I love hedgies. Some members of my plush stuffie collection are hedgehogs - one that was crocheted just for me. I also have a collection of hedgehogs in stone, ceramic, pictures, stickers, poly-whatever it is used for outside decor, tiny plastic figures, and a larger hedgehog glow in the dark skeleton for Halloween (it was a gift, don't judge me), blankets, and a lovely book. Thank you for my morning hedgehog.
My O/T for today! The spring peepers and frogs are beginning to call to their lovers at my modest lake. Avians are starting to weave nests. LIFE IS GOOD!
“I don’t want to hear one more fucking criticism of Trump’s new ballroom at the White House,” wrote Meghan McCain, a conservative television personality who has criticized the president in the past for disparaging her father, former Senator John McCain, but has since seemed to have offered “the olive branch.”
Ok, I don't believe that the event was staged. But Trump's presser was absolutely meant to give the conserva-outrage machine immediate marching orders. And you can't denythat is one well-functioning machine.
If you are from the Village of Liars like The Trump then you have to invoke the Trump Uncertainly Principle whereby you can either know what happened or what seemed to happen. Like Schroedinger's cat the shooter was both genuine and staged, a set-up. You can never and will never know which. The Ballroom, the Arch, the Library are all bpth sketchs and real structues in 'reality' to trade on, to place bets on, to sell Uncertainty Coin on. Someday the Great Cannibal with be both dead and alive forever to control everything forever and also to be erased from history forever
When MAGA propagandists try tar eight million Americans who peacefully and lawfully exercised their right of assembly last month at No Kings protests, using a report that shooting suspect Cole Tomas Allen may have attended one of those protests, we should dismiss the smear with scorn.
We should also be proud to be part of a movement that doesn’t make light of violent attacks on political opponents, as President Trump and his supporters did after the 2022 assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul. We should be proud to be part of a movement that doesn’t celebrate the death of public servants, as President Trump did a month ago: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people.”
And we should be proud to be part of a movement that will not be cowed by attempts at intimidation. The pro-democracy movement will resist efforts by this administration and its MAGA minions to use Saturday night as an excuse to criminalize political dissent, silence legitimate criticism, and curtail our civil liberties.
Such efforts got underway within hours of the shooting at the Washington Hilton.
Meanwhile, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) tried to use Saturday night’s incident as an excuse not just to get new funding for the Department of Homeland Security but to increase the power of the Senate Republican majority: “At a moment of national danger, if Democrats refuse to fund DHS, I would say this would be the time to nuke the filibuster for good.”
In fact, Democrats are refusing to provide new funds not for the whole of DHS but merely for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol, neither of which has anything to do with Saturday’s shooting, but which have a lot to do with the administration intimidating opponents. But Trump wants more money for those agencies, and he wants to get rid of the filibuster. This fake “moment of national emergency” is the excuse.
But the Trump administration will use any excuse to further batter American democracy, and so there will be plenty of demagoguery directed at us this week.
Reading about how a carnivorous pitcher plant evolved to become a “potty plant” toilet for tree shrews (it looks just like a toilet, too). How did it shift from dissolving prey to utilizing mammalian waste products? seems like interesting biochemistry and molecular genetics, hmm?
The WHCA is a *private* organization, so arguing that the dinner could have been held there is arguing that access to *our* public White House will now go to the highest bidder. Trump showing his true intent: use of the ballroom for yet more corruption.
Your hed gif hedgie: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/low-energy-alita
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/51fc16ac-4976-491e-989d-c1e52090e621
This is exactly how I feel this morning. Alita speaks to my soul.
Perhaps hedging its bets.
I love hedgies. Some members of my plush stuffie collection are hedgehogs - one that was crocheted just for me. I also have a collection of hedgehogs in stone, ceramic, pictures, stickers, poly-whatever it is used for outside decor, tiny plastic figures, and a larger hedgehog glow in the dark skeleton for Halloween (it was a gift, don't judge me), blankets, and a lovely book. Thank you for my morning hedgehog.
Sweet hedgehog! Rocka bye baby, on the tree top, ... .
Hedging her laps
Hey! All ya hadda do was ask me! I got a ton of Jasper pics!
https://substack.com/@theheroofcanton/note/c-179616889?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2kpacs
Awww, Jasper. So sweet.
Tired yet cute hedgie? Here ya go: https://substack.com/@theheroofcanton/note/c-196725157?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2kpacs
Thank you for the additional hedgies!
Jasper got it.
Even got one with him on an exercise wheel: https://substack.com/@theheroofcanton/note/c-140653862?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2kpacs
I'm pulling a Jasper at the moment. I'm in the office, just sitting here. Thinking about how it's still too early in the day. And the week.
Fresh air and sunshine. Can you slip away for a walk at lunch?
Sniff all the sniffs.
That’s what Jasper would do.
Don’t know what good it’d do ya, but that *is* what Jasper would do.
Love that little guy is totally chill.
Everybody's all "oooohhhh Sonic is SOOOOOO fast".... well FUCK SONIC.
I am going to potato today. Don't like it? Eat shit and die.
Going to be a *baked* potato? (grin)
Alita is a bit of a prickly pear this morning. Sumbuddy get her some coffee.
Me, also, too, Alita. Me, also, too.
Just get going, Alita. You’ll feel better once you’ve started and you know you’ll regret skipping your exercise later.
Can't skip leg day!
Why does "Monday Morning" by the Mamas & the Papas comes to Mind?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81Ojd3d2rY
Can't trust that day.
Sometimes, it just turns out that way.
I saw a picture of a hedgehog being rescued from the rubble of a bombed apartment building in Ukraine, the poor little thing. They’re so cute!
The Hedgehog
will roll up into a ball
if and when
you come to call
That gif is Monday all over, for sure.
Exactly
Cute little beastie.
What's the difference between a hedgehog and the Trump administration?
The hedgehog has the pricks on the outside.
What's the difference between a hedgehog and Trump?
The hedgehog rolls into a ball when frightened, Trump builds a ballroom.
If he ends up building it, the next president needs to name it "The LBJ Room" since he was the first president to call for more ballroom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_myjOr0OU
(applauds)
My O/T for today! The spring peepers and frogs are beginning to call to their lovers at my modest lake. Avians are starting to weave nests. LIFE IS GOOD!
"I'm no longer willing . . . "
I believe the shooter was a disillusioned Trump supporter. Not full-blown MAGA, but a supporter nonetheless.
“I don’t want to hear one more fucking criticism of Trump’s new ballroom at the White House,” wrote Meghan McCain, a conservative television personality who has criticized the president in the past for disparaging her father, former Senator John McCain, but has since seemed to have offered “the olive branch.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/trump-shooting-whcd-shooting-ballroom/
Ok, I don't believe that the event was staged. But Trump's presser was absolutely meant to give the conserva-outrage machine immediate marching orders. And you can't denythat is one well-functioning machine.
If you are from the Village of Liars like The Trump then you have to invoke the Trump Uncertainly Principle whereby you can either know what happened or what seemed to happen. Like Schroedinger's cat the shooter was both genuine and staged, a set-up. You can never and will never know which. The Ballroom, the Arch, the Library are all bpth sketchs and real structues in 'reality' to trade on, to place bets on, to sell Uncertainty Coin on. Someday the Great Cannibal with be both dead and alive forever to control everything forever and also to be erased from history forever
Woke BIll Kristol
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭
When MAGA propagandists try tar eight million Americans who peacefully and lawfully exercised their right of assembly last month at No Kings protests, using a report that shooting suspect Cole Tomas Allen may have attended one of those protests, we should dismiss the smear with scorn.
We should also be proud to be part of a movement that doesn’t make light of violent attacks on political opponents, as President Trump and his supporters did after the 2022 assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul. We should be proud to be part of a movement that doesn’t celebrate the death of public servants, as President Trump did a month ago: “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people.”
And we should be proud to be part of a movement that will not be cowed by attempts at intimidation. The pro-democracy movement will resist efforts by this administration and its MAGA minions to use Saturday night as an excuse to criminalize political dissent, silence legitimate criticism, and curtail our civil liberties.
Such efforts got underway within hours of the shooting at the Washington Hilton.
Meanwhile, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) tried to use Saturday night’s incident as an excuse not just to get new funding for the Department of Homeland Security but to increase the power of the Senate Republican majority: “At a moment of national danger, if Democrats refuse to fund DHS, I would say this would be the time to nuke the filibuster for good.”
In fact, Democrats are refusing to provide new funds not for the whole of DHS but merely for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol, neither of which has anything to do with Saturday’s shooting, but which have a lot to do with the administration intimidating opponents. But Trump wants more money for those agencies, and he wants to get rid of the filibuster. This fake “moment of national emergency” is the excuse.
But the Trump administration will use any excuse to further batter American democracy, and so there will be plenty of demagoguery directed at us this week.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/no-violence-no-demagoguery-no-kings-trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner-attack-shooting-fisa-dhs-ice-border-patrol-filibuster
RoJo: exhibit A in how well the conserva-outrage machine works.
Woke Bill Kristol!
Dogs and cats living together!
Mass hysteria!!!
[...gazes at new, full jar of potent Sativa; contemplates engaging the proverbial "wake & bake" indulgence]
I believe it's time to open up that jar. I alreadly KNOW why I don't like Mondays.
Reading about how a carnivorous pitcher plant evolved to become a “potty plant” toilet for tree shrews (it looks just like a toilet, too). How did it shift from dissolving prey to utilizing mammalian waste products? seems like interesting biochemistry and molecular genetics, hmm?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/carnivorous-plants-nepenthes-eat-poop
The WHCA is a *private* organization, so arguing that the dinner could have been held there is arguing that access to *our* public White House will now go to the highest bidder. Trump showing his true intent: use of the ballroom for yet more corruption.
That and it undermines the idea of a free and independent press.
Comrade Krasnov using Putin's playbook?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/03/21/hungary-election-interference-russia-orban/
Jamie Raskin: Like all Trump critics, an unindicted co-conspirator.
Oh jeeze Martinj, you oo Narcie, ov, and fuck Monday...
I'm sure this double blockade of the strait will resolve itself soon. All it takes is either Trump or the ayatollahs to admit they were wrong.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
(eyes the clock) Monday, not a holiday, and after 0930 Eastern . . .
Hmm . . .
King's Day in the Netherlands.
That must be it.
I'm sure it's not the Day of Russian Parliamentarism.
Ohh.. fork
Someone musta left Dok in charge of the Publish button again.
WHAR NON-TABS!
I know. It's freaking me out!
Might be the Feast Day of the Virgin of Montserrat.
More on the dinner and the ballroom:
https://chrisgeidner.substack.com/p/doj-ballroom-lawsuit-whcd-shooting?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
That song is, hands down, the absolute worst of the James Bond theme songs.
Worse than View to a Kill? That was pretty bad.
Oh 100%. AVTAK is total Duran Duran goodness.