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Archives: June 27, 2021

Republicans are terrified of educated, curious, open minds. You know, people who can think Opinion

Why it might be better if McCarthy picks someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene for Select Committee?

Collective Soul - The World I Know

Acosta Interviews MTG

Idiot friend said 600,000 "illegals" are coming in every day.

Woman responds to husband bringing home neglected one-eyed cat

Radiohead - Just

Senators urge vindication for Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer

After Florida building collapse, authorities evacuate similar tower

Call of the Wild (Night Sky)

Having issues, but GOT it!!!!

FL Gov. Ron DeSantis' law punishing student 'indoctrination' is a 'disgraceful' assault on academic

Audioslave - Be Yourself

Biden: Infrastructure vow was not intended to be veto threat

Newsmax's description of tonight is: "FORMER President Trump Wellington, OH Rally"

Serenity Howl 🐺

Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

Matt Hancock, Britain's beleaguered health secretary, resigns after being caught kissing aide

Joy Division - Decades

Turkish police fire tear gas to disperse Pride march in Istanbul

Pakistan's leader sparks protests by blaming women 'wearing very few clothes' for sexual assaults

Baby Elephant Pyi Mai And Her First Time In The River

5th body found

Biden immigration policies have children on suicide watch!

Colorblind boy receives EnChroma glasses at a Reds game & is awed to see red:

81 degrees fahrenheit in southern MD:

*Garth Brooks: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song 2 HRS

Texas court rules retailer can't be sued over mass shooting

Both beautiful & very cool:

Conservative Heads EXPLODE Over Critical Race Theory

Without you there would be no justice no peace.

The Great Gatsby's Tom & Daisy

It's Groundhog Day, all over again! He's lying like a rug!

A war on truth is raging. Not everyone recognizes we're in it.

Speaking of troubled buildings...Citicorp Center, NYC

Do you know the name of the Ohioan we sent to a plant?

I guess I am being paranoid?

Either Trump can't read his speech or he is now challenging the vote in.....Montana

Shontel Brown strikes back at Killer Mike and Nina Turner calling James Clyburn "stupid"....

Beat tweet tonight 🤣

Chicago - Building Collapses on Irving Park Road, No Injuries Reported: Police

Fizzwinkle Loves Kids!!

Could there be intelligent aliens 500 years advanced than us? Some where in the galaxy?

Breaking: "Q" is persona non grata at Trump's rally.....

how many dumbasses went to see the con?

Sydney, Australia, begins two-week COVID lockdown - CBS News

Trump Campaign Responsible for 3% of All Credit Card Fraud in 2020: report

Boogie With Stu

State regulators, federal inspectors give big headaches to Vogtle owners

City of Seattle opens additional cooling centers

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson urges COVID-19 vaccines as cases rise

if DeSantis was a Dem, Rs would use condo collapse to ruin him

DOJ Joins Groups Suing GA Over Voter Suppression: 'Motivated By Discriminatory Purpose' - TRMS

A Duet....Janis Joplin and Ron McKernan - Lovelight - 1970

One Perfect Tuscan Rose

*TCM 10:15 PM -- Rear Window (1954)

Sophie shows off her stick fetching prowess

NSW records 30 new COVID-19 cases on first day of two-week lockdown

After tonight's MAGAt rally, all I can say is thank Christ he still doesn't have Twitter access.

"Methodist Blues" -- Garrison Keillor and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band

Due to the weekend, the reach is not there...

Moody Blues - One of the most beautiful songs ever written.

Trump LASHES OUT and THREATENS Enemies with INSANE Rage - Christo Aivalis

I'm off cable. Did any TV cover his public blabbering?

J. Geils -Serves You Right to Suffer....

Meanwhile, as seen on DirecTV...

Principal Crumples Valedictorian's Speech About Mental Health, So He Does It From Memory

'Castrate, kill, remove voting rights': Ex-Marine, Georgia deputy was in extremist cell, feds say

True fact: You can't be elected Senator in Idaho unless your brain is a potato.

How the Supreme Court green-lit Republican attacks on voting rights - Mother Jones

Is there someplace similar to Zillow to find historic home prices?

Peru election: supporters of rival candidates throng streets amid dispute over result

☦ Orthodox Christian: Hymns of Saturday Great Vespers

Tonight I'm in a certain rock & roll groove. Happy Saturday folks

Chatmonchy: Make Up! Make UP!

Considered one of Japan's top Rock Song for all time X-japan: Kurenai (crimson) Live

If only they could read...

Billy Paul - East

Edit: Garry Chambers shreds racists on city board defending Robert E Lee.

Dick Jensen - Three Cheers To Love

EPA watchdog says Trump appointees kept fired employees on payroll

Willie Bobo & The Bo-Gents - Never You Mind

oishii ne

The Soul Searchers - Ashley's Roachclip

Syl Johnson - Soul Drippin'

Allina Health Makes Flu Shot for Employees Mandatory

Sunrising

i'm on the verge of buying a dehumidifier & never had one before -- any suggestions?

Minnesota legislators reach public safety deal at Capitol

See it?

Northern Ireland Troubles truth commission is opening old wounds - PBS NewsHour

The Daily Show: Americans Have a Rage Problem

Pete Buttigieg was at the Bruce Springsteen show (picture)

GOP MAKING DEMOCRACY A CRIME FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR

☦ Orthodox Christian: Prayer Service to St. Samson the Hospitable, 06/27, Mull Monastery, Scotland

You AREN'T GETTING A FOURTH STIMULUS CHECK!

The Making of SNL During COVID: Stories From the Show

Lynch: Before You Know It...

ANOTHER species of Human??

Canada places US rightwing militia group Three Percenters on terror list

【リモート朱雀-SUZAKU-】Welcome to the show

Now have Caesar's Gallic Wars on Kindle. Yea not new to everybody. But BBC documentary on

Dinosaurs lived in the Arctic, research suggests

Simone Biles floor routine

google features Tommy Kono American weightlifter

Crowds descend on Mall for first-ever national rally for D.C. statehood

Rethuglikon deregulation brought that building down.

Peru vote review can resume as new judge sworn in

Peru's Climate of Fear and Bubbling Political Inequality

Numb - Max Jury

Peru at the Brink of Civil War?

The Right in Peru calls for ASO inspection of ballots

Sunday Baroque - Five by Michel Pignolet de Monteclair/One by Fasch

Enbridge entering a new phase of construction on Line 3 -- and a new phase of protests

This photo of a firefighter is becoming a symbol of the foreboding 2021 wildfire season

It was the most awesome thing I've ever seen...

So, tell me Trumpism isn't a cult... It fits all the conditions...

Your Sunday LOLcats (dial-up warning) Math Homework Edition

United States Senate Elections in 2022 that Democrats are gonna win by a wide to narrow margin.

Quick Rises Now The Norm, Necessity For Iowa Democrats

Of all the restrictive voting laws that have been proposed or passed how is this one justified:

Biden's Schedule for Sunday, June 27, 2021

August 29, 2020: Germany's far right attempts storming at the Reichstag Parliament building

Man Arrested For Anti-LGBTQ Hate Crime In Boone

Breakfast Sunday 27 June 2021

#firejimjordan

2024 US Senate Successors of Feinstein(D-CA),King(I/D-ME),Cardin(D-MD), and Sanders(I/D-VT)

Doonesbury - The Re-Insurrectment

Miami collapse...She could see a crater in the pool area......

ShadowEye

How Deceptive Campaign Fund-Raising Ensnares Older People

Composer Jon Hassell has died

The end goal of the GQP

Is belief in science, standards and regulations part of what DeathSntence is against?

Lock her up? Really... MAGA Cult 2021 is so last decade

Message sent: Berry turns away from flag during anthem

From The Guardian: 'The case for Brexit was built on lies.

A peaceful moment for you today

CRT

NOW he tells us? William Barr: "It was all bullshit."

**! Outside air temp is 78 degrees at 5 am!

And the children of Israel wandered for 40 years

Dog running with big stick gets a bit hung up

"And my questions have got questions!" . . . Please come CAPTION Tucker Carlson!!!

The discriminatory practices of the past STILL have ramifications today

Not Today - Imagine Dragons

Shadow

Trump lost the election. By a lot. Al Gore has a message for him (CNN)

It has been said that we do not truly live unless there is something we are willing to die for.

'Dragon Man' skull found in China may add species to human family tree

Aerosmith - Deuces Are Wild

China releases videos of its Zhurong Mars rover

It's day three of the #GlastonburyExperience2021 and we have a really special line up for you!

No one can escape this rescued dog's hugs

More churches burn down on Canada indigenous land

Trump can't read from teleprompter because of the wind

The Condo Collapse - It is clear that most of the folks still missing are dead

Eddie Floyd - Big Bird

Mike Gravel, former US senator for Alaska, dies at 91

My dad is 90 years old today.

So with all this talk about "critical race theory", I decided to revisit my notes on critical theory

When you don't want to teach kids about slavery but want to preserve Confederate monuments

Back to mask wearing...AGAIN...(good thing I didn't throw them out)...

May: Trump plans to restore his Boeing 757 for future rallies

Americans cannot do the things that need to be done because of huge taxcuts to the wealthy...

William Barr Speaks

Middle Age Riot tweet:

My nominee for Tweet of the Morning

'There is no news from Auschwitz'

Electric vehicle batteries in parking garages that are flattened would burn.

News analysis: Biden's top diplomat to meet pope -- and try to ignore the elephant in the room

Summer Madness

Riots in Lebanon over economy injure 10 soldiers, protesters

Blinken, Lapid meet in Rome amid reset U.S.-Israel relations

Illinois Landscaping Goats:

It is all the same people who go to these Trump "Bund Rallies." Very few 1st timers at the OH ...

Romney Hits Trump for Continuing the Election Big Lie: 'Where Did He Hear It From? The MyPillow Guy?

Alan Dershowitz Slams Decision to Suspend Rudy Giuliani's Law License:...

I am ambivalent about Trump running in 2024

Fabulous comprehensive listing of Trump Atrocities, categorized.

Fareed let us Dems have it right between the eyes this morning on his opening.

TFG maintains that not only didn't he lose in 2020

Sen.Cassidy (R-LA) insists infrastructure like roads and bridges is a "women's problem"...

Doug Logan, CEO of Cyber Ninjas, appears in conspiracy theorist election film about the fraudit

According to Fareed, business are moving out of blue states to TX and FL.

When I hear "Louisiana Senator" I just about always think corrupt or stupid.

The Cruel Logic of the Republican Party, Before and After Trump

Chris Wallace presses Biden official on defund the police

Marc Elias: It Is Time To Protect the Election Certification Process

Recovering Resources, Transforming Water

The real crisis for American democracy is our cowardly inability to tax the rich

Rewatching "The Looming Towers" on hulu

A dorky graphic for my fellow dorky chemists.

AOC Destroys Greene On Twitter With One Word: 'Taller'

Attention Trump Rally Supporters:

Mike Pence Finds Spine, Loses Spine

... bored MAGAs leaving in droves during the speech.

Republicans Back on Board After Biden's Walk Back

Couldn't MTP Find Anyone To Support Dems' Position

OK if you had a food truck What goodies would you make?

Chemists Failing at Being Witty: Weak Attempt at a Pun.

Good Day DU (June 27, 2021)

Chris Wallace Corners GOP Congressman Jim Banks: Aren't You the Ones Defunding the Police?

In keeping with my obsession for photographing rain kissed flowers

In keeping with my obsession for photographing rain kissed flowers. (Xpost from gardening)

Some very close members of my family need to see this-

TCM later, 8:00 pm Psycho (1960)

De colores, que no?

2024 US Senate Election Rating for Democratic held US Senate seats.

Text messages show Trump aides knew Jan. 6 would likely get out of hand

436 new cases on the AZ Dashboard today, Sun;-1 deaths

MWRD Virtual Tour (Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago)

FEC fines Jeff Sessions' Senate campaign $15K for failing to disclose $150,000 loan

Barr describes his break with Trump and 'bulls***' claims of election fraud

Osprey family morning and afternoon

Sen. Bill Cassidy: 'Roads and bridges are a woman's problem' because they are 'doing the shopping'

The Knickerbocker Theatre is about to lose its status as the deadliest building collapse in

MAGA responses to Trump's speech.

How Trump Ally Michael Flynn Nurtured -- And Profited From -- the QAnon Conspiracy Theory

This morning I was listening to NPR and they had a woman who barely escaped the collapse...

Cancel Amazon Prime: The subscription service is Amazon's greatest--and most terrifying--invention.

Discontinuity

Where can you report a "church" that's blatantly political?

Democrats Shift Rhetoric on Police

Are your area's July 4th celebrations on July 3rd, like here in Sheboygan?

Madison Cawthorn, self-described 'big history buff,' keeps getting historical facts wrong

TCM Schedule for Tuesday, June 29: Guest Programmer: Andrew McCarthy

Fun fact: 2021 U.S. men's gymnastics champion Brody Malone used to compete in rodeo.

Bipartisan infrastructure deal back on track after walk-back

What Fiction are you reading this week, June 27, 2021?

chauvin the convicted murderer

Important thread on how the right-wing media's coordinated attack on military leadership is...

GOP Candidate (in Wisconsin) Bankrolled Jan. 6 Insurrection Trip With Campaign Cash

Loyal Rottweiler Copies Everything Her Baby Sister Does

POTUS At Your Service

I have some very weird questions about graveside services

Stray Cat Completely Opens Up When He Meets Rescued Kitten

14 House GOP members just revealed themselves as modern segregationists

Florida Pastor and Son Arrested In Capitol Riot After Congregant Provided Evidence to FBI

Outcry Over South Africa's Multiple Husbands Proposal

Charlie Sykes Calls Tucker Carlson 'Pampered Man-Child Trust Fund Baby' Over Milley Comments

TCM Schedule for Wednesday, June 30: Starring Olivia de Havilland

Toe Fat - Nobody

Serena Williams says she is not on the Olympic list, will not compete in Tokyo

Manchin indicated he would cut a Democratic-only infrastructure plan to $2 trillion so it doesn't

I Am But a Simple Man. Who Are You and What Do You Want?

John Mayall - Fly Tomorrow

"They Don't Want Me Talking About This!" Elon Musk

I don't know what's happening to me.

Could 2024 US Senate Election cycle be the year of non whites.

Allies of Rudy Giuliani have created a 'Freedumb Fund' to aid his legal issues

It is 95 at 10:30am in Beaverton. Peak temp is supposed to be113 at around 5pm..

they joined Proud boys looking for Brotherhood. They found racism, bullying and antisemitism.

Janis Ian - 42nd St. Psycho Blues

Why Is There Such A Gender Gap In COVID-19 Vaccination Rates?

Former political consultant for ex-U.S. Rep. Scott Taylor indicted for election fraud

Anyone else tired of news being "The Trump Report"?

Heartwarming interaction with my mail carrier in record heat yesterday.

Sarah Isgur on This Week where she's lying about the Mueller report with impunity

new favorite shirt of MAGAs

Barrasso says they won't pass Infrastructure until Biden promises to not pass 2nd by reconciliation

STOCK MARKET WATCH - Monday, 28 June 2021

Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan revealed as 'Anon' in 'Deep Rig' election conspiracy film

2 weeks old

Mike Gravel, former U.S. senator from Alaska, dies at 91

I'd like to send a card to Darnella Frazier.....

It Takes All Kinds - Townhome Complex Curiosity

Bob Welch - Danchiva

At least 36 QAnon-supporting candidates intend to run for Congress in 2022

Gorillas act like humans when a snake enters their habitat - Disneyworld

Editorial: We are the first line of defense against wildfires

Pastor Greg Locke: There are child-trafficking "tunnels" under the Capitol & White House

Joni Mitchell - Woodstock

Cartoons 6/27/2021

At Monte Cristo ghost town, a big fight over a short road

Rick Hasen: Mitch McConnell Was Willing to Risk American Democracy to Save the Senate

Peace Frog

Mike Lindell has again accused the BBB of punishing MyPillow over his support for TFG

John Fugelsang tweet:

Throat update

Are WI Lt Governor Mandela Barnes-D and/or Attorney General Josh Kaul going to challenge-

How Michael Flynn Nurtured QAnon

Major News Networks Skip Live Carriage Of TFG's Ohio Rally

Former Skid Row Singer Johnny Solinger Dead at 55

The Capitol rioter known as the 'Q Shaman' will take a test in prison to establish if he is mentally

UK defense documents reportedly 'found at bus stop'

Christmas w/ Mike Gravel

The Ugly War Between a White Police Chief and a Black Mayor in the Deep South

J.D. Vance to announce Senate run this week

Why can't I see pictures when someone posts something from Twitter?

Russia had the first Covid vaccine. Now its population don't seem to want it.

Tropical Depression approaching the Carolinas -expected late Monday

Ghislaine Maxwell's association with Jeffrey Epstein started years earlier than previously believed

'Not fun': Northwest heat wave builds, all-time records fall

Cadet Bonespurs mocks army generals who care more about being 'woke' than 'fighting enemies'

Just scored nosebleed seats for both

4 more bodies discovered in Fla. condo collapse; total now at 9 dead, 156 missing

Minn. attorney general says Derek Chauvin's sentence reflects seriousness of crime

General question: Do more Americans die every day because of guns or the building complex in FL?

Wildfires could become more common in western Washington; How will forests handle it?

BREAKING: Live Shooter in Boca Raton...

Joan Walsh: Bill Barr's Rehabilitation Tour Begins. Let's Not Fall for It.

The Opioid Addiction Crisis and Racism: A Long, Troubled History

White IKEA Workers Make Racist Juneteenth Menu

Yea - masks look stupid

Why WW2 SHOULD have Started in 1937 - The Forgotten Bloody Prelude of WW2

GOP lawmakers won't come to CNN, so Jim Acosta went to them

2022 US Senate Election Prediction- Democrats will have a net gain of 1 to 2 seats.

Ron DeSantis is 'Florida Man'

Single bee is making an immortal clone army thanks to a genetic fluke

Case files on 1964 civil rights worker killings made public

WHO urges fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks as delta Covid variant spreads

Before and after of a Great White Egret in mating plumage.

". . . and the worm shall eat them like wool"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez laid waste to reasons Sinema gives for policy-killing filibuster support.

Trio of Swallowtails

Glenn Kirschner: Bill Barr's Shocking Atlantic Interview Reveals Incriminating Evidence of trump's

Rescue teams from Israel and Mexico are assisting in Florida. DeSantis picture with Israel team only

This week is the 65th anniversary of the Federal Highway Act.

Judge at a Dog Show invites a little girl with Autism to show her stuffed puppy...

This is hot!!!

Relief payments to Black farmers on hold amid lawsuits backed by former Trump aides, conservative

Greek police arrest 2 trying to sell rare Roman-era statue

This should be a PSA on systemic racism

Gov. DeSantis deploys 50 state law officers to patrol the Mexican border as GOP govs target Biden

Mega comet' 60 miles wide is about to fly through the solar system

Neiman Reports: There Is an Open War on Facts and Truth.

Charlie Crist blasts Gov. DeSantis for 'partisan visit' to Pensacola amid Surfside disaster

What's for Dinner, Sun., June 27, 2021

Listen to the Sounds of Classic Tech at The Museum of Endangered Sounds

Marine Le Pen's Far-Right Party Crushed In French Regional Elections

My new favorite song but the Briggs. Control Alt-right delete...

There are people here on DU who are not as smart as I am.

Bryce Dersham, giving his validictory speech from memory after principal cut his mic when he said

Washington State temp check in time

"How do you do, fellow Medicare-for-All enthusiasts?"

It is my understanding that DeSantis has just signed into law a statute which "requires" college

Interesting historical fact: the state name "Idaho" was pulled out of thin air

Long-necked goose

trump Org. attorneys given Mon. deadline to persuade prosecutors not to file charges against it

Tweet of the Day

Olive and Mabel - The Call of the Wild.

Lucille Ball's contribution to Star Trek.

Olive and Mabel - The Long Walk (I missed this one... just, wow!)

3-2-1 -IGNITION- We have lift off

Fox's Chris Wallace catches Republican mid-lie, calls him out TO HIS FACE - Brian Tyler Cohen

Can your computer run Windows 11 ?

Could Democrats retain control of the US Senate from 2021 to 2027?

I consider myself pretty liberal on most issues.

Dark Shadows' premiered 55 years ago today, June 27, 1966, on ABC

So I did this...

Hong Kong's Apple Daily editorial writer arrested at airport

Joe Jackson - Right And Wrong

Wait....wut?!!? (FBI recruiting)

Tour Organizers Taking Action Against Spectator Who Caused Stage 1 Crash

Canadian Rockies by Rail - On a Budget

Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects move to ban absentee ballot drop boxes

Lenticular cloud or mothership?

Aerosmith - Back In The Saddle

Clueless (Brooks Edition)

Can someone help me identify this movie? I believe it was made in

Trump's spreader event rallies

Anthony Newley - The Man Who Makes You Laugh

QAnon Supporters Express Boredom With 'Same Old' Trump Speech: 'This Is Getting Ridiculous'

I'm having a particularly bad day. Ok, a REALLY bad day, but look who showed up to cheer me up

The bishop targeting BIDEN did Hillary too, opposes same-sex marriage, female priests. Is Opus Dei

Seen at the Orange Moron's MAGAt Round up yesterday:

More Cowbell - The Drifters - Stranger on the shore

Florida condo building collapse death toll rises to 9, dozens still missing

Spare a thought for the athletes participating in the Olympic trials

RudyG!

2022 US Senate Election vs 2024 US Senate Election.

Sen. Mitt Romney says he trusts Biden on infrastructure reversal

Online gamer here. I've learned how to deal with gamie troll

Encore careers

Ivanka Trump Turns Her Back On Daddy?!

Sheep is a fluid

How about Kinzinger on the Jan 6th committee?

Anyone want to start a pool on predicting when indictments will drop for Weisselberg?

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