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Tick tock motherfuckers!

Peak wingnut was a lie.

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

Usually wrong but never in doubt

An almost top 10,000 blog!

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

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

We still have time to mess this up!

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

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

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

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

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

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  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Cute! When did they hatch? (You may have said previously, but I either missed it or forgot.)

  3. 3.

    trollhattan

    Awww, li’l floofy birdies! Hope mom and dad* have great success.
    *Assuming dad hasn’t shackednested up with another female birdie already. You know, men.

  4. 4.

    ruemara

    I am filling out my citizenship application & wondering if the back taxes I owe should be paid off before I file – which wouldn’t be possible before my green card needs renewal – or if the fact that I’m very much a reliable, disciplined payer is in my favor. Also, HA! because it asks if I was a ever a Nazi and this whole goddamned administration is American Third Reich. These questions are incredible. It asks if I was ever a prostitute or procured for prostitution. I’ve been in advertising and that is more hoeing than honest, hardworking sex workers. And Donald Trump would fail these questions.

    Edited to add that I am also concerned because the parents are pushing me to do this now & have promised to pay. I’ve had them live up to a promise exactly twice in my life. IDK if I should get this started if they might weasel out.

  6. 6.

    Another Scott

    @ruemara: Thank you for taking the trouble to join the rest of us Americans. We need more people like you – especially these days!!

    Best of luck.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  7. 7.

    The Fat Kate Middleton

    So, yes, I count five, as well – but I can’t determine what kind they are. Robins?

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne

    @ruemara:

    It’s worth doing even if they back out at the last minute. Us jackals could probably find you an immigration lawyer willing to work cheap if worse comes to worst.

  11. 11.

    Gvg

    @ruemara: you need expert advice on how it works. Not sure we have the exact experts but if possible I think you need to find a good specialist lawyer and have a consulting session with him. I hope just a basic session won’t cost too much. Real numbers would help you plan.
    Maybe there is a local support group of advocates and even others who did it recently?

  12. 12.

    ruemara

    @Mnemosyne: Oh, the housemate is actor, archeologist & lawyer. He said he will provide assistance if necessary and he has people he can ask questions to. It’s the scratch that’ll be an obstacle.

  13. 13.

    opiejeanne

    @The Fat Kate Middleton: The eggs looked remarkably like some we were watching in a tall 40″ ceramic planter on our deck last spring. The parents were little house finches.

    One morning, the day after the third egg was laid, they were gone and there was no evidence of anything climbing the post next to the planter and no other easy access so we think the crows got the eggs. .

  15. 15.

    dmsilev

    So, I was at a concert this afternoon (LA Philharmonic, very nice) and was flipping through the leaflet of upcoming events and found this:

    BÉDARD: Toccata
    VIERNE: “Clair de lune” from Pièces de fantaisie, Suite No. 2, Op. 53, No. 5
    BACH: Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544
    PIAZZOLLA: Oblivion
    VIERNE: “Carillon de Westminster” from Pièces de fantaisie, Suite No. 3, Op. 54, No. 6
    Intermission
    DURUFLÉ: Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain, Op. 7
    MERCURY, arr Olivera: Bohemian Rhapsody

    Let’s play ‘one of these is not like the others…’.

  16. 16.

    pat

    @dmsilev:i
    I actually had to read this three times to find “sur le nom d’Alain” and that is the only thing that stands out to me in that list.

    Who the heck is Durefle??

  17. 17.

    dmsilev

    @pat: Check the last entry on the list. Freddy Mercury’s Bohemian Rhapsody, arranged for concert organ.

  24. 24.

    Jager

    We have three hanging planters on our porch, last year a pair of California Song Sparrows, built a nest in the center planter, we watered carefully with a sprayer, three eggs in the nest, they hatched, we could hear them peeping and the parents were frantically feeding the baby birds. One day while the mom and dad were out getting food, Mrs J saw our local brown hawk, he (i’m assuming its sex) flew to the 2nd level of the porch, then swooped in and ate the baby birds one by one while the song sparrows watched from one of the oaks, they were frantic, the hawk could have cared less. We have the nest, the inside is lined with Anze the Dog’s hair. It was kind of traumatic. This year we’ve discouraged the birds from building in the hanging plants by moving them around and getting into their faces while they are contemplating a nesting spot.

  30. 30.

    opiejeanne

    @Jager: I hadn’t considered a hawk being the villain of our own wee birdie tragedy; we don’t see many hawks here, just bald eagles and rarely over our property. Whatever it was it left the nest in tact and must have taken the eggs whole because there was not a bit of shell left behind.

    Also, we saw one of the dastardly bastard crows steal a baby bunny from its mother, probably on its first trip out of the nest. That was really tragic, hearing the mother rabbit and the baby screaming, and even the squirrels were swearing.

  36. 36.

    Aleta

    Salamishah Tillet (@salamishah) is an associate professor of English and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a co-founder of A Long Walk Home, a nonprofit group that uses art to empower young people and end violence against girls and women.

    …
    Through a series of thoughtfully curated and expertly executed performances, the world came to see Ms. Markle as she wants to be seen and, arguably, has always seen herself.
    …
    Much has already been made of Bishop Michael Bruce Curry, the first African-American head of the Episcopal Church, who embraced the soaring rhetoric and improvisational splendor of the African-American sermonic tradition in his invocation. And the 19-year-old cello soloist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the first black musician to win the BBC’s Young Musician of the Year Award in its 40-year history, gave a spellbinding, virtuoso performance that gently reminded us of the long history and thriving present of black classical musicians.

    But, for me, it was the awesome power of the Kingdom Choir — the Christian gospel group from southeast London — and its leader, the renowned gospel singer Karen Gibson that captivated me. They did not simply give us a rollicking rendition of Ben E. King’s “Stand by Me,” but rather showcased the sheer breadth of a trans-Atlantic black identity. Against the muted tones of their beige and mauve clothing, the various hues of their brown complexions, the complexity of their hairstyles (ranging from twists to cornrows to straightened hair) and their facile use of the African-American songbook stood out even more.

    Rather than bifurcate race, they offered up a bicultural blackness, one that bridged Ms. Ragland’s and Ms. Markle’s African-American identities with the black British identity that Ms. Markle is about to enter. Such an act of unity cannot ameliorate the ongoing racial hostility that black Britons, particularly the “Windrush generation” — that wave of Caribbean immigrants who migrated to Britain from colonies between 1948 to 1971 — now face as a result of Prime Minister Theresa May’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies.

    Against that backdrop, the inclusion of Kingdom Choir, who hail from South East London, took on an even greater significance: For many of them are likely the children of this “Windrush generation” and, in this ceremony, recognized as both fully British and unapologetically black.
    …
    Whether or not Prince Harry and Ms. Markle will feel comfortable speaking about matters of race going forward remains to be seen. But I take some comfort in knowing that when they walked out of the chapel to Etta James’s “Amen/This Little Light Of Mine” — the second song, a standard of the Civil Rights movement — they claimed their union as an extension of these racial justice traditions.

    In the end, the most significant celebration of racial and gender identity was completely unscripted. As the newlyweds left Windsor Castle, my friends and I rejoiced at another sound we immediately recognized: Interspersed among the crowd’s gleeful cheers, there was a cacophony of black women offering up another song — ululations recognized as congratulatory greetings throughout the African diaspora — to welcome Ms. Markle and her new husband home.

  37. 37.

    Mnemosyne

    @Aleta:

    As the newlyweds left Windsor Castle, my friends and I rejoiced at another sound we immediately recognized: Interspersed among the crowd’s gleeful cheers, there was a cacophony of black women offering up another song — ululations recognized as congratulatory greetings throughout the African diaspora — to welcome Ms. Markle and her new husband home.

    I heard those — they came from the crowd on the small lawn that was directly in front of the church doors, which I heard was a crowd of charity workers who got the special seating for that reason. The UK has also had a pretty large influx of African immigrants, as represented in popular culture by people like Idris Elba and Chiewitel Ejiofor (and, like, half the cast of Black Panther, many of whom are the Black British children of African immigrants).

  39. 39.

    Cookie monster

    @ruemara: As someone who navigated the whole marriage/greencard/citizenship thing personally, and without a lawyer, I do know that USCIS is a huge amount of discretionary power on applications.

    One of the problems with this is to some degree it depends who you get and what kind of day they are having.

    If you do go ahead now, be prepared to lose your application fees should it go badly, I guess.

  40. 40.

    joel hanes

    crows are bloody-minded

    Cole could feed those baby birds by feeding their parents a small tray of high-quality cracked safflower, black sunflower, and niger “finch mix”. on a post or hung from a tree clearly out of Steve’s range.

    I’m at my Mom’s; she feeds and waters birds.
    At breakfast-time this morning she had at the feeders and at the bird-bath northern orioles, ruby-throated hummingbirds, rose-breasted grosbeaks, house finches, white-crowned sparrows, chipping sparrows, fox sparrows, other sparrows I don’t know, blue jay, song sparrows, red-winged blackbirds, starlings, goldfinches, purple grackles, red-breasted, downy and red-headed woodpeckers. The winter cardinals and juncos and nuthatches all went north. We’ll go out tomorrow to check the bluebird houses.
    Robins and cedar waxwings and catbirds call from the trees, but don’t feed, don’t even use the birdbath.
    On the way into town I stopped and watched four wild turkeys cross the road; the old tom appears to have a broken tailfeather trailing aft, or maybe it’s a wing primary. Geese and mallards are flying along the streams.
    ——-
    The world is so full of a number of things
    That I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings

  41. 41.

    Patricia Kayden

    @ruemara: If you’re on a payment plan and have been paying on a regular basis, you should be okay. I know that immigration attorneys are expensive but perhaps consulting with one just about this issue will be worth it for you.

  42. 42.

    J R in WV

    @ruemara:

    You could do a gofundme via this blog. We’ve had less distinguished commenters raise funds for an important thing. I would certainly support your citizenship, it looks like both a good investment for America and for friends of Rumara. Even if we sometimes fuss about wording, we never fuss about core values!

    Think about it anyhoo. And best of luck regardless, we’ll all cheer you on!!

  43. 43.

    evodevo

    @opiejeanne: Could quite well have been a black rat (or other)snake – they will climb trees to get to nests, though they are usually interested in babies rather than eggs…

  44. 44.

    DSC

    @Jager: Simple solution: go to your local hardware or home improvement center and buy a big enough piece of chicken wire to create a “globe” to fit around the planter. Little birds in, big birds thwarted. We do this with our feeders to thwart determined cats.

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