Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of strict amateurism rules of the time. https://t.co/KpQuvvFpo4
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 15, 2022
Former Congresswomen and shooting survivor Gabby Giffords is sharing her story of recovery and determination in a new documentary released this week https://t.co/7piGr271vq pic.twitter.com/0TLclGzm3Z
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 14, 2022
TODAY: Nearly 50 Republican leaders endorsed @CaptMarkKelly's re-election campaign citing his bipartisan accomplishments and Arizona-first approach.
"It's his service to country, which mirrors that of John McCain's." #AZSen https://t.co/sCrgJSgdyx
— Sarah Guggenheimer (@Sarah_Guggs) July 15, 2022
Thursday’s roll-out is the official start of The Yellow Bus Project and Cruz's house is the first stop for the NRA Children’s Museum, which is coordinated by @ChangeTheRef.
The non-profit aimed at spotlighting mass shooting awareness and reducing the NRA’S public influence. pic.twitter.com/06x85ZbAv3
— MySA (@mySA) July 14, 2022
Baud
Jim Thorpe didn’t give up. Neither should you.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone
geg6
I turned on my tv after coming home from work and getting ready to relax for the evening. MSNBC was on and it was Ari Melber’s show. He was talking to Killer Mike and that asshole was bad mouthing Jim Clyburn. I changed the channel right quick.
Kropacetic
Knives are coming out at the Sinema camp. She’s the mavericky maverick after all.
rikyrah
This is the last track meet for this legend.
I remember reading about the 18 year old phenom in Sports Illustrated. She grew into the woman that she appeared to be in those articles.
Class Act
Thank you, Ms. Felix
https://twitter.com/Athleticsglobe/status/1548150222219399170?s=19
rikyrah
@geg6:
Click click
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
debbie
@Baud:
Damn straight.
NotMax
(I try to refrain from linking to moderately lengthier stuff, one hopes of an entertaining bent, until close to or within the weekend.)
Curator of spacesuits. Is that an ultra cool job title or what?
Betty Cracker
@Kropacetic: Yeah, WTF? Everyone knows the AZ military hero lane belongs to Princess Sparkle Pony!
germy shoemangler
rikyrah
The Olympic Games (@Olympics) tweeted at 9:30 AM on Fri, Jul 15, 2022:
11 Olympic medals ✅
18 world championship medals ✅
Most decorated female track and field athlete in history ✅
20 years of incredible memories ✅
Today, Allyson Felix bids farewell to professional competition. We will miss you on the track, @allysonfelix! https://t.co/UOzCDQ2dLQ
(https://twitter.com/Olympics/status/1547951621396582404?s=02)
debbie
Someone seems to be dissembling under the crush of scrutiny:
How are we losing?
germy shoemangler
@debbie:
Watching that clip… are his ears pointed now? He looks like Satan, Jr.
Does that upsweep hairdo cover horns?
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@germy shoemangler: Not saying they’re lying, but isn’t reporting something based on “cops say” a single source story? I thought we were not supposed to believe single source stories (such as 10 year olds getting abortions).
germy shoemangler
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
Well, cops and the medical examiner.
Suzanne
@rikyrah: I have loved watching her for years. Wishing her a great retirement.
During the Tokyo Olympics last year, I kept getting irritated by the incessant questions about her baby. Like…. this lady can absolutely whoop your ass in her sleep. No question. She is a competitor and that doesn’t change because she had a baby. We compartmentalize!
debbie
@germy shoemangler:
I’ve long thought so.
zhena gogolia
I’m with Guttenberg. I wish this blog were (other than AL).
germy shoemangler
I wonder if this new treatment will be effective in treating other cancers?
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/100-cure-rate-is-hard-to-believe/
David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch
Press accounts say the maid threw water on Ivana in an attempt to revive her, but instead she melted
germy shoemangler
@debbie:
And he has that “Do you know who my dad is??” energy
mrmoshpotato
@zhena gogolia:
Same.
debbie
@David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch:
mrmoshpotato
@David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch: LOL! I’m already sick of hearing about her death. It would’ve been religated to the tabloids if her shitstain ex hadn’t won an election (with misogynistic and Russkiy help).
germy shoemangler
I want to be so wealthy that my corpse is eventually discovered by staff.
germy shoemangler
@mrmoshpotato:
Will the ruskies help him again or is he no longer useful to them?
Kropacetic
I’m not so sure we will lose.
mrmoshpotato
@germy shoemangler: Hahaha! “Who your dad is, Matt?”
“Is he the dad of a possible human trafficker and statutory rapist?”
Josie
@zhena gogolia: Yes.
germy shoemangler
@mrmoshpotato:
Beelzebub Gaetz
mrmoshpotato
@germy shoemangler: Oh, I think Putin would sow chaos for chaos’ sake, so most certainly.
Long time to November 2024 though, and Dump can keep stuffing himself with fried chicken and burnt steak.
zhena gogolia
@mrmoshpotato: Front page of the NYT, continued on full page, what an entrepreneur she was, they were the “power couple,” blahblahblah. So nauseating.
I’ve tried to get obituaries published there of important scholars who devoted their lives to increasing knowledge. Nothing. I hate them so much.
zhena gogolia
@germy shoemangler: You’ll be eaten by Alsatians (– Bridget Jones’s Diary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOWq7Vqba5A
Kropacetic
Scholars don’t draw many eyeballs. We’d be a better country if they did.
mrmoshpotato
@zhena gogolia: You should’ve mentioned Hillary’s emails in those obits.
FTFNYT!
prostratedragon
@germy shoemangler: Surely. He had it almost buzzed down at one point, but as attention to his behavior has increased, the hair has gotten higher and higher. (Apologies to Jackie Wilson and anyone else.)
Shalimar
@germy shoemangler: I’m not saying someone pushed her down the stairs so they wouldn’t have to testify. I’m just saying Tiffany should be careful around stairs.
Scout211
I saw this commentary linked in a dkos story. It’s well worth a read. A retired CIA agent writing on Just Security warns that US Democracy’s Survival Requires a More Powerful Response to January 6th.
(There is one sentence that does a “both sides” but otherwise is a worthy read).
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
The couple were practically daily features on Liz Smith’s claim to fame, “Page Six” in the Post, which for some reason was always also featured on NBC’s local affiliate hosted by Sue Simmons. I generally welcomed the opportunity to be reminded what nutcases lived in the northeast.
Kropacetic
Was having a conversation with my buddy about Trump’s kids the other day. Forget why.
It took me a good 45 seconds to a minute to remember Tiffany’s name. Bet I got it faster than daddy.
Geminid
@germy shoemangler: Reports are that former Gaetz wingman Joel Greenberg has filed a motion asking for his sentencing hearing. He’s sitting in the Orange County, Florida jail so he may just want to start serving his sentence in a federal prison.
Greenberg was a one man crime wave, and convicting Gaetz on Greenberg’s testimony alone would be tough. Prosecutors seem to have developed other witnesses that can incriminate Gaetz, though. I was kind of hoping for indictments in August, but now I expect that prosecutors will hold off until after the election. But as my late friend Chis would say, it’ll be good when I get it.
prostratedragon
@zhena gogolia:
continued on full page
Hezzuz! I haven’t bought the thing off the rack in years, but just goes to show how much one can learn from seeing the physical object.
germy shoemangler
News from upstate NY:
prostratedragon
@Shalimar: Supposedly couldn’t get out of her house, but ate her last dinner out at nearby restaurant, and was expecting somehow to get to St. Tropez yesterday.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Other than that she was married to Trump, I know nothing about Ivana, for which I am proud.
debbie
@Kropacetic:
She always seems like an uncomfortable add-on in the photo line.
lowtechcyclist
Manchin had all but dropped off my radar this year. I didn’t miss the fucker. I’m glad he votes for Biden’s judicial and executive nominees, but fuck the rest of this shit of his. Per TPM:
Fuck even that. The negotiation should consist of Schumer saying: “you want X, Y, and Z in this bill? GOOD. Let’s talk with your staff, instruct them to write up a reconciliation bill with X, Y, and Z in it, you can sponsor it, and I’ll bring it to the floor.” Then let him explain later on why he voted against a bill that he was the lead sponsor of.
There, I’ve gotten Manchin (Lucy-WV) out of my system. Let’s win some Senate seats so we don’t have to think about him at all in 2023.
Kropacetic
@lowtechcyclist: Yeah, I’ve been worrying over Manchin less, myself. But I guess he managed to make himself topical for a day.
Geminid
The Arizona Republican party is fairly radicalized now, so I don’t think the “Republicans for Kelly” effort will sway many Republican voters. But it could help with Independents, who were 31.7% of registered Arizona voters in 2020 (Republicans were 35%, Democrats 32%)
Sure Lurkalot
@Shalimar:
I’m not sure why Tiffany gets a pass as the good (ok, untainted?) spawn. Her upcoming wedding is to be a huge event at Mar-a-Lago, daddy’s fave spot.
https://pagesix.com/2022/05/05/tiffany-trump-wedding-set-for-november-at-mar-a-lago/
Geminid
@Geminid: Next month Arizona Republicans will choose Mark Kelly’s opponent from a field of five candidates. They range from bad to awful.
Dorothy A. Winsor
My trivia team won last night for the second time in a row. I am being careful around stairs. Old people are mean
Kropacetic
@Geminid: There may still be some wavering Republicans emboldened to make the jump to the cool side. Even if it’s a handful, it matters in a closely divided state
At a minimum, that’s 50 votes in the bank.
Betty Cracker
There was a piece on Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in The Post last week, which I just now read. Like many of us, she thinks about the Dobbs decision in terms of how it will affect her daughters. She started taking action as governor to protect choice for women in Michigan as soon as SCOTUS took up the case.
Kropacetic
So, moderate Republicans, then?
I hope they gave her a discount…
Geminid
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Yesterday I heard on the radio that Hasbro is bringing out a Wordle board game.
Betty Cracker
Best response I’ve seen so far to the latest Manchin nonsense:
NotMax
‘@Sure Lurkalot
Caterers and band demanding full payment upfront? In cash?
//
prostratedragon
Some advice for care of pets and visiting wild life during hot weather
debbie
@Geminid:
NYT just moved theirs behind a paywall. Of course.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Geminid: Hm. That would make wordle competitive, which, for me, makes it less fun. I like being able to walk away and think about it. But that does show how popular the game is
Tony G
@mrmoshpotato: It would be a smart move for Putin (again). The U.S. is Putin’s main adversary, and with Trump (or DeSantis or any other Republican) in charge, the U.S. is weaker and more chaotic.
Ken
Odd how often the answer is something like “The second-biggest used-car dealer in the tri-county area!”
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Baud
@Geminid:
I thought the NYT copyrighted all five letter words.
sdhays
@germy shoemangler: It’s really not ok to refer to Ivana as just “Trump”. At this point, there’s really only one “Trump”, and it’s just not fair to get people’s hopes up like that.
O. Felix Culpa
@Betty Cracker:
Great article by Paul Waldman in today’s WaPo entitled The Coming Reign of Reproductive Terror.
It echoes/reinforces what Kay and others have been saying about the christofascist efforts to intimidate women and medical providers. Below are his opening paragraphs, which are followed by a series of specific examples of intimidation techniques. The entire article is worth reading. [Bolding by me.]
Betty Cracker
@sdhays:
Kropacetic
Look up Word Master. As much free wordle play as you could ever want.
Ken
@Geminid: Or as we used to call it, Hangman. Or Probe if you wanted to shell out the eight bucks for a few decks of letter-cards and some racks.
Baud
@O. Felix Culpa:
Enough fear to vote for Dems? That’s the $10K question.
NotMax
‘@Baud
I understand both PUNCH and PINCH are verba non grata.
:)
Betty Cracker
@O. Felix Culpa: Great article, thanks. They’re using the same techniques to target and harass teachers, school administrators, librarians, voters, protesters, etc. It’s effective.
Geminid
@Kropacetic: I guess most of Arizona’s moderate Republicans are now in the Independent column. Although many people don’t change party registration when they change affiliation.
This year’s Arizona election will tell a lot about political trends in that state. Kelly is a strong candidate and Secretary of State Hobbs is solid candidate for Governor. Arizona’s Democrats have a good chance to build on their success of 2020.
Like Georgia and North Carolina, Arizona is growing in population even as it trends blue. Losing any two of these states could put an Electoral College victory out of Republican reach.
NotMax
‘@Ken
Jotto in the olden days.
Kropacetic
But Dems don’t denounce rioting forcefully enough while crime happens in the vicinity of peaceful protests.
So, you know, BOTH SIDES!!!
Geminid
@debbie: @BuffaloMeg usually includes similar games on her daily twitter feed. I think one is “Quordle.”
For some reason I can’t stand “thinking games.” Gimme a Monopoly board any day though.
Josie
@Geminid: I’m so glad to see you say this. I have always hated “thinking games,” but I am reluctant to admit it. Everyone else seems to enjoy them so. I’d much rather read a book, sit outside and watch the birds, or dig in the dirt in my garden.
ETA: My kids were culturally deprived because of this. The only game I would play with them was Candyland (a kids’ Monopoly). I do enjoy a good game of poker.
PAM Dirac
@germy shoemangler:
Most likely it will only be useful for tumors that have the specific mismatch repair defect. Generally speaking the highest response rate occurs in trials that have patient selection criteria (molecular markers) that are very carefully matched to the therapy. The classic example is imatinib (Gleevec). In early clinical trials there was 95% complete hematologic response in 95% of 454 patients. There was a lot of optimism at the time that matching drugs to specific molecular defects could be generalized, but like most things in cancer, the reality has turned out to be much more complicated. When it works, it works extremely well, but it just hasn’t been possible yet to find enough drug/molecular defect combinations to cover a wide range of cancers.
Baud
@Geminid:
I feel that way about thinking generally.
O. Felix Culpa
@Baud:
Hope so. We’re working on it in NM’s second congressional district. Would be helpful and delicious to evict the vile Herrell.
O. Felix Culpa
@Kropacetic:
You forgot the dreaded chalk on sidewalk technique that terrorized the Senator of the Furrowed Brow.
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker: Good one.
Kropacetic
@O. Felix Culpa: They were clearly trying to summon the undead. It only failed because Collins already resided there.
O. Felix Culpa
@Kropacetic:
LOL!
Kay
@O. Felix Culpa:
I think we’ll see pregnancy registries- a state recording process – akin to a birth certificate. It follows logically from “life beings at conception” and they aren’t going to be able to track women who travel to another state for an abortion or investigate miscarriages or medication abortions without tracking each pregnancy. Women could stay outside the system but it would mean foregoing medical care because as you know the first question any woman of child bearing age is asked on contact with any medical provider is “are you pregnant?”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Josie: I used to do (or at least start) the NYT crossword puzzle almost every day, and hated to miss Jeopardy. I can’t remember when I gave up the former, gave up the latter a couple of years before Trebek died and have thus happily missed all the folderol about his replacement/s. I still enjoy on-line trivia quizzes when I stumble across one, but I was never even a little tempted by world. I wonder if those tastes will come back
O. Felix Culpa
@Kay:
Sigh. The Party of FREEDUMB! is launching the most invasive attack on American citizens’ privacy ever. It’s a titch concerning. On the other hand, it’s just women, right, so not so concerning after all. We’re not sure they’re fully human and therefore not fully accorded citizens’–i.e. human–rights.
//
Shalimar
@Sure Lurkalot: I’m not saying Tiffany is good, just the one other family members are most likely to see as disposable.
Mimi
@germy shoemangler: F*ck all the Trumps. The wrong one died.
geg6
@Betty Cracker:
She may be even more awesome at this than her hubby. Speaking of which, he’s been slowly getting back on the campaign trail with smaller events and a recent fundraiser. And the Snooki Cameo has gone viral. I’m feeling good about our chances here. Shapiro is getting a bit more $$ from me now. We have to stop Mastriano.
Kay
@O. Felix Culpa:
Well, just in terms of state law if a state like Indiana can and does have elaborate reporting requirements for each abortion (they do) I don’t know what would bar that from being extended to reporting requirements for each pregnancy. I think it’s well within their power under any number of “state interests” and would survive any kind of review. Now obviously there would be a large group of “outlaw” women who would use a home test and avoid contact with a medical provider to stay out of the system but the presumption would be the recording is mandatory so they would be out of compliance, which could itself be a violation.
Kropacetic
@O. Felix Culpa: According to the Exalted Holiest Supreme Court, states can choose to put the rights of a blastocyst over those of the fully formed host; a human, with experiences and relationships. Likely soon, too, dictate whom you can shack up with.
The state can’t, however, compel initiatives to avoid the spreading of disease.
Our bodies, Republicans’ choice.
sab
@zhena gogolia: YES. Please listen to Fred Gutenberg.
kalakal
In a daring and innovative move to Make Britain Great the UK government is tabling a no-confidence motion in itself*
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/13/uk-government-to-table-no-confidence-motion-in-itself?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
*Thus confounding those cynics who claim politicians never tell the truth
CaseyL
@debbie: Did they? I was able to open it, no problem.
kalakal
@zhena gogolia: Absolutely
sab
@Dorothy A. Winsor: LMAO. So true. I know, being one of them and married to another.
Mnemosyne
I’m in Chicago right now for my brother-in-law’s big gay wedding. We’re resting up today because tonight is going to be a PARTY!
brendancalling
One of my favorite non-politics blogs is the Comics Curmudgeon which makes fun of legacy comics (especially “Mary Worth” and “Funky Winkerbean”). Which is a long way of saying “I read ‘Arlo and Janis’ daily, and it’s one of the only strips I truly enjoy unironically.” Thanks for posting!
Jackie
Dr Oz and his siblings are in a battle for mult-million inheritance from deceased father. https://www.yahoo.com/video/dr-oz-sisters-embroiled-multi-225020527.html
Baud
@Kropacetic:
I don’t think the court has struck down a state covid requirements wholesale.
Kropacetic
@Baud: Must be misremembering. To the Googles!
Immanentize
Well, I have deposited the Immp at Logan Airport (AKA BOS), and he successfully took off for Houston. We had home made miso soup and a bit of yellowtail sashimi for dinner last night as our last meal. Then we watched Orcs attack Helm’s Deep. All told, a fine ending to what began as a truly fraught four months.
No more excitement, please!
MagdaInBlack
@Mnemosyne: Welcome to the area. I’m glad the weather (seems to have) cleared up for you. Enjoy the party
Immanentize
@Mnemosyne: I hope it is going to be a BIG GAY PARTY!
Because there’s no tea party like a ….
Immanentize
@Kay: I’ve been saying health professionals will be mandatory pregnancy reporters since, oh, November 2016 when Garland was the elf on a shelf.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Immanentize: Let’s hope he sails through to graduation with no more excitement
Immanentize
@Kay: True story: one of my dearest friends in Texas had always had some health issues related to her GI track. She was athletic, but super thin, and was always lacking various nutrients. She had IBS too. Lots of health side effects too….
Anyway, she was feeling poorly and went to her Doctor who, after examination told her she was pregnant. She passed out. When she woke up, she said, “I can’t be pregnant, I don’t have periods, I use birth control and I can’t remember when I last had sex!
That was years ago and she has two great kids now. But that is one way a very smart, careful woman will end up in pregnancy custody in Texas today.
debbie
@CaseyL:
Huh, I got the answer on my laptop but still have to add an account to get my total statistics. ♀️
Immanentize
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Please? He deserves a little break and I wouldn’t mind one either. But as my Father used to tell me:
I raised up sticks so they may beat me.
Jinchi
Such a relatable guy. Perfect fit for Pennsylvania.
Kay
Don’t let the pundits who are in some kind of delusional elite denial or the liars on the Right kid you- all of this was predictable, and we’re just getting started.
American women will now get substandard medical care in anything involving a pregnancy. They will be forced to accept a much lower standard of care and much higher risk.
She bled for ten days. A sacrifice to far Right religious authoritarians.
zhena gogolia
@Immanentize: Great!
Scout211
Thursday, July 21 at 8 pm ET. Must see teevee! (Just a friendly reminder).
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/14/next-january-6-committee-hearing-will-focus-on-trump-silence-during-riot.html
Baud
@Kay:
Hoocoodanode
Kay
@Baud:
The dumb obtuseness of far Right religious with their refusal to grapple with the real-world consequences of their rigid ideology is enraging. They simply do not care what happens to women. They put no thought or effort into any of this because the woman does not matter.
zhena gogolia
@Scout211: Can’t wait. While I’m doing my exercises, I’m listening to the hearings once again from the beginning. It’s very instructive. I now know more of the cast of characters, so when they appear it’s more meaningful than it was the first time through. Thanks to WG for making the videos available easily on this site (top right).
Geminid
@Scout211: I’m glad Elaine Luria (VA 2nd) will get some time on the national stage. Like Jaime Raskin, Luria is another talented member of the Democratic Class of 2018.
sab
@Kay: One of my very Catholic nieces had an ectopic pregnancy a few years back. Doctors dealt with it. She just had another baby last year.
Her sister is full throttle anti-abortion activist. Yet she has no idea that her political position would have killed her sister.
They each have five kids, so pregnancy facts shouldn’t be news to them.
The stubborn ignorance of these people shocks me.
The Thin Black Duke
To reformat an old joke, any woman who votes for Republicans is as idiotic as a chicken voting for Colonel Saunders.
sab
Ohio has a Democrat running for AG against Yost. Jeff Crossman. I am really disheartened that we are this far into election year and apparently he has no campaign going yet. Yost is appalling.
ETA But being appalling never stopped anyone from being elected in Ohio.
Eunicecycle
@sab: the ones that act like pregnancy is no big deal really piss me off. My daughter in law just had a baby last Monday (yay! Grandbaby #5!) She had morning sickness most of the 9 months; her blood pressure spiked so the docs decided to induce labor; she got stuck at 8 cm so finally decided to do a csection. They got home Thursday and she had to go back in because her blood pressure was up and down again and her heart was beating erratically. She’s back home and doing well now, and of course my granddaughter is beautiful and healthy. But pregnancy is not easy- you know, so easy a 10 yo can do it. BTW my DIL never had blood pressure problems before.
sab
@Eunicecycle: I have a bad heart and have always had blood pressure problems so bad that I couldn’t even take birth control pills. Pregnancy would have killed me. But I always hoped for a medical miracle and kids. These fuckers would have condemned me to an early hysterectomy and no hope if I even wanted to have a sex life.
Eunicecycle
@sab: my daughter just texted me all upset because she just read that Ohio is trying to ban IVF now. She had all 3 of her children that way. We really have to get rid of Rs at all levels of government!
Bill Arnold
@Tony G:
It would not be a smart move for Putin, and the siloviki and others in Russia who push for Russian political interference in the USA are dumber than dirt, minds pickling in their own ideological cesspool of an intellectual framework only loosely tethered to reality. The Russian Federation is much; closer to the edge of collapse than the USA, and more vulnerable to well-orchestrated retaliatory interference than they think. (IMO)
Gvg
These forced birthers cherish their ignorance. They haven’t even begun to face all the problems from not leaving in exceptions for rape, incest, and health of the mother. There will be bad case after bad case in the news until these are reversed. We are more likely to get Roe codified quickly imo because they went that far and are still trying to be more extreme. Just a call it regular abortion ban could have been tolerated by more people.
SamIAm
@geg6:
Here’s the transcript for his show on the 15th: https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-beat-ari-melber-7-15-21-n1274206
Here it is for the 16th: https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-beat-ari-melber-7-16-21-n1274336
No mention of Clyburn in either.