Scott Gorcey Best

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Bowery Boy. If you know, you know. Proud husband & pet dad. Native NY’er in LA.

THE HILL—RFK Jr. expected to recommend eating more saturated fats
Mister Oliver, the best orange cat in a world of full awesome orange cats. I’ll miss him forever.
NYT—Letitia James Is Indicted After Pressure From Trump
NYT—Officers Called Portland Protests 'Low Energy' Before Trump Ordered Troops
50m ago Trump says he's never seen 'a room so silent before' as he address top military brass
NYT HEADLINE—After Kirk Killing, Americans Agree on One Thing: Something Is Seriously Wrong In interviews from across the country, people expressed fear and wariness, and said that the country seemed to be spinning out of control.
Holly Hunter as the 422 year old half-Lanthanite Chancellor of Starfleet Academy upon its reopening in San Francisco in the 32nd century — notably sharing Carol Kane’s SNW hairstyle & overall look. IS Carol Kane her mother? Is she gonna make guest appearances? What about Whoopi??
GOTHAMIST—Forged signatures found on Mayor Adams' petitions to run as an independent
Picture of an ankle sock w a drop of blood from a mosquito biting me thru the sock. And I wasn’t like sitting in the grass. I wS on a patio! For like two minutes while my dogs peed. They don’t want to stay out there, either, but at least most stuff that bites them dies before it can transmit disease! (supposedly.) Why don’t ppl have that medicine dammit!
NTY—“"A suburban New York county that recently barred residents from wearing masks is now making an exception for police officers so they can obscure their identities while helping the federal authorities detain immigrants." Ah, the kidnappers loophole. They must have really good lobbyists.
YouTuber—KINDNESS IS TGEUR KRYPTONITE — WHY MAGA MAD ABOUT SUPERMAN
NYT—As recently as a May budget meeting, county commissioners were discussing a flood warning system being developed by a regional agency as something that they might be able to make use of. But in a recent interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said that local residents had been resistant to new spending. "Taxpayers won't pay for it," he said, adding that he didn't know if people might reconsider now.
NYT—Warning systems: Officials in Kerr County have discussed for years whether to build a flood warning system along the banks of the Guadalupe River. But they ultimately rejected the endeavor as too expensive.
NYT—JIMMY SWAGGART DEAD AT 90
ABC NEWS — TRUMP SAYS HE’LL “LOOK” AT DEPORTING MUSK AS FEUD REIGNITES
FINANCIAL TIMES—TRUMP SUGGESTS DOGE REVIEW SUBSIDIES TO MUSK COMPANIES (*love it when a plan comes together…*)
NYT—CONCERNS GROW OVER DIRE CONDITIONS IN IMMIGRANT DETENTION
NYT OP ED ANDREW SULLIVAN How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way
(Future Chief) Justice Jackson’s dissent: “The Court’s decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law.”
Pic of my tv Home Screen advertising TERMINAL VOYAGE , which is apparently one of those bottom shelf of the video rental shop b-pictures that is advertised here with an image of Jeri Ryan as 7 of 9 in a STAR TREK VOYAGER episode made ~5 years after the movie. Were Ryan or CBS compensated? AND WHY NOT? AI is ruining everything & screwing ppl out of money they earned.
NYT—[A]ppearing deflated… Mr. Cuomo, who has collected signatures to run on a third-party line in November, conspicuously did not vow to carry on his campaign in the general election.”
AXIOS—TRUMP TO DECIDE ON IRAN ACTION [by which they mean but are afraid to say something more … true… like ATTACK, WAR, INVASION] ‘IN 2 WEEKS’ which means he’s full of shit & will puss out
NYT—SCOTUS 6-3 UPHOLDS STATE BAN ON GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE FOR MINORS
Trump post threatening to export illegal his war on Los Angeles to “Democrat” or “Sanctuary” cities including NYC.
MSNBC—DAVID HOGG TO EXIT DNC AFTER BACKLASH TO HIS PRIMARY PLAN [which in sum was an attempt to put the fire out from w/in the DNC house & developed for a time when the constitution still lived and free & fair elections still happened. Are we still in that time? Doesn’t seem like it—yet his approach to the threat, which he’s always seemed to see clearly, has not yet modulated.]
Headline: SUPERMAN BECOMES BEST FIRST-DAY TICKET PRESELLER OF 2025
A quote from CASABLANCA. Rick, an American ex-patriate nightclub owner in Nazi-occupied Morocco, projects an apolitical attitude regarding the war, but when asked where his loyalties would lie if the Nazi’s invaded his NYC, his hometown, he famously sidesteps with the following, which remains well-observed to this day: “There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.”
More from Wikipedia: “Self-reported membership peaked in 2006 at roughly 16 million. Membership has contracted by an estimated 13.6% since that year, with 2020 marking the 14th year of continuous decline. Mean organization-wide weekly attendance dropped about 27% between 2006 and 2020. The Convention reported increased participation and a slowing of the rate of overall membership decline in 2024, with 12,722,266 members reported.”
Wikipedia entry on Southern Baptist convention’s origins: “In 1845, the Southern Baptists separated from the Triennial Convention to uphold the institution of slavery, as American society divided over racial attitudes preceding the American Civil War.”
Screen shot of 86-year old actress Carole Ann Ford as The Doctor’s 1st companion & granddaughter Susan, who was meant to return in the S2 finale “The Reality War” & subsequent ALREADY SCRIPTED installments which are now unlikely to be made—or if they are made, are unlikely to continue w this storyline in any recognizable form after the reshoots sliced & diced the Poppy reveal, gutting the season & the character Belinda in the process. Fucking BBC & D+.
Quote tweet by Stephen Miller — An insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States Original tweet is a pic showing “Protesters have surrounded the federal detention center in Los Angeles. California isn't backing down, this is a full-blown standoff with the Feds.” Yesterday, CA GOV Newsom threatened to withhold California’s contribution to the Federal government, which is tantamount to secession. If you don’t think we’re on the edge of becoming a brutal police state & that the constitution & rule of law still lives, you’re late. Too late.
Pictured: Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor dancing with Varada Seethu’s Belinda Chandra in the original, unaired ending of Doctor Who’s S2 finale, “The Reality War.”
Pic of a cat with a stubby tail playing with a Jackson galaxy cat toy.
Far right neo-Nazi magazine cover featuring a white muscle man flexing and smoking. Naked but for a speedo. Extraordinarily camp. (They put an old fashioned “approved by the comics code authority” stamp on the cover — tho it’s not a comic and the CCA has been gone a long time now.
THE GUARDIAN—“Robert F Kennedy Jr, head of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has called for new trials using saline placebos for each of the routine childhood vaccines recommended by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), even though these vaccines have already been tested against placebos or against vaccines that were themselves tested against placebos.”
“The agents entered Mr. Nadler's office because they had been told that protesters were there and were concerned for the safety of his staff members, according to a statement on Saturday from the Department of Homeland Security. “When they arrived, "one individual became verbally confrontational and physically blocked access to the office," the statement said. That person, an aide to the congressman, was detained so the officers could complete their safety check, according to the statement.
NYT—Federal officers entered Representative Jerry Nadler's office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and handcuffed and briefly detained one of his aides. The confrontation happened shortly after the aide observed federal agents detaining migrants in a public hallway outside an immigration courtroom in the same building as the congressman's office. The episode was recorded by someone who was sitting in Mr. Nadler's office. In the video, an officer with the Federal Protective Service, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is shown demanding access to a private area inside the office. The video was obtained by Gothamist, which earlier reported the confrontation. "You're harboring rioters in the office," the federal agent, whose name tag and officer number are not visible in the video, says to a member of Mr. Nadler's staff. There were no riots reported on Wednesday at the federal building on Varick Street, though protesters and immigrant rights advocates gathered inside and outside the building earlier in the day. The immigration court is on the fifth floor and Mr. Nadler's office is on the sixth.
Pictured (lifted from NYT): Elon Musk in the Oval Office, yesterday (May 30 2025), sporting a black eye
“There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk's foray into politics accomplished.”
NYT MICHELLE GOLDBERG—MUSK’S LEGACY IS DISEASE, STARVATION & DEATH
NYT—“As Elon Musk became one of Donald J. Trump's closest allies last year, leading raucous rallies and donating about $275 million to help him win the presidency, he was also using drugs far more intensely than previously known, according to people familiar with his activities. Mr. Musk's drug consumption went well beyond occasional use. He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use. He took Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms. And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it. It is unclear whether Mr. Musk, 53, was taking drugs when he became a fixture at the White House this year and was handed the power to slash the federal bureaucracy. But he has exhibited erratic behavior, insulting cabinet members, gesturing like a Nazi and garbling his answers in a staged interview. At the same time, Mr. Musk's family life has grown increasingly tumultuous as he has negotiated overlapping romantic relationships and private legal battles involving his growing brood of [14 known*] children, according to documents and interviews.” [*ed note—& I am the ed bc the NYT needs one]
NYT HEADLINE—ON CAMPAIGN TRAIL, MUSK JUGGLED DRUGS & FAMILY DRAMA
NYT—US [RFKJR] CANCELS CONTRACT WITH MODERNA TO DEVELOP [H5N1] BIRD FLU [MRNA] VACCINE