Eric Aspengren

Great day for everyone whose 2024 brand move was claiming that Dems were exaggerating how bad Trump would be.

Damn

Anecdata:
-Go into Y in Calif, while visiting.
-Give them "national card," tied to East Coast Y.
-"Welcome! How is it back in DC?"

-I ask how things are for them." Well, a ton of money got cut in this bill. Trying to see what it means for us."
-Me: "But everyone loves the Y."
-Them: "Yeah, but.."

Broken clock, etc, etc...

Jesus

The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com How Trump Lost Control of the Epstein Narrative 4 hours ago - What President Trump's apparent inability to stop his supporters talking about Jeffrey Epstein reveals about the limits of his power.

The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com How Trump Deflected MAGA's Wrath Over Epstein, at Least for Now 2 hours ago - By tapping into other grievances, President Trump managed to turn one of the most fractious moments for his base into a unifying one.

Reports vary.

I'm not disagreeing.

No hate from me. I'm just saying that these kinds of skills take a lot of time to develop. I'm glad he can do all this stuff. And installing a kiln isn't going to be especially cheap. More power to him, though!

Do people on container ships have lots of spare time?

A man with spare time and money

Donald Trump has abruptly fired the prosecutor in charge of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases, raising fresh questions about Joe Biden's lack of press availability.

It shld be fully acknowledged the major news platforms, esp the legacy media, are engaging in a conspiracy of silence w/regard to the competency of the current President.

Not just the Epstein stuff—all of the lapses, errors, lies, & negligence.

And yet CNN's Jake Tapper is still covering Biden.

Could you imagine a president of the United States tanking the bond market to distract from a sex scandal?

Not possible, right? Like some kind of crazy movie script too absurd even for Hollywood?

BREAKING: On emergency applications from the Solicitor General, Supreme Court holds, 6-3, that further discussion of the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax is a felony.

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...

I'll sign on to this and give it my own simpler version: the court is deeply and irredeemably corrupt and must be thoroughly reformed.

Ideally this would be through expansion and a new system of ten year terms and cases heard by subset panels of justices.

If my car weren't waiting for a new brake caliper this'd be a perfect night for driving around listening to Latin Playboys.

I’ve thought for a while that Trump has no real political ideology other than whatever it is his handlers are telling him makes him look good. He’s a reactionary. Vance on the other hand seems to be entirely sold on actual, honest to God Italian fascism.

A local video store owner informed me that kids in their 20s are buying up all his VHS horror movies because they think it's "scarier due to the graininess of the video" and that was the most heart-warming thing I've heard in a long time.

“The NYT editors are actively competing with a white supremacist and key republican strategist for their news cycle” is a good summary of where things are for the national media ecosystem

yep, wrote about this depressing trend just a couple months ago slate.com/technology/2...

Any reporter calling Don Bacon a centrist should be fired.

OMG

you should regularly speak out against members of your own profession because every profession is inevitably flawed in part and the people inside it are usually best positioned to discuss why.

This is insane

Centrist Rep. Don Bacon is done with Congress — but open to a potential presidential bid In an interview with NBC News, the Nebraska Republican talked about why he's skipping out on a sixth term and his vote for Trump's big domestic agenda bill.

Bacon: another word for hubris.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence

The real surprise came after the experiment. Fred Lambert, who writes for the blog Electrek, pointed out the same autopilot disengagement that the NHTSA had documented. “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” Lambert noted.

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week

theonion.com/new-york-tim...

LL COOL J drops out of Wawa Welcome America concert because of union strike LL COOL J said that he is not going to perform at Wawa Welcome America on July 4th in light of the AFSCME District Council 33 strike in Philadelphia.

LL Cool J said that he will not perform at Wawa Welcome America in Philadelphia on July 4th because of union strike

“There is absolutely no way I can perform across a picket line”