“Their name comes from the Middle Dutch word mannekijn, meaning "little man." With their frequently-colorful plumage, large heads, short tails, and short bills, they perhaps did resemble stout little well-dressed men…”
Hearing about the endless rounds of stupidity from the PAB, Jizzy Davenport, Krazy Eyes, et.al t is so exhausting. Even mocking them as they so richly deserve seems like too muck effort some days. Our country is now just a laughingstock with nuclear weapons.
I have just sent a message off to my other Senator, Ted Budd about my fears for the state of this nation and called him out for his tepid response in the face of the damage Trump continues to do to this nation;
More than likely I am wasting my breath trying to stir a active response from a political party of "very concerned, Susan Collins clones" in the Republican Party in Congress. But, for what it's worth, here it is:
Senator: I spent this weekend watching numerous reports and discussions among reasonable people and seasoned reporters and policy experts from a wide range of disciplines, and I will tell you straight out we are in serious trouble as a nation. We may have enemies abroad, but the most serious threat is the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
Trump's lackeys, notably Pam Bondi, and Kash Patel have so hollowed out our justice/investigative agencies, the FBI and DOJ with mass firings of dedicated career professionals whose jobs are to protect the United States from "enemies, foreign and domestic" that we may very well be visited by another disaster, and will have no warning and no proper defense because we have allowed this president to gut every agency that serves this nation, protects us, and provides us with the needed governmental mechanisms and personnel to handle neither the threat nor the response in a national disaster.
Do we have that? We don't, and the dilatory response from members of Congress in the Republican Party are complicit - if not actual perpetrators - in the dismantling of our government, our standing in the world of nations, our economic and financial well being, and our military, under the thumb of a Christian Nationalist, TV talking head, and all round incompetent alcoholic, Pete Hegseth.
WE ARE IN TROUBLE!
We can repair and rebuild the government properties Trump has desecrated and disgraced, but our honor and our standing in the world will take generations to set right again. If we even get that far.
Keep this in mind as you go about the business of your day: You and every other Republican who obeys the rants and raving dementia of our very sick president are up to your necks in the incompetent laughingstock we have become as a nation. Canada, Europe and the nations in the Pacific no longer trust anything that we do as a nation and are shucking us off as a bad debt and a conspiracy-laden, nation of racists more concerned with culture wars and the demonization of non-whites, and women, than the train wreck that is happening in real time right before our eyes. IT IS ON YOU, SENATOR - ON YOU.
350 million people depend on this government for their very lives, and your lack of response to the domestic terror and terrorist-in-chief in the Mar-a-Largo North White House, tell the country and the world you are either too afraid to do what is necessary, or you would rather bury your head in the sand and hope for the storm to blow over, than remove Trump, his entire cabinet, and incompetent lackeys before something irreversible turns out the lights after 250 years of the (formerly) United States of America.
Is it more delusional to think XI meant Biden in his comments, or that anyone will be persuaded by the PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN rant?
“Actual New York Times headline: Talarico’s Taco Order Turns Into a Texas-Sized Debate. Oh no, does James Talarico eat secret gay vegan breakfast tacos?”
Also eggs and cheese aren’t even vegan you idiots.
I have never been trans, but met my first transwomen when I was 16, and have been an ally ever since. When I was half that age, I made my Halloween costume, with a little sewing help from my late mother. I was half man (right side), half woman (left side). Transgender for everybody? No, just for a select few. I found out today that my trans coworker has been misgendered at work, not by clients but by STAFF. Simply unacceptable.
As I understand it Vegans don't eat food that kills or exploits animals, so eggs and cheese would not be in a Vegan meal. Vegetarians have a looser standard in that since no animal was killed producing eggs or cheese it's alright to eat them.
Free market capitalist orthodoxy is destroying America. It's eating itself in an ever more psychotic search for profit. The only alternatives are fascism or socialism. The ruling class is settling on fascism, as is plain to see with their implementation of palantir and ICE and etc.
The AI intrusion definitely has a component of that, to make us dumber and crazier. Enshittification is just more of the psychotic, cancerous profit seeking.
I'm always baffled by Trump's "transgender for everyone" line because it sounds like one day you get a letter from the Government saying, "Dear Sir, henceforth you will be required to dress and live like a woman, and be addressed as Ma'm." It not how transgender works, but then Trump's aiming at low information voters who do think that's how it works.
A couple of wild and crazy guys! Your hed gif explainer: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/dance-practice
And the meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/08d5c9d7-8b55-4fde-9b1b-1a0a89053fd7?utm_source=share
I don't always have the fortitude to read Tabs, but I always look at the hed gif.
Thanks, Martini.
Team breakdancing.
This one is for adults only!
The Lance-Tailed Manakin
has a blue blue back
and a bright red head
both of which he uses
to get a girl in bed
“Their name comes from the Middle Dutch word mannekijn, meaning "little man." With their frequently-colorful plumage, large heads, short tails, and short bills, they perhaps did resemble stout little well-dressed men…”
Hey, I’m a manakin!
So which one of these guys is the wing man?
I can't really discern the difference, but here's what Cornell says:
PGVm (purple-pver-light-green on the left, dark-green-over-metal on the right), an alpha male
beta partner, GSGm (light green-over-striped on the left, light-green-over-metal on the right)
They look like they’re sharing a trampoline.
Very Pretty Birds.
Beautiful plumage
Birds of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo! Who knew?
I've only been too happy
To help you with your needs
My alpha friend
I'm off to spend
Time spreading fruity seeds.
It's not like I'm begrudging
I don't need to be paid
But I'll be glad when
Now and then
It's my time to get laid.
That goes well with the tune of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Hum diddle iddle iddle hum diddle aye.
KALAKA! also too!
Gorgeous birds, and the article was fascinating and worth the read. Thanks!
Let's dance!
Put on your red hat and dance!
Bouncy birbs havin' a ball.
Can't let the RWNJs see those birds; such behavior is GAY.
It's OK, they're wearing red hats.
Only the better to fool them my dear.
Dance Dance Avian!
Dancing like manics!
https://youtu.be/KlUsYvHDuDM?si=REZk8qDoG87vLpzE
Flirty birbs!
Hearing about the endless rounds of stupidity from the PAB, Jizzy Davenport, Krazy Eyes, et.al t is so exhausting. Even mocking them as they so richly deserve seems like too muck effort some days. Our country is now just a laughingstock with nuclear weapons.
I have just sent a message off to my other Senator, Ted Budd about my fears for the state of this nation and called him out for his tepid response in the face of the damage Trump continues to do to this nation;
More than likely I am wasting my breath trying to stir a active response from a political party of "very concerned, Susan Collins clones" in the Republican Party in Congress. But, for what it's worth, here it is:
Senator: I spent this weekend watching numerous reports and discussions among reasonable people and seasoned reporters and policy experts from a wide range of disciplines, and I will tell you straight out we are in serious trouble as a nation. We may have enemies abroad, but the most serious threat is the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
Trump's lackeys, notably Pam Bondi, and Kash Patel have so hollowed out our justice/investigative agencies, the FBI and DOJ with mass firings of dedicated career professionals whose jobs are to protect the United States from "enemies, foreign and domestic" that we may very well be visited by another disaster, and will have no warning and no proper defense because we have allowed this president to gut every agency that serves this nation, protects us, and provides us with the needed governmental mechanisms and personnel to handle neither the threat nor the response in a national disaster.
Do we have that? We don't, and the dilatory response from members of Congress in the Republican Party are complicit - if not actual perpetrators - in the dismantling of our government, our standing in the world of nations, our economic and financial well being, and our military, under the thumb of a Christian Nationalist, TV talking head, and all round incompetent alcoholic, Pete Hegseth.
WE ARE IN TROUBLE!
We can repair and rebuild the government properties Trump has desecrated and disgraced, but our honor and our standing in the world will take generations to set right again. If we even get that far.
Keep this in mind as you go about the business of your day: You and every other Republican who obeys the rants and raving dementia of our very sick president are up to your necks in the incompetent laughingstock we have become as a nation. Canada, Europe and the nations in the Pacific no longer trust anything that we do as a nation and are shucking us off as a bad debt and a conspiracy-laden, nation of racists more concerned with culture wars and the demonization of non-whites, and women, than the train wreck that is happening in real time right before our eyes. IT IS ON YOU, SENATOR - ON YOU.
350 million people depend on this government for their very lives, and your lack of response to the domestic terror and terrorist-in-chief in the Mar-a-Largo North White House, tell the country and the world you are either too afraid to do what is necessary, or you would rather bury your head in the sand and hope for the storm to blow over, than remove Trump, his entire cabinet, and incompetent lackeys before something irreversible turns out the lights after 250 years of the (formerly) United States of America.
OOOUUUU!! Can't wait for pig-fucker Comer Pyle to do that. I live in Kentucky. OOOUUUUU this gonna be fuuuun!!
Any shots of Big Don 'blinking" at the dinner?
Wonder if they'll start buying soybeans again.
https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2026/02/u-s-farm-bankruptcies-increased-46-in-2025/
Is it more delusional to think XI meant Biden in his comments, or that anyone will be persuaded by the PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN rant?
“Actual New York Times headline: Talarico’s Taco Order Turns Into a Texas-Sized Debate. Oh no, does James Talarico eat secret gay vegan breakfast tacos?”
Also eggs and cheese aren’t even vegan you idiots.
Does the NYT know that it’s read by New Yorkers and other people with a wide worldview and not MAGA Texans who flip out at the idea of vegans?
Talarico: I’ll have two tacos with the Dee’s.
Taco Joint worker: What Dee’s?
Talarico: Deez NUTZ!!!!
Obama: [snicker][snicker]
Taco Joint worker: Do I have to ask you two to leave?
Hinojosa: Great job, James.
Obama: Yeah, James. Real mature.
Talarico: Shut up, Barry.
I will never tire of these.
"Transgender for everbody"? Dang, I missed the memo! So here I sit just as boring as ever. I have such regerts.
I have never been trans, but met my first transwomen when I was 16, and have been an ally ever since. When I was half that age, I made my Halloween costume, with a little sewing help from my late mother. I was half man (right side), half woman (left side). Transgender for everybody? No, just for a select few. I found out today that my trans coworker has been misgendered at work, not by clients but by STAFF. Simply unacceptable.
I grew up with Heinlein, Bujold, and John Varley. Transgender for whoever wants it, absolutely.
If I'm going to have to be transgendered, I want the multiple orgasms also, too.
FFS, NYT- that’s REALLY important enough to write about? Christ on a crutch, that paper has gone down the toilet.
As I understand it Vegans don't eat food that kills or exploits animals, so eggs and cheese would not be in a Vegan meal. Vegetarians have a looser standard in that since no animal was killed producing eggs or cheese it's alright to eat them.
Right. Vegetarians that eat cheese and eggs are “ovo-lacto vegetarians.” I’ve been one since 1989. ❤️🐂🐄🐓🐖🐟❤️
Free market capitalist orthodoxy is destroying America. It's eating itself in an ever more psychotic search for profit. The only alternatives are fascism or socialism. The ruling class is settling on fascism, as is plain to see with their implementation of palantir and ICE and etc.
Fascism? You're too optimistic. What the billionaires want is feudalism, with them as our liege lords.
Meanwhile I'm beginning to suspect the ai intrusion and enshittification is intended to drive us mad.
The AI intrusion definitely has a component of that, to make us dumber and crazier. Enshittification is just more of the psychotic, cancerous profit seeking.
Xi: I truly hope we can avoid a Thucydides trap.
Trump: Avoid what?
Xi: ThucydiDEEZ NUTZ!!!!!!!
I'm always baffled by Trump's "transgender for everyone" line because it sounds like one day you get a letter from the Government saying, "Dear Sir, henceforth you will be required to dress and live like a woman, and be addressed as Ma'm." It not how transgender works, but then Trump's aiming at low information voters who do think that's how it works.
I've gotta hand it to him – pandering to the stupidest, most racist assholes this country has to offer has really paid off for him.
Kmart CEO to shareholders: "When Sam Walton said that our business model is dead, what he meant was under the last CEO."
Welp, the Dow has dropped below 50,000 again today. Should see more news stories about the Epstein files and Republican corruption today.