* RUSSIAN MOVE ON KYIV IS STALLED, OFFICIAL SAYS
* U.S. HAS INDICATIONS THAT SOME RUSSIAN UNITS HAVE SURRENDERED WITHOUT A FIGHT, U.S. OFFICIAL SAYS
@Reuters
Marvin Gaye died 36 years ago today, in Los Angeles. He was 44.
His isolated vocal track from “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968) remains a stunning achievement. 💯
(via
@MeredithFrost
)
“If it wasn't my job, I would have done that for free. .. It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection... and we’ll do it as many times as it takes.”
Thank you, D.C. Police Officer Daniel Hodges. 💯
(via
@nbcwashington
)
(Bloomberg) - Marriott International Inc. will suspend donations to Republican senators who voted against certifying President-elect Joe Biden, after considering the “destructive events” at the Capitol last week.
$MAR
@business
Marilyn Monroe was born today in 1926. Here’s my favorite picture of her, with Ella Fitzgerald — who couldn’t get booked in the Mocambo Club until Monroe called the owner and told him if he booked Ella, she’d take a front table every night. And she did.
At Marvel, "the only things we DON'T have room for are hatred, intolerance and bigotry. That man next to you? He's your brother. That woman over there? She's your sister."
#RIP
#StanLee
(via
@largottes
)
NY STATE BAR ASSO., on Giuliani: "This decision is historic for NYSBA, and we have not made it lightly. We cannot stand idly by and allow those intent on rending the fabric of our democracy to go unchecked."
(via
@NYSBA
)
Happy b’day, “More Cowbell” — which aired TWENTY-ONE yrs ago today. [4/8/00]
“Every time I heard ‘(Don’t Fear) The Reaper’ by Blue Öyster Cult, I would hear the faint cowbell in the background and wonder, ‘What’s THAT guy’s life like??’”
— Will Ferrell
Sidney Poitier — choking up, describing how a kind co-worker offered to teach him how to read as an adult — is one powerful moment.
From 2013.
(via
@CBSSunday
)
#RIPSidneyPoitier
🙏🏼
House Majority Whip Clyburn on
@SIRIUSXM
: “They went where you won't find my name, but they found where I was supposed to be. So something else was going on untoward here.”
* NORTH CAROLINA ELECTIONS BOARD CHIEF SAYS VOTING TWICE IN AN ELECTION IN THE STATE IS A FELONY; SOLICITING SOMEONE TO VOTE TWICE ALSO VIOLATES STATE LAW
@Reuters
Universal Pictures originally didn't want
#ArethaFranklin
for "Blues Brothers." They wanted the band that sang "Car Wash."
Aykroyd and Belushi said no.
Some early positives this am. 💯
1. Apple reopens all 42 China stores
2. Cleveland Clinic has a test-kit that returns results in hours, not days
3. Lawmakers near agreement on
#COVID19
response
4. It’s Friday
5.
@tomhanks
shows us he and his wife are doing ok 🙏🏼
UNITED AIRLINES CEO: "If I didn't watch
@CNBC
in the morning -- which I do -- the word 'recession' wouldn't be in my vocabulary. You just can't see it in our data."
@SquawkCNBC
$UAL
Terence Winter, a writer on “Sopranos,” said: “The 1st thing Tony Sirico ever said to me — literally on day one — was, ‘You’re the new writer? Let me tell u something. If u ever write a script where I die? First, I die. Then u die.’ I was like, OK.’”
#RIP
It's remarkable how the very business leaders who begged for PPP/business-pandemic relief last summer now ridicule government support at the consumer level.
MOSCOW, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday that Washington would need Russian consent to publish transcripts of phone calls between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
“Don’t let it dominate your life” is a line that only could have come from someone who isn’t going to spend the next year fighting with the insurance company.
BLINDER: Inflation in the second half of 2022 is “almost back down to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. Even more astonishing, hardly anyone seems to have noticed.”
@WSJopinion
#CPI
I have never seen a songwriter break down — note by note — the process by which he wrote a tune like
@PaulSimonMusic
does here with “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. (1970)
What a joyful exchange. 🙏🏼
(via
@jfreewright
@PaulEWalsh
)
@openculture
(Bloomberg) - Former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell was sued for defamation by the voting-machine company she repeatedly placed at the center of a vast and unfounded election conspiracy. .. The complaint filed Friday by Dominion Voting Systems Inc. seeks $1.3 billion ..
JPMORGAN: “.. the US has achieved US energy independence for the first time in 40 years while Europe and China compete for global energy resources.” [Cembalest]
#OOTT
🇺🇸
JPMORGAN: “.. we find a positive correlation between levels of [credit-card] activity three weeks ago and the spread of COVID-19 since then.” Of all indicators, “the highest correlation .. is the level of “card-present” (essentially in-person) restaurant spending ..”
"SKY NEWS REPORTER, CITING MILITARY SOURCE: UK ROYAL AIR FORCE HAS HALTED FLIGHTS IN AND OUT OF ITS LARGEST AIR BASE IN THE UK BECAUSE THE "RUNWAY HAS MELTED" IN THE HOT WEATHER
@Reuters
The father of one of the U.S. Marines killed, told the
@AP
: “If this was kind of swept under the carpet as to not make it a bigger issue with Russia, and one ounce of blood was spilled when they knew this, I lost all respect for this administration .."
The White House was aware in early 2019 of intelligence indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of Americans. That’s a full year earlier than has been previously reported.
Larry King pioneered the live-interview environment we now take for granted — where you weren’t exactly sure the whole chat wouldn’t simply combust. That’s why the fumble with
@JerrySeinfeld
remains timeless. 🔥
“Larry King Live” (11/01/07)
(Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump's businesses tried to hide millions of dollars in payments from foreign governments that flowed through his hotel in downtown Washington D.C., a U.S. congressional committee said on Friday.
JPMORGAN: “.. almost 70% of Russian oil is struggling to find buyers. .. nine cargoes of 100 thousand tons each for March loading failed to find buyers on Wednesday .. Russian benchmark Urals oil is being offered at a record $20 discount to international benchmark, with no bids.”
Will Ferrell turns 55 today.
After “More Cowbell” aired on SNL in 2000, he said, Christopher Walken couldn’t escape cowbells. Folks would ring them at Walken’s B'way shows. Waiters would ask if he “wanted more cowbell.” “I think he was really mad at me.”
“This is an unmitigated disaster that the administration has brought upon the population, and I don’t say this lightly,” says Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute. “We have had a much worse response than Iran, than Italy, than China
“It was a song about my parents,” Tracy Chapman said about her song, “Fast Car” (1988). “My mother didn’t have a high school diploma .. I think they came together thinking that, together, they’d have a better chance of making it.”
Born today in 1964. 🔥
@Reuters
* DELTA AIR HAS PUT 880 PEOPLE ON ITS NO-FLY LIST FOR NOT WEARING MASKS, OTHERS BANNED FOR UNRULY BEHAVIOR RELATED TO U.S. ELECTION RESULTS - SPOKESMAN
@Reuters
$DAL
"The co-founder of Students for Trump pleaded guilty Tuesday to scamming consumers and businesses out of $46,000 by posing as a lawyer online and dispensing legal advice, federal prosecutors said."
“I think he was really mad at me," Will Ferrell said about Christopher Walken, born today in 1943. After "Cowbell" aired, Walken said ppl would ring cowbells during his B'way curtain calls. At lunch, a waiter "asked if I wanted more cowbell with my pasta"
(Reuters) - More than half of U.S. companies are planning to impose COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the workplace by year end, with almost a quarter considering vaccination as a condition for employment, according to a national survey of nearly 1,000 employers.
@reuters
Debbie Reynolds was 19 — with no formal dance training — when she filmed this scene. She was then put on bed rest for two days.
“Making ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ and childbirth were the two hardest things I’ve ever done.”
Born today in 1932.
#RIP
💕
Quite a statement from the National Association of Manufacturers: “The outgoing president incited violence in an attempt to retain power, and any elected leader defending him is violating their oath to the Constitution ..”
(via
@ShopFloorNAM
)
(Reuters) - Walmart Inc on Tuesday said it will pay the full cost of college tuition and books for its roughly 1.5 million full and part-time employees, effective Aug. 16.
$WMT
“I was never taught how to play the guitar. I don’t know what the chords to ‘Everlong’ are. I only know what happens when I put the fingers there.” - the great Dave Grohl, born today in 1969 🎸
“Everlong” (1997)
JPMorgan has a devastating piece arguing that infection rates have declined — not increased — in states where lockdowns have ended, “even after allowing for an appropriate measurement lag.” (Kolonavic)
(1/x)
"Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, one of the country’s leading experts on viruses and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases, told associates that the White House had instructed him not to say anything else without clearance."
#covid19
WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. a perfect record of electoral defeat. .. he has led Republicans into one political fiasco after another.”
@WSJopinion
#ElectionDay
#midterms
* YELLEN: ON TARIFFS, SOME OF THE TRUMP TARIFFS SEEM TO HAVE IMPOSED MORE HARM ON U.S. CONSUMERS
* YELLEN: I SEE A CASE THAT SOME RELIEF COULD COME FROM CUTTING SOME OF THE TARIFFS
@Reuters
Christopher Reeve was born today in 1952. This interview, in which he explains what Superman represents — in an era of fear and technological alienation — will blow your mind. 💯
(via
@RealEOC
)
#RIP
Born today in 1893: the great Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Academy Award. Her acceptance speech is always so moving to watch.
"My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel."
(h/t
@matthewjdowd
)
"I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt," Ella said, years later. Marilyn was there, "front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again."
On 12/11/68, 2nd Lt. Mueller “with complete disregard for his own safety, personally led a fire team across the fire-swept terrain to recover a mortally wounded marine ..”
Mueller born today in 1944.
(via Army Ranger Hall of Fame)
@RangerAssoc
* Trump Organization's Is Taken Offline by Shopify
* Trump Campaign's Ecommerce Site Is Also Closed by Shopify
* Shopify Says It Closed Websites Associated With President Trump After Riot at Capitol
(via Dow Jones) $SHOP
PHOENIX — A top leader of the national conservative group Turning Point Action, which has amplified false claims of election fraud by former president Donald Trump and others, resigned Thursday after being accused of forging voter signatures on official paperwork so that he could…