Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

In after Baud. Damn.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Republicans don’t trust women.

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

People are complicated. Love is not.

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

He really is that stupid.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

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  4. 4.

    Almost Retired

    Good to hear.  All my best wishes.  Sucks to have so many people dependent on you.  But abandoning them is not an alternative.  I know you know you are doing the right thing, but fucking fucking fuck, sometimes doing the right thing is just exhausting.

  6. 6.

    Jackie

    Have a great nights sleep; tomorrow/Monday will be hectic. Make sure your battery is100% charged for coping with tomorrow.

    Also, great news that Papa Cole’s doing ok!

  10. 10.

    Greg Ferguson

    Very, very best wishes for Joelle this morning (we’re all in the same time zone….), and thanks for the Dad saga/outlook. Anyone who could father you is a tough SOB.
    And yeah, wait for later to crash. Love you guys.

  12. 12.

    Geminid

    Syrian kids should back in school today, for the second day in a row. They shut down when the civil war heated up end of November, but now the country is peaceful enough school can resume. The new government has a lot more rebuilding to do but the reopening schools is tangible progress and demonstrates stability.

    Yesterday HTS leader Mohammed Al-Jolani delivered remarks about where Syria is at now and how the new interim government intends move forward. I expect this will be big news and will be covered in detail by media sites like Middle East Eye, AFP etc.

    I saw some excerpts and it looked like Al-Jolani* covered a lot of ground. He emphasized the need to get basic services including electrical service, bakeries and the like, and then rebuild Syria’s economy.

    He also indicated that independent militias would have to disarm. Al-Jolani did not name nnames here and he didn’t set a date, but this would appear to affect the US-supported Syrian Democratic Forces and their YPG militia.

    The US has troops based in Northeast Syria that have worked with the YPG since 2013, so the US has a practical interest in the status of the YPG. That mission is expected to pulled by Trump when his team takes over Middle East policy. It looks like this question will be resolved between the HTS government and Syrian Kurdish political leaders.

    The US Army mission is still active though, and this weekend its forces occupied a base near the city of Kobani that the Russians just evacuated. Hopefully the new Syrian government will be capable of securing the area by the time the US troops have to leave. 

    * One interesting note: Al-Jolani now goes by Ahmed Al-Sharaa. “Mohammed Al-Jolani” was his nom de guerre. 

  14. 14.

    TBone

    The Eagles beat the Steelers and Josey Wales has been alert, affectionate, and active all night (I was awake for most of last night) – walking all over the house, rubbing against my legs, purring, and eating every so often.  He always makes a comeback whenever I’m sure he’s going downhill.  I know it’s temporary, but I am so very grateful for this time with him.  He discovered that he loves to make biscuits in the warmth of the sheepskin rug in front of the fireplace, something new for him.  We got 5″ of beautiful snow overnight and the sky was so bright last night that I could see outside almost like daylight and watched a group of eight or nine deer paw through the snow to get whatever is green underneath.  Even later, I went outside to stand in and catch some of the huge clusters of falling flakes for a bit.  It is a lovely sight to behold before any other human has, in the silent, white night.

  16. 16.

    Liminal Owl

    @TBone: Glad to hear the good news about Josey!

    (We are hoping to visit PA again one of these days.  Philly, mostly, but email me if we should try for a get-together? I don’t remember how far from the city you are.)

  17. 17.

    Geminid

    @Geminid: I saw a funny exchange about Al-Jolani on Arabic Twitter. There’s a picture out of him working on a meal in a small plain kitchen, ladle in hand. “Nathalie” from Lebanon posted the picture and the comment;

    😍 He can also cook!

    My little heart can’t take it.

    A Syrian woman responded:

    Keep your hands off our boy. He belongs to Syrian women.

    Much good-natured banter ensued.

  18. 18.

    TBone

    @eclare:

    @Liminal Owl:

    Thank you for all the good thoughts – I truly believe in their power.  They help me, in turn, to stay calm and happy for Josey.  So he gets the good vibes.

    I’m three hours from Philly, Liminal, in a place where no one else who doesn’t know where they’re going ever ends up, unless they’re attending Bucknell!  That’s my way to say I’m in a tiny college town about an hour and a half north of Harrisburg.  If you’re gonna be in central PA definitely let me know.  There isn’t all that much to do or see unless you like the movie Groundhog Day, hahaha!  But we’ve got Small Town Pennsylvania out the wazoo.

    I had intended to make the hop skip jump back to my home locale after we sold our cabin on the shores of Penns Creek. But hubby had a heart attack during the sale, and we bought here very close to the hospital. I thought we’d move after a year or two of recovery.  Then Covid hit, home prices went bonkers, and here I sit looking wistfully at real estate listings in Chester and Delaware Counties but guffawing at the differences in the price of literally everything between here and there. List price, property taxes, utilities, and more make me immobile and almost glad I am in the hinterlands.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    It took me a minute to parse this properly.

    Heading to bed because have to head to the hospital in a few hours. Dad is doing well.

    Perplexed.  Cole is in AZ, and he has to rush to WV because Dad is doing well?  What about Joelle’s surgery?  Oh, right.

    Hospital is for Joelle’s surgery. Sending good thoughts.

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