Memes of the Times

• Sunday (7/21/24) Was Earth’s Hottest Day on Record – Olivia Rosane (Common Dreams, July 24, 2024).

UPDATES:
• Monday Breaks the Record for the Hottest Day Ever on Earth – Sibi Arasu and Seth Borenstein (AP News, July 24, 2024).

• Fossil Fuel Industry Propaganda Blamed as Record Heat Scorches Planet – Jessica Corbett (Common Dreams, August 8, 2024).

• Trump-Style Ear Bandages Are New Trend at Republican National Convention – Reuters (July 18, 2024).

• Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity Ruling and Project 2025 Pave Way for Trump’s Fascist State – Marjorie Cohn (TruthOut, July 18, 2024).

• “It’ll Be Fixed!”: Trump Tells Supporters No Need to Vote in the Future – Edward Carver (Common Dreams, July 27, 2024).

• Biden Drops Out of Presidential Race and Endorses Harris Who Vows to “Earn and Win” Party Nomination – Will Weissert and Aamer Madhani (AP News, July 22, 2024).

• Looking Back, the Democratic Party Rigged the Primary Process for Biden – Dennis Kucinich (The Kucinich Report, July 23, 2024).

• Biden’s Slow Exit Reveals the Flaws in the Democratic Party’s Culture – Norman Solomon (TomDispatch via Common Dreams, July 24, 2024).

• Harris Campaign Enjoys Record-Breaking First Week – Joan McCarter (Daily Kos, July 26, 2024).

• It’s Been Easy to Forget How Bad Kamala Harris Is – Elizabeth Nolan Brown (Reason, July 21, 2024).

• Kamala Harris’ Record Will Haunt Her in November – Rising (July 23, 2024).

• Kamala Harris and the Maddening Siren of U.S. Electoral Politics – Paul Street (CounterPunch, July 26, 2024).

• Want to Really Defend Democracy? Don’t Anoint Kamala – Open the Convention – Cenk Uygur (Newsweek, July 22, 2024).

• Progressive Democratic Candidate Marianne Williamson Calls for Open Convention – Jackson Walker (Local 12, July 21, 2024).

• DNC Sabotage: The Silencing of Marianne Williamson and the Fight for a Fair Democratic Process – ElleBeah LB (ElleBeah’s Substack, July 21, 2024).

• JD Vance, Kamala Harris, and the Illusion of Inclusion – Peter Bloom (Common Dreams, July 27, 2024).

• Sorry, JD Vance, But Being a “Childless Cat Lady” Is Actually Not a Bad Thing – Arwa Mahdawi (The Guardian, July 20, 2024).

• Single, Childless Women Push Back Against Vance Claims They Don’t Care About America – Sarah D. Wire, Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, and Phillip M. Bailey (USA Today, July 27, 2024).

• “Guilty of Genocide”: Rep. Rashida Tlaib Protests Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress – Brett Wilkins (Common Dreams, July 24, 2024).

• Why Israel Should Be Banned From the Paris Olympics – Sophia Brooks (Common Dreams, April 9, 2024).

• Jesus Is Woke. And That’s Good News – Adam Ericksen (Pastor Adam, March 21, 2024).

• Here’s What Happened to the Republican War on “Woke” – Jonah Goldberg (The Fulcrum, May 10, 2024).


See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• John Cusack: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2024
• Something to Think About – July 25, 2024
• A Day of Shame at the U.S. Capitol
• Phyllis Bennis: “We Can Never Give Up Hope”
• Nina Turner: Quote of the Day – July 24, 2024
• Marianne Williamson: “‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’ Is Not Enough to Win in November”
• On This Momentous Day in U.S. Politics, a Visit to the Prayer Tree
• Something to Think About – June 28, 2024
• Yes, Just Imagine
• Progressive Perspectives on the Crisis in U.S. Electoral Politics
• Kyle Kulinski: Quote of the Day – May 23, 2024
• Judith Butler on the Ongoing Student Protests Against the Gaza Genocide
• Naomi Klein’s Powerful Words on Israel’s and the West’s Ongoing Gaza Genocide
• Outrage and Despair
• “This Is a Genocidal Project”
• “A Genocide Has Been Normalized”
• Voices of Reason and Compassion on the Crisis in Israel and Gaza
• More Voices of Reason and Compassion on the Crisis in Israel and Gaza
• Josh Paul: Quote of the Day – March 28, 2024
• Phyllis Bennis: Quote of the Day – March 28, 2024
• Michael Fakhri: Quote of the Day – February 27, 2024
• Sabrina Salvati: Quote of the Day – January 2, 2024

See also:
• Memes of the Times – May 21, 2020
• Signs of the Times – April 25, 2017
• At the Minnesota Capitol, Signs of the Times (May 16, 2011)