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October 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1444423401678966788
David Axelrod on Sinema: Kind of takes some brass to blow out of DC for fundraisers back home in
the middle of this and then lecture everyone by press release on “trust.”https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1444423401678966788
October 3, 2021
The Fox News anchor repeatedly grilled John Barrasso on his opposition to Biden’s social policy spending bill, noting that many provisions would greatly help Wyoming residents.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/chris-wallace-nails-gop-sen-john-barrasso-asks-him-if-his-state-would-benefit-from-bidens-spending-bill
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace confronted Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) on Sunday over the Republican lawmaker’s full-throated opposition to President Joe Biden’s reconciliation spending package, noting that the bill not only contains provisions Barrasso has supported in the past but that his state would also overwhelmingly “benefit” from the bill. While the progressive and moderate wings of the Democratic Party continue to hash out the final details of the massive social policy spending bill, Republicans have remained united in opposition to it.
Interviewing Barrasso on Fox News Sunday, Wallace wondered aloud if this was all a political game for the Wyoming lawmaker and his GOP cohorts. “As you point out, 19 of your fellow Republican senators voted for the bipartisan infrastructure plan in the Senate. You did not. You called the reconciliation bill a freight train to socialism. You and all of the Republicans were refusing the normal course—the bipartisan passage of raising the debt limit. So I guess the question to you and a lot of Republicans is are you viewing these issues on the merits or are you just playing partisan politics?” Barrasso, for his part, said he supported a lot of what’s in the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal but feels “it spent too much” and he was concerned “with the gimmicks that were used to fund it.” He also claimed that Republicans opposed the reconciliation package because they “want to grow the economy” while Democrats want to “grow the government.”
Turning his attention to the reconciliation bill, the Fox anchor noted that it contains an extension and increase of the child tax credit that Barrasso himself supported when he voted for former President Donald Trump’s tax cuts in 2017. “Your state of Wyoming is one of the states that benefits most from the increase in the child tax credit. Why oppose that?” Wallace asked. After the conservative senator began complaining about the spending bill’s current $3.5 trillion price tag, the Fox News Sunday moderator cut him off, pushing him on the specific details of the child tax credit. “I guess part of the question is could you have worked with them on this child tax credit which you voted for in 2017? That’s one of the things you are voting against right now,” Wallace continued. “Why oppose that program?” Dodging the question, Barrasso insisted you had to look at the “entire balance” of the bill before complaining that the package calls for more stringent IRS auditing procedures. “This is an invasion of privacy,” the senator exclaimed. “Every senator's hearing about this. That is included as well.”
Moving past the child tax credit, Wallace then brought up another item of the spending bill that would help Barasso’s home state quite a bit. “You talk about things you don't like—like the added IRS agents and added IRS intrusion,” the veteran anchor declared. “Let's talk about another part of the bill which is universal Pre-K.” He added: “In the state of Wyoming, less than one-quarter of children 3-4, who would be covered in the bill, are enrolled in publicly funded preschool. Less than a quarter. Wouldn’t a lot of Wyoming families benefit from universal Pre-K?” Barrasso, however, couldn’t bring himself to give credit to the president for anything. “There’s a number of things that would help Wyoming,” he groused. “Overall, Joe Biden's policies have been hurting the people of Wyoming.” The Republican senator then grumbled that while progressives want to provide free community college, Pre-K, and daycare to Americans, it is “not the way our country has been founded.”
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Fox News' Chris Wallace Nails GOP Senator: Wouldn't Your State 'Benefit From' Biden's Spending Bill?
Video at the linkThe Fox News anchor repeatedly grilled John Barrasso on his opposition to Biden’s social policy spending bill, noting that many provisions would greatly help Wyoming residents.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/chris-wallace-nails-gop-sen-john-barrasso-asks-him-if-his-state-would-benefit-from-bidens-spending-bill
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace confronted Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) on Sunday over the Republican lawmaker’s full-throated opposition to President Joe Biden’s reconciliation spending package, noting that the bill not only contains provisions Barrasso has supported in the past but that his state would also overwhelmingly “benefit” from the bill. While the progressive and moderate wings of the Democratic Party continue to hash out the final details of the massive social policy spending bill, Republicans have remained united in opposition to it.
Interviewing Barrasso on Fox News Sunday, Wallace wondered aloud if this was all a political game for the Wyoming lawmaker and his GOP cohorts. “As you point out, 19 of your fellow Republican senators voted for the bipartisan infrastructure plan in the Senate. You did not. You called the reconciliation bill a freight train to socialism. You and all of the Republicans were refusing the normal course—the bipartisan passage of raising the debt limit. So I guess the question to you and a lot of Republicans is are you viewing these issues on the merits or are you just playing partisan politics?” Barrasso, for his part, said he supported a lot of what’s in the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal but feels “it spent too much” and he was concerned “with the gimmicks that were used to fund it.” He also claimed that Republicans opposed the reconciliation package because they “want to grow the economy” while Democrats want to “grow the government.”
Turning his attention to the reconciliation bill, the Fox anchor noted that it contains an extension and increase of the child tax credit that Barrasso himself supported when he voted for former President Donald Trump’s tax cuts in 2017. “Your state of Wyoming is one of the states that benefits most from the increase in the child tax credit. Why oppose that?” Wallace asked. After the conservative senator began complaining about the spending bill’s current $3.5 trillion price tag, the Fox News Sunday moderator cut him off, pushing him on the specific details of the child tax credit. “I guess part of the question is could you have worked with them on this child tax credit which you voted for in 2017? That’s one of the things you are voting against right now,” Wallace continued. “Why oppose that program?” Dodging the question, Barrasso insisted you had to look at the “entire balance” of the bill before complaining that the package calls for more stringent IRS auditing procedures. “This is an invasion of privacy,” the senator exclaimed. “Every senator's hearing about this. That is included as well.”
Moving past the child tax credit, Wallace then brought up another item of the spending bill that would help Barasso’s home state quite a bit. “You talk about things you don't like—like the added IRS agents and added IRS intrusion,” the veteran anchor declared. “Let's talk about another part of the bill which is universal Pre-K.” He added: “In the state of Wyoming, less than one-quarter of children 3-4, who would be covered in the bill, are enrolled in publicly funded preschool. Less than a quarter. Wouldn’t a lot of Wyoming families benefit from universal Pre-K?” Barrasso, however, couldn’t bring himself to give credit to the president for anything. “There’s a number of things that would help Wyoming,” he groused. “Overall, Joe Biden's policies have been hurting the people of Wyoming.” The Republican senator then grumbled that while progressives want to provide free community college, Pre-K, and daycare to Americans, it is “not the way our country has been founded.”
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October 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1444425088003084289
Republican candidates all over the country in closely contested districts are cursing Greg Abbott
today. San Antonio.https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1444425088003084289
October 3, 2021
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/tradwife-gen-z
Mention the word “tradwife” and you might imagine the 1950s archetype: A “traditional wife” in a dress and an apron, smiling at her husband and three kids while presenting a gleaming beef roast at the dinner table, pleased as ever in her domestic domain. For a swath of right-wing American men, that image is part of a fantasy of how things “used to be,” in the good ol’ days before antifa and Black Lives Matter and feminist YouTubers ruined everything. The tradwife symbolizes stability — at least for those who imagine social change as an attack on their identity and being. It is the “submissive and breedable” meme, made unironic by chauvinism. It is, ultimately, a hatred of women going their own way. Which made it all the more surprising when Mariel Cooksey began noticing the Gen Z women and girls actively repping the tradwife aesthetic and lifestyle online. Cooksey, a researcher at the Institute for Research on Male Supremacy, decided to study why and how this rhetoric spreads, and found that teen girls are being attracted to the movement thanks to an evolution in how tradwife ideas are marketed and presented.
Anti-feminist women rising at various moments to support male-led movements is nothing new (see: the Ku Klux Klan). But the blend of Gen Z online culture and old-world patriarchal beliefs is harder to parse. Cooksey describes it as a pyramid scheme, with influencers able to tap into a much broader group of women, looking for counterculture in an increasingly chaotic world. “This isn’t the same phenomenon as MAGA girls, and ironically, you see some Gen Z tradwife accounts posting critically about them. Because even Trump Republicanism has modern feminism in it — women are running for Congress, you know?” Cooksey explains. “Instead, these young women are filling a niche that’s a counterpart of young male extremism in the far right.” On the surface, identifying as a tradwife doesn’t necessarily mean you align with white nationalism or other extremist political views. But the overlap in rhetoric and the whiteness of the movement is stark, and Cooksey tells me that some tradwife influencers are explicit in their sharing of extremist ideas, with personalities like Ayla Stewart (aka “Wife With A Purpose”) and Caitlin Huber (“Mrs. Midwest”) interacting openly with white nationalist accounts.
Consider it the next chapter in the story of how the alt-right has given way to niche subcultures that repackage the same toxic ideas on masculinity, gender roles, “family values” and the need for patriarchy. This isn’t just a response to modern feminism — tradwife influencers are at the intersection of white and male supremacy in America, rooted in a theory that order will return to society if women submit to men and support the family while ignoring everything else. That such old-school conservative beliefs are being held up as counterculture by Gen Z women and girls is another sign of fascism creep. I recently sat down with Cooksey for a conversation on what’s different about this version of tradwife idealism, the ways in which young women are attracted to it as a form of online counterculture and why it needs to be studied.
When did you start to investigate how some of these right-wing, deeply misogynistic ideas are gaining traction with young women again?
I graduated with my master’s in December and a large part of my thesis was the relationship between the alt-right and Christianity, and how newer Gen Z offshoots are branching out from alt-right culture over the last five, six years. It’s young people who swear they’re not part of the alt-right, but have undeniable roots in it, like the American Identity Movement or Nick Fuentes and the Groypers. These are groups that are oriented at the “campus level,” under the age of 25, generally. I’ve been keeping an eye on this cohort for a long time. It occurred to me that the female side of this movement isn’t brought into the fold a lot because, for instance, the Groypers are very exclusionary toward women. Ultra misogynistic. Yet they have these expectations for how they want their future wives and families to look. And I wondered how these incel overtones would work in relationships. Of course there’s the fundamentalists — Fundy influencers — but they tend to be older, married and more focused on a conservative Christian view. So where would younger girls fit in? And what kind of content are they putting out?
What’s the history of this subculture, and why is the Gen Z approach so different? .......................
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The Gen Z Girls Repping the 'Tradwife' Life. A Lifestyle Used to Justify Misogyny & White Supremacy
How TikTok and a Gen Z aesthetic are selling a lifestyle used to justify misogyny and white supremacy in Americahttps://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/tradwife-gen-z
Mention the word “tradwife” and you might imagine the 1950s archetype: A “traditional wife” in a dress and an apron, smiling at her husband and three kids while presenting a gleaming beef roast at the dinner table, pleased as ever in her domestic domain. For a swath of right-wing American men, that image is part of a fantasy of how things “used to be,” in the good ol’ days before antifa and Black Lives Matter and feminist YouTubers ruined everything. The tradwife symbolizes stability — at least for those who imagine social change as an attack on their identity and being. It is the “submissive and breedable” meme, made unironic by chauvinism. It is, ultimately, a hatred of women going their own way. Which made it all the more surprising when Mariel Cooksey began noticing the Gen Z women and girls actively repping the tradwife aesthetic and lifestyle online. Cooksey, a researcher at the Institute for Research on Male Supremacy, decided to study why and how this rhetoric spreads, and found that teen girls are being attracted to the movement thanks to an evolution in how tradwife ideas are marketed and presented.
Anti-feminist women rising at various moments to support male-led movements is nothing new (see: the Ku Klux Klan). But the blend of Gen Z online culture and old-world patriarchal beliefs is harder to parse. Cooksey describes it as a pyramid scheme, with influencers able to tap into a much broader group of women, looking for counterculture in an increasingly chaotic world. “This isn’t the same phenomenon as MAGA girls, and ironically, you see some Gen Z tradwife accounts posting critically about them. Because even Trump Republicanism has modern feminism in it — women are running for Congress, you know?” Cooksey explains. “Instead, these young women are filling a niche that’s a counterpart of young male extremism in the far right.” On the surface, identifying as a tradwife doesn’t necessarily mean you align with white nationalism or other extremist political views. But the overlap in rhetoric and the whiteness of the movement is stark, and Cooksey tells me that some tradwife influencers are explicit in their sharing of extremist ideas, with personalities like Ayla Stewart (aka “Wife With A Purpose”) and Caitlin Huber (“Mrs. Midwest”) interacting openly with white nationalist accounts.
Consider it the next chapter in the story of how the alt-right has given way to niche subcultures that repackage the same toxic ideas on masculinity, gender roles, “family values” and the need for patriarchy. This isn’t just a response to modern feminism — tradwife influencers are at the intersection of white and male supremacy in America, rooted in a theory that order will return to society if women submit to men and support the family while ignoring everything else. That such old-school conservative beliefs are being held up as counterculture by Gen Z women and girls is another sign of fascism creep. I recently sat down with Cooksey for a conversation on what’s different about this version of tradwife idealism, the ways in which young women are attracted to it as a form of online counterculture and why it needs to be studied.
When did you start to investigate how some of these right-wing, deeply misogynistic ideas are gaining traction with young women again?
I graduated with my master’s in December and a large part of my thesis was the relationship between the alt-right and Christianity, and how newer Gen Z offshoots are branching out from alt-right culture over the last five, six years. It’s young people who swear they’re not part of the alt-right, but have undeniable roots in it, like the American Identity Movement or Nick Fuentes and the Groypers. These are groups that are oriented at the “campus level,” under the age of 25, generally. I’ve been keeping an eye on this cohort for a long time. It occurred to me that the female side of this movement isn’t brought into the fold a lot because, for instance, the Groypers are very exclusionary toward women. Ultra misogynistic. Yet they have these expectations for how they want their future wives and families to look. And I wondered how these incel overtones would work in relationships. Of course there’s the fundamentalists — Fundy influencers — but they tend to be older, married and more focused on a conservative Christian view. So where would younger girls fit in? And what kind of content are they putting out?
What’s the history of this subculture, and why is the Gen Z approach so different? .......................
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October 3, 2021
Russ Davies ft Inge Beckmann - Zero (The Watch Original Sound Track)
vimeo.com/552109836
Zero was written by composer Russ Davies for the climax of Episode Four of Writer/Producer Simon Allen's The Watch who wrote it into the story. It is performed by Inge Beckmann who also appears in the episode as a Torch Singer in The Mended Drum.
Listen to Writer/Producer SImon Allen discuss BBC America's The Watch and his career on The Writers' Panel with Ben Blacker:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/simon-allen-the-watch/id455020248?i=1000505120301
Interview with Simon Allen on creating The Watch at The British Comedy Guide:
https://www.comedy.co.uk/pro/inside_track/simon-allen-on-creating-the-watch/
Creator Simon Allen talks to Flickering Myth about The Watch:
https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2021/01/exclusive-interview-showrunner-simon-allen-discusses-the-watch/
Wall Street Journal reviews Simon Allen's The Watch:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-watch-review-making-fantasy-fun-11609279736
LA Times reviews Simon Allen's The Watch:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-01-03/the-watch-terry-pratchett-bbc-america-discworld
Daily Telegraph reviews Simon Allen's The Watch:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2021/07/01/watch-review-terry-pratchett-fans-warned-will-hate-adaptation/
Nerdist reviews Simon Allen's The Watch
https://nerdist.com/article/the-watch-tv-series-review-terry-pratchett/
More about The Watch:
https://g.co/kgs/47HYR6
More about Writer, Producer, Creator Simon Allen:
https://g.co/kgs/zGcEcn
October 2, 2021
Label:
Columbia – CSK 6056
Format:
CD, Single, Promo
Pays:
US
Sortie:
1994
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Grunge
Alice In Chains - I Stay Away (Official Video)
Label:
Columbia – CSK 6056
Format:
CD, Single, Promo
Pays:
US
Sortie:
1994
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Grunge
October 2, 2021
School Board Members
October 1, 2021
The Build Back Better agenda that progressives are fighting for isn't some fringe wish list. It's the President’s agenda, the Democratic agenda, and what we promised the American people.
Don’t just take my word for it — hear it straight from
@POTUS
https://twitter.com/RepJayapal/status/1443353647149162498
Pramila Jayapal is fantastic. Would love to see her in the Senate someday.
The Build Back Better agenda that progressives are fighting for isn't some fringe wish list. It's the President’s agenda, the Democratic agenda, and what we promised the American people.
Don’t just take my word for it — hear it straight from
@POTUS
https://twitter.com/RepJayapal/status/1443353647149162498
October 1, 2021
Happy 97th birthday to President Jimmy Carter
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1443895897658626070
October 1, 2021
There are so many pumpkin beers on the shelves these days that it's difficult to figure out what’s a trick and what’s a treat. We’ve done the tough work of drinking the best pumpkin beers in America to ensure your next six-pack is full of sugar, (pumpkin) spice, and everything nice. Skip the pumpkin spice lattes and slices of pumpkin pie and opt for one of these stouts or ales instead.
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The Best Pumpkin Beers to Drink This Fall
https://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/best-pumpkin-beersThere are so many pumpkin beers on the shelves these days that it's difficult to figure out what’s a trick and what’s a treat. We’ve done the tough work of drinking the best pumpkin beers in America to ensure your next six-pack is full of sugar, (pumpkin) spice, and everything nice. Skip the pumpkin spice lattes and slices of pumpkin pie and opt for one of these stouts or ales instead.
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