There will be serious posts from front-pagers more qualified to write them later. So I’ll stick to bricolage…
VIDEO: New Yorkers head to the beach on big holiday weekend.
New York State reopened beaches during the Memorial Day weekend that traditionally marks the beginning of the summer season in the United States pic.twitter.com/bFxlLfTMri
— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 25, 2020
Nearly 100,000 lives have been lost, and tens of millions are out of work.
Meanwhile, the president spent his day golfing. pic.twitter.com/H1BVNtgVjA
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 24, 2020
imagine if you possibly can the unquantifiable personal sacrifice this man made in depriving himself of the grueling exercise sitting in a cart and foot wedging for three whole months https://t.co/IS6mDqMKgm
— kilgore trout, potato thief (@KT_So_It_Goes) May 25, 2020
he’s gonna choose golf of course
— kilgore trout, potato thief (@KT_So_It_Goes) May 25, 2020
to be fair this isn't even 2 f-35s https://t.co/CUhqb1u6xK
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) May 25, 2020
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Speaking of “honor”, a treason-in-defense-of-slavery hissyfit, from “Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (May 20, 2019)”:
Maybe the US military should honor the men who fought to preserve the Union and shatter the tyranny of chattel slavery rather than those who fought to destroy the Union and preserve it. Unless you think there’s another principle they were upholding you think is worth honoring. https://t.co/Q2aQq7NQ3g
— Adam Serwer? (@AdamSerwer) May 24, 2020
“We shouldn’t honor people who took up arms against the United States on memorial day” is a controversial take only if you don’t understand what the confederacy was or if there’s something about its principles that you find appealing but don’t want to say that directly.
— Adam Serwer? (@AdamSerwer) May 24, 2020
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