Did you guys know there is a Bob’s Burgers Movie? If anything was gonna get me back in a theater that might be it!
I have nothing to do this weekend. How crazy is that? No grad parties, no relatives in town, nada!
How about you?
Today’s excitement:
House committee opens prime-time session on Capitol riot
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/09/january-6-comittee-hearing-live-coverage/
Former Trump Education Secretary DeVos says she had 25th Amendment discussions with Pence and Cabinet members
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/politics/betsy-devos-trump-january-6/index.html
“Enrique”?
Proud Boys, Tarrio blast sedition charge as politically orchestrated
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/09/proud-boys-tarrio-seditious-conspiracy/
#merica
At least three killed in shooting at Maryland business, police say
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/09/maryland-shooting-business-victims-police-say
Awwwww…
Kittehs!
Have a great Friday!
Betsy DeVos thought Trump wasn’t mentally competent enough to serve? Getting that on the record made the hearings totally worth it.
Right? It’s like being called an empty-headed idiot by a hand puppet.
The politics of that are interesting because the DeVos family has been bankrolling the Michigan GOP for decades. As in, top donor on a scale rarely seen in other states.
Unrelated, but they were tight with Bill Gates when he was dropping tens of millions on his big school privatization anti-union crusade. Besides the Epstein stuff, it’s been one of the defining things about his character that he’s acted like he’s above political engagement, except when it comes to allying himself with them on their top policy crusade. Not government anti-malaria programs, mind you, just making eight year olds sit through hours of tedious testing and prep.
Seems like t-Rump got hit by the proverbial Liz Cheney bus and then everyone else in his administration picked it up and Vanky threw him under it.
And…did that dude just leave all of those poor kittens there?
No, he took them all. 🙂
Okay, that’s good. It was making me anxious.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTd3tVqhw/?k=1
Spoiler alert: They grow up to star in this clip:
This reminds me of Ghost and the Darkness. I loved that movie and am looking forward to this one.
I feel like this is news that … isn’t really news?
Feel the benefit: union workers receive far better pay and rights, Congress finds
Yes, but it doesn’t matter. There’s no way Republicans will allow stronger worker protections, and even if they did the right wing SCOTUS would shoot that shit down.
From what I’ve read, it was powerful.
Liz takes after her dad and will shoot a man in the face without blinking.
*snort*
And the man shot in the face is the one who will apologize, like Dick Cheney’s duck blind buddy/victim did. I guess it was either that or have his heart harvested to provide Cheney with his sixth or seventh, whichever he was on at the time.
The guy being shot in the face is trump so I wouldn’t expect any apology.
My grandbaby’s first birthday is tomorrow! There’s gonna be a whole big shindig at DiL’s mom’s house in the afternoon which I’m half looking forward to (people!) and half dreading (also, people!)
Today, there’s a bunch of running around to get done, and Sunday I don’t intend to move at all. Might not even get out of bed!
Yay how fun! One more thing to look forward to: CAKE!
Bobo bailed on family letting them crash while offroading then covered it up
I’m glad I’m not the only one reading The Daily Mail. I feel seen. Although I read the British version, not the Canadian or American one. I read enough American tabloids as it is.
Well, of course an amoral piece of shit like her would do that. I’m surprised she didn’t shoot them and claim self defense.
I like that she tried to use “her money” to buy them off. Pretty sure those are campaign funds, Bobo.
Well depending on whether the latest psycho SCOTUS ruling that further destroyed campaign finance law can be applied, maybe not.
How to go from insurrection to election?
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/06/joy-reid-explains-proud-boys-control-miami
Self healing robots? What could go wrong?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7beya/scientists-grew-living-human-skin-that-self-heals-on-a-robot-finger
A little corny but happy Friday!
I’m here for the baby porcupine content.
Quote: And my job as Republican chairman is to protect everyone’s First Amendment right, however wrong they may be.
Translation: These insane rednecks appeal to the key insane redneck demographic.
Meanwhile Peter Baker, top political reporter for the NY Times, has been running around shamelessly doing PR for Jared and Ivanka.
He’s been saying that *sources* tell him that they had nothing to do with 1/6 and were working hard behind the scenes to stop it.
He didn’t even go through the usual weak Times attempt to justify why these sources were allowed to go off the record. How much do you want to bet Ivanka was the source for Jared and Jared was the source for Ivanka?
Jevanka are weasels. They tried to play both sides, hanging with Captain Combover until they were sure the insurrection had failed, and then rushing out the door while busily covering what tracks they could. Apparently Jared has eschewed all contact with Trump since then, which shows you that a. his legal counsel has given him a stern talking to and b. he knows he’s up to his ass in this shit.
Waiting for Trump to throw Ivanka under the bus.
This is a little difficult to read and find exactly what you want but worth it!
https://www.irehr.org/reports/breaching-the-mainstream/
This is for fans of Julian Fellowes’s “The Gilded Age”: Photos of the Van Rhijn and the Russell neighbors’ houses.
https://untappedcities.com/2021/05/19/millionaires-row-5th-avenue-mansions/?mc_cid=7d2a94b5d8&mc_eid=3ae72c6ebb
It makes me sad that those gorgeous houses were torn down for that soulless modern “architecture”. I know the economics of it – but think of all of that handcrafted workmanship just thrown in the landfill.
I feel the same way.
They’re not all gone. The Frick Museum is in Henry Clay Frick’s house, the Neue Galerie is in another Gilded Age mansion, the Jewish Museum is in the Warburg house, and the Cooper-Hewitt is in a purpose-built building but it was built in 1897 and designed to fit in, so it looks like a Gilded Age residence. There are other examples that I’m forgetting. I think one is a very expensive private school.
There are also lovely (and super-selective) co-ops, like 998 Fifth Avenue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/998_Fifth_Avenue
The shoddy and badly-executed modernism peters out around 60th Street; north of that Fifth Avenue is still very gracious and harmonious.
One of the greatest architectural losses on Fifth Avenue occurred when Donald Trump wantonly destroyed Bonwit Teller almost 40 years ago to erect that ghastly Trump Tower:
https://secretsofmanhattan.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/the-bonwit-teller-building-how-donald-trump-destroyed-an-art-deco-treasure/
Next week the family and I plan on checking out some of these while visiting the area…
https://www.newportmansions.org/
We’ve thought about taking a trip up there to see all of those fine homes – let me know which ones you go to and how they are.