Heather Cox Richardson. âCongress left for the holiday weekend a day early today after a number of Republican members of Congress appear to have mutinied against President Donald J. Trump and his loyalists.â Mitch McConnell: âSo the nationâs top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrongâTake your pick.â
The Iran war draws to a close with the US weakened, Iran much stronger, and Israel screwed. Iran, rather than the US, will be the leading power in the region and a bi-partisan anti-Israel consensus is growing and hardening in the US, among both Republicans and Democrats.
Gentleman unintentionally crashes a beach fashion show and usurps the spot of lead model. âI wouldnât have had double dessert the night before â or the lunch before that â if I was going to be baring my belly to the world,â he said.
The lead photo on this article isnât the show-crasher â itâs a model. Bad choice, NYTimes.
âWe found a baby on the subway â now he’s our 26-year-old son.â
Women wonât date men with cats. Itâs science!
The Trump FCC is using false claims of immigrant fraud to drive up the cost of broadband for everyone. By Karl Bode at Techdirt.
The Qanon Shaman is now anti-Trump
âThis morning I met the âQAnon Shaman,ââ by Jennifer Sandlin at Boing Boing.
Jacob Chansley aka Jake Angeli aka the âQanon Shaman,â now carries a sign that reads âTRUMP IS A RAPIST. TRUMP IS A PEDOPHILE. TRUMP IS ALL OVER THE EPSTEIN FILES." Chansley âpresents as smart, well-informed, and thoughtful.â And heâs deep into hateful anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
The Democrats finally released the 2024 election autopsy
Party chair Ken Martin saying the report is rubbish and he only released it to shut people up. Thatâs basically the upshot of this write-upby Alex Thompson and Holly Otterbein on Axios.
The report doesnât actually conclude what went wrong for the Democrats, and does not interview Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and many of their top aides.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party has $124 million cash on hand and the DNC has negative $3 million with $17 million in debt.
Ironically, the election autopsy report, by its very incompetency, demonstrates how the Democrats lost the 2024 election â the DNC is a bunch of buffoons who couldnât even manage to win an election against the soft-handed depo-baby Nazis that constitute the national GOP, and the Democrats also proved incompetent to produce a report about their failure.
Rod Dreher: What the San Diego Mosque Shooters Believed
The Trump phone is a years-old knockoff with the wrong number of stripes on the U.S. flag logo.By Rob Beschizza on Boing Boing.
Confederates Weren’t Punished Enough And Now We’re Here. “The trick to understanding the necrotic pageantry of modern American, Christian, Southern conservatism is realizing that the Civil War never actually ended in any meaningful moral sense.” By David Gate.
Picton Reading Room, Liverpool Central Library. #bibliophile
