CRANKY OLD FART
WITH THE NEWS #337
• “Double agents”: fossil-fuel lobbyists work for US groups trying to fight climate crisis• Trumpian Judge restricts Biden administration’s ability to stem misinformation on social media • For the first time, US allows UN investigators to take to Guantanamo victims • Dylan Mulvaney says Bud Light did nothing to defend her against an avalanche of harassment from right-wingers • Oklahoma schools superintendent says Tulsa race massacre wasn’t, um, about race
• The Arctic is farting ‘ancient’ methane and it’s scary as hell • Experts say climate change likely to increase US malaria cases • Human adaptation to heat can’t keep up with human-caused climate change • Malaria is back in Florida and Texas
• California sheriff’s deputy accused of raping intoxicated victim: police • Multiple David Sosas ask Supreme Court to overturn decision saying it’s fine to arrest ANY David Sosa when cops are seeking a SPECIFIC David Sosa • Officer for second Mississippi department implicated in alleged torture, shooting and attempted sexual assault of two men • New York City buys $90,000 in submachine guns for officers at Rikers • Inglewood police officer arrested for narcotics trafficking • Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states, records show • FBI hired same social media surveillance firm that falsely labeled Black Lives Matter organizers “threat actors”
• Idiot Republican gets thrown out of House Idiots Caucus for insulting another idiot Republican • Trump tells women’s group that Democrats want to take away their washers and dryers • Conservatives are falsely blaming a mass shooting on trans people, again • Trump-loving lawmaker faces legal trouble for sharing X-rated Hunter Biden images • Republicans are losing money because of Trump • DeSantis clings to a weird right-wing meme in chasing the misogynistic-sociopath vote • “He could stand on the front steps of the White House and commit murder and I’m with him,” says Trump supporter
🖯 MY BROWSER HISTORY 🖯• How the Obama administration helped kill the democratic uprising across the Middle East • The good, the bad, and the incredibly ugly in the court ruling regarding government contacts with social media • Republicans talk deficit reduction, but what they actually do — time after time after time — is raise it via corporate giveaways • For most people living in the United States, owning a car is a necessity, not a choice
• I’ve reported on gun violence in the US for more than a year and I just can’t get used to it
♫♬ AUDIO ♫• Beast of Burden — Bette Midler • Home of the Brave — Jody Miller • Joe’s Garage — Frank Zappa • Kind of Magic — Queen • Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat — Sparks
👁 VIDEO 👁• Peter Fernandez voices David Letterman, 1986 • Tom Hanks says he won’t appear on Letterman’s new CBS show • When not-Michael Jackson performed “Clean It” in a McDonald’s training video • Lunar globes • Mall City: A Cultural Adventure
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⚰️ THE DEAD ⚰️• Lewis Branscomb • Darren Drozdov • Edward Fredkin • ruomliG divaD • Carlos Alberto Montaner • Lilli Vincenz
Cranky Old Fart is annoyed and complains and very occasionally
offers a kindness, along with anything off the internet that’s made me
smile or snarl. All opinions fresh from my ass. Top illustration by Jeff Meyer. Click any image to enlarge. Comments & conversations invited. Tip ‘o the hat to ye olde AVA, BoingBoing, Breakfast at Ralf’s, CaptCreate’s Log, Looking for My Perfect Sandwich, One Finger Medical, Two Finger Magical, Miss Miriam’s Mirror, Nebulously Burnished, RanPrieur.com, Voenix Rising, and anywhere else I’ve stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Wynn Bruce,
Joey Jo Jo, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra
special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and
proved that the world isn’t always shitty.
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