How to help Puerto Rico

Looking for ways help Puerto Rico after Hurricane Fiona? @Lin_Manuel and @Vegalteno write about how for @PostOpinions. https://t.co/btKV33ZQRu
— Zainab | زينب (@Zainab_Mudallal) September 20, 2022

Looking to support Puerto Rico after Fiona? Give local. Consider organizations like Waves Ahead. https://t.co/CoKRAuiUfv
— Helen Parshall (@PartiallyHelen) September 20, 2022

Want to help Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 recover from Hurricane Fiona?

Here are some community organizations with direct impact on the island. Please feel free to add to this list:
— Alex Guzmán 🇵🇷 (@Alex_Guzman_RVA) September 19, 2022

You can help Puerto Ricans affected by the hurricane. Here’s how https://t.co/ECDHf48qGi
— TIME (@TIME) September 21, 2022

GOP access to voting equipment is wrong

This is a multi-state issue.

Newly obtained surveillance video shows a Georgia GOP county official and operatives working with a Trump attorney spent hours inside a restricted area of the Coffee County elections office on Jan. 7, 2021 — the same day its voting systems were breached.https://t.co/yWNxCsbUX2
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 20, 2022

NEW: GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announces he will replace election equipment in Coffee County, after members of a data firm hired by a Trump attorney accessed data from those machines.
— Blayne Alexander (@ReporterBlayne) September 23, 2022

Mike Lindell, the My Pillow chief executive and ally to former President Donald Trump, is under federal investigation for identity theft and for conspiring to damage a protected computer connected to a suspected voting equipment security breach in Colorado https://t.co/w7CBER4tvd pic.twitter.com/kmKIf0hZs5
— Reuters Legal (@ReutersLegal) September 21, 2022

Documents obtained by the Washington Post found a “secretive, multistate effort to access voting equipment that was broader, more organized and more successful than previously reported,” included efforts in Michigan that have already come under scrutiny https://t.co/3FuOYr8SvO
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) August 17, 2022

“This previously unreported Michigan case is one of at least 17 incidents nationwide, including 11 in Michigan, in which Trump supporters gained or attempted to gain unauthorized access to voting equipment.”
Is it a coincidence that all are GOP attempts? https://t.co/cLBdu2f4Vi
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 7, 2022

Arizona’s Maricopa County will replace voting equipment that was turned over to a private contractor for a Republican-commissioned review of the 2020 presidential election, concerned that the process compromised the security of the machines https://t.co/PBsfarGit5
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 29, 2021

Georgia State Elections Board reveals it has asked the FBI to participate in an ongoing criminal investigation into the voting system breach in Coffee County because of similarities between what happened there and incidents in other states https://t.co/vFlEiwai2H
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 28, 2022

Covers: Crazy (Willie Nelson song)

“Crazy” was written by Willie Nelson but is best known in the version by Patsy Cline (1961). I was once in a restaurant (Mt. Vernon Stable in Baltimore) where someone in a large party stood up, sang the song, and sat back down.

Covers: She Drives Me Crazy

“She Drives Me Crazy” was a 1988 record for the Fine Young Cannibals. The Muppets covered it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mM91SKs8Ig

Covers: California Dreamin’

“California Dreamin'” was a 1965 hit for the Mamas and the Papas. Check out the Eddie Hazel version.

The Lawrence Welk show does California Dreamin'.

It is as insane and brilliant as you might think. pic.twitter.com/WsneuOo1lV
— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) July 22, 2023

The Christian majority is shrinking

Our NEW projections show U.S. Christians are on track to lose their majority status within a few decades if recent trends continue, driven mostly by young people leaving the faith. 🧵https://t.co/iTk2OiLOOj pic.twitter.com/tecy2HF8oF
— 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗞𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿 (@_StephKramer) September 13, 2022

Christians could fall below 50% of the U.S. population by 2070 if recent trends continue, Pew Research Center projects.https://t.co/zvo71qCXhn pic.twitter.com/7XaFAb98Ih
— Axios (@axios) September 21, 2022

New @PewResearch study: Americans who identify as atheist/agnostic/none have risen to 30% of the population. If current trends continue they’re projected to reach a majority by 2070.https://t.co/kJXVFoS1VV pic.twitter.com/F7DI0xJNXv
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 15, 2022

My experience with a bouncer near Yankee Stadium

This was about a dozen years ago. I went to Yankee Stadium with two guys who were younger than me. One guy was then in his late twenties and the other guy was about 40.

We stopped in a bar first. They had a bouncer. The first guy (the one in his twenties) was carded. The second guy was also carded. He certainly looked older than 21 so I assumed they carded everyone.

I took out my ID and showed it to the bouncer. He looked at me with disgust and waved me in. He didn’t say anything but his look was “Why are you showing this to me, old man?”

Lindsey Graham’s hyprocrisy

Republicans support states’ rights except when they don’t like what the states are doing

Lindsey Graham on August 7: “I've been consistent…States should decide the issue of abortion.”

Lindsey Graham on September 20, defending a national abortion ban: “This is not a states’ rights issue.” pic.twitter.com/MPGRm2wW7r
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) September 20, 2022

Lindsey Graham on August 7: “I've been consistent. I think states should decide the issue of marriage and states should decide the issue of abortion.”

Lindsey Graham on Sept 20: “This is not a states’ rights issue.” pic.twitter.com/HdVwn9onC4
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 20, 2022

Did you know there is a Slap Fight championship?

I didn’t know about the Slap Fight championship until I saw this tweet

This is now my favorite video on internet pic.twitter.com/MJrTJiOHyR
— Vanessinator 🤖 T-80085 (@ilovejohnkimble) September 19, 2022

This is the new “sport” they’re showing on TBS tonight at 10pm pic.twitter.com/oIEy0t5bBP
— Wu-Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) January 19, 2023

A PowerSlap star is born and he is a 5-foot-9, 350 pound Siberian farmer named Dumpling pic.twitter.com/50jxQmASHV
— Dan Wetzel (@DanWetzel) June 29, 2024

Another Republican government shutdown coming?

They’ve done it before with people like Gingrich and Cruz. They’re more interested in vengeance and harming people than governing.

Texas Rep. Chip Roy is leading a group of nearly 50 other House Rs — mostly House Freedom Caucus members or those who tend to vote w/the HFC — in a dear colleague letter saying they will oppose a CR /any approps package put fwd this Congress while Dems in power. pic.twitter.com/P2DamVlgPN
— Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) September 19, 2022

Republicans are actively preparing for shutting down our government should they win Congress this November.

The shutdowns will happen until all investigations of Trump are defunded.https://t.co/X07WXFPJNp
— Carlos E. Gates (@CarlosEGates1) September 19, 2022

Remember this?
"The nation is in the midst of the longest government shutdown in American history, and President Donald Trump is promising to keep it going for “months or even years” until he gets $5 billion to build a wall along the southern border."https://t.co/7JFsnq9MH4
— Tracey Jones (@traceyj661) September 19, 2022

From Social Security checks to national parks, here’s how a government shutdown would (or wouldn't) disrupt the United States. pic.twitter.com/EzJLK1drfh
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) September 12, 2022

Lawmakers are returning to Washington for a pre-midterm elections sprint when preventing a government shutdown will be their top legislative item, but positioning before voters go to the polls will be their driving political priority https://t.co/AdcJK8ZBZY
— CNN (@CNN) September 6, 2022