I got nothing. Here’s a picture of my godson’s dog, Petunia:
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
This chaos was totally avoidable.
The National Guard is not Batman.
This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.
Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.
Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.
Fucking consultants! (of the political variety)
Everybody saw this coming.
Tick tock motherfuckers!
Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.
So many bastards, so little time.
Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?
People are complicated. Love is not.
Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!
If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.
I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.
Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.
Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.
Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.
The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.
Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.
Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.
“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”
He really is that stupid.
Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!
Elizabelle
Petunia’s got Thurston’s concerned face going.
debit
Petunia is now my spirit animal.
kindness
Do you get pics of the Western kid? Hope so. Animal shots are always great but especially soothing now.
Elizabelle
@debit: Lovely to see you. Do you have any dogs at the moment? Enjoyed seeing your name, and thinking of beloved Walter.
CaseyL
Is Petunia a French bulldog? She seems to have the outsized ears. But I haven’t seen them in that color coat before: it’s gorgeous. (I particularly like the cleft eyebrows. They give her a winsome look.)
debit
@Elizabelle: Thank you! I pop by from time to time but have a regrettable lack of tolerance these days and tend toward bitchiness.
No dogs at the moment. I love seniors and am glad I can give them a soft landing for their final years, but it’s hard to always be saying goodbye.
Jeffro
Second half of the summer coming up, peeps! It’ll be hot (duh) but there’s so much good stuff to enjoy about July and August! Keep it light and have a great weekend. =)
Spanky
@debit:
You may have noticed that you’re not alone in this. Stick around.
Lapassionara
If anyone has a Xitter account and can link to a really good David Roberts screed, it is worth a look. I do not know how, so I apologize for my technical ineptness.
Anoniminous
Why newspapers are doing what they are doing:
Newspaper readership by age
Newspaper readership by ideology
Newspaper revenu decline
they’re pandering to their customers.
As the saying goes, “we know what you are, now we’re just arguing over the price.”
Mai Naem mobile
It’s 117 degrees in Phoenix today and supposed to be around that for the next few days. We are supposed to hit some record. It’s a dry heat and the 117 isn’t that bad for a few hours but it’s the lows in the morning which are in the 90s so you never get a break.
Scout211
@Mai Naem mobile: Ugh!
The western states are baking right now. Today was “only” 109 here in NorCal but tomorrow promises to be 113.
It’s too damn hot. I’m looking forward to Tuesday when it’s supposed to be down to 100.
Redshift
@Mai Naem mobile: No dry heat here. Northern Virginia was 98/”feels like” 111 today (or 108 depending on which service I looked at). I didn’t spend much time outdoors.
Spanky
It’s down to 86 here near the Chesapeake Bay, but the dew point is 76 and it ain’t going nowhere.
debit
@Redshift: Ugh. I wouldn’t even be able to leave the house. I hope your AC stays robust.
Kelly
High 90’s in Oregon’s Cascade foothills to low 100’s in the Willamette Valley. Not record breaking high temps but likely to last for a week be a record breaking duration. Cooling to mid 60’s at night which helps a lot.
FlyingToaster
@Anoniminous:
It’s not just newspapers; it’s every “official journalist”.
Two of my favorite local weatherfolx (The Noyes, up heah in Bwahstin) had been running the numbers, and started up their own online weather service. They noticed that the viewership was steadily decreasing, and there is, ahem, “pressure” at Channel 10/NECN to do something to increase viewership.
One of them left the TV station they both worked for, the other went to weekends only. Their site/app is a decent competitor to WeatherUnderground and the defunct DarkSky. And I check it multiple times a day; NECN, rare mornings; NBC10 — never.
1degreeoutside.com/
If nobody is consuming what you’re producing, you should expect to go out of business.
AWJ
My YouTube feed is suddenly flooded with new videos from the Biden campaign (new as in just uploaded today).
different-church-lady
@FlyingToaster: Television news is awful and needs to die.
On the other hand, as a news source social media is even worse.
bbleh
Sources close to Petunia report that her evident concern is clearly about Biden’s neurological something something, and the White House’s lack of response to Petunia’s concerns have only heightened something something …
It’s got to the point that I’m just not reading the papers or the political blogs, and … it’s kind of liberating.
Jackie
@Kelly: Same here in southeastern WA. At least a week of 100 plus, starting tomorrow (today topped out at a measly 99,) with Tues and Wed hitting 111 and 110. 🥵
O. Felix Culpa
Cute doggo. I want.
FlyingToaster
@different-church-lady:
I’ve been getting my “local” news from Universal Hub. Mind you, Adam is an actual journalist who got laid off from one of the tech mags and set up the site decades ago. He’s certainly faster at reporting today’s shootings than anybody else. He also reports all of the fun “car drove onto the T Tracks” info that is vital for commuters.
rikyrah
Petunia is adorable 🥰 🥰 🥰
rikyrah
The Biden Accomplishments Guy (@What46HasDone) posted at 7:56 PM on Fri, Jul 05, 2024:
You can tell the interview went well because the Op-ed seditionists are all quiet or mumbling to themselves, while the right is busy trying to manufacturer a fake medical emergency conspiracy.
(x.com/What46HasDone/status/1809390846787137995?t=uDlucu51uOi1KvuVR-a67Q&s=03)
RaflW
Watching an absolutely stunning sunset here in SE Wisconsin (bsky link, sorry I guess it’s not viewable if not logged in?).
I won’t gloat, because I know it can whiplash and get hot and steamy as heck here, but, I have the sliding doors open and an approximately 70 degree very gentle breeze is wafting in. We did have a few brief rain showers today & yesterday (and an inch of rain fell overnight w/ thunder). The absolute glory days of summer, and I am very very grateful.
Jay
@bbleh:
Coming up next, Commander with a rebuttal,……
different-church-lady
@FlyingToaster: Adam fills a niche nicely and I admire what he does. But it’s no replacement for a full-fledged news source.
And sometimes I think of UHub as the place I go to get my heart broken on a regular basis, because it’s always filled with news about my favorite places or the 110 year old corner market going out of business.
BR
@rikyrah:
Time to turn the tables and hammer them.
Also hammer all Dem elected officials to get on board. I’m going to call mine every day for the next week. Senators, Rep, Gov, etc.
Elizabelle
@debit: we have some new trolls you can open both barrels on. Speaking now of nobler creatures, I am sure a gracious senior dog in need of care will arrive before too long.
BR
As I wrote to Josh Marshall (who has been strangely buying the media narrative on this), who elected the nepo baby NYT chief? The NYT has hated every Dem nominee for ages. This blog coined “Good News for John McCain” thanks to them in 2008, and they were no better in any other campaign.
Biden should say “I’ll do an interview with the NYT once they’re a worker-owned union shop, not before.”
rikyrah
Jorge Caballero, MD (@DataDrivenMD) posted at 6:37 PM on Fri, Jul 05, 2024:
Since Biden’s sit down interview isn’t the disaster Trump-adjacent journalists and pundits needed to keep the clickbait factory going they’re moving the goal posts to: “he should have done this earlier” and “this doesn’t prove a thing”
It’s “but her emails” all over again
(x.com/DataDrivenMD/status/1809371167519830107?t=iEHHJyTxKPaw2vp0WPTuPg&s=03)
different-church-lady
@rikyrah: That’s silly. The goalposts were always at “this doesn’t prove a thing.”
O. Felix Culpa
@different-church-lady:
QFT. Which is why we should ignore the bastards and just get on with business.
FlyingToaster
@different-church-lady:
Or the Red Pickup slamming into the front of Jana Grill opposite Watertown Yard. WTAF?
I’m afraid that right now, we’re in for further balkanization of news sources; the corporate media is in a death spiral and the people who’ve been pushed out are having to go it alone.
different-church-lady
@FlyingToaster: Oh, yeah. Soooo many of his posts make me want to just hold my head in my hands and moan, ‘WHHHHHHHYYYYY ARE THERE SO MANY CRAZY PEOPLE?”
moonbat
Well, it might be amusing in an end of the world as we know it kind of way to watch these fascist curious journos twist themselves into knots arguing that this face-to-face, sit down, unscripted, no notes interview was somehow insufficient.
trollhattan
@Kelly:
Not happy where AC is rare.
108 here about an hour ago, but I’m breaking out the parkas because it’s plunged to 102. Staring at triple digits for the next eight days, min.
MagdaInBlack
@rikyrah: On a nitter thread I saw a comment about a medical emergency . Came from Jack Prosobiec, an alt-right “activist” scumbag podcaster. So lets see how long it takes our mainstream media to latch on to that one.
different-church-lady
@MagdaInBlack:
Damn, I already blinked.
BeautifulPlumage
I want to provide a new narrative:
Given the recent Heritage calls for lawsuits if Biden is not the candidate, and their recent threat that “their” revolution would “remain bloodless…” as long as they win, that they are directly threatening our current president with assassination. They can bluster and moan all they want, but they have made clear implied threats and believe they have the means to do it.
Let’s put Heritage and their minions on the defense for their remarks.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@different-church-lady: Unless the interview was bad and proved their storyline.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Well, since this an open thread, the team on at work, we Engineering Technicians were told we are irreplaceable and upper management is in the middle of Thunder-Dome Death Match over who manages us (going by the layoffs, there are easily dozen fired senior level VPs who have lost the battle and been drug out on their feet and fired, meanwhile, we lowly techs all got 20% raises, apparently the spoils from the fallen’s executive salaries)
I’ve been told by friends in management this means I will never be laid off, but never promoted. Since “promotion” means a management position, that’s fine for me. Still, it is a quite curious position to be in. And no, they can’t automate us out of existence, they spent thirty years attempting that before they gave up. See AI art as to why it didn’t work. However, it’s a side of capitalism I never expected see.
mrmoshpotato
Actually saw some fireworks from one of my sister’s neighbors tonight (showers of sparks things in the air) instead of just hearing explosions. That was nice.
NotMax
@Scout211
Paging Ms Miller, Ms Ann Miller.
;)
NotMax
Oh fudge. Fix
@Scout211
Paging Ms Miller, Ann Miller.
NotMax
@different-church-lady
The more we bandy this around here the more we’re doing the Republicans work for them.
Just give it a rest, people.
Chris T.
@Scout211: It’s the July heat dome; the June one was over the east coast.
Wait until the August heat dome. And then the second August heat dome. And the September one, and the November one…