Today is the Day of Remembrance for the Japanese American community. 81 years ago today, when I was just a boy of four, FDR signed Executive Order 9066, setting in motion the evacuation of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast and our long years of internment inside ten barbed wire prison camps.

We must never let such a thing happen again in America, and and we must strive everywhere to prevent the forced relocation and mass incarceration of innocent people. #NeverForget #NeverAgain

The special counsel investigating January 6th has received a letter from Mike Pence indicating that a person named Mother will not permit him to testify.

Mother, who is believed to be Pence’s wife, Karen, was “hopping mad” when he received a subpoena from the special counsel’s office, the letter revealed.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/pence-says-mother-will-not-give-him-permission-to-testify

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene made a scene and disrupted a classified briefing about the spy balloon that traveled over the continental U.S., reported The Hill on Thursday.

“When she got to ask questions, she was yelling out saying ‘bulls---’ and, you know, ‘I don’t believe you,’” said that lawmaker. “Just screaming and yelling, irrational in my estimation.”

https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-balloon/

The CEO-to-worker pay gap at America’s largest public companies is now 399-to-1.

In 1965, the ratio was 20-to-1.

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Hakeem Jeffries:

“The highly partisan vote to remove @Ilhan was not about accountability.

It was about political revenge.

I will move immediately to seat Rep. Omar on the House Budget Committee.

Where she will defend Democratic values against right-wing extremism.”