Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

People are complicated. Love is not.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Come on, man.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

The revolution will be supervised.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

He really is that stupid.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

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  2. 2.

    Manyakitty

    Ha! I could barely hear that over the extremely loud purring from the nyminal Manya, who has taken up residence on my chest.

  4. 4.

    geg6

    Lovey snores like a champ. It’s gotten so bad, I wake up if I don’t hear her snoring at night.

    She kills me. She eats so delicately and prissily. But the rest of life she acts like a longshoreman. Nothing delicate or prissy about anything else.

  5. 5.

    karen marie

    Yeah, I got no kitty snoring at all. “Just” a repeat of Thurston being cute as a button. Hey, that’s okay – it means we get a make-up video.

  9. 9.

    geg6

    Someone should send Cole a strongly worded email to fix the damn video. In all caps, just to be sure. He loves those.

  14. 14.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    That dog’s voice is exactly the way I imagined it would sound. The one saying “For fuck’s sake!”

    Edit: Wait, it’s a different video now?

    These are just going to change every five minutes, aren’t they. That could be fun.

  16. 16.

    Adam L Silverman

    @TaMara (HFG): Mine were sleeping. I’m now being assaulted by dog tails. They want attention. Going to have to move away from the keyboard as I’ve got two different doggie bellies to attend to!

  21. 21.

    debit

    I love the little wheezing noises. Luther used to snore just like that. Walter doesn’t snore, but he does dream really fast.

  23. 23.

    donnah

    Hee hee! Love the snores. Our longhair cat Fiona snores, squeaks, and has a growly stomach when she sleeps. Our gray cat Gracie is quite silent, though. And our little boy cat also sleeps without extra sounds.

  27. 27.

    Larkspur

    @Gelfling 545: I dog sit for two pugs from time to time and I swear they could successfully audition to provide the soundtrack to “The Walking Dead”. It’s awesome and yet endearing.

  28. 28.

    Mary G

    @debit: Walter YouTube channel! Has Walter and Ellie getting treats! Walter looks so good! SQQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

    ETA: Love the dreaming of running, my cat does that too.

  36. 36.

    fuckwit

    I have a cat question.

    I have recently acquired two kittens, 6 mos old. Both male, but one of them will “nurse” on the other. He insists on it. His brother seems to like it (purrs a lot).

    What is up with that?

    Just got them both fixed. The nursing thing hasn’t stopped.

  37. 37.

    Emerald

    @debit: Oh what great Walter videos! Hadn’t seen the treats and squirrel ones!
    Walter landed in doggie heaven, after all his trials.

  40. 40.

    Another Scott

    @fuckwit: Our previous dog, Colleen, would kinda “nurse” on her stuff animal toys – she’d stuff them in her mouth and slobber/bite on them for minutes at a time. She did it when she was bored/nervous/anxious.

    I assume your kitten misses his mom.

    I assume it’s no big deal, but the other kitten might get tired of it eventually.

    Maybe try distracting him with play of some sort?

    HTH a little.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  41. 41.

    debit

    @Mary G: I was looking at some pics when he first arrived and his coat is so much better. There are clip marks the vet left for me for Walter’s injections and within a week they’d already started filling in. If I had to guess, I’d say that now that his body isn’t in survival mode it can expend some energy for hair growth.

    @Steeplejack (tablet): There are pet beds all over the house but I swear half the time he sacks out on the floor.

  42. 42.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Baud: My 12 pound YorkiPom belches really loud after eating. I give the the girls treats before bed and she waits until she’s on the bed and right in my face before letting the belch out.

  44. 44.

    debit

    @fuckwit: I would guess they were taken away from their mother too early. I had a cat that “nursed” on a terry cloth bathrobe of mine and he was an adult. If the other cat doesn’t mind maybe it’s comforting to him as well.

  45. 45.

    Mary G

    @debit: Yes, in the treat video I wasn’t sure which one was Walter, they both looked so bright eyed and bushy tailed. Then he opened his mouth and I saw the “teefuses” and recognized him. You’ve done a great job rehabilitating him.

  47. 47.

    debit

    @Mary G: Thanks, but I’m just continuing what John started. No false modesty here, but John really started him off on the right foot and that made it easy for me to take over.

  50. 50.

    Mary G

    Mnem or another Hamilfan probably already posted this, but I hadn’t seen it. Sara Bareilles wrote a song called “Seriously” about what President Obama might say about the current election if he could speak his mind and Leslie Odum, Jr. sang a jazzy version for “This American Life.”

    First verses:

    Let’s start with hope
    I threw it in the middle like a skipping stone
    The ripples won, son of a gun
    Some would not have thought so
    But I stand here Commander in Chief
    And I take that seriously

    But along the way
    A rogue ripple turned tidal wave
    In reaction to what I tried to do
    A rebirth of a nation’s hatred
    Red, white and blue
    Is black in there too?
    Seriously?

    One man
    Rewriting the book on bad behavior
    Maybe cheats the neighbors
    Feels he gets what they pay for
    We can’t
    Pat him on the back and send him on through
    No man’s ignorance will ever be his virtue

    Is this the best we can be?
    Seriously?

  52. 52.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I wouldn’t bet the price of a happy hour bud light draft on it, but…

    ‏@ PpollingNumbers
    #BREAKING, #Alaska
    Clinton 47% (+4)
    Trump 43%
    Johnson 7%
    Stein 3%

  55. 55.

    Mnemosyne

    So if anyone has been watching this season of “American Horror Story,” it turns out that one of the nice romance-novel-writing old ladies in my RWA group is the one who plays the Butcher this season. She’s trying to figure out how to parlay this into more acting work.

  56. 56.

    WaterGirl

    @Mnemosyne: OT, but did you see my earlier comment on another thread about seeing 3 new christmas tree lines this year? In addition to the Douglas Fir something-something and all the other trees you can imagine, there was a Hamilton something-something, a Jefferson something-something and a Washington something-something.

    I laughed out loud and thought of you.

  57. 57.

    Mnemosyne

    @WaterGirl:

    I’m not surprised — everyone loves to name things after the Founding Fathers. I would be surprised if they were actually new. Now, if they’d added a Burr-model tree …

    When G was arranging his father’s funeral and burial a few years ago, they ended up getting the Monticello vault for his grave, which was a weird coincidence because, like Jefferson and Adams, G’s father died on the fourth of July.

  59. 59.

    Aleta

    That’s a beautiful look at Walter’s eyes in the treat video. M e l t.

    Inspired by Walter dreaming, I tried to find a clip of John Lithgow on 3rd Rock dreaming like a dog, but failed. It’s short and so good.
    From the same episode of dreams: Life Has Been Good to Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIa2QOTyJGw

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