Chicken [Little] Feet, Bush Huggers, Twerking Duchess, and More
6.6.25 Newsletter
Something is afoot in my yard.
Literally.
Our dog, Daisy, keeps bringing chicken feet into the home, much to her delight and our chagrin.
I have no idea who the culprit is or how they end up in our yard. Daisy hasn’t unearthed any other body parts, so it’s this specific delicacy and how it is disposed of. But where are they coming from? How do I casually question my neighbors on either side about their consumption of chicken feet that end up under my couch?
Royal Corner
The Duchess of Sussex delivered a never-before-seen video of her and Harry doing the Baby Mama dance to help induce labor with an overdue Lilibet, and the British media jacked up that Pitocin and birthed some predictable, nasty takes.
Even “the author of that piece” came out of semi-royal retirement to give her two cents.
That makes two of us, I can’t imagine you twerking either!
Calling it twerking is intended to reduce and cheapen it. Just admit that joyful, silly, fun movement isn’t your M.O. during a stressful, fearful moment like labor and delivery. But calling it a “sexy slut drop, while lip-syncing, to the camera” makes it sound like she was simulating oral sex. Some might call the description bordering on misogynoir, but don’t do that unless you want to receive a lengthy late-night DM.
Things That Would Never Be Written About a Woman For $500, Alex
Yet another piece profiling William’s future reign popped up. This one focused on his leadership over the Duchy of Cornwall.
William is described as “pretty demanding” with a “healthy impatience”.
Yes, these are delightful characteristics when assigned to a man. Just like he was a rugged, manly man when he clocked his brother in a fit of rage and tossed him into a dog bowl, according to Harry’s memoir, Spare.
Earlier this week, I looked back at Sandringham Summit coverage from Jan. 2020. I couldn’t help but wonder, Carrie Bradshaw-style, if the Royal Rota doesn’t hold a little bit of a grudge against Prince William. Without the spare and his wife, there’s no one left to write about. Yes, they can still write about Harry and Meghan, but it’s not the same without the leaks and access to the couple through the RR. The couple vs. couple narrative structure doesn’t hit the same. Now, the press is stuck writing these glowing profiles about the one they used to call workshy.
I wonder how long it can last.
The Royal Appointment
Subject Line: Bacon butties and bumbling bushes
It is a veritable back-to-work frenzy after the King and Queen took a brief rest following their Canadian trek, and the Waleses took the school holidays off with their children as usual.
I can feel
, incandescent with rage, saying something along the lines of, “They’re on holiday every two months!”But no one can resist the call of duty. Prince William is busy flying helicopters and serving bacon rolls. No word if he did the cooking.
Queen Camilla shook hands with bushes.
Besides a readout of the diary, the newsletter hammers home what social media, a form of communication favored by the Wales’s, cannot replace.
What it cannot do is replicate that personal connection: the stories that every single person at every single engagement will tell their grandchildren about the time they met a real King, Queen, Prince or Princess.
Social media also doesn’t give the Royal Rota exclusive access to publicly funded engagements, aka the reason a rota was established in the first place in the 1980s.
I do not envy the position this woman is in, although I respect the focus on the working royals.
It Musk a Been Love, But It’s Over Now
The May-December romance between Donald Trump and Elon Musk is over.
Musk is the billionaire, foreign agent who wreaked havoc on government bureaucracy in order to gain access to data on the American people (allegedly). The full extent of the damage Elon Musk caused over the 100ish days he was appointed as a government employee by Congress, crashed the Trump Administration, will take years to uncover.
Currently, Musk is torpedoing Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” on Twitter, while also dropping truth bombs like, Trump is in the Epstein files.
Most interestingly, Musk tweeted: "Without me, Trump would have lost the election. Such ingratitude."
Let’s assume his tweet is just about money. Elon Musk officially endorsed Trump after the assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024. Musk would end up giving more than $250 million to groups backing Trump in the 2024 election.
I can’t stop thinking about that timeline. Did the assassination attempt convince Musk that Trump could win? Was he holding out for something else? It’s something I want to dig into further, but for now, I will attempt some restraint.
Probably.
Finally, I know it’s an early call, but my favorite tweet of the Musk/Trump fallout comes from
:
Iconic.
-Meredith
Meghan and Harry Dancing. Two narcissistic oligarchs fighting. And Camilla shakes hands with a bush. Oh what a world we live in! I’m enjoying watching the tweet war, and also thrilled at Meghan getting a couple of hundred thousand new followers after the dance video. The bush is a bit yawn but other than tampongate, that’s pretty much Camilla, a bit of a yawn.
Thanks for the laugh. I half expected to wake up to a Musk tweet of; OK..
It's over now...
Speaking of helping win the election. I still can't get the report of a starlink satellite crashing to earth in Texas two days after the election.
Oh well...
I thought the Baby Moma video was darling and then the explosion of other baby momas on various YouTube videos. Wow! It's a thing.
I've noticed there has been a number of headlines saying Harry won't be back and it's all his fault.
There was also one about the 7 things he has to do before he can come back. But that was paywall so I didn't get to know..lol
Bottom line? King William has taken over already. There have been bad monarchs in the past. Willie won't be first or last. Too bad it's at a time when his people could use some kindness. Some help.