The Washington Post continues to blaze Democracy Dies in Darkness on its front page. Publication day for A Very Stable Genius. Senate "debates" rules for the trial of Donald Trump. Writer's Almanac makes Poem with an Embedded Line by Susan Cohen [http://www.garrisonkeillor.com/radio/…
via The Guardian [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2019/jul/30/us-border-wall-seesaws-allow-children-on-each-side-to-play-together-video?CMP=share_btn_tw]…
> “There is something in the contemplation of the mode in which America has been settled, that, in a noble breast, should forever extinguish the prejudices of national dislikes. Settled by the people of all nations, all nations may claim her for their own.“ —Redburn pic.twitter.com/egHuSGtG5E [https:…
This contradiction didn't present itself; I had to assemble it from messages I had seen separately. Makes you wonder. > Here’s how London is (hilariously) trolling Trump during his state visit https://t.co/qdTxGJS8Eh — Fast Company (@FastCompany) June 3, 2019 [https://twitter.com/FastCompany/status/1135622470491430915?…
> The Borowitz Report: Donald Trump interpreted the special counsel’s pro-reading message as a thinly veiled attack on him. https://t.co/jm0I1Dgpvw — The New Yorker (@NewYorker) May 29, 2019 [https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1133846847221637125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > "Mueller is a man out of time,…
> How would we say "grift" and "scam" in #Latin [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Latin?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] and #AncientGreek [https://twitter.com/hashtag/AncientGreek?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] (asking for a country I know...) — sententiae antiquae (@sentantiq) May…
According to Next Draft [https://nextdraft.com/archives/n20190503/know-collusion/] > Trump says he and Putin discussed outcome of Mueller probe as part of hour-long phone conversation. "I sort of smiled when he said something to the effect that it started off as a mountain and ended up as…
This, from Next Draft [https://wp.me/p3R0cO-4Ru], reminds me that I should start collecting stories where the United States could learn a lot from supposedly backwards countries. Is S***hole countries too inflammatory a tag? > "Indian law says no one should have to travel more than 2…