Get up, lazy human!

Supply Side Jesus video

If the narrator's voice sounds familiar, that's because it's narrated by Al Franken.

Photos of smokey cities in the US, Europe, and Canada

all from the Canadian wildfires.

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/30/photos-canada-wildfires-air-quality-smoke-us-europe

While we comment on air quality from Canadian wildfires, imagine how Canadians feel.

Canada is burning from west to east. Our air quality in the US is bad in several states, but Canadians are right there, where the fires are blazing across its provinces. The AQI in their communities must be double and triple what it is in US communities.

Canadian DUers - How are you coping? How many people are being displaced due to smoke and fires? How does it affect daily life, especially for people whose jobs put them outdoors?

The Canadian smoke is back.

Due to fires in the Montreal area, NY State has issued an air quality alert for tonight and all day tomorrow.

I was shopping this evening and the hazy air looked like fog. The space around me looked fine, but the haze could be seen when looking up at treetops and buildings a couple blocks away. In other words, it was not thick enough to be clearly seen up close, but it was visible on all directions when gazing off away from me. There was a faint burnt odor in the air.

That was around 6:00 pm. At 8:00 we got some steady, light rain. I thought it would clear up the haze but it didn't. You could still see the haze in the air as the rain fell.

It was a smoke haze, not steam from the rain. Temperatures were not warm enough here today to cause steam from cold water coming into warm air. The ground was cool, not warm. The smoke smell remained.

Aileen Canon rules in favor of media who want names of witnesses made public.

Special Prosecutor Jack Smith filed to seal the list of 84 witnesses that Trump is barred from speaking to. The NYT and CNN, among others, filed to prevent the list from being sealed, claiming that DOJ gave no reason for sealing the list. Canon's ruling sided with the media.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/26/trump-documents-case-media-want-witness-list-revealed.html

Arthur looks sweet and charming, as usual.

To me, Madoc has the look of a cat who likes to knock things down. Even if I did not know that about him already, I would suspect it. It's a confident, superior look of "I can do this, so I will."

Like many other people, I have believed that

Trump's motive in taking and keeping the documents was solely for the purpose of selling them or using them as bargaining chips if he was indicted for one of his many crimes.

But now I see a possible second motive. He is obsessed with "proving" his innocence of any criticism or charge against him. Some of the documents that he keeps saying are his might have been taken as his "evidence" of innocence to show people. He would regard them as his personal docs because they were about him, in his mind.

Edit to add: I'd still believe that he monetized other docs. I also suspect that he tried to bargain with other countries to help him get back into the WH.

Update on Ember and the glittery platform shoes

I removed the glitter, put on the shoes. Ember followed my every step, slinking warily.

And then I discovered why. There was a very faint whooshing sound from the right shoe. So faint that it was hardly detectable by human ears. But cat hearing is superior to ours.

I checked the shoe. There was a tiny gap, about 2 millimeters, between the platform and the cushioned strip on top of it where the foot goes. Every time I took a step, the pressure from the foot pushed a little air through the gap. Could not return the shoes after removing the glitter. So I plugged up the gap with invisible glue. It stopped the air leak.

Poor Ember. She thought the shoe was alive with that sound so similar to a feline hiss. She still does not quite trust the quiet shoe. Maybe she thinks that the shoe monster is just sleeping.

Thread to dedicate songs to Donald J Trump in this, his time of need.

What song would you dedicate to him?

I'll start off with my dedication.