Hurricanes, Pollen, & Rain: WHCA Dinner Tonight, Climate Change, & Rafa’s Baby w/His Dad’s Dimples – Saturday Night OT

 

Rafa Jr and Maria watch Dad Rafa  at the Mutua Madrid Masters 1000 2024

WCHA Dinner - PBS Live Coverage  *waves at 2nd gentleman*

 

 

Every spring I’m not in DC there’s so much other fracas in the world – esp the past 8 years – that the WHCA dinner sneaks up on me

Ayman Mohedin will be on short-straw reporting duty tonight for MSNBC – which I appreciate since he’s the kind of correspondent willing to have Professor Jason Stanley, noted scholar on authoritarianism, on as a guest on a night like this during a historic time like this … but the cynic in me also thinks, since there are protestors against the Bibi-IDF genocide in Gaza (and the Columbia president having her students who were protesting peacefully jailed by the NYPD *before* they were suspended from campus / legally classed as trespassers) outside the Washington Hilton where the event is being held, that the network thought it was safer for him to be out there since he was more easily recognized as a person of color than any of the White anchors at the networks

Besides, nobody who has any sense thinks it would’ve been a better idea to have Katy Tur, Chris Jansing, or Andrea Mitchell out there instead

Here's Zendaya creating a fashion moment in her Challengers dress at one of the premieres, based on the movie's portrait poster & designed by Celia Kritharioti

The original poster for the movie, which latter debuted this weekend  ^^

Some of the original responses for this were lolarious - let's see how we do

Apologies to all in the Midwest for whom I meant to post the weather warning when I first saw it yesterday, since I only posted it one place  -- live feed here