Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

When I was faster i was always behind.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

The revolution will be supervised.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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Friday Catblogging in Memory of Kevin Drum

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Kevin would always post pictures of his cat, and if he didn’t invent Friday cat blogging, he sure perfected it.

So here’s my kid’s cat — Pearl. This is from a couple of years ago where she had a stint at our house. That “Smarty Kat” branding is for the toy, not the cat. She’s quite dumb, I’m afraid to report. She’s also a bit of a misogynist (not kidding). Guys are in. Gals, she’s not so certain about.

I’ve learned from Pearl that either indoor cats aren’t super smart, or maybe this particular cat isn’t. Pearl’s never been outside, and her world is the four walls of wherever my kid is living. We always had indoor/outdoor cats at home. They were just hunting and killing machines who roamed the neighborhood at night and came back with pieces of cat claw embedded in their fur from vicious fights. For them, it was a harsh existence that they seemed to crave. For Pearl, anything outside of the front door is a mysterious land of fearful monsters.

That all said, she likes me when I visit because I’m male and I give her good treats.

This is another cross-post from my new place — heymistermix.com. John graciously invited me to cross post here, with the comments off.  You’ll need to subscribe to comment. Subscriptions are free, and you can just visit the site to read my stuff. I’ll cross-post some of it here.  Kay is also posting there now if you’re interested in her take on things.

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  1. 1.

    rikyrah

    Is anyone else following the story of Garbanzo the cat on TikTok?

     

    backstory:

    woman fosters a kitty named Garbanzo.

    Garbanzo is adopted. Owner bring in boyfriend who abuses Garbanzo.

    Owner then dumps Garbanzo at a shelter.

    Garbanzo still has the chip in from the woman who fostered her. They call her, and ask her if she’ll take Garbanzo, She says yes.

    To see the gradual changes in Garbanzo.

    from obviously abused cat, to where she slowly is trusting this woman…some of the videos leave me in tears.

  2. 2.

    RaflW

    I don’t have anything very specific to share about Kevin. But he was a regular on my daily rounds in the good old Blogroll days. His work on lead and student achievement was exemplary of the positive effects an analyst-pundit could have.
    R.I.P.

  3. 3.

    Butch

    We have four rescue kitties.  They get very closely supervised outside time (as in we are within feet of them the whole time they’re out) – too much farm traffic and too many predators for us to just let them wander.

  4. 4.

    Chief Oshkosh

    Here’s to Kevin. I read all or nearly all of his Calpundit posts back in the day.

  6. 6.

    Tazj

    @rikyrah: I think I saw the story on Instagram about Garbanzo. Such a sad story but I’m glad the foster mom has the cat back.
    I like Granny and Trigger on Instagram too. An older lady(as you might have guessed) talks, sings, dresses up and plays with her cats. It’s filmed by her grandson.

    I have two cats who are indoor cats. I don’t want to risk them getting hurt or killed and I have enough to worry about.

  7. 7.

    b

    Do not let your cats outside alone. That massively shortens their life and increases vet bills. They will be plenty happy on a porch and a simple catio is easy to make

  9. 9.

    A Ghost to Most

    @rikyrah:

    We adopted a two year old cat right after Tunch died. That poor cat had obviously been treated like shit. After coming to trust me, she turned into the sweetest cat.

    Currently catless, I have become the Official Catlap of 16 year old Winnie, my son’s once bold and fearless tuxedo.

  10. 10.

    Ohio Mom

    Thanks Mister Mix for posting this. It feels right to honor Kevin across the blogosphere, maybe it’s blogtopia (that was Skippy the Kangaroo’s coinage).

  11. 11.

    catclub

    @Eric: ​
     

    do you know where I can find some good catio plans?

    Like the internet! A connected series of tubes!

  14. 14.

    kindness

    I’ve seen Kevin Drum memorial Friday Catblogging at 5 sites so far today.  It’s sweet.  I didn’t always agree with Kevin but I always respected him.

  16. 16.

    Timill

    @Eric: Added some pics of our catio at Bluesky: @timill.bsky.socia

    It was built out of some kits (probably for something else) that a friend picked up at auction.

  21. 21.

    Timill

    @Eric: Thank you.

    For reference, it’s about 20′ across at the house end by about 30′ deep, and stands about 6′ tall at the eaves. The ridge is defined by “needs to clear the window”, and is probably about 9′ at the house end, falling to about 7′ away from the house.

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