Americas Best Restaurants to come film at Tonka Hills restaurant in Camden County America's Best Restaurants (ABR) announced that it will come film at Tonka Hills restaurant in Camden County to highlight the well-known restaurant. 05/10/2024 - 1:49 am | View Link
'We are heartbroken and grieving' | Zoo Knoxville humanely euthanizes 46-year-old elephant Tonka His caregivers who knew and loved him were by his side to ensure passed peacefully and comfortably, Zoo Knoxville said. 05/9/2024 - 10:20 am | View Link
Tonka, Zoo Knoxville’s last remaining elephant, euthanized after being at zoo for 43 years The 46-year-old elephant was beloved by guests and zookeepers and was one of the oldest and largest African elephants in North America. 05/9/2024 - 9:19 am | View Link
Beloved Elephant Tonka humanely euthanized due to declining health Beloved Elephant Tonka humanely euthanized due to declining health May 9, 2024; 11:48 a.m. 05/9/2024 - 6:11 am | View Link
Tonka the elephant euthanized at Zoo Knoxville after declining health Zoo Knoxville announced that Tonka, the largest male elephant in North America and the zoo's last remaining elephant, had been humanely euthanized. 05/9/2024 - 3:50 am | View Link
In an interview with ABC News, former White House Situation Room officer Mike Stiegler revealed that Jan. rioters “came that close” to murdering Mike Pence.
“It’s important to me that we don’t forget that it did come that close. And that we did have discussions. If we lose the VP, if the 25th is invoked.
Yesterday a barge slammed into a bridge pillar in Galveston, Texas, spilling oil into waters near busy shipping channels and closing the only road to a small neighboring island. Via NPR:
The impact sent pieces of the bridge, which connects Galveston to Pelican Island, tumbling on top of the barge and shut down a stretch of waterway so crews could clean up the spill.
SCOTUS restored a congressional voting map in Louisiana yesterday that includes an additional majority-Black district, handing an edge to Democrats less than six months before the November election. However, the three liberal justices dissented, pointing to problems down the line. Via the Washington Post:
The order was in response to emergency appeals filed after a federal three-judge panel in the state threw out the recently redrawn map last month, ruling that it was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
That decision left the state without a congressional voting map heading into a 2024 contest that will determine which party controls the narrowly divided House.
As we reported earlier, President Joe Biden just demolished one of Donald Trump’s big attacks: that the president is so feeble, he’s afraid to debate Trump. Biden and the Trump campaign promptly agreed to terms and set the dates for two debates. Biden also got in a well-publicized dig in the process, saying, “I hear you’re free on Wednesdays.”
Well, that woke up Sleepy Don!
On this date in 1941 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbade Jewish music. So our musical selection today is Spike Jones' classic eff-you to der master race.
alicublog: Sunday ‘Round-the-Horn: Two days late and a dollar short edition.
The Wisconsin Independent: Van Orden doubles down on anti-abortion stance, says life begins at conception.
Left Jabs: The Ascendancy of Half-Assed Fascism.
Attention space nerds!
Rep. Jasmine Crockett called out Project 2025 horrors in a congressional hearing on May 15. Once again, journalist Aaron Rupar watched the House Judiciary Weaponization Subcommittee hearing, so you don't have to. The hearing featured GOP witness Gene Hamilton, a former Trump DOJ staffer who wrote Project 2025's Department of Justice chapter.