12/1 Gathering Weekend Pt 2; POTUS 41 Passes Away at Age 94, and Open Thread Saturday
The Gathering by the Sanders Institute, continues today in Burlington.
The first session is on immigration reform, human rights, and civil rights as core principles. Tulsi Gabbard is on the panel as is Ben Jealous.
This panel will cover civil rights issues, immigration reform and human rights as core concepts https://t.co/VfZYi1rR4P
— Sanders Institute (@TheSandersInst) December 1, 2018
Click on the tweet and it will take you to the live session.
Other news, tweets, videos, commentary can be found in the comments below.
Tip jar for the usual suspects…
Former President George HW Bush Dies at Age 94
December 5th has been declared a national day of mourning.
T and R, Benny!! Well, well, well, guess who (finally) bit the dust? George H W Bullshit Bush. Good riddance to real bad rubbish!! Even the most malignant biped can’t escape death! No raises in a million years, huh? I worked my whole life in a Right to Serf state. No surprise there. ?
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Benny: this is an earlier comment I posted on your 11/30 O/T. Sums up what I think of the whole Bush Crime Cartel Family. Bush and Orange Moron, what pure human garbage they both are. 🙁
Bush 41 was in Dallas on Nov 22, 1963. He was with the CIA at that time. Who would want to go to 41’s funeral now?
According to Rachel Maddow’s Bagman podcast, 41 tried to squelch the criminal indictment of Spiro Agnew as a favor to Nixon.
And when, as a WWII pilot, his plane was apparently hit while flying over Chichi Jima in the Pacific, he bailed out first, apparently without telling the other airmen on board, this according to a pilot directly behind him, whose letter he never responded to.
You are right, there isn’t anyone less American than Poppy, except Trump.
And he got away with it all.
I don’t feel quite as charitable towards Bush 41 and I can list a number of reasons why Bush’s policies offended me (the Intercept covers many of them in this article: https://theintercept.com/2018/12/01/the-ignored-legacy-of-george-h-w-bush-war-crimes-racism-and-obstruction-of-justice/) but most of all for his being a sell out to garner votes from the Raygun righties. But I’ll reserve those comments for after Bush’s funeral. I’m a bit annoyed at the love fest on the cable networks; however, Bush deserves more airtime than McCain, in my view.
Bernie is a class act and unlike us being on the world stage he needs to be respectful, but im sure in his real thoughts he isn’t that fond of the Bushs
I like that Mehdi talks about both sides. Honoring his death as a human who will be missed, but not contributing to a false history, which can have dangerous after effects. I was going to suggest that we give him a day, but perhaps it is better that some do not wait until the false glorification becomes embedded in the larger public mind.
Will Congress give Vice President Mike Pence a pay raise before leaving town for the holidays?
No comment from the disgusted peanut gallery!
LOL It is a bit unusual for you to bite your tongue.
I dunno if writing “disgusted” is biting my tongue/big mouth, humphrey. LOL 🙂
Humphrey noted in yesterday’s thread, but worth mentioning again.
I think it’s a good idea to start thinking bigger in finding avenues to combat the rise of authoritarianism, whether it be Russian aggression, Middle East, or Trumpism.
A couple of likely candidates for the new organization.
Fabulous idea, Humphrey, and the Sanders Institute may very well follow your suggestion!
I’ll preface this message with fond greetings to the TWPer’s. Haven’t commented in a while, and this will be short today, but I will try to revisit in the next few days.
Well, against all odds we got into the Sanders Institute Gathering on Friday and Saturday!! It took an extra effort by Colleen Jackson, Research Director at the Institute, to get us in–story to follow, but the events were by “invitation only.” At any rate, Colleen is an absolute beautiful, great-hearted person and she has our huge gratitude. So, thank you, Colleen!!
I asked her if she was OK with my mentioning her “online” and I gave a shout-out to TPW–Colleen said, “Oh, yes!” with a big smile. Sanders Institute definitely knows about us here at the Progressive Wing!! This is of course thanks to all the great work by LD and all you other bloggers here, so renewed thanks to you!
OK, so we weren’t able to get to all the panels, only ones in the afternoon. It was such a GREAT event that I’m not sure how to describe it. I’m still glowing. . . ! As Nina said, you had the sense that you were with a great big family where you had a spot and everyone there was / is energetic, committed, engaged in a common mission that will help make the world a better place. Things are gonna happen! I’ll have to leave it at that, for now. There will be more such “events,” as Jane, David and Colleen promised.
Bernie looked tired on Friday, refreshed and in great form on Saturday.
Looking forward to “seeing” everybody here next week.
That is so cool that you got in! Yes-Thank You Colleen! 🙂
It felt from afar like a big love fest, one that I really hope fueled the progressive tanks of all who attended. Good people working in sync with a clear common cause.
Always great to see you EyeRound!
NAFTA 2.0 Signed: A Deal for ‘The Corporate One Percent’
Free the Free Press From Wall Street Plunder
There are lots of articles in the major newspapers about World Aids Day, but I think Sfbob’s diary at TOP is a good one to read, especially as he is HIV positive and has been for a long time.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/12/1/1816411/-World-AIDS-Day-2018-Getting-Older-with-HIV
NASA Has Just Released 2,540 Stunning New Photos of Mars..
please excuse my forgetting where I found this.
Many of them have been edited heavily with color that they look more like works of art. But still interesting to marvel what space explorations continue to turn up about far away places.
I could give you a hint. But I won’t. (just kidding)
Thanks for the link to Mars Humphrey!
I hope this will be the case.
I’ll look the Chronicle of Higher Ed to see if the AAUP is going to stand up for him. This is so wrong if indeed the BoT at Temple is not allowing him to exercise free speech. Allegedly, the AAUP has seen a revival since academic freedom has been threatened more and more.
Who is Leonard Barrack? A very wealthy lawyer who is a major donor to Temple U.
I’ll be recording this for sure.
Van’s show got bumped…for HW’s love fest, but that’s just a guess.
Trump’s Budget Director Reveals Plans to Attack Social Security and Medicare
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We’ll see how progressive Pelosi is on this one. I think the Clintons would have given away a lot of the money just to appease the R’s.
I’m shocked, I tell you, just shocked! (snark)
This kind of talk gives me so much stress.
Mariner East pipelines: Judge reviews request for immediate shutdown
https://twitter.com/DanMache1/status/1068949963919581189