1/ It's time to invoke the 25th Amendment....Trump is batsh#t crazy....
Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
One of the most memorably horrific scenes of police abuse that played out across the country last week took place in Buffalo, where an officer shoved a 75-year-old man to the ground and then the rest of his colleagues marched past as the victim lay bleeding on the pavement.
Or so you think.
https://nymag.com/
2/ Randy Rainbow with "Bunker Boy"....amusing, and he can really sing too....
3/ Bill McKibben with a very good column about the protests tilted "If Trump Goes Any Lower, We'd Better Be Prepared"....
Events are now moving at high speed in this country—every day, President Trump and his crew gallop past new lines, so that the morning’s flagrant usurpation is legitimized by the evening’s even more outrageous improvisation. (Firing tear gas at a crowd in order to be able to stand menacingly in front of a church holding a Bible is hard to top, but I wouldn’t bet against it.) A danger of this is that we’re always reacting to what came before. So perhaps it’s worth skipping a few steps ahead, to places where we haven’t gone yet but very well may.
4/ Stephen Colbert with some comedic reporting on the protests....he's really good in this clip....12 minutes....
5/ Paul Krugman compares Trump to Richard Nixon....and he concludes Trump is much, much more dangerous....
On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on student protesters, killing four. The 50th anniversary of the Kent State massacre passed with little notice in a nation preoccupied with Covid-19 — but now, suddenly, echoes of the Nixon era are everywhere. And Donald Trump seems to be deliberately invoking Nixon’s legacy, tweeting out “LAW & ORDER!” in the apparent hope that it will magically rescue his political fortunes.
6/ Barbara Streisland with a passionate "Don't Lie To Me".....great lyrics, excellent graphics and
good to know our premier songstress hates Trump too....
7/ A sobering article from Benjamin Studebaker on what's going to happen in the next couple of months when states have to cut to
make up for their budget shortfalls.....bye bye public schools....
Most of the time the economy isn’t taken seriously. We on the left sometimes talk about unemployment and the need to get aid into the hands of the poor and working class. But the economy is the source of revenue for state governments, and state governments crucially fund our public school systems. On May 29th, the National Conference of State Legislators revised their projections of the budgetary consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The result is this: the lockdowns are throttling that vital state revenue.
8/ Sarah Cooper with "How To Bunker"....a funny minute....
9/ Timothy Egan in the Times on the Never Trump Republicans....and what a great job they are doing....good column....
We are at the precipice, the us versus him moment. The people, protected by members of the military more faithful to the Constitution they have sworn to uphold than is their commander in chief. And him, the president, threatening to use that military against his own people.
10/ An ad from the Lincoln Project - "The Coward and the Commander".....excellent....
11/ It's clear some of the police in multiple cities have been out of control in the past 10 days....good column in the Times....
If we’re going to speak of rioting protesters, then we need to speak of rioting police as well. No, they aren’t destroying property. But it is clear from news coverage, as well as countless videos taken by protesters and bystanders, that many officers are using often indiscriminate violence against people — against anyone, including the peaceful majority of demonstrators, who happens to be in the streets.
12/ From Der Spiegel, a very popular German magazine....
13/ A wonderful open letter to Trump by a black man....from the Guardian....note - I love sarcasm!
Dear President Trump,
I realise this is an extremely busy time for you between games of golf and tweeting but I hope you may be boosted by a rare and welcome thank you letter from a black man at such an inconvenient moment in the history of the United States of America.
14/ A serious Bill Maher on cops.....very good commentary and one of his better bits of comedic reporting....five minutes...
15/ Tom Tomorrow....wonderful!
16/ Those bastards at Fox News.....it's hard to believe this story, but it's true...
Fox News on Friday posted an offensive graphic tracking stock market gains in the wake of several infamous attacks on Black men.
In an image labeled “S&P 500,” the multicolored graphic showed stock market increases after racist events that rocked the nation, including Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and the deaths of African Americans Michael Brown and George Floyd at the hands of white police officers. The graphic also included the Los Angeles uprising after the 1992 acquittal of four white officers in the near-fatal beating of black motorist Rodney King. The Fox News graphic, presented during news coverage and not on one of the channel’s right-wing commentary shows, calculated “percentage change” in the market “one week after event.”
17/ Bad Lip Reading - NFL 2020.....love the football players names....an amusing 10 minutes....
18/ Live in Florida, especially South Florida? Read this, there's still time to sell your house! And rent....
lorida’s time of climate change denial is over. You can buy mugs in Miami Beach souvenir shops that show a map of the world. Pour in a hot liquid, and Florida disappears. “Climate change is real” appears on the sides of Miami’s buses, and the issue is well covered in the local press; TheMiami Herald appointed a special climate change reporter in 2017.
19/ I wasn't aware of this - were you? Downtown Manhattan....2 minutes....
20/ That's where he's taking us....five more months to go...
21/ Like horror movies? Amazon has some of the best....
Hereditary. Photo: Amazon Studios
Amazon Prime is one of the better streaming services for horror fans (and that’s even before you add on the essential Shudder service for a little extra blood and guts). Someone over at Amazon HQ is clearly a fan of the genre, because there are an unusually abundant number of quality films on the service that will make you double check that the doors are locked at night when you’re done watching. Here are the 40 best of them. Sleep tight.
https://www.vulture.com/
22/ The Times on this summer's TV shows.....might as well read this, it'll be too hot to go out....
What will television look like this fall? The signals are mixed. Some networks are promising normal schedules while others are pushing back new shows to 2021 at the earliest. The one thing we know is that traditional TV production, halted by the Covid-19 pandemic, is only just beginning to gear up again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/
Todays farmer joke....
An elderly man in Louisiana had owned a large farm for several years..
He had a large pond in the back.
It was properly shaped for swimming, so he fixed it up nice with picnic tables, horseshoe courts, and some apple, and peach trees.
One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond, as he hadn't been there for a while, and look it over.
He grabbed a five-gallon bucket to bring back some fruit.
As he neared the pond, he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee.
As he came closer, he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny-dipping in his pond.
He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end.
One of the women shouted to him, 'we're not coming out until you leave!'
The old man frowned, 'I didn't come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or make you get out of the pond naked.'
Holding the bucket up he said, 'I'm here to feed the alligator.'
Some old men can still think fast.
Todays religious joke....
Todays senior joke
An older lady decided to give herself a big treat for her 70th birthday by staying overnight in a really nice hotel.When she checked out the next morning, the desk clerk handed her a bill for $250.00.She demanded to know why the charge was so high."I agree it's a nice hotel, but the rooms aren't worth $250.00 for just an overnight stay!I didn't even have breakfast."The clerk told her that $250.00 is the 'standard rate', and breakfast had been included had she wanted it.She insisted on speaking to the Manager.The Manager appeared and, forewarned by the desk clerk, announced:"This hotel has an Olympic-sized pool and a huge conference centre which are available for use.""But I didn't use them," she said.''Well, they are here, and you could have," explained the Manager.He went on to explain that she could also have seen one of the in-hotel shows for which they were so famous."We have the best entertainers from the world over performing here," the Manager said."But I didn't go to any of those shows," she said."Well, we have them, and you could have," the Manager replied.No matter what amenity the Manager mentioned, she replied, "But I didn't use it!" and the Manager countered with his standard response.After several minutes’ discussion, and with the Manager still unmoved, she decided to pay, wrote a check and gave it to him.The Manager was surprised when he looked at the check. "But madam, this check is for $50.00.""That's correct I charged you $200.00 for sleeping with me," she replied."But I didn't!" exclaimed the very surprised Manager."Well, too bad, I was here, and you could have."Don't mess with Senior Citizens
Todays sexist joke
*A bakery owner hires a young female shop assistant who liked to wear very
short skirts and thong panties.One day a young man enters the store,
glances at the shop assistant and at the loaves of bread behind the
counter. Noticing her short skirt and the location of the raisin bread, he
has a brilliant idea."I'd like some raisin bread please," the man says.The shop assistant nods and climbs up a ladder to reach the raisin bread
located on the very top shelf.The man standing almost directly beneath her
is provided with an excellent view, just as he thought.When she descends the ladder, he decides that he had better get two loaves.As the shop assistant retrieves the second loaf of bread, one of the other male
customers notices what's going on and requests his own loaf of raisin
bread.After many trips she is tired and irritated and begins to wonder,
"Why the unusual interest in the raisin bread?"Atop the ladder one more time, she looks down and glares at the men standing below.Then, she notices an elderly man standing amongst the crowd.Thinking that she can save herself another trip, she yells at the elderly man, "Is it raisin for
you too?""No," he stammers, "But it's quiverin' a little."*
