From The Washington Post :
The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to four people familiar with the matter.
“It is never too late to change the future”
From The Washington Post :
The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to four people familiar with the matter.
By Michael Leddy at 9:15 PM comments: 0
From The New York Times: “Previously undisclosed communications among Trump campaign aides and outside advisers provide new insight into their efforts to overturn the election in the weeks leading to Jan. 6.”
The scheming in these e-mails is transparently dishonest. Of the fake-electors ploy, Jack D. Wilenchik, a lawyer, writes,
I guess there’s no harm in it, (legally at least) — i.e. we would just be sending in “fake” electoral votes to Pence so that “someone” in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes, and start arguing that the “fake” votes should be counted.”In another e-mail, Wilenchik writes that “‘alternative’ votes is probably a better term than ‘fake’ votes.” He appends a smiley face to that suggestion.
By Michael Leddy at 9:11 PM comments: 0
A ghost ad in the Garment District.
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By Michael Leddy at 8:18 AM comments: 3
Self-explanatory.
I would like to know if it has 5:15 a.m., but I wouldn’t want to have to get up that early to find out.
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My friend Stefan Hagemann tells me that 5:15 a.m. is a passage from Hunter Thompson.
By Michael Leddy at 8:09 AM comments: 4
And plays — there’s one guitar solo. At the Newport Folk Festival, yesterday:
An introduction : “Carey” : “Come In from the Cold” :
“Help Me” : “A Case of You” : “Big Yellow Taxi” : “Just Like This Train” : “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” : “Amelia” : “Love Potion No. 9” : “Shine” : “Summertime” : “Both Sides Now” : “The Circle Game.”
And that’s all — there’s a set list.
Brandi Carlile: “Did the world just stop? Did everything that was wrong with it just go away?”
By Michael Leddy at 8:02 PM comments: 0
[As found here. Click for a much larger view.]
The Trump edits to this statement are almost entirely self-explanatory. But why take out “and sickened”? To be outraged is to be angry. I’m going to guess that for the defeated former president, to be sickened, or to say that you’re sickened, is to look weak.
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And for the record: he did not deploy the National Guard or federal law enforcement.
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I realized only early this morning: omitting “you do not represent me" and “you do not represent our movement,” while leaving in “you do not represent our country,” seems to suggest that “Antifa” was behind the January 6 riot. Which of course doesn’t jibe with “you’re very special” and “we love you.” But 2 + 2 sometimes equals 5, right?
By Michael Leddy at 12:48 PM comments: 0
The Van Gelder Studio, coming back.
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By Michael Leddy at 8:16 AM comments: 0
Timothy Snyder, on “Self-Rule and Survival”:
Thanks to Ukrainian resistance, we have all been given a chance to think, with at least some hope, about the future of democracy. Thanks to the January 6 hearings, Americans have been given a chance to think about the choice they can make to preserve our republic. It would be a very good thing if, in our midterm elections of 2022, we voted only for candidates who denounce the big lie that Trump won the 2020 election. Beyond that, it is important for all of us, these next two years, to make clear what we stand for. A second coup is being planned in America. Like the first one it will fail if it is attempted — but it will fail in a different way, by breaking the country apart. America will not survive without self-rule, and I fear it is unlikely to survive a second attempt to take it away.Other posts quoting Timothy Snyder
By Michael Leddy at 8:14 AM comments: 0
I took a look at 52nd Street and found the Onyx Club and the Famous Door, fabled names in jazz.
[The Onyx Club, 62 West 52nd Street, c. 1939–1941.]
[The Famous Door, 66 West 52nd Street, c. 1939–1941.]
[Both clubs, c. 1939–1941. All photographs from the NYC Municipal Archives Collections.]
The name on the Onyx Club’s marquee: Kenny Watts. Patrick Burke‘s Come In and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008) notes that the Onyx Club closed in December 1939 after being picketed as unfair to union musicians,
both because the club had failed to pay union members adequately and because it was currently featuring Kenny Watts and his Kilowatts, “a non-union combination.” In September 1940, the union picketed the Swing Club at 35 West 52nd, and in October the Famous Door appeared on the “Unfair List of Local 802.” Although their recourse to the union could be helpful, it is clear that performing on 52nd Street could be a difficult way for musicians to make a living.At the Famous Door when these photographs were taken: Ella Fitzgerald. That banner (wow) reads “First Lady of Swing.” One side says, I think, “The Tisket A Tasket Girl.” Or is it “Gal”? Fitzgerald would have been in a new role at the Famous Door, fronting a band not long after the death of drummer and bandleader Chick Webb.
By Michael Leddy at 8:59 AM comments: 4
[Star Trek. Shatner front and center.]
“What acting.”
“What acting?”
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By Michael Leddy at 10:50 PM comments: 7