- Via RawStory: Devin Nunes loses court case against parody Twitter cow — again.
- Via The Daily Beast: Texas Gov Mistakenly Sends Condolences to Jimmy Carter’s Dead Wife.
- Via The Atlantic: The Other President Whom Trump is Pushing Aside (Grover Cleveland enthusiasts aren’t thrilled).
- Via Axios: Democrats rage as Johnson restricts their ability to oust him. While I understand why Democrats would prefer the rule that is being replaced, that rule itself was a historical anomaly, and so this isn’t some change to long-standing practice. Moreover, the reality is that the majority party controls the Speakership, so this is not something that is “rage” worthy.
- Via the AP: Biden is giving the 2nd highest civilian award to the leaders of the Jan. 6 congressional committee.
- Via the BBC: ‘She believed you have to take sides’: How Audrey Hepburn became a secret spy during World War Two.
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From the Hepburn link,
Van Heemstra pulled her daughter out of her British boarding school. They moved to a family estate in the Netherlands, … Her mother still admired Adolf Hitler and believed he would never invade “her” country.
Talk about your leopards eating faces.
The article doesn’t quite say it, but they settled in Arnhem, site of the “bridge too far”, so they were fought over twice.
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There’s no link for the piece on Axios about the Speakership. I would expect that Mike Johnson would insist on getting rid of the “McCarthy Rule” which Kevin McCarthy agreed to in order to become Speaker.
Strangely enough, with an even narrower margin this time, it seems that the rebellious faction of Rs in the House have less leverage, because if they withhold their vote for Johnson as Speaker, Hakeem Jeffries becomes Speaker. Which gives Johnson a stronger hand, and the McCarthy Rule makes him more liable to make a deal with Democrats.
Of course Democrats are disappointed by this. Of course they are. However, I think “raging” is one of those words inserted by a reporter to get clicks.
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I hope MAGA – and the rest of us – are ready for those prices in grocery stores (including eggs) to be much higher. Those deportations are going to cause massive farm bankruptcies and scarcity of goods. This is coming from the farmers — not politicians whose rhetoric originates in PR rather than policy realities — if and when Trump goes through with his deportation plans.
Fun that this originated from a French station who sent their reporters to talk directly to farmers. The horror! -
Shocking, but perhaps not surprising incompetence from the TX Governor’s office in sending out condolences to Rosalynn Carter. But at least, as noted in the article, Gov Abbott did issue an order to fly flags at half-staff in TX to honor Jimmy Carter, in line with the President’s federal order.
I noticed that LA Governor Landry made a point at press conferences yesterday and today to say that he’d ordered flags flown at half-staff to honor the French Quarter victims, which is of course appropriate. But it begged the question, “Aren’t the flags already at half-staff for Jimmy Carter?” Well, the answer appears to be “no” for the state of Louisiana. I did find, however, that Louisiana Gov Landry had ordered flags flown at half-staff this past July to honor the Pennsylvania man who was murdered at the political rally in Pennsylvania.
