Truly Disturbing Things About Pokemons! Tabs, Tues., May 28, 2024
Morning news roundup!
Wonker Crystal replied to Dok’s Stupidest Memorial Day Ad He’d Ever Seen with a stupider one:
“This is not a GOP cuckolding convention.” Are you … are you sure? (By the way, chair Ms. McArdle they’re yelling to vacate is Angela, not Megan, so that’s disappointing.)
And ever so much more, from Jeff Tiedrich.
Roy Edroso was there behind the scenes. (Edroso)
How Republicans honor The Troops: Poorly. (Tiedrich again)
Oh jeez. Texas Republicans want to make it so you can’t win statewide unless you win a majority of the *land*. (Kevin Kruse)
Russia if you’re listening: Trump uses one of his stupid fake tweets to suggest to Putin that he hold onto the WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich until after Trump’s elected again, just like Reagan did with the Iranian mullahs. (New York mag)
Trump lawyers have asked Judge Aileen Cannon to dismiss the whole “stolen nuclear secrets” case because it can’t hurt to ask! (Our Liz and Andrew Torrez at Law and Chaos)
This is great. Enjoy!
Whole segment aqui.
Whoooops, the Washington Post knew about the (first) insurrection flag three years ago, like, while it was still hanging during the literal inauguration, whoooooops. (Chris Geidner at Law Dork)
People glooming out about “the economy” and thinking we’re literally in a recession when three-quarters say their finances are okay or comfortable isn’t just making me crazy. It’s making economist Claudia Sahm crazy too! (SAHM)
Oh lord, this is so awful. Maybe 2000 people, maybe 4000, buried alive in massive landslide in Papua, New Guinea. (Reuters)
Probably don’t even read this one honestly. The psychological torture of a suspect in his father’s murder — which they kept up after finding out his dad had just taken the train to his daughter’s house and was very much alive. (San Bernardino Sun)
I guess it’s time to watch season two of The Jinx! (LA Times)
Your friend Sara Benincasa on Judi Dench. No, she didn’t die, she’s just got what sounds like a wonderful new audiobook out. (Wonkette commission link although if I recall correctly we don’t get a commission on audiobooks, who can even say!) (Saratonin)
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Some vintage footage in your hed gif today—a cat show from 1931. Source credit here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/accomplished-cats
You know who gave up everything for this country? I’ll give you a hint… we just had a whole Memorial Day in their honor. But yeah, that’s not nearly as horrific as a bunch of privileged numpties getting rightfully called out for being assholes and suffering no real consequences whatsoever.