In other good news (sorta) it seems that there are now 58% who say they’r worse off now than 4 years ago, and the increase is mainly fueled by disaffected Republican Voters. A plurality (40%) say their personal situation is “much worse”. This is only good in the context of how much of a wave this election might be, but it doesn’t look good for the current majority.
Good Morning, early bird Rebecca, and Happy Competitive Halloween Outdoor Decorating season! Is it just me, or does Arch “Pond” Naramour sound like a character in Lord of the Rings, or Sir Walter Scott. “Hist, Davey, it’s Pond Naramour of the Glen, who neibors Cluny of the Cage of clay and wattles”.
The Capuchins in Detroit have been doing Very Good Things for decades. They respect the dignity of the least of us, and do it quietly without preaching or expecting praise in return.
They are one of the charities I split my extra pennies with, and FFS the Blessed Father Casey needs Jesus to help him out and get him his second miracle do he can become an official saint.
I'm getting over my irritation, so here's where I are in a current story line:
A US Ambassador's daughter, missing for over a month, turns up. She's been hiding in a seraglio to get away from her parents, and it's revealed she's a month pregnant by one of the harem guards. The ruling prince is ticked off, as harem guards are traditionally eunuchs so this guy's clearly lied on his job application.
The girl's parents decide to put the best face on it and get these two lovebirds hitched (it's 1938, so you expect that), but objections start getting raised. The baby daddy's Greek Orthodox, the baby mama's Southern Baptist as are the parents. The Grand Mufti offers to officiate, but is glared at, and the pair are married by a freighter captain aboard a ship in the harbor.
Where did John Roberts get the idea that it's not corruption unless the person committing it says in front of at least three witnesses, willing to testify, "just so we both understand, here, I am giving you this money in a corrupt act, you taking it is corrupt, and we both know that me giving you this money and you taking it to violate your oath of office is illegal but we are doing it anyway, agreed?" while wearing a t-shirt that says "I pay politicians for favors"?
Maybe from m*****f****r Antonin Scalia who wrote a dissenting opinion on a Supreme Court decision concerning the Endangered Species Act that it's OK to kill endangered species unless you say in front of at least three witnesses, willing to testify, "I am killing these animal that I know are endangered species, simply because I want to kill these specific animals that I know are endangered species and for no other reason" while wearing a t-shirt that says "I love to kill endangered species for no other reason than to specifically kill them" that is being used as the basis for a new rule for the Endangered Species Act that will render it meaningless.
He used to play that game where you stand in a darkened bathroom and look in the mirror and say “Martha Murtha” three times and you’ll see a ghoul appear in the mirror?
It’s like in Saudi Arabia where the man can simply say “I divorce you” three times and it’s done?
A genie comes out of a lamp and grants him three wishes of which “make me a mentally healthy human” is not one?
Taking wolves off protection right when their numbers are FINALLY getting better. 10 killed this year by bounty hunters NONE of which were proven to have been taking cattle. FUCK THIS TIMELINE. Bald eagles will be next because the dumbass orange motherfucker is afraid of them.
Good Morning. The Mary Pelota article was locked for me and I haz a confuse. She said she "hoped that she dies of a botched abortion" of a Planned Parenthood board member and that's a GOOD thing? What am I missing?
Mass Gov. Maura Healey’s getting smeared on the topic of “sending a nurse to check on new moms and babies,” and that is actually fucking evil. (Good Politics Bad Politics)
Have these yoyos never seen an episode of “Call the Midwife”?
Funded PUBLIC HEALTH would save so much money - checking on Mom’s and Babies - checking on seniors ….. it would lessen the crowds in our emergency rooms. (As always cruelty is the point with the rethugs)
2025—The Presidential Sharpie scribbles on NSDM-7, re-defining reality. Now if you don’t love America, Christianity, or capitalism enough – or if you love immigrants too much – you’re fomenting political violence.
2007—Because Judge Sharon Keller refuses to work overtime, Texas gets to kill Michael Richard on schedule.
2002—Disregarding facts, George W.[MD] Bush says, “You can’t distinguish between al-Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror.”
1966—The White Sox beat the Yankees 4-1, at Yankee Stadium. Attendance is 413, the lowest ever.
1961—State Rep. E.H. Hurst murders Black voting advocate Herbert Lee at mid-day in Magnolia, Miss. Coroner’s jury: “justifiable homicide.”
1959—The U.S. Navy loses a nuclear depth charge in Puget Sound. Fortunately it’s lacking a fissile core.
1957—Nine Black kids get to enter Little Rock High School, courtesy of the President and the 101st Airborne.
1945—Vietnamese of all factions massacre French civilians in Saigon.
1926—Henry Ford announces the eight-hour, five-day work week.
1915—At Loos, France, British forces release 150 tons of chlorine gas towards German troops. To their chagrin, the wind then shifts.
1789—The Bill of Rights passes.
1662—Portsmouth adopts a bounty: £5 for every wolf killed whose head is “nayle[d] upon the meeting house.”
I'll thank the mommy blog for bringing me the story of the Inaccessible Monument on a hill inside a Detroit freeway cloverleaf. I needed a deeply metaphysical mystery to ponder and this story gets the job done.
However I do feel motivated to point out that the Denver International Airport also has an Inaccessible Monument inside a network of airport entrance and exit roads. It is called Blue Mustang. It is MASSIVE, blue and a huge source of dick jokes in the Denver area. (I am not kidding about the dick jokes. I also point out that Blue Mustang is DANGEROUS to get anywhere near.)
Guess their new MAGA motto "Learnin' is four fagets" isn't working out so well.
Maybe the hackers could finally find the Epstein Files?
***FBI hack is even worse than it seems***
The hacking group, ShinyHunters, got access to the FBI’s online jobs portal, including information on current and former agents, job applicants, home addresses, job histories, spouses—you name it, they got it.
Reuters learned that the 5,000-line spreadsheet—which the hackers released as a little taste of the full two- to three-terabyte trove of data they stole—contains information on who was assigned to sensitive divisions like intelligence, security, and counterespionage.
It scooped up staffers working in groups with names like “China criminal enterprise unit” and “Russia Critical Infra and Tech Threat,” as well as sensitive information on all FBI staff—which is about 38,000 people.
What makes my blood run ice cold about the Tr666panized US gummit isn't the cruelty, sadism, and kleptocracy, it's the glorification of this carnival of incompetence.
It's zombie apocalypse and they never had any brains to begin with : 0
I was a little kid who lived maybe 15-20 minutes from the Arlington Heights Jewel store & some of the victims' home when the whole Tylenol thing was happening. We didn't have cable, so there was SO MUCH COVERAGE of that on all of the news & local morning shows, etc., as well as the general angst from my Mom & the clearing of all Tylenol from the medicine cabinets & cupboards. Formative memories are unlocked every time it comes back into the news.
P.S.: The extortion dude was never a reasonable suspect for the actual poisonings IMO.
She always had a random assortment of pills (Tylenol, allergy meds, tummy-related stuff) tucked away in her purses & travel bags (I do the same now), so it was a THOROUGH sweep.
Seems nostalgic to think about a time when a random madman was trying to kill us instead of the entire pharmaceutical and insurance industries, along with their government regulators and congress.
Your hed gif has work by the winners of the Ocean Photographer of the Year contest. Check out more info here: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/ocean-photographer-of-the-year
And I have a meme chat for you: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/cbca555a-068a-4494-b76c-68207985deb0
Have a nice weekend!
Needs a theme song.
https://youtu.be/De1LCQvbqV4?si=FtQKzOOTIet_OSN0
Thank you for the truly beautiful TABS gif this morning! What a nice Friday! That precious pinniped pup!
Yay! I looked at all those photos the other day!
We know so little about the oceans and seas of our planet and the life inhabiting those waters. Perhaps if we invested in studyi ---
Oh, who am I kidding?
That was a most excellent slide show, again thank you for doing this for all of us here at the Wonkette to enjoy.
The ocean looks like an alien planet..
We would be impoverished without the passion of these ocean photographers who find wonder everywhere. So cool! Thanks, Martini.
Them bebby tortoises look like raw peanuts ready for barlin'
To you AND a bunch of seagulls, probably.
I couldn’t help but notice that in none of the scenes of shells could I see “8647”. So, is it not a naturally occurring event?
Have no fear. Nature is going to 86 47 sooner than later.
So sad. Finally rich, yet 99.5% dead. JK about the first part.
Your lips to Ronald McDonald's ears.
Congrats to all of the winners!
In other good news (sorta) it seems that there are now 58% who say they’r worse off now than 4 years ago, and the increase is mainly fueled by disaffected Republican Voters. A plurality (40%) say their personal situation is “much worse”. This is only good in the context of how much of a wave this election might be, but it doesn’t look good for the current majority.
https://gelliottmorris.substack.com/p/2026-09-25-58-percent-country-worse-off-than-under-biden
Also:
dictator bro love
was never a good idea
stupid fucking twat
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-dictator-love-in-hit-by-jaw-dropping-intel-leak/
Good Morning, early bird Rebecca, and Happy Competitive Halloween Outdoor Decorating season! Is it just me, or does Arch “Pond” Naramour sound like a character in Lord of the Rings, or Sir Walter Scott. “Hist, Davey, it’s Pond Naramour of the Glen, who neibors Cluny of the Cage of clay and wattles”.
More like a Carl Hiaasen character from central Floriduh..
The Capuchins in Detroit have been doing Very Good Things for decades. They respect the dignity of the least of us, and do it quietly without preaching or expecting praise in return.
They are one of the charities I split my extra pennies with, and FFS the Blessed Father Casey needs Jesus to help him out and get him his second miracle do he can become an official saint.
I'm getting over my irritation, so here's where I are in a current story line:
A US Ambassador's daughter, missing for over a month, turns up. She's been hiding in a seraglio to get away from her parents, and it's revealed she's a month pregnant by one of the harem guards. The ruling prince is ticked off, as harem guards are traditionally eunuchs so this guy's clearly lied on his job application.
The girl's parents decide to put the best face on it and get these two lovebirds hitched (it's 1938, so you expect that), but objections start getting raised. The baby daddy's Greek Orthodox, the baby mama's Southern Baptist as are the parents. The Grand Mufti offers to officiate, but is glared at, and the pair are married by a freighter captain aboard a ship in the harbor.
Now that Italy has banned burqas in schools, will they do something about the damn nuns?
Trump is a Diet Cokehead.
I wish he was croak-ed
Where did John Roberts get the idea that it's not corruption unless the person committing it says in front of at least three witnesses, willing to testify, "just so we both understand, here, I am giving you this money in a corrupt act, you taking it is corrupt, and we both know that me giving you this money and you taking it to violate your oath of office is illegal but we are doing it anyway, agreed?" while wearing a t-shirt that says "I pay politicians for favors"?
Maybe from m*****f****r Antonin Scalia who wrote a dissenting opinion on a Supreme Court decision concerning the Endangered Species Act that it's OK to kill endangered species unless you say in front of at least three witnesses, willing to testify, "I am killing these animal that I know are endangered species, simply because I want to kill these specific animals that I know are endangered species and for no other reason" while wearing a t-shirt that says "I love to kill endangered species for no other reason than to specifically kill them" that is being used as the basis for a new rule for the Endangered Species Act that will render it meaningless.
https://abcnews.com/Business/wireStory/trump-administration-allows-inadvertent-killing-endangered-species-136540887
I have nothing to say that doesn't need near complete redaction in accordance with the Commenting Rules for Radicals.
He used to play that game where you stand in a darkened bathroom and look in the mirror and say “Martha Murtha” three times and you’ll see a ghoul appear in the mirror?
It’s like in Saudi Arabia where the man can simply say “I divorce you” three times and it’s done?
A genie comes out of a lamp and grants him three wishes of which “make me a mentally healthy human” is not one?
Taking wolves off protection right when their numbers are FINALLY getting better. 10 killed this year by bounty hunters NONE of which were proven to have been taking cattle. FUCK THIS TIMELINE. Bald eagles will be next because the dumbass orange motherfucker is afraid of them.
Some of us just love to 86 47.
𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻, 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-217084283
Stroke stroke stroke...
Say, you know the quickest way for a prezidunce to get their name on a building ; )
I met President Xi at the plane (Airport!)
it's like he has Tourette's but is too chickenshit to swear.
Def. needs some fiber.
I don't really care, do you?
"Look at Donny. He’s in actual, serious pain as the flyover occurs, while Xi just stands there like it’s no biggie. Nobody else flinches — just Donny.
What the fuck?
You know what? We should consult an actual expert. Hey, six-fingered plagiarism robot, is a sensitivity to loud noises a sign of dementia?
𝘠𝘦𝘴, 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘺𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢."
Good Morning. The Mary Pelota article was locked for me and I haz a confuse. She said she "hoped that she dies of a botched abortion" of a Planned Parenthood board member and that's a GOOD thing? What am I missing?
https://archive.is/Qva5G
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Mass Gov. Maura Healey’s getting smeared on the topic of “sending a nurse to check on new moms and babies,” and that is actually fucking evil. (Good Politics Bad Politics)
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Have these yoyos never seen an episode of “Call the Midwife”?
Funded PUBLIC HEALTH would save so much money - checking on Mom’s and Babies - checking on seniors ….. it would lessen the crowds in our emergency rooms. (As always cruelty is the point with the rethugs)
This date in history…
2025—The Presidential Sharpie scribbles on NSDM-7, re-defining reality. Now if you don’t love America, Christianity, or capitalism enough – or if you love immigrants too much – you’re fomenting political violence.
2007—Because Judge Sharon Keller refuses to work overtime, Texas gets to kill Michael Richard on schedule.
2002—Disregarding facts, George W.[MD] Bush says, “You can’t distinguish between al-Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror.”
1966—The White Sox beat the Yankees 4-1, at Yankee Stadium. Attendance is 413, the lowest ever.
1961—State Rep. E.H. Hurst murders Black voting advocate Herbert Lee at mid-day in Magnolia, Miss. Coroner’s jury: “justifiable homicide.”
1959—The U.S. Navy loses a nuclear depth charge in Puget Sound. Fortunately it’s lacking a fissile core.
1957—Nine Black kids get to enter Little Rock High School, courtesy of the President and the 101st Airborne.
1945—Vietnamese of all factions massacre French civilians in Saigon.
1926—Henry Ford announces the eight-hour, five-day work week.
1915—At Loos, France, British forces release 150 tons of chlorine gas towards German troops. To their chagrin, the wind then shifts.
1789—The Bill of Rights passes.
1662—Portsmouth adopts a bounty: £5 for every wolf killed whose head is “nayle[d] upon the meeting house.”
https://www.nhgazette.com/2026/09/25/fri-sept-25-2/
Morning "It Beats a Cuppa Coffee" Kittens!
https://bsky.app/profile/democratcats.bsky.social/post/3mwbbsqt5zs2x
Awwwww, what little maniacs!
Way too much energy for this hour of the morning.
Kitty MADNESS!
I'll thank the mommy blog for bringing me the story of the Inaccessible Monument on a hill inside a Detroit freeway cloverleaf. I needed a deeply metaphysical mystery to ponder and this story gets the job done.
However I do feel motivated to point out that the Denver International Airport also has an Inaccessible Monument inside a network of airport entrance and exit roads. It is called Blue Mustang. It is MASSIVE, blue and a huge source of dick jokes in the Denver area. (I am not kidding about the dick jokes. I also point out that Blue Mustang is DANGEROUS to get anywhere near.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mustang
Sounds like a perfect Trump statue, gaudy, covered in gold, and killed a brown person
Blucifer also is absolutely HUNG like a common Hunter Biden is hung. The pic in the wiki has been....cleaned up. Blucifer, in the flesh, is NSFW.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑣𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑠, 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑢𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑠, 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦.
Huh huh. "Veins".
The Blue Mustang 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑝𝑡𝑜𝑟, 𝐿𝑢𝑖𝑠 𝐽𝑖𝑚𝑒́𝑛𝑒𝑧, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑜.
Yikes, no wonder they call it Blucifer.
Frankenstein's monster had the idea first.
But Blucifer got the job done BEFORE he was assembled.
Ooops, the FBI don't Cyber good : (
Guess their new MAGA motto "Learnin' is four fagets" isn't working out so well.
Maybe the hackers could finally find the Epstein Files?
***FBI hack is even worse than it seems***
The hacking group, ShinyHunters, got access to the FBI’s online jobs portal, including information on current and former agents, job applicants, home addresses, job histories, spouses—you name it, they got it.
Reuters learned that the 5,000-line spreadsheet—which the hackers released as a little taste of the full two- to three-terabyte trove of data they stole—contains information on who was assigned to sensitive divisions like intelligence, security, and counterespionage.
It scooped up staffers working in groups with names like “China criminal enterprise unit” and “Russia Critical Infra and Tech Threat,” as well as sensitive information on all FBI staff—which is about 38,000 people.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/9/24/800103162/national/fbi-hack-worse-than-it-seems/
A spreadsheet?
That's what the hackers sent out. The data is (probably) not in a spreadsheet.
Huh. Maybe defunding CISA (the government cyber security agency) wasn't such a good idea, Elno.
What makes my blood run ice cold about the Tr666panized US gummit isn't the cruelty, sadism, and kleptocracy, it's the glorification of this carnival of incompetence.
It's zombie apocalypse and they never had any brains to begin with : 0
I was a little kid who lived maybe 15-20 minutes from the Arlington Heights Jewel store & some of the victims' home when the whole Tylenol thing was happening. We didn't have cable, so there was SO MUCH COVERAGE of that on all of the news & local morning shows, etc., as well as the general angst from my Mom & the clearing of all Tylenol from the medicine cabinets & cupboards. Formative memories are unlocked every time it comes back into the news.
P.S.: The extortion dude was never a reasonable suspect for the actual poisonings IMO.
That must have been terrifying for your mother.
She always had a random assortment of pills (Tylenol, allergy meds, tummy-related stuff) tucked away in her purses & travel bags (I do the same now), so it was a THOROUGH sweep.
I remember someone dressed as a Tylenol capsule on Halloween in Georgetown.
Seems nostalgic to think about a time when a random madman was trying to kill us instead of the entire pharmaceutical and insurance industries, along with their government regulators and congress.
They cancelled Halloween that year where I lived.
Hey! Now that's sacrilege!
I Know, RITE?
I was twelve flipping years old.... it was gonna be my last HUGE haul!
It is SO strange that I was just talking about the Tylenol murders yesterday.
Zoinks.
*secretly calls the FBI*
It's no secret. I get targeted ads every day, straight from conversations had in the car, near the cellphone.