When my sweet fluffy boy is in Bear Country he is often mistaken for a bear cub when glanced at quickly. Brief panic ensues. Then comes the various exclamations of relief followed by love dovies for the boy from his victims. Its a scam on his part I tell you!
OK. If the world is fortunate enough perhaps the bears will be hibernating when we hit the final shitshow and wake up to all of us gone. Then they can break out the opposable thumbs and do it better.
Off-topic: I tried to submit a comment to WaPo a little while ago in which I speculated that an apparent error was made by their AI bot. The Moderator wouldn't accept the posting with the words "AI bot" or any variation thereof. I suspect the AI bot" is also the moderator.
I absolutely loved the "Defy Democracy" video. The icing on the cake is that Randy Rainbow has an excellent singing voice. I guess I came late to the table, as I hadn't heard of him before. Shared the video with friends who also despise Trump and Musk. It was a good day to do it, as everyone I know is grumpy because Daylight Saving Time -- the one thing Trump considered getting rid of but then didn't. He could actually have had people like me not enraged at him for about five minutes.
Here's a reminder that every single Republican - from Trump on down - should ALWAYS be referred to as an Enemy of Democracy.
Over and over and over and over and over and never ever stop. You want to scare non-Democrats straight? Just let them know that the GOP are the Enemy of Democracy.
hey fellow filthy reprobates, if you enjoy music, independent radio, things humans do with other humans not for money but for fun, think corporate radio sucks, need another tax deductible donation, or just feel like making someone’s day, CHIRP radio (the Chicago Independent Radio Project, broadcasting low-power on 107.1 here in the city and at chirpradio.org around the world) is doing a fundraiser this week. I am one of the 200+ volunteers that keeps this station working, and I have set a VERY MODEST goal for this, my first time fundraising for the station. partly because thenext time I ask for money it’s gonna be for abdominal surgery.
No college affiliation, no NPR affiliation, no gods no masters and no NEA money (a mixed blessing, though grants from the city and state might be affected by the federal shitshow): just people making this work. CHIRP has been a going concern for 15 years, first online and the. later, the one person who gets paid for this, our bosslady, helped get the low-power station regulations passed by the FCC to make terrestrial broadcasting possible!
Alice looked at me in confusion, and I told her it was a mouse, and then she was very engaged because all the mouse people she has known up to this point have been stuffed toys. Her little world was rocked, and she is now thinking about it.
'Corporate DEI Was a Tool of the Elite. Ironically, So Is This Backlash. The battle over diversity and inclusion has always been about labor. But Trump was able to frame it as something else.'
"The values of diversity and inclusion descend from this fight, and represent the closet thing we have to a political movement for meritocracy. The opposition to “DEI” that occupies the White House is a smokescreen for a step in exactly the opposite direction, plain as day: make sure the rich get richer, and that no pesky standards of fairness or rules get in the way.
The fact is, the battle over “DEI” has always been a fight about labor, work, and who has access to the jobs and political institutions that build and protect wealth. If we ever forgot that, we’re learning it again now. We know that the administration’s problem with our institutions is not their insufficient commitment to the underlying values of the Civil Rights Movement. Trump and Elon Musk are enraged at even the half-measures taken in the general direction of fairness. (That those half-measures can be lumped together under a bureaucratic-sounding acronym—DEI—probably makes Musk and his cohort feel they have even greater license to paint them as tools of the nanny state.)
Musk and the other tech CEOs who are bankrolling the right wing today began a crusade against DEI because it represented a modicum of control they didn’t have over their employees. And they are winning that control back by a campaign for seizing total power: not just over their workers, but over all of us. We are already seeing how a game that only billionaires can afford to play will be rigged against the rest of the population."
Trump fired the head of organized crime drug task force? SO much for FENTANYL IS COMING OVER THE BORDERS!!! You'd think he would wait until he stopped making fentanyl his excuse for imposing tariffs but nah. It's not like the MSM is going to bother reporting on any of this.
Your hed gif info: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/a-bear-y-agreeable-snow-day
And meme chant: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/6a6d193b-557f-45c5-a97a-96ef4abc985e
Thanks Martini. I sent the Instagram link to Mrs Mild Jr, who's about to become a Mama.
Oooh, congrats!!
When my sweet fluffy boy is in Bear Country he is often mistaken for a bear cub when glanced at quickly. Brief panic ensues. Then comes the various exclamations of relief followed by love dovies for the boy from his victims. Its a scam on his part I tell you!
https://substack.com/profile/155628113-up-here-in-the-clouds/note/c-99373595
And because Trigger would like to protect his bear friends, please always follow the Bear Wise rules!
https://bearwise.org/bear-safety-tips/bear-encounters/
Heaven knows I really try
Though I am no poetic wizard
But I just can't resist the fun
Of a busy grizzly blizzard.
It seems natural for the cubs
To frolic in the snow
But Mama wants to play as well
And just goes with the flow.
Ursa-ch a good poet.
OK. If the world is fortunate enough perhaps the bears will be hibernating when we hit the final shitshow and wake up to all of us gone. Then they can break out the opposable thumbs and do it better.
🎶 Da Bear rolled over the mountain, da Bear rolled over the mountain, da Bear rolled over the mountaiiiiiin! to play with her cute cubs 🎶
So now it's a meme chant as well as a meme chat? I can't keep up!
LOL, it's Monday, I can't be expected to catch all my typing errors 🤪
But feel free to sing along.
Clock Fuckery Monday to boot.
Owa tafu lyam . . .
Adorable!
Momma bear: jeez it’s impossible to get these kids down for a nap, I mean hibernation.
I can’t bear it…
Mama and babies enjoying the snow. Whee!
He's not feeling a thing. Neither are his posse.
Stocks’ sell-off worsens as Wall Street wonders how much pain Trump will accept for the economy
https://apnews.com/article/stocks-markets-economy-tariffs-trump-rates-174603e75feb9d5cca96c08817e0c7c2
on stranded students: "Government's collapsing. Gotta go."
That Kebab pie sound delish. I hope they are able to export it after we send Elon and Don to explore Venus.
"Thousands of American students are stranded around the world after funds from the Department of State were abruptly cut off"
Don't worry, they can all just fly home on Trump airlines.
What's that you say? Bankrupt?
But the Donald is a master of "The Art of the Deal"!!
Kind of a depressing list of stories.
I liked the story about pies.
Off-topic: I tried to submit a comment to WaPo a little while ago in which I speculated that an apparent error was made by their AI bot. The Moderator wouldn't accept the posting with the words "AI bot" or any variation thereof. I suspect the AI bot" is also the moderator.
Perhaps if had praised Free Markets this would not have happened to you. /s
I absolutely loved the "Defy Democracy" video. The icing on the cake is that Randy Rainbow has an excellent singing voice. I guess I came late to the table, as I hadn't heard of him before. Shared the video with friends who also despise Trump and Musk. It was a good day to do it, as everyone I know is grumpy because Daylight Saving Time -- the one thing Trump considered getting rid of but then didn't. He could actually have had people like me not enraged at him for about five minutes.
Here's a reminder that every single Republican - from Trump on down - should ALWAYS be referred to as an Enemy of Democracy.
Over and over and over and over and over and never ever stop. You want to scare non-Democrats straight? Just let them know that the GOP are the Enemy of Democracy.
hey fellow filthy reprobates, if you enjoy music, independent radio, things humans do with other humans not for money but for fun, think corporate radio sucks, need another tax deductible donation, or just feel like making someone’s day, CHIRP radio (the Chicago Independent Radio Project, broadcasting low-power on 107.1 here in the city and at chirpradio.org around the world) is doing a fundraiser this week. I am one of the 200+ volunteers that keeps this station working, and I have set a VERY MODEST goal for this, my first time fundraising for the station. partly because thenext time I ask for money it’s gonna be for abdominal surgery.
throw us a buck: https://chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/chirptips2025
No college affiliation, no NPR affiliation, no gods no masters and no NEA money (a mixed blessing, though grants from the city and state might be affected by the federal shitshow): just people making this work. CHIRP has been a going concern for 15 years, first online and the. later, the one person who gets paid for this, our bosslady, helped get the low-power station regulations passed by the FCC to make terrestrial broadcasting possible!
Any station that plays tracks off Dub Housing has my immediate attention.
I somehow missed that Meatball is back and is nominated for ambassador to NATO. Fuck a duck.
Addendum to Morning News Roundup: Vole Spotted!
Alice looked at me in confusion, and I told her it was a mouse, and then she was very engaged because all the mouse people she has known up to this point have been stuffed toys. Her little world was rocked, and she is now thinking about it.
https://substack.com/profile/1687878-1d57a1d5931d/note/c-99425464?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=106di
Slate : (Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò; 3/10/25):
'Corporate DEI Was a Tool of the Elite. Ironically, So Is This Backlash. The battle over diversity and inclusion has always been about labor. But Trump was able to frame it as something else.'
"The values of diversity and inclusion descend from this fight, and represent the closet thing we have to a political movement for meritocracy. The opposition to “DEI” that occupies the White House is a smokescreen for a step in exactly the opposite direction, plain as day: make sure the rich get richer, and that no pesky standards of fairness or rules get in the way.
The fact is, the battle over “DEI” has always been a fight about labor, work, and who has access to the jobs and political institutions that build and protect wealth. If we ever forgot that, we’re learning it again now. We know that the administration’s problem with our institutions is not their insufficient commitment to the underlying values of the Civil Rights Movement. Trump and Elon Musk are enraged at even the half-measures taken in the general direction of fairness. (That those half-measures can be lumped together under a bureaucratic-sounding acronym—DEI—probably makes Musk and his cohort feel they have even greater license to paint them as tools of the nanny state.)
Musk and the other tech CEOs who are bankrolling the right wing today began a crusade against DEI because it represented a modicum of control they didn’t have over their employees. And they are winning that control back by a campaign for seizing total power: not just over their workers, but over all of us. We are already seeing how a game that only billionaires can afford to play will be rigged against the rest of the population."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/trump-musk-doge-dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-race-gender-labor.html
Trump fired the head of organized crime drug task force? SO much for FENTANYL IS COMING OVER THE BORDERS!!! You'd think he would wait until he stopped making fentanyl his excuse for imposing tariffs but nah. It's not like the MSM is going to bother reporting on any of this.
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Those who would give up necessary liberty for temporary egg deserve neither libery nor egg.
Okay I bought the pizza but I did not buy the popcorns and have (non) buyers remorse. Is the popcorn thing over now?