It's fun watching Tim Sheehy run from reporters in Montana. He's literally afraid to answer any question. MEDIA: "why won't Kamala Harris do any interviews"?
Skye Perryman: Letโs be clear, the Supreme Court is our highest court, and youโve done so much good work writing about it and making sure people understand the stakes, but there are other courts across the country. Extremists and far-right movements donโt just show up on the steps of the Supreme Court on the first Monday of October out of nowhere. Theyโre working in communities across the country seeking to bring cases to shape the law in what often appear to be small ways but are the pathway to a law and a jurisprudence in this country that does not represent all of us and that does not fundamentally serve the aims of democracy. Project 2025 is not just a document about the next presidential administrationโor what could be the next presidential administration. Itโs a manifesto that reflects actual things that are happening in our courts today. For those of us that have the privilege of being lawyers or court watchers, part of our work is to look this extremism in the face and not blink or deny it, but to understand that it is here and that we all have work to do to combat it.
The Superintendent of Education in my state has decided to partner with Dennis Prager, of Prager U, to edumacate the children of South Carolina. I hope they play them those videos about how all men are manly men, who will head their families, and discipline the kids in a Christian way.
Our Supreme Court recently ruled that we didn't have to give public tax dollars to Moms4Liberty's private "Christian" school.
I thought a much earlier US Supreme Court said tax money to church sponsored schools was okay. As long as you followed their court approved system of money laundering. Instead of the state sending the tuition cash directly to the church, the state sends it to the parent, thereby miraculously washing the taint of tax funding from the cash. Just don't try that defense on any other type of money laundering charges. It must be somewhere in the GOP bible.
A lot of that is kind of weak. It spends a lot of time shoring up the axiom that his behavior in office and before was acceptable and Presidential. I guess an article about decline needs a baseline, but thereโs a bunch of sanewashing in there.
Otherwise, yeah, nice to see you squinting at daylight, NYT.
I just handed off my 2 charges (friends kiddos) back to friends after an extended babysit. Mr. Star was a team player. We're exhausted now though. Everything we planned was a success. The kids request for karaoke (at home with YouTube vids) was a disaster because the younger one can't read well enough yet. Thank goodness we didn't make yesterday's activity renting a karaoke room! Now it's time for a nap then back to regular adulting.
There is some decent stuff on Amazon, but you have to dig around for it. They have the worst search engine out there. There are other online sites for glasses thatโll have nice ones, but they can get spendy.
Even if you are getting the drugstore ones, I think your best bet there is to get the biggest ones you can (not the little slitty half ones) and go for tortoiseshell. Black plastic rims are what you sound like you want to avoid.
I don't know. Once I admitted I needed them, I went on amazon and got a giant assorted box--they're pretty cute and not the ones that are just half--they're like full-sized and have the light blocking stuff (for computer stuff--is it blue light?). Anyway, because I know how I am I just have a pair in the living room, the bedroom, my chambers, my bag, and on the bench, plus one by the door, and I make it a habit to take them off and leave them whenever I get up so that I just move from room to room using the ones there instead of taking them with.
I also have a fancy pair that are giant and oversized (like Jackie O sunglasses) with a slightly dark tint. Those I got at the eye doctor as a treat for myself. They're my "fancy" readers and I just take them when I'm going out to eat someplace nice or on an airplane.
Get some regular drugstore reading glasses and cut some window tinting film and put that over the lenses to make them look like sunglasses. J/K -- Or am I?
Even assuming we manage to prevail in a month, the rot in the country is very, very deep and wide. It would be the committed work of a generation to root it all out, and that's in the best-case scenario that the embittered losers don't resort to mass violence to maintain their hold on power.
What chafes my ass is, that was *after* Iran Contra, after Bushie, Jr's war. Like, they felt the need to shove it in our face? Or were they very aware that it was leaps and bounds worse than all that, so had to make it legal?
What chafes my ass is watching all the Opus Dei Catholics lying at their confirmation hearings - "of COURSE I wouldn't vote to overturn Roe. That is settled law."
It canโt stand for long. It was really intended as a get out of jail free card for the PAB.
Really, pointing out that something being illegal removes it from the scope of being an official duty ought to quash the whole thing, butโฆ **gestures broadly**
I think Biden and Harris should totally take that ruling and run with it. If Harris loses, Biden should just say "as part of my official duties as POTUS, I have to protect democracy, and I'll just let Harris pick her own slate of electors, and she can decide who to certify as the winner."
Good for the goose, as they say. Of course, under the official rules of Supreme Court Calvinball, (and that would work with either Calvin if the court werenโt packed with Opus Dei) it would immediately be overturned as not being applicable for Democrats.
FINALLY, the NY Times calls out Trump for being old and demented, and it's right there at the top of the page. Of course, the MAGAs won't care, but some normals might be. My favorite: his ramblings about his "beautiful body."
Thanks everyone! Next week is ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐. https://substack.com/@ziggywiggy/note/p-149855445?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knfuc
Zombieland and warm bodies are two of my favorite movies.
Firefly ended on a total cliffhanger today. Biting my nails till next weekโฆ
Thanks ziggy! Great intro as always!
It's fun watching Tim Sheehy run from reporters in Montana. He's literally afraid to answer any question. MEDIA: "why won't Kamala Harris do any interviews"?
Disturbing interview with Dahlia Lithwick:
Skye Perryman: Letโs be clear, the Supreme Court is our highest court, and youโve done so much good work writing about it and making sure people understand the stakes, but there are other courts across the country. Extremists and far-right movements donโt just show up on the steps of the Supreme Court on the first Monday of October out of nowhere. Theyโre working in communities across the country seeking to bring cases to shape the law in what often appear to be small ways but are the pathway to a law and a jurisprudence in this country that does not represent all of us and that does not fundamentally serve the aims of democracy. Project 2025 is not just a document about the next presidential administrationโor what could be the next presidential administration. Itโs a manifesto that reflects actual things that are happening in our courts today. For those of us that have the privilege of being lawyers or court watchers, part of our work is to look this extremism in the face and not blink or deny it, but to understand that it is here and that we all have work to do to combat it.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/supreme-court-2024-election-plans.html
The Superintendent of Education in my state has decided to partner with Dennis Prager, of Prager U, to edumacate the children of South Carolina. I hope they play them those videos about how all men are manly men, who will head their families, and discipline the kids in a Christian way.
Our Supreme Court recently ruled that we didn't have to give public tax dollars to Moms4Liberty's private "Christian" school.
>Our Supreme Court recently ruled that we didn't have to give public tax dollars to Moms4Liberty's private "Christian" school.
Thank god?
I thought a much earlier US Supreme Court said tax money to church sponsored schools was okay. As long as you followed their court approved system of money laundering. Instead of the state sending the tuition cash directly to the church, the state sends it to the parent, thereby miraculously washing the taint of tax funding from the cash. Just don't try that defense on any other type of money laundering charges. It must be somewhere in the GOP bible.
SCOTUS 2021, Espinoza, i think
It actually goes back to 2002, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris.
I like Lithwixk, but I'm usually more terrified than before whenever I read her or see her on something
Football!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a_mX6pUYw0
CNN headline on the landing page: 6 days of Trump lies about Helene response
They said "lies". Has the euphemism dam broken?
I have forever known them as "untruths".
I have noticed a lot of the hosts have been pushing back harder on the GQP's lies recently.
Better late than never.
Maybe dissing Donnie is the new clickbait.
OMFG. The NYT is dissing the orange one on the front page as well.
Photos or it didn't happen.
"I feel like I'm taking CRAZY PILLS!"
A lot of that is kind of weak. It spends a lot of time shoring up the axiom that his behavior in office and before was acceptable and Presidential. I guess an article about decline needs a baseline, but thereโs a bunch of sanewashing in there.
Otherwise, yeah, nice to see you squinting at daylight, NYT.
Aston Villa 0-0 Manchester United, final.
Chelsea FC 1-1 Nottingham Forest, final.
Halftime in London
Vikings 17 Jets 7
How do you like those crumpets, Kaaron?
Any team playing in white at Tottenham stadium can expect to finish second best (if not third).
LMAO
Vector Rodgers struggling.
Do any of these foreign counties have a say whether our sport ball gambling vessels are even wanted?
Or do they say" it's okay, we're Americans?"
(giggling)
I just handed off my 2 charges (friends kiddos) back to friends after an extended babysit. Mr. Star was a team player. We're exhausted now though. Everything we planned was a success. The kids request for karaoke (at home with YouTube vids) was a disaster because the younger one can't read well enough yet. Thank goodness we didn't make yesterday's activity renting a karaoke room! Now it's time for a nap then back to regular adulting.
Anyone know where to get decent reading glasses that donโt look like drugstore reading glasses?
There is some decent stuff on Amazon, but you have to dig around for it. They have the worst search engine out there. There are other online sites for glasses thatโll have nice ones, but they can get spendy.
Even if you are getting the drugstore ones, I think your best bet there is to get the biggest ones you can (not the little slitty half ones) and go for tortoiseshell. Black plastic rims are what you sound like you want to avoid.
I don't know. Once I admitted I needed them, I went on amazon and got a giant assorted box--they're pretty cute and not the ones that are just half--they're like full-sized and have the light blocking stuff (for computer stuff--is it blue light?). Anyway, because I know how I am I just have a pair in the living room, the bedroom, my chambers, my bag, and on the bench, plus one by the door, and I make it a habit to take them off and leave them whenever I get up so that I just move from room to room using the ones there instead of taking them with.
I also have a fancy pair that are giant and oversized (like Jackie O sunglasses) with a slightly dark tint. Those I got at the eye doctor as a treat for myself. They're my "fancy" readers and I just take them when I'm going out to eat someplace nice or on an airplane.
Do you have a link to the giant assorted box that you still have around?
I'm always surprised by the nice selections in gift shops.
Get some regular drugstore reading glasses and cut some window tinting film and put that over the lenses to make them look like sunglasses. J/K -- Or am I?
I find black spray paint blocks more of the UV
It worked for Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder!
So I can look like a badass fighter jet pilot?
yes
Or you can silver the lenses and look like OHJB or a fighter jet pilot.
https://www.readers.com/
Try zenni. Com. I get good an cute regular glasses there
Ali reporting on the the Supreme Scrotum rulings, past, present and future pisses me off... FUCK!
Even assuming we manage to prevail in a month, the rot in the country is very, very deep and wide. It would be the committed work of a generation to root it all out, and that's in the best-case scenario that the embittered losers don't resort to mass violence to maintain their hold on power.
That stupid and unnecessary "President is King" ruling still has me aghast.
What chafes my ass is, that was *after* Iran Contra, after Bushie, Jr's war. Like, they felt the need to shove it in our face? Or were they very aware that it was leaps and bounds worse than all that, so had to make it legal?
What chafes my ass is watching all the Opus Dei Catholics lying at their confirmation hearings - "of COURSE I wouldn't vote to overturn Roe. That is settled law."
Oh, shit, I just used the same phrase before I read your comment.
It canโt stand for long. It was really intended as a get out of jail free card for the PAB.
Really, pointing out that something being illegal removes it from the scope of being an official duty ought to quash the whole thing, butโฆ **gestures broadly**
I think Biden and Harris should totally take that ruling and run with it. If Harris loses, Biden should just say "as part of my official duties as POTUS, I have to protect democracy, and I'll just let Harris pick her own slate of electors, and she can decide who to certify as the winner."
Good for the goose, as they say. Of course, under the official rules of Supreme Court Calvinball, (and that would work with either Calvin if the court werenโt packed with Opus Dei) it would immediately be overturned as not being applicable for Democrats.
For anybody wondering where the giant tfg marionette went, here ya go... https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix-naked-trump-statue-upsets-arizona-state-senator-20282761
They missed their chance to have an even bigger Putin pulling the strings. Sigh.
Stay Puft Marshmallow Man wore it better
Ozymandias.
So, I wear dentures. I recently ran out of denture toothpaste, which is less abrasive than regular toothpaste. I decided to buy some cheap regular paste because I'm having trouble finding what I need here. This is what I bought. https://substack.com/profile/5870326-appalachian-in-thailand/note/c-71599053?r=3htkm
Mmmm.
Minty fresh shit!
Please tell me there's some cinnamon in there (:
Not a bit!
(snerts)
You created him, and you kept him in office TWICE. FAFO.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ข๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐บ "๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐จ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ท๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐จ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ค๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ด" ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฆ๐จ ๐ถ๐ฑ.
'๐ง๐ฟ๐๐บ๐ฝ ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ ๐ด๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐' ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐ฃโ๐ ๐๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ป: ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐
https://www.alternet.org/republicans-trump-mail-in-voting/
Reblups returned to their own vomit.
Lots of grim faces in the Man U VIP box as the match against Aston Villa grinds on like Bleak House or the Coleman Francis masterpiece Skydivers.
I am giggling.
On Black Music Sunday, Kos presents . . . Johnny Nash!
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/6/2272508/-Black-Music-Sunday-Johnny-Nash-was-so-much-more-than-his-biggest-hit?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_1&pm_medium=web
FINALLY, the NY Times calls out Trump for being old and demented, and it's right there at the top of the page. Of course, the MAGAs won't care, but some normals might be. My favorite: his ramblings about his "beautiful body."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/us/politics/trump-speeches-age-cognitive-decline.html
And yet they still tiptoe around, sanewashing him.
โHe has always been discursive and has often been untethered to truthโฆโ
Like that shouldnโt be disqualifying in itself.
Ugh.
And don't miss the Susan Faludi essay -- she's been an excellent truth-teller for decades.
Ew
As the rally music yesterday advised,
Every man wants to be a macho, macho man
To have the kind of body always in demand
Joggin' in the mornings, go man go
Workouts in the health spa, muscles grow
You can best believe me, he's a macho man
Glad he took you down with anyone you can
Hey! Hey! Hey, hey, hey!