Monday Reads

 The right is fighting among themselves about whether they should vote in the upcoming special Senate elections in January, since they believe the lie the November election was stolen.

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Obituary:  Longtime U.S. senator Paul Sarbanes, 87, died last night, of undisclosed causes.  His son currently serves in Congress.

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In his 30 years in the Senate, Sarbanes worked on bay restoration and the protection of the estuary’s trails and waterways, helped protect consumers’ privacy in banking, and became a key figure in high-profile congressional investigations from Watergate to Iran-Contra to Whitewater. 

A workhorse with a consistently liberal voting record, Sarbanes in 2000 became the state’s first U.S. senator to win a fifth term. Democrat Millard E. Tydings had served four terms, ending in 1951. 

“Our family is grateful to know that we have the support of Marylanders who meant so much to him and whom he was honored to serve,” John Sarbanes’ statement said. 

Republicans called him a “stealth” or “phantom” senator. It’s an image Sarbanes was at peace with. He laughed about it during a 2005 interview with The Baltimore Sun and hinted his invisibility had been part of a strategy over the years. Stealth, Sarbanes said, is “one of the most important weapons in our military arsenal … If you let somebody else take the credit, you can get the result.”

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"Gender" is a social construct, while sex is definitely not.  To say otherwise is pure gaslighting.

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Texas consultant and "evangelist" Lance Wallnau, a  frequent guest on the Jim Bakker Show and a frequent subject on PFAW's Right-Wing Watch, peddles a variation of the Rushdoony batshittery of dominionism via the "seven mountains."  It is to establish a theocracy on Earth, and never mind he is completely misreading the Bible and engaging in what many theologians would call heresy.

In the end, it is a money-making scam.  Wallnau is one of the biggest cheerleaders of Donald Trump, and he still thinks Trump will remain in office despite all the facts to the contrary.

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Obituary:  Celebrated aviator Chuck Yeager, just 97, died today.  This was announced a few minutes ago (before 8 p.m. Pacific Standard Time).  He is remembered as being the first pilot to break the sound barrier.

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