream on my brain! 😂
You’re welcome! 😁
Am off tomorrow to our Chips country! En route to my nephew’s wedding! If it wasn’t for these sweethearts of mine, I for def wouldn’t make that trip! Plus gotta give that speech! Jaysus, too many loops to go thru, understandably coz of COVID times we’re in! On top of my 2 COVID tests, 2nd one early May, I also had to do an RT-PCR test 72 hours before traveling! All’s good. I have my masks, visors, wipes, etc. Makes my suitcases seem like runaways from Walgreens/CVS/Rite Aid. Yup, my COVID (Delta variant) paranoia is in high gear! 👀😷😂😷
Safe travels Gazelle. Looking forward to the day when travelling is less stressful.
Have a great time ☺
Have a blast. Say hi to that woman for me.
wishing you a fun wedding, good flights Gazelle!!!!
Thank you all! BTW, meant 2 COVID shots, not tests! 😜😷 I’ll blow kisses for our Chips! 😘😘
Safe travels 😎
Safe travels! Have fun! 👋🏾😷
Oh no, Coco! 😞
?????? how is she not vaccinated? It bogles my mind.
Vaccinated can still get it. It just
prevents the worst effects that can hospitalize or kill you. This is why we should still be masking.
I hope you guys are correct, however, I would like confirmation that she does have the vaccinations. I’m hanging in suspense!
I dunno. Really irresponsible of US officials to allow any unvaccinated athletes to participate if they did allow that.
That’s not Coco
No, it’s a family with vaccinated adults who got COVID.
This is extraordinary
So adorable! 😍
I knew he’d get in on that! Ha. Love ya, Joe!
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/18/coco-gauff-olympics-covid-19-positive-test-tokyo
She’s not been vaccinated?
WTF???!!!!
The article didn’t say she was not vaccinated. She had been in England which has had the Delta variant. She may have been vaccinated prior to traveling to England. The vaccine is only 95% effective and only 80% effective against the new variants.
Vice President Harris
Met wiith members of the Black Women’s Roundtable and other groups on voting rights:
“Members of the Black Women’s Roundtable said they had a good meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris
on Friday as they push to retain voting rights for all around the country.”
Here: (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-black-womens-group-meet-with-harris-at-white-house)
The head dive is when he learns there are still no consequences for sedition.
in re: elephants
yeah, yeah. I am leaving, sheesh.
Oh my! Only you, amk. We love ya though. 🙂
It’s a dirty job and requires dirty minds to do it.
Controversial British commentator Katie Hopkins will be deported from Australia for bragging about flouting hotel quarantine rules, says the government.
Ms Hopkins – who is known for her far-right views – had entered the country to star in an upcoming season of TV show Big Brother Australia.
On Friday she posted a video from her Sydney hotel room where she joked about putting frontline staff at risk.
Her comments sparked widespread condemnation.
In the video, Ms Hopkins said she planned to “lie in wait” for workers to deliver food to her room so she could open the door “naked with no face mask”.
She also called lockdowns the “greatest hoax in human history”. Australia’s two biggest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, are both in lockdown.
The post has since been wiped from her Instagram.
On Monday, the Australian government confirmed her visa had been cancelled, after she was also sacked from the reality show.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57883692
the female of this species is more vicious than men.
Who among us doesn’t miss seeing President Obama at White House ceremonies! They always were so well done and meaningful – both to attendees and to those of us watching.
Goodnight, Nerdy darlin’ – and TODville!
I miss them so very much!
And… it’s lights out.. g’nite all, big hugs, and big thank you’s!
🕊🕯🕊
It is really hard to comprehend which part of Covid ravaged scenes constantly shown on tv, or the ppl of the dead who appeared on tv etc … that failed to convince the masses that it wasn’t real, or potentially devastating.
I suppose these are ppl who think I’ll believe it when I get it … ?
And what’s with the anti-lockdown folks protesting in London???
London has their share of Covidiots, unfortunately.
Who’s paying these medical bills? If you have Medicare then the Government pays. If you have Medicaid the state pays. If you have no insurance, no Obama care, the states that did not take it will be hurting.
Truth.
IMPORTANT POINT….
Is why they don’t want Universal Healthcare which gives you peace of mind, on equal footing with everyone. Imo we had a chance to unify post-Covid minus the trump garbage,
because of a new appreciation for the terrible challenges faced by all.
–O & G and the little russians didn’t want that.
Good Morning! 😷💉
That is a great explanation!
Let’s do a national TV Ad telling the date of Trump’s vaccination(s).
Threatened With Arrest,
Texas Dems Draw Courage From History’s Civil Rights Leaders
“Texas State Rep. Jasmine Crockett
talks with Ali Velshi about the illogic that exposes the disingenuousness of the voting restrictions
being advanced by Texas Republicans, and expresses her appreciation for the people who sacrificed for voting rights in the past who have inspired her to make a stand.”
“You know, I am only the 22nd black woman ever elected in the Texas House.
The first ever elected black woman is actually here with us, Senfronia Thompson. And so when we look at the numbers, and I know the sacrifice that someone like Senfronia has made throughout the years to pave the way for somebody like me, there are plenty of people that died, that fought that were beat.
The least that I could do is give everything that I’ve got because I was elected to serve the people of House District 100. And that’s exactly what I’m doing. Whatever the sacrifice may be, it pales in comparison to what those that came before me were actually willing to do. I’m doing my part.” (TX State Rep. Crockett)
NOW…
Also: https://abcnews.go.com/live/video/special-live-3
Ali Velshi: “In the weeks after the November election, Milley feared that Donald Trump was creating his own version of the Reichstag Fire, an emergency that justifies the suspension of the rules that demands an authoritarian response.”
James Madison: “tyranny may well be apprehended, on some favorable emergency.”
Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University:
“Well my personal response is that I’m grateful that General Milley reads history.
And I think the broad significance of all this is that our leaders and our aspiring leaders should be reading history.
There are two really important references in what you decided.
The first is “Federalist Paper 48” in which Madison, who himself thought very historically, recognized how fragile Republics are. And recognized that people who want to overturn them will use a real, or in the case of Mr. Trump this time, an artificial emergency.
And the second important reference is the Reichstag Fire.
And again, I think General Milley was right to be thinking in those directions. This idea that Mr. Trump was a victim, and therefore because he was a victim everything was permitted. That is familiar from fascism.
And using something that had to do with the parliament. In this case our Congress as the pretext, is also familiar. The idea that he lost the election and something dramatic had to happen to parliament. That’s terribly familiar.
So I’m grateful that General Milley is referring to history. I think that’s very important.”
The Reichstag fire illustrates how quickly a modern Republic can be transformed into an authoritarian regime….Timothy Snyder has been warning us. A month into the trump term he wrote:
“The Reichstag Warning” (2017)
Smithsonian:
The True Story of the Reichstag Fire and the Nazi Rise to Power
“When the German parliamentary building went up in flames,
Hitler harnessed the incident to seize power”
(https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-reichstag-fire-and-nazis-rise-power-180962240/)
Delta Is Driving a Wedge Through Missouri
“For America as a whole, the pandemic might be fading. For some communities, this year will be worse than last.”
by Ed Yong
(https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/07/delta-missouri-pandemic-surge/619456/)
“It Seems Odd That We Would Just Let the World Burn”
by Ezra Klein
(https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/15/opinion/climate-change-energy-infrastructure.html)
New post.