#LincolnProject The Breakdown: Trump in Court, McCarthy vs Gaetz, GOP Primary, and a briefing on extremism
https://www.youtube.com/live/AKS9X_hJgcA

Insightful article by Timothy Noah about how it might have been the "bond vigilantes" who did in McCarthy. The last four paragraphs are especially good.
https://newrepublic.com/article/175988/kevin-mccarthy-gaetz-trump-bond-vigilantes

#TraeCrowder Liberal Redneck - McCarthy ousted, Trae nails another one.
https://youtu.be/UfbF5dBT_Dk

#TFG

#CoSoCanucks Greg Fergus is now Canada's first black Speaker, and Wab Kinew will shortly become Canada's first First Nations Premier.

#CoSoCanucks New Speaker Greg Fergus being dragged to the chair. The Speaker, by tradition, feigns reluctance to take the post dating to the days when British speakers were the ones to give the King bad news.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1709261523963576333

#SECShorts Fun watching for any college football fan.
https://youtu.be/7FaqPmFE6Vo

#BillMaher Too good not to pass along: Tips for Donald Trump's Cellmate
https://youtu.be/KY_jyN8W6_w

#CoSoMusic Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. Three days of music, and it's free. Peter Rowan scheduled for 4:05 PM PDT.
https://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/schedule/

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#CoSoCanucks Did another walking tour of Banff today. The second picture is a couple of elk. The third one is the venerable Banff Springs Hotel, and the fourth one is the Bow Falls.
Going home to Kamloops tomorrow.

I have been praising #SteveSchmidt for 3 years because he is one of the few talking heads willing to tell the truth about Saudi Arabia. Well, now he's telling the truth about #DavidBrooks
https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/nyts-david-brooks-and-the-first-rule

#CoSoCanucks Important article about Canada's wingnuts. Some good comments, too.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/09/19/news/inside-look-plot-make-climate-denial-mainstream

#CoSoCanucks Spent an afternoon walking around Banff, Went to the Whyte Museum and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

#Caturday This is international cat Mouse Tse-Tung. She was adopted as a stray in Barra de Navidad, has been transported to and from Banff a couple of times. Her servants plan to move permantly from Banff to Barra de Navidad a month from now, and Mouse will be making the trip.

#CoSoCanucks Drove the Icefields Parkway from Jasper to Banff this afternoon. The second picture is Bow Lake.

#CoSoCanucks @_Psyber Went for a hike this morning in Maligne Canyon, north of Jasper.
Got a dose of what Edward Abbey called "industrial tourism" there, but hey, the national and provincial parks are for everybody.

#CosoCanucks I'm in Jasper, AB. Had to scrape frost off my car this morning.

#CoSoCanucks A clear day in the Canadian Rockies. Can't beat it. I hiked the Valley of the Five Lakes trail, south of Jasper.

#CoSoCanucks Drove from Kamloops to Jasper today. My first time in the Canadian Rockies in 41 years, and my first time ever in Valemount and Jasper. The first picture was taken near Tete Jaune Cache, the second in downtown Jasper.