Roger Stone now directly attacking the federal judge presiding over his case and posting a pic of her head beside crosshairs

“Come for one, face us ALL!”

Immigrants, Muslim, Black and LGBTQ folks, and white allies standing united outside the White House and Trump’s #FakeNationalEmergency.

Our solidarity is #HeretoStay.

As the only two series from the TV arm of the comic giant still left on the streamer, there will be no Season 3 of the Jon Bernthal led vigilante series, I’ve learned. The completed third season of the Krysten Ritter starring Jessica Jones will still appear on the streamer but will be put on ice for good after that.

This marks the end of the multi-series, big bucks and big ambitions relationship between Marvel and Netflix that started in 2013 with the announcement of four series and a The Defenders limited series.

“Marvel’s The Punisher will not return for a third season on Netflix,” Netflix confirmed today to Deadline. “Showrunner Steve Lightfoot, the terrific crew, and exceptional cast including star Jon Bernthal, delivered an acclaimed and compelling series for fans, and we are proud to showcase their work on Netflix for years to come,” the streamer added.

“In addition, in reviewing our Marvel programming, we have decided that the upcoming third season will also be the final season for Marvel’s Jessica Jones,” Netflix also made official this President’s Day. “We are grateful to showrunner Melissa Rosenberg, star Krysten Ritter and the entire cast and crew, for three incredible seasons of this groundbreaking series, which was recognized by the Peabody Awards among many others”.

https://deadline.com/2019/02/the-punisher-jessica-jones-canceled-netflix-marvel-krysten-ritter-jon-bernthal-1202535835/

He’s not an institutionalist. He’s the man who surrendered the Senate to the president.



Among the casualties of President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to build his border wall is the reputation of the majority leader Mitch McConnell as a Senate institutionalist. The evidence of the last few days has confirmed, if there were still any doubt, that he is no such thing.

First, he helped prolong the longest government shutdown in American history by insisting that the Senate would act only with explicit approval from the president. Now Mr. McConnell has fully acquiesced in President Trump’s power grab by supporting an emergency declaration, which he opposed just weeks before, aimed at addressing a crisis that Senate Republicans know does not exist.

This display of obedience from the leader of a supposedly coequal branch of government is shocking only if you ever believed Mr. McConnell was an institutionalist. But his defining characteristic has always been his willingness to do anything and sacrifice any principle to amass power for himself. What separates him from the garden-variety politicians — what makes him a radical — are the lengths he is willing to go. Seeing this with clarity should help us grasp the danger to which he is subjecting the Senate — and, more important, our democracy.

The signs of Mr. McConnell’s malign influence were always there. Before he became a Senate leader, he dedicated himself to opening the floodgates for corporate money to flow into our political system. Mr. McConnell chased the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law all the way to the Supreme Court; the 2003 challenge to the law bears his name. Mr. McConnell lost that one, but his cause prevailed six years later when the Supreme Court overturned restrictions on corporate contributions in Citizens United.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/opinion/mitch-mcconnell-trump-emergency.html

SARAH SANDERS: It was out of respect for our President that world leaders observed a moment of silence during Vice President Pence’s speech in Munich.

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Have you ever wondered what goes on in those school shooter trainings your child’s teacher is required to undergo?

…as it turns out, I took extensive ethnographic field notes of the one I did.

Want to know some of what's in them?
The start of the day:

Our principal made a big show of welcoming the officers to the building, laughing & greeted them by their names like they were old friends.

We had never seen them before. And the officers never introduced themselves to the group, never told us their names
The whole thing turned out to be facilitated by an LLC run by former law enforcement who perceived a business opportunity in the private sector.

From the sterling client roster they rattled off at the beginning of the session, there’s $$$ to be made
Reinforcing this perception: we were forced to sign waivers absolving the company of any responsibility for any & all harm we might experience during the scenarios.

A fellow teacher looks uncomfortable: “I didn’t expect we’d be at any risk,” he says quietly.

He still signs
The day was dedicated to normalizing.

The officer told us, “Citizen preparation for danger is nothing new. We’ve been doing these for years: fire drills, earthquakes, tornadoes.”

She paused in a practiced way & said, “As teachers, you guys are really the first responders”
The intro talk had almost no sociological data, no research from psychology, no real information at all.

Instead, each powerpoint slide was riddled with acronyms:

4E: “Educate, Engage, Escape, Evade.”
RP: “Rally Point”
RUP: “ReUnification Point”
One slide had a toolbox with 4 golden Es in the lid & the text: “Not a single solution approach. Flexible. Use what you believe works. Tools for your toolbox”

The slides weren’t just cheesy – they were designed to cut off critical thinking. Substantive Qs were "unprofessional"
They showed us a surreal video of shootings, all set to an instrumental version of “Say Something I’m Giving Up On You.”

Gradually building synth chords:

🎶“I’m sorry that I couldn’t get to you"🎶
🎶“You’re the one I love and I’m saying goodbye”🎶

Faces of victims fade out
We get divided into groups. My group goes into a classroom and is told to wait, that there will be a scenario of some kind starting soon.

A colleague whispers to me, “We’re just sitting here waiting to get shot at.”

She looks ashen, wants to start prepping the classroom now
We hear them shoot blanks in the hallway. The gun sounds like a really bad prop for a school play.

People spring into action, trying to push tables against the door.

But nobody shut the door first, & it’s left open
A brief debrief in which the officer repeatedly emphasizes there are no wrong answers, it's just completely up to us, the important thing is to do something.

As she leaves, she adds, "You did good!”

A teacher says quietly, “It didn’t feel like it.”
Then comes the “engage” scenario where an intruder gets into the room with a gun.

My colleagues throw blue tennis balls at him, dancing around the classroom like they’re doing a basketball drill.

"Keep your feet moving, keep moving around the room!" we were coached
In the debrief for that one I realized: my colleagues think they’re being taught how to survive.

They don’t know this technique is intended to slow down our deaths, to give law enforcement more time to respond
It’s between scenarios that convos happen.

“All I know is, if they come in the kitchen then we can throw knives,” says a cook.

A teacher points at a bottle of bleach in the corner of the science lab, says we could use that chemical to burn them.

(Against an assault rifle?!?)
Another scenario. The officers start having this conversation that feels fake to me. Sure enough, suddenly one pulls out a gun, points it.

Teachers throw tennis balls at him & then time is called.

“We just wanted to show you how fast someone can pull a gun on you” they explain
So, so much gets normalized.

We’re in a room, waiting for a scenario to start when we hear more gunshots.

They sound more faraway than usual.

(Note: there is now a “usual.”)

“Is that us? I think it’s the classroom downstairs.”

We don’t react
There was a CYA first aid bit at the end. No training on what to do, just you got a card with “your” victim & had to say verbally what you might do.

There was a lot of vague talk about amputating legs. How any of tht was supposed to prevent someone frm bleeding out, I don't know
The end: the principal sweeps into the room, leads an ovation. Trills off some platitudes about how it’s just SO good that now we’re “knowing what the options are”

And - despite her own lack of participation or even observation - she gushes abt how “reassuring” she found the day
So look, that’s really what the training was about IMHO: appearances.

Because that’s pretty much what we have when we refuse to enact meaningful gun control legislation.

It’s a theatre-prop gun when we’re talking about automatic rifles.
Maybe it’s different at other schools, I don’t know.

Maybe there’s a way to do it better. (There surely has to be.)

But we shouldn’t accept the easy normalization of this idea that a school shooting is somehow the same as a fire, earthquake, or tornado.
And we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the only reason schools are doing it at all is because we’re so desperate to try to make some difference, any difference.

We subject children to the lesser trauma of drills, hoping it will prevent the greater trauma of death.
But honestly?

These school shooter trainings seem like what you’d get if you translated thoughts and prayers into a ritual sacrifice for teachers & students to enact periodically throughout the year.
No matter how much this is normalized, it’s not normal.

And the sad resignation that so many seem to adopt as the “mature” response? Doesn’t seem fitting if we're supposed to be the adults in the room

/fin

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