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kmblue187's avatar

Bare bear in the water there.

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3FingerPete's avatar

That is the biggest otter I have ever seen!

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April Kurtz's avatar

You otter say that with respect!

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Eva, Iron Goddess of Mercy's avatar

Reminds me of the Instagram feed PoolBearLife. A California couple have given their really really nice pool and cabana over to a bunch of bears. They buy pool floaties for them to float around on and eventually pop with their claws.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Have they figured out how to prevent cheating in the Fat Bear Week contest?

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

They added captchas a few years ago to cut down on spam voting, but I think they now have new and better ways (that they are not making public, for obvious reasons) to catch ballot box stuffing.

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Nolan_Mark5 - 仕事の鬼's avatar

He's a bookie.

21 - 52

Yup.

He took a bath.

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Stulexington's avatar

Baloo, is that you?

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

All he needs is a scrub brush and a rubber ducky.

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Michael's avatar

At the risk of irritating MG and receiving a thunderbolt from that goddess, allow me to say that ALL BEARS give me the willies and that I used to hint bears with just a club.

There were twenty of us in that club, now only three left.

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Notorious J.I.M.'s avatar

It does sound somewhat more sporting than bullets or arrows. No spears, then?

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Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

My soul mate died in June of 2017 and thankfully missed all of the new President's arson of our republic. She missed it all because she had no time for it what with the dying of cancer, the lobbying of Colorado state legislators to oppose anti-vaxxer efforts to eliminate vaccine mandates in schools, her artwork and her absolute devotion to the Brooks Falls BearCam website. No day went by without her laughing out loud at one or another (or sometimes all of them ) bear or bear cub doing something to make my soul mate happy. She always kept me informed about the front runners in the Fat Bear tournament and she definitely had a favorite for the last 3 years of her life. I speak of the Zen fisher of salmon dubbed Otis (Bear #480). I understand Otis (Bear #480) stopped showing up a few years back to make room for the younger bears and bear cubs.

RIP Otis (Bear #480).

RIP Beloved Soul Mate, Maureen.

I visualize Otis (Bear #480) crossing the Rainbow Bridge to meet Maureen. They make a pact to protect each other on the road to the Western Lands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Western_Lands

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Kobayashi Marooned's avatar

May Maureen and Otis be sharing delicious salmon on the other side.

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WeaverSix's avatar

That was beautiful. I was Team Otis too.

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Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

His bear belly dragged on the ground.

Ouch!

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

This is a beautiful tribute and I’m sorry for your loss.

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Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

Thanks. I am getting better. The grief ain't gone but there is love. :>)

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Lund-O-Matic's avatar

I have morning mourning tears. Please keep getting better.

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Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

Thank you 👍 😊

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Menotsure's avatar

She sounds like a wonderful partner.

Also, as always, fuck cancer.

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Resource NW's avatar

"You're soaking in it."

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Mateo del Sol's avatar

Oh you meant *that* kind of bear......well, I think I'll just get rid of this calendar.

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Littorally Speaking's avatar

Yes, but that kind will *definitely* kill you, just a lot slower.

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

I bet if you offered such to Bear 602, he would eat. Gotta fatten up for hibernation.

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Menotsure's avatar

He might just bite the hand that feeds him.

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Bobathonic's avatar

I hear "Bear Necessities", from The Jungle Book cartoon.

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Richard S's avatar

PHIL HARRIS!!!

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Thalia Is Not Amused's avatar

Forget about your worries and your strife, my friend!

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Whale Chowder's avatar

Yup.

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Alpaca Suitcase's avatar

I just came to post that. Gonna be in my head ALL day :)

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Shocktreatment's avatar

It's a bear's life! Jealousy is so ugly, but sometimes I just can't help myself...

A carefree soak in the warm sun is the remedy...

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Littorally Speaking's avatar

It’s also the only way to escape the biting insects up there this time of year; the mosquitoes are dying back, but the flies are at their peak.

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

I’d like to hibernate for 3 years and 4 months

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tehbaddr's avatar

What's going on Mr. Bear?

Oh, just laying in the stream relaxing, the wife and kids won't stop bothering me never leaving me alone for a moment to myself to gather my thoughts and really contemplate the world and all it's wonder including nature just like this here stream.

OK, but what's with the BIG CLAUSE?

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Nolan_Mark5 - 仕事の鬼's avatar

This stream of words is most pleasing.

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OrdinaryJoe's avatar

The Völkischer Post fires Karen Attiah for her Substack commentary about race and gun violence. They should be on the DO NOT READ list here and with every left leaning author.

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kmblue187's avatar

"Government by the meanest, dumbest people alive."

I can't do better than this.

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A Tad Impatient To 86 47's avatar

“The way I see it is, our job is to cover the world with tremendous curiosity. And with a desire to understand the people who voted for Donald Trump and why they voted for Donald Trump. I think some of our readers want us to dismiss some of those people. I think that’s not empathetic coverage.”

Dean Baquet, executive editor of the NYT

Does Mr. Baquet have no curiosity about the rise of fascism? I suppose he knows all about it. And thinks his readers don’t need to know more.

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Catherine Berry's avatar

How did the title end up with the right day of the week, but a date *8* days earlier?? Inquiring minds want to know!

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April Kurtz's avatar

Fabulous Bear is Fabulous!!!!!

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Always Childless Cat Lady's avatar

While Stephen Miller vows to avenge the death of Charlie Kirk by killing all liberal agencies, let's not dismiss the fact that he actually is responsible for the death/murder of a Guatemalan woman today. Nori's mother. Nori, an Honor's student, asylum seeker living in LA, who with her mother was recently illegally deported to Guatemala. Her mother died unexpectedly today, perhaps out of desperation and/or fear.

The blood is on his Fascist lily-white hands as Mrs. Miller might say we'd say.

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Cincinnatus's avatar

NYT: "President Trump said that he would be “100 percent” willing to designate “antifa” a domestic terrorist organization — though no such formal organization exists. Trump has often tried to brand loosely affiliated activists as something of an organized criminal group made up of “radical left” agitators that he has often blamed for protests and civil unrest. In 2020, he also blamed antifa for protests after George Floyd and threatened to label it a “terrorist group.”

President Trump then gave the spotlight during his Oval Office remarks to Stephen Miller. Miller used his speech to amplify broad and unsubstantiated claims about Trump’s political opponents, equating anti-fascist activists, loosely referred to as “antifa,” with organized crime groups and domestic terrorists.

“Whether you are antifa, whether you’re a domestic terrorist, whether you are a violent gang member, a drug trafficker,” Miller said, Trump would use the military and federal law enforcement agencies “to wipe you out, to put you behind bars.”"

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Ho͛gͦͥeͬ͒yeGr̰̻̜e̬̞̠x͔'s avatar

“And Trump has surrendered in the war on cancer.”

Professional courtesy.

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beb's avatar

It's a sad day when you can get fired just for quoting Charlie Kirk accurately.

Meanwhile a Fox mouthpiece can get away with calling for the murder of a whole class of people.

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Wookiee Monster's avatar

“ Yikes, the US State Department and USAID have destroyed $10 million of birth control pills and implants, claiming they are abortifacients, though they are not.”

Why are the people constantly complaining about government waste not outraged by this?

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Karen Scofield's avatar

Monday's with Tab's and Coffee in the Morning ☕💯🌄

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

For the love of dog, will somebody please feed the substack gerbils? It's usually only this slow when something really blows up in the news.

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Ward From Cali's avatar

Dunno if anybody else noticed, but Tori Branum already has Mar-A-Lago Face even more extreme than Kristi Noem's.

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Appalachian in Thailand's avatar

And Michelle Fiore's fake tits.

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Appalachian in Thailand's avatar

And Michelle Fiore's fake tits.

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

Noticed that, didja?

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Appalachian in Thailand's avatar

How could you miss them. They could be used as a tray table!

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

Very strong resemblance to Michele Fiore, another of their darlings

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Cincinnatus's avatar

Trump was asked on Sunday about allegations that the attack on the Caribbean boat was illegal.

“What’s illegal are the drugs that were on the boat, and the drugs that are being sent into our country, and the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs, that’s what’s illegal,” Trump said."

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Enter Ranting's avatar

Show us the drugs, Donnie. What's that? You blew up the evidence? Well, THAT'S convenient!

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Cincinnatus's avatar

“All you have to do is look at the cargo that was scattered all over the ocean,” the president told reporters during Oval Office remarks.

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Appalachian in Thailand's avatar

Somebody told me the traffic was lighter this year.

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Somebody told me the traffic was lighter this year.

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Somebody told me the traffic was lighter this year.

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Somebody told me the traffic was lighter this year.

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Somebody told me the traffic was lighter this year.

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

So damn near all of us died last year? I only began to feel it after the election. Slow process, dying of imaginary drugs.

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Rags's avatar

Per the Guardian:

Donald Trump has threatened to call a national emergency and federalize Washington DC after the city’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, said its police would not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), whose agents have been taking suspects into custody and have been accused of racially profiling people in doing so.

Me-

This is a preface to invoking the Insurrection Act. Next step in the takeover.

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