A happy posting, cuz sometimes you just need one. Banjax Bob, my three-legged wildboy-loverboy wonder, rescued a few months back from under a trailer in a failing rural park full of abandoned husks of metal homes and burned-out cars. He is a tripod titan, this boy! #Cats #Caturday #AdoptDontShop

These guys, who run an actual Brooklyn taproom, are fabulous. Seriously, check out their website (www.ptbrewco.com), just for the merch!

Oh, FFS! Does this fool believe any non-MAGAt finds his man-titty chest-thumping more than a joke at our own country's expense? (Tho Bezos Maps will capitulate, natch.) America: A temper tantrum moving from one idiot topic to the next, as the needs of the many blow like tumbleweeds into oblivion.

Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, escalating Canada feud

President Donald Trump said he's making the change because “Canada has been ripping us off for a long time on trade, very sadly.”

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This is kinda comical, pure satire ... is what I thought when I first saw a similar headline on a Canadian site. Someone posting a joke. Only to find that no, this is truly our PRESIDENT. I am horribly embarrassed, Canadian friends. Being American anymore just feels stupider and fucking stupider.

Trump says U.S. could rename Lake Ontario as Lake America amid Canada trade war

The president cited his tariff fight in a social media post, saying the United States doesn’t expect to be “doing much business with Ontario any longer.”

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This headline alone should be comical. Satire, even. I mean, that's what I thought when I first saw it on a separate Canadian site. Someone posting a really obvious joke. Only to find ... that instead, this is truly our PRESIDENT? Being an American anymore just feels stupider and fucking stupider.

Trump says U.S. could rename Lake Ontario as Lake America amid Canada trade war

The president cited his tariff fight in a social media post, saying the United States doesn’t expect to be “doing much business with Ontario any longer.”

washingtonpost.com

The U.S. is again demanding that the allies we don't support must fully support us. And on he goes, our brainless baby bully, shaking his widdle fists at everyone. How many countries will buckle this time? I'm about as sick of them not standing up to us as I am of us making them question having to.

US threatens severe sanctions against countries with economic ties to Iran

Washington launches campaign to isolate Tehran but it is unclear whether it will apply measures to China

theguardian.com

How the hell does a cat look this Slavic? As a proud third-generation Ukrainian, and an unapologetic cat fanatic, I am in absolute awe of that astonishing face.

The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat@lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 2w ago

His name is Hakty. He was rescued, taken to a shelter in Kyiv, and sure looks like he's pissed off at Vladimir Putin. Thank you @eugenekibets.bsky.social for the work you do.

How to NOT do journalism. What an unmitigated load of crap, built on absolutely fucking nothing. America, this is your media now.

Americans have more money. They’re done eating and shopping at places that suck | CNN Business

Conventional wisdom says that American consumers are struggling and they’re hunting for the lowest prices to save money.

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As a son of Texas myself, I just gotta say damn. Damn, damn, damn. The groove, man. The Groove Man. That groove. "I Heard It on the X" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5_P...), a lightning bolt of Lone Star State shuffle, straight out of my childhood. And really all you need to know. Maybe about anything.

ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard dies aged 77

A statement on the blues-rock band's website said he died on Monday in hospice

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Trying to work this out for a while, & w/ the horrifying mug of WH communications flak Steven Cheung back in news feeds, where it should NEVER be, the question arises anew: What IS he, exactly. A fat slug? An animate, severed old-man penis? A mole rat? Seriously, what? It's the dick thing, right?

Yet another new level of fucking vile.

Trump moves to strip protections from 44M acres of national forest

The Trump administration on Tuesday moved to strip protections from 44 million acres of national forest. The U.S. Forest Service has proposed to rescind the 2001 “Roadless Rule,” w…

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Proof you can have your Creationism and evolve it too! Or not, as the case may be. Now, just wait'll he gets a load of at "Euphoria" ...

Well, that just settles it. One and done! And people dare to say we haven't won this war. How's about paying attention here, America? Honestly, you've gotta wonder what the poor schlubs the Trump team assigns to create this nonsense must be thinking of their career choices ...

The once-and-former Trump-catspaw mouse that quite unexpectedly roared.

Disney sues Trump’s FCC over ‘retaliatory campaign’ against ABC | CNN Business

Disney is going to court to defend its ABC television stations from the Trump administration’s pressure campaign.

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Pretty Fat Boy cradles Comfort Bunny. You may awwwww ... now. #Cats #FatCats #RescueCats #CatsOfBlueSky #Caturday #AdoptDontShop

First of all, yeah, right. Second, if your remaining MAGA base buys this as a viable tactic to accomplish ANYTHING beyond your own continuing to fart boastful nonsense, just to be gas-bagging SOMETHING, then they're even dumber than YOU look. Dumber even than you ARE. Really, really fucking dumb.

Trump says he will declare Strait of Hormuz a US territory

President Trump claimed during remarks on Long Island, N.Y., on Friday that he will make the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory, despite the fact that Oman and Iran share jurisdiction of the waterwa…

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Headlines like this piss me off. Cuz you DON'T know what it means, for progressives or even for the fucking man in the moon. There's no grand trend here. It's just labels and the need to keep the news cycle alive, throwing fodder into the horse race, hoping the horses don't collapse in exhaustion.

Francesca Hong lost. Here’s what it means for progressives.

The socialist candidate for governor fell short Tuesday as concerns about her electability carried the day.

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Trump, recent Fox News spiel: "We're doing an unbelievable job. Costs are coming way down. I inherited very, very high costs, and they're all coming down now. The food, the groceries, it's all coming down." So, there you go, folks. Problem solved!

My gut's always defaulted to Reich's argument: There's no philosophical hard-left/establishment schism (& such talk is just legacy media horse-race BS). Is Reich correct we're seeking fighters vs. Schumer big-$$$ sycophants? Dunno, but we need those proverbial young bucks like we never have before.

The real meaning of Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan | Robert Reich

We’re seeing America wake up to the tyranny that’s engulfed us

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The terror continues. #Cats #RescueCats #FighterNotALover #LoverNotAFighter #AdoptDontShop Meet Banjax Bob, the three-legged wonder boy. He loves big, and he plays as hard as he loves. And I have the scratches and scars to prove it!

This is not a leader. This is absolutely not how a leader behaves. This is an idiot toddler-bully with no broad plan whatsoever on what he's doing, or even why.

Trump says US will destroy a bridge or power plant for each Iranian attack in the Strait of Hormuz

U.S. President Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. will destroy one bridge or power plant each time Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz.

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It's a stormy time in a stormy world. We could all use a little calm. In honor of that, here are a few rare moments of calm in the chaos-ready life of my three-legged rescue wildboy loverboy, Banjax Bob. #Cat #Caturday #RescuePet #Kitty #AdoptDontShop

Oopsy!

It can't happen soon enough, if indeed it's truly happening, and is not just more pie-in-the-sky punditry. Rip Schumer and Jeffries and their ineffectual leadership a new one, I say.

Opinion | The Democratic Establishment Had This Coming

The Democratic Party needs shaking up.

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If your hope was ever to be fondly remembered in death, do not in life so flagrantly flout the principals you staunchly, and publicly, claimed to believe in for the ultimately bargain-basement price of your sycophantic little soul. That is all. Happy Sunday.

Excellent original post.

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝@sundaedivine.lol · 2mo ago

The Audible version is just one long exhausted sigh.

Trump, reflecting on the new bottom surface of the (now-un-surfacing) Reflecting Pool: "Vandals. ... A 350-foot slit right through it. ... A box cutter, or a knife of some kind." (June 22) "If you had a knife, you can't even cut it. It's so strong." (May 4) Will MAGAmerica buy it anyway? Yeah.

No professional writes a headline like this. And yet. This comes as OFFICIAL new correspondence from the White House. THE WHITE HOUSE. Our entire government operation is beset by bullying toddlers in soiled diapers who, instead of knowing how to clean themselves, smear shit all over our country.

Radical Lunatics Deface America’s Reflecting Pool — and President Trump Was Right (Again)

Crazed and deranged lunatics have once again exposed their hatred for America with a cowardly, deliberate attack on one of our nation’s most iconic

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Well, I dunno about you, but damn am I ever shedding the crocodile tears here ... What a quiver full of limp-dick arrows, this smarmy idiot bunch.

Trump administration abandons $1.8 billion payout fund after revolt by GOP

Acting attorney general Todd Blanche’s reversal attempts to clear way for Trump’s stalled immigration agenda.

washingtonpost.com

As if CBS could do one more thing to make itself look less relevant, and more like an endless sycophantic Trump-suck. Oh, wait ... #ScottPelley is journalistic talent par excellence. #BariWeiss is the scum on the bottom of shit's own shoes.

60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley fired by CBS News after clash

Move comes after meeting in which Pelley said network chief Bari Weiss was ‘murdering’ news show

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