Afternoon Tea 7.29.21 - Bagging US Citizens

ICE arrested 674 American citizens between 2015-2020, you can get COVID twice, Ron Popeil died, the USA doesn’t care about Cuba so both parties should stop pretending, Cuomo might get primaried by a former aide, and 5% of electric plants generate almost 3/4 of emissions in that sector. It’s Thursday, July 29th 2021, and this is your Tea.

Just 5 Percent of Electric Plants Responsible for 73 percent of Power Sector Emissions Yale Environment 360 It’s not that the entire energy industry is malevolent, it’s that these plants should probably be leveled and replaced by the planet, if the nation can’t afford to do it themselves.

Immigration Enforcement: Actions Needed to Better Track Cases Involving U.S. Citizenship Investigations Government Accountability Office During the last administration, some of my more centrist friends refused to believe that ICE was black bagging citizens, taking them to secret jails. Here’s the GAO documenting that ICE arrested 674, detained 121, and REMOVED 70 FUCKING US CITIZENS from 2015-2020.

People are more anti-vaccine if they get their COVID news from Facebook than from Fox News, data shows Washington Post & House Republican calls second bout of COVID-19 'far more challenging' The Hill Fox News is now spreading less anti-vaxx misinformation than Facebook. Also & depressingly, you can get COVID more than once. Please don’t be stupid.

Republican Counties Saw Baby Boom in 2016 After Trump Election Bloomberg No one called this the Trump Bump or Trump Hump and I am disappointed in all of you.

MacKenzie Scott, Melinda French Gates Give $40 Million to Gender Equality Groups Bloomberg First Billionaires Club jokes were exactly on point. I wonder who the 3rd will be to complete the set.

Former Cuomo staffer considers running against governor in Democratic primary next year CNBC Do it. What’s he gonna do, run attack ads? I can’t imagine the CS Lewis tier of skeletons in this man’s wardrobe.

The United States Doesn’t Actually Care About the Cuban People Foreign Exchanges Insert Kanye/Mike Myers joke here.

Olympics Break! Included because of the commentary at ~32ish seconds. When you are stunned by what you’re seeing, but don’t have the words. “She had no right to find the player!” is the Australian version of “It’s gotta be the shoes.”

How I Get It Done: I Simply Don’t Reductress (2020) If you put a gun to my head and told me I had to pick a website to keep up with The Onion, I would pick Reductress. Lots of guys don’t like it because they’re occasionally the target of its content, but honestly, girdeth one’s loins. Shit is hilarious.

Ron Popeil, inventor and king of TV pitchmen, dies at 86 Associated Press The loss of a true American TV & consumer product icon. I cannot tell you how jarring it is to hear “set it aaaand forget it!” at 3am on a dance floor in a dark psytrance set.

Adventurer's plan to walk on water to New York in a floating bubble ends on a Florida beach CNN & He Tried to Walk on Water From Florida to New York. It Didn’t Go So Well New York Times This is why you need friends who will be honest with you about your ideas. It’s not about Florida Man per se, more just Man Without Feedback.

Song of the Tea: My anonymous tipsters in Brooklyn are telling me Hard Trance is sneaking into the emerging Techno scene. Lighting off a wild chain of thoughts that landed on this 10 minute driving Trance banger from 2004. The fusion of hard trance and 24, the (now insanely dated) show was weird as hell. But, so was the rest of the early 2000s. If you need more Kiefer Sutherland running through hallways, the 3min music video will sort you out nicely. 

My name is Federal Agent Jack Bauer, and this is the longest day of my life. 

Yours,