Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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A Little Reminder That Good Things Still Happen and Make the World a Better Place

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So this happened earlier tonight (h/t: Josh Marshall’s twitter feed):

(FYI: This is Noni crashing in the apartment building hallway)

Enter good people (in addition to everyone offering to help out in all the replies to the tweets)!

Little things, small actions, make all the difference in the world. Sleep well Noni! And well done Sara Morrison, Carmen Rita, and Chandler for stepping up and making things just a little bit better!

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  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    That’s a nice story. Thank you for posting it, Adam. We need these reminders of goodness.

  2. 2.

    Sab

    Wow. We have two rescue dogs (now, since the others passed in the last two years) and three rescue cats (plus a fourth cat who is not a rescue but is a jerk). She looks so sweet. Thank goodness for you guys since old dogs are so hard to place.

  3. 3.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Sab: Just so you know, other than Marshall, who I know from reading his site, I have no idea who any of these people are. I just saw what was going on, that it ended well – thankfully, and thought we could use something uplifting. Because happy Cole isn’t so much uplifting as somewhat freaky…
    (We love you Cole!)

  5. 5.

    Mary G

    Yes, thank you Adam. It helps to be reminded that even though there is a small, sick, stupid man in the White House (or probably not, because it’s the weekend, he’s probably on the way to Mar-a-Loco or some other branded place), there are still many good and beautiful things and people in the world.

    Noni is ridiculously cute, too.

  6. 6.

    Yarrow

    Awww….what a great story. Thanks for posting. She looks so sweet. Those soulful eyes are amazing. She does look a little scared and, as they said, a little sad. I hope she settles into her new home and feels safe and loved. She deserves it.

  7. 7.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Compare and contrast with everyone in the Donald Crime Family and White House.

  9. 9.

    Sab

    @Adam L Silverman: I misspoke, you guys is actually those guys, but thanks for your post. So you don’t personally know all New York blog people when you live in Florida. I am so sad for you. And they know dogs.

  11. 11.

    Mary G

    @Villago Delenda Est: Yeah, when John found Walter, I said he was the anti-Trump, because I could just see Twitler marching through a building he got a great deal on, finding a lost, scared, abandoned dog, and kicking it before ordering a minion to throw it out on the street. Then making the minion take the subway back to the office, because he didn’t want fleas getting into the limo.

  16. 16.

    ms_canadada

    Awww…my youngest son and I just adopted a dog from a rescue in Oakville, ON Canada, who was in a shelter in Kentucky. He’s a 2 y.o. Beagle/Spaniel and we named him Fela Kuti.
    He’s a bundle of love and passion. After losing my Beagle boy, Scooter, who was a birthday present from my late husband, I knew I had to rescue another dog. IMO, dogs are sentient beings, with such faithful devotion and only add to my quality of life. My late husband used to say, “Life without music is stupid.” I’ve added, “Life without a dog is dumb.”

  19. 19.

    seaboogie

    Poor sweet pup – glad she has found humans who understand her sitch and who will care for her. Thank you for this sweet story, Adam.

  20. 20.

    Sab

    Re:Noni. NYC gets a bum rap (which they encourage for their street cred) but that poor bereft dog was certainly re-homed fast. In Ohio it would have taken days if not weeks.

  21. 21.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    more good news

    NG Control Room @ NGControlRoom
    National Grid can confirm that for the past 24 hours, it has supplied GB’s electricity demand without the need for #coal generation.

    Javier Blas‏Verified account
    Javier Blas Retweeted NG Control Room
    CONFIRMED: UK goes for a full day without burning #coal to generate #electricity for first time in 135 years #climatechange #renewables

  26. 26.

    efgoldman

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    UK goes for a full day without burning #coal to generate #electricity for first time in 135 years

    But Apricot Asswipe is gonna’ reopen those coal mines.
    He PROMised!
    I guess they’re gonna’ dig up the coal and rebury it to keep busy. Nobody’s gonna’ buy it.
    Of course, since their buddy Yertle McTurtle already croaked the miners’ pension and medical benefits, they’ll essentially be doing it for free.
    The American Way!!!! (cue Stars and Stripes)

  27. 27.

    Anne Laurie

    Thanks for posting this, Adam! Congratulations to Carmen & Chandler, and I hope they appreciate the very special bull terrier character… at 13, Noni has probably outgrown the most trying ‘toddler in a dog suit’ traits, but I hope her new people are prepared…

    (Bull terriers are my totem animal — for reasons that will be obvious to anyone who’s met me — but I’ve never lived with one and probably never will, because I know I don’t have the energy to keep up with that much creativity & willfulness.)

  28. 28.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Mnemosyne: She (Spuds) would understand. Or you could call it a Target Dog. Or Pete the Pup from Little Rascals. Or Bullseye from Oliver Twist. Or Meatball from Black Sheep Squadron.

  30. 30.

    Yarrow

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: What a bunch of job killers. How dare they create a lot of new jobs in the renewables industry and kill a handful of jobs in coal. Coal jobs are Real Jobs, along with factory work.

  31. 31.

    Anne Laurie

    @Baud:

    What breed is that?

    Bull terrier, or ‘English bull terrier’. Like the dogs in the Target ads.

    Roman-nosed, beady-eyed, shaped like a piano bench, and so pale they practically glow pink in the dark.

    Also self-willed, clownish, unusually pain-resistant, and generally a demanding housemate :)

  32. 32.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Anne Laurie: You’re welcome. Even though my Ruby doesn’t, as far as anyone knows, have any Bull & Terrier in her, because of the way she’s built and her personality, you’d be forgiven for thinking she did.

  33. 33.

    efgoldman

    @Anne Laurie:

    Bull terrier, or ‘English bull terrier’. Like the dogs in the Target ads.

    Hockey guy Don Cherry famously had one when he was the coach in Boston

  34. 34.

    Yarrow

    @Adam L Silverman: What do you plan to do with your dogs if you get a job that takes you overseas again? Or will that be a deal breaker?

    Edit: You’ve said you were in Iraq and I’d guess assignments like that wouldn’t allow you to bring your pets. Other places would, of course.

  35. 35.

    Anne Laurie

    @Mnemosyne:

    I would have called it a Spuds McKenzie dog, but that would have been showing my age.

    Target’s still using bull terriers as their spokesdog-models.

    Because this will amuse you: Just as the dogs in the Lassie tv show were always males, because boys had better coats, Budweisers’ Spuds McKenzie dogs were alway females, because the girls were more trainable. Ain’t that the way of the world — boys for show, girls for performance!

  37. 37.

    efgoldman

    @Anne Laurie:

    the dogs in the Lassie tv show were always males, because boys had better coats

    Yeah, but did any of them actually get the little whiny dweeb out of the well?
    (I hated that show, even in grade school)

  38. 38.

    Anne Laurie

    @TaMara (HFG): Who could resist a face like Lolly’s?

    (Fortunately, I’m on the wrong side of the country… and also, our accidental rescue Gloria, a 15lb Papillon-probably-border-collie mix, would resent to the death the introduction of another no-doubt-alpha female into “her” household… )

  39. 39.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Yarrow: When I deployed to Iraq my mother took care of the dogs for me. Both of those sweeties have now passed on. Should I have to be deployed for any extended period of time, the dogs will be at my Mom’s. Short temporary duty stints I get a dog sitter. One of the first things I do when I start a new assignment is identify a highly recommended professional dog sitter who will stay overnight at my place with the dogs if I have to go on temporary duty. For a week or two it’s fine. Anything longer and the dog’s go to Mom’s and then I go off and do what I have to do.

  41. 41.

    Felonius Monk

    I am happy that Noni has found a new home. However, the following story, which appeared in a local (upstate NY) publication is, IMO, far more amazing. And maybe shows that the world hasn’t entirely turned to shit.

    Lost cat: Rescuers of a white cat, dubbed “Dias,” found on
    the Greek island of Lesbos were happy to learn that cat had
    been reunited with its family. The real owners are a refugee
    family that left Iraq in a small boat. When they landed,
    they became separated from their pet, whose real name is
    Kunkush. Locals found the feline and, having heard a family
    had lost a pet, cared for the cat. After many postings on
    social media, Kunkush finally was reunited with the family,
    who had made their way to Norway, where they were living.
    Donations helped to pay for the cat’s transportation to its
    new home country.

  46. 46.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Yarrow: Yes and yes. I was very fortunate in the parent lottery. Though would it have killed them to have come with trust funds? Just saying…

  47. 47.

    efgoldman

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I have occasionally been known to throw a PhD level shit fit

    Given your experiences, I expect you’ve seen things and had to work with people that made you short tempered and worse

    Though would it have killed them to have come with trust funds? Just saying…

    Apparently you and I are the exceptions that prove the cliche.

  50. 50.

    seaboogie

    On my way to work today I saw an SUV with a German Shepherd head sticking up from the sun roof – dead center – and I laughed and clapped with joy. An hour later as I was opening the shop, my favorite golden strolled by – such a great doggie day!

  51. 51.

    Suzanne

    Just got home from my ceramics class. I glazed up nine items tonight. Mr. Suzanne’s birthday was earlier in the week, and I had ordered him the Nintendo Switch bundle. It took me a few weeks of searching before I was able to procure one. It was delivered today (it arrived two days after his birthday, damnit), but he is already enjoying the new Zelda game.

    I am still having a really hard time with this sinus infection, so I think I am going to skip the March for Science tomorrow. It’s going to be hot tomorrow (right around 100 degrees) and the pollen count is just ridiculous right now. I have been working really hard for the past few weeks even though I haven’t been feeling great, and I think it is finally catching up with me and I should treat myself better.

  53. 53.

    efgoldman

    @Suzanne:

    It’s going to be hot tomorrow (right around 100 degrees) and the pollen count is just ridiculous right now.

    People used to move to your part of the country to get away from the pollen.
    We humans really do fuck up everything we touch, don’t we.

  54. 54.

    Suzanne

    @efgoldman: Well, that was really only for TB, because the dry air was helpful. There’s a few old sanitoria around here. But the desert brings its own breathing issues, especially dust and mold. Valley fever is a mofo. It killed my grandfather. It’s not nice.

  55. 55.

    Mnemosyne

    Finally got around to watching the last episode of Lucy Worsley’s BBC documentary “A Very British Romance.” I thought Worsley’s insistence on dressing up as various literary heroines to be a little weird, but it actually comes to a very satisfactory (and romantic!) ending that would really piss off the American right wing. So, overall, I say it was a B+. IIRC, it was MikeJ who initially recommended it.

    Oh, and for any other Regency Era fans, the forbidden episode two of her “Elegance & Decadence” series magically showed up with a working soundtrack. I don’t know for how long, though!

  58. 58.

    efgoldman

    @Suzanne:

    especially dust and mold. Valley fever is a mofo.

    Ah. To me, “pollen” is the two big, beautiful sugar maples in my front yard, and the really big red maple next door, that are just budding, and will literally turn my dark blue and dark green cars yellow with pollen around the middle of next month.
    The oaks across the street, also too.
    And mrs efg’s lilacs, around the first week in June if not sooner.

  59. 59.

    efgoldman

    @Mnemosyne:

    I ended up in moderation and can’t figure out why.

    Probably referenced a certain show one time too many for FYWP to accept it.

  60. 60.

    Mnemosyne

    @opiejeanne:

    I’m mostly a cat person, but herding-type dogs really like me, and I like them. I used to dog-sit for a friend’s sheltie in college, and I once went to an acquaintance’s house where one of his border collies decided that she needed to jump up and lay down in my lap as soon as I sat down.

    Maybe they sense the ADHD and that I might need some extra help getting from place to place.
    ;-)

  61. 61.

    Suzanne

    @efgoldman: If you visit the Sonoran Desert in the spring, you will see heaps of yellow stuff pouring off the palo verde trees as you sit there and watch. All of which is beautiful, and all of which causes my sinuses to flip their shit. Due to a relatively wet winter (likely thanks to climate change), the pollen count is three times higher than it was last year at this time.

    But I can deal with a sinus infection. I cannot deal with valley fever.

  64. 64.

    Mnemosyne

    @Suzanne:

    My ex-sister-in-law’s mother really loved Nevada and planned to retire there, but she discovered after they moved that she’s horribly allergic to desert plants. That kinda sucked.

  65. 65.

    opiejeanne

    @Major Major Major Major: Not me, but I love most of his books. i highly recommend Old Man’s War. It’s a stand-alone but also part of a series.

    I just finished his latest book and it’s part one of a longer series, and dammit it was too short and I want more so I’m probably going to reread the Old Man’s War series. One of the best books of the set is Human Division but the final book, The End of All Things is excellent too.

  66. 66.

    opiejeanne

    @efgoldman: The Seattle area turns our cars yellow too, but so do the pine trees in the SoCal mountains. It was gorgeous today, 65 and sunny, and we worked outside for several hours. The cherry trees are blooming furiously but when my DH mowed the lawn my sinuses went nuts even though I was inside and all of the windows were closed. Flonase is my savior these days.

  67. 67.

    Suzanne

    @Mnemosyne: I developed allergies about 20 years ago. Apparently, if you live here long enough, most people develop them. That is, if you’re white. My ENT doc says that Native and Latinx people do well with this climate, but white people are allergic to it. He suggested that I move to Malibu.

  68. 68.

    Ruckus

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:
    They did! But they had these things called curtains that you’d pull back so you could see the picture. Where he lives for about 4 months of the year all you’d see was snow.

  69. 69.

    opiejeanne

    @Mnemosyne: We transported an elderly corgi over the Canadian border to a new home a few years ago. She had all of her papers but we joked that we were corgi smugglers to our kids and they half believed us.
    Dog’s owner was elderly, going into a home of some sort and her sons were going to just dump the dog at a shelter with a bad kill record. The lady who runs the goat rescue farm (this is Washington) bumped into the woman’s daughter who begged her to take the dog so it wouldn’t be put down. The dog was a sweetie, behaved herself admirably, we had no problem crossing into Canada and had lunch at a place that used to belong to Al Capone. During Prohibition it had a tunnel that ran under the border and ended in the woods, for smuggling booze.

  76. 76.

    Suzanne

    @opiejeanne: I asked if my insurance would cover it, if he wrote me a note. No deal, sadly.

    I never had trouble when I lived on Long Island, though. Maybe there’s something to that theory. Maybe that’s who I love gray, shitty weather.

  78. 78.

    opiejeanne

    @Mnemosyne: What with everyone xeriscaping. Or just letting their gardens die.

    I’m bitter. My house in Anaheim is on the market for the second time since we sold in 2010 and the garden is gone. Everything is dead, the roses are all torn out. I’m so pissed. Who does that? Who doesn’t bother to water the apple and peach trees?

  79. 79.

    Mnemosyne

    @opiejeanne:

    When my parents built the house I grew up in from about age 10, my mom hand-chose and hand-stained the cedar planks that made up the siding, and it was a large ranch-style house.

    One of the subsequent owners painted it all gray.

    She can’t even drive past it because it makes her sick to her stomach. ?

  80. 80.

    opiejeanne

    @Mnemosyne: I feel that way about the Anaheim house as well as the one at the corner of 5th and Redwood in Riverside. There were 200 rosebushes around the foundation of the house and lining the front walk. All gone now. They repainted that shingle Arts & Crafts house gray. GRAY! Dammit, it was Mulberry Silk and it was gorgeous, with cream trim and dark teal sashes. They even tore out the Cecile Bruner on the dining room porch and it was one of the oldest in town with a trunk like a small tree. Then they caged the porch with wrought iron. They tore out the original Batchelder & Rookwood tiles on the fireplace, replaced it with boring black marble.
    People are stupid.

  81. 81.

    mai naem mobile

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: the BBC had that in its headlines and the last sentence in the piece was something like ‘coal produced energy is the most polluting of energy production.’ I don’t think a US media outlet would have said that to avoid pushback from global warming deniers.
    BTW I was driving on the freeway the other day and saw a Ford Expedition with a bumper sticker ‘global warmer.’ Surprisingly, there was no Dolt 45 bumper sticker to go along with the Global Warmer sticker.

  82. 82.

    Mary G

    @Major Major Major Major: Redshirts comes with the bonus that it won the Hugo Award, causing all the rightwingers who hate Scalzi to start the Sad Puppy movement. (Or at least partly, they also hated a story called If you were a dinosaur, my love.

  83. 83.

    Elizabelle

    Sweet story about Noni. I hope she has a good life with her new people. I wonder if she will miss seeing the dogs and sights she was used to, on walkabouts with her previous human.

  84. 84.

    Elizabelle

    A tale of two headlines, up at this hour:

    TOP STORY on Fuck the Fucking Fascist-Enabling New York Times:

    Attack in Paris Casts a Shadow as France’s Election Nears

    The attack by a French national with a history of violence, which left one police officer dead on the Champs-Élysées, may influence Sunday’s vote.

    Meanwhile, halfway through the list of top stories on WaPost:

    Paris officials identify small-time crook as gunman apparently inspired by ISIS

    Karim Cheurfi, a 39-year-old of Algerian descent who was born in the Paris suburbs, was identified as the gunman in the deadly attack on police officers. [One death, let’s keep it in perspective, please.] President [gag!] Trump predicted the assault would boost the candidacy of Marine Le Pen before Sunday’s presidential vote.

    WaPost: gunman’s smalltime, and Trump is being opportunistic. Also, hedging with the “apparent.” They learned something from covering the Orlando Pulse nightclub shootings.

    FTFFENYT: Fucking “Shadows” again! We know what that means! Shadow is all that encased our Democratic nominee.

    But they did inform that attack killed one, count him, one policeman. Which is sad and tragic, but not the Bataclan.

  85. 85.

    ThresherK

    @Mary G: It’s on my list to read. There’s also a theme song (yes, for a book) by Jonathan Coulton which seems the perfect accompaniment in tone.

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Nah, they had TV when he was in grade school. Not saying when, but the biggest star was nicknamed Nephew Miltie then.

  86. 86.

    debit

    I saw this last night. Say what you will about Keith Olbermann, he always signals boosts lost pet/pet in need announcements. Supposedly he was not a dog person, then met someone who was, and now has his own pup. He also, IIRC, supports his local shelter and fosters.

  87. 87.

    Dean

    Oh my gosh, I know Chandler! Great guy, not surprised he would do this. But crazy to see w real world friend on this site that I have been lurking on for over a decade.

  89. 89.

    Ella in New Mexico

    @Adam L Silverman: Thanks for the update! I saw the first parts of this story yesterday on Josh Marshall’s feed, but never saw the follow-up stories. So happy this poor baby has a loving home now. It broke my heart she was sleeping by herself in the hallway of their apartment building after such a loss.

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