The Progressive Wing

Today’s George Harrison’s b-day.

So appropriate

My favorite George Harrison song

George Harrison’s greatest song with The Beatles quite simply has to be the masterpiece ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’. It was recorded in 1968 as part of the White Album sessions and was written as an exercise in ‘randomness’ where he consulted the Chinese Book of Changes. “The Eastern concept is that whatever happens is all meant to be,” Harrison once commented. “Every little item that’s going down has a purpose. ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ was a simple study based on that theory… I picked up a book at random, opened it, saw ‘gently weeps’, then laid the book down again and started the song.”
Instead of looking to the help of his bandmates Paul McCartney and John Lennon to finish the track, Harrison instead turned to Eric Clapton once more. “Nobody ever plays on the Beatles’ records,” Clapton is thought to have said to Harrison with a moment of trepidation. “So what?” Harrison replied. “It’s my song.” In a 1987 interview with Guitar Player Magazine, Harrison was asked whether it had bruised his ego to ask Clapton to play on the song. “No, my ego would rather have Eric play on it. I’ll tell you, I worked on that song with John, Paul, and Ringo one day, and they were not interested in it at all,” he said. “And I knew inside of me that it was a nice song.”
It allowed Harrison to put extra time and effort into his vocal delivery and the song shines all the more for it. Quite easily in the top 10 of all-time Beatles songs, the fact that it was only released as a B-side to ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ is every reason you need for why George Harrison simply had to leave The Beatles.

George threw fits as he matured as a songwriter (with major writing help/teaching from John). He had legitimate gripes about getting his songs included on the records. However, he got into some major fights with John cos he never forgave Lennon for splitting up the band. Now, would the two have made peace if John hadn’t been murdered? No one knows. 🙁

Aint Supposed to Die A Natural Death

Superb video accompanying the song.

Appreciated later by Sir Paul…I think this is a great cover version of the tune.

George was pretty good with cover tunes, too. 🙂

Jackson, 51, has served as an assistant federal public defender, a commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and on two prestigious federal courts. She will be the first African-American woman in the history of the United States to be nominated to the US Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/vmM4HVI4Ns
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 25, 2022

That is great news! Definitely a good move by Biden.

Absolutely! Especially against the backdrop of this Russia-Ukraine mess!

LieparDestin

Curious how upset Clyburn is he didn’t get his exact choice.

Clyburn must be pissed behind the scenes as he carried the water for Byedone to beat Bernie. Clyburn figured he’d get the nominee he wanted

Paul ADK

Clyburn got Biden. He needs to not be too greedy or the whole thing is going to fall apart.

I’m proud to announce that I am nominating Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court. Currently serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, she is one of our nation’s brightest legal minds and will be an exceptional Justice.https://t.co/iePvhz1YaA pic.twitter.com/Nzqv2AtN8h
— President Biden (@POTUS) February 25, 2022

winder if bernie had any influence

Not sure about that but labor and progressives were definitely against Childs

Just wait until the November elections. Plus, SCOTUS is still tightly controlled 6-3 by the FRighties.

Byedone will get a few R’s to vote for her just to make it look good but as you said 6-3

I’m betting Bernie stayed out.

Good

Are you a part of the radical left? https://t.co/jPG84kpMtq
— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) February 25, 2022

What “radical Left”? The MICC with the help of the CIA, NSA, FBI, etc., etc. has kept a tight rein on it over the decades. Lindsay Graham wouldn’t know it if it bit him in his worthless RW butt.

The C.D.C. will soon loosen indoor mask guidelines, officials say.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to loosen its guidelines for when and where Americans should wear masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, allowing most people to go without them in public indoor spaces, according to two federal officials familiar with the matter.

The Associated Press, which first reported the change, said the new policy was expected to be announced Friday. The two officials who spoke to The Times did not confirm the timing.

Under the current guidelines, the agency recommends that anyone living in areas with substantial or high transmission of the coronavirus, as defined by case counts, should wear masks in public indoor spaces like gyms, movie theaters and full-capacity houses of worship. That means that people living in 95 percent of the counties in the United States should continue wearing masks indoors. The country is recording an average of about 76,000 new cases per day, a roughly 66 percent drop from two weeks ago.

The forthcoming recommendations are expected to hinge on newly defined metrics to determine whether people in a particular geographical area are at high risk from the virus. They will place less emphasis on case counts and give more weight to hospitalizations as a key measure of risk, according to a federal official who is familiar with the plans but was not authorized to speak about them.

The guidelines are likely to factor in the capacity of hospitals in a local area as an important indicator of the level of risk. With hospitalizations declining across the nation, that may allow the great majority of Americans to drop their masks. About 60,000 people are hospitalized with Covid nationwide, but those numbers have dropped by about 44 percent in the past two weeks.

Most states have already eased rules for mask-wearing, and some, like New Jersey, have announced plans to lift mandates even in schools. Others are poised to end indoor mask mandates in the coming weeks. But an official recommendation from the C.D.C. may hold some sway in districts that have been more cautious.

Many businesses have shifted to requiring only proof of vaccinations. But masks are currently required on public transportation, including airplanes. The current mandate is scheduled to remain in force through March 18, and may be extended. A flight attendants’ union is urging the Biden administration to keep the requirement in place until more people are vaccinated.

Last year, the C.D.C. was sharply criticized for lifting mask restrictions too soon, only to have the Delta variant of the virus surge throughout the nation. This time, however, many public health experts support the easing of mask guidelines.

Recent polls have indicated that the public’s patience with Covid restrictions is waning. Nearly half of Americans surveyed thought the nation should “learn to live with” the pandemic “and get back to normal,” according to a recent Yahoo News/YouGov survey. About 70 percent of Americans believe “it’s time we accept Covid is here to stay and we just need to get on with our lives,” according to a recent poll by Monmouth University.

Hubster and I will continue to follow Covid precautions. They work.

Excellent article about the situation in Ukraine. With Ryan Cooper joining David Dayen at the American Prospect it has become even more of progressive must read.

NEW: @lieven_anatol on the meaning and consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the West’s response. @HaroldMeyerson @ryanlcooper @ddayen @TheProspect https://t.co/GfnhE1KysX
— Quincy Institute (@QuincyInst) February 25, 2022

I’m going to highlight this which I haven’t seen elsewhere and is unfortunately not good news.

At least in the short and medium term, this is a disaster for the struggle against climate change. Gas is the least disruptive of the fossil fuels from the point of view of climate change. Coal is the worst, but the most secure because 70 countries produce it. Germany produces huge quantities; so does Poland. In the short and medium term, I think you’ll see a flight back to coal. In the longer term, I think you will see European moves to reduce dependence on Russian gas in favor of imports from America, but that will take a lot of development of infrastructure, which will take a number of years.
And Russia simultaneously will boost its infrastructure to supply China. This will be a major gain of energy security for China, because it will be supplied over land and can’t be interdicted by the American Navy. It will also be an economic gain in China, because this will be a buyer’s market: China will be able to dictate the price to Russia.

they got their gas market but pushing russua and china together and war is too high a price. they’re all fu.

Go back and look at world history. The Chinese are nervous. They’ve had their fights with the Russians over the centuries.

Amazingly the driver survived and was pulled from the wreckage

Barbaric Russians run over a car of a civilian in Kyiv pic.twitter.com/C3j5CsLnrN
— Mykhaïlo Golub (@golub) February 25, 2022

Amazingly the driver survived– WOW

Meanwhile. Childhood during the Russian invasion. Kyiv, 25.02.2022 pic.twitter.com/nMpqWKacaA
— SPRAVDI — Stratcom Centre (@StratcomCentre) February 25, 2022

BREAKING: In a video conference call last night Ukraine President Zelensky told EU leaders: "This might be the last time you see me alive", two sources briefed on the call told me
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) February 25, 2022

And now Putin on TV again. Describes Zelensky's government as a "band of drug addicts and neo-Nazis that has lodged itself in Kyiv and taken hostage the entire Ukrainian people."
— Anton Troianovski (@antontroian) February 25, 2022

https://t.co/v03DAu8zBA
— Michael Spins (@MichaelSpins) February 25, 2022

⚡️The #Russians are shelling residential areas of #Kharkiv with multiple rocket launchers. pic.twitter.com/J6bOEm7mMT
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) February 25, 2022

T and R x 2, and kudos Ms. Benny!! 🙂 I am pleasantly surprised that Jackson is the SCOTUS nominee. 🙂 She’s got to clear the Senate, and it’s still 6-3 FRighties.

LieparDestin

Hello friends and tpw family. Just wanted to check in and wish you all well!

Hi LD. Nice seeing you. Hope everything is going well with you guys. 🙂🙂🙂

Ditto -hope all is well as its been a while

hu LD! 😘 miss you.

Hola senor y senorita! 🙂 You’ve got some interesting races shaping up down your way.

If Putin wanted to keep NATO away from his borders, he appears to be doing a bad job with that

to be clear, there is some truth to that narrative! but now Putin has validated the hawkish view on NATO in the most powerful way imaginable
— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) February 25, 2022

yup played right into their hands ina horrible way.

Yeah, trash like Nuland, the Atlantic Council, and other RW sh1t. Not to mention the oil and coal craporate. They’ll continue to poison the planet and make $$billions$$. POX on ’em!

New evidence: Russians deliberately and indiscriminately shot at and murdered a number of civilians who were driving past them in Bucha (near #Kyiv). I don't have words. #PutinsCrimes #russoukrainianwar #Putin #ukraine #Putinwar pic.twitter.com/pSXPBG2aPw
— Mark (@KnightMirko) February 25, 2022

There's spoken evidence of a russian infantryman who basically says: "me and my leutenant tried to lead away a woman and other civilians, and other guys started shooting at them and hit us, although we were shouting that we were friendly" https://t.co/vV5Qr2dZlC
— Mark (@KnightMirko) February 25, 2022

yea right, we all know in war certain soldiers cant wait to go human hunting, dont matter the side

This is what Putin's "denazification" looks like: the evacuation of one of the world's most historic Jewish communities while the Russian army hunts down Ukraine's Jewish president https://t.co/tksdN0qgb1
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) February 25, 2022

More than 50,000 Ukrainian refugees have fled their country in less than 48 hours — a majority to Poland and Moldova — and many more are moving towards its borders.
Heartfelt thanks to the governments and people of countries keeping their borders open and welcoming refugees.
— Filippo Grandi (@FilippoGrandi) February 25, 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/feb/25/russia-ukraine-invasion-latest-news-live-updates-russian-war-vladimir-putin-explosions-bombing-invades-kyiv

Some had been planning for a Russian invasion for months. They had carefully filled the car with petrol, bought food supplies, and packed a getaway bag, just in case. And, in many cases, a carrier for much loved family pets.
Others had done nothing whatsoever. Until Russia’s blitzkrieg invasion began early on Thursday, many people in Kyiv believed the prospect fanciful. And yet the nightmare was real enough: air raid sirens, Russian helicopters flying low against a grey sky in attack formation, the roar of enemy war planes.
By Friday, as Russian forces approached Kyiv from the north-west, Ukraine responded in two ways. One was by fighting. Its protagonists were soldiers, military veterans, volunteers. Ukrainian servicemen tried to hold back a powerful enemy advancing on multiple fronts: from the east and Russia; the south and Crimea; the north and Belarus.
The other, bigger group were civilians fleeing the surging conflict. They left by any means possible. This meant cars – a great, wheeled caravan which filled the road west out of the city, and continued for dozens of miles. For hours this procession scarcely moved. Drivers emerged to stretch their legs. It was unprecedented, Ukraine’s biggest ever jam.
Those without vehicles had to find other options. There were long queues at Kyiv-Pasazhyrsky railway station. Some trains were cancelled but a few, remarkably, were running, albeit delayed by five or six hours. Military transport took priority, railway staff explained. Buying a ticket was almost impossible in a panicked city of three million people.
Some set off on foot, walking along the verge of the E40 road in the early hours of Friday morning, pulling carry-on cases. One departed on a mountain bike. On the day of invasion the Ukrainian government introduced a 10pm-7am curfew. Trains on the Soviet-built Kyiv metro stopped promptly. The underground stations remained open all night, now serving as bomb shelters.

Photos from border crossings in western Ukraine into Slovakia and Poland

Benny

Canada is one of those welcoming them.

Wonder how the QAnon yahoos would handle them?