Speaking of “Charlotte” Clymer –
“Before, I used to get a lot of women accusing me of ‘mansplaining’ stuff to them, but if they say that to me now I can get them fired.”
Remind us of how fragile and vulnerable Clymer is, because at the moment I just can’t seem to see it.… Read the rest
Here’s the deal: don’t fall for the “if there was quid pro quo” trap. If @realDonaldTrump
told a foreign government to investigate his opponent that’s it. Game. Set. Match. He has committed a crime. If he’s innocent, he’ll release the tapes. #ReleaseTheTapes
But is it though? Is it Game. Set. Match? How? When, by what process, how? What new mechanism will come into play now that hasn’t before? Republicans will vote to impeach? Of course not. So, what then?
It should be, of course, but then so should a long list of other outrages (which is not to say this isn’t the worst outrage). Should be but never was, because oh what do you know, … Read the rest
One from the “stupid shit” file – the deep personal importance of The Pony Tail to a trans laydee.
It starts with a photo of an actual pony tail on the head of an actual woman, I guess so that we’ll know what “Charlotte” Clymer is talking about.
When I was in kindergarten—and very much in the closet as transgender—I had begun to crave a ponytail like the ones I saw on many of the girls in my class.
Five-year-old children are not “in the closet.”
… Read the restI’m well aware that for many girls and women, the ponytail is a “bare minimum” style, often for lazy days, but the girls I saw in my class emulated the women I saw
Ed Pilkington at the Guardian wonders why the hell Giuliani is doing what he’s doing.
… Read the restGiuliani began thumping the Ukraine theme in April, when he laid out his theory – some would say, conspiracy theory – on Fox News. He accused the former vice-president of using bribery to shield his son from legal peril relating to business activities in the eastern European country.
Specifically, Giuliani alleged that Biden leant on a former Ukraine president to fire a top prosecutor who had been investigating corruption within a gas company on whose board Hunter Biden then served.
A week after Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign, Giuliani blabbed to the New York Times that he had discussed the issue of
The Wall Street Journal on Trump and Ukraine:
… Read the restPresident Trump in a July phone call repeatedly pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden ’s son, according to people familiar with the matter, urging Volodymyr Zelensky about eight times to work with Rudy Giuliani on a probe that could hamper Mr. Trump’s potential 2020 opponent.
“He told him that he should work with [Mr. Giuliani] on Biden, and that people in Washington wanted to know” if his lawyer’s assertions that Mr. Biden acted improperly as vice president were true, one of the people said. Mr. Giuliani has suggested Mr. Biden’s pressure on Ukraine to fight corruption had to do with an investigation of a gas company for which
Onward with the Remarks. Time to talk about Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaace.
… Read the restQ Mr. Trump, can you talk about the exciting new space program to the moon, sir? And what does that mean for both countries?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: So we’re doing a great program. We have — Vice President Pence is very much involved. And we have a tremendous space program. If you look at our facilities, they were virtually closed up. There was crabgrass growing on the runways and now they’re vital.
And, you know, we’re doing — we’re doing — we’re going to Mars. We’re stopping at the moon. The moon is actually a launching pad. That’s why we’re stopping at the moon. I said, “Hey, we’ve done the moon.
The White House transcribed today’s Remarks. Thank you, White House, because I sure didn’t want to listen to all that.
Trump says we’re “dealing with Saudi Arabia.”
… Read the restSo we’re dealing with many nations. We’re dealing with some of the neighbors to Saudi Arabia. And of course, we’re dealing with Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is very much involved, from the standpoint of what we’re doing and what they’re doing. And we’re working together with others.
We’re also working on the cost of this whole endeavor. And Saudi Arabia has been very generous. We want to see if it works out. And if it works out, that’s great. And if it doesn’t work out, that’s great. In the end, it always
Good morning! Today’s #WordOfTheDay is ‘misprision’ https://s.m-w.com/2K33oII
Zinnnnnnnng.… Read the rest
Gulalai Ismail has escaped Pakistan and is free in New York.
… Read the restA Pakistani human rights activist who spoke out against the army has fled the country after months in hiding.
Gulalai Ismail is now in the US, having eluded a country-wide hunt and a travel ban imposed by Pakistan’s authorities.
They accuse Ms Ismail of “anti-state activities” and “inciting violence”.
The activist said she was forced to run as she feared for her life, telling AFP news agency: “If I had ended up in prison and tortured for many years, my voice would have been silenced.”
Her father, Muhammad Ismail, told BBC Urdu that Ms Ismail had six cases filed against her in the Pakistani courts. And that she had
Aaron Rupar watched Trump babbling:
TRUMP: “I defeated the caliphate … I defeated the caliphate, ISIS.” He then threaten to release ISIS fighters at the border of European countries if those countries don’t agree to take them back. “Then they’ll have to capture them again,” he says.
“Our media has become the laughingstock of the world … the media of our country is laughed at all over the world now. You’re a joke.”
“We’re going to Mars. We’re stopping at the moon. The moon is actually a launching pad. That’s why we’re stopping at the moon. I said, ‘hey, we’ve already done the moon. That’s not so exciting.’ They said, ‘no sir, it’s a launching pad for Mars.'”
There’s … Read the rest
Who could fail to believe that?
Donald Trump has denied a report alleging he made a promise to a foreign leader, which sparked a whistleblower’s formal complaint.
The complaint is reported to relate to a July phone call with Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Washington Post said an intelligence official found the comment “so troubling” they went to the department’s inspector general.
One guess is that it has to do with trying to steal the next presidential election with the help of the military.
… Read the restDemocrats are trying to get the complaint turned over to Congress, with the details still unknown.
However, some reports allege that Mr Trump asked Mr Zelensky to investigate Joe
Another scary thing about the Greenland ice shelf:
… Read the restWhen the remnants of Europe’s second summertime heat wave migrated over Greenland in late July, more than half of the ice sheet’s surface started melting for the first time since 2012. A study published Wednesday in Nature shows that mega-melts like that one, which are being amplified by climate change, aren’t just causing Greenland to shed billions of tons of ice. They’re causing the remaining ice to become denser.
“Ice slabs”—solid planks of ice that can span hundreds of square miles and grow to be 50 feet thick—are spreading across the porous, air pocket-filled surface of the Greenland ice sheet as it melts and refreezes more often. From 2001 to
… Read the restOver the past half-century, North America has lost more than a quarter of its entire bird population, or around 3 billion birds.
That’s according to a new estimate published in the journal Science by researchers who brought together a variety of information that has been collected on 529 bird species since 1970.
“We saw this tremendous net loss across the entire bird community,” says Ken Rosenberg, an applied conservation scientist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, N.Y. “By our estimates, it’s a 30% loss in the total number of breeding birds.”
Rosenberg and his colleagues already knew that a number of bird populations had been decreasing.
“But we also knew that
In the annals of “stupidest thing I’ve read today” we get Pink News
ah well enough said, isn’t it. We get Pink News.
Prepare to be stunned and amazed and admiring all at once:
In news nobody saw coming today, Mark Ronson has come out as sapiosexual, which describes being attracted to intelligence in a person above all else.
The chart-topping record producer behind hits such as ‘Uptown Funk’ revealed his sexual identity on today’s Good Morning Britain.
Hosts Ben Shepherd and Kate Garraway congratulated the disc jockey for being “out and proud”.
I’d say this has got to be parody, but it’s Pink News – I don’t think they know what parody is.
Why would anybody see it coming? … Read the rest
The Department of Justice, which is supposed to work for the country not for Trump, is helping Trump keep the whistleblower report secret, according to Adam Schiff.
The U.S. Department of Justice played a key role in a Trump administration decision to withhold a whistleblower complaint from Congress, U.S. House Intelligence panel chairman Adam Schiff said on Thursday, adding that lawmakers did not know yet if the White House was involved.
Do we trust William Barr to be doing anything other than protecting Trump? No we do not. Whose fault is that? William Barr’s. He might be doing something disinterested and reasonable right now, but he’s given us way too many reasons to think he’s not. By placing himself … Read the rest
Trump says working for him is a gloriously easy job, because he’s a dictator.
“It’s very easy, actually, to work with me. You know why it’s easy? Because I make all the decisions. They don’t have to work,” Trump told reporters last Friday as he explained why being his national security adviser, in his mind, is now a low-key post. Trump fired his third such adviser, John Bolton, last week, and he named a new national security adviser on Wednesday morning by tweet.
No worries! President Pinhead makes all the decisions, from out of his very own rotting brain, so his people can just kick back and watch ESPN all day.
… Read the restTo outsiders, it’s felt like watching an increasingly
Oh, I see, it’s yet another heads we win tails you lose situation. The Intel IG is saying he can’t share the whistleblower’s report with Congress because he’s not authorized to…by the Trump-appointed DNI. On Sunday Adam Schiff was saying there is no one above the Intel IG, but apparently they’ve found a way around that.
… Read the restThe inspector general for the intelligence community, who is currently meeting with the House Intelligence Committee, has so far been unwilling to share details of the controversial whistleblower complaint, according to multiple sources.
Michael Atkinson has been telling the committee that he is not allowed to provide details of the substance of the complaint because he was not authorized to do so, the sources
Meanwhile on the lower floors of Trump Is a Criminal Tower, he’s suing in New York to keep his tax returns hidden.
… Read the restPresident Donald Trump asked a federal judge Thursday to block an effort by New York prosecutors to obtain his tax returns.
Trump’s attorneys filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New York against the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., who recently subpoenaed the president’s accounting firm for eight years of Trump’s state and federal returns.
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The lawsuit opens a new legal front in Trump’s long-running fight to prevent his tax returns from becoming public and comes as his campaign is fighting a separate effort in California. A new law in the Democratic-led state
So about this “oh oops Trump made a promise to Putin and that’s what the whistleblower blew the whistle on” story – a Twitter thread on the timeline:
7/28: Dan Coats, the Director of National Intelligence—one of the few grown-ups left in the Trump universe—announces he is resigning soon.
7/31: As wildfires rage in CA, Trump calls Putin to, we’re told, offer help with the wildfires in Russia.
8/2: For no apparent reason, the US pulls out of INF Treaty, because what could be better than allowing Putin to use intermediate-range nuclear missiles?
8/6: Jon Huntsman, the US ambassador to Russia and not an obvious Trump loyalist, resigns.
Oh. Yikes.
… Read the rest8/8: Coats advises Sue Gordon, who would replace him
It’s like this.
The rules are:
1. People are whatever gender they say they are
2. Cis people are comfortable with their assigned gender
3. Cis people may not reject the word “cis” as describing them
4. Only genuine trans people can be trans, and only genuine non-binary people can be non-binary
5. Cis people who say they are non-binary are wrong
The question is how it’s possible to reconcile 1 with 5, or 5 with 1.… Read the rest
