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Mimosa, Bloody Mary, nice flute of champagne — or maybe a favorite tipple in your coffee. Make yourself one and join me at our own Algonquin Round Table, the spirit of Dorothy Parker abides.
Happy Sunday, dear friends! Here we are at the halfway point of August. 2025 is moving down the calendar at a furious pace so I enjoy our Sunday brunches together. We can sip chilled beverages, indulge in decadent tidbits of nourishment and, of course, swap the gossip on the latest risible behavior from the portside. Grab a plate, dears, and let’s get to it. L’Chaim!
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… and “what it means.”
Symone Sanders, former senior advisor for Joe Biden, gets asked if having more police would make streets safer. Her response?
"No. I'm a black woman in America."
What….pic.twitter.com/ynZ4wmETG4
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 12, 2025
Mz Husky Dusky, a woman whose own life from birth on can easily be put in the privileged column, feels the need to be all Grrrlz-in-the-hood and demand that people stop resisting property and violent crime in their neighborhoods because you all are just too concerned with safety.
We’ve seen this hide-the-ball stuff recently — why go to the trouble of actually reducing crime when you can pretend it doesn’t exist by defining it away?
Time to bring back the pillory. I look forward to running the rotten veggie franchise.
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How do we know Democrats are lying about crime statistics? Their lips are moving.
Five years ago, I was violently attacked and sexually assaulted in broad daylight in Washington, D.C., by a homeless man. He served time in federal prison for what he did to me. But if you look for evidence that the attack happened in the city’s crime statistics, you won’t find it. (snip)
My attacker was arrested on the street months later, charged, and pleaded guilty to a sex abuse charge nearly two years later. MPD’s “Crime Cards” online statistics page omits mentioning it, though. Do you know what that communicates to a victim? How invalidating that is?
When I asked MPD in 2020 why my incident was not on its crime map, an MPD spokesman said the city only includes 1st degree felonies under its crime stats. That would mean that for every person robbed, assaulted, or sexually abused in anything less than egregious ways, you have not been counted into the total tally. The pain you suffered was not severe enough, according to MPD’s standards.
I guess when assault and rape aren’t “assaulty and rapey” enough, they don’t really happen. At least for Democrats.
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Transgender athlete Hannah Mouncey says she fears her bid to become an Olympic handball representative will be dashed by year’s end as anti-trans sentiment is “weaponised” across world sport. Here's more: https://t.co/Ikm9WnykSN pic.twitter.com/0Un2yZXVwb
— The Australian (@australian) August 15, 2025
Cheater whines that people notice his cheating and object.
Transgender athlete Hannah Mouncey says she (sic) fears her (sic) bid to become an Olympic handball representative will be dashed by year’s end as anti-trans sentiment is “weaponised” across world sport.
Mouncey told the Sacked podcast that despite little fanfare she (sic) remained a member of the Australian women’s handball team which hopes to qualify for the LA Olympics in 2028.
The hulking 35 y/o played on men’s teams until ten years ago when he suddenly discovered his authentic self through cosplay in service of getting him a little Olympic medal or two.
Cheater.
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The Left never figures on its own tactics used against them.
During the outcry against nuclear power in the 1970s, liberal Oregon lawmakers hatched a plan to slow an industry that was just getting started. They created a burdensome process that gave the public increased say over where power plants could be built, and the leading anti-nuclear activists of the day used appeal after appeal to delay proposed nuclear plants to death. It had a huge impact: Oregon’s first commercial nuclear plant, the one that spurred lawmakers into action, was also the state’s last.
What those lawmakers didn’t plan for was that 50 years later, an Oregon citizen activist would use that same bureaucracy to hinder some of the very energy projects that today’s liberals want: wind farms and the new high-voltage lines needed to support them.
They didn’t plan for Irene Gilbert.
The 76-year-old retired state employee, former gun store owner and avid elk hunter from La Grande, Oregon, is on a mission to keep turbines and transmission towers from blighting the rural landscape. She has filed more challenges to energy projects — 15 in all, including lawsuits — than anyone in the state, according to Oregon’s Department of Energy.
Go, Irene, go!
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Trump trolls Lizzy then one of her staff lets a normie ask her a real question …
I can't wait until she gets fully exposed.pic.twitter.com/ojbG9Mmdq6
— Community Notes & Violations (@CNviolations) August 16, 2025
Couldn’t happen to a nicer commie. Someone send her a fruit basket and a box of wine.
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He just found out that one can, indeed, see Russia from Alaska.
Because of the way that maps are normally drawn, I had never realised that the US (Alaska) and Russia are almost touching. I am shook. pic.twitter.com/4NnDcwQwhQ
— Will Kingston (@WillKingston) August 15, 2025
Granted, this is a youngish Aussie. But he works in New York (well, that may be a problem, too) and, as he is a media guy with SkyNews, he could have taken a few minutes to pull up Google Maps or even learn a bit of American history about Alaska and that it was once part of Russia.
::::sigh::::
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96 year old Korean War Vet is the recipient of a random act of kindness that starts a chain reaction.
Standing ovation to all those volunteers who helped Charlie and a big, loud shout-out to veteran Alex Nowlin who started this all.
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Goodness, look at the time! It’s been a great start to Sunday so please pack up a doggy bag and go enjoy the rest of it and let’s get together next week. Cheers!
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John C. says: I know a number of people who might otherwise be considered reasonably intelligent and well-educated who to this day believe that Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her house in Alaska. She never said that (it was said on Saturday Night Live by Tina Fey, a nominal comedian); what she said was that you could see Russia from places in Alaska. And she was right: the Russian island of Big Diomede and the Alaskan island of Little Diomede are less than 2-1/2 miles apart, and in 1987 Lynne Cox swam from one to the other.
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