Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Petty moves from a petty man.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

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

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

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

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

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

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

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  1. 1.

    sab

    We are not doing NoMow May but you wouldn’t know it by the front yard. Dandelions and other stuff a foot high and very green. And it was mowed last Tuesday.

    My feeling on yards is if it is green and short it belongs in the yard. Wild strawberries, dandelions, clover, non-banana plantains, other stuff I can’t even identify, it’s all good. Grass needs to be watered. The other stuff not so much.

  2. 2.

    The Red Pen

    US Transportation Command is being asked to cut their budget about 8%-10%. How does that jibe with Trump trying to increase the military budget?

    Easy: the new money is for deploying the military domestically.

    I can’t even.

    Hope everyone is having a better week than I am.

  3. 3.

    frosty

    @sab: ​That’s been my feeling on the yard too. Green is good, doesn’t matter what species of green. Up until the last year when I decided to get a lawn care company to make it look presentable so we can sell the house in the near future.

    He asked me what I wanted them to do. My answer: “Take care of 20 years of neglect.”

    ETA I like clover but I can’t plant it until the weeds are gone and everything is back to grass. Broadleaf herbicides kill it. Funny that a clover lawn was acceptable in the suburbs in the 50s but not now.

  4. 4.

    Baud

    This was reported here, but it deserves repeating.

    Maine Gov. Janet Mills beats Donald Trump, gets school meal funds restored while defending trans kids

  6. 6.

    sab

    @frosty: We live adjacent to a MetroPark, so weeds are pretty much the norm in lawns around here. A few people try for grass only, but they mostly fail.

  7. 7.

    sab

    TRAIN! Wheeling and Great Lakes. I am curious to see what happens to train traffic next month, because a lot of the northern routes go towards Canada.

  8. 8.

    cmorenc

    @John Cole:

    Although my primary residence is in densely canopied, humid, sometimes very rainy Raleigh NC, I spend 3-4 months a year in extended stays at my daughter’s place in semi-arid Grand Junction, Colorado (3 young grandsons).  After an extended stay at either end, the climactic and scenic transition going to the other is always a bit of a shock, particularly the one returning to NC.  Although the initial return to Grand Junction can quite literally be a shock walking across a carpeted floor in sock feet and touching anything metallic because the dry air promotes accumulation of static charge.

    The morning I last left GJ on Mar 31 was clear with 20+ mile views in every direction, especially the still snow-topped Grand Mesa where I had just been skiing a couple days before – back in Raleigh that afternoon in warmth, the densely leafy trees in my neighborhood allowed at most 50-100 ft views except maybe 400 feet straight up the street – it was springtime, gloriously reassuring and at the same time kind of suffocating, but with the compensation that the azaleas in our yard were in gorgeous bloom.

  9. 9.

    kindness

    It rains year round in W. Virginia.  Yup, stays nice and green.  And you get an undergrowth in the forests.  Out here in CA, we are already at our ‘golden’ look (dead, dried brown/tan).  We got our last rain of the season last month and won’t see more till October.  It took me several years after moving out here to appreciate that golden, but I do now.  Still…. miss the green I see where it rains.

  10. 10.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    Little League parade and game cancelled on Satruday due to rain.  Rained all morning Sunday and had a soggy practice.  Supposed to rain for Wednesday’s game.  Death, taxes, and fucking shite spring sports seasons in Western NY.

  12. 12.

    Baud

    I’m not sure if this has been reported here.

    Federal judge orders NC to certify Riggs as winner in Supreme Court election

    Still have appeals, but that was a Trump judge.

  14. 14.

    Jay

    We need to reopen Alcatraz.  There has to be another place in our country for dangerous repeat criminals.  The White House only has so much room. – Rep. Jack Kimble

  15. 15.

    Citizen Dave

    @frosty: ​
     You said it re: clover lawns. First I did normal clover then discovered microclover (hard to find) which is even better.

    I read once that since the invented weed killer killed clover too, the Monsantos had to market clover as bad from then on. Corporations.

  18. 18.

    Trivia Man

    Looking for some resources i can pass on to a new candidate for congress. They are running against glen grotggman, aka the dumbest congressman in america.

    They describe themselves as “autistic, queer, disabled, trans, non-binary” so rural Wisconsin is a tough hill to climb.

  19. 19.

    Baud

    Air traffic controllers lost communication with Newark planes – leading to widespread delays after they took leave for trauma

  21. 21.

    Trivia Man

    @Trivia Man:  Born and raised here, big time 4H chops so they are an authentic rural voice. Passionate, unafraid of confrontation, full of energy and hope, committed to a MAJOR overhaul of the system. my concern is they might fall into the trap of being “fair” by attacking democrats.

    What is a persuasive way to emphasize ATTACK THE ENEMY?

  23. 23.

    Baud

    @Trivia Man:

    What is a persuasive way to emphasize ATTACK THE ENEMY?

     
    Remind them that Dem voters in rural Wisconsin are already swimming against the tide, so don’t make them feel bad about who they are. They’re heroes.

  24. 24.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    Does anyone have any lists or recommendations for things to stock up on given the upcoming supply shortages?

  27. 27.

    Jackie

    Heh

    “A newly declassified memo released on Monday confirms that U.S. intelligence agencies rejected a key claim President Trump put forth to justify invoking a wartime statute to summarily deport Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador,” the New York Times reports.

    “The memo states that spy agencies do not believe that the administration of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, controls a criminal gang, Tren de Aragua. That determination contradicts what Mr. Trump asserted when he invoked the deportation law, the Alien Enemies Act.”

    I predict a lot of “spy agencies” are gonna be in the dog house…

  32. 32.

    Melancholy Jaques

    @kindness:

    Out here in CA, we are already at our ‘golden’ look (dead, dried brown/tan).  We got our last rain of the season last month and won’t see more till October.

    Not sure where you are, but last night it was raining as I drove from the IE into Los Angeles.

  35. 35.

    Danielx

    Reopening Alcatraz, um, yeah. Sure glad we didn’t elect a doddering confused old fool.

  36. 36.

    Jay

    Last lawn I had was about 20 years ago in Maple Ridge. It was 50% grass, underlain with spring bulbs, the rest was a mix of thymes, red clover, creeping oregano, fescues, and lambs ears.

  38. 38.

    Librettist

    @Baud:

    That job sucks.

    Paying people out so they could go work a retirement gig in Dubai, while leaving the US system short staffed, was brain damaged.

  39. 39.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Trivia Man:

    Thanks. Probably wouldn’t hurt to stock up on some cold/pain medicine

    @Jay:

    @WaterGirl:

    That’s exactly what I was looking for! Thank you both

    I know I need a new mattress, so that’s first on my list

  41. 41.

    Gvg

    @Citizen Dave: we had clover when I lived in Oklahoma for a year as a child. That was when I decided to not go barefoot in a lawn. Bees sting. It made an impression, a bad one on a kid. Now we all want more bees. I understand but remember to be careful. My nephew was terrified of bees when he was young. I cut down a tibochina bush the bees loved because it was near the door and it scared him so much.

  43. 43.

    prostratedragon

    Mike Lawler is a wanker.

    Sunday night’s town hall in Somers, New York was yet another horrifying example of the brutal suppression of free speech in America under Trump.

    Constituent Emily Feiner courageously stood up and quite courteously asked Republican Rep. Mike Lawler a simple question about upholding the [Constitution]…

  44. 44.

    karen gail

    Hegseth looking to cut 20% of high-ranking military officials; so years of experience will be gone. Not sure if that is good or bad; but since this is what Trump wants figure it must be bad for country.

  45. 45.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @WaterGirl:

    That list at #220 you put together is really helpful, thank you.

    I really want to get my passport/passport card. It’ll be a good secondary photo ID if I ever lost my DL.

  47. 47.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @prostratedragon:

    What the fuck were the NY State Troopers removing that woman for?! All she did was ask a simple, reasonable question. They deserve to be fired and be barred from jobs in law enforcement for this

  50. 50.

    mrmoshpotato

    Excellent!  Regular bowel movements are good and healthy.  🚽💩😌

  51. 51.

    Kayla Rudbek

    @The Red Pen: yeah, I thought that the goal was 8% cuts across the entire military, so where is that extra money going to? (Also, 8% rounds up to 10% which is what my ancient Roman ancestors called a decimation I.e. eliminating/killing one man out of ten…)

  53. 53.

    Trivia Man

    @RobinS: It will help, thanks. My main goal is to plant some seeds about how to steer them away from some specific pitfalls. Like “to be fair…” is admirable but has no place in fighting fascists. Nuance is useless, rebuttal of their straw men is a waste of time, and helping them focus on one M A Y B E valid point in an avalanche of shit hurts the good guys.

  54. 54.

    Geminid

    @prostratedragon: Westchester County Democrat Tom Watson (guitarwatson.bsky.social) lives in the district south of Mike Lawler’s NY17. Watson can’t stand Lawler and slams him whenever he can.

    So Watson has several posts up showing this incident. One was a repost of a comment by Beth Davidson (@Beth4Congress). Ms. Davidson represents Nyack-area District 10 in the Rockland County legislature and is running against Lawler.

    Watson also likes to get his digs in at Elise Stefanik, like this one posted four days ago after Trump chose Mike Waltz to be UN Ambassador:

       She’s a terrible human being with malign intent towards the people of New York, but holy cow, Elise Stefanik got the full under the bus treatment from Donald Trump. Then he backed it up and rolled over her again. She’s stuck as a powerless nobody under Johnson, while Waltz gets the penthouse.

    Stefanik missed out on a high-class Manhattan apartment.

  56. 56.

    Jeffg166

    @sab:

    The lawn does what it wants. I have all the plants you mentioned plus violets. I like the week or two of the purple in the mix.

    I saw a honey bee the other day on a dandelion flower. A good reason to keep dandelions. I may pick its leaves if I need a green to eat.

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