Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News

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Susan B Glasser: In the hours after Johnson’s unexpected ascension on Wednesday, the press and the political commentariat feasted on examples of the previously little-known congressman’s ideological extremism: his calling gay people “dangerous” and “deviant” threats to the American way of life; his sponsorship of a national abortion ban and warning that those who performed an abortion would, at least in Louisiana, end up doing hard labor; his insistence that, if only women would bear more “able-bodied workers,” there would be no need to cut back Medicare and Social Security. His climate-change denialism, his belief in creationism over evolution, and his promotion of “covenant marriage” were all examined. It was pointed out that Johnson, after only six years in Congress, was the least experienced Speaker in a hundred and forty years, and the most hard-right House leader anyone could remember.

But none of those were the reasons for his rise, which had less to do with his stealth brand of political extremism than with his stellar record of support for Trump’s unprecedented effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Many members of the House Republican Conference—two-thirds of them, in fact—had voted to back Trump’s lies about the election. But few had worked as actively to foist bogus conspiracy theories about 2020 on the American public as did Johnson, a constitutional lawyer who enlisted dozens of fellow-members to support a Texas court case seeking to cancel the election results in battleground states. Johnson even promoted the bizarre falsehood, also amplified by Trump, that Dominion voting machines had been rigged because they came from “Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela.” (One thing that always bothered me about this: Didn’t anyone ever point out to them that Chávez died in 2013, seven years before the election that he somehow stole?) Johnson’s role, little noted at the time, was such that the Times later called him “the most important architect” of the campaign to block congressional certification of the Electoral College results and thus overturn Trump’s defeat.

On Tuesday, it had looked like the Speakership might go to Minnesota’s Tom Emmer, but the Republican whip turned out to have a fatal black mark on his résumé, at least as far as House Republicans were concerned: his vote on January 6, 2021, to certify President Joe Biden’s election. After five rounds of voting in the Republican Conference on Tuesday, Emmer defeated Johnson, a hundred and nineteen votes to ninety-seven votes. But then Trump weighed in. No way he wanted an election enabler as House Speaker. In a Truth Social post, Trump warned against the “tragic mistake” of choosing a “globalist rino” like Emmer. Enough Republicans then refused to go along with Emmer in a prospective House floor vote—where the Republican majority is so slim that a Speaker candidate can lose no more than four members of his own party—that he was soon forced to give up his bid. (“It’s done. It’s over. I killed him,” Trump reportedly bragged in a phone call with members.) It says everything about today’s House G.O.P. that Johnson lost the race against Emmer but then won the job anyway.

[The New Yorker]

The Buffalo Bills promised fans that their PSL's would "never" price fans out, yet they are doing exactly that

When an NFL team builds a new stadium, it is normal for the price of tickets at the new place to be higher than previous years at the old stadium. Some teams raise the price of all tickets around the new stadium, while others force their own fans to buy a personal seat license (PSL). – Statista This scam program allows a team to charge fans a one-time fee that grants the fan the right to buy…

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On the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation west of Brandon, Man., schoolchildren are throwing pumpkins into a bison pen, a ceremony and sign of respect to an animal that has deep spiritual significance for Indigenous culture and identity. Community leaders are also educating a new generation about how the bison, known in these parts as buffalo, has important implications for the future of the Prairies – rehabilitating natural grasslands and conserving water in a time of climate change. "The significance of the buffalo goes back hundreds of years. These animals have saved our lives," said Anthony Tacan, a band councillor whose family is the keeper of this herd. "They provided food and weapons out of the bones, tools, the hides for clothing, the teepees. It did everything for us. So going forward, we decided it's our turn to give back. It's our turn to look after them."

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April 2nd 2024 best hockey tweet of the day

Kaylee, 27

“Everything aside from my bag was purchased secondhand at Buffalo Exchange. The shirt was unbranded but gave me JPG vibes, the pants are vintage, the boots are Sam Edelman, and the bag is from Susan Alexandra. I’m mostly inspired by alt scenes of the 70s-80s. Color is a huge part of my style and once I narrowed down a palette I felt most confident in, it was really easy to be able to thrift for myself and put together something that felt distinctly me. I call it ketchup & mustard.”

Sep 11, 2023 ∙ Soho

धारूहेडा में भैंसों से भरा ट्रक पकडा, 39 पशु करवाए मुक्त, दो तस्कर काबू-Best24News

धारूहेडा में भैंसों से भरा ट्रक पकडा, 39 पशु करवाए मुक्त, दो तस्कर काबू-Best24News

धारूहेडा: दिल्ली जयपुर हाईवे पर धारूहेडा ओवरब्रिज के पास शनिवार रात को भैंसों  (Buffalo) से भरी एक ट्रक जबत की है। पुलिस ने 37 भैंस व दो भैंसो को मुक्त करवाते हुए दो पशु तस्करों को गिरफ्तार किया है। धारूहेडा: काबू किए पुश तस्कर आरोपी काबू किए आरोपितो की पहचान नूंह के गांव झारपुरी निवासी वासिम व धासेडा निवासी आरिफ के रूप में हुई है। थाना धारूहेडा पुलिस को सूचना मिली कि बावल से गोतस्कर एक ट्रक में…

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and one (1) beloved loser who has no clue what to do with himself 🧍🏻‍♂️

“i feel like sidney crosby would have a 4 star rating on ratemyteacher”… once again she’s so right

Can we give a round of applause to the Buffalo Stadium Community Inclusion Task Force?

Last year, the state of New York agreed to give $850 million taxpayer dollars to the Buffalo Bills to build a $1.7 billion dollar stadium. Because New York taxpayers are giving so much to this project, rules were put in place that stated when the stadium was being built, “36% of construction contracts” were to be given to businesses owned by minorities, women, and service disabled veterans. When…

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It's been a long time since large herds of bison roamed what is now Treaty 7 territory in Alberta, but Clayton Whitney, manager of the Tsuut'ina Nation's buffalo paddock, can see the impact reintroduction projects are having on the bison population and the surrounding wildlife.

"It's amazing how much animals want to come on this side of the fence with the bison," he told The Current. "We get everything from cougars and bears and moose and deer, elk."

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