David Forrest

A former editor at @Statesman. News junkie, avid reader, film buff, history geek, fan of the great outdoors and bit of a science/tech nerd. Retweets≠approval.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Analysis: When the Trump administration announced its controversial legal fund popular with Jan. 6 rioters, it also gave President Trump immunity from any potential tax crimes for any taxes filed up to now.

It’s “a legal absurdity,” said one expert. https://t.co/BG8ipZyMiv

[David Forrest @NewsForrest]

June 3 is Billie Joe McAllister Day. As in the opening line of Bobbie Gentry’s song “Ode to Billie Joe”:
“It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day …”
https://t.co/dlLMKsU89V

[Austin Statesman @statesman]

Federal officials are testing a suspected New World screwworm sample from South Texas after the parasite moved closer to the U.S. border.

https://t.co/9vw1OjLtSC

[PBS News @NewsHour]

American consumer debt is at an all-time high of nearly $19 trillion overall.

If you are experiencing debt, we’d like to hear from you for an upcoming story: https://t.co/0wFtz022z0

[David Forrest @NewsForrest]

This (“No More Kings”) is the Schoolhouse Rock song being referred to here:
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[PBS News @NewsHour]

"Mad" King George III — the villain of "Hamilton," "Schoolhouse Rock" and the Revolutionary War — has undergone a makeover in time for America's 250th birthday. https://t.co/bWCcjNJfY9

[David Forrest @NewsForrest]

The possible dining habits of Nikumaroro island’s giant coconut hermit crabs aside, Katherine Rundell’s “Vanishing Treasures” is a nice collection of essays on (mostly) #wildlife. Here’s an NPR review from a couple of years ago:
#books #reading #nonfiction
https://t.co/m3f26lFmBF

[David Forrest @NewsForrest]

I’m a sucker for a catchy opening sentence (“lede” in newspaper speak), and the first sentence of chapter 7 of the book I’m now reading, “Vanishing Treasures” by Katherine Rundell, is, for better or worse, eye-catching:
“It was, perhaps, a hermit crab that ate Amelia Earhart.”

[David Forrest @NewsForrest]

Belle and Chai are near-perfect genetic matches, but their personalities differ. Chai was introverted and clingy. Belle the clone is outgoing and curious — an “adventure cat.”
#cats #pets #cloning

[Austin Statesman @statesman]

After her cat died unexpectedly, an Austin resident spent $25,000 for a clone.

Kelli Anderson's beloved ragdoll cat, Chai, died at 5 years old from complications after anesthesia. Four years later, Anderson met Belle.

Belle is Chai's genetic clone — but Anderson is quick to make one thing clear: Belle is not Chai brought back to life.

https://t.co/FMlKC9nxA1

[David Forrest @NewsForrest]

#FactCheck: No woman is suing any Galveston firefighter for "inappropriate touching" after a rescue from a stalled roller coaster. https://t.co/pTJnvWqVer

[ABC News @ABC]

President Trump is floating the possibility of keeping the UFC arena on the White House South Lawn — built for a series of fights on his birthday and Flag Day — permanently.

Read more: https://t.co/PdI3ZarEYr

[History_of_Geology @Geology_History]

June 3, 1969, last episode of #StarTrek aired. In the 79 episodes of the original three seasons almost 50 minerals are mentioned & strange, new #geology is explored 🖖⚒
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[The Oldie @OldieMagazine]

By Thomas for @TheOldieMagazine. For more Toons, subscribe to The Oldie today! Get 3 issues for only £1 https://t.co/shbSJNZSQV #theoldiemagazine #toons #cartoons #funny #jokes

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

The Oklahoma Panhandle exists because Texas chose to preserve its status as a slave state.

Under the Missouri Compromise, slavery was banned in territories north of the 36°30′ parallel. When Texas joined the United States as a slave state in 1845, its northern border was set at that line. Although Texas claimed land farther north based on earlier Spanish and Mexican boundaries, keeping that territory would have created a conflict over slavery restrictions. As part of the Compromise of 1850, Texas surrendered the strip of land north of 36°30′—the area that would eventually become the Oklahoma Panhandle.

The cession left the region outside the borders of any organized state or territory. Since it belonged to neither Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, nor Colorado, it remained a patch of unorganized federal land.

For roughly four decades, from 1850 to 1890, the area was widely known as “No Man’s Land,” a place with no formal territorial government, limited law enforcement, and an uncertain legal status. It was eventually attached to Oklahoma Territory and became part of the state of Oklahoma when Oklahoma entered the Union in 1907.

[David Forrest @NewsForrest]

The Senate advanced its own #Iran war powers resolution last month when a handful of GOP senators broke ranks with the Republican president in a rare show of political pushback from his party.
https://t.co/SmW1UEdLKq

[David Forrest @NewsForrest]

Doctors nationwide are encountering more children with whooping cough, bacterial infections and other serious illnesses, as well as more adults refusing tetanus shots.
#health
https://t.co/hlT4j4KAv1

[Mark Parisi 🦀 @OffTheMarkComic]

The tension is mountain

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has unveiled plans to set a $135 share price in its initial public offering price, for a sale worth $75 billion. The blockbuster debut would make Musk the first-ever trillionaire. https://t.co/gDMQtlZHWM

[David Forrest @NewsForrest]

If you’ve seen the comedy “Airplane” but have never watched “Zero Hour,” you ought to check out that drama on @TCM. It’s amazing how many scenes and even intact lines of dialogue that the zany comedy borrows directly from the completely straight disaster movie.
#film #movies #TV

[TCM @tcm]

After a late-night broadcast of the disaster film ZERO HOUR! ('57), comedy troupe members: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker bought the rights to the film to direct a scene-by-scene spoof.

The result was AIRPLANE ('80) – one of cinema's greatest comedies.