Good morning. Palm Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 57. Sunrise is 6:19 AM and sunset 7:32 PM for 13h 12m 20s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 62.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 837, Halley’s Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at…
Insurrection
Daily Bread, Fellow Traveler, Foreign Affairs, Insurrection, Liberal Democracy, Never Trump, Putin, Sedition, Trumpism
Daily Bread for 2.16.22: Of Putin and Threats Closer to Home
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 48. Sunrise is 6:48 AM and sunset 5:28 PM for 10h 39m 43s of daytime. The moon is full with 100% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1960, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut,…
Daily Bread, History, Insurrection, Liberal Democracy, Never Trump, Politics, Sedition, Trumpism, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 2.15.22: For the Trumpists, It’s Not One Thing, But Many Things
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 35. Sunrise is 6:50 AM and sunset 5:27 PM for 10h 36m 59s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 98.9% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Alcohol Licensing Committee meets at 6:15 PM, and Common Council at 6:30 PM. On…
Crime, Daily Bread, Insurrection, Law, Politics, Sedition, Trump, Trumpism
Daily Bread for 2.5.22: He’d Give Them Pardons
by JOHN ADAMS •
City, Crime, Daily Bread, Insurrection, Law, Local Government, Politics, Trump, Trumpism
Daily Bread for 1.30.22: Trump Teases Pardons for Insurrectionists and Rioters
by JOHN ADAMS •
Crime, Daily Bread, Insurrection, Trump, Trumpism
Daily Bread for 1.6.22: The Trumpist Insurrection, One Year On
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 14. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:37 PM for 9h 11m 55s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 18.7% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM, and the Whitewater Fire Department holds a board and…
Daily Bread, Insurrection
Daily Bread for 12.26.21: Protecting the Capitol One Year After January 6
by JOHN ADAMS •
City, Constitution, Daily Bread, Education, Ethics, History, Insurrection, Politics, Right-wing Populism, School District, Trumpism
Daily Bread for 10.4.21: The Basis of a Civics Syllabus for Whitewater’s Schools
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 68. Sunrise is 6:56 AM and sunset 6:29 PM for 11h 32m 49s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 5.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1957, Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the…
America, Crime, Insurrection, Justice, Law, Sen. Ron Johnson
Country Over Party
by JOHN ADAMS •
America, Crime, Documentary, History, Insurrection
Inside the January 6th Capitol Riot
by JOHN ADAMS •
Over the last year, Trumpism has advanced three grand lies: against the significance of the pandemic, against Biden’s clear win in the presidential election, and against the fact of a violent insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th. In response to that third lie – that there was no violent insurrection – there is ample…
Business, Insurrection, Politics
The Sedition Caucus Gets Paid
by JOHN ADAMS •
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) reports This sedition is brought to you by… In the wake of the Capitol insurrection on January 6th, nearly two hundred corporations and industry groups said they would pause or altogether stop making political contributions to the 147 members of Congress who voted against certifying the election and…
Documentary, Film, Insurrection
Frontline: American Insurrection
by JOHN ADAMS •
Congress, Conspiracy Theories, Disinformation, Insurrection, Sen. Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson Reads Lies about the Capitol Riot
by JOHN ADAMS •
In for a penny, in for a pound: Sen. Ron Johnson hopes someone will believe that the rioters who marched from a Trump rally to the Capitol on 1.6 weren’t Trump supporters at all. (Most likely, he does not expect rational people to believe this; he hopes to soothe the feelings of the irrational faction…
Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, Crime, Disinformation, Fellow Traveler, Insurrection, Politics, Sen. Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson: ‘No Enemies to the Right’?
by JOHN ADAMS •
During an interview yesterday, Sen. Ron Johnson declared of the Capitol riot that ‘this didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me.’ Tim Elfrink reports that As a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol last month, rioters battered police with a multitude of weapons: metal flagpoles, baseball bats, wrenches and clubs. Many soaked police in caustic…