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Stephen Colbert’s canceled Late Show won at least half a dozen Emmys last night. I lost count. Suck it, CBS.
Fun line going around the inter tubes: “Mitch McConnell would have replaced Mitch McConnell eleven weeks ago.”
Headline from the august Paris Review, not The Onion: “If You Build It, Will They Come? On the Sperm Racing World Cup.”
Heather Cox Richardson today:
On Friday, the White House debuted computer games on the official White House website. The “games” are ripoffs of older games like Snake, this one with a white man in a suit picking up Black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits. There was also apparently one ripping off Tetris, which was apparently about building Trump’s wall, but it disappeared as the real Tetris posted: “At Tetris we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them. To our fans everywhere: we love you, we see you, and we’re grateful to have you in our community.
“P.S. The Tetris Company was not involved in the creation of ‘Build the Wall’.
“P.P.S. We take copyright infringement very seriously.”
NY Times:
Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones
The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.
Meanwhile, hell freezes over (or is it the cold snap caused by USA public opinion?):
Huckabee Condemns ‘Terrorist’ Attacks on Palestinians in West Bank Town Hall
Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, made a rare trip to meet with Palestinians after international backlash over attacks by Israeli settlers.
Music Picks
Springsteen’s stop in Philly on his recent tour will be streaming later this week, trailer here:
Last night in Dublin an apt “Galway Girl” from Steve Earle and The Waterboys:
Film Pick
My new “Hollywood Bomb” at Topanga Film Festival tonight at 6:30, and in Beirut at Lebanaese Film Festival, here is trailer:
Today’s Tunes:
Anderson:
Goris:
Bramhall:
deAdder:
Ann Telnaes on Mike Johnson’s plan to send Congress home…..after a grueling total of four days work…
Brodner asks: “How could we not celebrate Time’s trying to cash in on a humanity-sucking technology that nobody wants, except for 6 oligarchs who are happy to end human creativity and work itself for another trillion. We will have an answer to the cabal on Nov 3.
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Molina:
Photo Finish
From my camera to you, Sunrise on the Hudson, Nyack.
Thank you and happy Sunday
great photo. Thank you for doing this. It helps to keep me sane.