Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Peak wingnut was a lie.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

People are complicated. Love is not.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

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

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Stay strong, because they are weak.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Remember, Sharing Is Caring, Folx!

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On The Road – Winter Wren – North of Quebec City (part 2 of 3) – Cap Tourmente and on the way to Tadoussac

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Just north of the Ile d’Orleans on the mainland is Cap Tourmente. Cap Tourmente is a headland which plunges dramatically into the Saint Lawrence River. It is world famous as a fall stop-over for migrating snow geese. A string of picturesque towns and rivers emptying into the Saint Lawrence follows the coastline northwards of Cap Tourmente to the Saguenay river and fjord.

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Saint Francois, Orleans, QuebecOctober 5, 2015

Cap Tourmente can be seen from the north end of the Ile d’Orleans, but you need to cross back to the mainland to visit.

Dim Grey Lady Dawn Open Thread: Captain Obvious, Unfortunately, Is Correct

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Astead accosts random strangers, demanding to know whether they don’t think Biden is ‘too old’. Sure, sure, whatever, fella, they reply, edging towards the nearest exit…

(Pity of it, I remember Astead doing good reporting during the BLM protests, but when the NYTimes hires you, hate-click money spends just like the honest kind.)

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War for Ukraine Day 840: Russia Attacks Kyiv & Kryvyi Rih

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(Image by NEIVANMADE)

Quick housekeeping note: Rosie is still doing fine after Monday’s chemo treatment. Thank you all again for the good thoughts, well wishes, prayers, and donations.

Other than an air raid alert for Kharkiv Oblast, the skies over Ukraine are quiet right now.

But they weren’t earlier!

Kryvyi Rih:

A woman waits with hope for her husband, whom rescuers are searching for under the rubble. Russian forces struck a residential area in Kryvyi Rih with a missile. Nine people have been confirmed dead so far, and 29 injured, including five children. Rescue efforts continue as four more people are reported missing.

Also, what’s left of Musk’s coders are still screwing with certain tweets about Ukraine with video. This tweet from Maria Avdeeva won’t even generate an embed code.

Kyiv:

Cluster submunitions of the Russian Kh-101 cruise missile after tonight’s Russian missile/drone attack on Ukraine. Not far from Kyiv.
https://t.me/vasylkiv_now/8836

P.S: The first time Russians used Kh-101 cruise missile with cluster submunition was reported on 7th of June 2024 – https://t.me/war_home/1575

President Zelenskyy traveled to Saudi Arabia today where he met with the Crown Prince. There’s no new daily address. However, here is his address from yesterday at the Ukraine Recovery Conference.

And his joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz:

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Eight Years Since The Pulse Nightclub Shooting

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The Pulse Nightclub Shooting

… The commemoration of the tragic event began early in the morning, with a ceremony at the former nightclub. There, people marked the exact moment the shooting started.

It was 2:02 a.m. when the shots first rang out, and also the time eight years later when dozens of people came together to remember the victims.

Eight people wearing angel wings stood in front of the memorial walls at the former Pulse nightclub, each representing a year that has passed since the horrific attack. They said a prayer and called out the names of their loved ones.

Many of them spent time quietly looking at the pictures and messages left for the 49 victims.

The people at the ceremony on Wednesday morning include family members and survivors — including one man who was shot twice and had to hide in the bathroom for three hours on June 12, 2016…

The city now owns the nightclub site, and the mayor has promised to get a permanent memorial done by this time in 2026…

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Wednesday Afternoon Open Thread

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Holy cow, that seems like great news.  Off to find out more.

*****

I’ve been busy getting ready for company so I haven’t even caught the news, but hopefully it’s a good day.

Garden watered (in the 90s), check.

Kitchen clean, check.

Caught up on work, no check, but got a deadline extended until Friday, so sort of check?

Dining room table cleared off.  No check, sigh.

Three stray boxes of stuff I’m trying to go through, put away?  No check.  Oh well.

Company arriving in about 10 minutes.  I’ve decided to take 5 and relax until they get here.  It is what it is.

Totally open thread.

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Nothing Gold Can Stay

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I despise Donald Trump so much that when I learned about my medical condition, one of my initial thoughts was, “Damn it, that orange motherfucker will probably outlive me, and I won’t get to join the wild rejoicing with fellow haters at his demise!”

I swear, I thought of my loved ones first! But dismay at the thought of crossing the River Styx before Trump was one of the many depressing notions that swarmed my addled thoughts that day. (I’ve since converted it into motivational mental bulletin board material!)

For me, one of the worst things about this nation’s putrid, ridiculous and humiliating entanglement with Donald Fucking Trump is the inescapability of it all. Long before he and the sour-faced third lady descended the accursed escalator to announce his candidacy, Trump embedded his stupid, tacky self in our culture, albeit in mostly minor ways that were easy to ignore back then. Not so much now!

As I mentioned last week, I was watching a 20+ year old rom-com on TV, and BAM, there the sumbitch was, appearing in an unexpected cameo! It ruined the entire experience; I turned the TV off without viewing the utterly predictable conclusion.

But it’s not just the broader culture that is degraded by Trump’s presence; the rancid piece of shit’s influence has even filtered down into my personal home decor and household hardware decisions.

It cropped up again this week under the heading of door repair. Almost every interior door in our swampy fixer-upper was screwed up in some way when we moved in, and we’ve addressed that door-by-door over the past six years, making repairs as “annoying” evolves into “untenable.”

The latest door issue is a strike plate that doesn’t match up perfectly with the latch on the door to one room, which means the door doesn’t close properly and can easily be pushed open by 20-lb. dogs when one might wish to keep the yappy monsters at bay.

I suspect all the doors suck because either the entire house is slowly falling into the swamp or because the prior occupants (MAGAs who still live nearby) were incompetent DIYers, the latter a fact long ago established by other half-assed projects that required repair. The priors were also fond of gold fixtures and door hardware, or maybe whoever built the place in 1986 was, and the priors got stuck with it too. I’m not sure.

But the point is, there was a lot of gold shit, and I don’t like it because I associate it with Trump. So I have been patiently effecting its removal at every opportunity. Bill thinks this is irrational and has tried to gaslight me by calling the gold fixtures “brass” every time I demand replacement of a fixture or hardware set that could probably be salvaged.

Maybe technically they are brass, but when I see them, I perceive a residue of star-struck swamp MAGA dopes trying to ape the tacky splendor of Mar-a-Lago by barfing gold everywhere. And I want it eradicated.

New brushed nickel hardware for the latest malfunctioning door, damn it. Nothing gold can stay!

Open thread.

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