It was cloudy and overcast all day yesterday, but it didn’t rain as predicted. This morning just before 5 AM, the fierce storm that was roiling the Gulf finally rolled through here. The flashes of lightning woke me up. Bill, who can sleep through anything, slept through lightning strikes that went off like bombs in …
Turkey Day (Open Thread)
I was walking Badger up our crappy dirt road early this morning, which dawned still and humid and overcast but tolerably cool. We hadn’t progressed much past our property line when a very large wild turkey burst through the brush at the edge of the road. It startled the dog and me, and the turkey …
U.S. Aid Airdrops (Open Thread)
Good news if true from CNN: President Joe Biden plans to announce Friday that the US will airdrop humanitarian aid and supplies into Gaza, according to people familiar with the plans. A White House official told CNN earlier on Friday that Biden plans to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the efforts that the …
“sufficient indicia of credibility”
I’ve been half-assed monitoring the mainstream political media’s reaction to incontrovertible proof that the House GOP based its impeachment inquiry on a threadbare Russian disinformation campaign. In normal times, that would have been an earthshaking revelation, right? That one of the two viable political parties in the U.S. is using its constitutional powers to work …
Squishable Morning Thread
What the goddamn fucking HELL?!? Sorry — just catching up on last night’s Supreme Court fuckery. Looks like we’ve got six Aileen “Loose” Cannons on the court. That’s not good. Open thread. ETA — excerpt from analysis by Mark Joseph Stern at Slate: Even in light of this Supreme Court’s hard-right lean, Wednesday’s order is …
OMFG (Open Thread)
From The New Republic: Donald Trump is arguing that he shouldn’t have to post the massive bond in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against him … because he’s simply too rich. Trump owes Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her in 2019 when she first accused him of sexual assault. The former president had 30 days …
Donald J. Trump: Weakling
Guess who still hasn’t cracked 60% of votes in a Republican primary? Trump “won” the Nevada caucus with a Saddam Hussein-like 99.1% result when his cult orchestrated a race with a god-bothering megachurch nobody named Ryan Binkley. But in every other contest so far, 40%-plus of the most engaged GOP voters expressed a preference for …