
Mantis Toboggan M.D.
350 posts








.@spencerpratt's mayoral run is a blatant grift. He's weaponizing the wildfires for sympathy while chasing taxpayer-funded perks, including the mayor's mansion. When questions surfaced about his eligibility after moving to his parents' Santa Barbara County home, he took out an SBA loan, bought an Airstream trailer, and had it craned onto his burned Pacific Palisades lot just to manufacture LA residency for his campaign. Why should anyone trust him to manage a city when he couldn't manage his own checkbook? He and Heidi torched $10 million on her failed music career, $4,000 bottles of wine, and a million-dollar crystal collection before nearly declaring bankruptcy. Now he wants access to City Hall and all the perks that come with it?






The U.S. Navy’s blockade is revealing a hole in Tehran’s strategy of guerrilla warfare and controlling the Strait of Hormuz on.wsj.com/4951PoE


will never understand why a team like DAL wasn't in on this.



Houston Mayor John Whitmire is expected to propose a monthly fee for trash services as part of a plan to close a $174 million deficit in the budget he will present Tuesday, Council Member Tiffany D. Thomas confirmed Thursday. bit.ly/4ta5CbD





“We've stopped making babies. We've decided that being distracted by a dopamine hit around Candy Crush might be a good way to spend your time. Not if you're a full human," former Sen. Ben Sasse says in an extended interview. cbsn.ws/4cA1Jrp





One interesting note: CeeDee Lamb was on his rookie deal, which meant all the fines he accrued could be forgiven by the team, like they were. George Pickens, since he no longer is on his rookie deal, couldn’t have his fines reduced or waived by the team. Think Zack Martin 2023.




Describe an Abbott/Talarico voter



Now is a good time to ask the good people of Texas to revisit White v. Regester and how we got here. It was 1970's Texas Democrats drawing the lines to make sure only white Democrats got to run for office and not Black Democrats. Always both arsonist and fireman.






