In our house, the Liquor Cabinet folks are referred to as DUI hires. But yeah, the gals got all that plastic surgery to no avail.

Important to emphasize that some of those OBLIGATED to protect the US from a demented prez with the 25th were involved with keeping him away from the Situation Room. So they KNOW he's unfit. But haven't done their duty.
Btw, Trump can't fire the VP. So Vance's got the least excuse for inaction.

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Opinion | Graham Platner Went to Hell and Back. He Has a Simple Message for Democrats.

Hackneyed DC drama: Sen
Collins dithering between doing the Rep. bidding or not. Usually votes indistinguishably from a party hack, but gets way more attention. Sen. King has the same electorate & manages to safely vote left of her, often. Hope Platner ends Drama Queen Collins's reign.

Kinda reminds me of Hannity renouncing Catholicism now that Pope Leo brought up peace. Per Wiki, Hannity first renounced Catholicism in 2019, before Pope Leo's name was a particulate in the white smoke's eye.
Similarly, Dershowitz has been indistinguishable from a Republican for years.

The man who:

+ goaded his wife II/mom of his kids into suicide by leaving a diary of his affairs for her to read,
+ scarfed down roadkill raccoon penises
+ persuaded his later OD'd brother to do heroin

somehow represents the pinnacle of human evolution?

US military service members will no longer be required to get annual flu shot Defense secretary Pete Hegseth makes announcement and calls military’s flu vaccine mandate ‘broad’ and ‘not rational’

The wars in which more soldiers died of disease than injuries occurred before we had most vaccines (WWI, Civil, etc). Guess Kegsbreath is more into lethality than some thought.

The guy who's so-not-bribing Clarence Thomas?

Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages

Who is surprised:
+ That Israel would do this?
+ That adjudicated rapist, Pervy Paws, would support this, and force the US to fight alongside these soldiers

The Power of Public Libraries: Toni Morrison Reflects on the New York Public Library's Impact YouTube video by Life Stories

In honor of National Library Week, an extensive video interview with Toni Morrison about the New York Public Library.

And Morrison's 2018 statement "Tell City Leaders to Invest in Libraries."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxr5...

wayback.archive-it.org/18689/202203...

It's not a mere sign; it's an admission -- by their actions -- on the part of the VP & some of the cabinet that Old Bone Spurs cannot do the job. Per the Constitution, they have the responsibility to protect us from this level of incapacity. Don't they care about national security?

DUI Hires...

Kash Patel sues the Atlantic over article alleging excessive drinking Magazine has stood behind the story, which was written by veteran national security reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick

Because I believe The Atlantic & don't find Patel at all credible on any topic, I am looking forward to the discovery phase. Wonder whether Kash understands what all that involves.

DUI hires...
(Can't take credit for that one -- my younger son's response)

If rational people regain power in this country, they're going to have a lot to do at first to strengthen democracy guardrails. I suggest that for tech stuff, they START by simply copying European laws. They have better privacy protections. We can modify later.

Marta (@grammamarta) Via Josh Helfgott BREAKING🚨 A man was choked to death by ICE guards and DHS hid his body at a military base to block the autopsy. His name was Geraldo Lunas Campos. When the county medical examiner...

Hidden deaths in ICE detention. Ongoing! Not resolved by Noem's departure.

substack.com/@grammamarta...

Also, they don't have spines. If they only had perpetually open pockets.

Only embarrassing to those capable of shame. This crowd ain't.

Go Ana 💥

According to Wiki, he left the Catholic Church in 2019 because of "institutionalized corruption." It may make professional sense for him to act as if Pope Leo daring to assert that Christianity values peace is what drove him out, but that's not historically accurate.

I speak out for 2 reasons. First, as a citizen, I feel I am in less jeopardy than an immigrant, so better for me to take the risk. Also I vote & will not vote for a bigot. Second, my late husband was an immigrant, so I have dealt with what was then the INS (1984-6).

Poll: Trump’s immigration message changed. Voters' opinions have not. A new POLITICO poll finds half of Americans — including one quarter of Trump’s 2024 voters — said his mass deportations campaign is too aggressive.

Ongoing: Warrantless searches, ICE goons bullying us all, arbitrary detentions, incl. citizens. In detention: filth, denial of med care, rape & violence, shackling, theft of property, releases dumping coatless, shoeless folk in unfamiliar places at night. New ICE shootings coming to light.

Nothing sexier than a man doing dishes...

Inessa Morozova (Ukrainian, b.1981)
"Washing Dishes," 2022
Oil on canvas
80 x 70 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Seems to have taken hours not days.

A bust length painting from the mid-19th century of a Black woman named Phillis wearing a brown, pink and white striped top with a white neckerchief and a white head covering with crossing pink lines. According to the object page on the auction website, "Family records show Phillis was a slave of the Patterson family, who provided a farm near Pottsville, PA to Rubens’ family when the Peale’s New York Museum failed after the panic of 1837. Phillis helped Eliza Patterson in New York and continued to help the young family at the farm. Mary Jane Peale’s diaries begin in 1847, where she recorded her hope to become a professional artist and hint at the close relationship she had with Phillis by that time. Phillis lived the rest of her life at the farm with Rubens, Eliza, and Mary J. Peale. It is unclear when she was emancipated, but it is known that she chose to remain with the family until her death in 1854. The family honored Phillis with her burial in a whole lot and marked grave at the United Presbyterian Cemetery, Pottsville, PA. Mary Jane Peale’s diaries record Phillis’ Christian baptism in 1848."

On Apr 14, the auction house Doyle sold "Portrait of Phillis," 1849, by Mary Jane Peale, for US $349,750. The result is more than 40x the presale estimate range of US $5,000-$8,000.

doyle.com/auction/lot/...

Hey, so ICE is still kidnapping and disappearing people in the United States.

Just because they got quieter about it doesn't make it okay.

Abolish ICE. Chinga la Migra.

Since he has no idea WHAT he's talking about, it may be too much to expect him to ever recall saying it. Inepstein's best defense from being 25th'd is the lack of mental fitness among those who would have to vote to remove him.

Happy Tortie Day!

I found the colors too wan when painting with coffee or tea.
Here, added tumeric & paprika to hot water. Coffee & espresso for yellow brown; baking cocoa powder for reddish brown. The green & gray are watercolors.

My late torbie, Zasu Kitts.

"You're spending taxpayer dollars to drink milk shirtless in a hot tub with Kid Rock. Somehow you think that's a better public health message than informing the public about the benefits of vaccines. Really? -- Rep. Linda Sanchez to RFK Jr