“I don’t know how many birthdays I have left.” Ady Barkan, whose video of him challenging Sen. Jeff Flake to vote on his principles and oppose the current GOP tax bill recently went viral, was interviewed on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes. He noted that the current tax proposal, if enacted, will trigger $400 billion in Medicare PAYGO cuts over 10 years. “I paid into Medicare just like all of us pay in. You know, every two weeks we make a commitment to one another and to our society that we’re going to protect each other in case tragedy strikes. And the Republicans are saying, ‘Uh uh, Ady, you don’t get that Medicare Disability that you paid for because Donald Trump Jr. needs a tax cut for his real estate developments and my hedge fund buddies on Wall Street they need a tax cut too.’ So I think that’s not OK and I’m trying to do what I can to fight it.” [Read more…]
When Is It a Good Time to Talk About Gun Safety? The Sandy Hook Elementary School Mass Shooting – Five Years and Counting … | Video Worth Watching
Today is the 5th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting. So, is today a good time to talk about gun policy? Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) interviewed on CBSN: “We have to be talking about policy change every single day in this country or we’ll never end up doing anything about the 90 people a day who die.”
Vox.com has a site which tracks gun violence and mass shootings since Sandy Hook. The site includes an interactive map displaying the dates and locations of mass shootings since Sandy Hook. [Read more…]
‘Freedom Is Never Voluntarily Given By the Oppressor’ – MLK Jr.’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail | Video Worth Watching
As the narrator reads excerpts from Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, images depicting the Civil Rights struggle are displayed.
When I hear “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. It must be demanded by the oppressed.” I detect echoes of Frederick Douglass’ “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” [Read more…]
16 Women and Donald Trump – There’s a Pattern Here | Video Worth Watching
Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films have compiled the accounts of sixteen women who have experienced the sleazy side of Donald Trump. Collecting the stories and presenting them together demonstrates that there is pattern here.
During the presidential campaign these stories were part of the mix of campaign coverage, but faded from view as as other events crowded out the media spotlight. Now that other high profile sexual assault and harassment events such as the Harvey Weinstein scandal are in the news, three of the women—Jessica Leeds, Samantha Holvey and Rachel Crooks—have joined forces to bring public attention to this issue once again, and demand that Congress investigate the claims. The Hill reports that they have gotten the attention of the Democratic Women’s Working Group (DWWG). On Monday that group sent a letter signed by 59 women lawmakers to the House Oversight Committee Chair, Trey Gowdy, and the ranking member, Elijah Cummings, writing that “The American people deserve a full inquiry into the truth of these allegations.” [Read more…]
Roy Moore: Putin may be ‘more akin to me than I know’ | Video Worth Watching
Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore was interviewed by Guardian journalist Paul Lewis during the Republican primary in August of 2017. The conversation touched on former president Ronald Reagan’s characterization of Russia as “the focus of evil in the modern world”. Roy’s response: “You could say that very well about America, couldn’t you?” When prompted to explain he went on to say that “We promote a lot of bad things, you know … like same-sex marriage.” [Read more…]
Thai Oyster Cult Video Leads YouTube Globally Trending Hits | Video Worth Watching
Catching us up with the rest of the world, a Boing Boing article informs us that the top trending video globally (currently with over 186 million views since June 2017) features a masked singer in a costume that resembles a clutch of oysters, if anything.
The song is titled “Until we become dust” and is featured as an entry in a televised game show called The Mask Singer. Don’t know whether this was the show’s ultimate winner, but globally it’s a hit. What am I missing?! [Read more…]
Nina Simone: Mississippi Goddam | Video Worth Watching
From our Normalize This! file: The Washington Post reports that five days before the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Mississippi, Trump announced that he would be attending the Saturday event. This Friday, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba (D) and a slew of other civil rights veterans announced they will no longer be attending. Lewis and Thompson in their joint statement note that “President Trump’s attendance and his hurtful policies are an insult to the people portrayed in this civil rights museum.” The NAACP announced that it will be holding a separate event on Saturday to honor civil rights heroes. [Read more…]
Through Our Eyes: Life in Puerto Rico Two Months After Hurricane Maria | Video Worth Watching
Meanwhile, back in Puerto Rico …
“Now This” producer Melissa Fajardo presents video documentary footage from three Puerto Ricans coping with life in Puerto Rico two months after Hurricane Maria passed directly over the island, leaving devastation in its wake. [Read more…]
Impeachment Campaign Rolls Out New Ad, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) Introduces Resolution to Impeach | Video Worth Watching
Version 3.0 of Tom Steyer’s “Need to Impeach” campaign ad is on the air and features a display in Times Square showing the number of signers at around 2.6 million. The website, as I write, shows a figure of around 3.4 million. Meanwhile, in Congress, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) presented articles of impeachment on the floor of the House. The motion was ultimately tabled, but 58 Democrats voted against the motion to table. [Read more…]
ACLU Vows to Keep Fighting as Supreme Court Allows Trump’s Mostly Muslim Travel Ban to Take Effect | Video Worth Watching
ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt, who presented the first challenge to Trump’s travel ban order, resulting in a nationwide injunction, describes the current status of the Administration’s travel ban. The recent Supreme Court decision to permit the latest version of the ban to be implemented while the legal challenges proceed in court will have drastic effects on affected communities. [Read more…]
Trump’s Lawyer Pulls a Nixon | Video Worth Watching
On Monday Trump’s personal lawyer pulled a Nixon. The Washington Post is reporting that John Dowd told Axios reporter Mike Allen that the “President cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under [the Constitution’s Article II] and has every right to express his view of any case.” Hmm. Now where have I heard that kind of argument before …. [Read more…]
What The GOP Tax Scam Sounds Like | Video Worth Watching
Here’s Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s once again pressing into service his creative use of BBs, this time updating it to illustrate the dynamics of the current GOP tax scam. Even after reading about percentages and dollar figures, it can be difficult to get a handle on the relative amounts. This demonstration helps make the situation visceral. It may be too late to call the number displayed at the end, but there is a demonstration today, Monday Dec. 4th, at 4:30 pm at the Federal Building downtown (880 Front Street). [Read more…]
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