I know this is a small thing but was anyone else grossed out by #Vance constantly responding to questions and comments by calling out "Norah," "Tim," and "Margaret"? It's the semblance of congeniality and acknowledgment that lays the groundwork for the audacious stream of lies to come. Tom Cotton does it, too. It's this deliberate use of proper names that reeks of smugness, sleeziness, and condescension. #HarrisWalz2024

Walter Cronkite is turning over in his grave. CBS's lily-livered (and dangerous) decision not to fact-check exemplifies what Timothy Snyder says NOT to do: "Do not obey in advance."

AP News

CBS News says it will be up to Vance and Walz to fact-check each other in veep debate

When JD Vance and Tim Walz take the stage for next week's vice presidential debate, CBS News says it will be up to the candidates, not the moderato...

#OnTyranny #TimothySnyder #Fascism #Media

"It's time to be a man and vote for a woman." -- #SamElliott What an amazing ad. That voice. https://www.comicsands.com/sam-elliott-harris-f-bomb-2669264489.html #Harris2024 #TheBigLebowski

These images of Bruce Willis are an opportunity to explain the terrible disease he is suffering from. But the article misses that opportunity with its context-free adjectives: "puzzled," "annoyed," "quizzical." The man has frontotemporal dementia for crying out loud. How about some explanation, some empathy? This is often what #dementia looks like.

Yahoo Entertainment

Bruce Willis Spotted During Rare Outing In Brentwood Amid Dementia Struggle

Bruce Willis was recently spotted in a rare public outing amid his ongoing battle with frontotemporal dementia.

#BruceWillis #EndFTD

Devastating and self-critical piece by Lithwick and Stern: "the real story that emerges between the lines is that anyone who believed that John Roberts was a principled movement conservative but also a Never Trumper was wrong. Roberts moved mountains to allow Trump to evade accountability for attempting to unlawfully overturn the results of the 2020 election. . . . [Roberts's] interference in the 2024 elections? It’s already happened.

Slate Magazine

We Helped John Roberts Construct His Image as a Centrist. We Were So Wrong.

Roberts was the aggressive conservative maximalist. And he created majority opinions in his own image.

#SCOTUS

#DogsOfMastodon & #CatsOfMastodon💜Marcotte: "That a person has value outside of serving the patriarchal social order is not even considered. . . pets disturb this worldview. Even if they "rank" lower than the human family members (cats disagree), they don't serve any "purpose" in a conservative social order. They're just there to love & be loved. . . it's no surprise there's so much hostility to pets in MAGA rhetoric, or even downright violent urges towards animals."

Salon.com

Cat ladies and dog-eating: Why MAGA can't quit the weird talk about pets

Kristi Noem shoots her puppy. Trolls accuse Tim Walz of faking his dog. The animal obsession is getting deranged

Mary Trump: "Surely a political press corps that spent months arguing that President Biden’s age rendered him mentally unfit, wouldn’t look the other way when the Republican candidate, the oldest person to run for president in American history, is not only old but decompensating before our very eyes. The difference of course is that Biden is aging while Donald is dementing."

Translating the Crazy

Corporate media turns a blind eye

#Harris2024

thank you @RichardH for posting this superb image. #Harris2024

My #memoir, written w/ #UCSF #neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, turns 3 today. It is about my father's brain, its deterioration from early-onset Alzheimer's, my love for him, and all the grief. I describe a clinical presentation, a memory of my father's illness, and Bruce explains the neurology behind #Alzheimer's and other forms of #dementia. The last chapter remembers my dad before he got sick. Readers have said that they have found the book helpful. #EndAlz @caregivers https://weinsteinandmiller

"He has the whole press corps acting as his ghostwriter, sanitizing his babble for the public." -- Heather Digby Parton

Salon.com

Donald Trump's incoherence makes the media's double standard hard to hide - Salon.com

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris curiously don't get the same coverage

#Harris2024