🔗 Why do eight radicals hold power over the entire US House of Representatives?

The good news is that’s actually not so hard. If the House elected leaders with ranked-choice voting (RCV), this debacle could have been avoided from the beginning. Imagine how different this would have been. The Democratic minority leader Hakeem Jeffries would have led after the first round. McCarthy would have been second. And the Republican Freedom Caucus protest candidate would have finished a distant third. No one would have earned a majority, so an instant runoff would have kicked in.

Excellent idea.

The bad news is this is long journey when it comes to adoption. 🤞

🔗Senators warn House Republicans that a more conservative speaker won’t make their dreams come true. (Apple News)

Sorry team … that’s not what they are trying to do … it’s about blowing up the institution, sticking it to anyone that disagrees, slowing down everything if not just stopping it and getting the Orange Clown out of his 96 indictments.

🔗 Roll Over, Cloud Czars - Dana Blankenhorn

🎵 You know how it is …. you check into your hotel and wander down to the bar and the next thing you know - you bump into Ryan Waste. He and his band 🔗 Municipal Waste just flew in from the US for a 🔗 three week tour.

Had to get a selfy …

Him with his band …

🔗 Trump says he would prefer to die by electrocution in bizarre campaign rant.

Is there anyway we can make that happen?

Soon?

Asking for a friend.

🔗 Crop Circles: What Is Behind These Complex and Intricate Works of Art?

A recurring question in my world …

A link to this appeared in John Naughton’s newsletter. So much to love about so much of Jon Lord’s work.

🔗 🎵 Afterwords is no exception.

Just the cost of doing business .. $75M wouldn’t have bought one of those houses.

🔗 JP Morgan settles Jeffrey Epstein lawsuits with US Virgin Islands for $75m.

📎 The rock’s the star: meditative film about a Cornish stone goes global

Added this 🎬 to my ‘find and watch’ list.

… and 🔗 this one … though totally different.