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Morning news roundup!
Actors strike over, actors won. Probably bad news for Joe Biden. (Variety)
So a good time at the GOP debate last night, according to this one tweet from Acyn which 22 seconds is the entirety that I watched. “Nikki Haley: ‘You’re just scum.’”
Joan Walsh thinks Tuesday’s biggest loser was Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Now now, they can all be losers! (The Nation)
Whew, thank God Texas citizens put a kibosh on that nasty “wind and sun” and voted for billions for erl instead! — Gizmodo
Chris Geidner on the “Alito Curse” :) (Law Dork)
Oh hey, you know how Democrats keep winning elections? Well Republicans know how to fight back, it is “poison election officials’ dogs.” WHAT THE FUCK. (CNN)
Well when Thom Hartmann puts it that way, it does seem like Donald Trump might be a “con man” and a “charlatan”! — Thom Hartmann
It was good luck for the Trump fraud family that Ivanka testified last, she has a better presentation than the meth squirrel and Gary Busey’s kid. A whole bunch of politeness and doesn’t recall. (NBC News updates)
The Bulwark seems to think Mitch McConnell should endorse Joe Biden. Hey why not, we write fiction now too! :D
Oh no, Vivek Ramaswamy is getting poor :( (Forbes)
Meg Bryce is Antonin Scalia’s daughter. She just lost her Virginia school board race by 10,000 votes :( (CBS 19)
Mark Halperin (yes that Mark Halperin) is a fucking idiot, “stop directly electing House members” edition. — Politico
Why did Gretchen Whitmer kidnap herself, huh? Huh? — Michigan Republicans. (Daily Beast)
LA Mayor Karen Bass going balls to the wall YIMBY on affordable housing. GOOD. (LA City)
There’s been an arrest in Samantha Woll’s Detroit murder. Who, why? Well that’s for them to know and us to find out another time maybe we hope! (Detroit News)
The orcas are beating up yachts again. “We don’t know why, maybe they are playing?” say the scientists, who are very dumb :( (Gift link New York Times)
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Luxury train rides! Eat your heart out, Amtrak Joe! (Matador Network)
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Your hed gif source is “I Love Lucy.” As this is one of the most recognized scenes in tv comedy history, you likely already knew that. https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/job-switching
Look, I'm sure I could have learned arithmetic at age 6, but no one had taught me. So one morning I head down the stairs to ask my mom a question that was on my mind.
"Mom?"
"Yes."
"What's 40 times 40?"
Now here's where any normal mom would ask, "Why do you want to know?" But not my mom. My mom (an accountant by the way, though I'm sure that has nothing to do with this story) didn't blink at being asked to multiply a couple numbers together and responded, "1600"
And here's the weird thing: even though I was just curious, I filed that away as if it was the most important fact in my existence. Then a year later, entirely out of the blue, my dad asks, "So does anyone know what 40 times 40 is?"
I practically leapt onto the table to yell, "1600!" desperately afraid my mom would answer first.
But nope. I got it out before she could begin to speak. Then this weird thing happened where my mom nudged my dad and smiled and my dad nodded back and everything and I was pretty sure that they were having some silent conversation about how he could have just asked her or something, but whatever that conversation was about, it was over pretty quickly and for some reason dad asked if anyone wanted to rent a movie and make popcorn. He seemed in a pretty good mood.
Parents: they're weird, but sometimes they're okay.