What a pleasure to celebrate this occasion 🎂, and any opportunity to hear Ms Dearie, exquisite as both a vocalist 🎤and pianist 🎹:

kick-ass lady boss/hero -- where's the big budget action film about HER?!

I never miss when Penelope and Pedro work together. Usually go on the first day of release. They are magic. Ms Cruz turned 50 today. 🎂 🎈 🌞 🎞️ ‼️

Read it and weep.

Bring it on. 👍 (The New York Times)

I wrote 2 tweets in 2 wks about @ThriftyCars cancelling a paid reservation of mine for no good reason, costing many vacation hrs & $1000. But I can compliment too:
SIXT USA got it done for me that day in NYC, w/great smart quick folks helping me--just dropped off car in Nashville

Smart observation by @WeinsteinLaw⬇️, but the odious GOP know they must lie and cheat to have any chance of winning significant political victories.

Another celebration of Duke Ellington's 125th b'day tomorrow: his 1958 duet w/gospel queen Mahalia Jackson on 'Come Sunday,' the religious theme to his 1943 45-min tribute to black history, 'Black, Brown & Beige.' Maybe neither of them made a better record
youtube.com/watch?v=LmhcfW…

If you don't have time to go to church today, this is a worthy substitute:

The people, the strangers, that I’ve met in Tennessee in the last 4 days have been warm & friendly—where the heck do these gun-crazy ideologues come from who pass these scary unwanted laws endangering students by bringing guns into classrooms? GOP & NRA are f**king dangerous.

Tennessee State Reps. Justin Jones @BrotherJones_ & Gloria Johnson discuss how Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee has signed a bill allowing teachers to carry firearms in schools, even though the bill is highly unpopular, esp. w/teachers. And 70% of Tenn. citizens.
youtube.com/watch?v=3bf1Fs…

History prof Allan Lichtman, whose system for predicting presidential wins has been accurate in 9 of the last 10 elections, cautions us about 2024 election: “First of all, polls six, seven months before an election have zero predictive value.” Y’hear, MSM?
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

And the one election Allan Lichtman got wrong was 2000’s Bush/Gore, for understandable reasons, as the article discusses.

Smart observation as per usual by @AWeissman_⬇️, but the odious GOP know they must lie and cheat to have any chance of winning significant political victories.

Please don't tell me that the super-rich can't afford a wealth tax.

Read it and weep.

VIOLENT CRIME RATE
- New York City: 28.2
- West Palm Beach: 41.9

PROPERTY CRIME RATE
- New York City: 24.9
- West Palm Beach: 67.3

kick-ass lady boss/hero -- where's the big budget action film about HER?!

I never miss when Penelope and Pedro work together. Usually go on the first day of release. They are magic. Ms Cruz turned 50 today. 🎂 🎈 🌞 🎞️ ‼️

What a pleasure to celebrate this occasion 🎂, and any opportunity to hear Ms Dearie, exquisite as both a vocalist 🎤and pianist 🎹: