Embeds of Trump’s original tweets are now displaying in articles across the internet as shadows of their former selves, some with just the text of the former tweet included, others as empty gray boxes.
“The active brains of American inventors have found new economic uses for the peanut,” the Chicago Tribune rhapsodized in July 1897.
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(In this century, the average American kid eats some 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before graduating from high school.)
Twitter says it is banning President Donald Trump from its platform, citing “risk of further incitement of violence.”
Better late than never, but just barely.
“I did a night check with him last night and had a glass of wine with him,” LeSage told the newspaper. “I’m kind of a little attached to him at this point.”
Pompeo wrote that the comparison “reveals a faulty understanding of banana republics and of democracy in America.”
Dear Congressman,
Is there no one in DC with spine enough to stand up to Donald Trump?
Surely you noticed this. On January 6, in broad daylight and on national TV, the man made a speech inciting an insurrection that sent you and your colleagues skittering into a hidy-hole for the afternoon, and yet nothing has been done? This is a clear offense to his office, to your office, and to all of us.
Why has this man not been impeached—yes, again? There is nothing to investigate or debate. It is plain. Play the tape and vote. And then walk your bill across to the Senate and, if you must, nail it to their door.
Why is this Trump still in office?
Why are you?
In short: you don't need fancy facial recognition tools to identify people who livestream their crimes.
The question now is, does anybody in DC have guts enough to do something about that shitshow yesterday?
I'm guessing no. If I'm wrong I'll happily eat my words.
Meanwhile, I'm re-heating the pea soup.
"With so much uncertainty in our world today, can you think of a better way to help kids (and those young-at-heart) learn about the legislative process than be naming an official Massachusetts State Dinosaur?" Rep. Jack Lewis wrote on social media Monday.
Technically garbage broth, I guess.
I read in a magazine somewhere about this plan: Save all the vegetable parts you'd normally throw away—peelings from potatoes and carrots, that leafy stuff at the end of the celery, stalks of broccoli, like that—in your freezer and when there's enough, boil it all and use the broth. So I did.
The problem with all this is that I mostly eat all the garbage before it is garbage. I rarely peel vegetables and I toss the leafy part of the celery in the pot. So my broth got made mostly from the dry outer skins of onions and the stems and seedy cores of bell peppers. And a few parts of things that looked sort of spoiled to begin with. All of which got strained out, of course in the end.
I used the broth to make pea soup. Maybe it would have been better with a healthy dose of hot sauce. Although it wasn't exactly bad, and maybe it was nutritious, who knows.
I'm not sure I'll try again.
"While we understand it hasn't been easy, we also found very few instances of Viking raids, Black Plague, famine, world war, using rotary telephones, needing to look things up in a physical dictionary, slavery, people being burned at the stake, walking miles to school, living in caves, sleeping on the ground, ice ages, Nazi holocausts, civil war, infant mortality, global floods, ethnic cleansing, using leaves as toilet paper, using leeches as medicine, using wooden mallets as an anesthetic, fighting wild saber-tooth tigers, cannibalism, occupation by the Persian Empire... what was I talking about again? Oh yeah-- most people in 2020 never experienced any of those things, so comparatively speaking it's been a pretty decent year!"
[Story is from the Babylon Bee, a publication of satire.]
The school in Sault Ste. Marie has compiled the list each year since 1976 it says to “uphold, protect, and support excellence in language by encouraging avoidance of words and terms that are overworked, redundant, oxymoronic, clichéd, illogical, nonsensical — and otherwise ineffective, baffling, or irritating.”
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Vandals lashed out at the leaders of the U.S. House and Senate over the holiday weekend, blighting their homes with graffiti and in one case a pig's head as Congress failed to approve an increase in the amount of money being sent to individuals to help cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
