A pianist plays Debussy’s Clair de Lune for an 80-year-old elephant. youtu.be/i1qQOGCyR…
Lucy, Little Lucie, and Desi Jr www.tumblr.com/retropopc…
Heather Cox Richardson. ”Congress 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.” Mitch McConnell: “So the nation’s top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong—Take your pick.”
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. “I wouldn’t have had double dessert the night before — or the lunch before that — if I was going to be baring my belly to the world,” he said.
The lead photo on this article isn’t the show-crasher — it’s a model. Bad choice, NYTimes.
Women won’t date men with cats. It’s 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
”This morning I met the ‘QAnon Shaman,’” by Jennifer Sandlin at Boing Boing.
Jacob Chansley aka Jake Angeli aka the “Qanon Shaman,” now carries a sign that reads “TRUMP IS A RAPIST. TRUMP IS A PEDOPHILE. TRUMP IS ALL OVER THE EPSTEIN FILES." Chansley “presents as smart, well-informed, and thoughtful.” And he’s deep into hateful anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.