As the Far Wrong Wing shrinks toward irrelevance, it continues to take refuge in Cognitive Dissonance, the inability to process the failure of prophecy. Thus the prophecies proliferate and became more vicious, while back in the real world we continue to knock them flat.
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- Road to Majority Conferences
- Hillsdale College’s Christian Nationalist curriculum
- Heritage Foundation
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Responding to criticism of the Project, in April 2024 Heritage released a 13-page document entitled, "5 Reasons Leftists HATE Project 2025." Restating many of its previously published objectives, the document also asserted:[79]
- "The radical Left hates families" and "wants to eliminate the family and replace it with the state."
- Leftist "elites use the 'climate crisis' as a tool for scaring Americans into giving up their freedom."
- "The radical Left wants our country to travel down [the] same dark path" toward becoming the Soviet Union, North Korea and Cuba.
- "Woke propaganda" should be eliminated at every level of government.
Opening Music
I've Got a Little List - The Mikado - Gilbert and Sullivan
As once again my Thursday morning shift has come around,
I’ve opened up my list, my trusty little list,
Of sources of the best Good News that everywhere is found,
So that none of it is missed, so none of it is missed!
Oh, Lordy, there are tapes and now subpoenas by the score!
And witnesses in hundred lots and documents and more!
Republicans in disarray—in chaos! Oh, what fun!
And animals and science facts and “Biden gets things done”!
Cartoons to make you laugh or cry and weirdness, we insist.
We make sure they don’t get missed, they’ll none of ‘em be missed.
I’ve got them on the list—we’ve got them on the list,
So they’ll none of them be missed, they’ll none of them be missed.
Good News for Us
BREAKING: This is a BFD, even if 6 1/2 months late
Biden Puts Arms Shipment to Israel on Hold Amid Dispute Over Rafah Attack
The United States withheld 3,500 bombs last week out of concern that they might be used in a major assault against the southern Gaza city, officials said.
Please, Sir, may we have another?
Op-ed: This Farm Bill Could Rein in Big Agriculture’s Lobbying Power
Good News on Electricity in Rwanda, Child Mortality in Morocco and Conservation in Peru
Pelicans are nesting on this Great Salt Lake island for the first time since 1943
An Ancient Collapse of Earth’s Magnetic Field Led to Multicellular Animals Emerging
Biden Leads 49%-45% in New ABC Poll, 2nd Poll This Week W/Large Biden Lead
NPR/Marist Had Biden up 52%-47% This Week With Likely Voters
The case for taxing big fossil fuel firms: a solution for funding climate resilience
What Could Go Right? Dial Down the Tension
Coverage of campus protests tends to represent the extreme of any one side.
‘Slowly Forging a Relationship’: Rural Vermont’s New Blueprint for Addiction Recovery
A unique collaboration pairs a recovery group and an EMS team to help those with alcohol and substance abuse disorders find long-term care.
Jonathan is 191 years old!! 🐢 A recent favourite story of ours… Jonathan, a giant tortoise living on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic has been officially recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s oldest living land animal. The tortoise, named Jonathan, was first photographed on St. Helena 140 years ago, but scientists have estimated he must be at least 50 years older than this given that he was fully mature when the then-governor of the island, Sir William Grey-Wilson, received him as a gift. Since arriving on the island all those years ago, Jonathan has lived in the grounds of the island governor’s house. Nowadays, he is kept company by three younger giant tortoises, David, Emma and Fred, and spends most of his time sleeping and eating.
See the dramatic moment two barbers ran out the door to stop a child from wandering into traffic
Amtrak no longer has to live ‘hand to mouth’ after being starved of funding for decades, CEO says
Australian Shepherd uses talk buttons as a creative way to warn family of laundry disaster
NYC’s Riders Alliance has a vision for a better, safer subway with less policing
A grassroots group of MTA passengers and community leaders is organizing riders to support new community investments and push back against regressive public safety narratives.
Ending Water Apartheid in Palestine
Bad News for Them
Gilbert’s original lyrics in The Mikado included
And apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind
Such as — What d'ye call him — Thing'em-bob, and likewise — Never-mind,
And 'St— 'st— 'st— and What's-his-name, And also You-know-who —
The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you.
But it really doesn't matter whom you put upon the list,
For they'd none of 'em be missed — they'd none of 'em be missed!
‘Twas ever thus, and now it is more so. Nominations are open.
Trump Trials
Yes, Stormy Daniels and Hope Hicks testified. Trump was heard audibly cursing. He got hit with another $1000 fine, the legal maximum, for another instance of contempt of court, and threatened with jail time.
Nikki Haley
Haley nabs 128,000 votes in Indiana GOP primary months after ending campaign
Haley pulled a notable share, bringing in 21.7 percent of the vote.
Her sizable showing Tuesday follows other primaries in which she has notched significant shares of the vote despite leaving the campaign trail more than two months ago. Late last month, Haley also nabbed more than 150,000 votes in the Pennsylvania GOP primary.
In her speech announcing the suspension of her campaign, the former South Carolina governor refused to endorse Trump, as other previous candidates had.
“Donald Trump made it clear he doesn’t want Nikki Haley’s supporters,” Biden said in March. “I want to be clear: There is a place for them in my campaign.”
The Biden campaign also dropped an advertisement earlier this year with clips of Trump criticizing Haley amid the GOP presidential primary, giving the warning, “If you voted for Nikki Haley, Donald Trump doesn’t want your vote.”
Other Trials
Coming up, dozens of fake electors to go on trial in multiple states.
Wiktionary: trumpery
Borrowed from French tromperie (“deceit”).
Noun
Adjective
trumpery (not comparable)
- Gaudy but worthless.
OK, that about sums him up, dunnit?
Aileen “Loose” Cannon
NYT: Judge Postpones Start of Trump Documents Trial Without New Date
Judge Aileen Cannon had previously made clear that the trial would not start as scheduled this month but she declined to set a new timetable, saying many pretrial issues still have to be resolved.
But while Judge Cannon’s stated reason for putting off the trial indefinitely was that a large number of legal issues remain up in the air, she never mentioned that she herself helped allow the logjam of motions to pile up.
Which is to say, she refuses to rule on them.
Kristi Noem’s Dog
It keeps getting worse.
So she has cancelled her book tour.
Mike Johnson
Be it noted that proof is for booze, math, court cases, and puddings. Actually he has no evidence whatsoever. Only False Witness.
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RFK, Jr. Assures Voters That Worm Eating His Brain Is Dead
The New York Times has obtained a deposition from RKF, Jr.’s 2012 divorce proceedings where he has stated “I have cognitive problems, clearly...I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.” And that it was caused by a worm in his brain which a doctor found. But the worm is now dead.
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Animals! Science! Weirdness!
Funny or Fuggedaboudit
P. D. Q. Bach
Concerto for Horn and Hardart
The Concerto for Horn and Hardart, S. 27, is a work of Peter Schickele composing under the pseudonym P. D. Q. Bach. The work is a parody of the classical double concerto but where one instrument, the hardart, uses different devices, such as plucked strings, blown whistles and popped balloons, to produce each note in its range. The name "hardart" and the name of the concerto is a play on the name of proprietors Horn & Hardart, who pioneered the North American use of the automat. Like the automat, the hardart had small windows in the front where the musician had to insert coins to remove implements needed to strike or otherwise play the devices that produced the notes.
The composer Philip Glass, a classmate of Schickele's,[1] helped build the actual instrument; Glass and the others tasked with building the hardart made it a transposing instrument without telling Schickele,[2] who had to transpose at sight during the performance.[3] As with other works that Schickele attributed to P. D. Q. Bach, "beneath the satire one finds very sound technique and invention in the music."[4]
The piece is in three movements:
The first movement is in sonata form, though with numerous mishaps. It quotes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 29. The second is a set of variations which, as Schickele notes, have no relationship to the initial theme.[5] It quotes Piano Concerto No. 21 (Mozart). It concludes with a cadenza that shows off the abilities of the hardart. The third movement, a minuet ("with cream and sugar"), ends with the bursting of the balloons on the hardart.