I look forward to watching this kind of stuff again and again for months. Where's your messiah now, MAGA? Oh, right: Picking out floor-marble samples and ogling men's asses like the cohost of a home-flipping show on HGTV.
This notorious NH auction house is offering a very obviously inauthentic "Mondrian" dated 1930 with provenance from a collector who died in . . . 1917. Could be yours at the opening bid of $2,500! 🤡
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Jesus Christ: "Portrait is unsigned but is the work of Alice Neel." 🤡
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Hegseth replacement on deck
Fascinating to see him handle potentially embarrassing candid moments like this. Absolutely born to it. There's always danger of overexposure (see: Newsom), but if he has a couple more good years in the Senate, he's the one for Dems in 2028. I like Pete, but . . . Biden holdover.
My favorite Peanuts strip, much earlier than this (1960s?), is darkly, almost surreally comic: While Linus and Lucy examine the ruins of Snoopy's burned-down dog house, Lucy says over and over, "He was probably smoking in bed." (She later invokes "sinning" in the same story arc!)
My God, Osaka's statement is LITERALLY a string of anodyne, nonspecific clichés, one after another—a parody of every postgame locker-room interview ever. The only thing missing is a thank-you to the Big Guy.
Holy shit . . . I did NOT know that Iowa(!) just elected a former male runway model as governor, and also, that black trench coat is 🔥🔥🔥
Of course it's just like any other random minute in Trumpworld, but imagine ANY other U.S. president saying that his party would not only "win" (they didn't), but also that, re: the party that actually won, "we're going to shove it up their asses." In public. To the world.
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This is the final Cook Political Report rating pre election. Dems won every "Likely D "seat. They won every toss up seat. They won or are ahead in 7 of the 18 "Lean R"'s, they won 7 of the 17 ""Likely R". Dems won all their likely or safe seats, Dems also picked up 2 "solid" R seats.
FWIW re: Marsha Blackburn bailing out the Secretary of Scotch out by naming him to a Senate seat in Tennessee. The corner he's painted into is about the size of a saltine cracker. It's just a matter of resignation, firing, or impeachment and conviction.
This is all quite satisfying, and though I'd prefer the humiliation of impeachment and conviction, Trump will never allow it, purely as a matter of ego. He will permit Hegseth to "resign"—or be fired. Hegseth would be a fool to resist. He is, with metaphysical certainty, toast.
I pressed Grok from several angles on her political affiliation and came up with nothing, but let's be adults here: Tell me you can't tell from the photo. You can just see it in some people—across the political spectrum, to be clear. That face was a staple on COPS.
"The charges stem from how Givens carried out her duties, including the alleged alteration of exam results and destruction of supporting records."
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The paranoia/conspiracism over this is getting pretty annoying. A lot of Republicans met with Merrick Garland when he was a SCOTUS nominee. Mamdani went to the Oval Office. I assure you he is not donning a MAGA hat anytime soon. Pro forma meetings are a standard part of politics.
LOL, I came across this listicle on the never-not-disappointing @ClassicFM and wondered how far they were going to push this, and . . . they didn't disappoint! Amy Beach?! (NOT on the list: Liszt, Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Ives, Sibelius, Ravel, Bartók, Shostakovich, Copland, et al).
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Kathy Hochul didn't just end the careers of Mike Lawler, Elise Stefanik and Bruce Blakeman. She has sent NY Republicans into civil war. What a boss.
