Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let there be snark.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

We still have time to mess this up!

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

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

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

Giving up is unforgivable.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

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You can hear Mom Cat saying, Of course he’s adopted, but we love him like our own.

Current mood:

Or maybe…

Scholarship!

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    BREAKING: DeSantis signs law to prohibit cats from raising dogs, calls practice “woke.”

  2. 2.

    cope

    Something good?  Our new Breezair evaporative whole-house cooler is just about installed, the test run is happening as I type.  Just in time for the upcoming desert heat of western Colorado.  You know what, I’m going out on a limb so far as to say that this is GREAT news.

  6. 6.

    Dan B

    Cat momma cleaning cute puppy is a squee moment.

    It’s a perfect day in Seattle after a couple overcast days.  65° or so.

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    TheOtherHank

    I feel like reaching toward the “It has been X days since I smacked someone” sign to update the number would result in getting smacked.

  10. 10.

    Geminid

    One nice thing I encountered while researching Turkish politics was a long Twitter thread about the cats of Istanbul. They’ve been regarded as respected members of the community for generations.

  13. 13.

    UncleEbeneezer

    At a quick glance I thought this was gonna be a post about the Met Gala!

    We were expecting a large number of tributes to Karl Lagerfeld at Monday’s Met Gala in New York. What we weren’t expecting was to see quite so many tributes to his cat.

  20. 20.

    UncleEbeneezer

    BREAKING: Scavino testified all day today. That’s number four of the Ocha Nostra (Meadows, Cuccinelli, Scavino, Luna, McEntee, Miller, O’Brien, and Ratcliffe.)

    Michael Popok and Ben Meiselas both agreed on LegalAF podcast that Meadows will likely be the last person to testify since he is the most central figure who was coordinating everything, at least on 1/6-related stuff.

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    C Stars

    Funny pet story of the day. We had the plumbers over today to replace our toilets, and they staged everything for the upstairs bathroom in the exact spot where our house rabbit usually chills. It’s a sort of passageway between the livingroom, bedroom, and bathroom, where he can keep an eye on all the comings and goings. We usually have a cushion and a water dish for him there and he often spends part of the night there when he’s not on our bed. Anyway, the plumbers setting down all their stuff in that spot made our normally timid rabbit very territorial, and he spent the whole time trying to get underfoot of these two huge plumbers. One 4 lb bunny vs. two 250 lb. plumbers with steel toed boots. He kept running up and nipping their ankles, trying to move the cardboard boxes with the new toilets (funny), and I finally had to corner him under the couch and guard him because every few minutes he would try to sneak back and terrorize the plumbers! It was both cute and disturbing.

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    different-church-lady

    Cats are just like people: they’re all alike, and they’re all different.

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    C Stars

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Yes, I think they were a little shocked by how aggressive he was. I think it was also not ideal working conditions, moving around toilet parts with a tiny bunny trying to interfere with your work.

  36. 36.

    Scout211

    Tuesday, May 9th, Frontline focuses on Clarence and Ginni Thomas.

    Since their ethical issues have been exposed more recently, I’m not sure if this will be all that hard-hitting.  But I will set the DVR, just in case.

    CLARENCE AND GINNI THOMAS Politics, Power and the Supreme Court

    As controversy erupts around Clarence and Ginni Thomas, FRONTLINE tells the inside story of their path to power. This investigation from veteran filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team traces how race, power and controversy collide in the rise of the Supreme Court justice and his wife and how the couple has reshaped American law and politics.

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    C Stars

    @Benw: That actually looks really good. I’ve never liked pasta fagioli–too bland and mushy (maybe I just haven’t had it made well). But this seems like an interesting twist.

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    bbleh

    @Jackie: @Baud: Texas outlaws veterinarians providing care to cats who raise puppies.  Idaho passes “fugitive cat act” criminalizing any assistance to cats who raise puppies or who try to leave the state with a puppy. South Carolina bans all books in which cats and dogs appear together in a way that might suggest cohabitation.

    That this sh!t practically writes itself probably is not an entirely good thing.

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    Question for the wimmenfolk.

    Found a cute T-shirt on Amazon would like to send for Mother’s Day but unsure about the size.

    She’s 95 years old, probably down to 5’3″ by now (guessing), average weight and bust for her size. I’m thinking women’s Medium? Better too loose than too snug.

  47. 47.

    Narya

    @C Stars: the trick is making a good bean stew, basically, and cooking the pasta separately. I can tell you how I make mine if you want.

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    NotMax

    @buggrit

    Thanks. There is, kind of (waist and bust size the only things listed) but as I don’t know her measurements, of no aid.

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    Anne Laurie

    @NotMax: Order the medium, tell your mom she can return it if she wants a different size.  (Some women like ‘cute’ tshirts to sleep in, so possibly she might even choose to size up!)

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    Paul in KY

    @C Stars: How do you deal with the poop problem? My understanding is that rabbits generally crap about once every 5 minutes. Is he/she housebroken or do you just locate them and trash them?

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