Thanks! The Timbers list needs updating - Soccer Made In Portland is on hiatus, and please add The Timber Review podcast and other outlets by Adam Susman (he’s on YouTube, etc.)

Here is a screenshot from the public video of Trump‘s meeting with oil industry executives. This is the part where he interrupts himself mid-sentence to wander over to the window, gazing out at his imaginary ballroom.

Soft chuckles from the crowd suggest confusion, and concern for his well-being.

Hugely disappointing news. Another bungle by the Timbers FO? But can’t blame Ayala, an Argentine, for wanting to play with Messi

"We're going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure . . . and start making money for the country, and we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so[.]"

"We're going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground, and that wealth is going to the people of Venezuela, . . . and it goes also to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country[.]"

"We’re going to take back the oil that, frankly, we should have taken back a long time ago. A lot of money is coming out of the ground. We’re going to get reimbursed for all of that."

"“We are going to run the country until such time that we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition[.]"

www.npr.org/2023/07/11/1...

Gross.

Once a reasonable and occasionally effective legislator, Lindsay Graham’s legacy as a Trump apologist and enabler of myriad pro-fascist horrors and abuses is now carved in stone and cannot be changed with this hollow gesture. Sorry Sen. Klobuchar even has to interact with him.

In direct contravention of a federal court order, I might add.