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Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday [1]
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Date: 2025-07-22
Energize An Ally Tuesday
Can’t let the month pass without noting (admittedly a bit late) that one of the world’s great humanitarians celebrated his birthday this month. Chef Jose Andres’ mission as founder of the World Central Kitchen is to coordinate a culinary army of food preppers and cooks to deliver hot, delicious meals to areas torn by war and natural disasters. At the moment his cooks are busy in Guatemala, Texas, Gaza, Mexico, Turkey and, of course...
x 🥬🫑🧅 600,000 kits and lots of love! Over three years into our response in Ukraine, our teams have distributed 600,000+ "borsch kits," with beets, cabbage, and other veggies that Ukrainian families love. These kits have become a tradition, and they have helped cook countless meals. #ChefsForUkraine — World Central Kitchen (@wck.org) 2025-07-14T17:08:00.575Z
If you feel so inclined, you can donate to World Central Kitchen here.
And a big (and belated, sorry) Happy Birthday to Chef Jose Andres—the kind of human walking this planet we need a helluva lot more of.
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Note: Got a text from the international space station this morning: Send oxygen now! Send oxygen now! Yeah, like I'm just sitting on a bunch of extra air. Go mooch off someone else, socialist.
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By the Numbers:
4 days!!!
Days 'til the new tariffs take effect…or not: 10
Days 'til the Atlanta Ice Cream Festival: 4
Percent of registered voters polled by Quinnipiac who say they approve of the Trump administration's actions in the Epstein case: 17%
Approval of AG Pam Bondi's overall job performance: 32%
Current expected loss in tourism money from Canada this year because of the Republican party's hostility toward our northern neighbor: $29 billion
Percent of waste water that's recycled aboard the Space Station: 93%
Year the first person crossed Niagara Falls via tightrope: 1859
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Puppy Pic of the Day: Lifeguard on duty…?
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CHEERS to Billeh's Tuesday Tariffs Update. In a move that, back in the day, would've gotten me sent to my room without supper, I have just consumed all the available drugs in the house prior to writing today's update. Let us now cow the banana:
☂ Some tariffs is blue. Some tariffs is orange. People say nothing rhymes with orange but I always respond by saying hey you idiot what about my last name which is Storange. ♣ Today Mad King TACO will introduce scratch and sniff tariffs. DON’T SNIFF THEM! HE PROMISED THEY'D SMELL LIKE YUMMY CHOCOLATE CAKE BUT I CAN CONFIRM THEY JUST SMELL LIKE SWOLLEN CANKLES. ☢ 1,5433.09 tariff letters still haven't gone out to the countries that need to get them before Tariffpalooza starts in the number of days it takes to get to August 1st, but on the bright side two letters have gone out and they made an intoxicating crinkle sound as they went through the shredder. ♕ The tariff we said was orange is actually blue and the blue is orange, which really doesn't make much difference but we're a stickler for detail. ✯ Everything in this room is at a tilt. Which reminds me that also on August 1st there will be a 345% tariff on anything tilted. ☠ No, Grandma, I will not come into the light. Not during a tariff update, dang it all. ☏ Please note that if tariffs are levied on the act of doing laundry, I will RESIST!!!
And with that, we come gently down from our all-the-drugs-in-the-house high. Join us tomorrow for our next update, when we'll see what happens when we write it after a few shots of Liquid Plumber.
JEERS to suboptimal optics. Long story short: a few weeks ago I started seeing floaties in one eye whenever I gazed out upon the hills and prairies and seas and mountains of this great land of ours. Then, a couple weeks ago my other eye saw how much fun the other eye was having, so it started releasing floaties too, and tossing in some random flashes for good measure. The internet tells me this is likely a pair of age-related "retinal tears" which, if left untreated, could lead to government-imposed retinal tariffs. This jeer will conclude with "the fun part" after this random photo of eyes:
Now the fun part: my optometrist of 25 years is so popular that I originally couldn't get an appointment until next March. So they put me on their "cancellation list," upon which I investigated who had today's 2pm appointment and kidnapped her. So now I have a wide-open 2pm appointment this afternoon, which is a long way of saying tomorrow's C&J might be a bit on the light side. Or maybe not. You'll just have to...wait and see.
JEERS to Lindsey the Lackey. Oh, the memories of the 2016 Republican campaign, when candidate Lindsey Graham was saying things in public like "Donald Trump is a kook" and "The way to make America great is to tell Donald Trump to go to hell." But in private, it was a different and more pathetic story. Ten years ago this week, Lindsey the angry manchild's private plea was publicly mocked and doxxed by—surprise—his future who’s-yer-daddy:
"So, Lindsey Graham says to me, 'Please, please, whatever you can do.' You know, I'm saying to myself, what's this guy, a beggar? He's like begging me to help him with Fox and Friends. So I say, okay, and I'll mention your name. He said, 'Could you mention my name?' I said, yes, I'll mention…and he gave me his number, and I found the card. I wrote the number down. I don't know if it's the right number. Let's try it." Trump then read Graham's number to the crowd of just under 1,000. When CBS News dialed it, the number led to an automated voicemail greeting with Graham's name.
Today Lindsey is still Trump’s #1 psychophant and ball washer. Not necessarily in that order.
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CHEERS to purty rhymin' wurds. During this week back in 1893, Katherine Lee Bates—a college-educated, latte-slurping Cape Cod liberal elitist—wrote the poem America the Beautiful after visiting an inspiring spot:
One day some of the other teachers and I decided to go on a trip to 14,000-foot Pikes Peak. We hired a prairie wagon. Near the top we had to leave the wagon and go the rest of the way on mules. I was very tired. Katherine Lee Bates at Wellesley circa 1916 with woozle Hamlet. But when I saw the view, I felt great joy. All the wonder of America seemed displayed there, with the sea-like expanse.
It was later set to the hymn "Materna" by Samuel Ward. But only because Snoop Dogg wanted ten million bucks for the rights to "We Just Wanna Party with You."
CHEERS to galactic geezers. An interesting development from the world of space: astronomers say they've found a "fossil body" that spends most of its time sittin' in a rocking chair at the edge of our solar system yelling at gaseous clouds:
The object—which goes by the formal designation 2023 KQ14 but is nicknamed “Ammonite," in an apparent nod to the widely found, ancient fossilized mollusk—was detected by the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, according to a paper published Tuesday in Nature Astronomy. Ammonite was discovered at its perihelion, which is the point in a celestial body's orbit at which it is closest to the sun, according to the paper. It lies beyond Pluto at a distance of 71 AU, or astronomical units---putting it 71 times the average distance between the sun and Earth, according to the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), whose astronomers made the discovery.
Moments after the discovery was announced, the fossil received a dozen pieces of junk mail from AARP and twenty extended-warranty expiration robocalls on its answering machine.
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Ten years ago in C&J: July 22, 2015
JEERS to Americans who remind us that our union has a lot more perfecting to do. Saturday there was a KKK rally in Columbia, South Carolina at the spot where the confederate flag was removed. As if we needed it, the group offered a tender reminder of what the now-made-in-China confederate flag lovers mean when they speak of their heritage:
“We’re just trying to save our heritage,” [klansman Roy] Pemberton told KKK potentials, almost all middle-aged white men, handing them two business cards with
the group’s hotline number. “Racial Purity is America’s Security!” one said. "First they take our flag, soon they'll take your wife!"
No KKK IQ points were harmed during the rally as there were none in attendance.
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And just one more…
CHEERS to U.S. Mint'y freshness. The new American Women Quarter is here! The new American Women Quarter is here! Yes indeed, the latest in the series of U.S. quarters celebrating accomplished American women was released, and she's a MAGA cultist's nightmare because she’s a trailblazer with lady parts who taught girls and women how to be lady trailblazers, too:
The late astronomer Vera Rubin has an observatory named for her, and it’s on track to begin a 10-yearsky survey from atop Cerro Pachón in northern Chile later this year. Now she also has a U.S. quarter-dollar coin with her likeness on the reverse. You don’t need to wait to get one in change at a convenience store —you can order some directly from the U.S. Mint. “Dr. Rubin gathered crucial data to support the existence of the unseen material that binds entire galaxies together and is believed to makeup more than 80 percent of the mass of the universe,” said Kristie McNally, the mint’s acting director, in the same press release. … The reverse (back side) design features a profile of a smiling Rubin gazing upward with stars and a spiral galaxy in the background. Her name and the words “Dark Matter” appear too.
Dr. Rubin is the third graduate of the U.S. Mint's Class of '25. C&J will keep you posted on the next honoree ahead of her arrival. It'll give normal people time to learn more about these trailblazing women, and misogynists time to plan their DEI-related tantrums.
Have a tolerable Tuesday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial "A future flagship mission to Cheers and Jeers would provide critical observations to address more unresolved questions of this enigmatic kiddie pool giant." —Geophysical Research Letters
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