And now for something completely different.

George Takei for the win!

Must watch: My Country 'Tis Of Thee

Planned Parenthood quietly built massive 'megaclinic' in Illinois near Missouri border

This article is from 2019. I don't recall seeing this before. It sounds as though they were planning ahead for a time when Roe would be overturned.

It's a bench, not a throne.

Have You Noticed America has Gotten Meaner?

“Have you noticed that people are getting meaner?” the villain asks in a Paramount+ promo for their new show Evil.
“What does it mean?” asks the “nice” character.
“It means,” says the evil character with a note of triumph in her voice, “that your side is losing.”

And here we are. The lede of an above-the-fold story in yesterday’s Washington Post lays it out:

“In the past 24 hours, there has been an uptick in the number of violent threats against lawmakers on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and all lawmakers on the committee are likely to receive a security detail…”

We need to discuss the violence and threats of violence now endemic to the GOP, because they signal a hopefully reversible — but possibly terminal — slide into fascism.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/have-you-noticed-america-has-gotten?r=nl8r&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

A Russian tank pauses. . .

Dance Of The Thousand-Hand Quanyin. Stunning

Judge Luttig reveals why he spoke so slowly at Jan. 6 hearing

There has been a great deal of speculation as to why retired Judge Michael Luttig spoke so slowly at Thursday's hearing of the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.

"I like how this guy treats every line of his testimony like he's engraving it on a national monument. And frankly, he really *is* engraving it for history. And he seems to know it," Vanity Fair writer Joe Hagan wrote in a Twitter thread.

"I also respect, despite how halting he may sound, that Luttig is not setting himself up to be a mere soundbite maker. He's speaking to history, not TV," he wrote. "His sobriety, his graveness, his hallowedness, is so foreign to our modern sensibilities - but that's the point. That is the precise point."

The thread was noticed by the former judge.

https://www.rawstory.com/michael-luttig-speaks/

It doesn't get sweeter than this.