Canadian official Doug Ford just threatened to shut off electricity to the US following Trump's 50% tariffs on Canada. “We power 1.5 million homes and businesses... I’ll do whatever it takes.” apnews.com/article/cana...
"“Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.” Jorge Luis Borges, #BOTD.
"...Here is a film that stands alone as the purest exercise in cinematic tension ever carved into celluloid, a work of art so viscerally nerve-racking that one fears a misplaced whisper from the audience would cause the screen to explode." (Dennis Lehane)
From 1948, "Good Rockin' Tonight" by Wynonie Harris, born 24 August 1915. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sllh...
1948 HITS ARCHIVE: Good Rockin’ Tonight - Wynonie Harris (#1 R&B hit)
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46% of SNAP recipients are children... Taking food out of the mouths of kids is not something to brag about.
House Agriculture Committee Democrats@houseagdems.bsky.social · 12h agoSecretary Rollins is proud that she has taken food assistance away from nearly 5 million Americans.
Still amazed by this. Jared is a slam-dunk symbol of everything wrong with the Trump administration: the mediocrity, nepotism, greed, arrogance, and deadly incompetence. Kushner should be a Dem punchline and punching bag. It’s insane that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social would choose to legitimize him.
Kirk Rudell@rudell.bsky.social · yesterdaySTAFFER: Kushner is the creep who profiteered during the pandemic and is currently flailing as our unofficial secretary of state in Iran. He only cares about making money and protecting Trump, whose polls are cratering and who has no interest in governing. JEFFRIES: I should try to help him.
Happy 35th anniversary to Ukraine, a country I first visited when it was still part of the Soviet Union. In a single generation Ukraine has transformed itself into a symbol of bravery, resilience and independence. Ukrainians should be proud.
With all due respect to one of my fave actresses, I just don't see Ann Dvorak making waffles!
Enes Kanter Just removed from the WNBA game. What a lowlife. For all the things these people should be trying to make a point over this loser chooses this. @EnesFreedom is a loser.
"Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy." Jorge Luis Borges, #BOTD.
Look do you want that money to go to libraries or to build a prison for the Browns to play in?
cleveland.com@cleveland.com · yesterdayCleveland Public Library is facing about $2 million less in state support this budget cycle. Smaller systems across Northeast Ohio are losing money too, leaving libraries with a tough choice: cut back or eventually ask taxpayers for more.
Salt river horses removal is canceled and protected until 2028. VOTE BLUE
This Pennsylvania barbershop boosts kids' confidence by paying young customers $3 to read stories aloud during haircuts. Original post
Benefits of Being a U. S. State: 1) No universal healthcare. 2) Your kids get shot at in school. 3) You get no disaster relief if you didn’t vote for the malignant crazy person in the Oval Office. 4) Get diarrhea from your food. Think long and hard before saying “no” to such a utopia, Canada!
The only meeting Hakeem Jeffries should be having with Jared Kushner is to tell him he’ll be subpoenaed by the House for a corruption investigation on day one of Democratic control of the House. This is just pathetic stuff from the House Dem leader. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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“Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan Plan Lunch to Chat About Hobbies and Shared Interests”
WELKER: Do you think democratic socialists have a place in the Democratic Party? VAN HOLLEN: Yes they do as part of the debate. I think that those in the Dem Party who are afraid of a healthy debate are missing the point, because Democratic voters do not want a return to the pre-Trump status quo
"While the Canadian negotiating team was unified, the prime minister said, “you cannot say that about the United States administration.”
"The way they're treating my people in the South, the government can go to hell." Louis Armstrong, quoted in 1967.
