Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

How stupid are these people?

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

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

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

An almost top 10,000 blog!

You cannot love your country only when you win.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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  2. 2.

    HumboldtBlue

    I have, in this link, a piece of trivia that will make the weekend for each and everyone of youse.

    Wait, Really?? How Blonde Bombshell Farrah Fawcett Inspired Gladys Knight’s Biggest R&B Hit. The icon tune didn’t start out as an R&B song, but as a phone call.​​

  3. 3.

    Jay

    Robert Picton is dead.

    That’s 49 families of the MMIW who will never have closure, and 49 victims that will never be identified.

  4. 4.

    Jackie

    Michelle Obama’s mother passed away today.

    Statement on the Passing of Mrs. Marian Robinson from Barack and Michelle Obama, Craig and Kelly Robinson, and their children

    Marian Lois Shields Robinson — our mother, mother-in-law, and grandmother — had a way of summing up the truths about life in a word or two, maybe a quick phrase that made everyone around her stop and think. Her wisdom came off as almost innate, as something she was born with, but in reality it was hard-earned, fashioned by her deep understanding that the world’s roughest edges could always be sanded down with a little grace.
    Don’t sweat the small stuff.
    Know what’s truly precious.
    As a parent, you’re not raising babies — you’re raising little people.
    Don’t worry about whether anybody else likes you. Come home. We’ll always like you here.
    Much, much more at the link: Link

    R.I.P. Mrs. Robinson

  6. 6.

    JoyceH

    Whimsy is back from the vet, all coned up. Was spayed yesterday and I’m supposed to keep her quiet. Right.

  9. 9.

    mrmoshpotato

    Cleaning up my apartment and making dinner.

    Oh, and hoping for a White Sox miracle against the Brewers.

  10. 10.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I’m eating macaroni salad. Deviled eggs macaroni salad. I am content. I’m also laughing at all of TIFG/PAB’s proxies who are throwing conniption fits just like the Dear Leader.

  14. 14.

    jackmac

    I’m not mad at Biden.

    Going to rewatch the Star Trek Discovery series finale, which was surprisingly good.

  15. 15.

    bbleh

    Getting affairs in order to move OUT of WV, eating salad, and still gloating over The Great Conviction and all the frothing and scrambling it has occasioned from top to bottom of the American Fascist Republican Party.  Oh and go Phillies!

    @Baud: Meaning, of course, that somebody did it, totally legitimately, without your knowledge, even though you signed the check, and there’s nothing wrong with it because it was only to spare embarrassment for your family, even though there was no reason to do it in the first place because nothing ever happened, which makes you the real victim here

    @Villago Delenda Est: T C FG, no?

  18. 18.

    Rachel Bakes

    Crazy end of Sr year chaos for our daughter. Prom tonight, working at the library booth at the town Pride festival tomorrow while the rest of us take our son to compete in Special Olympics track competition. Gonna be a long couple days.

  19. 19.

    PAM Dirac

    @Old School:

    Just don’t claim the hush money as a business expense.

    What? I’m assured by very important people that that’s what all the people powerful enough to be president do.

  21. 21.

    MattF

    Finished re-reading Robert Jackson Bennett’s City of Stairs, the first volume in the Divine Cities trilogy. I know I’ve read it before, but remembered nothing. Spurred to re-read it after reading his latest, The Tainted Cup, which is a mix of fantasy and murder mystery. Both excellent, IMO.

  22. 22.

    Jeffro

    The Fro fam just finished watching the second part of DUNE.

    holeeeeeee shit was that good!

  26. 26.

    japa21

    Spent the last 3 days at my son’s.  On Tuesday he was informed he is having out of country guests for this weekend.  Fortunately, his teaching ended last week so he has time available.  I and Mrs Japa spent our time doing major weed pulling and other gardening cleanup duties while he worked in the house for the most part.

    All worth it as today his yard was visited by a doe and her very young fawn.  The fawn came to within about 3 feet of us before scampering back to mom.  Mom, BTW, was keeping a very close eye on us.

    Son lives 4 blocks from one of Cook County’s wonderful forest preserves, so this does happen occasionally.  Son believes it is the same doe that stopped by several times last year.  Unfortunately, lasts year’s fawn was taken down by a coyote despite mom’s best efforts.

  28. 28.

    Scout211

    CNN    Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani is one step closer to being disbarred.

    The professional responsibility board in Washington, DC, recommended Friday that the ex-New York mayor and federal prosecutor lose his law license because of his involvement in a bogus 2020 election fraud lawsuit.

    Giuliani’s law license had already been suspended due to his work boosting Trump’s false assertions about his electoral loss. It is up to the DC Court of Appeals to decide whether to permanently disbar Giuliani.

    Ha ha ha ha

  29. 29.

    Jeffro

    Geminid, didja see this: trump campaign tells Bob Good to cease and desist!

    (even though Good’s website and materials clearly note that trump has not endorsed Good this cycle)

    Former president Donald Trump’s campaign on Friday demanded that the campaign of Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) stop displaying signs and other material that suggest Trump has endorsed the congressman for reelection, noting in a letter that Good’s primary opponent, state Sen. John McGuire (R-Goochland), has that support.

    “Producing and displaying materials that give the false impression that President Trump is supportive of your candidacy is a fraud on the voters of the 5th Congressional District,” a Trump presidential campaign attorney said in a cease-and-desist letter emailed to Good and his campaign that included a photo of a yard sign with Trump’s name prominently over Good’s.

    Folks, Good is pathetic enough that his yard signs do indeed say

    TRUMP
    _____
    GOOD

    as if he’s been endorsed!  But Good’s website, even though it prominently features a pic of trumpov and Good, notes in tiny type at the bottom that trumpov “hasn’t endorsed Good this cycle”
    What’s more pathetic than pathetic?  BOB GOOD
    LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

  32. 32.

    Old School

    Some states might be able to see the Northern Lights in the late night/early morning.

    “The aurora may become visible over some northern and upper Midwest states from New York to Idaho,” the Space Weather Prediction Center posted on X.
    Some states most likely to catch a glimpse include: New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, New York, Michigan, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho.

  34. 34.

    Scout211

    Finally!!

    NBC  — Conservative gadfly Dinesh D’Souza’s film and book “2000 Mules,” which pushes false conspiracies about voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, has been removed from distribution by its executive producer and publisher, according to an announcement Friday.

    Salem Media Group’s announcement that it had yanked D’Souza’s film and book also apologized to Mark Andrews, a Georgia man falsely accused in “2000 Mules” of ballot stuffing.

    Andrews in late 2022 filed a federal defamation lawsuit against the company, D’Souza, and the non-profit advocacy group True The Vote, which contributed to the “2000 Mules’ project.

    “Conservative gadfly.” LOLOL.

  35. 35.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Scout211:

    CNN

    Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani is one step closer to being disbarred. 

    Couldn’t happen to a nicer fascist pile who was losing what was left of his mind at the 2016 RNC.

  36. 36.

    WaterGirl

    First time all day I have been able to check twitter.

    George Conway
    @gtconway3d

    “If you don’t want to be found guilty of falsifying business records as a felony, don’t sleep with the porn star, don’t lie about it, don’t pay her off, don’t cover up the payoff, don’t cover up the payoff in the middle of a presidential campaign ….

    “If you don’t want to be held liable
    for rape, as Donald Trump has, don’t grab the woman’s genitalia. If you don’t want to be held liable for defaming the woman you raped, don’t keep lying about what you did and calling her a nut job.

    “If you don’t want to be indicted for overthrowing the Constitution, don’t start a self-coup. If you don’t want to be indicted for stealing classified documents and obstructing justice, don’t take the classified documents. When the government asks for them back, give them back. If the FBI serves you with a search warrant, don’t hide the documents and don’t lie about it and don’t have your lawyers lie about it.

    “This isn’t that hard. Donald Trump is not the victim here.”

    So is it crazy out there?  The usual suspects all shilling for Trump and whining about yesterday’s verdict?

  38. 38.

    dmsilev

    @Old School:

    Just don’t claim the hush money as a business expense.

    Note to self: Ask financial admins at work what cost codes are appropriate to use when filing for reimbursement for porn-star hush-money payments. Contract services? Overhead costs?

    These are important questions.

  42. 42.

    WaterGirl

    @mrmoshpotato: Kids tend to think that everybody has what they have, that what’s normal for them is normal for everybody.

    I learned that in a support group when I was in my 20s.  A guy in the group didn’t find out until he was in the 8th grade that everybody’s dad didn’t wake them up in the middle of the night and make them stand inn the closet for an hour.

    That was an eye-opener.

  44. 44.

    TBone

    @WaterGirl: Joy Reid made a good point with Katie Phang:  why should he continue to get all the benefits & protections conferred upon a president WHEN HE WAS JUST CONVICTED OF USING FRAUD TO GET ELECTED.  Since he was fraudulently elected he shouldn’t have SS protection or be read into intelligence briefings and the list goes on…no “due respect” is necessary at all.

  45. 45.

    BenInNM

    Cooking dinner for friends tomorrow so tonight was just a hamburger but I did have it with some tasty red onion and caraway relish I made. Now it’s just relaxing in the back yard with a beer and continuing to savor the verdict.

    I don’t think I realized how much this trial was stressing me out. Several other things that I thought were bothering me have just gone back to being minor annoyances. This is certainly just a first step but an important one.

  46. 46.

    karen marie

    @JoyceH:   Consider getting Whimsey a onesie to wear instead of the cone.  I did it with my cat, and it was wonderful.  The wound is covered and stays clean while allowing easy access for inspection.

    Keeping them quiet can be challenging.  My Lucy (my dog) was a terror at six months old, and I ended up having to take her back to the vet to have staples put in to keep the incision closed

    @Villago Delenda Est:   OMG, that sounds so good.  I may have to go to the store to get a piece of celery.

  47. 47.

    SFBayAreaGal

    @HumboldtBlue: The article was fascinating. Love being able to hear how Midnight Train to Georgia was sung by the Gladys, Cissy and Jim Weatherly

  48. 48.

    japa21

    @mrmoshpotato: ​
      He’s by a small one, 26th street west, It runs alongside Salt Creek in La Grange Park and is one of a series. The doe is probably from there.

  49. 49.

    Scout211

    This is interesting.

    The Florida federal judge  judge overseeing the criminal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump has been the target of more than 1,000 complaints in just one week this month raising allegations of her handling of the case, a top appeals court judge revealed in an order.

    The complaints against Judge Aileen Cannon have come to light amid renewed criticism by some legal observers and Trump opponents that she is slow-walking the criminal case against the former president to ensure it does not go to trial before the presidential election.

    “Many of the complaints” against Cannon filed with the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals “request that the Chief Circuit Judge remove her from the classified-documents case and reassign the case to a different judge,” Chief Judge William Pryor wrote in a May 22 order posted on the appeal court’s website.

    . . .

    Pryor, in his May 22 order about the complaints, wrote that he “has considered and dismissed four of those orchestrated complaints as merits-related and as based on allegations lacking sufficient evidence to raise an inference that misconduct has occurred.”

    He also wrote that neither he nor the appeals court’s Judicial Council has the authority to remove Cannon from the case under the Rules for Judicial-Conduct and Judicial-Disability Proceedings.

    “Although many of the complaints allege an improper motive in delaying the case, the allegations are speculative and unsupported by any evidence,” Pryor wrote.

    “The Complaints also do not establish that Judge Cannon was required to recuse herself from the case because she was appointed by then-President Trump.”

    The chief judge also wrote that before May 16, “multiple Complaints of Judicial Misconduct or Disability” were filed against Cannon, who sits in Fort Pierce, Florida, federal court, “raising allegations in connection” with Trump’s criminal case.

    “Some of those complaints have been acted upon, and others will be acted upon in due course,” Pryor wrote, without revealing the nature of those actions.

  50. 50.

    Jeffro

    Breaking: just heard via the family grapevine that RWNJ bro’s response to the trump indictments is, “the Dems better HOPE that the GOP doesn’t replace trump on the ticket…because ANY replacement-level Republican will mop the floor with Joe Biden”.

    oh my…just as predicted!

    It’s hard being this right, all the time, my friends.  =)

    Hey, they had the perfect opportunity to ditch him after J6…and couldn’t muster the spine to do it.

    They had the opportunity to do the work, organize, reject trump and his losing record in the primaries…and they couldn’t summon the strength (or the time, or the money) to do it.

    AND NOW, MAGICALLY…trump is going to step aside?  Replacement-level GOP candidate X is going to…win over the MAGAts?  L to the OL

    Reap, sow, MFers!

  53. 53.

    Marleedog

    @mrmoshpotato:

    PAB’s? Pathetic Asshole Bastards?

    Close.  Chrissy Tiegen called him a pussy ass bitch some time ago and he had a major fit.

    I am surprised that with your prpoensity for blue language you have not heard it before😵

  54. 54.

    Scout211

    Another interesting piece of trivia:  CNN is planning on commercial breaks for their presidential debate on June 27th.

  55. 55.

    MomSense

    Just came back from the new house after setting up my bed and my mom’s bed.  Met another neighbor.  She’s a single mom who lives across the street and also is a private, home health nurse.  Very convenient!  Tonight I need to pack up and clean the cottage so I can start moving stuff to the house.  Meeting the cable guy and the carpenter tomorrow morning.

  56. 56.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    @japa21: yes, deer have home territories just like a lot of us, so I bet you are right it is the same doe. Last place I lived in the country we had a small local herd of deer and after a few years, the does who had been born nearby were quite chill about bringing their fawns around. Of course for a few years I was also putting out alfalfa pellets for them so that helped LOL.

  57. 57.

    Jackie

    @Scout211: Good!

    But… too much “shutting the barn door after the horses have escaped.”

    How many copies of both the book and DVDs are out there already?

  58. 58.

    Kelly

    Just returned from a nice long walk at Silver Falls State Park. Most of 8 miles. Perfect walking weather, blue sky, temps in the 70s and an occasional breeze.

  60. 60.

    smith

    @Scout211: In related news, Jack Smith has refiled his motion for a gag order to stop the Felon from lying about the FBI’s use of force policy in the MAL documents case. “Judge” Cannon had a pissy response to the first filing, saying he had to try to talk it out with the defense first. That has predictably gone nowhere. Not sure if he has grounds to appeal if she denies the motion.

  61. 61.

    MomSense

    @Jackie:

    I’m so sorry to hear that she passed.  She and her husband worked and sacrificed and raised extraordinary children.  Imagine what it must have been like to see her family so accomplished and to live and support the President and First Lady in such a significant way.  Amazing.

  62. 62.

    WaterGirl

    @BenInNM:

    I don’t think I realized how much this trial was stressing me out. Several other things that I thought were bothering me have just gone back to being minor annoyances.

    Interesting!  Something to think about.

  63. 63.

    Jackie

    @WaterGirl:

    So is it crazy out there?

    MSNBC has been partying all day!

    Of course, occasionally someone remembers to put on a sober face and remind us this is a somber moment in our history…

    Then back to partying. I’ve had it on as background all day: sometimes I join the party!😁🥂🥳

  64. 64.

    JaySinWA

    I just had a cool shower. For some reason the pilot light on our gas water heater went out.

    I had to relearn the process to ignite it. Hopefully it stays lit, and is not a sign and portent about a failing water heater.

  66. 66.

    smith

    The usual suspects confidently predicted dire consequences if our legal system had the temerity to convict the newly-fledged Felon — bloody riots in the streets, the stock market crashing, plagues of frogs and locusts…

    The Dow is up almost 600 points today, and stepping outside, I can’t see any riots or plagues, but miraculously, the cicadas have fallen quiet.

  69. 69.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @WaterGirl:

    I took the FP for granted too. Our “local,” if you will, was Thatcher Woods, right on the boundary of Oak Park and River Forest. There was a woman named Virginia Moe who was in Zonta with my mom. Miss Moe was in charge of all the animal rescue and rehab projects at Thatchers Woods. People would bring in orphaned bunnies, injured birds, limping foxes, etc., and she would care for them. The ones who got well were, I think, re-released into the forest, but some stayed at her (fairly primitive in those days) visitor-center-cum-hospital-cum-educational-facility/museum if they were too damaged to fend for themselves in the wild. She was a cool woman. Wrote an autobiography called something like Animal Ark. My sister and I used to love visiting her and the animals.

    ETA: Animal Inn, not Animal Ark.

  72. 72.

    Jackie

    @MomSense: Sounds like you have a great new neighbor and that you have things under control! (Mostly! I’m sure there’s/there’ll be a few hiccups – may they be small and infrequent!🤞🏻)

  76. 76.

    TBone

    @Chief Oshkosh: it’s all fruit of the poisonous tree!  That term covers evidence gathered illegally – I’m using it here to illustrate that all the myriad benefits that inure to the presidency should be treated likewise.  Especially any shred of respect.

  77. 77.

    Jacqueline Squid Onassis

    Just got back from driving to Redding, CA on Wednesday so I could take (and pass) the electrologist license test on Thursday and come home today.  I forgot to bring every single one of my meds so it was 2 nights of awful sleep.  But I got my license!  Now I just need to get my Oregon license via reciprocity and I can open for business.  What a relief!

  84. 84.

    Melancholy Jaques

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Last week I got my annual shipment of Vidalia Onions. Tonight it’s a raw slice on a hamburger, along with onion and cucumber salad. Fine eating.

  85. 85.

    TS

    @Jackie: How much the love comes through in that.

    And then my mind branches out to how close the US came to the dream and how hard the hatred fought back.

  87. 87.

    Geminid

    @Jeffro: I missed that.

    I did hear a Bob Good ad on my way to work today, telling me how bad state Senator John McGuire. I had no idea how bad McGuire is! He’s a swamp RINO of the worst kind.

  88. 88.

    BenInNM

    @Miss Bianca: It’s a pretty simple recipe. I found it in Better Homes & Gardens (yes, I still get magazines) but I can’t find it on their website.

    Anyway, you roughly chop up a red onion and 3-4 green onions and pour boiling water over them. Put these in a pint jar. Then mix up 3/4 cup vinegar, 1 Tbsp sugar, and 1/2 tsp caraway seeds and add this to the onions and put it in the fridge overnight.

    I was really pleased that the caraway seed flavor came through even though the caraway seeds I used I have had forever.

  90. 90.

    Geminid

    @Jackie: The 5th Virginia CD is rated about R+9. It covers counties from Albemarle (surrounding Charlottesville) south to the North Carolina line. I would not say it’s gerrymandered red because it would take some creative redistricting just to make it purple.

    Anyway, a couple of court -appointed Special Masters drew it after the new Redistricting Commission deadlocked. I think the sprcial masters did a wonderful job because they moved my county into the 7th CD. I went from having Bob Good as my representative to having Abigail Spanberger.

  91. 91.

    NotMax

    @BenInNM

    Thinking reducing the vinegar to ½ cup and adding ¼ cup akvavit would intensify the caraway punch, but not overwhelmingly.

    Suppose when all mixed together it could be simmered to cook off the alcohol if teetotal is your thing.

  95. 95.

    BenInNM

    @NotMax: Interesting – I didn’t know about that liqueur but I think you’re right about enhancing the caraway flavor.

  96. 96.

    RevRick

    @HumboldtBlue: Living in the Lehigh Valley I feel a certain obligation to root for the Phillies, but my first love was the Brooklyn Dodgers “Da Bums” who taught me to cheer for the underdog against the Yankees. Of course, no team has been more underdoggy than the Phillies, with 11,277 losses all time.

  97. 97.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @jackmac:

    Wow! This truly is a full-service blog — thank you so much! I’ll forward the link to my cousin and brothers. Unfortunately, my sister (who had dreams of becoming a veterinarian and was one of Virginia Moe’s student assistants for a few years) died in 2020. She would have loved seeing this article.

  98. 98.

    RevRick

    @WaterGirl: My wife and I are now watching the third seasons of Jessica Jones and Daredevil. The setting for both of these is in Hell’s Kitchen, following The Avengers battle of New York. Jessica has a super power of strength. Matt Murdock (Daredevil) is blind, but has super acute hearing, but his real power is the ability to take a punch. His nemesis is King Pin, played by the incomparable Vincent D’Onofrio. Jessica is what you get when a superhero has experienced great trauma.

  99. 99.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @HumboldtBlue:

    That was a beautiful tribute to an inspiring friendship. Have always loved the Auden poem he quotes. Thank you for linking it.

  100. 100.

    Jeffro

    @Geminid:I think the special masters did a wonderful job because they moved my county into the 7th CD. I went from having Bob Good as my representative to having Abigail Spanberger.

    (insert crying emoji here)

    For those of us still stuck in the 5th…it’s nothing but tears, all the way down…

    …but voting for the not-Good guy in the GOP primary just felt, well, good. ;)

  103. 103.

    NotMax

    @BenInNM

    Drunk straight (bottle kept in the freezer to ensure it’s ice cold) it’s a love it or hate it taste experience. Yours truly is in the first camp.

    Diluted as in the hypothetical above it should not be anywhere close to divisive.

  104. 104.

    BenInNM

    @NotMax: I’ll have to look for it. I usually like interesting tastes like that and it seems like it would be a good end of a summer evening drink.

  105. 105.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Jeffro:

    Hey, they had the perfect opportunity to ditch him after J6…and couldn’t muster the spine to do it. 

    Tnat was the second impeachment.

    They could’ve ditched the orange shitstain after he got his fascist ass impeached the first time for trying to bully the Ukrainian president.

  106. 106.

    wjca

    @Baud: It’s a Quiet Riot.

    How else?  A riot consists of people behaving in ways very different from their day-to-day behavior.  So people who normally rant, and rave, and whine, and complain . . . .

  107. 107.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @japa21: I used to ride my bike to the forest preserves in cook county. Classes took us on field trips there, too.

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