Althouse: Sunrise.

August 6, 2026

Sunrise.

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Video ducks (by me):

37 comments:

Narr said...: All are fine but #3 is next-level.; 8/6/26, 7:20 PM
tcrosse said...: Kudos to the guy who arranges the clouds.; 8/6/26, 7:26 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Is it too early to call Abdul El-Sayed a neoliberal sell-out?; 8/6/26, 7:28 PM
Political Junkie said...: Surprised to see that WI has never had a female governor.; 8/6/26, 7:39 PM
Humperdink said...: The Dallas Cowboys and their fans certainly do not want Thanksgiving cancelled as U.S. senate candidate Francesca Ping Hong once advocated. They are on a 4 game Thanksgiving winning streak.

It has been posited she meant to say to cancel Columbus Day but got confused between lithium treatments.; 8/6/26, 7:53 PM
Eva Marie said...: (viaCFP) Is this really funny?
People are so juvenile:
https://x.com/Cassetta13/status/2085345916953751681/video/1?s=46; 8/6/26, 7:58 PM
Eva Marie said...: Except “Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621”
is the exact quote from FH.; 8/6/26, 8:10 PM
Achilles said...: Talarico, running against Texas attorney general Ken Paxton (R.), is seen in photos speaking to the audience and posing with attendees at Texas Beer Company, which hosted the festival. Kween Kee Kee, sporting a shimmery blue dress, heavy eye makeup, and a platinum blonde wig, performed a drag routine as part of the group's "Youth Drag Show," event photos show.; 8/6/26, 8:21 PM
Humperdink said...: Except “The modern (Thanksgiving) national celebration dates to 1863… “ (wiki).

Let’s quibble.; 8/6/26, 8:29 PM
Left Bank of the Charles said...: Beautiful!; 8/6/26, 8:38 PM
Eva Marie said...: She wanted to nip it in the bud. If you could go back in time and unalive the first Thanksgiving or Hitler as a baby, first Thanksgiving would be the woke choice.; 8/6/26, 8:44 PM
Eva Marie said...: After all without Hitler, you couldn’t call Trump and every other Republican Hitler.; 8/6/26, 8:47 PM
narciso said...: Ugh you cant blame thanksgiving for king phillps war half a century later; 8/6/26, 8:49 PM
Peachy+2 said...: top 10 photos. lovely morning.; 8/6/26, 9:49 PM
Butkus51 said...: Stockholm syndrome?

Madison syndrome. I doubt I ever visit WISCO ever again.; 8/6/26, 9:51 PM
Peachy+2 said...: NYT - lying and enraging the left.

"
Matt Whitlock
@MattWhitlock
The New York Times wrote a story about hospitals being spread too thin due to "Republican healthcare cuts"

The problem?

The hospital they cite as struggling is a "nonprofit" hospital with a $1B in offshore investments and a CEO making $5M/year."; 8/6/26, 10:14 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: All 3 are beautiful. 3rd down is best.; 8/6/26, 10:23 PM
Big Mike said...: I find it interesting that Bernie a sanders has pointedly declined to endorse Francesca Hong.; 8/6/26, 10:55 PM
Candide said...: Ah, Reflections… very nice!; 8/6/26, 10:58 PM
john mosby said...: Everyone knows the Anglicans in Jamestown had Thanksgiving long before those dissenters in Plymouth. CC, JSM; 8/6/26, 11:03 PM
Jupiter said...: What I have this evening -- all I have this evening -- is a sentence fragment;
"... the voice of sanity, raging in the night."; 8/6/26, 11:39 PM
Eva Marie said...: NY Post headline suggestion if she loses: WHAT A TURKEY; 8/6/26, 11:45 PM
Eva Marie said...: Works if she wins as well.; 8/6/26, 11:48 PM
Eva Marie said...: If she loses:
SO HONG, FAREWELL
HONG OVER
HONG KONGED; 8/6/26, 11:54 PM
gadfly said...: In Trump vs Barbara. the Supremes ruled that citizenship is denied to a "person . . . born in a territory or territorial waters of the United States where citizenship is not conferred by Federal statute." But there are no jurisdictions where citizenship is conferred by executive order and not statute.; 8/7/26, 2:00 AM
Duty of Inquiry said...: Eva Marie.
I prefer "Thanksgiving Day!"; 8/7/26, 2:50 AM
wendybar said...: "Democrats aren’t coddling Scandinavian-style socialists; they’re getting into bed with a nihilistic, deconstructionist brand of third-worldism.

It’s an ideology that seeks the elimination of prisons, policing, borders, the Senate, the presidency, the Supreme Court and democratic free markets.

A worldview that aligns with genocidal jihadist movements like Hamas.

A generation ago, the left would’ve recognized this cadre as Trojan horse doing the bidding of our adversaries.

But not today. "

https://nypost.com/2026/08/06/opinion/im-a-longtime-democrat-fighting-to-restore-my-partys-soul-in-michigan/; 8/7/26, 3:40 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Panorama of our attention is better than the pantheon of our attention.; 8/7/26, 3:50 AM
Saint Croix said...: Did y'all know that AI is destroying millions of books? The companies are buying books, by the millions, to train its language models.

“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.”; 8/7/26, 5:04 AM
tim maguire said...: According to 1491, the Indians made a habit of driving visiting Europeans into the sea if they tried to set up permanent camp. They were allowed short visits for trading and that’s it. The Pilgrims were welcomed only because the local tribe needed an ally in a war against a more powerful neighboring tribe. Those Pilgrims lived in peace with the Indians for generations.

It seems strange that Hong would not want to celebrate one of the successful, mutually beneficial events in Indigenous-European relations.; 8/7/26, 5:08 AM
Curious George said...: More Madison mahem last night.; 8/7/26, 5:21 AM
Breezy said...: Nowadays, the left encourages us to shun or argue with our more conservative family members on Thanksgiving Day. .; 8/7/26, 5:21 AM
Big Mike said...: “Works if she wins as well.”

@Eva Marie, not true. Then the turkeys will be the citizens of Wisconsin, who will be plucked and cooked.; 8/7/26, 5:33 AM
Leland said...: It seems clear if Democrats could go back in time, they would find ways to excuse Hitler. After all, look at how they protect Fauci, when we all know he funded gain of function research after Congress and Obama banned it.; 8/7/26, 5:38 AM
rehajm said...: …yah but he wasn’t a rogue evil scientist doing it, it was with the tacit endorsement of…someone. That’s why he will be publicly shamed but not punished…; 8/7/26, 5:51 AM
Saint Croix said...: My view has been for a while that the "Anti-Zionists" are in fact anti-Semites who hate the Jews. More and more, this hostility includes much of the Democrat party.

The drumbeat about Zionists controlling our elections? It's insane stuff.

Here's the truth about Israel, AIPAC, and political donations.

Now ask yourself, why is Israel singled out? Why is AIPAC singled out? What is the basis of this obsessive focus?; 8/7/26, 5:57 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: **The companies are buying books, by the millions, to train its language models.**

This story or one like it prompted Mrs. MJB and I to buy a full set of 1977 World Book Encyclopedias. I’m not worried about AI destroying all the books but then I also don’t trust the scanned info to survive the AI curating, massaging, and manipulating the contents and making the actual book’s facts “unavailable.”; 8/7/26, 6:04 AM