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HOW GREAT IS THIS NEWSLETTER? Okay, don’t answer that. Instead, subscribe here! Graeme Parker charges around $13 to trim a cow’s hooves. “We trim about 150 cows every week,” he says. That would add up to almost $2,000 a week, or about $100,000 a year. But Graeme Parker is a millionaire. Not because he’s made a ton of dough going from farm to farm in South West Scotland, but because Graeme started making videos of his work and putting them on YouTube.

Spoilers ahead for Triple Frontier (2019), you have been warned! If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I’ve become a little enamoured with a certain Pedro Pascal. I find his sense of humour and charisma, at least from what I’ve seen in his interviews, very comforting. He’s a very talented actor with legions of devoted fans who celebrate his kindness, and dedication to inclusivity on a daily basis, so it’s no surprise that he’s taken up most of my brain’s processing capacity.

Triple H is fascinating because of the variety of atrocities he inflicted upon the pro wrestling art form. Against Booker T, we get to see how the capitalist monopoly of the WWE over the industry combines with a callous racially-fueled heat angle to produce one of the most dismissive destructions of a hot babyface ever. The WrestleMania XIX match is bad because so much of it is designed to be. It’s meant to feel bad, and those involved in producing just handwave away the unpleasantness behind the idea that it’s “just for heat.

The Rochester Real Beer Expo is a homecoming for Chris Powers. After opening his brewery, Trophy Brewing in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2013, Saturday will be the first time his beers are poured in his hometown. Powers, a Rush-Henrietta graduate, along with his partner David “Woody” Lockwood, oversees a burgeoning empire in North Carolina. Trophy has two locations and Powers and Lockwood also own a distillery, Young Hearts, an event space, Maywood Hall and Garden, and a beer and wine shop called State of Beer.

Donald Trump and allies have complained, over and over again, that the former president and his allies have been targeted, singled out for abuse, and deliberately humiliated by the criminal justice system. They’ve claimed that there are “two tiers of justice” — a strict, unrelenting one for MAGA, and a loose, deferential one for the migrants, rapists, and killers that George Soros-funded prosecutors refuse to punish. Or something like that.

Hello, from YELLO, a visual politics newsletter. Subscribe to see the visual trends, marketing, art, and design defining the look of politics: Make America Great Again, again? Former President Donald Trump once rewrote the rule book for how to effectively market a presidential campaign, but with his third consecutive run, he’s testing the limits of an aging, embattled political brand. Trump announced his 2024 campaign earlier this month in a Mar-a-Lago ballroom, a downsized event compared to the packed arena of his 2020 campaign announcement, and less memorable than his golden escalator ride at Trump Tower in the 2016 cycle.

First off, a warm welcome to a whole bunch of new subscribers here. I’m glad to have you aboard. I also appreciated your many comments on my post last week about the regrettable way the news media — led by the New York Times — has been overemphasizing concerns about President Biden’s age and memory. Of course, not everyone agreed that making this a focal point of the presidential campaign is a form of journalistic malpractice.

Trumpism has all the trappings of a classic cult of personality: a charismatic figure at the center who is worshiped as a modern messiah by his followers; a leader who seemingly can do no wrong, even while engaged in patterns of criminal behavior to grift money from them; a master manipulator who controls the behavior, thoughts, information and emotions of his flock.  Sound about right? It’s becoming more common and accepted these days to speak openly about the “Cult of Trumpism.

“these are almost certainly white-label sneakers, generic designs which can be altered for your particular branding (for example, adding a flag, a T and making them gold), and are manufactured in Vietnam or China in small batches for commercial clients. Go through Alibaba and you will find pages and pages of generic leather high-tops. Having done so, I wasn’t able to find the exact white-label shoe that the “Never Surrender” high was adapted from (no, it isn’t this pair on Temu).