Eddie Rich

Eddie is my Siamese. My name is Rae. Background: health care management; science; bit of law. Politically moderate. Tennis fan.

[Jane of the North @JaneotN]

Sadly Katie didn't even make it to Saturday so SNL couldn't parody her.

But Canada did.

And it's fantastic.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Within the administration, there was immediate and “pretty universal revulsion” about the livestream plan. By late last week, even the president’s inner circle was making its distaste clear. Vance barely hid his disgust.

https://t.co/kkogILJ3BL

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Damn, she didn’t even make it a Scaramucci

Only the best people, amirite?

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

This level of disinhibition really suggests that something is deeply wrong with him. He's always been nasty to women, but now it seems like he's lost all control.

[ꪝe @_wej01]

Last night I went to a bar with my husband and a (male) friend. We ordered drinks and they were ready before I returned from the rest room. The (male) bartender wouldn't hand my drink to the men. When I returned he gave it directly to me. I don't know if this is standard practice, but I love that it is for him..

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Asleep?

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Before we move on from the Eric Schmitt humiliation to the next Trumpian GOP humiliation, I wanted to point out a few things for context:
1. Schmitt smirked - visibly - when he asked Jack Smith if he attended a Hawks game in Atlanta and Smith said "no." He was playing gotcha, and this was the entire purpose of the Smith hearing - garnering sound bites that may help reverse a GOP polling slide.
2. Seconds after the smirk, Schmitt - unable to contain his ill-conceived glee - mentioned perjury - twice. He couldn't control himself.
3. Smith remained unflappable throughout. He wasn't emotional nor indignant. In fact, he was respectful and thoughtful, and it was his respect and reasoned thought that led to the uncovering of the mix-up, as he himself recalled attending a different basketball game in a different city, because he was thinking and not feeling.
4. Klobuchar played the detective and she did her part with class. She didn't call Schmitt an idiot, a dirtbag, a presumptive partisan hack, or any name. She calmly pointed out the Hawks/Hawkeyes error.
5. Schmitt, who IS an idiot, a dirtbag, and a presumptive partisan hack, attacked Klobuchar and claimed she didn't have the floor to speak. Then, someone must have whispered something to him, and he shut up.
6. In the few minutes between Schmitt's questioning and Klobuchar's explanation, the RW media machine, like the rabid dogs they are, were out in force amplifying the "gotcha" on social media. Hannity and Benny Johnson and others later deleted their tweets, and numerous Community Notes were posted - that's my favorite feature on X, btw.
7. Even after the embarrassment, Schmitt went on the Charlie Kirk podcast and was complimented for his questioning, and he went with it, not putting any truth our there with any context, let alone any contrition. Add scumbag to my epithets for him.
8. And of course, GOP lawmakers STILL spin the hearing falsely - even now; Hawley in particular (like Schmitt - also from Missouri).

OK. Take this whole thing in its entirety, to see it for what it is. Look at the sordid intent, the lack of shame, the gaslighting, the lack of contrition - today it was Eric Schmitt, tomorrow it will be someone else, and they keep throwing false narratives out there - for three reasons: first, they're desperate and losing; second, their followers are tribal, frothing, and addicted to dopamine; and third, they play to an audience of one, whose entire rise to power was based on false narratives - a malignantly narcissistic audience of one.
It's the same malignantly narcissistic audience that - as Jack Smith knows and can prove - took classified documents with nefarious intent.
And it's the same malignantly narcissistic audience - that we ALL know - engineered and inflamed a shameful insurrection to thwart the peaceful transfer of power after LOSING an election.
And ... it's the same malignantly narcissistic audience that we need to neuter as a lame duck - and that neutering needs to be Party wide.
We need to return to truth and doing the job - like Jack Smith, to fairness and decorum - like Amy Klobuchar, and to empathy, contrition, non-disordered brains, and an electorate capable of reasoned thought.
The entire incident is proof that the entire GOP needs to be voted out.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Super intelligence, my ass

[Cosmic Gaia @CosmicGaiaX]

Baby kangaroo 🦘❤

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Reporter: Have you had a chance to speak to US President Donald Trump since being in New York, or any member of the US administration?

Mark Carney: I find that when you have 160 leaders come to New York that it's most valuable to meet those who you don't normally see.

[Eddie Rich @EddiRich]

@sarobertson_ Smooth.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Quiet Piggy

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

The decision by the television outlets not to participate in the White House pool today in response to Trump's self-declared "ban on the free press" will leave the most TV-addicted president in our history without major network cameras recording his every utterance and movement.

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

The President of Slovakia invited Elena Rybakina to the Presidential Palace in honor of her winning the U.S. Open and becoming the World No. 1.

She spends a good amount of time training there & living there for parts of the year.

A big honor. 🇰🇿❤️🇸🇰

[US Open Tennis @usopen]

Iconic.

[All About Nature @NAmazing44779]

This is the cutest thing you are going to see today...
(Nairobi national park)

📹 paraschandaria, Instagram

[Pavvy G @pavyg]

Elena Rybakina just calmly getting ready for her first @usopen final, no entourage, no attention seeking, no pushing establishment narratives, no moaning about injustices, just here to play Tennis.

Rybakina and Sabalenka two great role models for Tennis.

[Eddie Rich @EddiRich]

@JonahDispatch @JohnDalyBooks “Legit weirdo and goober.” That is the most unkind thing I’ve ever heard you say, Jonah. It is beneath you.