Newfoundland grandmothers can wail on the accordion. A historian wants them on stage Madonna Wilkinson has been playing the accordion since she was 15, when she picked one up that had been left behind at one of her parents' rollicking parties in the oceanside town about 25 kilometres ... 05/20/2024 - 1:48 am | View Link
Latest Houthi strike in Red Sea hits oil tanker: US officials The latest attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea struck a Greek-owned and operated oil tanker with a ballistic missile early Saturday, according to U.S. officials. The Iranian-backed group ... 05/18/2024 - 5:13 am | View Link
Liverpool’s 20 best players under Jurgen Klopp as manager departs Anfield after eight trophies From his earliest construct in 2015, through title-winners to the most recent side as he exits Anfield in 2024 ... 05/16/2024 - 10:31 pm | View Link
Kirby's 'Sugar' character is the 'M' to Colin Farrell's Bond-like detective Kirby told UPI that her "Sugar" character, Ruby, is a complicated and mysterious woman whose professional partnership with the titular detective evolves over the course of the show's first season. 05/16/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Don’t Sleep on These 18 Series This Emmys Season: ‘Fellow Travelers,’ ‘Reservation Dogs’ and More The Emmys may only recognize a select few, but there are many other shows that deserve attention. Here, Variety’s television critics Alison Herman and Aramide Tinubu curate a list of shows they ... 05/15/2024 - 7:15 am | 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.