Note 16: Michael Langley is about to become the Marines’ first Black four-star general. It’s damn cool to see. But a country that still has this many firsts, is a country that needs a whole helluva lot of work. More:
Washington Post
Note 17: Elon vs. Twitter is set for October. It’s kind of like Trump vs. DeSantis or Duke vs. UNC — we just end up rooting for a toothy sinkhole to devour everyone involved. More:
CNN
Note 18: Goddamnit!!! The world is going straight to hell and stepping in every pile of dogshit along the way AND FUCKING SKITTLES MIGHT CAUSE CANCER?! Why can’t we have the things we love?! More:
Yahoo News
Note 19: Mike Pence was a guest at Kevin McCarthy’s fundraising dinner last night. We hear they gave each other wedgies just to make sure neither of them would have an ounce of dignity. NO LINK
Note 20: Alrighty, SPs, let’s hustle our hot asses on over to the news section. We hope you’re making it through the summer heat aka our dying planet. We also hope you’re having an awesome fucking week. You deserve it because you are also fucking awesome. Love y’all!
Secret’s out
So the Secret Service is a goddamn disaster. How many text messages did they turn over to investigators? One. And it might as well have said “fuck you.” This is a stunning betrayal by an agency this country trusts with a whole fucking lot. We need to know what happened here, and we need to know really fucking fast. More:
CNN
Thank you
Yesterday every single House Democrat voted to repeal DOMA and protect same-sex marriages. It wasn’t a perfect bill and it’s missing some shit, but this was an honest-to-goodness effort to protect the families that Clarence Thomas and Ted Cruz want to destroy. Of course the media has focused on the 47 Republicans who voted for this as if they’re some kind of heroes and not just a bunch of assholes doing the bare fucking minimum. We’re way more concerned about the 157 shitheads who still want to tear families apart. More:
Associated Press
Can’t stop won’t stop
Last week, while we were all reeling from another bombshell Jan. 6 hearing, Trump was doing what he does best — being the fucking worst. That dirty motherfucker is STILL trying to overturn the 2020 election. Yeah, the d-bag speaker of the house in Wisconsin said yesterday that Trump called him LAST FUCKING WEEK asking him to overturn the results there. Major props to the dumbshit scumbags on the Wisconsin Supreme Court for encouraging this bullshit. More:
CNBC
Today’s clips
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of
South Carolina jurist Michelle Childs— recently under consideration for a slot on the U.S. Supreme Court — to sit on the federal court typically seen as a proving ground for the nation’s highest bench. More:
Associated Press
Federal prosecutors called their first witness to the stand Tuesday and began building their case that former Trump adviser Steve Bannon willfully ignored a congressional subpoena in open defiance of the U.S. government. More:
Huff Post
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