Expected La Niña could heighten hurricane season With a La Niña, cold waters in the Pacific Ocean push the jet stream northward, affecting the weather in and around the United States. 05/20/2024 - 2:21 am | View Link
I’m an Outdoor Expert at Wirecutter. Here Are the Best Deals We’ve Found From REI’s Big Sale. Anniversary Sale is here. These are the best deals we’ve seen so far on Wirecutter-approved camping, hiking, and other outdoor gear. 05/19/2024 - 10:53 am | View Link
Gardeners see warmer hardiness zones for plants, but not by much Longtime master gardener John Nash, with more than 65 years of digging in the dirt, is a bit concerned that gardeners will take the news that they might be in slightly warmer zones for cold-hardy ... 05/19/2024 - 6:51 am | View Link
I used to work for the Queen — now I live in a bug-infested home that reeks of urine Ex Royal clerk Hazel Speed, 73, has been reduced to washing from a bucket after a leak from a botched toilet repair left her London home “uninhabitable”. 05/19/2024 - 2:09 am | View Link
Sydney to feel no warmer than 10C as southeast coast plunged into winter with freezing temperatures, snow Sydney will be feeling no warmer than 10C for the rest of the day as a cold polar air mass continues to linger over the southeast – marking one of the coldest days since last winter. 05/17/2024 - 4:41 pm | View Link
In SNL's cold open Saturday, Trump says he’s invited a few people from “my short bus––I mean my shortlist.” Via Yahoo News:
He brings out South Carolina Governor Tim Scott (played by Devon Walker). “I’m here to help Trump win the Black vote,” he says. Trump adds, “I’m more popular than you among the Blacks, which is really saying something.” Walker, as Scott says, “Black people have called my support humiliating, but trust me, I am my own man!”
Trump then brings out South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (played by Heidi Gardner), wearing a red MAGA hat, holding a stuffed dog, and pointing a fake gun at the dog (a reference to her shooting a dog).
Iran president Ebrahim Raisi, 63, and foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian were killed yesterday in a helicopter crash resulting from a “technical failure,” Iranian state news media reported. They were traveling from Iran’s border with Azerbaijan after inaugurating a dam project when their helicopter went down in a mountainous area near the city of Jolfa.
Rep. Jamie Raskin called for an investigation after Melanie Stansbury, a Democrat, said non-committee members were drinking in the chamber during a hearing where Marge Greene kicked things off by insulting lawmaker Jasmine Crockett. Via the Independent:
“I didn’t see the drinking but the gentlelady from New Mexico, Melanie Stansbury, raised it,” Mr Raskin told Fox News outside the US Capitol on Friday.
The Drain the Swamp fabulist spoke at the wholly corrupt National Rifle Association's event on Saturday in Dallas, Texas, and went on to brag about doing absolutely "nothing" about gun violence. Trump is very proud of that, just as he is proud of overturning Roe. Trump can't feel empathy, and he's sucking up to the NRA out of desperation for votes to keep him out of prison.
Crooked Timber - Originalism for Realists;
Just an Earthbound Misfit - they're called 'self-inflicted wounds';
No More Mr. Nice Blog - Yastreblyansky for the record;
Reveal - shot by a civilian with a police gun;
Tell Me a Story - Hairy Butthead talks at female graduates.
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Sometimes I just feel like remembering why I blog at DWT. And in the end, it always comes down to economic inequality and how it’s one of the most pressing and divisive issues facing our country. Imagine a nation, our nation, where the top 1% possess more wealth than the bottom 90% combined— a nation, our nation, where the gap between the haves and the have-nots widens with each passing year.