Want A Trendy Kitchen? You Might Have To Hide Your Sink. Tabs, Fri., Sept. 1, 2023
Want A Trendy Kitchen? You Might Have To Hide Your Sink. Tabs, Fri., Sept. 1, 2023
That's silly, tabs! Morning news roundup!
Two great Labor Day wonkmeets that taste great separately!
First! Please join us at our house in Detroit this Labor Day Monday, 2 to 6 p.m., for grilling and drinking and good times! Bring a kid if you got one and a bathing suit if you want to splash around in the tiny above ground pool and something to share only if you love bringing things to share! Email me at rebecca at wonkette dot com for our address. We love you!
Second! Windsor, the Berkshires, camping out with Paul and Holly!
Camping for anyone who’d like to set up a tent OR there’s plenty of hotel/motels, Airbnb, Vrbo, and traditional B&B choices in the area.
Food will be available, but we’re asking everyone to bring a cooler and a potluck. The grill is always available for your individual wants and the grill does have a single side burner. We’ll have the traditional burgers and dogs, and Paul will make his famous vat of Paul’s Fabulous Spaghetti Sauce. We have a wonderful Wonk that will be making dinner for everyone on whatever night they choose. If you drink adult beverages, bring whatever you desire, we’ll have sodas and all manner of non-alcoholic stuff to drink.
Bring a warm jacket or sweater in case it gets chilly. AND don’t forget to pack insect repellent.
You can let Holly know you’ll be attending and get coordinates here.
Yes, this Tennessee prosecutor is threatening to arrest Pride festival organizers, what, you’re surprised? (Erin in the Morning)
Nebraska governor signs anti-trans “women’s bill of rights.” Democratic state senator woman offers to fight him. — LGBTQ Nation
What they mean and aren’t saying is that the Republican donor bigots are JES WONDERIN if never-married Tim Scott is gay. (Axios)
Go to prison for 17 years, Proud Boy who isn’t even Enrique Tarrio! — AP
State Department says Americans need to get out of Haiti like NOW, y’all :/ (Miami Herald)
Federal and California bills would allow unemployment checks for strikers. I LOVE IT. — Deadline
The California bill might not be that relevant for the entire UAW! Big Gretch, you listening? (Click on Detroit)
Don’t forget your mugshot shots!
State of California shoveling half a billion dollars at Los Angeles for affordable housing and sustainable infrastructure and “transit amenities.” GOOD. It’s desperately fuckin needed. — Karen Bass
It’s weird that Vassar is being sued for sex discrimination … against the women, right? (Law firm)
Can you imagine if Marjorie Taylor Greene was thoughtful and self-aware and could speak in sentences? Anyway, here’s an interview with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (I would have liked more attention on that absolutely braindead New York mag essay about how she’s now “sold out.”) — Gift link New York Times
AP doing the Lord’s work: No, a meat allergy caused by ticks is not tied to a Gates Foundation-funded program.
Hiding your sink? Really, Elle Decor?
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Wonkparty Weekend! A refresher on the when and wheres of all the excitement here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/wonkparty-weekend
Yeah, I was coming off vacation tiredness when I did the gif. It’s LABOR Day, not Memorial Day. Sheesh.
Have a wonderful Labor Day friends, however you choose to spend it.
ETA, a quick note from host Paul about the temperatures for the Berkshires gig:
Good Morning Campers!!
It was 43 degrees when I got up around 6 and has shot up to 44F now so bring your cold weather rated sleeping bag if you're camping. Daytime highs are forecast for the 70's and maybe even the low 80's, but the nights up here can be a tad brisk. Sunny and bright forecast for the entire Wonkapalooza.
ETA...Ziggy informed me that it was "cold" sleeping out in her new 30 degree bag, so that's their opinion but please keep in mind that our Zig is a flatlander. I'm out on the deck, smoking a butt, wearing a terry cloth bathrobe and I'm comfortable, but I'm used to it.
Perhaps ask Zig once they get on here, for a different perspective.
Just want to on the record as never wanting ever to own any trendy thing, whether decor as ridiculous as kitchens that hide their sinks or huge closets for my shoe collection, or clothing styles (OK I will admit to being grunge before grunge was "in").
I think I am repulsed by this stuff since I made the mistake last night of looking at celebritys' houses they are having trouble unloading.
In the Dr. Zhivago movie when he finally returned home to find his house now was lived in by like 50 people, I agreed with him "This was more just". Too many people have too damn much money. Way too many people are in the working poor, unhoused, etc. categories