Who are the security guys? Russians or Poles?

Here it is, 10/10 recommend.

youtu.be/kJJIF2PC82E?...

Some of us must be born like this. Since childhood, I’ve been puzzled by “pride” esp.—in being American, or a Buckeye (my state/sports)—bc I had zero to do with it. Should I be proud I’m 5’2” too?

Two history degrees later, I am no closer to understanding why ppl need to attach “pride” to the past.

And this afternoon, I found the death record for him. He lived 8 hours.

Cause of death: “sudorogi” (seizures, convulsions), which doesn’t say much really. The term seems to be a description of death as much as a cause. It appears frequently in the records.

And not to put too fine a point on it, but this morning I found a birth record for my grandmother’s brother: Aleksandr, born Feb 1910.

It was a real rush bc oral history is that she had brothers, maybe 2 or 3, but we’ve never had names or dates for them.

But I knew enough to be apprehensive too.

He does drive. I saw video Melania posted in like 2015 of him driving them back from Long Island or something. He might not do it very often -- & I doubt he's ever been in a grocery store -- but he did drive, at one time anyway.

This is a useful site. Slotkin, eg, voted yes on 9 of Trump's nominees. Seems to be 21 or 22 in total, so apparently no the other 12/13 times.

ballotpedia.org/How_senators...

Which, tbc, I’m not faulting Newsom for. It’s probably the right response.

It’s just that the Trumpian combo of idiocy & menace is exhausting.