James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

The way you make a name that ends in S possessive depends on which style guide you follow:

AP Stylebook: Harris' campaign

Chicago Manual of Style (and others): Harris's campaign

#AmWriting

@GottaLaff Hoping yet again 45 meets his Karmuppance. Or Kamalauppance.

Griffin:

"As district attorney, to go after polluters, I created one of the first environmental justice units in our nation. Donald Trump stood in Mar a Lago and told Big Oil lobbyists he would do their bidding for a $1 billion campaign contribution. During the foreclosure crisis, I took on the big Wall Street banks and won $20 billion for California families, holding those banks accountable for fraud. Donald Trump was just found guilty of 34 counts of fraud.” #Harris

Know what I really like about this whole new Harris for Prez thing?

It's taken Trump out of the spotlight, and will today too. And hopefully for awhile, since she still has to announce her veep pick.

Nice bonus.

To all my #US followers despairing over Joe #Biden dropping out from the presidential race and endorsing #KamalaHarris 4 months before the presidential election, I would like to tell you about another woman who was handed the leadership of her party just 7 weeks before the 2017 election and go on to become, imo, NZ’s greatest Prime Minister in my lifetime. Her name is Jacinda Ardern and her election campaign slogan was #LetsDoThis

AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Channel 4 News, in talking about today's #Microsoft #CrowdStrike fuckup, stated that Y2K was imaginary.

No! No! NO!

We did a massive amount of work to update and ensure systems would keep on working. And more importantly WE TESTED EVERYTHING FULLY BEFORE GOING LIVE.

Make The Onion Satire Again

😂

So far at the GOP Convention:

Sen Ron Johnson said he read the wrong speech when he attacked the Democrats

Speaker Mike Johnson’s teleprompter glitched & he angrily walked off stage

A band started playing Super Loud music for 45 minutes & they couldnt figure out how to turn the volume down

Rudy Giuliani tripped & fell

Matt Gaetz attacked Kevin McCarthy

Tim Sheehy attacked US citizens who use pronouns

Trump shows up with Kotex on his ear

And some people want these incompetent motherfuckers to run our country. Absolutely fucking mind-boggling

#RNC #GOP

Via Timothy Snyder:

Got all the way through the Constitution and did not find the provision whereby the South African oligarchs select the vice-presidential nominees on behalf of the Russian dictator.

Is there an irony bone in the body that can be surgically removed from #authoritarian fascists?

So that they do not sense or recognize irony at all!?

From: @talia_christine
https://beige.party/@talia_christine/112798950933627902

When you buy a home built on a floodplain you can thank Doug.

https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-conservation-authorities-changes/

👉🏼 President #Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans. #SCOTUS

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/16/biden-supreme-court-reforms/

Trump hasn’t even reached out to the man that died at his rally. #DiedForStupidity.
He doesn’t care about his voters. They’re so fucking stupid.

President Biden reached out to the widow,
She refused his call because she said her husband would not condone it - and she is a Trump supporter. But she did not blame Biden for the shooting, nor does she have any ill-will toward him.

But the kicker? She said Trump had yet to reach out to her.

Respectfully, enough of this 'bad day' nonsense. It's a great day! Trump chose J. D. Vance, an absolutely terrible VP candidate. His corrupt judge has completely screwed the pooch. The RNC convention is a hate fueled horror show. They are completely overplaying their hand. Ignore the media. We, the people, will decide this election. Carry on! We got this!

I get so many replies from people who live outside of the US, from all over the world (as well as right here in Canada from people we engage with face to face) asking, “How did this happen in the US?”

I give them the same response I gave Mr. Laffy when he asked why I wanted to move to Canada:

Trump has the courts. Despite other ways to try to counter, it’s the courts that make this feel so damn insurmountable.

But we still never give up. EVER.

What is more disturbing is that the company says it may not have money to fix the environmental damage. No mining should be allowed any where in Canada unless a full restoration bond is in place.
Otherwise a subsidy to the mining industry #cdnpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/victoria-gold-no-money-to-remediate-yukon-gold-mine-1.7262282