Fun slang: "chuck deuces" -- The act of leaving and saying goodbye to everyone in the room at once by throwing two peace signs up. The act of chucking them depends on the chucker; some throw it to the side, some do the Richard Nixon and some just say "deuces".
The slang dates from 2010 so it's not new, but I like it.

"Queen of the Warmongers," "embodiment of corruption" Hillary Clinton tucks tail and cancels appearance at event at which Tulsi Gabbard is also to appear
Seems like old times, with old Hillary Clinton in the "news" again. Everything old is old again.
Bernie Sanders blasts the deranged old witch's conspiracy theories as "outrageous," though I'm not sure if that actually helps Gabbard. Given that he honeymooned in the Soviet Union and is a longtime communist.

How Climate Politics Undermines Climate Science. Treating climate change as an opportunity to accomplish left-wing economic goals feeds climate denialism. [dri]

Julie Kelly: "Everyone Knows a Mitt Romney"

He's a 31 handicap and he doesn’t even count all his strokes. He wears CrossFit gear but does water aerobics. He owns a Porsche but won’t drive it more than 59 miles per hour.
He starts laughing before he tells a joke because he knows he can't deliver but is trying to get you to play along.
He pretends to know the words to Metallica and Guns N’'Roses and the Violent Femmes while playing air guitar on his Bobolat racket, but his iPod is loaded with Barry Manilow and Celine Dion.
A guy with so much cringe who thinks he’s boffo: Cowardice camouflaged in smugness.
In other words, a fraud. A phony. And, because losing presidential candidates never die, they just relocate to another state and run for the U.S. Senate, the American people must now tolerate the national version of the Mitt Romney We All Know In Real Life.

Amber Heard protests society's last acceptable bigotry -- the terrible suppression of the female nipple -- by wearing a see-through shirt
You are a hero to all of us, Madam. #Courage.

Etymologies: hussy and gussy
Hussy was just originally a slurred/shortened version of housewife, that meant only that. But, you know, all words for women are eventually given some venom and vinegar. My guess is that insults like "dirty hussy" and "cheap hussy" were tossed around so much that the word just lost its original neutral meaning and now was only thought of in a derogatory way.
Gussy, as in "gussied up," is a recent invention, and either comes from 40s schoolyard slang for "overly dressed" which in turn might come from "gussie," meaning effeminate man or "foppish dandy,", starting around 1901 in Australia.
Apparently "jessie" is still used in Australia and England to mean "effeminate man.

Great video and song about the "real media's" childishly cruel scalp-hunting

Need a time out from Twitter? Feel free to tweet this to Jake Tapper or any of his fan bois, Goldberg, 3-Wives Sykes, et al. [Mis. Hum.]

The Glory of Socialism: Citizens fight over feces to fill human fertilizer quota in North Korea [dri]

Extinction Rebellion isn’t about the Climate. It’s about Heteronormativity [dri]

Muldoon: A Last Limerick

Fun animation: Xenomorph extraction

NeverTrump hero Evan McMullin: Hillary Clinton is right, Tulsi is a Russian agent
Everyone who disagrees with the liberal DC consensus is a Russian, a Racist, or a Russian Racist.

Dancing in the Streets, No Music Silent Video Version
Really funny. It's old, but still funny.

Babylon Bee: In response to question about raising taxes on the middle class, Elizabeth Warren comes out as a gay man

Bill Macy, actor best known for playing Walter Findlay, the perpetually put-upon husband of Bea Arthur in the hit All In the Family spinoff sitcom Maude has passed away at 97. I guess G-d finally got him, eh Maude? RIP [J.J. Sefton]

Mitt Romney, who is America's number one geopolitical foe, claims Turkey is a "small country"
Kyle Sheideler responds that he is anti-Turkey and doesn't wish them to be a part of NATO, but Mitt Romney should stick to giving gay kids haircut rapes, because Turkey has the second largest army in all of NATO, after only the US. If that's "small," what would "big" be?
When I was in Beirut, I was surprised to learn that Arabs felt insecure because there was not a single Arab great power capable of doing much more than defend its own borders (if even that). No Arab powers-- not even in the Middle East? No, I was told by a professor. There are three great powers in the Middle East, but not a single one of them is Arab. One is Israel -- obviously not Arab. One is Iran. They're Persians. And one is Turkey, who are not Arabs but Turks.
Anyway, it's strange to hear Mitt Romney, America's Number One Geopolitical Foe, get something so absurdly wrong as to call Turkey, one of the three Great Powers of the Middle East, a "small country" that we don't need to pay no mind to.

Quick funny story from Tim Pool, explaining why social media "fact-checking" is trash -- it's because they rely on trash outlets, like CNN and MSNBC (and the SPLC and Snopes!), to decide what is true and what is not true, despite CNN and MSNBC being absurdly biased and wrong more often than right.
The quick story he tells (about a minute long) is about Wikipedia's insistence that he himself "invented a zeppelin" -- something some trash outlet made up. It's not derogatory -- who wouldn't want to be credited as a zeppelin inventor? -- but it's completely false and without even a some distorted factual basis.
But no matter how many times Pool tells them "I never invented any zeppelin, you should delete that," they keep the false zeppelin-inventing biographical point, because Tim Pool is not considered a "credible source" on Tim Pool's zeppelin-inventing career or lack of same.
HuffPo says you invented a zeppelin, and who are you compared to the warriors of truth we know as HuffPo?

PBS "News" Hour "journalist" is very, very angry that Trump... posted a respectful remembrance of Elijah Cummings?
Psst, little open secret: It's the Paul Ryan types who keep PBS and NPR funded. Everything for the Suburban Wine Moms.

Eljah Cummings is dead