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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey played Elon Musk Is the Pope Catholic? Yes, Jack Dorsey played Elon Musk for a sucker. Except that Twitter employees are the ones feeling played. That’s what inspired this headline today in the New York Post: Jack Dorsey source: ‘Everyone at Twitter hates him now’ They blame him for wooing Elon Musk. Because Musk… Read more.
Of course, they’re in a position to win because Republicans telling lies are running circles around Democrats telling the truth … on everything. Hence my allusion to the quote below, which fittingly is often attributed to Mark Twain. The lie, though, is that there’s no evidence he ever said it (who did, nobody knows): A… Read more.
Ginni Thomas is complicit Last March, the Washington Post published text messages between Virginia (Ginni) Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, and Mark Meadows, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff. Those messages revealed she was involved up to her neck in the MAGA plot to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. So any suggestion that her husband wasn’t complicit defies common… Read more.
Based on legal reasoning, precedents, and the justices’ sworn representations, the Supreme Court has no legal reason to end Affirmative Action in college admissions. But it had no legal reason to end a woman’s constitutional abortion rights. Yet the Court did so anyway. Mend, do not end, Affirmative Action Those arguing to end Affirmative Action insist… Read more.
Podcast Episode 94 Football replaced baseball as America’s favorite sport long ago. But, try as the Dallas Cowboy have, they have yet to replace the New York Yankees as the team Americans most love to hate. The way their season played out this year explains why. Listen.
Japanese royals Mako and Kei are living ordinary lives in exile. But British royals Harry and Meghan are still living extraordinary lives. The contrast is instructive. Mako and Kei are no Harry and Meghan Most New Yorkers have no idea that Mako and Kei are living in New York. That’s how intentional they’ve been about blending in as ordinary people.… Read more.
Nobody outside knows what goes on inside a marriage. But, like most people these days, Tom and Gisele shared much of what was going on inside theirs on social media. Tom and Gisele Divorcing That’s why their announced divorce settlement today surprised no one. Never mind the folly inherent in their horses-already-left-the-barn request for privacy. The only wonder… Read more.
Harry’s memoir – spare yourself! The title Spare says all anyone needs to know. Because it’s nothing more than the self-pitying tales Harry has been telling for years. And all because he was not born the first royal son. Sad. Sick. Proceeds to charity? Don’t bet on it The Washington Post reported yesterday that: Financial… Read more.
John Fetterman might be perfectly capable of functioning as a US senator. Especially when compared with the ‘lobotomized’ Herschel Walker, whom Republicans are pretending is eminently capable of functioning in that role That is, especially compared with the lobotomized – who Republicans are pretending is eminently capable of doing so. But Fetterman has not recovered from his stroke as… Read more.
This morning, Adidas cut ties with Kanye West over his antisemitic rantings. It is the latest of many corporations to answer the pleas of Jewish leaders to do so. ‘I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because… Read more.
