I otter decorated my porch planter with gourds. Squirrels destroyed my pumpkins and colorful squash! (And the mail dude accidentally broke my ceramic jack-o-lantern!). It wasn't the year for Halloween decor at this house!
Norman Finkelstein, Cornel West, and Richard Wolff discuss how Tucker Carlson has changed recently, with West saying that we should give Tucker a chance to prove he's really changed for the better, and Wolff saying that Tucker becoming more religious could make him pro-immigration.
It's a good thing the Iranian navy has been completely destroyed -- if this is what they can do on a daily basis when they don't exist, having them around would be *much* worse.
***Iran’s navy says two oil tankers have been damaged and caught fire in the eastern Strait of Hormuz after striking naval mines.
A statement carried by Iranian media said the vessels had been operating in “restricted and dangerous areas” with their tracking systems disabled, “ignoring warnings and established regulations”.***
Sources reached out to General Sylvia for comment, reaching his home. Sylvia's mother said Sylvia's busy, too busy to come to the phone. Sylvia's mother said Sylvia's trying to start a new life of his own. Sylvia's mother said Sylvia's happy so why don't you leave him alone?
And the operator said 40 cents more for the next three minutes.
Sorry if you have to go on X to see this . . . but it's a screenshot of Patrick Stewart describing what it was like to experience a Tommy's burger in Hollywood for the first time: 'I had to drink three beers, one after the other, to properly accompany each bite' 😋 . . .
UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest
Sir Patrick Stewart describes his first experience of a Hamburger in America. (You’ll read this in his voice)
KK Downing of Judas Priest said he lost weight on the band’s first American tour, because he couldn’t stand the food - he couldn’t get what he described as regular things like sausage and tomato sandwiches.
I read that there is a trend in the Deep South for non-regular and younger voters coming out early, and that Callais is spiking Black turnout in the states where people have been disenfranchised. Good. I hope that deeply immoral SCOTUS decision blows up in their faces as much as possible.
A Seaside Shrine to the Slaveholders’ Insurrection
Jefferson Davis is the only traitor with a “presidential library”—and you paid for it. My visit to America's most appalling tourist attraction...
" After Davis’s death, the house, known as “Beauvoir” thanks to its stunning Gulf views, became a retirement home for Confederate veterans. Today, the sprawling estate is home to the preserved house, as well as a Confederate cemetery and the 24,000 square foot “Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum.” On TripAdvisor, it is the #1 most highly-recommended tourist attraction in Biloxi. It hosts fun runs, Mahjong tournaments, and an annual “family-friendly” birthday party for Davis himself, with free cupcakes. Golf carts are available to rent, for cruising the grounds.
Beauvoir has entirely evaded the last decade’s reckoning with Confederate monuments. Operated by the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), it is maintained as an unapologetic shrine to the slaveowning South: a 60-acre argument that the slaveholding states should have won the Civil War, that slavery was a non-issue in that war, and that Jefferson Davis belongs in the pantheon of the great men of history. (And as a corollary, that Abraham Lincoln was a dictator, fool, racist, and liberal.) Visiting it is a surreal experience, like stepping into an alternate history novel where Confederate “presidents” receive the same monumental, hagiographic libraries that U.S. presidents do. To anyone who understands something of the horrific reality of the slave system, it’s as if postwar Germany had let neo-Nazis take control of Hitler’s residence and turn it into a massive tourist attraction selling leather-bound editions of Mein Kampf. (In fact, the Berghof was deliberately blown up in 1952 precisely to prevent such an outcome. Hitler’s birthplace and Munich apartment have been turned into police stations.) "
I had the same feeling in Atlanta viewing a huge panorama of the burning of the city by Sherman before his March to the Sea. I'm like, "These guys realized they lost, don't they?"
"Residents of a North Carolina community expressed outrage after their HOA (Homeowner’s Association) proposed higher fees that would total a whopping $90K per year, a move they say would push them out of their homes.
Members of the Magnolia Cove neighborhood in Sherrills Ford reached out to the media as the HOA unveiled a proposal raising monthly fees to $7,500.
Residents say the fees were recently raised to more than $1,200 over the summer plus a $10,000 assessment fee – with fees originally around $158 five years ago – but the latest increase would raise them by a factor of 6.
The HOA claims the higher fees are necessary to cover the “legal and collection costs from owners’ accounts that haven’t been paid,” arguing that “Owners who stay current help bring those costs down over time.”
There's a lot of this in south Florida.. The HOAs and/or management companies defer maintenance/upgrades, let people slide on their payments, and then something happens and "holy shit! we don't have any money!"
Hubs and I wouldn't even look at condos when we were house hunting because we had heard nightmare stories about HOA's. Our tiny house is on a busy street but at least we don't have to deal with that shit.
"Fees" are what's going to end civilized society. I'm moving to a new apartment soon. Not only is the rent obscene, they tack on a mandatory "lifestyle fee", where you have to use certain services whether you do or not. You also have to pay to insure their property and to maintain the grounds. I looked at several different apartments and they all have these now. Rent is insane, but now you have to pay even more for these fees.
Private Equity ownership is killing affordable housing. The problem is we can't set fires to private equity owners houses, no one knows where they live. Ain't capitalism grand?
The reading assignment for the book club is just 210 or so pages long. I figure I can squeeze it in before the meeting on Sunday. As a college graduate I know the value of coffee and have study habits that......oh.....excuse me. My phone is ringing.
OK I'm back. That was my Beautiful Friend at the Retirement Community reminding me about our date tomorrow night and how it is my turn to show up with the ice cream.
Where was I? Oh yes. Looks like my original plan has been altered and I'll just have to lurk nearby while the rest of you discuss the book. Enjoy!
Feeling my age - when Trump misgendered General Sylvia, I was tempted to make a joke about the 1982 song “Nobody” before concluding that only a handful of other GenXers might get it.
Has any administration ever been as overtly hostile to veterans as Trump's? And, more importantly, why the ever loving f**k are veterans still tolerating this?
There's a house in my neighborhood that had a pair of "Veterans for Trump" signs out in the yard for the longest damned time. Dude finally removed them a few weeks ago. I was wondering what the precipitating event was that finally got him to take them down.
He still has his angry-eagle "We the People are Pissed" sign out there, though.
When so many veterans became MAGA and supported a draft dodger, I concluded that, despite all of the patriotic rah-rah I had grown up hearing, many veterans are not serious people.
Weirdly, Axios claims he confessed. It’s behind their paywall, and I didn’t bother bypassing it because I figured, if it was true, others would report it as well.
This Halloween gif otter be gourd… https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/this-otter-be-a-gourd-place-to-explore
And a meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/648e4e83-ae66-4359-bc13-c3840ed5ac4a?r=angu9&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=share
Have a spooky-good weekend!
Weasels ripped my goard!
RZZZZ!
More fun than a pumpkin full of otters!
Sound track? In a deep voice: “Awwwwterz! … Sheesh, can I never sleep in?”
Good morning, olde pumpkins.
My spirit hair stylist is an otter...
"I don't like this pumpkin spice, do you have anything otter? "
I otter decorated my porch planter with gourds. Squirrels destroyed my pumpkins and colorful squash! (And the mail dude accidentally broke my ceramic jack-o-lantern!). It wasn't the year for Halloween decor at this house!
This portends.
Adorably, otterly, bonkers.
"This Halloween gif otter be gourd" ????
👉👉👉👉👉👉
You are suspended for two days.
Otterly adorable.
Sorry...couldn't help it.
I thought they were birds!
"Said the raven, 'Nevermore.'"
Birds aren't real.
Wow. A BOGO pun before coffee? And it’s not even my birthday or anything!
You otter know how much I adore otters, and decorative gourds like carved pumpkins, and this is my happy place this morning. TYSM!
Cute critters enjoying Mr. Jack!
Otter than that. 🎃
I think today will be delegated to doing nothing but resting up and healing.
Well look who's all in for Tucker Carlson 2028!
Norman Finkelstein, Cornel West, and Richard Wolff discuss how Tucker Carlson has changed recently, with West saying that we should give Tucker a chance to prove he's really changed for the better, and Wolff saying that Tucker becoming more religious could make him pro-immigration.
https://bsky.app/profile/postleftwatch.bsky.social/post/3mz2fojmulc2z
They join Cenk & The Young Jerks on the Fucker C for President movement...🤮
Two words: FUCK. NO.
When Carlson ditched the George F. Will bowtie he lost all credibility with me.
It's a good thing the Iranian navy has been completely destroyed -- if this is what they can do on a daily basis when they don't exist, having them around would be *much* worse.
***Iran’s navy says two oil tankers have been damaged and caught fire in the eastern Strait of Hormuz after striking naval mines.
A statement carried by Iranian media said the vessels had been operating in “restricted and dangerous areas” with their tracking systems disabled, “ignoring warnings and established regulations”.***
https://aje.news/tylycb?update=5100937
Sources reached out to General Sylvia for comment, reaching his home. Sylvia's mother said Sylvia's busy, too busy to come to the phone. Sylvia's mother said Sylvia's trying to start a new life of his own. Sylvia's mother said Sylvia's happy so why don't you leave him alone?
And the operator said 40 cents more for the next three minutes.
I made that reference about 20 minutes earlier: https://www.wonkette.com/p/the-cult-tabs-fri-oct-30-2026/comment/374147724
My baby sis and I used to call the local radio station all the time to request that song!
Can’t wait to see his picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone.
He'll buy five copies for his mother. Who is Sylvia's mother.
It gets real circular.
"'Go nuclear', the cowboy told us..."
The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on-y9Pv-CJA
Good morning 🌤️ . . .
Sorry if you have to go on X to see this . . . but it's a screenshot of Patrick Stewart describing what it was like to experience a Tommy's burger in Hollywood for the first time: 'I had to drink three beers, one after the other, to properly accompany each bite' 😋 . . .
UtterlyInteresting @UtterlyInterest
Sir Patrick Stewart describes his first experience of a Hamburger in America. (You’ll read this in his voice)
4:36 PM · Oct 29, 2026
https://x.com/UtterlyInterest/status/2115905567189577750
KK Downing of Judas Priest said he lost weight on the band’s first American tour, because he couldn’t stand the food - he couldn’t get what he described as regular things like sausage and tomato sandwiches.
No baked beans for breakfast? No jellied eels?
I read that there is a trend in the Deep South for non-regular and younger voters coming out early, and that Callais is spiking Black turnout in the states where people have been disenfranchised. Good. I hope that deeply immoral SCOTUS decision blows up in their faces as much as possible.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-follow-the-early-vote-except-for-this
A Seaside Shrine to the Slaveholders’ Insurrection
Jefferson Davis is the only traitor with a “presidential library”—and you paid for it. My visit to America's most appalling tourist attraction...
" After Davis’s death, the house, known as “Beauvoir” thanks to its stunning Gulf views, became a retirement home for Confederate veterans. Today, the sprawling estate is home to the preserved house, as well as a Confederate cemetery and the 24,000 square foot “Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum.” On TripAdvisor, it is the #1 most highly-recommended tourist attraction in Biloxi. It hosts fun runs, Mahjong tournaments, and an annual “family-friendly” birthday party for Davis himself, with free cupcakes. Golf carts are available to rent, for cruising the grounds.
Beauvoir has entirely evaded the last decade’s reckoning with Confederate monuments. Operated by the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV), it is maintained as an unapologetic shrine to the slaveowning South: a 60-acre argument that the slaveholding states should have won the Civil War, that slavery was a non-issue in that war, and that Jefferson Davis belongs in the pantheon of the great men of history. (And as a corollary, that Abraham Lincoln was a dictator, fool, racist, and liberal.) Visiting it is a surreal experience, like stepping into an alternate history novel where Confederate “presidents” receive the same monumental, hagiographic libraries that U.S. presidents do. To anyone who understands something of the horrific reality of the slave system, it’s as if postwar Germany had let neo-Nazis take control of Hitler’s residence and turn it into a massive tourist attraction selling leather-bound editions of Mein Kampf. (In fact, the Berghof was deliberately blown up in 1952 precisely to prevent such an outcome. Hitler’s birthplace and Munich apartment have been turned into police stations.) "
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/a-seaside-shrine-to-the-slaveholders-insurrection
I'm all for a library, museum, whatever - but make it accurate! Not revisionist propaganda.
I had the same feeling in Atlanta viewing a huge panorama of the burning of the city by Sherman before his March to the Sea. I'm like, "These guys realized they lost, don't they?"
And as we swing into our weekend...
"Breakfast al fresco"
https://bsky.app/profile/hive101.bsky.social/post/3myziweil722j
Boy, he pollinated that flower like a beast.
The bees can do that now. It used to not be safe, but I changed all that. - Shitler
"Residents of a North Carolina community expressed outrage after their HOA (Homeowner’s Association) proposed higher fees that would total a whopping $90K per year, a move they say would push them out of their homes.
Members of the Magnolia Cove neighborhood in Sherrills Ford reached out to the media as the HOA unveiled a proposal raising monthly fees to $7,500.
Residents say the fees were recently raised to more than $1,200 over the summer plus a $10,000 assessment fee – with fees originally around $158 five years ago – but the latest increase would raise them by a factor of 6.
The HOA claims the higher fees are necessary to cover the “legal and collection costs from owners’ accounts that haven’t been paid,” arguing that “Owners who stay current help bring those costs down over time.”
LOL a 50x increase in fees to collect unpaid fees makes no sense. Someone's going to jail for embezzlement before this one is over.
There's a lot of this in south Florida.. The HOAs and/or management companies defer maintenance/upgrades, let people slide on their payments, and then something happens and "holy shit! we don't have any money!"
I wonder what their true insurance situation is, also.
Hubs and I wouldn't even look at condos when we were house hunting because we had heard nightmare stories about HOA's. Our tiny house is on a busy street but at least we don't have to deal with that shit.
Like renting from the Kushners or Trumps. Or having the worst Option ARM ever.
"Fees" are what's going to end civilized society. I'm moving to a new apartment soon. Not only is the rent obscene, they tack on a mandatory "lifestyle fee", where you have to use certain services whether you do or not. You also have to pay to insure their property and to maintain the grounds. I looked at several different apartments and they all have these now. Rent is insane, but now you have to pay even more for these fees.
Private Equity ownership is killing affordable housing. The problem is we can't set fires to private equity owners houses, no one knows where they live. Ain't capitalism grand?
They raised fees to cover the cost of collecting fees? JFC
The reading assignment for the book club is just 210 or so pages long. I figure I can squeeze it in before the meeting on Sunday. As a college graduate I know the value of coffee and have study habits that......oh.....excuse me. My phone is ringing.
OK I'm back. That was my Beautiful Friend at the Retirement Community reminding me about our date tomorrow night and how it is my turn to show up with the ice cream.
Where was I? Oh yes. Looks like my original plan has been altered and I'll just have to lurk nearby while the rest of you discuss the book. Enjoy!
It’s only the first section Sunday. I listened to it on Libby and they didn’t mention sections only chapters.
Feeling my age - when Trump misgendered General Sylvia, I was tempted to make a joke about the 1982 song “Nobody” before concluding that only a handful of other GenXers might get it.
I went with Dr. Hook.
I started humming Shakespeare....
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50684/song-who-is-silvia-what-is-she
Has any administration ever been as overtly hostile to veterans as Trump's? And, more importantly, why the ever loving f**k are veterans still tolerating this?
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽'𝘀 𝗩𝗔 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺. 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘃𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲
https://www.npr.org/2026/10/30/nx-s1-5995628/trump-va-home-loan-program-veterans-paying
There's a house in my neighborhood that had a pair of "Veterans for Trump" signs out in the yard for the longest damned time. Dude finally removed them a few weeks ago. I was wondering what the precipitating event was that finally got him to take them down.
He still has his angry-eagle "We the People are Pissed" sign out there, though.
When so many veterans became MAGA and supported a draft dodger, I concluded that, despite all of the patriotic rah-rah I had grown up hearing, many veterans are not serious people.
Racism is a helluva drug...
Their commitment to bigotry is stronger than their commitment to the military.
They’re just suckers and losers, amirite?
*Narrator: The bot is a sucker and loser.
Looks like that general was fired on Laura Loomer's orders because she's still pissed his son said mean things about Charlie Kirk.
𝗛𝗲𝗴𝘀𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗛𝗶𝗺
𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘨𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘴.
https://newrepublic.com/post/217322/hegseth-fires-top-general-laura-loomer-target
Weirdly, Axios claims he confessed. It’s behind their paywall, and I didn’t bother bypassing it because I figured, if it was true, others would report it as well.
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/29/fired-general-leaks-iran-ukraine
*Putin laughing gif*
Inmates running the asylum.
Beyond sad on the loss of Sir Patrick. Just a horrible year of losses.
That Faux News clip... wow... just wow. At least he knows why he's there; hey! Give him the cup of Kool-aid!
Someone decided he would use his good ol’ boy looks for the greater good. And for comedy!