SEEKING CORGI FOR ROYAL WEDDING VIEWING PARTY pic.twitter.com/UCiaH2AD2J
— Best of Nextdoor (@bestofnextdoor) May 14, 2018
I hope this viewing party is well stocked, because if I know corgis, their temporary “royal” will most definitely pit one admirer against another for a share of doggy attention.
Speaking of bidding wars…
BREAKING: The Senate’s vote to save #NetNeutrality will take place this Wednesday, May 16th. Keep raising your voices for the free and open internet. The fight is on!
— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) May 14, 2018
One thing you can do today is post something on FB, twitter or IG about net neutrality, and then call your Senators about it. This is a big week for the cause.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) May 14, 2018
To update a notorious quote from a certain Senate Majority Leader for the age of social media: If these Repubs insist on fornicating pigs, we can at least make them own it. Per Ars Techica:
The US Senate is scheduled to vote Wednesday, May 16 on whether to reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of net neutrality rules.
Republican senators were hoping to avoid the vote, but Democrats are using a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to force the full Senate to vote. The CRA resolution would nullify the FCC’s December 2017 vote to deregulate broadband and kill net neutrality rules and would prevent the FCC from taking similar actions in the future.
“By passing my CRA resolution to put net neutrality back on the books, we can send a clear message to American families that we support them, not the special interest agenda of President Trump and his broadband baron allies,” Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) said in an announcement today.
Republicans are pushing for weaker broadband regulations and have tried to discourage Democrats from pursuing the CRA vote…
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced last week that his repeal of net neutrality rules will take effect on June 11.
There are 50 senators, including one Republican, who have pledged to vote to prevent the net neutrality repeal. That may be enough to get the resolution through the Senate Wednesday because of the cancer-related absence of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
Democrats face longer odds in the House, where Republicans hold a 236-193 majority. President Trump could veto the resolution if it makes it through both chambers of Congress.
Congress isn’t the only obstacle in the way of Pai’s net neutrality repeal. The FCC must defend the repeal in court against a lawsuit filed by about three dozen entities, including Democratic state attorneys general, consumer advocacy groups, and tech companies…
bystander
Anyone else guessing that some laugh lines will be smoother and a brow a little higher after Melania’s “benign kidney surgery”? I had a knee replacement and was sent home two days later.
WAAAAH!!
Morning all, from Gay Paree!
satby
Good morning, @bystander: and other early birds!
frosty
Good morning all from a Confirmed Night-owl who woke up early and can’t get back to sleep. Here’s hoping things revert to normal and you don’t see me here again at this hour. :-)
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone ???
NotMax
So convoluted that a snippet or two wouldn’t being to convey the machinations. Read the whole thing, please. (Took multiple readings before I began to feel might have begun to suss it out, but still many unfilled blanks.)
$1 million mystery gift to inauguration traced to conservative legal activists
A million here, 3/4 of a million there, $20 million from a “low-profile, very wealthy and on the young side” somebody. Wheels within wheels, all spinning in the shadows.
Jeffro
Hey the usually too-milquetoast-for-my-taste Eugene Robinson didn’t appreciate being called an elite, and he REALLY resents the way Trumpov & Co – aided by the both-sides media – think that they can label themselves “real” Americans.
Of course the whole thing was actually written because he wanted to hate on the Schlapps – uber-elites that they are – for pretending to be “real” Americans while hating on John McCain. Sigh…if that’s what it takes to rouse the mushy middle…
Gene, you’re a little late to the party, but hey come on in! Here’s a bat…
rikyrah
@bystander:
Morning to Paris??
OzarkHillbilly
@Jeffro:
Ummm, no Eugene, they are not nice people. They may be “pleasant” or “personable,” but they are not “nice.” Nice people don’t demagogue.
Baud
@satby:
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
NotMax
From out Amir’s way.
mai naem mobile
The single republican is Susan Collins so you might as well forget the single Republican vote.
Baud
@NotMax:
I didn’t realize that phrase was Malaysian in origin.
satby
@rikyrah: @Baud: Happy Tuesday ?!
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: I think a hard thing we all deal with is trying to reconcile the people who are personable and pleasant, friendly even, to your face and the knowledge that they knowingly support policies that actively hurt people. There’s a low level civil war on and like the first one it’s splitting families and communities.
oatler.
I have a dog costume I can customize to “corgi” and I’m open to “viewing parties”.
Baud
@satby: They’re simply outsourcing their hate.
Eric S.
The Orange Shitgibbon has invaded my dreams! In my dream he wss entering negotiations with NK and told a reporter he was changing the terms of the agreed framework.
Just One More Canuck
@oatler.: is your name Wilfred in real life?
OzarkHillbilly
@Eric S.: You know, they have drugs that can fix that.
Eric S.
@OzarkHillbilly: I already take 3.
OzarkHillbilly
@Eric S.: Must be the wrong 3.
ETA maybe you should sue your doctor for malpractice?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I thought “Real Americans” didn’t like outsourcing, now I’m confused again.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: They don’t like us more.
WereBear
Akin to:
“I can’t believe my honorable colleague would force himself on a vulnerable and powerless person,” said another rich white guy.
Baud
Royal drama!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I know us, they might have a point.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I was prepared to look the other way until they betrayed America with Trump.
danielx
Having year-old cats occasionally has its downsides. Like being wakened at five in the morning by a seven pound cat bounding across the bed, followed by a fourteen pound cat in hot pursuit. I haven’t figured out which one left the claw marks on my leg. Neither party involved offered an explanation, much less an apology.
Daughter unit informed me earlier that the male’s name is Boris, NOT “Boris goddamnit”. Evidently my response to this bodily assault was louder than I thought.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@danielx: Hmmm, my YorkiePom’s name is “Damnit Conni” after she was underfoot and got stepped on.
Kay
I was choosing whether to volunteer for Cordray or Sherrod Brown. Sherrod Brown’s campaign got back to me immediately, which I appreciate, but Cordray is more of a long shot – Sherrod is the favorite while Cordray is the underdog- and honestly with Trumpists in power at the fed level I’d just as soon look at state level. Less depressing.
Ohio Democrats used to do “coordinated campaigns” which seemed like a great idea to me but it looks like they aren’t doing that this year. So, for example, you would canvass for Obama and also do Sherrod, same time.
Baud
@Kay: That’s a tough call.
Tata
Awhile back, I popped in to say I’d taken a part-time job baking cookies and cakes in a restaurant to pay for sending my grandson to space camp. My daughter decided day camp would be better for him at his age and found a Lego robotics camp program at a nearby university, which turned out to be much more affordable. Further, there was an equally good day camp for my granddaughter at the same university. This week, I wrote a check to cover both camps from the money I made baking cookies. I’m overjoyed!
And now, I can start saving for next summer’s space camp, because that is expensive. I can do it!
raven
@Tata: You are a smart cookie!
MomSense
@bystander:
I was wondering about how long she has had the breast implants. They don’t last forever.
MomSense
@Tata:
Way to go, Grandma!!
Jeffro
Btw for those inclined to put a (mental) icepick in your brains, today’s
columnwaste of valuable op-ed space by Brooksie is a marvel. Did y’all know he’s a Whig? Yes really!Also the Fallows’ new book is totes awesome because it confirms everything Brooksie already knows to be true: if we could just get out there in the heartland, REAL America, and have great conversations with REAL Americans without disrespecting them or veering into that vicious 10% fringe on both sides, we’d practically be in Utopia already.
I’m going for a walk…
Leto
Election day for Idaho, Nebraska, Oregon, and Pennsylvania primaries today. First time in almost a decade I won’t be voting by absentee ballot. Really looking forward to it.
Kay
@Baud:
Cordray. I can’t resist the pencil-necked underdog :)
He has a big vocabulary (oh, no) and the NYTimes has already decided he’s boring based on 15 seconds watching a local tv clip or something. DeWine is actually boring, truth be told. He drones on and on. DeWine is tiny- really a small person- and Cordray is tall. I wonder if that matters. They’ll have televised debates. Cordray will be towering over him.
You know they’ll send the Trump assholes out here to lie about him. Probably on chartered jets we paid for. On their way to Florida to golf.
Just One More Canuck
@raven: try the veal – I’ll be here all week
rikyrah
@Kay:
Kay,
tell me about Brown’s opponent.
rikyrah
@Tata:
You are why Grandma’s are awesome :)
Kay
I think we solved the Trump cell phone mystery! That crime wasn’t difficult to crack, I must say. You can’t even call them “schemes” anymore- it’s just unrestrained looting.
I love how blatant the self-dealing and corruption are- the Trump Family must think they’re untouchable, and maybe they are.
Maybe they know something we don’t.
Leto
@Kay: Trump had to bailout that company because Cohen needed to replace his seized phones. You think Samsung or HTC has that many spare phones available right now? Ha! /s
Kay
@rikyrah:
Brown is “savvy”. He’s very good at this. It’s just hard work. He knows what voters want because he talks to them constantly.
People say his constituent services are very responsive too- when people get a response they tell a lot of other people, in my experience, because they’re shocked that anyone is actually listening to them. I called him once and his staff were very speedy and efficient. They couldn’t help me for legal reasons related to the person I was trying to aid- his age-which I knew but I said I would call so I did.
Kay
@Leto:
The multiple phone thing is so funny because it’s such a “tell”. We get judges- “why do you have 4 phones?”
They’re on to this! :) Many of them are not the most tech savvy people in the world so it takes a long time, but they get it!
Peale
@Kay: so when will we be tut tutted today for not understanding how K Street works.
rikyrah
@Kay:
UH HUH
UH HUH
rikyrah
@Kay:
How come that weasel Mandel didn’t run again?
rikyrah
JUST IN: Pence PAC hires ex-Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowksi https://t.co/8baAkC3RLv pic.twitter.com/RUNTCQWPfa
— The Hill (@thehill) May 14, 2018
rikyrah
Meet Rashan Prailow. He is a former @BarackObama White House Staffer who has his sights set on becoming Camden’s youngest city council member.
https://t.co/vB8DGP54xK
— #becauseofthemwecan (@Becauseofthem) May 15, 2018
The Ancient Randonneur
@rikyrah: Fantastic! And, of course: Thanks Obama!
Here’s some encouraging news (I do prefer he run as a Democrat but I understand his thinking.):
Yarrow
@rikyrah: Of course he did. And people think Pence isn’t a traitor. Ha.
schrodingers_cat
@Jeffro: Isn’t this an old book, I remember him and his wife pimping it on the Snooze Hour a while ago, during the 2016 campaign season.
Schlemazel
@Kay:
I go through the same calculations every election. Thankfully I live in a safe district & Keith Ellison will be returned without my help – both my state reps have served forever & will contiune. I refuse to help Klobuchar after the way she behaved when elected. I am on the fence about Smith who is also running for Senate this year to backfill Franken’s seat (which was Wellstones and Humphries – that is a hell of a legacy)
If I can I probably will work for Rebecca Otto because I believe her fight for Governor will face some headwind in a state that still has far too many pockets of stupid. But that might all be put on hold as I have some major surgery that will leave me in the hospital for 2-3 weeks & off work for 2-3 months that will happen this year.
Schlemazel
This Tweet from a Parkland surviver hit my feels this AM
https://twitter.com/funkpuncher/status/995414230982676480
Jeffro
@schrodingers_cat: Nah…he was writing articles about it, or talking about writing it, but the book just came out.
schrodingers_cat
@Jeffro: Isn’t Fallows supposed to be one of the good ones. I just can’t with this heartland true Merica BS.
Steve in the SFO
@bystander: Bonjour! Ça va?
Elizabelle
I want a corgi for a viewing party. Or just to hang out with. What a great idea.
FWIW, QE2’s last corgi, Willow, just passed recently, aged 14. Elizabeth is not without dogs, however. Princess Margaret’s (!) dog impregnated a few of the household canines, so there’s some continuity. Think she has at least one dorgi (dachshund-corgi mix).
WaPost: Queen Elizabeth II loses her last corgi, Willow, marking the end of a scrappy canine dynasty
Sweet story with pictures, very worth a click.
J R in WV
@Schlemazel:
I saw that, and really feel for her. She’s a lovely young woman, and shouldn’t feel that her new face is any less attractive or beautiful than her original face. I hope she doesn’t get into repeated attempts to “fix” her scars, they are actually signs of survival and victory.
thalarctosMaritimus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I wonder whether she knows my parents’ cat, DammitTom.