The Three Dirtiest Body Parts You're Forgetting To Wash In The Shower! Tabs, Fri., Jan. 26, 2024
I wouldn't say I'm forgetting, Bob. Morning news roundup!
Trump is chasing off all the normie Republicans, and his Iowa and New Hampshire showings are weak. — Amanda Marcotte at Salon
Adam Serwer’s Idiots’ Guide to Coups must be horribly embarrassing for Ross Douthat. Horribly. (The Atlantic)
This man is certainly nicer to Nikki Haley than any of us would ever dream of being, but it’s a good open letter to her anyway. — Bulwark
If you are running for president, should you spend more on private jets than advertising? Asking for Ron DeSantis. (BoingBoing)
Joe Biden killing more junk fees like Millennials killing avocado toast. — Cheddar
You know what this whole thing about “Trump demands Senate reject border deal so he can run on ‘crisis at border’” reminds me of? When private citizen Ronald Reagan asked the Ayatollah to please keep Jimmy Carter’s hostages just a little bit longer. — HuffPost
Greg Sargent includes reporting on what’s actually in the border deal that Republicans won’t agree to because Trump wants to run on “border.” (The New Republic)
Tim Scott’s humiliating vice presidential campaign :/ — Mediaite
Uh, the E. Jean Carroll defamation suit (two? three?) is still going on, Trump testified yestertoday, and Judge Kaplan fucking let him have it. (Mediaite)
That was an awful lot about Trump today, my apologies! Holly Berkley Fletcher will now talk to you about pants.
Elon Musk is self-driving Tesla into the ground. — Gift link Washington Post
It is upsetting that regular smart people could be so apparently instantly brainwashed by the craziest sounding cult bullshit I’ve heard yet. (Non-Trump edition.) The pandemic really broke us. (Vice)
I am not a spiritual person or a religious person. But this about death is really lovely. Maybe even true! (Cassidy Steele Dale)
Dirty body parts! Not your butt! It forgot your underboobs, I guess because research dude’s grandma didn’t tell him to wash his underboobs! — Real Simple
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I just want to throw Wonkette some money!
A look back at olde San Franciscy in yer hed gif. More info here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/a-trip-down-market-street?r=angu9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true
Maybe I shouldn't import last night's drama, but I'm gonna just a little.
Some of the things that were said here? I feel like lying about that stuff is as bad as if I had been lying about all the stuff in my Portland protest coverage posts/comments. Probably most people here don't even remember them, but I copied them over to my other blog, the one I used more before I had the SubStack, and my daily reads skyrocketed and there were plenty of folks here who were thanking me for giving my perspective on the downtown protests (Woman Coming Home was at protests located in a different part of the city and getting arrested/providing news from there).
If I had been lying and hadn't actually gone to the protests and if that topless fatty on crutches with "Transsexual Perverts 4 Peace" written on her skin was actually a picture I stole from Facebook or some shit, I would ... well I don't know what I would feel b/c I just can't imagine doing that. But I feel like what we were told was more or less on the same scale as that, often a bigger scale in terms of individual heroics, though the Portland protests had a larger newsworthiness-scale b/c of the number of people not-me who were part of them.
I just don't know how someone does something like that.