Killing of Renee Good

Morning Joe comments on the killing of an unarmed woman by an ICE agent in Minneapolis yesterday.

Eyewitness

"[He] shot her point blank in the face, three or four shots ..."

Eyewitness describes the events today in Minneapolis in which a woman was killed by an ICE agent.

Lest we forget

Here is a visual accounting of the riot at the Capito; on January 6, 2021 from The New York Times ...

Ezra Klein on Venezuela

New York Times columnist Ezra Klein talks to journalist Jonathan Blitzer about what the Trump administration is doing in Venezuela. Really informative.

Shameful

I'm disgusted but not surprised that Trump has invaded Venezuela, a country that can't fight back, and plans to "run" that country.

Why is this happening? Because Venezuela has probably the largest oil deposits anywhere in the world - ripe for plunder. And things aren't going very well politically for Trump at home. So he's doing what he always does .... distracting by throwing his weight around while at the same time enriching himself and his cronies.

BTW, the excuse that invading Venezuela is ok because their leader was a dictator is a facile distraction. Of course he was bad and we have in the past removed other dictators we didn't like. But the idea that Trump invaded and plans to "run" another sovereign country because he cares so deeply about democracy is just a sick joke ... Trump is undermining our own democracy and trying to make himself a dictator here at home.

I can only imagine how Ukraine feels, seeing this. They were counting on Trump to tell Putin that it's wrongt to invade and steal the resources of another sovereign country ... but Trump won't, of course, because that's what he himself wants to do. Is Greenland next?

Venezuela

Congressman and former Marine Seth Moulton opines on the recent US invasion of Venezuela.

The warmth of collectivism

The new mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, says ... We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

I'm not a fan of rugged individualism as a government policy, but Mamdani really needs to update his vocabulary from the Soviet Bloc script.

In character, on his first day, Mamdani also has done away with the previously existing banning of BDS, synagogue protest bans, and the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism.

The warmth of collectivism doesn't extend to Jewish people?

Wishing You Were Here

Wishing You Were Here, 1974, by Chicago. A strange song and I've never really liked it a lot. For years I thought the Beach Boys did it. It was written by Peter Cetera, who usually did the vocals for the band, but this time Terry Kath sang the main song and Cetera only did the bridge. Actually, three of the Beach Boys did sing background harmony on the recording.