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Fifth Thursday GNR: No Indictments This Week, But... [1]

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Date: 2023-03-30

Repellent Wrong-Wingers Revel in Revoltingness, Rush Rabidly to Ruin

Just a moment. We need some springtime cheering up first.

Happy Planting - Korean Hammered Dulcimer Duet 朝鲜扬琴二重奏《欢乐的插秧》(titles and narration in Chinese)

扬琴 means “foreign instrument”, in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese.

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OK, then.

TFG Dog Whistled a physical attack on NY DA Alvin Bragg with a baseball bat in side-by-side photos, hoping for Implausible Deniability. Nope.

The Georgia legislature is trying to ram through a bill that would let the Governor fire any DA for any reason, although they pretend that it is to keep them from going off the rails.

DoJ Special Counsel Jack Smith, a seasoned war crimes prosecutor, has been ramping up the subpoenas, and winning over and over again in court to require the objects of those subpoenas to show up and testify truthfully.

Trump, Pence urge judge to reject special counsel bid to obtain former VP’s testimony

Haha, no.

Sources: Special counsel claims Trump deliberately misled his attorneys about classified documents, judge wrote

Judge approves ‘crime fraud exception’ in special counsel probe of Trump classified documents

When you see him coming, it’s too late.

x My D.C. sources are telling me that @USSupremeCourt's Justice Thomas's wife @Ginni_Thomas could be receiving a subpoena from one Mr. Jack Smith any day now! @GOP, #MAGA. pic.twitter.com/sJrnJnK5gS — Anthony W. Walker (Tone) (@awwalk) March 29, 2023

Woo+!

Maybe.

In honor of this previously-seeming impossibility, I offer this traditional catalog of impossibilities that happen constantly.

Scarborough Fair | Pure Hammered Dulcimer | Joshua Messick

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Note the passages combining struck and plucked notes.

Rachel Maddow was grieving on air on Monday about people who survived mass shootings, and now are reporters and news anchors trying to hold themselves together while telling us about more of them. One TV reporter’s main source was her daughter, in hiding inside a school with an active shooter.

Prevalence of mass shootings extends reach of gun violence across communities

Also the very few people who have been in or near TWO mass shootings, which the iron laws of probability warn us is going to become increasingly common, right up until we do something about it all.

Last Night’s Horrible Headlines

Bad news that is sometimes sort of good.

Idaho law could criminalize helping minors get abortions The plan is to create a new crime to be called “abortion trafficking”, requiring minors wanting to travel out of state or get abortion medication for abortions to get parental consent. But what if a girl has been raped by her father or legal guardian? Chris Hayes wanted to know. This kind of interference with interstate travel has not been seen since the worst days of the Fugitive Slave Act, which let to the total destruction of the Whig Party, and the creation of the Republicans. I cannot cover all of the bills proposing to outlaw abortions in various draconian and heartless and science-denying ways, but there are various organizations that do. Then there is the silver lining. The Cut: Abortion Wins Elections The fight to make reproductive rights the centerpiece of the Democratic Party’s 2024 agenda. Chris continued, Targeting [minors] brings this right up to the line of an obvious and flagrant assault on the Union. But remember, tactics that go just up to the line are the approach of the anti-abortion rights movement, right before they step over it. Media Matters: New details in Dominion suit reveal damning evidence of deception in Fox News' 2020 election coverage Media Matters has obtained a slide deck used at a March 21 hearing in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News. NBC News got the deck yesterday. We now have a previously redacted e-mail from Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott which is far more damning than the cover-up admitted. She was reacting to a fact check of TFG’s bogus claims of election rigging. Subject: Re: Fox News’ Eric Shawn Fact-Checks Trump ‘Dump’ Claims This has to stop now. This is bad business, and there clearly is a lack of undestanding what is happening in these shows. The audience is furious, and we are just feeding them material. Bad for business. Chris Hayes commented Believe me, there is much more where that came from. We could easily take half the show unpacking it. So much more, that you will have to read about it somewhere else. The anchors, staff, lawyers, Murdoch, Lindell… Another e-mail from Scott: The audience feels like we crapped on and we have damaged their trust and belief in us. Ya think? New military abortion policies allow for travel expenses, up to 3 weeks of leave Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama is personally holding up 160 DoD promotions that normally pass in groups by unanimous consent over this policy. This will have ripple effects on readiness throughout all of the services. DoD predicts that 650 more general and flag officers will need promotions this year. Tuberville explains: As of twelve days ago, y’all got the American taxpayer on the hook to pay for travel and time off, for elective abortions. And you did not make this with anybody in this room [a Senate hearing room] where Congress takes a vote. I’m not going to let our military be politicized. 👆👆😂😂👆👆 Sen. Tuberville undermines U.S. military readiness with anti-abortion political stunt x x YouTube Video Bernie UNLOADS On Starbucks Founder Howard Schultz At Senate Hearing x x YouTube Video Sen. Bernie Sanders held nothing back. "Over the past 18 months, Starbucks has waged the most aggressive and illegal union-busting camping in the modern history of our country," Sanders said. "That union busting campaign has been led by Howard Schultz, the multi-billionaire founder and director of Starbucks who is with us this morning only under the threat of subpoena." Later, Sanders pressed Schultz: "Have you ever threatened, coerced, or intimidated a worker for supporting a union?" Schultz wouldn't answer no. "I've had conversations that could’ve been interpreted in a different way than I intended..."

x Never forget who @GovBillLee’s real constituents are. Will he attend the funerals of these children? #CovenantSchool #HowManyMore pic.twitter.com/WPkKEIhk9y — The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 28, 2023

Democrats are denouncing Republicans in Congress as cowards. Sorry, no room for the whole story this morning. You will want to see Rep. Jamaal Bowman, formerly a middle-school principal, take some of them on.

I cannot reproduce all of the Bad News about Bad Boy Wrong-Winger pedophiles and other criminals getting arrested, indicted, and convicted that I have seen and passed on elsewhere recently. Their prevalence, and the lack of an equivalent among the more woke political cohorts, has been widely noted. You especially do not see drag queens done for pedophilia.

I have not seen any unseemly cackling about the latest shooter in Nashville, apparently a trans person targeting an abusive Christian private school that hse [sic] was forced to attend.

Nashville mass shooter appears to have been transgender

More information is coming out about the shooter’s interactions with others. Sorry, you’ll have to read about that elsewhere, too.

x Great responses!! Something else they dance around and refuse to acknowledge, is that THIS is where the VAST majority of "groomers" and pedophiles are found. And not a SINGLE one is a "drag queen"... 🤔#NotADragQueen pic.twitter.com/GrEoubD2Gg — Dark Damian (@CSavin101063) March 28, 2023

x Guns!!!



Not drag queens, transgender, CRT, or anything else that the racist republicans keep trying to push. https://t.co/CreptEdBdA — K_baby (@Kbaby313404) March 28, 2023

Trump touts Twitter poll from '@catturd2' showing him with a big lead over Ron DeSantis

Rachel Maddow reveled in this ultimate fake news story last Monday.

🐈🐈🐈🐈 18% DeSantis

💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 69% TFG

No, I wasn’t the one making that up.

Also former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testifying to the New York grand jury.

AMI removed Pecker as CEO in August 2020, keeping him on in the role of executive advisor. Simultaneously, the company was renamed a360Media in anticipation of a merger with another Chatham property, the logistics firm Accelerate 360.[19]

Palate Cleanser, with a Side of Brain Bleach

Cimbalom (hammered dulcimer) Performance by Georgia @ Stockholm

Yes, one can play any kind of music on a hammered dulcimer. Not just anyone can do it like this, however.

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Regular Good News

Only a week of voting left until we can get Judge Janet in Wisconsin! Just in time to defend us against this:

Republicans propose bill to bar state employees from promoting or providing abortions

The “Taxpayer Abortion Subsidy Prevention” bill is meant to continue severing ties between taxpayer dollars and abortion services, according to the co-sponsorship memo being circulated by authors Sen. André Jacque (R-DePere) and Rep. Elijah Behnke (R-Oconto). It comes as debate continues between Wisconsin Republicans and Democrats over whether and how to amend the state’s 1849 ban, which only includes an exception for the life of the mother. “We will be introducing legislation to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not utilized to subsidize abortions, either through the use of public employees or public facilities,” the co-sponsorship memo states.

x First batch of awesome neighbor’s #PostcardsToVoters headed to WI for @janetforjustice and moving WI forward April 4! She doesn’t hold back! Final push to write, text JOIN to 484-275-2229 and get to the mailbox! pic.twitter.com/EgLBylI64O — Natasharts 🌻🇺🇦☮️ 💙🌊 (@natasharts) March 27, 2023

NYT (Paywalled): Can Nations Be Sued for Weak Climate Action? We’ll Soon Get an Answer.

Vanuatu, a disaster-prone Pacific country, has secured United Nations approval to take that question to the International Court of Justice.

The resolution passed by consensus of all 193 UN members, including all of the biggest polluters. It likely will take 18 months for the ICJ to consider the case. Watch this space.

The following comes out of a week-long trip by VP Kamala Harris and 2nd Mentsh Doug Emhoff, with gleeful children, state dinners, tearful acknowledgements of history, and announcements on democracy, food security, and Global Warming actions. Others in the administration have visited African nations recently, and President Biden is scheduled to visit, too.

x It was my honor to meet with six extraordinary women entrepreneurs in Ghana.



To empower more women like them, I announced $1 billion in public and private sector commitments across the continent of Africa. pic.twitter.com/do4j5jG2Uy — Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) March 29, 2023

Good News Links

We had multiple lists of such links, which I have combined and sorted here. I will put this expanded list into the draft Potluck GNR in the Group queue, where all of our authors will have regular access to it.

Here I present one story from each. That’s a lot of Good News to take in, isn’t it?

Can Produce Prescription Programs Turn the Tide on Diet-Related Disease?

More Hammered Dulcimer Chinese YANGQIN performance—four regional pieces plus modern compositions (Mandarin 揚琴／扬琴 (yángqín), originally written 洋琴. Liiterally "foreign musical instrument".) x YouTube Video

Science! Math! Animals! Weirdness!

We just got the news of new aperiodic tilings by a single “einstein” tile, so I got the paper that gives the constructions and proofs, and I am half way through it. An aperiodic monotile x The "einstein problem" in tiling is a play on the German "ein Stein" - "one stone" - and is a tile that can tessellate space aperiodically. https://t.co/UfBnsScCiD — Peter Suzman (@Biomaven) March 27, 2023 Redshifts > 13, a new record. Hubble got up to a little over 10. The CMBR, from when the universe became transparent, is at 1100, and the Cosmic Neutrino Background at billions, from when what became our visible Universe was only a few lightyears across. We currently have no idea how to detect such low-energy neutrinos.

x The “redshift” of a galaxy enables scientists to deduce the galaxy’s distance and age. The redshift of one galaxy observed by JWST shows that it shed its light 325 million years after the Big Bang, making it the earliest known structure in the universe. https://t.co/0BM3DoETwY pic.twitter.com/ijFRfrODcZ — Quanta Magazine (@QuantaMagazine) March 20, 2023

Standard Model of Cosmology Survives a Telescope’s Surprising Finds

Reports that the James Webb Space Telescope killed the reigning cosmological model turn out to have been exaggerated. But astronomers still have much to learn from distant galaxies glimpsed by Webb. As ever, watch this spacetime.

No, even with warp drive, future explorers are not going to find an M-class planet with humanoid or god-like life once a week.

x [2303.14849] Thermal emission from the Earth-sized exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b using JWST



Conclusion: Stripped of atmosphere.https://t.co/qAkfI82QFF — Qraal (@qraal) March 28, 2023

x #Maddow#wagnertonight

Science break.

Beauty in a dark world.

The European fallow deer is historically native to Turkey and possibly the Italian Peninsula, Balkan Peninsula, and the island of Rhodes in Europe. Very Rare black fallow deer spotted in Baryczy Valley, Poland. pic.twitter.com/xNLlhWdhws — Firecaptain and Jack (@Firecaptain16) March 28, 2023

x CANbridge Pharmaceuticals CAN008 Phase 2 Trial for Treatment of Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) in China Reaches Full Enrollment - https://t.co/BU9tY4RMif

Recent CAN008 Phase 1 Follow-Up Data Showed 67% 5-Year Overall Survival in High-Dose Cohort, Reported at ESMO Sarcoma and Ra... pic.twitter.com/xw5f5Y6R7p — Lou Wallace (@Dw40031913) March 28, 2023

Guzmán M, Duarte MJ, Blázquez C, Ravina J, Rosa MC, Galve-Roperh I, et al. (July 2006). "A pilot clinical study of Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol in patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme". British Journal of Cancer. 95 (2): 197–203. doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6603236. PMC 2360617. PMID 16804518. Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and other cannabinoids inhibit tumour growth and angiogenesis in animal models, so their potential application as antitumoral drugs has been suggested. However, the antitumoral effect of cannabinoids has never been tested in humans. Here we report the first clinical study aimed at assessing cannabinoid antitumoral action, specifically a pilot phase I trial in which nine patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme were administered THC intratumoraly. The patients had previously failed standard therapy (surgery and radiotherapy) and had clear evidence of tumour progression. The primary end point of the study was to determine the safety of intracranial THC administration. We also evaluated THC action on the length of survival and various tumour-cell parameters. A dose escalation regimen for THC administration was assessed. Cannabinoid delivery was safe and could be achieved without overt psychoactive effects. Median survival of the cohort from the beginning of cannabinoid administration was 24 weeks (95% confidence interval: 15–33). Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol inhibited tumour-cell proliferation in vitro and decreased tumour-cell Ki67 immunostaining when administered to two patients. The fair safety profile of THC, together with its possible antiproliferative action on tumour cells reported here and in other studies, may set the basis for future trials aimed at evaluating the potential antitumoral activity of cannabinoids.

Reefer Madness was revealed to be Reefer Derangement Syndrome a long time ago, and has stood in the way of medical research for far too long. Likewise, a wide range of psychedelics.

x "There is an excellent chance several of these treatments will be approved for prescription use within three to five years." https://t.co/SuiGaEkiuM — Psilocybin Science (@ANUmovie) May 2, 2019

Hammered dulcimer! Beautiful instrument. Medieval Times Middle ages. Traditional Music.

Claude Bertand is the instrument maker and performer.

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Funny or Cry

x I used to think this political cartoon was too harsh to post. I changed my mind because it is true. pic.twitter.com/ZIiJmuGdgW — CuriousCheeze (@CuriousCheeze) March 24, 2023

x Graeme Keyes on #Bankcollapse - political cartoon gallery in London https://t.co/dePcTdnXF6 pic.twitter.com/DtEyodZBei — Political Cartoon (@Cartoon4sale) March 20, 2023

Actually, that’s precisely what they did. None of the contents were lost, but stockholders lost everything. There are all-new investors now, and a solid balance sheet with actual money, not just bonds that lost market value when interest rates soared.

Cartoon: The indictment(s) on the way

Hammered dulcimer --- A Galitsianer Tantsel

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Hammered dulcimers come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and tunings, and are played with a wide variety of hammers.

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