Big, fluffy clouds with lots of sheltered sunshine this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley — a bit on the chilly side, though, backtracking on the boiling heat we experienced over the weekend.
However, reality returns starting tomorrow with temperatures climbing into summertime heat. We’re most-likely in the last of the cool episodes this season as record highs are forecast for our upcoming immediate future.
As for ‘reality,’ the news scroll today is shitty depressing — a brief glance:
Yes, and as we all know, Grover Cleveland kept the Statue of Liberty for himself after his presidency.
— Michael E. Mann (@michaelemann.bsky.social) 2025-05-13T21:29:01.699Z
And continuing look at the horror of a grifting-gift — T-Rump claims the 747-8 from the Qatari royal family is a “free, very expensive plane,” but that ‘reality‘ reports otherwise. Rep. Joe Courtney, top Democrat on the House Armed Services Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee: ‘“This isn’t really a gift … You’d basically have to tear the plane down to the studs and rebuild it to meet all the survivability, security and communications requirements of Air Force One. It’s a massive undertaking—and an unfunded one at that.”‘
No matter, T-Rump will be scot-freed by his lickspittle underlings:
Chris Murphy: "I just don't know that our Republican colleagues will ever break. This is a cult that operates like a cult, and for the time being, if Donald Trump says that black is white or 1+1=5, the Republican Party is gonna agree with him."
And the grift resumes unabated:
Started / Going
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-05-13T16:23:32.000Z
Tit-for-tat: ‘“I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness … The sanctions were brutal and crippling, and served … an important function, nevertheless, at the time, but now it’s their time to shine … I say good luck, Syria. Show us something very special.” ‘
So goes the Tales of the Trump Towers.
Meanwhile, racist-as-shit (h/t LGM):
Fired a black person who was qualified, hired a white person with no qualifications whatsoever. The Trump administration in a nutshell bsky.app/profile/axio…
— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) 2025-05-12T15:58:35.899Z
Unprecedented as fuck!
And to close, the late-great George Carlin:
A bit chilling, but on the busted nose.
Anxiety-inducing, or not, yet once again here we are …
(Illustration out front: New Yorker cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan, found here.)