The curly-haired philandering ne'er do well

Last October she did release a report on a DNA analysis that was said to show a pure Native American ancestor appeared in her ancestry “in the range of six to 10 generations ago.” 

She appeared at the National Indian Women Honor luncheon a few months ago to support a Native Leader from Massachusetts, who was winning an award, and she got a standing ovation.

She has also been working on legislation with Rep. Deb Haaland (New Mexico), the first Native American woman to serve in Congress that seeks to address funding shortfalls in tribal lands.

Even her critics admit she’s addressed the issue, to an extent, well:

Julian Brave Noisecat, a Native American journalist and activist who has criticized Warren previously, has said: “Based on my conversations with tribal leaders and advocates, the consensus position is that she’s one of the strongest allies of Indian country in Congress. She has good relationships with tribes across the board. And I think that’s relevant.”

Mr. Noisecat also said the ancestry matter had become double-edged: “More than any other Democratic presidential candidate, Ms. Warren has caused the most upset among Native American communities, but has also probably done the most outreach and is more vocal on issues that effect tribal citizens than other presidential candidates.”

María Urbina, the national political director of the progressive group Indivisible, said she and other liberal leaders were encouraged by Ms. Warren’s decision to apologize. Going forward, Ms. Urbina said she expected liberal activists to take their cues from Native leaders on whether Ms. Warren had adequately addressed their concerns.

When I told my long-time partner about the results, she said, “Of course. Everyone knows you have ADHD. We all assumed you knew.”

Well, I didn’t. My doctor didn’t know, either, until I asked him about it and I took the test.

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the flag is an idol in which people literally pledge their allegiance to

patriotic anthems = hymns

the military itself is a treated like a priest class; the “laypeople” are expected to display the utmost respect for their pure existence.

indoctrination of children

displays of patriotism determines how “faithful” the individual is

presence of nationalism at different events (such as sports games, festivals, schools etc…) eerily resembles a theocracy

Disobey!

I couldn’t even pick the funniest sequence from this episode. This is basically its entire plot and it’s gold.

It’s been two years since the Grenfell tower block in north Kensington burned, killing at least 72 people: the blaze revealed deep corruption and indifference among Britain’s richest people and the millionaire Conservative politicians who do their business in Parliament, from the fact that the highly flammable cladding responsible for the blaze was added so that the building would be more attractive to rich people in nearby luxury tower blocks, to the fact that the fire came five years after Tory PM David Cameron declared war on “safety culture” to the fact that Tory politicians (overwhelming landlords themselves) had voted down a bill to require landlords to ensure that the properties they rented were safe and “fit for human habitation”, to the fact that local Tory councillors had deliberately chosen a more fire-prone cladding to save 5.7% on the cost of materials  – the same local government that forced Grenfell survivors to bid against each other for new homes and then paid the same company that installed the flammable cladding to replace it.

We may never know exactly how many other towers are at risk: the Tories say that “IP rights” prevent them from disclosing which blocks failed their housing safety tests, and refuse to disclose which towers are clad in the same materials in Grenfell because otherwise, the terrorists will win (no, seriously).

Meanwhile, the companies involved have paid no meaningful consequences for their role in the Grenfell deaths: Rydon, the contractor had a banner year and handed out whopping pay rises for its execs, and the company that made the cladding continues to insist that the problem could have been solved with a kitchen fire-extinguisher.

People who live in dangerous housing have been in limbo for two years, with no end in sight. After the Tories refused to promise to help (a statement that resulted in Theresa May mobbed by protestors), residents found themselves paying millions to safeguard their homes.

Now, two years later, there are still 24,800 homes clad in the same dangerous materials that made Grenfell a firetrap – 16,400 of them privately owned, 8,400 are social housing – with an estimated 60,000 people living in them. In addition, an untold number of homes are at risk from different cladding materials (the government has yet to completely enumerate a list of unsafe materials that are in use). Only last month, the Tory government allocated £200m to remove cladding from private blocks, in addition to a fund for public blocks.

Tricky “Trixon”!  Crook!