CNN said no on-camera fact checking apparently because if facts were checked on-camera and one candidate had more wrong facts and/or outright lies than the other then pointing this out via on-camera chyrons would have indicated bias and CNN in the Zaslav era cannot indicate bias at all whatsoever.
And this is how democracy dies.
Behind your curtain
was a paperback copy of MACBETH
resting on a wooden stool
and a black cat named Monet
who, after minutes of contemplation,
jumped on top of the stool
how beautiful, I thought
nothing like this in my hometown
>
You used to bless me with teenage smiles
then the smiles stopped justlikethat
and everything I did got on your nerves
so I closed my curtain
and never again stepped out for encores
>
Over two decades later,
I visited a restored home
in West Los Angeles
the owner had a living room curtain
pulled open to reveal a picture window
displaying a view of a flower garden,
a swimming pool,
and a charming guest house
>
It’s the kind of sight
you would have loved
in the year
when we were both fifteen
From THE WASHINGTON POST:
Trump’s aura of invincibility has never been earned. He was impeached more times than any other president in U.S. history. He presided over the worst string of GOP electoral losses in many decades. He lost reelection after only a single term, which he won only after losing the popular vote. He has never once commanded majority support in this country. He had already been losing in court already—he’s been nailed for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll, and his company was found to have systematically lied about its worth—even though he enjoys the priciest legal representation, funded partly by donor money that he fleeced from his own party, another privilege that pretty much no other defendant has enjoyed, ever.
And now, after Trump and his elite enablers attempted mightily to wreck the whole system to keep him beyond accountability at all costs—an effort that for a time looked like it just might succeed—a jury of ordinary Americans heroically stood up and said: No.
1. The Rule of Law Means Nothing to Me
2. Manhattan Doesn’t Love Me Anymore
3. If There’s A Hell Below (Curtis Mayfield cover)
4. 34, Count Them, 34
5. The Final Countdown (Europe cover)
6. Todd Blanche Not My Roy Cohn
7. I Secretly Respect Alvin Bragg
8. Keeping the Faithful in Line
9. Prison Bound (Social Distortion cover)
recalling the 70s “cuddly wiseacre”
who presented as a progressive Democrat
came back from substance abuse in the 80s
had an impressive run of films for awhile
careers don’t stay at the peak forever
then the movies got smaller
a TV series was short-lived
and the “cuddly wiseacre” began to curdle
engaging in transphobia and other hate rants
climaxing with chasing New Englanders
away from a screening of the classic JAWS
but enough people applauded and stayed
to ensure more performative reputational destruction
at public venues for the foreseeable future
First headline:
fell and couldn’t get up
crawled past the bewildered cats
finally found the cellphone, dialed 911
kept on hold, then gave information
>
somehow opened the patio door
slow crawl to the garage
somehow opened the electric door
then reverse crawl from patio to den
>
a few minutes later, paramedics arrive
one of them says, mute the Dodger game on TV
another sees the books by my chair and asks
do you ever go outside?
I say yes, when the medicines and groceries run out
>
vitals checked, prescriptions recorded
lifted to my feet, not without further knee pain
decline a ride to the emergency room
>
by myself again
should buy a cane and a walker
though I dread reduced mobility
>
bruises, but no breaks or fractures
time to turn off the mute button
