With all of the books coming out about the criminal in the White House

when will we get the definitive work that explains the Republican betrayal of our nation? Hillary Clinton had no answer for this when asked about it today on Morning Joe. If she doesn’t understand it then who the hell does?

Donald Trump is evil made manifest and last night it trembled

as it was confronted and the exposed by the light and the all-powerful love that is pure goodness. Let us find healing and hope in the undeniable goodness of Joe Biden’s message and the person himself, his brilliant and beautiful team - our team, and let us each radiate it and magnify it as we come together from sea to shining sea to fight for the soul of our nation. Against such no malevolent, life-denying power can prevail.

What happens on 1/20/21 if election results are unknown?

How a Historian Stuffed Hagia Sophia's Sound Into a Studio

Footage broadcast around the world last week captured some of these striking changes to Hagia Sophia, the Byzantine cathedral in Istanbul, which served as a mosque under Ottoman rule before becoming a museum in 1934. On the orders of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it is now once again used as a mosque.

But for a group of scholars, scientists and musicians, Hagia Sophia’s rededication as a Muslim place of worship threatens to cloak a less tangible treasure: its sound. Bissera Pentcheva, an art historian at Stanford University and an expert in the burgeoning field of acoustic archaeology, has spent the past decade studying the building’s extravagantly reverberant acoustics to reconstruct the sonic world of Byzantine cathedral music. Ms. Pentcheva argues that Hagia Sophia’s mystical brilliance reveals itself fully only if it is viewed as a vessel for animated light — and sound.

“The void is a stage,” she said in a recent interview over Zoom.

Conducting research inside this contested monument has required a mixture of diplomacy, ingenuity and technology. Turkish authorities forbade singing inside Hagia Sophia, even when it was operated as a museum. Now that the building falls under the jurisdiction of religious authorities, that ban will harden, and further research may be even more difficult.
But Ms. Pentcheva’s existing work culminated last fall in the release of “The Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia,” an album that brings to life the stately mystery of Byzantine cathedral liturgy, bathed in the glittering acoustics of the space for which it was written — even though it was recorded in a studio in California.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/arts/music/hagia-sophia-acoustics-music.html

URGENT ACTION REQUEST!

Mes cher/es ami/es de DU,
My dear DU Friends,

Please consider sharing this story far and wide in your various circles. This is really happening in Portland and cannot possibly be legal.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213801708

Merci d’avance, mes braves, et bon courage!

Mme. D.

ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Downtown jail inmates hitting panic buttons due to tear gas wafting into cells, lawyers say

Inmates at Portland’s downtown jail have complained this week about tear gas seeping into their cells, making it difficult to breathe and causing their eyes to burn.

Women housed on the eighth floor of the Multnomah County Justice Center reported waking up in the early morning hours Tuesday and Wednesday and hitting panic buttons in their cells because they were choking on the gas, according to Oregon Federal Public Defender Lisa Hay.

One woman was so worried that she tried to breathe through the crack under the cell’s door, Hay said.

Sheriff’s deputies at the jail eventually opened up food ports in cells to provide more air, according to defense lawyers.

Read More... https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/07/downtown-jail-inmates-hitting-panic-buttons-due-to-tear-gas-wafting-into-cells-lawyers-say.html

Portland's Distinguished Reputation as "Little Beirut".

From the archives of The Oregonian
Updated May 18, 2019; Posted Apr 11, 2016

21 of the most memorable protests in Portland history
Updated May 18, 2019; Posted Apr 11, 2016

Last month, Portland State students disrupted a university governing-board meeting, forcing board members to retreat to a bunker -- er, unmarked basement conference room -- to vote on a proposed tuition increase. Was it one of the more memorable protests in our local history? No, but that’s because Portland sets a high bar. The Rose City is known around the world for its demonstrations. On the pages that follow we offer up some of the most interesting, strange and meaningful Portland protests ever.

In 1934, striking Portland longshoremen protested efforts to bring in replacement workers. They surrounded the hiring hall and disabled buses that were there to take the new hires to the port. “The strikebreakers never even got near the docks,” The Oregonian reported. (Port operators responded by turning an old ship into a “floating hotel” so the replacement workers wouldn’t have to cross picket lines, but strikers infiltrated it, tossing guards into the water.)


In July 2000, 26-year-old environmental activist Tre Arrow, protesting logging in the Mount Hood National Forest, spent 11 days on a 9-inch-wide, third-story ledge on the downtown Portland building that housed the U.S. Forest Service’s Northwest regional offices. He finally rappelled to the ground and “into the arms of his supporters.” (12 years later, Arrow ran for Portland mayor while in jail, where he had landed after a supervised-release violation on an eco-arson conviction.)


President George H.W. Bush supposedly dubbed Portland “Little Beirut” after being met by determined protesters in 1991. (The actual Beirut was wrecked in the 1970s and ’80s during the Lebanese Civil War.) The writer Chuck Palahniuk says Portland “anarchists” during this time gathered outside the downtown Hilton Hotel whenever presidents came to town. They ate potatoes dyed with food coloring and “then, when the motorcade arrived, drank Syrup of Ipecac and puked big Red, White and Blue barf puddles all over the hotel.”

I worry that unless there is a quick injunction and successful lawsuits against DHS

that whatever happens in Portland - protests get worse, or they die down - will be spun as a victory for Trump/Barr.

Is His MagaSty's hair getting lighter?

A friend of mine made this observation and thinks he is trying to look more like Joe to avoid comparing less favorably with his more popular rival.

This happened today in my part of Portland. This is why I drink!

Airplane loses power and makes emergency landing onto street in Northeast Portland Saturday

A small fixed-wing airplane lost power and made an emergency landing onto a street in Northeast Portland on Saturday, according to Portland Fire & Rescue.

The pilot and three passengers - a man, a woman and a young boy – were unharmed.

Officers at the Portland Police Bureau’s North Precinct responded to North Greeley Avenue at North Going Street after receiving reports that an airplane had landed on the street, causing no accidents. The street was closed Saturday afternoon while an investigation was conducted.