#morning report

[lilithsaintcrow]

Morning Walk Report: Petrichor so thick one almost swims through it, splickle-spatters of rain, Boxnoggin drunk with scent and the bees enjoying every blossom to the fullest.

Today's run went ever so well, even a short stint on grass because the ankle needs stability practice. Bees hitching rides, one on my cheek. Crows and sparrows both clocking me, playful and protective.

This morning’s jam was Ivan Torrent's "The Dark One", which I need a villain fit for. Ah well, the story will come along.

Boxnoggin is glad I'm home; he can now take his midmorning nap. A shower and a cuppa wait for me, and a full day's work while the clouds shield us from summer.

And that's the morning report.

[mikeladano]

RE-REVIEW: Arkells - Morning Report (2017 vinyl deluxe edition + 4 bonus tracks)

ARKELLS – Morning Report (2017 Universal vinyl deluxe edition) Last time I reviewed Morning Report, I mentioned that the first two songs, “Drake’s Dad” and “Private School” were my least favourites.  Ironically Morning Report became my favourite Arkells album despite this.  When I re-bought it on a vinyl reissue, I was surprised but pleased to see that the running order had been altered!  Now, a…

[pangur-and-grim]

Rusty Nail had an unfortunate encounter

[weewoow-20706030]

Jason and Tim: *literally the most traumatic experience known to man, one that changes how anyone would look at them (e.g. Jason digging himself out of his own grave or Tim blowing up the leagues bases)*

Dick *absolutely mortified*: and you didn't tell me earlier because...?

Jason/Tim: idk, it never came up.

Dick: that's something you bring up!

[moghedien]

Things that have happened in the last 48 hours

Tucker Carlson fired from Fox News unceremoniously and without warning, apparently directly at the command of Rupert Murdoch. Reason isn't clear but Dominion claims with wasn't because of their recent settlement with Fox News for over $700 million. Considering all that Fox News hosts get away with saying regularly, something pretty wild has to have happened for them to suddenly fire their number one money maker and the host of the highest viewed tv program in the country, on any channel.

Don Lemon fired from CNN possibly without warning, though CNN claims they tried to meet with him. Possibly due to sexist and/or racist comments, but the reason isn't currently clear and CNN is just not wanting to talk about it

Nate Silver was laid off by Disney and ABC and is no longer part of FiveThirtyEight, which he founded.

Steven Crowder announced that he has been divorced since 2021 when his wife filed a no-fault divorce, openly bemoaned the fact that the laws of Texas allowed her to divorce him without his permission, and then publicly accused Candace Owens of trying to use his divorce to extort him for money.

Candace Owens started commenting back at him, denying the accusations of extortion and has now officially begun another far right media civil war as people are taking sides, because she took the bait. She may or may not have sent him a cease and desist and be planning to take legal action.

[cleverreports]

We report in the last handful of January days: we keep thinking about the sun lately. It is showing up more often, for longer periods of time. It is much too early to expect spring, but it is on our mind nonetheless. It slips away when we feel the morning wind on our neck.

[thewirebutwithpirates]

[black sails episode titles but they're named after episodes of the wire; id in alt]

IX. MORE WITH LESS

[barksbog]

Salamandra s. salamandra - Dunkelsteinerwald NÖ Austria

we saw three!! different fire salamanders on our morning walk

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Dean Obeidallah at The Dean's Report:

“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. Individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want and then offer themselves without being asked.” Those words written by Yale Professor Timothy Snyder in his book, “On Tyranny” came to mind twice recently. The first was last week when MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski headed to Mar-a-Lago to capitulate to Donald Trump. And then again on Monday, when we learned that Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice was surrendering to Trump by voluntarily dismissing criminal charges against Trump in both the attempted coup and Espionage cases. These two incidents actually share a great deal in common. Both involve visible people with power who are fully aware of the danger Trump poses to our Republic and who Trump has vowed retribution against. And both surrendered soon after Trump won, thus, emboldening the aspiring autocrat. In defense of Jack Smith, he did move swiftly after being appointed Special Counsel in November 2022. The failure has always been and continues to be Merrick Garland, a person I have been vocally criticizing since late 2021 for his failure to timely prosecute Trump--even causing Democratic legal pundits to attack me in 2022 for not understanding how the DOJ works.

True, while I am a lawyer, I never worked in DOJ. But I’m a student of history and understood where this could go if Garland did not move swiftly. That is why in Jan 2022--on the first anniversary of Jan. 6--I wrote an op-ed for MSNBC pressing Garland to charge Trump that concluded with the line that if Garland didn’t move swiftly to hold Trump accountable: “I believe historians will count it among the key mistakes that ultimately led to the end of the United States as a democratic republic.” To be clear, Special Counsel Smith’s dismissal was demanded by Garland’s DOJ as he noted in his six-page filing on Monday.  Smith wrote that, “It has long been the position of the Department of Justice that the United States Constitution forbids the federal indictment and subsequent criminal prosecution of a sitting President.” The basis for that DOJ view is NOT a specific line in the US Constitution nor a US Supreme Court decision. Rather it was two memos drafted by the DOJ’s Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)—one in 1973 when there were questions about charging then President Richard Nixon in connection with Watergate and the second in 2000 when President Bill Clinton was embroiled in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

But as Smith notes in his filing, neither addressed the facts before us of: 1. A former president charged as a private citizen for committing crimes--as in Trump’s Espionage and obstruction case; and, 2. A former President charged after leaving office for crimes committed in office--as we have with Trump’s Jan. 6 attempted coup case. Smith—who has independence as a Special Counsel—is still required by way of DOJ regulations to “comply with the rules, regulations, procedures, practices and policies of the Department of Justice.” Thus, Smith ask Garland’s DOJ for guidance. And as you would imagine, Garland’s DOJ-- that has failed to charge even one GOP official for their role in helping Trump overturn the 2020 election--told Smith to stand down.   Smith wrote that Garland’s OLC “concluded that its 2000 Opinion’s ‘categorical’ prohibition on the federal indictment of a sitting President—even if the case were held in abeyance—applies to this situation, where a federal indictment was returned before the defendant takes office.”  In sum, as Smith noted, “Accordingly, the Department’s position is that the Constitution requires that this case be dismissed before the defendant is inaugurated.”

Smith has done all he can to warn us of the threat Trump poses. When the Jan. 6 indictment versus Trump was first unsealed in Aug. 2023, Smith publicly declared, “The attack on our nation’s capital on January 6, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy. As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies.”  The Special Counsel then took direct aim at Trump, “Lies by the defendant [Trump] targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government, the nation’s process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election.” And earlier this year in connection with the U.S. Supreme Court case where Trump argued he should be immune from prosecution for any crimes he committed in office, Smith again rang alarm bells about what Trump was seeking. The Special Counsel wrote in a passage prescient for where we are today: “The defendant’s claim that he cannot be held to answer for the charges that he engaged in an unprecedented effort to retain power through criminal means…threatens the democratic and constitutional foundation of our Republic.”

[...] Again, Garland and Scarborough have chosen to surrender to Trump—just as we can expect others will going forward. We must not. As Prof. Snyder tells us: “Do not obey in advance.”  Instead, we must take the fight to Trump. That is the way we protect our freedoms, our self-determination and our Republic.

Picking Merrick Garland to lead the DOJ was the biggest mistake President Biden ever made, and he helped Donald Trump escape his legal issues.

[lilithsaintcrow]

Morning Walk Report: Boxnoggin prancing mightily, bees just waking up and bumbling along, a sweet wind not yet laden with dust and exhaust, swallows clocking us in the park. They really are that quick, turning on less than a dime.

I'm up to a proper run duration on the treadmill. Next comes a bit more intensity, and maybe I can run outside again--slowly, gently--next week sometime. I'm hopeful.

The morning jam is Talking Heads's "Psycho Killer", which was probably not the thing for me to be whistling along to as the dog and I strolled. But oh well.

The windows are open, the house breathing in midmorning breeze, there's plenty of work planned for the day, and the ankle doesn't hurt too badly.

And that's the morning report.

[jojisrevenge]

a lot of people say "Silver *knows* he's in a story" as in he knows he's a fictional character in the show Black Sails. imo what he really does is actively turn himself into a fictional character that he inserts into other people's stories, and that's so much more fucked up, like John Silver only exists bc John Silver made him up

....until other people start to put him into their stories on their own

[sebengineer101]

RNZ Morning Report in the 1960s with Lyndsay Perigo and Peter Fry

[mikeladano]

#1076: Weekend Listening At Home

[thebroccolination]

THE EX-MORNING WILL BEGIN FILMING ON DECEMBER 14/15

I’m really optimistic about how this whole process has been going. It’s an original story, it has Aof and Jojo attached, it’s directed by the director of SOTUS, they took at least six months to write and rework the script, and it seems like workshops will take about a month. They’re giving this series a lot of special care, which is a good, goooood sign. Waa also took his time with Be My Favorite, and look at the high quality series that produced.

Filming typically takes 3-4 months, and if they include time for post, I’m gonna estimate May or even June for the air time.

In conclusion: WHOO!