John said Diane’s the appetizer with his full chest 😮 #ted: The Event Series is streaming now on Peacock.
Does Instagram allow teddy bear bathroom nudity? #ted: The Event Series is streaming now on Peacock.
25 years ago today, Family Guy premiered to tepid reviews! And a quarter of a century later, they’re still as tepid as ever! Congrats to us all on our tepidness!
My cat demands 24/7 entertainment. I am quitting my job to devote all my resources to this task unless effectively absorbing cat toy recommendations are offered. Thank you and no I am not ashamed to ask this.
My cat demands 24/7 entertainment. I am quitting my job to devote all my resources to this task unless effectively absorbing cat toy recommendations are offered. Thank you and no I am not ashamed to ask this.
Has technology gone too far? 😳 #ted: The Event Series is streaming now on Peacock.
If Congress tries to pass a nationwide Cool Whip ban, I will veto it.
I wonder about this every day. A healthy democracy does not reward his actions. Perhaps they’ve forgotten about his incitement of a violent insurrection seeking to block the peaceful transfer of power, thus becoming the first sitting president in U.S. history to refuse to accept defeat. A healthy democracy remembers this. Perhaps they’ve forgotten about his packing of the Supreme Court with right-wing activist judges who took it upon themselves to rob women of their right to an abortion, and his statement of pride in his role. A heathy democracy remembers this. Perhaps they’ve forgotten his ninety-one criminal counts, and his suggestion that, if elected, he will fire as many as fifty-thousand civil servants, replacing them with loyalists whose only required qualification is fealty to Trump. A healthy democracy remembers this. Perhaps they’ve forgotten that he drove his own businesses into bankruptcy multiple times, and is now banned from running his business in New York for the next three years. A healthy democracy remembers this. Perhaps they’ve forgotten that he ordered Republicans in Congress to kill an urgent bipartisan border bill simply because it might make Biden look good, putting self-interest over country for about the billionth time. A healthy democracy remembers this. Perhaps they’ve forgotten his disastrous and chaotic handling of Covid, and his utter inadequacy in the face of a large-scale crisis (arguably the most important qualification requirement of all for a president). Perhaps they’ve forgotten the millions of needless deaths that followed. A healthy democracy remembers this. Perhaps they’ve forgotten what happened to Hungary’s democracy under similar circumstances, or perhaps they don’t think it could ever happen here. Or perhaps they’re blissfully unaware of that cautionary tale. A healthy democracy remembers all these things, and it most certainly does not reward them with a second term. Maybe America doesn’t remember. Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I wonder about this every day. A healthy democracy does not reward his actions. Perhaps they’ve forgotten about his incitement of a violent insurrection seeking to block the peaceful transfer of power, thus becoming the first sitting president in U.S. history to refuse to accept defeat. A healthy democracy remembers this. Perhaps they’ve forgotten about his packing of the Supreme Court with right-wing activist judges who took it upon themselves to rob women of their right to an abortion, and his statement of pride in his role. A heathy democracy remembers this. Perhaps they’ve forgotten his ninety-one criminal counts, and his suggestion that, if elected, he will fire as many as fifty-thousand civil servants, replacing them with loyalists whose only required qualification is fealty to Trump. A healthy democracy remembers this. Perhaps they’ve forgotten that he drove his own businesses into bankruptcy multiple times, and is now banned from running his business in New York for the next three years. A healthy democracy remembers this. Perhaps they’ve forgotten that he ordered Republicans in Congress to kill an urgent bipartisan border bill simply because it might make Biden look good, putting self-interest over country for about the billionth time. A healthy democracy remembers this. Perhaps they’ve forgotten his disastrous and chaotic handling of Covid, and his utter inadequacy in the face of a large-scale crisis (arguably the most important qualification requirement of all for a president). Perhaps they’ve forgotten the millions of needless deaths that followed. A healthy democracy remembers this. Perhaps they’ve forgotten what happened to Hungary’s democracy under similar circumstances, or perhaps they don’t think it could ever happen here. Or perhaps they’re blissfully unaware of that cautionary tale. A healthy democracy remembers all these things, and it most certainly does not reward them with a second term. Maybe America doesn’t remember. Pepperidge Farm remembers.
#TheOrville custom Ed & Gordon, courtesy of @scottchristophergrimes. My oversized head is accurately represented here.
Roe v. Wade got it right. Then a former reality show host came along and stuffed the Supreme Court with activist judges who upended 50 years of precedent. Make no mistake: a nationwide ban is still on the table with this guy and his crowd. Don’t reward him in November.
Roe v. Wade got it right. Then a former reality show host came along and stuffed the Supreme Court with activist judges who upended 50 years of precedent. Make no mistake: a nationwide ban is still on the table with this guy and his crowd. Don’t reward him in November.
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A timely reminder from Admiral Halsey. #theorville
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Just finished Franklin Foer’s enlightening account of Biden’s first couple years in office. While the book is a detailed examination of the management style of Biden himself, the real story is about his relationship to his team. As president, Biden is of course the final arbiter, however it’s tempered with a healthy trust in his professional inner circle. He’s frequently known to say, “Someone challenge me on this” when deciding upon a course of action in a meeting. As anyone who’s ever overseen a large group of people knows, the most desirable balance is a clear vision of what you need, coupled with a recognition that the departmental experts you hire can all do their jobs better than you can. Trust them, and everybody wins. This is evidently Biden’s style, in stark contrast to the Trump practice of packing a room with loyalist yes-men whose job is to affirm his whims without pushback. For those who voted for Joe, this book serves as timely a reminder of why. If you’re undecided, it’s definitely worth a read.
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@kennedycenter with @lizgillz, @natsymphonydc and Joel McNeely!
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This is one of the most enlightening books you’ll read this election year. Our Constitution is a work of art, but of course it has flaws. No other presidential democracy permits the loser of the popular vote to win the presidency. No other democracy retained any version of an Electoral College past the twentieth century. No other democracy has a filibuster, which allows legislative minorities to routinely and permanently thwart legislative majorities. How does this kind of imbalance play out in the real world? Well, 61 percent of Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases. 37 percent believe it should be illegal in all or most cases. And yet Roe v. Wade was abolished by unelected Supreme Court justices appointed by a president who lost the popular vote. 65 percent of Americans support stricter gun laws, while 29 percent oppose them. But the Senate vastly overrepresents gun owners, so nothing gets done. Or, in a hypothetical put forth by authors Levitsky and Ziblatt: “Imagine an American born in 1980 who first voted in 1998 or 2000. The Democrats would have won the popular vote in every six-year cycle in the U.S. Senate and all but one presidential election during her adult lifetime. And yet she would have lived most of her adult life under Republican presidents, a Republican-controlled Senate, and a Supreme Court dominated by Republican appointees. How much faith should she have in our democracy?” Frustration with minority rule is real. But democracy must be preserved, and so must our Constitution. We just need to do what our predecessors in the 19th and 20th centuries did a little more often: to update, reform, and improve our institutions so that counter-majoritarian policies do not make it so insanely difficult to carry out the will of the people. As early 20th century reformer Jane Addams suggested: “The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy.” This book is a sort of how-to manual for the building of a stronger democracy that works more fairly for the majority, and it’s definitely worth your time.
Even before the groundbreaking accomplishments of Friederike Otto and her team, there was always a dark absurdity to watching a climate expert “debate” a pundit, as if climate change were a controversy rather than a fact. As she points out in her book, “Renowned scientists have increasingly found themselves sharing a stage with deniers whose only qualification is to have an opinion.” Now, however, with the development of event attribution science, Otto has made such debates demonstrably irrelevant. She and her team have created what effectively amounts to a brand-new science: a reliable means of determining which specific weather events have been rendered more likely and/or more volatile by the effects of climate change. I’ve been meaning to get to this one for a while, and it didn’t disappoint. As both a scientist and philosopher, Otto lays it all out in layman-friendly terms. And of course it’s especially pertinent in an election year, because “every time we vote… we decide just how angry the weather will get.”
