A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Tennessee Be Tennesseeing Just when you didn’t think it could get any worse, the GOP-controlled Tennessee House did itself one better. Rather than expelling…
I love Stormy’s description, confirming her intimate knowledge of the former leader of the free world: A small shriveled toadstool! USA! USA! USA!
PS: When does my check come for being #1!
Needs mentioning.
An NPR spokesperson confirms it has stopped tweeting from its house account since Elon Musk’s Twitter falsely labeled the public radio network “US state-affiliated media.”
In what amounts to a sick burn in the staid, dulcet-toned public radio world, @NPR also changed its bio in part to say: “You can find us every other place you read the news.”
Finally, may every other news organization follow. Let twitter become just another rumble, good riddance
Fox News demands Dominion trial not mention Jan. 6 attack - Alternet.org
“Any reference to the Capitol riot will only unfairly prejudice the jury against Fox, inflame passions, prevent a fair trial, and taint any resulting verdict,” said the motion by Fox News.
According to the report, Fox News is also asking that the judge prohibit any references to threats sent to Dominion workers, claiming that while those threats are “horrific and absolutely inexcusable,” they would “arouse the jury’s sympathy and provoke a desire to punish Fox for the actions of unrelated third parties.”
You have to wonder what the Tennessee GOP was thinking. The Republicans have about a three to one majority in the Tennessee legislature, meaning Democrats have practically zero influence there. By expelling these two members, the Tennessee GOP has given them both national recognition and, likely, more political influence than they ever would have gotten had they just been ignored.
Brilliant move Republicans, just brilliant.
Also needs mentioning:
How To Reign In The Corrupt Roberts Court?
The homonym is the correct use of the verb here. Not to mention some of the other errors in the headline. I’ll let the English Majors in the group propose the correction.
I count at least three items in today’s Morning Memo that are encompassed by this paradigm: the Tennessee House expulsions, West Virginia’s bans on transgender athletes, and the new Idaho abortion ban.
And that will probably, eventually, be a light day in racism world.
But as of now, no circuit court has ruled on the legality of the anti-transgender laws sweeping the country, and it looks like the Supreme Court will hang back until the appeals courts weigh in on the issue.
And the Roberts court swings and misses, yet again.
Editorial comment: Wishing a contemplative Good Friday to those who practice, without which Christmas and Easter have no meaning; and a belated Passover wish to those who practice: Chag Pesach Sameach!
Watch the contempt a Tennessee lawmaker expresses when lecturing Rep. Justin Pearson.
And to think he did this without uttering the word, “boy”. The urge must have been nearly irresistible.
I shouldn’t think that the J6 attack in itself is relevant to the case. The threats that the Dominion workers received absolutely must be mentioned, as they are germane to the trial of the attacks on Dominion.
I’m sharpening my crayon now.
There’s the problem with your premise, right there,
Well done all the way around by ProPublica.
Uncle Thomas
The Tennessean Republicans who voted for this, know what they did. Most of them taught their kids and grandkids not to be racist, not to use the N-word, not to think that the white race is superior above all. But in the end they voted for the expulsion because they are that scared. Somehow that makes it worse in my mind.
I join with the heroic youth protesting in the state capitol in Nashville: fuck you fascists!
I’m not surprised at what is going on in Tennessee because I’ll let Wikipedia tell us about this native son from Tennessee:
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a prominent Confederate Army general during the American Civil War and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan from 1867 to 1869.
The statue has bunny ears, and its left hand seems to have an extended middle finger. Sup wit dat?
They have also reinforced the term, Flyover Country.
