Mar 172026
 

Yesterday, I got an email from Johns Hopkins University, which just receives an Oscar for its (Netflix) documentary “All the Emppty Rooms,” which refers to the bedrooms of children who after school shootings did not come home. That documentary will be screened in DC on March 25 at their Bloomberg Theater on W Penn Ave. I sent an email to Indivisib;e Colorado and said that we have nine days to get Coloradans to either sign a petition or send individual emails to our Congressional delegation, and particularly to the Republican House members, to pressure them to go watch it. We’ll see if anything comes of that. I don’t have cable, but I assume if any of my readers is a Netflix subscriber, you can see it that way. Also, Glenn Kirschner did a (40 minute) video with Adam Klasfeld on the Halkbank case. I have mentioned it, but it has been pretty much under the radar – a $20 Billion money laundering case involving a bank in Turkey which is somehow tied to US sanctions on Iran and also to the Apricot Antichrist’s “bromance” with Erdogan. Glenn summed it up by saying, “I keep saying it is inexplicable because i look at it, as I do everything, through my justice glasses. But – if I take them off – of course it is perfectly explicable.” So you all probably don’t need to watch, but I’ll give the link anyway. Also – the Prime Minister of Denmark stated that the US is no longer Denmark’s most important ally. Denmark’s most important allies are the Scandinavian nations, the European Unon, and Canada. (I might add that there is an election in Denmark in a week. And that Denmark has always shown up for us in every conflict since WWII.) I got that last tidbit from Jacob Kaarsbo who works with Malcolm Nance (and who is Danish) on the daily war report. That whole report today made me want to repeatedly beat a wall with my head, so I’m not giving that link, but if you want it, say so in a comment and I will put it in a reply, or in an email if I have yours.

An update from Joyce Vance in the Fulton County election records seizure case. I don’t know about anyone else, but the moment the DOJ put their hands on those records I wrote this off on the basis that those records had already been corrupted and would no longer be valid for any purpose whatsoever. But apparently Fulton County thought it was worth taking to court.

A respected reporter writing about an FCC chair who royally disrespect reporters and the media they rode in on. And a couple more stories. Feel free to keep scrolling.

This from Axios was very brief when I collected it yesterday – but sometimes these alerts get fleshed out over time. It concerns me because – although in this regime there are NO adults in the room, she appears to be the closest thing to one that there is. Think about Miller getting promoted into that position. That truly scares me.

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Did anyone watch the Oscars? I didn’t – I think the last time I did was the year Halle Berry won Best Actress. and thst’s been d minute. But Liza Donnelly (a New Yorker cartoonist who is involved in politics as a citizen) did, and linked to what she says is “the one speech from the Oscars that you actually need to listen to.” And I would bet she is right. Here’s that link.

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Aug 272023
 

Since we’ve all seen TFG’s mugshot, I felt we should preserve some of the internet’s handiwork that turned it into a Meme.  I’ll admit that some of the ones I came across were so inside (at least to this 75 y/o), I had NO idea what they were referring to.

And then there was the problem of what to exclude to make the size of this post even halfway manageable.  But let’s start with a side-by-side comparison of the fake one that circulated before his mugshot was even taken.  It’s amazing how close it was to the actual one.

It used a photograph of Trump captured by Carlos Barria (Reuters) during a press briefing on prescription drug prices at the White House on Nov. 20, 2020.

Fact Check-Altered photograph of Trump circulated as Fulton County mugshot | Reuters

Several Tweets referenced the fact that TFG is hardly the first “celebrity” to have a mugshot taken …

One brought up how a number of presidents are so famous we know them just by their number.  Might be a little hard to remember at first, but TFG has now entered that pantheon – including the need to rename his eponymous plane …

Speaking of presidents, Pres. Obama appeared a couple of times …

The new unveiling necessitated the rehanging of TFG’s official White House Portrait …

Although after TFG commented on his mugshot …

I’m sure this is how all of his MAGAts see his mugshot …

A couple commented on TFG’s history that led to his Fulton County Jail booking …

There was no escaping comments about his unhappy scowling pic …

And in addition to the pics on Twitter (aka, X), there were a few entertaining GIFs as well.  Lincoln Project captured the moment it was Breaking News …

However, that certainly was NOT representative of the GQP reaction:

So, to Donnie and his Trumpkins, I say let’s turn that scowling frown upside down:

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