Failure to elect a speaker by Jan. 6 could delay Trump’s Electoral College certification. (🔗Politico … which completely explains why Mike has t Rump’s ‘full’ backing. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/30/congress/trump-endorses-johnson-for-speaker-00196113
Have to say this is a headline I did not expect to read this morning. 
Can’t help thinking (hoping?) that Nike’s 🔗 ’told you so’ ad’ is aimed (just a little bit) at a certain segment of voters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMrUkDYvbDc
🪦 It was time Jimmy. It was time. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Perfectly Normal … 
Oh no. Surely he wouldn’t do that? 
Had 7 - upgraded. 
🔗🎙️A Geopolitical Check-Up - Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Short and Excellent. https://overcast.fm/+AAAlzkoKwVs
The Sense of an Ending : Rishad Tobaccowala
"“I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.”"
💬 Julian Barnes https://open.substack.com/pub/rishad/p/the-sense-of-an-ending
🔗 Yellen: Extraordinary measures; to avoid US debt by default.
It seems that deadline will happen around Jan14?
See earlier post at the challenge looming to even get ducks lined up for Jan 20?
Just stumbled on August 2023 .. in plain sight
🔗 John Philpin https://john.philpin.com/2023/08/26/vivek-ramaswamy-says.html
Nice try Facebook … no you can’t have my cell number and I don’t need my stinkin' chat history. 
Stood in the freezing cold for 30 minute waiting to get into a restaurant.
When we got in - the line behind still had 4 to 5 tables worth of people in line.
Inside the restaurant - enough empty tables to seat all the people.
They offered all day breakfast - which I decided to go for - IF the soup of the day in the sourdough bowl was anything EXCEPT ClamChowder
Clam Chowder was the soup of the day - BUT they had run out of sourdough bowls
Cornbread?
"NO
Any other kind of bread?
Sure - ‘white’ or ‘brown’
Sound like that is just sliced bread
It is
Ok - I will have the All Day Breakfast then.
We stopped... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/28/stood-in-the-freezing-cold.html
🍿Will the Orange Clown be certified in time? If not, in case you thought he had passed his due date .. how about 91 year old President Chuck?
🪦 Too soon Olivia. Sorry.
So the acting dude is impeached for slowing down the impeachment of the elected dude. #Meta! #LessonsForAmerica
My daily ‘Sill’, delivers a set of the most popular links shared by the people I follow on (for the moment), Mastodon and Bluesky. It tends to be what you might expect, until today.
🔗 Linkfest #28,
All links are crackers, number 5 will be of particular interest to the typewriter brigade. https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-28-neolithic-octopuses-weeping-trees-and/
🎵 Riverside, Tim Bowen, Pineapple Thief, Gong, Luantic Soul, Gazpacho, Trifecta, Mars Volta, Gentle Giant, Opeth, Anathema, Haken, Gazpacho …
How good would it be if people ignored, dismissed and laughed at t Rump like the rest of the world does?
My Three Words .. https://john.philpin.com/2024/12/26/my-three-words.html