I would include some of the videos of the police firing paint bullets into peoples houses, and other brutality but it seems they are censoring the videos as soon as they are posted on Twitter....
1/ Frank Rich on the Twitter war.....
Fact-checking doesn’t work too well on him. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Most weeks, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich speaks with contributor Alex Carp about the biggest stories in politics and culture. Today, Trump’s threats against Twitter, Joe Biden’s apology to black voters, and the legacy of Larry Kramer.
Shortly after Twitter declined to delete Donald Trump’s conspiracy-tinged smears of Joe Scarborough, the company added a fact-checking link to subsequent tweets Trump used to push falsehoods about voting by mail — the first time it had done so — and Trump fired back, on Twitter, with a threat to “strongly regulate” or “close down” social-media companies. Is Twitter’s response in the public interest, or are they creating another distraction that plays into Trump’s hand?
The only winner in this latest dumpster fire is Trump.
2/ A glimpse of the future?
3/ Thomas Friedman in the Times with a somber column titled "How We Broke The World"....
If recent weeks have shown us anything, it’s that the world is not just flat. It’s fragile.
And we’re the ones who made it that way with our own hands. Just look around. Over the past 20 years, we’ve been steadily removing man-made and natural buffers, redundancies, regulations and norms that provide resilience and protection when big systems — be they ecological, geopolitical or financial — get stressed. We’ve been recklessly removing these buffers out of an obsession with short-term efficiency and growth, or without thinking at all.
4/ A wonderful ad from the Lincoln Project attacking Mitch McConnell - "Rich Mitch"....30 great seconds...
5/ David Wallace-Wells asks "Has The Pandemic Peaked?".....and the answer is of course we don't know....
Photo: Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images
Has the pandemic peaked? COVID-19 has a way of humbling any prediction, whether clinical or epidemiolo
6/ Sarah Cooper does amazing Trump impressions, and she was on Ellen for an interview....in this
segment [7 minutes] are two clips....
The original Sarah Cooper piece that made her viral - "How To Medical"....40 seconds
7/ Bill Maher with an excellent rant about Amazon - a good five minutes, and he expresses
what we know in our gut to be true...
8/ Here's what's coming to the poor next month when the legal system gets back in operation....
An ‘Avalanche of Evictions’ Could Be Bearing Down on America’s Renters
The economic downturn is shaping up to be particularly devastating for renters, who are more likely to be lower-income and work hourly jobs cut during the pandemic. ttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/
9/ Here is "Drunk Trump Talks Medical"....30 seconds...amusing...
10/ Any night, any host, Fox News....
11/ Hertz going bankrupt is a bigger deal than you think....
Coming soon to a used-car lot near you. Photo: ETIENNE LAURENT/EPA-EFE/Shutters
Like a lot of the companies that have gone bankrupt during the coronavirus crisis, rental-car giant Hertz had preexisting conditions. The company had gone through four CEOs since 2014, made questionable decisions about which cars to buy, and taken on too much debt. The interaction of a collapse in rental-car demand and a fragile debt structure is what finally did the company in. Hertz financed itself mostly by taking out loans secured by its fleet of cars, and if the cars fell in value, Hertz’s lenders had the right to demand an immediate payment reducing the amount of the loan, so it was still comfortably covered by the cars’ now-lower value. Because of the crisis, used-car values and sales volumes fell right as Hertz lost most of its customers, and Hertz had no good way to come up with the payment its lenders were entitled to. Thus, Hertz filed for bankruptcy.
12/ Trevor Noah with a Supercut to celebrate the 100,000 toll of deaths....if you can hold down your vomit for one
minute it's a reminder of another world - Foxworld....
13/ And to go with the story on evictions above, the poor/renters are abused by background checks
which are often wrong.....
Burglary and domestic assault in Minnesota. Selling meth and jumping bail in Kentucky. Driving without insurance in Arkansas. Disorderly conduct. Theft. Lying to a police officer. Unspecified “crimes.” Too many narcotics charges to count.
That’s what the landlord for an apartment in St. Helens, Ore., saw when he ran a background check for Samantha Johnson, a prospective tenant, in 2018.
But none of the charges were hers.
14/ Governor Cuomo [Maria De Cotis] on buying test kits....an amusing 2 minutes....
15/ A summary of the recent Jeffrey Epstein allegations, including some about Bill Clinton....
Photo: Uncredited/AP/Shutterstock
The coronavirus may have pushed the Jeffrey Epstein story off the front pages, but in recent weeks fresh reporting and a trickle of new allegations have kept the saga alive. In early May, a Harvard University report shed new light on the convicted sex offender’s relationship with the institution. More recently, two newly released projects unearthed new details about the deceased financier’s alleged sex-trafficking ring: a four-part Netflix documentary, Filthy Rich, and a book by reporters Alana Goodman and Daniel Harper, A Convenient Death. Here are the new details these projects have brought to light.
16/ Jimmy Kimmel with a powerful commentary on the riots in Minneapolis, it's comedic editorializing and it's excellent....he also
shows a 2 minute video that will make you think, really think.....
A must watch segment - 7 minutes....
17/ I know some of you think our regular columnist Umair is OTT, but here is a disturbing column from
Michelle Goldberg in the Times titled "America Is A Tinderbox"......."Scenes From A Country In Free Fall"....
The last two and a half months in America have felt like the opening montage in a dystopian film about a nation come undone. First the pandemic hit and hospitals in New York City were overwhelmed. The national economy froze and unemployment soared; one in four American workers has applied for unemployment benefits since March. Lines of cars stretched for miles at food banks. Heavily armed lockdown protesters demonstrated across the country; in Michigan, they forced the Capitol to close and legislators to cancel their session. Nationwide, at least 100,000 people died of a disease almost no one had heard of last year.
18/ A worthy cause you might want to donate to....the Amazon Defense Coalition...
19/ Rolling Stone with the 20 best movies coming this summer....
Yes, there are still summer movies. Nowhere near as many as usual, since the COVID-19 virus scared off most of the herd into later this year or next. But director Christopher Nolan fully intends to open Tenet, his $200 million time-bending epic, in more than 3,500 theaters in July. Ditto Disney, as the company plans to counter with its live-action Mulan that same month. And in August, Warner Bros. will go in on Wonder Woman 1984. All three potential blockbusters are big-money gambles. In order to make a profit or just break even, they’ll need us to put on masks, submit to temperature checks, and make sure we sit six feet apart when we finally push into theaters operating at 30 to 50 percent capacity to maintain social distancing.
Todays video - "Beware Of The Doghouse", a video that women will love.....
Men - watch this and don't make the mistakes these poor schleps did.....
Todays subtle joke
A pretty but arrogant woman is eating at the most exquisite of restaurants.
She is eating a lot of cauliflowers and meats, when she accidentally passes gas.
Embarrassed, she looks to blame it on someone else, so she tells the nearby waiter, "Stop it!"
The waiter responds, "Sure Ma'am, I'll try. In which direction was it heading?"
Todays religious joke
A nun walked into Mother Superior's office and plunked down into a chair. She let out a sigh heavy with frustration.'What troubles you, Sister?' asked the Mother Superior. 'I thought this was the day you spent with your family.'
'It was,' sighed the Sister. 'And I went to play golf with my brother. We try to play golf as often as we can. You know I was quite a talented golfer before I devoted my life to Christ.''I seem to recall that,' the Mother Superior agreed. 'So I take it your day of recreation was not relaxing?''Far from it,' snorted the Sister. 'In fact, I even took the Lord's name in vain today!'
'Goodness, Sister!' gasped the Mother Superior, astonished. 'You must tell me all about it!'
'Well, we were on the fifth tee...and this hole is a monster, Mother - 540 yard Par 5, with a nasty dogleg right and a hidden green...and I hit the drive of my life. I creamed it. The sweetest swing I ever made.And it's flying straight and true, right along the line I wanted...and it hits a bird in mid-flight!'
'Oh my!' commiserated the Mother. 'How unfortunate! But surely that didn't make you blaspheme, Sister!''No, that wasn't it,' admitted Sister. 'While I was still trying to fathom what had happened, this squirrel ran out of the woods, grabbed my ball and ran off down the fairway!'
'Oh, that would have made me blaspheme!' sympathized the Mother.
'But I didn't, Mother!' sobbed the Sister. 'I was so proud of myself! And while I was pondering whether this was a sign from God, this hawk swooped out of the sky, grabbed the squirrel and flew off, with my ball still clutched in his paws!''So that's when you cursed,' said the Mother with a knowing smile.
'Nope, that wasn't it either,' cried the Sister, anguished, 'because as the hawk started to fly out of sight, the squirrel started struggling, so the hawk dropped him right there on the green, and the ball popped out of his paws and rolled to about 18 inches from the cup!'Mother Superior sat back in her chair, folded her arms across her chest, fixed the Sister with a baleful stare and said...'You missed the fucking putt, didn't you?'
Todays blonde joke
There was a blonde who just got sick and tired of all the blonde jokes.
One evening, she went home and memorized all the state capitals.
Back in the office the next day, some guy started telling a dumb blonde joke.
She interrupted him with a shrill announcement, "I've had it up to here with these blonde jokes. I want you to know that this blonde went home last night and did something probably none of you could do. I memorized all the state capitals."
One of the guys, of course, said, "I don't believe you. What is the capital of Nevada?"
"N," she answered.
Todays gender joke...
HOW TO SHOWER LIKE A WOMAN:
Take off clothing and place it in sectioned laundry hamper according to lights and darks. Walk to bathroom wearing long robe. If you see husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas. Look at your womanly physique in the mirror -- make mental note to do more sit-ups/leg-lifts, etc. Get in the shower. Use wash cloth, long loofah, wide loofah and pumice stone. Wash your hair once with cucumber and sage shampoo with 43 added vitamins. Wash your hair again to make sure it's clean. Condition your hair with grapefruit mint conditioner. Wash your face with crushed apricot facial scrub for 10 minutes until red. Wash entire rest of body with ginger nut and jaffa cake body wash. Rinse conditioner off hair. Shave armpits and legs. Rinse off. Turn off shower. Squeegee off all wet surfaces in shower. Spray mold spots with Tilex. Get out of shower. Dry with towel the size of a small country. Wrap hair in super absorbent towel. Return to bedroom wearing long robe and towel on head. If you see husband along the way, cover up any exposed areas.
HOW TO SHOWER LIKE A MAN:
Take off clothes while sitting on the edge of the bed and leave them in a pile. Walk naked to the bathroom. If you see wife along the way, shake wiener at her making the woo-woo sound. Look at your manly physique in the mirror. Admire the size of your wiener and scratch your butt. Get in the shower. Wash your face. Wash your armpits. Blow your nose in your hands and let the water rinse them off. Fart and laugh at how loud it sounds in the shower. Spend majority of time washing privates and surrounding area. Wash your butt, leaving those coarse butt hairs stuck on the soap. Wash your hair. Make a Shampoo Mohawk. Pee. Rinse off and get out of shower. Partially dry off. Fail to notice the water on floor because curtain was hanging out of tub the whole time. Admire wiener size in mirror again. Leave shower curtain open, wet mat on floor, and light and fan on. Return to bedroom with towel around waist. If you pass wife, pull off towel, shake wiener at her and make the woo-woo sound again. Throw wet towel on bed. If there is anyone who did not laugh at the truth behind this, there is something SO very wrong with you........
