National Mascot Day – 6/17

national mascot day?
there’s only one GOAT @bennythebull pic.twitter.com/ptW5lAtOtv
— raMEANa (@Ramina1690) June 17, 2023

Happy National Mascot Day to all of my Philly faves pic.twitter.com/Leiv3slQUS
— Cindy Webster (@CindyWeb94) June 17, 2023

Happy National Mascot Day!

Favorite MLB mascot… Go! pic.twitter.com/bug9cOPsuW
— S. Preston (@PootPoot) June 17, 2023

Memes on Trump’s document storage in a bathroom

Whoever did this, LOVE IT !!! RT @trumpindicted23 https://t.co/ZSuiaEb04C pic.twitter.com/sTLjUnvAlW
— Tomi Ahonen Still Not Assigned A Probation Officer (@tomiahonen) June 11, 2023

And…another! pic.twitter.com/eRT0X6ECq9
— 🇺🇦RobWear, PA-C (ret) 🇺🇲💙🌊 ☮️ 😷💪💉×6 (@robwear57) June 11, 2023

Ryan McKenna cost me $47.20

I don’t think he belongs on the current Orioles roster as a backup. He would have been fine during the terrible seasons but the 2023 team is too good. Let’s see what Colton Cowser can do.

He also cost me $47.20. I bet $20 on the Orioles to win an early-season game in Boston. I would have won $27.20. The Orioles had a one-run lead with two out in the 9th. McKenna drops an easy fly ball that would have ended the game. The next guy hits a home run so the Orioles lose and I wind up with zero.

Red Sox fans say thank you, Ryan McKenna. pic.twitter.com/224YpxNZfJ
— Tyler Milliken ⚾️ (@tylermilliken_) April 1, 2023

Ryan McKenna since May 20:

1-for-19, 0 walks, 7 strikeouts
— Jacob Calvin Meyer (@jcalvinmeyer) June 10, 2023

Tweet/YouTube videos on the invention of the Super Soaker

Twitter has lots of garbage but also cool stuff like this on Lonnie Johnson who invented the Super Soaker:

Lonnie Johnson, a Black scientist employed at NASA in the early 1980s, was engaged in a project related to jet pumps. In a fortuitous accident, he inadvertently directed a stream of water across the room, sparking a brilliant idea for an innovative water gun. This led to the… pic.twitter.com/aqzyapQfD6
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) June 1, 2023

Tweets on profits by greedy businesses

Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds https://t.co/P3AwbspTnf
— Guardian news (@guardiannews) January 19, 2024

Research by economist Michael Havlin shows the profit margin on gasoline is about 77% higher than in May 2019, the first month for which government data is available. Compared with February 2020, gasoline margins are 62% higher. https://t.co/7aRSLJCgVa pic.twitter.com/6ipKXG9Jgq
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) August 5, 2023

The price of Heinz Ketchup rose 28% in the past year, according to Datasembly, which tracks grocery prices.

Meanwhile, during the same period, the price that Kraft-Heinz and other manufacturers pay for tomatoes is…down 46%.

Again, corporate profits are driving inflation. pic.twitter.com/Xbnib2llsU
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) May 30, 2023

"Once dismissed as a fringe theory, the idea that corporate thirst for profits drives up inflation, aka "greedflation," is now being taken more seriously by economists, policymakers and the business press."https://t.co/TPXOwM50oJ
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) May 22, 2023

New analysis from the ECB shows what we already knew: big, price-gouging corporations are driving lingering inflation. Imposing more rate hikes on hard working Americans isn’t the solution to rising prices; cracking down on corporate profiteers is.https://t.co/LTlEMP7trb
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) May 3, 2023

Remember when Warren, Sanders & others started talking about corporate greed fuelling inflation & centrists (including some Democrats) pushed back? https://t.co/WlZUSsyyrV
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) May 2, 2023

life moves pretty fast pic.twitter.com/ZgdjtUxlcc
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) May 2, 2023

Lincoln Project Trump Bingo

Not that we think you should tune into the MAGA propaganda fest that will be CNN's Trump Town Hall tonight, but if you are… Here's a MAGA Bingo card so it can be a little less soul-crushing as you watch a career conman and criminal spew his lies. pic.twitter.com/PzIKiqZlJd
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) May 10, 2023

The media needs to better to challenge Republican statements

This poll shows more people blame Republicans.https://t.co/LoJtghXLMA
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) May 10, 2023

House Republicans, with media help, spread allegations on Bidens with no factual support

This is a failure by Republicans and the media.

House Republicans allege Biden family members received millions in payments from foreign entities in new bank records report https://t.co/5Z7QdEjMbU
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 10, 2023

Here's basically an admission they don't have facts. They just want you to infer guilt. Pathetic that the media helps them spread this crap.https://t.co/8Iszy8Cbok
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) May 10, 2023

End the blue slip tradition because of Republican abuse

“Not only is the Blue Slip a fundamentally undemocratic vestige of Jim Crow, its use has a substantial effect on the Black community.” — Congressional Black Caucus Chair @RepHorsford calls for Blue Slip reform https://t.co/Xu7JuDmiYJ
— Demand Justice (@WeDemandJustice) July 12, 2023

"Durbin…estimated that fewer than 20 of Biden’s nominees have received green lights from the GOP, while Democrats provided more than 110 for Trump’s judicial picks during his time in office." Yet Durbin, like other Senate Ds, is reluctant to change the practice. https://t.co/fcqZZiMePR
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) May 4, 2023

In today's Senate Judiciary Committee meeting, Dick Durbin says Dem senators signed 110 blue slips in the Trump admin. As in, Dems allowed Trump's judicial picks from their states to move forward that many times.

GOP senators have signed 17 blue slips so far in the Biden admin.
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) April 27, 2023

Time to end the blue slip requirement. Period. https://t.co/ZTTmNV9OfX
— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) May 4, 2023

You can be sure that if Senate Democrats employed the blue slip on district judges as aggressively and egregiously as Republicans, the Republicans would blow up the blue slip in a nanosecond. As they did for appeals court judges. https://t.co/XbcmeoxrFg
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) May 4, 2023

There is no reason for @SenatorDurbin and @HouseJudiciary to allow this abuse to continue. We're proud to stand with 32 other civil rights organizations urging Sen. Durbin to either reform or get rid of blue slips to restore a judiciary that delivers justice for all. (3/3) pic.twitter.com/wd5yg6ftiS
— American Atheists (@AmericanAtheist) May 4, 2023

I asked Durbin last week if he's frustrated by Republicans not turning in blue slips for Biden's court picks, effectively tanking their nominations.

“Of course I’m frustrated!”

Frustrated enough to nix the blue slip rule?

“We’re not at that point yet." https://t.co/wWvPJTx3Vz
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) April 27, 2023

He’s wrong!

Per @washingtonpost @SenatorDurbin defense of Senate's traditional "blue slip" home state veto may become untenable sooner than later: "Of the 56 current/future district court vacancies w/out nominees, 40 are in states w/at least one Republican senator." https://t.co/ZIt0jUauvk
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 14, 2023

Republicans are bringing back child labor

They don’t want immigrants, even legal ones. They prefer rolling back history and putting children to work.

Disgraceful.

Some Republican lawmakers are trying to relax child labor regulations, which are rooted in the public outcry over Lewis Hine’s photographs. https://t.co/mYBbXrb6WO
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 1, 2023

New legislation introduced Monday in Wisconsin would allow children as young as 14 to serve alcohol to restaurant patrons, the latest in a string of state legislatures’ proposals to roll back regulations around work activities for minors. https://t.co/n7Z4IRgaml
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 2, 2023

A secretive group backed by right-wing billionaires is behind the horrifying GOP push to roll back child-labor laws in several states recently.

Their aim is to reduce govt accountability and oversight and let children do dangerous jobs.#UnionsForAll https://t.co/uB2pdY459I
— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) April 26, 2023

The Foundation for Government Accountability, a Florida-based think tank and lobbying group, drafted state legislation to strip child workplace protections, emails show. https://t.co/NVSUSTkNoJ
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 24, 2023