11/20 Open Thread is Not about John Rawls
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 11/20/2019 - 5:00amThe Evening Blues - 11-19-19
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 11/19/2019 - 2:55pmI Think Bernie's About To Take Off. Seems Warren's Campaign Is On Its Heels In Defense, Admits It Didn't Think It Needed A Healthcare Plan, And A Dark Money Campaign Event Is Held For Her In Iowa.
Submitted by Mark from Queens on Tue, 11/19/2019 - 1:48pmThere's not a lot of theorizing here. I just threw this together from various things I'm seeing, and from trying to glean as much as possible as to where it all stands in terms of moving this country Left.
Warren addressed the Bolivian coup
Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 11/19/2019 - 1:31pmThe Bolivian people deserve free and fair elections, as soon as possible. Bolivia's interim leadership must limit itself to preparing for an early, legitimate election. Bolivia's security forces must protect demonstrators, not commit violence against them. https://t.co/oDiiGmzEzq
Tuesday Open Thread ~ I'll Take Potpourri for $100
Submitted by Anja Geitz on Tue, 11/19/2019 - 3:13am“It was a stern night landscape. The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night clolour. The layers of the Border Range, indistinguishable one from another, cast their heaviness at the skirt of the starry sky in a blackness grave and somber enough to communicate their mass. The whole of the night scene came together in a clear, tranquil harmony.”
~ Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
Warren totally bombs on Venezuela
Submitted by snoopydawg on Mon, 11/18/2019 - 5:02pmElizabeth Warren supports Juan Guaido. Supports sanctions of Venezuela. Says Maduro is starving his people even though she acknowledges that the US has economic sanctions and that she supports those sanctions.
She's horrible and a threat to Latin America. pic.twitter.com/2FTH2yufXV
The Short Blade of Impeachment: Most Americans Skipped Hearings
Submitted by leveymg on Mon, 11/18/2019 - 4:36pmSequestered Arms for Ukraine bombs on the Boobtube
The Watergate hearings captured a huge TV audience — 80 percent of Americans tuned in, by some estimates. Like the Moon Landings, Watergate shaped the attitudes of Americans, young and old, for the rest of their lives. Not likely this time.
The Evening Blues - 11-18-19
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 11/18/2019 - 3:18pmjulian assange's nov. 18 hearing at belmarsh gitmo [updated]
Submitted by wendy davis on Mon, 11/18/2019 - 11:27amin comments.
I haven’t been able to find any written first-person reports on what happened in court this morning, but oscar greenfell at wsws has this up today: ‘UN special rapporteur exposes Swedish sexual misconduct frame-up of Assange’, Oscar Grenfell, 18 November 2019, and it may be relevant to another Tweet I’d seen earlier.
...and MAE below promises a report soon. I'll bring what I find, as I'm sure you will as well.
gawd’s teeth:
— Emmy B (@greekemmy) November 18, 2019