John Potter

“Now we have the Clinton rule, which is the presidents and their families have to testify when Congress issues a subpoena.”

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., provides an update during Bill Clinton's testimony during the House Epstein probe.

Embroidered images showing: A gold medal for the Olympics and particularly the big wins for the US women's hockey team and for figure skater Alyssa Liu A gavel for the Supreme Court decision striking down Trump's tariffs A cargo ship for Trump's insistence that he was going to go ahead with tariffs anyway A green check for the administration's announcement and immediate reversal of the decision to shut down TSA precheck and Global Entry as a bargaining chip in shutdown negotiations A snowflake for the blizzard that hit much of the country A truth-o-meter for Trump's lie-filled State of the Union speech A stethoscope for the confirmation hearings of wellness influencer Casey Means for Surgeon General A big red N for Netflix caving in the deal to buy CNN and other major outlets for news

Week 8 of my stitch-the-news daily news diary included:

A gold medal
A gavel
A green check
A cargo ship
A snowflake
A truth-o-meter
A stethoscope
A big red N

Joe Pyne: America's first angry talk show host A new series from Radio Diaries remembers controversial broadcasters in American history, including Joe Pyne, who paved the way for in-your-face radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh.

Before Rush, there was Joe Pine. I remember him from when I was a kid growing up in rural Illinois.
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Bighorn sheep climbing a mountainside in Montana.

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MAGA: The same old hate, now in a red hat.

Could be Moreno Valley, California.

Everyone has a bad hair day now and then.

If I had a giant Totenkopf skull on my chest that I was trying to pass off as a big ol' misunderstanding, I personally would not amplify neo-nazis on social media

If I were trying to dog-whistle my support for white supremacy, on the other hand, this is exactly what I'd do

If you can't tell that five minutes after he's sworn in this guy is going to be standing next to Josh Hawley talking about how president trump is right on immigration and heroically fighting to save America from the Mud Races, I don't know what to say other than "You are not very perceptive."

It’s not that I think Graham Platner is a Nazi. I don’t think that characterization is true. I just think he’s really fucking stupid, which to me is disqualifying for a senator or really any elected official

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That looks like Progresso soup can.

During Next Reconstruction, we will make *non-refoulement* an essential term in US civic vocabulary.

But what of his life? Did he accomplish any useful thing? Was he, in his day, of any dignity as a man, and of any value to his fellow-men? I doubt it. Bryan, at his best, was simply a magnificent job-seeker. The issues that he bawled about usually meant nothing to him. He was ready to abandon them whenever he could make votes by doing so, and to take up new ones at a moment's notice. For years he evaded Prohibition as dangerous; then he embraced it as profitable. At the Democratic National Convention last year he was on both sides, and distrusted by both. In his last great battle there was only a baleful and ridiculous malignancy. If he was pathetic, he was also disgusting. Bryan was a vulgar and common man, a cad undiluted. He was ignorant, bigoted, self- seeking, blatant and dishonest. His career brought him into contact with the first men of his time; he preferred the company of rustic ignoramuses. It was hard to believe, watching him at Dayton, that he had traveled, that he had been received in civilized societies, that he had been a high officer of state. He seemed only a poor clod like those around him, deluded by a childish theology, full of an almost pathological hatred of all learning, all human dignity, all beauty, all fine and noble things. He was a peasant come home to the dung-pile. Imagine a gentleman, and you have imagined everything that he was not. The job before democracy is to get rid of such canaille. If it fails, they will devour it.

I can think of no better eulogy to summarize the life of Donald Trump than these words from H. L. Mencken's obituary for William Jennings Bryan, published July 27, 1925. I doubt I could improve on them.

Regarding the collection of writings & letters assembled into the bible:

The plural of anecdote is not ‘data.’

~ Matt Dillahunty

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has invited both teams to his office for a photo op. He felt bad for the American women's team not going to the White House.
Safer in his office than in trumps...

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Reupping my 2025 piece about Casey Means, who apparently is about to become our new surgeon general www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/o...

Answer: Patel's mental and emotional development peaked at age 19 and has only deteriorated since.

I have as much faith in Platner's Democratic bona fides as I do Fetterman's. Whether he's lupine or ovine, I don't believe he's genuine.

Four of whom apparently are from Minnesota. Go figure.

Doesn't that just make it worse, somehow?

Hopefully, others also will find the fortitude to decline the invitation.

The guy named Margo?

if you read nothing else from rodger sherman in your entire life please read these paragraphs from the end of his newsletter, possibly the most important paragraphs anyone has ever written about Team USA

Brazilian mathematician Marília Chaves Peixoto was born 106 years ago today. She was the first Brazilian woman to earn a PhD in math, the 1st to be inducted into the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and was, during her short life, an important researcher on structural stability.

#WomenInSTEM #MathSky