Pic Of The Week -- Weak

 

Which one looks like he's in charge and which one looks like he needs a charge:

See also photo in post below. 

(Photo:  Evan Vucci/ pool/ AFP)

Kind of reminds one of the Malignant Fascist's defeated demeanor at the 2018 Helsinki summit with his boss / blackmailer Putin:

Pic Of The Week: Justice Served

 

Former far right wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, often referred to as the "Trump of the Tropics," is pictured at his home where he has been under house arrest. He was sentenced last week to 27 years in prison for his attempted coup in 2022 to try to remain in office after he lost the election.

He carefully emulated the Malignant Fascist's example after the MF tried to overturn the election results of 2020, but the Brazilian was prosecuted and convicted, unlike the MF and his co-conspirators when our justice system failed to hold the MF accountable.

 

Pic Of The Week -- Sign O' The Times

 

Popular sign seen at multiple "Hands Off" and other protests in recent days:

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(h/t/ Balloon Juice)

Pic Of The Week -- Aerial

 

 From CNN:

Surfer Gabriel Medina was taking on Kanoa Igarashi, the man who beat him at the Tokyo Olympics and eventually won silver, and he was looking to turn the tide this time around.

The Brazilian not only managed to take down the Japanese surfer, he did so in part thanks to a near-perfect 9.90-scoring wave on Day 3 of the surfing competition in Tahiti – taking part halfway around the world from Paris. It was the highest-scoring wave in Olympic history.

The resultant jubilation produced another moment of perfection: Medina leapt from his surfboard, raised his finger aloft and his board just managed to fly parallel to him as photographer Jerome Brouillet from Agence France-Presse snapped the shot...

He's now in the final 8 in the competition, with a good shot at a medal.  As for the photo, it scores a gold medal for M. Brouillet.

(Photo:  Jerome Brouillet/ AFP/ Getty Images)

Pic Of The Week -- Returning To The Scene Of The Crime

 

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A preening convicted felon Malignant Loser returned to the scene of his crime yesterday and met with his lickspittle Congressional cult members (MAGAt Senators pictured here).  Directly to the convicted felon Malignant Loser's right, apparently trying to get inside the Malignant Loser's jacket, is craven spotlight Remora Sen. Lindsey "Huckleberry" Graham.  Recall it was Graham who had said on January 6, 2021,"Count me out," but who then meekly returned to the cult soon after.

The "pep rally" with his spineless minions in Congress was described as a "gripe- filled" meeting in which he was "airing grievances about his legal and electoral challenges, attacking his critics in the room, and only briefly addressing policy matters like abortion and taxes, according to multiple GOP lawmakers in the room." Among his many rants, 

-- he called RNC Convention city Milwaukee "horrible," 

-- said Nancy Pelosi's daughter told him they would've had a "great romance in another life," 

-- and obsessed about Taylor Swift not supporting him.  

Otherwise, completely sane.

BONUS:

 

A source in the room told @NOTUSreports that Trump was “rambling” – it was “like talking to your drunk uncle at the family reunion” https://t.co/4jTo55tgwA

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 13, 2024

 

Which makes the fawning all the more disgusting.

(Photo:  preening buffoon with his Senatorial cult/ Doug Mills, New York Times)

Pic Of The Week

 

It's the picture everyone's talking about -- Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's daugter Leila beaming with pride on the first day of Judge Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing to be an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court.  NYT photographer Sarabeth Maney took the picture (backstory here).

Pic Of The Week: Golden

 

Sunisa "Suni" Lee on the balance beam during her gold medal-winning performance as the all-around gymnastics champion. A Minnesotan of Hmong descent, Lee became the first person of Asian heritage/ nationality to win that honor.

(photo: Morry Gash / AP) 

Pics Of The Week -- Her Honor

 

(Former clerks of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg await her casket at the Supreme Court/Getty Images)

(Justice Ginsburg's casket arrives at the Supreme Court, met by her former clerks/CQ-Roll Call, Inc., via Getty Images)

Pic Of The Week

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(A ballet dancer performs in Manhattan's Times Square - REUTERS/Andrew Kelly)

Note the message on the marquee as well!

(More at The Week.)

Pic Of The Week

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A beach in Ashkelon, Israel.  (REUTERS/Amir Cohen)

Do those purple clouds portend purple rain?

More great pics from The Week, here.

Pic Of The Week

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(Reuters/ Sumaya Hisham)

A pig paints at an animal sanctuary near Cape Town, South Africa.  The pig's name? Why Pigcasso, of course.

We think that also makes it pig of the week.

(h/t and more great photojournalism here)

Pic Of The Week: The Shame

Last Tuesday, photographer John Moore captured this iconic, and now viral, image of a 2 year-old Honduran child and her mother who was seeking asylum being detained near McAllen, TX by border police. With their inhumane evil as motivation, the administration of bigot and pathological liar Donald "Rump" Trump, in the person of Confederate States Attorney General and evil elf Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, have established what they call a "zero tolerance" policy toward immigrants seeking asylum by seperating children and even infants from their parents who have presented themselves to customs officials at ports of entry. As of yesterday, some 1,995 children have found themselves torn from their parents and sent to what are virtual internment camps, unable to contact their parent(s).

The habitually dishonest and despicable Rump lied to a gathering of media on Friday morning, saying that the policy of separating children from their parents was the result of Democratic laws, a complete and vile lie. What made it more obvious is Sessions' defense of the policy, even to the point of citing a Biblical passage about law and government (which was used during slavery to justify it). In the meantime, this obscenity is being done in our country's name by a sociopathic monster. Call your House member (especially if they're Rethuglican) and your Senator (ditto) and raise major hell about this abomination, and if they lie about who's to blame, feel free to let loose with some highly colorful language.

(photo: John Moore, Getty Images)