The Standing 7-Minute Workout

Click here for an article in the NYT by Tara Parker-Pope entitled "The Standing 7-Minute Workout."

Mover over, Project 2025

Click here for an op-ed in the NYT by Carlos Lozada entitled "What I Learned When I Read 887 Pages of Plans for Trump's Second Term." It's pretty frightening.

Not meant for casual reading, 'Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” is a dense 887-page outline for a conserative takeover of the federal government.

With contributions by dozens of conservative thinkers and activists under the leadership of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the book announces itself as part of a “unified effort to be ready for the next conservative administration to govern at 12:00 noon, Jan. 20, 2025.” There is much work ahead, it states, “just to undo the significant damage that will have been done during the Biden years.”

There is plenty here that one would expect from a contemporary conservative agenda: calls for lower corporate taxes and against abortion rights; criticism of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and the “climate fanaticism” of the Biden administration; and plans to militarize the southern border and targeThe main conservative promise here is to wield the state as a tool for concentrating power and entrenching ideology.t the “administrative state,” which is depicted here as a powerful and unmanageable federal bureaucracy bent on left-wing social engineering. Yet what is most striking about the book is not the specific policy agenda it outlines but how far the authors are willing to go in pursuit of that agenda and how reckless their assumptions are about law, power and public service.

The book "calls for a relentless politicizing of the federal government, with presidential appointees overpowering career officials at every turn and agencies and offices abolished on overtly ideological grounds."

The book’s existence is an implicit admission that the Trump administration’s haphazard approach to governance was a missed opportunity. Executing a conservative president’s agenda “requires a well-conceived, coordinated, unified plan and a trained and committed cadre of personnel to implement it,” the document says on its opening page. The phrasing quickly grows militaristic: The authors wish to “assemble an army of aligned, vetted, trained and prepared conservatives to go to work on Day 1 to deconstruct the administrative state.”

There's more -- A LOT MORE -- and like I said, it's frightening.

 

 

Going both ways.

Caitlin Clark going Reggie Miller! pic.twitter.com/f8KmQKgdDg

— LeLakers 2️⃣3️⃣👑 (@LeLaker) June 19, 2024

Saving this for later ...

Here is John Oliver’s full breakdown of Trump’s Project 2025 plan to reshape America 👇 pic.twitter.com/XNsm6FjXeV

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) June 18, 2024

Eric Trump is disgusted.

Eric says his father's opponents are the worst of the worst. "The manners, the lack of morals, in society is awful."

Eric Trump: An anchor on CNN called my father a PIECE of Sh|t!" pic.twitter.com/Isxbb03s3O

— Roshan Rinaldi (@Roshan_Rinaldi) June 16, 2024

The Fever are starting to look like a team!

Tinker to Evers to Chance? And the leader is -- surprise, surprise -- Caitlin Clark.

defense ➡️ offense

this Aliyah Boston sequence is today's Rush Bowls Play of the Game 🔥 pic.twitter.com/2EqfnV83N9

— Indiana Fever (@IndianaFever) June 16, 2024

Flagrant foul by Angel Reese on Caitlin Clark

I thought it was just hard, competitive basketball until I saw it from this angle.

Angel Reese is a thug.

Look what she just did to Caitlin Clark.

This isn’t a rare occurrence.

This has been happening a lot where black players target and criminally assault Caitlin.

This would be called a hate crime if the races were reversed.pic.twitter.com/x7mRsHM7NT

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) June 16, 2024

Two minutes of Caitlin's greatest hits.

Steve Nash’s passing ability
Kobe’s mentality
Curry’s shooting
MJ-like legacy
*hopefully Lebron’s longevity
pic.twitter.com/btNsXq6JCI

— aura (@hypecaitlin) June 16, 2024

Caitlin Clark being guarded by the entire Chicago Sky team

Five on one seems about right to even the playing field.

It's unreal how much attention Cailtin Clark demands when she has the ball in her hands. All 5 Chicago Sky defenders collapsed on her, and she still managed to make a play. Just incredible. pic.twitter.com/7jhrZWMTLx

— IU/FEVER Wonka 🔴 (@IUWonka) June 16, 2024

Caitlin Clark Highlights, Fever vs. Sky

Past this into your address bar. https://twitter.com/i/status/1802412649138852205

Republican Dirty Tricks

The second post, "Black Church in Detroit Welcomes Trump," was plastered all over Twitter; they packed the congregation with white Trump supporters. Biden among the black congregation was real.

They filled a black church with white MAGA supporters. This isn't fooling anyone. Like everything else he does, it's all a ruse.

If you want to see a president in a real black church, see below. https://t.co/kDlhQqAwqq pic.twitter.com/kyuZY014g0

— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) June 16, 2024

Warren Buffett on Taxes

800 x 5 billion = 4 trillion. In 2019, for example, Americans paid $1.6 trillion in personal income taxes. I believe Buffett is saying that with all the other federal taxes -- social security taxes, estate taxes, etc. -- would total approximately $4 trillion. Some of the comments to this post on Twitter seemed to have the idea that Buffett was saying $4 trillion would cover the operating expenses of the U.S., pay off the national debt, et cetera -- he's not saying that.

Exactly!

A billionaire finally said it.

If 800 of the wealthiest corporations/billionaires paid $5 billion in taxes, the working class wouldn’t have to pay a dime, and our debt would get paid off.

Do you believe us now?

Please share this.https://t.co/cNoPs11gVU pic.twitter.com/aWfR6sGpqe

— Tambrei Cash for GA-9 (@cash4ga) June 15, 2024

So, Tom, you do your own stunts?

Buster Keaton's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts

1. The Falling House in 'Steamboat Bill, Jr.' (1928) - The wall weighed more than 4,000 pounds. As the story goes, the crew shielded their eyes as the stunt was performed & two women fainted. pic.twitter.com/VdhidWvUet

— Time Capsule Tales (@timecaptales) June 14, 2024

Outrunning an avalanche -- with style!

Skier outrunning an avalanche does a backflip pic.twitter.com/oYKL8dkBwG

— zain tweets💤 (@ZainU21848152) June 14, 2024

Nice one, Caitlin!

Caitlin Clark is LEVELS above the whole league pic.twitter.com/ekAzxazpS6

— LeLakers 2️⃣3️⃣👑 (@LeLaker) June 14, 2024

Highlights, Fever vs. Mystics

our top highlights from the weekend presented by @Lexus 🎥 pic.twitter.com/pLw7Vyx33V

— Indiana Fever (@IndianaFever) June 11, 2024

Quick as a cat?

The average cat’s reaction time is approximately 20-70 milliseconds, which is faster than the average snake’s reaction time, 44-70 milliseconds. pic.twitter.com/hjJHKbR1ap

— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) June 9, 2024

Close shave!

Oleeeeeeeeeeee 😂pic.twitter.com/0iiwCcJ5nb

— Figen (@TheFigen_) June 9, 2024

Is This Real, or AI?

What would you do in this situation? pic.twitter.com/O1TKwrhDrq

— 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 (@Matt_Pinner) June 9, 2024

Neither. It's a simulator.

Real Housewives of the Supreme Court

 

Chennedy Carter's Hip Check

The ref was less than 10 feet away, and she was only given a regular foul; on review after the game, the league bumped it up to a flagrant foul. Watch Angel Reese -- the white jersey among the four black jackets on the left end of the Chicago bench -- jump up and cheer.

Chennedy Carter scores and gives a shoulder to Caitlin Clarkpic.twitter.com/nQxkw1rvhH

— ✶ Ⓜ️𝕒𝕣𝕔𝕦𝕤 ▶️ ✶ (@_MarcusD3_) June 1, 2024

A Word From George Clooney

You may need to be on Twitter to see this post; I'm not sure.

Contribute to fighting DUM*AS* FUC*ERRY https://t.co/RReLHQ2C7a

— Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ (@tribelaw) June 3, 2024