Bill Wendel

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.

Still this: "I disliked Biden because [thing Trump did], and I missed Trump because [thing Biden did]. I voted for Trump again because I wanted [thing Harris promised], But I really hope that Trump doesn't [core Trump campaign promise]."

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

The title of the album is The Transfiguration of Salvadore Ross. Not Transconfiguration. My bad.

#nowspinning: Salvadore Ross - The Transconfiguration of Salvadore Ross.

Pregaming for Tippapalooza!

#nowspinning: The Boxcar Suite - Further in and Farther Out

Pregaming for Tippapalooza!

If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely:

1. Purge govt of non loyalists
2. Weaponize law against opponents
3. Use military to police opposition strongholds
4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel
5. Change election rules in his favor.

#nowspinning: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'

#bluenoterecords

#nowspinning: Rise Against - Ricochet

#nowspinning: Thunderlover - Size Doesn't Matter

🤘🏼

Size of the CD on my album stand doesn't matter either. 😜

#daytonrock

I'll say it a thousand times -- any account of the past that only celebrates the good parts of a nation without reckoning with the bad is not what we call "history"

It is propaganda, pure and simple.

#nowspinning: Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting

Hmm, what do ‘central camps’ and ‘final plan’ remind you of?
🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

#nowspinning: AC⚡DC - For Those About to Rock

#nowspinning: The Beatles - Abbey Road

Once again, my fellow nerds, I am begging you to remember that giving into bullies only guarantees they'll be back.

You've got to punch Biff Tannen in the face, McFly, or he'll rule over you forever.

Another day, another reminder...

#nowspinning: The Libertines - Up the Bracket

The extremely simple fact is that Jeff Epstein was the most notorious child sex trafficker in history, and the President of the US was his close personal friend for decades

Acting like this is complicated is absurd. The man knew what Epstein did, didn't care, and participated

#nowspinning: AC⚡DC -Powerage

Logical conclusion

Another scam

I think someone just got scammed.

#nowspinning: Empire Records soundtrack

YouTube video by Black Sabbath BLACK SABBATH - "Black Sabbath" (Official Video)

RIP Ozzy. 🤘🏼

#nowspinning: Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Appetite was released 38 years ago today. It's hard to overstate the impact this album had on me and rock music in general.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Fox News edits Trump interview clip to remove muddled response to Jeffrey Epstein question - Salon.com The right-ring network has a history of trying to protect Trump from himself by selectively editing interviews

this is so much worse than the normal editing CBS did when Kamala Harris went on 60 Minutes