“Can you remember a criminal defendant repeatedly unable to stay awake at his own trial? I can’t."
#TheNodfather has #Dementia

The #Yen fell past 160 per USD for the first time in more than thirty years

As always, sod off Ted Cruz.

The European neighbors are letting #PutinIsaWarCriminal play Yoku Ono's worst caterwauling at full volume & on repeat.
Time for a RF seeking missile.

Supreme Court has DENIED latest request by former Trump advisor Peter Navarro for release from prison pending appeal.

Hope is a dangerous thing.

The puppy killing cred that helps with Trump, he still has to pick a VP for the ticket, doesn't help with the public. Life is unfair.

"Acknowledging that Russia believes it's at war with the West, and is attacking us with measures it considers to be part of that war, doesn't mean entering an endless war with Moscow. It's just a realistic starting point for thinking about how to respond."

Call me an elitist, but the smell of a sweaty rear end is extremely unpleasant.

Skippy is best known for the role of the pet dog "Asta" in the 1934 detective comedy The Thin Man.
MAGA Republicans would have shot him if the working dog messed up his parts in his films.

NYT:
"Gloria Ramirez, 75, whose parents moved to Wenden from Chihuahua, Mexico, in the 1960s to work in the fields, said the dropping groundwater levels have her worried...

“My house is lower,” she said. “The ground is splitting.”
#Arizona Water
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/us/arizona-la-paz-county-water.html

New York Times Pitchbot:
What the left gets wrong about pet ownership.
https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1784935319965446162

Jen Psaki:
It feels crazy this may need to be said…but having been the WH comms director for Obama and press secretary for Biden…no…campaign and White House comms staff do not work with media to pay off potential sources of bad stories…ever. I am certain my predecessors of both parties would confirm that too.
https://twitter.com/jrpsaki/status/1784920398380871689

Today's thought:
Damn it, I almost made it to retirement without the world blowing up.

In the 1970's, in the the 4th grade, I was taught about the atmosphere and greenhouse effect. The bill is here for burning fossil fuels. #ClimateCrisis

#PutinIsaWarCriminal and his GOP backers
"Kasparov is just not that bright," is a hell of a take.

#PutinIsaWarCriminal #China
"China will fight the West to the last Russian."

It is a bad idea for petrostates to illegally attack their neighbors because they are very flammable.

#PutinIsaWarCriminal bomb him.
Aftermath of the drone attack on Russian oil depot in Yartsevo.
https://twitter.com/kromark/status/1784866369818788166

Ukraine Military intelligence: Over 18,000 Russian troops of Southern Military District have deserted.

Soldiers of Russia's Southern Military District, whose units are deployed in Ukraine, are deserting their posts in increasing numbers, HUR said on April 29.
https://kyivindependent.com/military-intelligence-over-18-000-russian-troops-of-southern-military-district-have-deserted/

#PutinIsaWarCriminal
"Never underestimate an autocrat’s fear of his people."