This is a great drink Hooper, I missed it when first posted but it suits the late summer heat. The bitter and sweet balance is perfect, little bitter on the palette chased by the creaminess chased again by the bitter finish. Only downside is pacing myself.
I've tried a couple times this week to make the orange whip from How To Drink youtube channel only to be met with disappointment, might be from the sad state of Oranges in September. But blending your recipe with his may get me there tomorrow.
I mean sure, California is doing as much as it can on climate change without being constantly struck down by fascist courts, but sure, let's punish it for having made the effort I suppose?
Claims California needs to change its policies, but offers no ideas how. It's easy to blame the people who are affected by a natural disaster, but almost nobody has a suggestion of how to improve things. What, I wonder, would this schmuck have California do? Rake the forests? Controlled burn? Carry desalinized water from the sea?
there is a huge difference between hating the fascists, and hating the regular people who are just trying to live their lives. I wouldn't piss in the mouths of the NC Supreme Court ifn their throats were on fire; but I still feel bad for all the flood victims in that state and I want them to get aid.
There are days when I'm tempted to say maybe blue states should just figure out a way to turn off the $ spigot that props up red states...I would genuinely be shocked if a D ever called for letting red states suffer just bc they vote like idiots, but our side just won't bc we're possessed with that pesky empathy thing.
Dear Mel Gibson, next time you have an idea that strikes you as "an insane thing to think" or a "horrible theory [you] made up in [your] head," don't fucking take it to Laura Ingraham or any other right-wing propaganda outlet. Just shut up and get some sleep.
I ordered myself a planner I saw on instagram for end of life care. Not that I'm approaching, but you can become disabled at any time and I have special funeral requests. I also need to get all my life insurance stuff updated so that it goes to the proper people.
Do you have a Health Care Proxy? If you do, make a copy and put it on the front of your fridge. If you don't, designate one and talk to them explicitly about what you would want. But choose carefully. That goes for all the rest of you Wonkers!!
All of us are always approaching. Whenever I see some young person texting while driving straight at me, I am reminded that accidents can happen. Every morning on the news there are people commenting about people they didn't expect to die.
Good to look at this on an annual basis. Some people I expected to receive my "vast wealth" have died.
A federal court struck down the Department of Education’s guidance on Title IX on Thursday, and critics of the changes to the federal antidiscrimination statute celebrated the action as a legal win with wide-ranging ramifications.
Betsy DeVos, the former education secretary during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term, said on X that “the radical, unfair, illegal, and absurd Biden Title IX rewrite is GONE.”
Conservative activists celebrated the news.
Tiffany Justice, a co-founder of Moms for Liberty, said that parents won and Biden lost.
“The Court standing up for parents' rights is AMAZING,” Justice wrote on X. “The U.S. Constitution matters, and no federal law can compel the speech of pronouns in support of gender ideology nonsense in public school – K-12 or colleges.”
“Huge win for girls and women everywhere!” Riley Gaines, an activist and athlete, wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “This morning, a federal court ruled in favor of reality. Biden's Title IX rewrite has been vacated nationwide.”
Tiffany Justice deserves the modern-day version of the Anita Bryant treatment. She should be humiliated at every turn. Tiffany Justice is a name from some satirical cartoon, isn't it? Her real name? Are you shitting me? No wonder she has it in for the rest of the kids on the playground. She was probably mocked all through school.
Political leaders would ideally respond to such horrific circumstances by putting aside partisan differences and standing together to help the victims rebuild. But something very different is happening this week in right-wing spaces.
President-elect Donald Trump is lying a lot in order to blame his political opponents for the fire. The president-elect's Truth Social feed this week is alternating between memes highlighting his purported plans to take over Canada and Greenland and falsehood-heavy rants about how “the gross incompetence and mismanagement” of President Joe Biden and California Gov. Gavin Newsom are responsible for the fire.
The main avenue the right has seized upon — blaming California Democrats and environmentalists for supposedly limiting the water supply used to fight the fire — is entirely false.
His right-wing propagandists quickly parroted his argument to their audiences. On OAN, Dan Ball claimed that “You liberal Democrats running that city, county, and the state have blood on your hands tonight,” before reading Trump’s post. On Fox, Jesse Watters claimed of Newsom that “there is no water coming out of the fire hydrant because this man mismanages the water there.” And Larry Kudlow said on his Fox Business show that the governor “cut the water flow that never got to Southern California, in defense of this obscure fish.”
we'd go a long way if everyone lefter and more centerer would get their heads out of their damn asses long enough to actually fight that 30-40% fascist fuckload instead of bitching about how only their way is the right way and everything else will make them not vote.
Plus this in today’s Guardian: “An analysis by Carbon Brief estimated last August that [Trump’s] return could add 4bn tonnes of US carbon emissions by 2030 compared to Democrat plans – inflicting $900bn in global climate damage. To grasp its scale, the emissions surge would equal the combined annual output of the EU and Japan or the emissions of the world’s 140 lowest-emitting countries.” The Carbon Brief report itself is a terrifying read, link in the article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/10/the-guardian-view-on-the-la-fires-donald-trumps-denial-and-division-fuel-climate-inaction
We went to England for the first time right before 1st grade and I thought it was magic, and started adding a "u" to certain words. My first grade teacher (of infinite patience, because I was smart yet obnoxious) asked me why I was spelling things like that and I said "that's how the Queen does it" and she basically was like, well, you're not the queen of anything, so do it the way I tell you.
Eventually they will get what they so tirelessly desire: a sterile, lifeless landscape filled only with perfect conformity, empty platitudes and a bottomless pit of ennui inside their souls.
They will cry out "Where did all those liberals and beatniks go that we so much loved to troll and torment? Things are SOOOOO boring now! This sucks!"
We won't have gone away. We will just have given them what they always wanted while we will turn our attention to creative subversion in art, literature and music; they can never stamp out the spirit inside us.
In the meantime they will turn on each other in endless inquisitions against each other over ideological purity and loyalty tests.
Just wait until year 3.5, when you're spending all of your waking hours if fed-up voters will return the US to normalcy or if they're saying, "Yeah, sure, let's put the Jews in concentration camps."
🇵🇭Birth Anniversary of National Artist Atang de la Rama (Philippines)
🥛Cigarettes are Hazardous to Your Health Day
🥛Heritage Treasures Day
🥛International Parity at Work Day
🥛International Thank-You Day
🇫🇲Kosrae Constitution Day (Micronesia)
🥛Learn Your Name In Morse Code Day
🥛National Girl Hug Boy Day
🥛National Hot Toddy Day
🥛National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
🥛National Milk Day
🥛National Vision Board Day
🥛No Longer New Year's Day
🥛Paget’s Awareness Day
🥛Secret Pal Day
🥛Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day
🥛World Sketchnote Day
🥛Cuckoo Dancing Week
🌔 On this day the Moon will be in a Waxing Gibbous phase. Visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon.
Learn Your Name In Morse Code Day was introduced as a way of helping the public stand up to abuse of power by bookish, real ale loving Oxford detectives. If you knew your name in Morse code you could fast forward to the end and hear if you were the one who did it, then hire a lawyer.
This is a great drink Hooper, I missed it when first posted but it suits the late summer heat. The bitter and sweet balance is perfect, little bitter on the palette chased by the creaminess chased again by the bitter finish. Only downside is pacing myself.
I've tried a couple times this week to make the orange whip from How To Drink youtube channel only to be met with disappointment, might be from the sad state of Oranges in September. But blending your recipe with his may get me there tomorrow.
Watters Calls For "Federal Takeover" Of California
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/01/watters-calls-for-federal-takeover-of-california/
JustPixelz calls for California takeover of Fox Spews.
Republicans are the scum of the earth
or, to be more specific, fucking nazis
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GOP Rep Warren Davidson: Withhold Disaster Aid For California
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/01/gop-rep-withhold-disaster-aid-for-california-video/
I mean sure, California is doing as much as it can on climate change without being constantly struck down by fascist courts, but sure, let's punish it for having made the effort I suppose?
Claims California needs to change its policies, but offers no ideas how. It's easy to blame the people who are affected by a natural disaster, but almost nobody has a suggestion of how to improve things. What, I wonder, would this schmuck have California do? Rake the forests? Controlled burn? Carry desalinized water from the sea?
Republicans are the scum of the earth
see above
If your patriotism is telling you to hate your fellow Americans then that’s not patriotism. That’s fascism.
But I’m to the point where I hate the fascists.
there is a huge difference between hating the fascists, and hating the regular people who are just trying to live their lives. I wouldn't piss in the mouths of the NC Supreme Court ifn their throats were on fire; but I still feel bad for all the flood victims in that state and I want them to get aid.
There are days when I'm tempted to say maybe blue states should just figure out a way to turn off the $ spigot that props up red states...I would genuinely be shocked if a D ever called for letting red states suffer just bc they vote like idiots, but our side just won't bc we're possessed with that pesky empathy thing.
noted
Mel Gibson Suggests Dems “Commissioned” Wildfires
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/01/mel-gibson-suggests-dems-commissioned-wildfires/
Dear Mel Gibson, next time you have an idea that strikes you as "an insane thing to think" or a "horrible theory [you] made up in [your] head," don't fucking take it to Laura Ingraham or any other right-wing propaganda outlet. Just shut up and get some sleep.
,,,and set them in our strong holds instead of like in Texas or Alabama or something?
Makes sense
I ordered myself a planner I saw on instagram for end of life care. Not that I'm approaching, but you can become disabled at any time and I have special funeral requests. I also need to get all my life insurance stuff updated so that it goes to the proper people.
Do you have a Health Care Proxy? If you do, make a copy and put it on the front of your fridge. If you don't, designate one and talk to them explicitly about what you would want. But choose carefully. That goes for all the rest of you Wonkers!!
Oh,man. I REALLY need to do this.
yes you do. download the form, super easy.
https://www.health.ny.gov/publications/1430.pdf
believe me, things can get VERY ugly if shit goes south and there is no HCP
Ya know what? I just realized that the person I would designate is very likely a mutual friend of ours.
All of us are always approaching. Whenever I see some young person texting while driving straight at me, I am reminded that accidents can happen. Every morning on the news there are people commenting about people they didn't expect to die.
Good to look at this on an annual basis. Some people I expected to receive my "vast wealth" have died.
Media: Democrats need to learn how to be more Patriotic like republicans. They’ve lost their patriotism!
Republicans: there should be no aid to California unless they change their policies. There has to be consequences!
The MSM need to be burnt to the waterline
What a great lineup of folks celebrating.
𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧'𝐬 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐈𝐗 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭
A federal court struck down the Department of Education’s guidance on Title IX on Thursday, and critics of the changes to the federal antidiscrimination statute celebrated the action as a legal win with wide-ranging ramifications.
Betsy DeVos, the former education secretary during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term, said on X that “the radical, unfair, illegal, and absurd Biden Title IX rewrite is GONE.”
Conservative activists celebrated the news.
Tiffany Justice, a co-founder of Moms for Liberty, said that parents won and Biden lost.
“The Court standing up for parents' rights is AMAZING,” Justice wrote on X. “The U.S. Constitution matters, and no federal law can compel the speech of pronouns in support of gender ideology nonsense in public school – K-12 or colleges.”
“Huge win for girls and women everywhere!” Riley Gaines, an activist and athlete, wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “This morning, a federal court ruled in favor of reality. Biden's Title IX rewrite has been vacated nationwide.”
https://www.wfmz.com/news/critics-of-biden-admins-title-ix-rule-change-celebrate-its-defeat-in-court/article_102fc357-559e-5abf-8abd-774b87619aef.html
The only "winners" here are manipulative fascists seeking to crush public education and replace it with nationalist indoctrination.
Tiffany Justice deserves the modern-day version of the Anita Bryant treatment. She should be humiliated at every turn. Tiffany Justice is a name from some satirical cartoon, isn't it? Her real name? Are you shitting me? No wonder she has it in for the rest of the kids on the playground. She was probably mocked all through school.
Ha. We formed a national non-profit mostly dedicated to mocking her. She remains not amused, but now we have thousands of ppl mocking her.
wow
They are just critics
Not mother fuckers making bank off the taxpayer dime for their own brand of "education" or anything
Just critics
What bullshit
The great Clarence Clemons, "the Big Man," born this day in 1942. Here's Bruce Springsteen with the E Street Band playing "Rosalita" live in 1975:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30F7j9mVrO0
𝐀 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭-𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚
Political leaders would ideally respond to such horrific circumstances by putting aside partisan differences and standing together to help the victims rebuild. But something very different is happening this week in right-wing spaces.
President-elect Donald Trump is lying a lot in order to blame his political opponents for the fire. The president-elect's Truth Social feed this week is alternating between memes highlighting his purported plans to take over Canada and Greenland and falsehood-heavy rants about how “the gross incompetence and mismanagement” of President Joe Biden and California Gov. Gavin Newsom are responsible for the fire.
The main avenue the right has seized upon — blaming California Democrats and environmentalists for supposedly limiting the water supply used to fight the fire — is entirely false.
His right-wing propagandists quickly parroted his argument to their audiences. On OAN, Dan Ball claimed that “You liberal Democrats running that city, county, and the state have blood on your hands tonight,” before reading Trump’s post. On Fox, Jesse Watters claimed of Newsom that “there is no water coming out of the fire hydrant because this man mismanages the water there.” And Larry Kudlow said on his Fox Business show that the governor “cut the water flow that never got to Southern California, in defense of this obscure fish.”
But none of this is true.
https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/firestorm-right-wing-propaganda
Bastardizing reality to suit their immediate narrative, the usual reprobate Rethug reactivism.
Our 1A needs to be retooled.
We can't survive as a country with this kind of disinformation and these know-nothing fucking KNOTHEADS wilding.
There has to be a breaking point.
We need to break into two countries. Their dead weight is dragging us all down. Fuck em. Kick them all to the curb.
I agree, but I don't know how we would do that. :(
We are in a deadlock, though, and as long as things continue this way we can't be a country.
We can't be a country with 30-40% of MAGA assholes running around in a separate fucking (fantasy) reality.
I don’t know either but we have to figure out a way. This shit is untenable.
Yes, it is. We shouldn't have to be held hostage to the most ignorant and hateful among us.
Hopefully enough of us will get angry enough and fed up enough to do something about it if it gets bad enough.
I don't want to spend the rest of my life living under these fucking conditions. I'll end up in jail.
we'd go a long way if everyone lefter and more centerer would get their heads out of their damn asses long enough to actually fight that 30-40% fascist fuckload instead of bitching about how only their way is the right way and everything else will make them not vote.
That could help.
Republicans are the scum of the earth.
Yes. And I want to say a very banhammerable thing about how we should have dealt with them at the end of the Civil War.
https://www.lastcheck.com.au/image/bus-inspection/small-bus-underbody-inspection.jpg
Something appears . . . missing.
Per Mapledurham:
Plus this in today’s Guardian: “An analysis by Carbon Brief estimated last August that [Trump’s] return could add 4bn tonnes of US carbon emissions by 2030 compared to Democrat plans – inflicting $900bn in global climate damage. To grasp its scale, the emissions surge would equal the combined annual output of the EU and Japan or the emissions of the world’s 140 lowest-emitting countries.” The Carbon Brief report itself is a terrifying read, link in the article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/10/the-guardian-view-on-the-la-fires-donald-trumps-denial-and-division-fuel-climate-inaction
The rest of the world needs to sanction us and treat us like the pariah we are.
"...[Trump’s] return could add 4bn tonnes of US carbon emissions by 2030..."
And that's just from him opening his mouth.
Imagine how much he'll release when he rots. Almost as much as Steve Bannon.
That's why we should sequester the body for carbon capture now, just to make sure.
Launch it into the sun.
Now now, I'm sure some of that is from his farts.
I didn't specify which orafice he used for mouth speaking.
A reminder that "climate = food supplies."
drinking water is gonna be a problem also too. And we have already seen how Americans react to a crisis that inconveniences them.
Fully expecting kids to get shot for trying to steal bottled water in the next few years :(
Vancouver strip club marquee cited as hate speech on X | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/the-penthouse-marquee-hate-speech-allegation-1.7428625
My only regret for not getting a twitter account is I could not cancel it.
I briefly considered joining during the last iteration of the reign of the toxic orange smegma just so I could tell that asshole to fuck off.
same
Did anyone ever take the tech bros blather about "free speech" seriously? 'Cuz I know I didn't.
well, our press did
But turns out, they were just working for them
"Free Speech" only applies to them and those who slavishly agree with them.
...wait.
What?
Cause of a U?
For want of a U
For correct spelling!
For a while in college I insisted on spelling the word color with a u in it.
I do not know why really, just liked the look of it better. Plus, hung out with the Irish guys and they would rag on us for spelling things wrong.
Once in a while it still slips out
We went to England for the first time right before 1st grade and I thought it was magic, and started adding a "u" to certain words. My first grade teacher (of infinite patience, because I was smart yet obnoxious) asked me why I was spelling things like that and I said "that's how the Queen does it" and she basically was like, well, you're not the queen of anything, so do it the way I tell you.
because it's all about MEEEEEEEEE!...
Apparently.
Would the prefer it to be written in German?
Needs moar Franktur type face.
No, they wanted it in pure genuine English, like they spell in Murica.
(shakes his head)
It's going to be a miserable four years with these thin-skinned whinging prats.
Eventually they will get what they so tirelessly desire: a sterile, lifeless landscape filled only with perfect conformity, empty platitudes and a bottomless pit of ennui inside their souls.
They will cry out "Where did all those liberals and beatniks go that we so much loved to troll and torment? Things are SOOOOO boring now! This sucks!"
We won't have gone away. We will just have given them what they always wanted while we will turn our attention to creative subversion in art, literature and music; they can never stamp out the spirit inside us.
In the meantime they will turn on each other in endless inquisitions against each other over ideological purity and loyalty tests.
Just wait until year 3.5, when you're spending all of your waking hours if fed-up voters will return the US to normalcy or if they're saying, "Yeah, sure, let's put the Jews in concentration camps."
think we learned that answer this past november.
Oh, but we'll get our hopes up again, as usual, only to see them dashed into a fire pit of books banned by Moms for Liberty.
as a fellow RN, my advice is to smoke a LOT of pot
As a former amateur doctor, who graduated two first aid courses, I concur with this therapeutic prescription.
It's the only way I'm going to survive the forthcoming four year shit show.
Whenever Nazis go on about "free speech", this is the way it always ends.
I love you!
I want to mutilate you with a chain saw.
Have a nice day!
Our 1A sucks ass.
We need way more leeway for this hate speech bullshit that is tearing this country apart.
And the disinformation.
Free speech for me, not for thee.
I couldn't use the phrase "mediocre white males" on Facebook 2 years ago when I was still on there.
what if you stuck a "u" in there somewhere?
Average white banned
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Because there are no "mediocre white males."
They fall under the heading of Shitheads.
Probably because the CEO is the most fragile and mediocre of white men.
Yep. I would think that is the case.
WAAAHHHH! Nazis are such fucking fragile little ❄️
They really are. And I love needling them from time to time on Yahoo and Breitbart (although some of them can get pretty fucking scary).
ain't they just??
Repost:
𝗕𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝘆 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟱𝟲,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗷𝗼𝗯𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/us-jobs-report-december-2024-what-it-means-job-market-economy-rcna187059
What, that old guy?
Those were the days, my friend
We hoped they'd never end . . .
...why surprising?
Jobs have been increasing his entire fucking tenure.
They're acting surprised because they didn't bother reporting it until now.
AH
*glances at history circa 1789 or so, no reason*
Hold that thought, voters....
Yeah, but the cost of eggs.....
How many eggs might have sucked had they been 37% cheaper?
The jackals in the MSM need to pay
OMFG they do.
But we're too milquetoast to really do anything about it.
Most people are still watching it.
Most people might not actually care. The people in my life do, but - Trump did get re-elected.
...will be higher under the Republican jackals.
Have prices EVER been lower under a GOP regime?
Well stock prices ...
Interest rates ...
Today is 1/11/2025 (Saturday)
🇵🇭Birth Anniversary of National Artist Atang de la Rama (Philippines)
🥛Cigarettes are Hazardous to Your Health Day
🥛Heritage Treasures Day
🥛International Parity at Work Day
🥛International Thank-You Day
🇫🇲Kosrae Constitution Day (Micronesia)
🥛Learn Your Name In Morse Code Day
🥛National Girl Hug Boy Day
🥛National Hot Toddy Day
🥛National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
🥛National Milk Day
🥛National Vision Board Day
🥛No Longer New Year's Day
🥛Paget’s Awareness Day
🥛Secret Pal Day
🥛Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day
🥛World Sketchnote Day
🥛Cuckoo Dancing Week
🌔 On this day the Moon will be in a Waxing Gibbous phase. Visible through most of the night sky setting a few hours before sunrise. This phase is when the moon is more than 50% illuminated but not yet a Full Moon. The phase lasts about 7 days with the moon becoming more illuminated each day until the Full Moon.
Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 94%
Moon Age: 12.45 days
Moon Angle: 0.53
Moon Distance: 373,592.03 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,128,390.20 km
-. --- -- .- / .-.. .- .-. -.- . -.--
🥛International Thank-You Day
Thank you!
I hope Robyn talks about Vision Board Day!
Days are 20 minutes longer than back at Solstice! Also, can I combine National Hot Toddy and Girl Hug Boy Days? I'm asking for Mrs. Toomush....
Learn Your Name In Morse Code Day was introduced as a way of helping the public stand up to abuse of power by bookish, real ale loving Oxford detectives. If you knew your name in Morse code you could fast forward to the end and hear if you were the one who did it, then hire a lawyer.
Rrumpled Detectives, The Fifth Amendment And You was a public information publication in LA.
RIP
https://www.fox8live.com/2025/01/11/sam-moore-who-sang-soul-man-sam-dave-duo-dies-89/
Remember that movie?!
Oh, indeed!
Did not age well XD Though at least it was trying to give a lesson as to WHY things were harder for black folk