Howie Liebengood, my constituent, died by suicide days after heroically protecting the Capitol during the insurrection a year ago.
He was a loyal and committed officer with the U.S. Capitol Police who served for over 15 years.
Today we remember his service and sacrifice. pic.twitter.com/PJKASmFv35
— Rep. Jennifer Wexton (@RepWexton) January 6, 2022
I am still recovering from painful complications after a recent biopsy. No cancer was the good part.
I very much appreciate the public and private messages of support.
I mentioned to a close and beloved family member that screaming continuous agony is not as much fun as people may think. I no longer recommend it.
He asked if that meant primal therapy does not work.
Here’s what I thought noteworthy from the last three weeks:
- My longtime friend, Darrell Michaels, who is Unabashedly American, goes all uproarious, posting a series of memes representing the current state of contemporary conservative comedy. Apparently he shares the rightist instinct for humor.
Here is his first:
Most of the rest are of a similar level of wit and wisdom.
I had completely forgotten that my friend, like so many conservative humorists, is hilarious. - Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit celebrated the New Year with memes a few steps upward from poor Darrell and his traveling troupe. Are you taking notes, my frolicsome friend?
- While, as responsible citizens, we all pretty much had to be captivated by the legislative lynching in the US Senate of voting rights, an extraordinary criminal charge of seditious conspiracy was carefully documented by the US Department of Justice. In Letters from an American, noted historian Heather Cox Richardson reviews the indictment against 11 members of extremist group the Oath Keepers.
The evidence is explicit. When combined with other well documented reports, it appears the combination of active violence and rightwing legalistic sounding mumble-jumble pretty much has to have been a fairly large conspiracy.
Any plot involving that many participants can be expected to develop huge leaks.
Stay tuned.
- Our friend Dave Dubya goes tick-tocking the new evidence, providing a chilling January 6 timeline.
- Green Eagle wants to remind us just how viciously insane our opponents on the right are and posts a few viciously insane examples.
- An extraordinary headline in Axios:
Trump accuses Jan. 6 panel of “seeking evidence of criminal activity”.
Not kidding, that’s the report. They stand accused of seeking evidence.
- On last week’s one year anniversary of you-know-what, Max’s Dad has a few well considered thoughts on the insurrection, including the flag of Confederate slavery carried into the Capitol building, Tucker Carlson, Ted Cruz, high level conspirators, and the character of America.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz points to what all Americans know and what decent Americans care about concerning last year’s most infamous act of violence.
- Ant Farmer’s Almanac reports on a division among those who planned the January 6 insurrection on how to commemorate the anniversary.
Okay, so it’s satire.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life examines experimental research using random subjects in a controlled setting and discovers a likelihood of political violence this year.
Looking over the same data, I would say YIKES!
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger reports on a new Justice Department unit dedicated to battling domestic terrorism, and points to three steps that are needed to make that effort effective in keeping us, and our nation, safe.
- Wisconsin Republicans, suckling up to Mr Trump, have been hot to investigate the 2020 Wisconsin vote that went for candidate Biden. One screwup after another has accumulated into an ongoing embarrassment for that investigation. Now we have a new scandal involving a forged election document signed by unelected Wisconsin “electors” and submitted to the National Archives as if it was real. Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson is getting impatient with state Republican officials and their propensity for having cartoonish cigars blow up in their collective face:
Sorry @WaukeshaCoExec @PaulFarrowWi, but you asked for the headache, and so far you've done nothing to clean up the mess.
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) January 15, 2022
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