A video coherent argument about a worldview that is perverted, under the argument. View it, and note how coherent the presentation is, and how the ideas, call them that, which she critiques are not on solid ground. There is the biblical myth about feet of clay, and she's looking at feet in her commentary.

Heather Cox Richardson on would-be dictatorship musings spoken boldly in a quite pubic place.

It seems her historical factual assertions are not open to sensible debate. She recites how a world order was conceived after a devastation worldwide by war - one fought then with weapons well beyond those available to nations now, vs then.

Her underlying premise is giving up the world order in place is a bad idea unless done as an improvement, and whether that or backsliding is a question of looking at today and judging.

Her quotations from Trump's speech before the UN, are on record, there can be no debate over the words he spoke. They are all over the Internet, in video, and transcription is easy to show HCR nails the exact words Trump used. 

The HCR analysis hangs together to where everyone should hear and see it through, and then think it over. To Crabgrass, no problem saying, "She nails it," but others might see grounds to argue she's wrong.

 

 

The Minnesota Health Plan = Download the "book." For readers in Minnesota, it's what we need without being yet entitled to federal Medicare for All. For others it informs how one State's Dem Party insiders envision a sound plan and sound legislation implementing that plan. Arguably, a cookbook for other States wanting healthcare financing reform. (Fixing how health industry providers may overcome detailed counterproductive bottlenecks and practices is its own separate push of a big, big, separate rock uphill.)

 

The 148p item: https://mnhealthplan.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Healing-Health-Care.pdf 

Proposed legislation - the actual bills: https://www.hca-mn.org/legislation/  linking to here to search bill text and history from the legislation ID links on the identified web page. Bill lead authors are identified, and are known to Crabgrass to be top rate excellent. As people and as active minds.

There is nothing like getting down in the weeds for anyone advocating health care policy, here and abroad. 

Those above links permit it. Other site items -

FAQ - https://www.hca-mn.org/single-payer/ 

An Intro page -https://www.hca-mn.org/#about-us  

This is a well constructed website, well thought out and well presented. It is worth whatever time a reader invests in study.. 

Crabgrass grades it A+ 

If you believe you have identified further thinking beyond that of the website creators, the site footer has a contact form. The bet is it covers all you think necessary. 

 

Why do Republicans push the trans issue as if it is earth-moving in scope and effect? What other issue outlooks of more major imporatance are they hiding from? The war, inflation, Trump grift, and hold that a minute, some woman looks a bit masculine and what not?

ESPN broadcast addresses ‘incredibly thoughtful’ Cheryl Reeve comments on transgender athletes

 https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/espn-broadcast-addresses-incredibly-thoughtful-234841820.html 

During Sunday's WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and Minnesota Lynx, the ESPN on ABC broadcast addressed recent comments made by Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve regarding transgender athletes. The broadcast also showed video of Reeve meeting with Indiana's Sophie Cunningham on the court pregame about the topic, and noted Reeve wearing a"Trans Kids Belong" shirt during the game.

"Well, we see Cheryl Reeve wearing a shirt today in support of trans kids," ESPN on ABC play-by-play announcer Ryan Ruocco said. "'Trans Kids Belong' on the shirt. This in the aftermath of Sophie Cunningham's recent comments. We actually saw Cheryl and Sophie speaking at center court pregame. And yesterday, Cheryl Reeve spent a lot of time talking at length with the media about this topic."

"I would encourage anyone to go and listen to Cheryl Reeve's comments," color commentator Rebecca Lobo said. "Incredibly thoughtful. Easy to find online. I would just encourage anyone to go and listen."

Cunningham told ESPN in a profile that was published on July 21, "I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I'm like, 'I never once said that.' I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men."

Since then, anti-trans rallies have appeared outside of arenas ahead of WNBA games in support of Cunningham's comments.

Reeve met with the media on Saturday and was asked about another rally that proceeded to happen on Sunday around Target Center in support of Cunningham's comments about transgender participation in women's sports.

"I don't think we should feel like our safe space is being threatened," Reeve told the media. "That's what I enjoy about the WNBA. And I think we have to continue to safeguard that I don't think these demonstrators are not being peaceful, or not that I've seen. I haven't seen all of it. I haven't heard everything that's happening, but everyone has a right to peacefully assemble, right?"

"I think the commissioner and the league have a responsibility to ensure that any topic that could be problematic for players- what they perceive to be unsafe or threatened in any way or discriminated against- I think that's something that's fair for our leadership. And I'm quite sure that they have eyes on and ears on to make sure that it's a safe space for everyone. And that's what makes our league beautiful.

"I come from a space of inclusion. And the narrative that I think that is problematic is to suggest that, number one, that transgender athletes are the biggest problem in women's sports. And I think this is what's bothersome is that there's a faction of people in our country that are making this a massive issue."

"We have some issues," Reeve added. "Number one, we need to protect trans kids. Every kid— to me, it's a human rights issue. Every kid has a right to sports regardless of gender diversity, transgender. Every kid has the right to access.

 That should not even need to have to be said. Protect the kids. Quell bullying of any behavior deemed questionable by a fraction of people, gays, progressives, whoever, but trans is a phony issue. Easy to emote to a level well beyond any actual number of affected individuals as a fraction of the general divers U.S. of A. total polpulation. It is not even thought of as a relevant census item, or am I wrong. I believe not. It might be. But don't overload shade onto vulnerable young people who are wrestling with identity issues - that as an absolute general observation. Help don't demonize. Understand before judging.

That seems a fair context to report: https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/micheletafoya-wnba-transgenderathletes/2026/08/10/id/1265633/ titled, Michele Tafoya to Newsmax: WNBA 'Wishy-Washy' on Trans Athletes Read it. Think it over.

Beyond saying Crabgrass regards that as an outlook lacking charitable views of fellow humans, and not a well thought-out and defensible position on a marginal issue when much larger national needs should be honestly faced and discussed.

The item is there, the earlier item from those within women's athletics is background. Readers decide, which side of that minor though elevated personal decision making issue you feel most solid. 

But do be aware of the poisonous reporting out there trying to gin up hate against a near miniscule part of national population, for the point that hate might get votes. This and this, one citing the other, are both abominable. The very choice of lead imaging shows a bias which any sensitive person can see without reading a line of the garbage. The stridency is insufferable. Badly done propaganda is worse than no propaganda, and these two hate screeds are bad.

And Crabgrass bias toward Flanagan as the clearly better progressive capable of going to the Senate and pushing for reform, is known already among readers, but stated again in fairness.

Why the fuck can't Tafoya address money in politics, as more important than a person's surgical decisions?. Because she depends upon money in politics, possibly, but voters should ask and expect her to honestly answer that one instead of beating up on trans people, who have enough other suffering in life.

Beating up on any minority is Steven Millerish, and should be avoided in civil disucssion. And, yes, opinions do differ. 

That noted, ICE shooting an Austin Hispanic attempting to flee, is that bigger an issue than trans people? You decide.

UPDATE: It is worth mention, that Newsmax bit, Tafoya again lies about "nine billion in fraud" while the report is about her flogging the trans issue, they insert that "fraud" business into their lead video. Then they flog the urban-rural divide cliche. She talks cleanly, as a style she is well spoken and practiced, but says shit.

Opinions differ. "Lefeward lurch with socialism" she says; come on, socialism is a subjective thing, so examine it on relative merits of income distribution leveling vs status quo, and choose in your mind which, Tafoya or Flanagan will have the better motivation to level the playing field. Tafoya the millionaire, or Flanagan, the experienced governing person of the two - and a self defined progressive saying unambiguouly she'd level the playing field as much as possible, as soon as possible. Is it unclear?

Has Tafoya ever faced "paycheck to paycheck" with a solution? It's not even in her vocabulatory.

FURTHER: What Tafoya is doing is following completly the national Republican script of false hot button issue-focus and avoiding reality, which suggests most strongly that if elected she'd be a total rubber stamp for Trump. 

If that's considered desirable in your world view, support the lady. 

That might be the most direct response to her well-spoken basically content-free $9 billion lie campaigning style. Style over truth in scale and substance. She does it fairly well.

HOWEVER -- Fraud and trans and misdirect with glib style, and become a United States Senator? 

Please no. Require more. Vote informed and smart. And early.

And any reader outside of the U.S., consider this a poster child situation of politics of a nation under Trump, and wait to see what happens, and what that tells you. There are some reading Crabgrass in other nations, and you observe and conclude as best as you read before and after. Which we do here also. 

Minnesota Senate race is favoring Peggy Flanagan as Tafoya seemingly fades.

https://www.pollsmax.com/senate/minnesota/ 

Polling with around 40 days left, if trending, is not good news for the former sideline football personality. However, trust in polling should be leveraged with some sense of how GOTV will be, both parties.

GOTV is now being door knocked and in mailings, with apparent TV advertising also at play

The early voting period has begun, and AJ reports: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/18/early-in-person-voting-begins-in-the-2026-us-midterm-elections-in-virginia  -- trust in going to early voting sites gaining over choosing mail-in balloting. Given how Trump is doing all he can to poison post office protocol to discourage trust in his mail management pre-election, it's an expected outcome. 

 Crabgrass did not attempt to research any polling or other subjective indicia of early voting vs mail balloting preference,  (or waiting to see election day weather), and the AJ item was encountered off an earlier site homepage rather than being researched.

 

Timmer posts again about Lisa Demuth voicing chapter and verse of Republican erroroneous views of what an education is, and how education policy should differ [little] from what the educated professionals in the field. teachers mainly, say about "what's it is all about."

 [NOTE A MISWRITTING IN THE HEADLINE WAS SEEN AND CORRECTED - "Little" being inserted. There are local fiscal and other unique constraints, so something such as class size, unfortunately, may sometimes end up compromised beyond an ideal level. It happens, re class size, far too frequently. Also, sometimes a fad can swell and ebb, even among the best studied professional educators. There is room for narrow debate, but not for a wholesale missing of the fundamental point of why pubic education exists by law.]

 https://left.mn/2026/09/no-tears-for-lisa/ with a right sidebar of links to earlier posting at left.mn related to this item.

 Of interest, Timmer writes -

It is also a serious misapprehension of the role of a public education, which is not to merely to create worker bees, but to make thinking citizens. It apparently made a thinking citizen out of Lisa Démuth’s daughter. Thank goodness.

The Minnesota Constitution does not require that the state build roads or protect public safety, or do anything else, other than this:

The stability of a republican form of government depending mainly upon the intelligence of the people, it is the duty of the legislature to establish a general and uniform system of public schools. The legislature shall make such provisions by taxation or otherwise as will secure a thorough and efficient system of public schools throughout the state.

That’s Article XIII, Section 1 of the Minnesota Constitution. “Republican” here, by the way, is derived from res publica, or “of the people.”

In other words, the state must educate people to be active participants in their democratic republic. It is our Constitution’s Prime Directive.

That worker bees vs thinking citizens (the activists - active educated participants - in the representative government Minnesota functions under, even if their only activism is filling out a ballot after informing themselves of the issues and people on the ballot). AND - for the context of that above quote, Timmer earlier mentioned facts about Demuth -

In a recent presser, Démuth said she wanted to trim the state’s free school meal plan to means-test it but adopt a voucher and private school aid plan. She said well-off kids shouldn’t get free lunches. She apparently wants to return to the thrilling days of yesteryear when poor kids got a special funny-colored lunch ticket and got a peanut butter sandwich instead of what everybody else was eating. And their parents got dunned for a deficit in the school lunch account. It was an early lesson in second class citizenship, a concept that Lisa apparently champions.

In spite of her hard scrabble childhood.

Her means-tested sorting inevitably leads to ostracizing the poor kids. I know this from observation sixty-five years ago.

On the other hand, voucher and private school subsidies go mostly to students and parents who already send their kids to private schools. Rich kids. Not benefiting public schools, but harming them.

This transfer of wealth from taxpayers to the wealthy dwarfs the transfer of wealth from the school lunch program, but it’s great optics for the Lisas and Ryans of the world. It is also a great diversion.

In the same presser, Démuth remarks:

Demuth’s plan also includes changes to the state’s teacher licensing board to ensure the board is working to “prepare the next generation of workers and not the next generation of activists,” referring to conservative assertions that the schools are being used to indoctrinate Minnesota students in progressive politics.

This echoes an often misunderstood reason there is public education, which is to uniformly prepare youth for citizenship participation beyond rote nonsense. It is not to condition youth for an adult life punching a time clock, showing up, doing the job, and obeying the boss. That they learn from their parents or the real world in entering it, and shitty jobs like that are prevalent but often come with a health plan and living wage, (often not).

It is as if the Demuth mind is "Education" is to condition maleable clay into show up every day, do the job (including homework), and obey the boss (a/k/a teacher) in the Demuth model.

That's psychological conditioning not learning, a human equivalent to Pavlov's dogs hearing a bell while being fed, and often enough, they are conditioned to salivate when the bell rings, food or not.

Demuth, in whatever family business she's in, would like the worker bees to be diligent and timid about seeking a raise or organizing into a union, or it seems that may be the case. It is not the ends public education is Constitutionally thought to serve best. It is to encourage skeptical regard for authoritarian figures who might wrongly represent themselves and have ideas of power in their hands which might threaten liberties the founders valued in the electorate choosing leadership people. The ability to spot misdirection and bad policy, in favor of cleaner direction and sounder policy. And to participate rather than ignore how they are governed.

The misunderstanding is common among those who may have been Pavloved during their grade school years and later, by bad educator personnel. Or at home by misunderstanding parents, early in life before any schooling at all.

In a trenchent description, worker bees and thinking citizens being at issue, Timmer sums it all up very tightly, exposing a faulty premise underlying Demuth's misunderstanding of aims. 

She touts being on a school board, while thinking as she does, and there is danger there.

Musically, this.  

 

 

After ICE wounds a Door Dash driver making a delivery, in Austin TX, an official press conference was held, the Austin mayor speaking first, with the video speaking for itself in terms of ICE being unwelcome in the community.

 [UPDATE: Per AP carried by PiPress, "Austin Mayor Kirk Watson, a Democrat, said Sunday he wants local police to have a role in investigating the shooting. Watson said it wouldn’t be appropriate for ICE to investigate on its own." Identifying the mayor who led a press conference by name and party.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIaZNGpF66g  -- the actual press conference begins at 5:35 in the item. The mayor speaking first. In this video the mayor's name is not identified, and Crabgrass lets it go at that. We have his position representing the city.

The U.S. House Rep for the area, Greg Casar, head of the House Progressive Caucus also speaks.

ICE is very unwelcome in the place and the press conference indicates the city would like a prompt exit.

It is the same situation Minneapolis faced, except here two Minnesotans werre gunned down dead in two separate incidents, a third one shot through the house door, and one ICE thug being prosecuted for lying about shooting through the door of a house in that third incident, saying he was attacked with a snow shovel while that was untrue, and he wounding a person who'd been chased into the home by ICE. All three had video evidence.

In Austin, details are as yet unavailable. But the community wants the assholes out. That's crystal clear.

It appears no definitive citizen recorded video of the Austin TX incident exists, although body cam footage, if any, has not been released by ICE.

There are online outlets broadcasting about resulting citizen protest and outrage against ICE as a result of the wounding. The person wounded was treated at a hospital then released to ICE custody.

There is some video online of immediately after the wounding, the victim being taken into ICE custody. On the ground just outside the delivery vehicle, in a handcuffing position. The link was not saved by Crabgrass, however.

 

 

It all fits together, when explained to you by those who know.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiuQhD27Cfc

After that, any questions?

I have a kind of question, it relates to "change." In particular, how this evolved into that. Explain it please. 

Besides a change event, there is Chomsky and writing of manufacturing consent. Which matters? I think so.