Remind me the next time I visit my folks--we had the BEST cat (who moved in with us, unbidden) who looked a lot like that cat but more HUGE--not fat, but all muscle giant. He LOVED to drink out of the toilets, so a houseguest took a picture of him getting down on it (he was more dog than cat). My parents have it framed, and I should post it here.
Among the feral colony cats sharing the neighborhood with local humans, there's a strain of cats with markings similar to the fellow easing his thirst.
The white with mackerel tabby markings cats also are fiercely bright, territorial as hell, occasionally deaf, and great fun to watch. A particular marauder is becoming a favorite because he's fearless, trap wise and not averse to confrontation...
In a place I used to work we would randomly open the dictionary and select a word for the day. Salmagundi was one of those words and I never forgot it because it’s fun to say.
Yeah, Wayne looks a lot like this kitty, only with darker markings, and he does have that dark patch on his upper lip that makes me uncomfortable sometimes. I don't want a Schicklegruber Kitteh! But he IS sweet and affectionate and silly and Nazis can never be any of those, so I feel better.
Well, the last time they had a problem named Padilla, they swept him up at an airport and threw him in a Navy brig where they tortured him into self-incriminating. But that was GW Bush.
I can’t even read the article about Fetterman. What’s happened to him since the stroke and how the right has gone from mocking him to exploiting him is just sad. He needs to resign for health reasons ASAP.
I am not at all shocked ~NOT AT ALL SHOCKED!~ to discover that the Afrikaner refugee family was "resettled" in the state that boasts fewest number of black citizens of all 50 states.
"In a final flourish, an elite parachute team is to jump from above the White House, land near Trump and hand him an American flag.
With predictions of as many as 200,000 attendees, the Secret Service is preparing for protests by erecting 18 miles of anti-scale fencing and deploying drones to the city’s skies to keep watch."
Also too: “God Bless the USA” singer Lee Greenwood will perform.
This isn't going to cost $45 million, it's going to cost 3 x that, at least. This administration including the military are lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie and then lie some more.
Moar on costs from that HuffPost posting: "Private donations from companies like Lockheed Martin, Amazon and UFC are helping defray some of the costs, but the government still is expected to spend $25 million to $45 million."
"HuffPost: Trump Suggests ‘Hardliner’ Iranians Holding Up Nuclear Deal Are Dead
The president spoke briefly on the phone with CNN’s Dana Bash, she noted on X. He again praised the Israeli attack and said, “I don’t know if you know but I gave them a 60-day warning and today is day 61.” “They should now come to the table to make a deal before it’s too late. It will be too late for them,” Trump went on before adding, “You know the people I was dealing with are dead, the hardliners.” Bash said Trump would not name names when asked specifically who he was referring to. He said sarcastically, “They didn’t die of the flu; they didn’t die of Covid.” Among those reportedly killed was Mohammad Bagheri, commander-in-chief of the Iranian military, and Ali Shamkhani, who was helping to lead the nuclear talks with Trump."
Oh yeah, Donnie. The Iranians are just gonna roll over and give up, because that's what always happens in the Middle East. No grudges there! Great negotiating, champ!
Always fun when a US President gets sarcastic about foreign government officials being killed. But then again, this is the pinhead who assassinated General Soleimani and almost got us into war with Iran and showed off classified satellite pictures on Xitter, until he had bigger things to ignore (*coughCOVIDcough*).
“The woman said of the “refugees”: “They were understanding that they would be arriving here for complete assistance. People thought they would be arriving at a house, a job, medical insurance, and other things. It isn’t that way at all.”
lol. AMERICANS don’t even get health insurance. You got played.
Hey anybody got a BlueSky link to what evidently is a great parody vid of “Secretary Noem” explaining the Padilla assault? Everything I get cited to is on X and I’m not reopening my X account to see it.
if you run out of options, you could use the "XCancel" avenue to view it:
Paste the URL you've been given into a browser, but don't hit Enter (or click/tap whatever it is on your device) to actually load the link. In the link, modify the part that says "x dot com" to read "xcancel dot com" [replacing the word dot with a period, of course] and THEN hit Enter. It will load the tweet and its replies without actually directing you to xitter.
ICE turned away from local farms because no warrant. They expect just to waltz up and walk in? That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
Some assclown last night was claiming the ICEholes had a warrant for their shenanigans in LA, to which I say "WHAT. THE. FUCK." and then wonder *how* they'd have a warrant for tromping into Home Depot and chasing people across the parking lot. Who did they give this supposed warrant to? What did it detail? Who's the judge who issued it? So many questions!
Salmagundi with your hed gif info today: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/salmagundi
And a meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/9f72904e-07a3-49c1-8032-0a478cdcf6ee?utm_source=share
Remind me the next time I visit my folks--we had the BEST cat (who moved in with us, unbidden) who looked a lot like that cat but more HUGE--not fat, but all muscle giant. He LOVED to drink out of the toilets, so a houseguest took a picture of him getting down on it (he was more dog than cat). My parents have it framed, and I should post it here.
Who names their cat after Solomon Grundy?
Wow! This was more than just a cute cat drinking water!
Thanks for reading! It was a fun (but time-consuming!) research/writing project.
Hi Martini, if possible could you put up the 4:20pm Open Thread Chat? I will be in the process of moving. If not it will be ok. Thank you!
I’ll put a reminder in my calendar. Good luck today!
Thank you!
TY. I needed a cat this morning.
There was a great, long-running book store here called Salmagundi. I miss that place.
Among the feral colony cats sharing the neighborhood with local humans, there's a strain of cats with markings similar to the fellow easing his thirst.
The white with mackerel tabby markings cats also are fiercely bright, territorial as hell, occasionally deaf, and great fun to watch. A particular marauder is becoming a favorite because he's fearless, trap wise and not averse to confrontation...
Salamagundi is word I've known from long ago. How I knew it is beyond me, because I don't recall ever having it as such.. Thanks for the lesson.
In a place I used to work we would randomly open the dictionary and select a word for the day. Salmagundi was one of those words and I never forgot it because it’s fun to say.
Now that I’ve thoroughly learned about it, I plan on finding all kinds of ways to slip it into conversation. 😁
I had a cat named Alex (PBUH) and I used to call him, among so many other things “Almagundi”.
Love it!
There's a smart cat who is clearly not new here...
Kitty knows where the water is on a hot day!
Lap cat
Oh, it was right there all the time and I missed it! Well-played, Al!
this the AI we like
Hitler Kitteh!
Yeah, Wayne looks a lot like this kitty, only with darker markings, and he does have that dark patch on his upper lip that makes me uncomfortable sometimes. I don't want a Schicklegruber Kitteh! But he IS sweet and affectionate and silly and Nazis can never be any of those, so I feel better.
Kitler!
Well, the last time they had a problem named Padilla, they swept him up at an airport and threw him in a Navy brig where they tortured him into self-incriminating. But that was GW Bush.
I can’t even read the article about Fetterman. What’s happened to him since the stroke and how the right has gone from mocking him to exploiting him is just sad. He needs to resign for health reasons ASAP.
I love our new Afrikaaner neighbors. You were expecting a job, a home, health insurance?
You get what every American gets from a Republican administration. Bootstraps.
Meeow 😻 Lovin' my Tab's and Coffee ☕ in the Morning 😸👈
There’s a No Kings protest just walking distance (at PCH & Warner) from my place, so I don’t have to hassle with weekend downtown HB traffic, etc!
The goal is to have as much of Pacific Coast Hwy from Seal Beach to Laguna Niguel lined with protesters; prolly overly ambitious, but we shall see! ✊
I am not at all shocked ~NOT AT ALL SHOCKED!~ to discover that the Afrikaner refugee family was "resettled" in the state that boasts fewest number of black citizens of all 50 states.
I said it yesterday after watching her speech and I'll repeat it here: Karen Bass is a badass.
HuffPost, on the Birthday Parade:
"In a final flourish, an elite parachute team is to jump from above the White House, land near Trump and hand him an American flag.
With predictions of as many as 200,000 attendees, the Secret Service is preparing for protests by erecting 18 miles of anti-scale fencing and deploying drones to the city’s skies to keep watch."
Also too: “God Bless the USA” singer Lee Greenwood will perform.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/headline-donald-trump-parade_n_684bec5ce4b0c4fd78ffbb14?utm_source=buzzfeed&utm_medium=iframely
This isn't going to cost $45 million, it's going to cost 3 x that, at least. This administration including the military are lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie and then lie some more.
And that’s not factoring in what it’s going to cost to resurface the streets after they’re torn up by multi-ton tracked vehicles. 🤦🏻♂️
Those streets will still be shit when the next Democratic President is sworn in, and it'll all be the Democrats fault.
Moar on costs from that HuffPost posting: "Private donations from companies like Lockheed Martin, Amazon and UFC are helping defray some of the costs, but the government still is expected to spend $25 million to $45 million."
You folks do the very best job of discovering and covering reality. Amazing, the relationship between those two concepts.
To me, these are assassinations:
"HuffPost: Trump Suggests ‘Hardliner’ Iranians Holding Up Nuclear Deal Are Dead
The president spoke briefly on the phone with CNN’s Dana Bash, she noted on X. He again praised the Israeli attack and said, “I don’t know if you know but I gave them a 60-day warning and today is day 61.” “They should now come to the table to make a deal before it’s too late. It will be too late for them,” Trump went on before adding, “You know the people I was dealing with are dead, the hardliners.” Bash said Trump would not name names when asked specifically who he was referring to. He said sarcastically, “They didn’t die of the flu; they didn’t die of Covid.” Among those reportedly killed was Mohammad Bagheri, commander-in-chief of the Iranian military, and Ali Shamkhani, who was helping to lead the nuclear talks with Trump."
Oh yeah, Donnie. The Iranians are just gonna roll over and give up, because that's what always happens in the Middle East. No grudges there! Great negotiating, champ!
JFK has entered the chat.
(What goes around has a way of coming back around.)
Always fun when a US President gets sarcastic about foreign government officials being killed. But then again, this is the pinhead who assassinated General Soleimani and almost got us into war with Iran and showed off classified satellite pictures on Xitter, until he had bigger things to ignore (*coughCOVIDcough*).
“The woman said of the “refugees”: “They were understanding that they would be arriving here for complete assistance. People thought they would be arriving at a house, a job, medical insurance, and other things. It isn’t that way at all.”
lol. AMERICANS don’t even get health insurance. You got played.
could not happen to a more deserving bunch of whiners
The Caity Weaver story is in the Atlantic, not the New Yorker. But thanks!
Hey anybody got a BlueSky link to what evidently is a great parody vid of “Secretary Noem” explaining the Padilla assault? Everything I get cited to is on X and I’m not reopening my X account to see it.
if you run out of options, you could use the "XCancel" avenue to view it:
Paste the URL you've been given into a browser, but don't hit Enter (or click/tap whatever it is on your device) to actually load the link. In the link, modify the part that says "x dot com" to read "xcancel dot com" [replacing the word dot with a period, of course] and THEN hit Enter. It will load the tweet and its replies without actually directing you to xitter.
ICE turned away from local farms because no warrant. They expect just to waltz up and walk in? That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
https://www.kclu.org/2025-06-12/ice-out-of-ventura-county-community-groups-call-for-people-to-stand-up-against-ice-raids
they can now do this.
ICE agents get green light to make unjustified warrantless arrests
The agency announced an accountability policy has been rescinded.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-warrantless-arrests-castanon-nava
Warrantless arrests.
I can't even.
Some assclown last night was claiming the ICEholes had a warrant for their shenanigans in LA, to which I say "WHAT. THE. FUCK." and then wonder *how* they'd have a warrant for tromping into Home Depot and chasing people across the parking lot. Who did they give this supposed warrant to? What did it detail? Who's the judge who issued it? So many questions!
Trump: "They hate our country." No, Trump, we hate YOU, and your followers, and J.D., and the Speaker who lied his ass off last night.
Have you noticed that Chump doesn't like a single person who lives in this country?