Military.com:
'A U.S. Air Force member jailed since August for publicly calling for President Donald Trump's impeachment is being held in solitary confinement 24 hours a day, according to his attorney.
Watson was arrested July 1 on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, where he demonstrated in uniform with a sign reading "Impeach. Convict. Remove." after speaking at a news conference calling for Trump's removal.'
The book contains gems of wisdom that are as applicable to social media today as they were to the stuffy conversation of the 19th century congenitally rich. Such as: "Never question the veracity of any statement made in general conversation."
"Never, when advancing an opinion, assert positively that a thing 'is so,' but give your opinion as an opinion ... remember that your companion may be better informed upon the subject under discussion."
I just finished reading "A Sorceress Comes to Call" by "T. Kingfisher," which is somebody's pen name. This book makes frequent reference to "The Ladies' Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness" by Florence Hartley. Gutenberg, bless their heart, has the book; link below.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35123/pg35123-images.html
And, of course, the best part is that Trump won't shut up about data centers, ensuring that the GOP has this albatross around its neck.
Electoral-vote.com has an item about how much voters hate AI data centers.
It starts with an election yesterday in Independence, MO, where one of the city councilmen who voted in favor of a data center was recalled by 68% of the vote. Two others who earlier had primaries already lost.
It continues with a couple of recent polls showing huge margins against having a data center anywhere near your house. The NRSC has issued a huge warning about this issue. And more.
It has come to my attention that Mary Engelbreit is selling a coloring book entitled "No Kings: A Revolutionary Coloring Book."
I got an email from her website. It has a few samples, like "If you change nothing, nothing will change" and "I will not stay silent so that you can stay comfortable" and "Any book worth banning is a book worth reading."
Had not pegged Mary Engelbreit as a fellow traveler.
Here's their flyer on what they're doing over the next month. Check with your local troublemakers, there's probably events getting organized near you.
It has come to my attention that the good-trouble-makers are ramping up what they call "visibility events" (which us old folks used to call "protests"). Here's a website, this group is in NJ but I think you'll find things going on this weekend all over the country.
#VisibilityBrigade #BeBrave
https://www.visibilitybrigade.com/
The Guardian:
'The US Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution declaring its opposition to any presidential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell...
Introduced by Senator Jacky Rosen, a Democrat of Nevada, the resolution states that Maxwell “should not be granted a Presidential pardon or any form of clemency for her crimes with Jeffrey Epstein relating to the sexual exploitation and abuse of minors”.'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/29/ghislaine-maxwell-pardon-senate-resolution
lmao
He goes on to make the point that, if we get a Democratic House, they need to prioritize impeaching Vance -- to get his crimes on the public record ahead of the 2028 Presidential election.
Will Bunch in The Inquirer:
"Today, less than two weeks before the 10th anniversary of Hillbilly Elegy’s publication, Trump has become America’s Mussolini, a strutting yet sometimes buffoonish strongman and a hopelessly corrupt invader of faraway lands.
It’s Vance who could actually become America’s Hitler, if he gets that chance...a very real possibility."
https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/jd-vance-insurrection-act-immigration-crackdown-presidential-hopes-20260616.html?int_promo=newsletter&clickText=view-on-inquirer-com
Will Bunch in The Inquirer:
"The saga that I’ve started to recount here, about a man whose wealth is now greater than the yearly gross domestic product of all but the 21 richest nations, who uses that power to urge poor white people to firebomb and assault their Black and brown neighbors, isn’t even the worst thing that Musk has done. Not by a longshot."
How about Boomers? Do we have a spokesperson?
Our local crunchy granola movie theater announced a screening of "Waking Life." Having never heard of it, I reflexively head to Rotten Tomatoes for the wtf. There I find an excerpt from a review by Emanuel Levy of Variety, who says "This inventive animated film, which takes Linklater back to his roots in Austin and Slacker, represents a summation of all the philosophical concerns that have defined him as spokesperson for Gen-X."
Gen-X has a spokesperson?
This is absolutely beautiful and very well done.
> Nothing you own is finished. Everything exists in a state of permanent incompletion, permanently needing.
Will Bunch at The Inquirer:
'... it’s jaw-dropping to learn — some seven long years later — about the phone call that came into a popular Albuquerque disc jockey and was passed onto local authorities from a man who claimed he’d worked on a rural New Mexico ranch belonging to Jeffrey Epstein, the uber-connected financier and convicted sex offender.
The man said he knew where the bodies were buried.'
https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/epstein-doj-investigations-deaths-ranch-jail-trump-accuser-20260310.html?int_promo=newsletter&clickText=view-on-inquirer-com
And I am still vehemently opposed to the candela as a SI base unit.
OK, well, if I did that right, I have migrated from left-tusk.com to left-bank.net.