Good day sunshine

 I already had in mind a cheerful, upbeat post before I saw the collapsed building in Florida.  Well, it's always a bad day for someone.  I need this.

How are things in Dannemora?  Connecticut will allow prisoners to make free phone calls, greatly reducing the financial burden on their families.  They now pay five dollars for a fifteen-minute call.  That leaves forty-nine states where greedy carriers can still rip people off.  The state has also legalized recreational cannabis.  See, Texas, you don't have to live in misery.

Goodbye Rudy Thursday:  A New York Supreme Court appellate panel has suspended the law license of Rudolph Giuliani because of "demonstrably false and misleading statements" made in service to the Big  Loser and his Big Lie.  A first, I believe, for a former US Attorney and New York City mayor and no doubt a boost to his son's political hopes. 

David Keene is a two-time president of the NRA so he didn't bother to check before agreeing to speak at the commencement of James Madison Academy.  Surprise!  It doesn't exist.  He exhorted 3,044 empty chairs to uphold the Second Amendment.  Change the Ref was founded by Patricia and Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin was murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.  The chairs represented seniors who won't graduate this year because they were also killed with guns.

California is dry as dust but swimming in money.  The state plans to use $5.2 billion in federal stimulus cash to pay off the back rent of low-income residents which accrued during the pandemic.  Could student loans be next?  

Nearly sixty years since Joe McCarthy got his comeuppance at the hands of Joseph Welch, Republican demagogues still haven't learned not to mess with the Army.  At a session of the House Armed Services Committee, popular Florida comedy duo Gaetz & Waltz decided to jump on General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, about how the military is weakened by "woke" culture and the single course at West Point that touches on critical race theory.  Let's say it could have gone better.   It wasn't the general who "embarrassed himself," no matter what Fox News says.  Although I have to agree with angry Laura Ingraham -- we need to defund the police military.

The Supreme Court has ruled 8-1 that Brandi Levy's Snapchat rant about cheerleading is protected by the First Amendment, because of course it is.  Guess who dissented.  (Hint:  Ginny told him to.)

The Michigan Republican Party has examined efforts to re-re-re-audit the 2020 election in the state and has concluded that they are a giant nothingburger, with Jovan Pulitzer and Mike Lindell singled out for personal shaming.  The Big Liar won't accept it but it's a nice read.

Spider-Man met the pope.  I didn't know he was Catholic.