I went to high school (and many, many, too many five year class reunions since) with Tom Steyer and I would prefer if my soon-to-be year old former classmate whose previous elected office experience was Senior Class President - did not end up being California's first billionaire Governor - but better that than the nightmares I had in 2020 when he was running for fucking President (he pretty much relies on your standard 20th Century Democratic Political Consultants - yawn - and totally bollixed a solar power ballot initiative in freaking sunny Arizona, if you can believe it), but it is not my choice to make and I would prefer anyone or anything - even a bowl of blue cottage cheese - over any of the Republican candidates. It's your state California - do what you must.
The murder of Cerina Fairfax is terribly sad. And to have their children discover it will blight them for life. I used to half-joke about these murder-suicides that they always get the order wrong, do the suicide first.
Secretary Kegsbreath, in the middle of a war of drones asked auto makers to devote some of their spare car making capacity to making -- what, for the military, cars? When what the military needs are drones, anti-drones and anti-drone netting. Have they learned nothing from the four years of war in Ukraine?
The New Republic has a good article on how Clarence Thomas gets history wrong.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochal seem to be working hand in glove to better New York. Their tax your second house plan is a great idea.
And finally, insanity is arguing the finer points of religion with a man whose whole life has been spend immerse in religion. Someone hand Donald Trump a ladder so he can get out of the hole he's dug.
You all did it! KTLA confirms that #Becerra WILL be in the debate. The new Emerson poll has him at 10%, a HUGE leap, now 2nd among Democrats w 19%. It won’t be an all white stage, though one POC candidate isn’t representative of California. Let’s go!
It's just really, really nice to see the words "trans" and "refusing to be shitty" in the same sentence, not "inhumane assholes focusing their anger at their own inadequacies on the people in our society least able to defend themselves from it, besides brown babies, and they're hating on them, too." That calls for a fresh cup o'joe!
I'm reasonably certain that someone managed to slip it to Trump that his immigration crackdown has pushed social security, medicare, and medicaid off the fiscal cliff, maybe by slipping it into an A1 video of him as Jesus curb stomping protesters at the sermon on the mount. And from the Your First Rock Tumbler that is his brain, that's why he let slip that the $1.5 trillion defense budget and the $1 billion/day Iran war means we can't have those things anymore.
70% of Americans say Donald Trump is not religious, according to new polling from the Pew Research Center.
(The researchers remind everyone that this survey was conducted “just before Trump criticized Pope Leo XIV and posted an image on social media depicting himself as a Jesus-like figure.”)
It raises two thoughts:
That makes perfect sense. In no way is Trump virtuous or godly and it’s absurd for anyone to think he cares about a “higher power” when he already sees himself as God.
How DARE anyone pretend he’s anything BUT a conservative Christian? He’s their problem, not ours. They OWN him. Everything he does is in the name of Jesus. You better BELIEVE he’s religious.
Somehow, both of those things are true.
It’s an insane line to straddle, too, because conservative Christians have spent the past decade insisting that Trump is one of their own. The now-dead abuse advocate James Dobson even insisted in June of 2016 that Trump had become “born again,” adding that he personally knew the person who “led him to Christ” (though he wouldn’t tell anyone who it was). Dobson believed Trump “really made a commitment,” even if he was only a “baby Christian.” (Half right!)
Like the True Believer who struts into the gym wearing her Trump leggings, wearing a Trump tank top, the MAGA red cap and a cross that has TRUMP engraved in it...oh did I mention the MAGA tattoo on her left arm and the TRUMP tattoo on her right arm?
TFG waving around that arch shaped paperweight at his presser was confirmation that he shares Hitler's love of Roman inspired neoclassical Prussian architecture.
NEW: House Judiciary Cmte Dems launch probe into Jared Kushner
Inquiry: "You are now reportedly participating as Special Envoy for Peace.. At the same time, you're soliciting billions of dollars from Gulf monarchies for your private business ventures"
Little Lord Privy Steal Jared replies, "Hey! It costs a lot of money to being peace the the Middle East...along with the Trump Gaza Plaza, The Trump West Bank Spa Resort and Golf Course, The Trump Beirut Plaza..."
I hate hate hate that Trump has so unerringly and deliberately appointed and then championed those who are manifestly unfit, that my first thought is "Ok, what's wrong with her? What shoe is about to drop?"
It's hot today in Rome, and I'm complaining because buses have let me doen so I have had to walk a lot in aforementioned heat and I just had a Cornetto* and intend to keep moaning.
If you walk up past the Pope's summer house several blocks, there's a lovely small cathedral up by a park full of head sculptures and the art museum. Probably cooler there...
One more moon mission: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/wonkitty-to-the-moon
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/67334ef6-fe68-4a16-97f7-8c233f770fbc
Happy New Moon Martini☝️
Ground Control to Major Tom: It's time to Tab the capsule if you dare.
Open the pod bay door, Fluffy.
"Feed me tuna first."
Awwwwwww
I have never been confident that earth is cats' home planet.
Disney movie 'The Cat from Outer Space' has entered the chat.
In space, nobody can hear you meow?
Meow louder!
Meow like you're a airplane pilot.
SPACE HAIR BALLS
😂
Nothing witty, that's just really cool!
She won't be able to knock anything off anything.
Cats in zero-g can't land on their feet, so they just spin endlessly: https://youtu.be/O9XtK6R1QAk?si=PynYn8hhElquRLEp
Wonkitty is also Space Kitty!
In zero gravity using the litter box can be a challenge.
Yay! Wonkitty . . . in SPAAAAAAAACE!
I went to high school (and many, many, too many five year class reunions since) with Tom Steyer and I would prefer if my soon-to-be year old former classmate whose previous elected office experience was Senior Class President - did not end up being California's first billionaire Governor - but better that than the nightmares I had in 2020 when he was running for fucking President (he pretty much relies on your standard 20th Century Democratic Political Consultants - yawn - and totally bollixed a solar power ballot initiative in freaking sunny Arizona, if you can believe it), but it is not my choice to make and I would prefer anyone or anything - even a bowl of blue cottage cheese - over any of the Republican candidates. It's your state California - do what you must.
Last week Trump was claiming to have ended eight wars. Now he is claiming to have ended ten.
Does ending wars that you yourself instigated actually count?
The murder of Cerina Fairfax is terribly sad. And to have their children discover it will blight them for life. I used to half-joke about these murder-suicides that they always get the order wrong, do the suicide first.
Secretary Kegsbreath, in the middle of a war of drones asked auto makers to devote some of their spare car making capacity to making -- what, for the military, cars? When what the military needs are drones, anti-drones and anti-drone netting. Have they learned nothing from the four years of war in Ukraine?
The New Republic has a good article on how Clarence Thomas gets history wrong.
https://newrepublic.com/article/209183/clarence-thomas-history-progressivism-speech
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochal seem to be working hand in glove to better New York. Their tax your second house plan is a great idea.
And finally, insanity is arguing the finer points of religion with a man whose whole life has been spend immerse in religion. Someone hand Donald Trump a ladder so he can get out of the hole he's dug.
Elle Marquise@LulaMayBeHolly
You all did it! KTLA confirms that #Becerra WILL be in the debate. The new Emerson poll has him at 10%, a HUGE leap, now 2nd among Democrats w 19%. It won’t be an all white stage, though one POC candidate isn’t representative of California. Let’s go!
https://xcancel.com/LulaMayBeHolly/status/2044878152032460910
It's just really, really nice to see the words "trans" and "refusing to be shitty" in the same sentence, not "inhumane assholes focusing their anger at their own inadequacies on the people in our society least able to defend themselves from it, besides brown babies, and they're hating on them, too." That calls for a fresh cup o'joe!
"Words have no meaning anymore " The defining characteristic of the Trump Administration.
I'm reasonably certain that someone managed to slip it to Trump that his immigration crackdown has pushed social security, medicare, and medicaid off the fiscal cliff, maybe by slipping it into an A1 video of him as Jesus curb stomping protesters at the sermon on the mount. And from the Your First Rock Tumbler that is his brain, that's why he let slip that the $1.5 trillion defense budget and the $1 billion/day Iran war means we can't have those things anymore.
70% of Americans say Trump isn’t religious.
White evangelicals don’t care.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/70-of-americans-say-trump-isnt-religious
70% of Americans say Donald Trump is not religious, according to new polling from the Pew Research Center.
(The researchers remind everyone that this survey was conducted “just before Trump criticized Pope Leo XIV and posted an image on social media depicting himself as a Jesus-like figure.”)
It raises two thoughts:
That makes perfect sense. In no way is Trump virtuous or godly and it’s absurd for anyone to think he cares about a “higher power” when he already sees himself as God.
How DARE anyone pretend he’s anything BUT a conservative Christian? He’s their problem, not ours. They OWN him. Everything he does is in the name of Jesus. You better BELIEVE he’s religious.
Somehow, both of those things are true.
It’s an insane line to straddle, too, because conservative Christians have spent the past decade insisting that Trump is one of their own. The now-dead abuse advocate James Dobson even insisted in June of 2016 that Trump had become “born again,” adding that he personally knew the person who “led him to Christ” (though he wouldn’t tell anyone who it was). Dobson believed Trump “really made a commitment,” even if he was only a “baby Christian.” (Half right!)
... and the other 30% think the Sermon on the Mount was about how empathy is for losers.
It can't be said enough. A remarkable number of people who believe in the book of Revelations are willing to wear his mark upon their foreheads.
Like the True Believer who struts into the gym wearing her Trump leggings, wearing a Trump tank top, the MAGA red cap and a cross that has TRUMP engraved in it...oh did I mention the MAGA tattoo on her left arm and the TRUMP tattoo on her right arm?
TFG waving around that arch shaped paperweight at his presser was confirmation that he shares Hitler's love of Roman inspired neoclassical Prussian architecture.
NEW: House Judiciary Cmte Dems launch probe into Jared Kushner
Inquiry: "You are now reportedly participating as Special Envoy for Peace.. At the same time, you're soliciting billions of dollars from Gulf monarchies for your private business ventures"
https://bsky.app/profile/macfarlanenews.bsky.social/post/3mjoxs34ris2u
Little Lord Privy Steal Jared replies, "Hey! It costs a lot of money to being peace the the Middle East...along with the Trump Gaza Plaza, The Trump West Bank Spa Resort and Golf Course, The Trump Beirut Plaza..."
Get it rolling now and drop the hammer on him in Jan.
"Peace is just good business."
Lemme guess...not DEI because....
I wonder if Charlie Kirk would have gone into an exam room with her.
"She is a STAR!" the president wrote on Truth Social, also calling her "incredibly talented."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-nominates-erica-schwartz-cdc-director/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
"She has also instituted anthrax and smallpox vaccination policies"
MAHA isn't going to like that.
I hate hate hate that Trump has so unerringly and deliberately appointed and then championed those who are manifestly unfit, that my first thought is "Ok, what's wrong with her? What shoe is about to drop?"
An ill fitting Florsheim?
I trust nothing from this regime. If she is competent, she'll be gone quickly
Coast Guard rear admiral
So she's a proctologist?
Rear Admiral, Lower Half
"I will note that when TMZ asked RFK Jr today what he did with the penis he cut off the roadkill raccoon he refused to answer the question."
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3mjnjfgb2fk2p
"I did not have sex with that raccoon penis..."
"You get your own!"
It's hot today in Rome, and I'm complaining because buses have let me doen so I have had to walk a lot in aforementioned heat and I just had a Cornetto* and intend to keep moaning.
*as in "trilogy" not "croissant"
If you walk up past the Pope's summer house several blocks, there's a lovely small cathedral up by a park full of head sculptures and the art museum. Probably cooler there...
"Like for instance Hawaii, Hawaii, Montana, or SF!"
Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take ya
Bermuda, Bahama, come on, pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego, baby, but you know we can't go
OK, so I wasn't the only one...
*ga$p*
"Trump stiffed the lawyer who cross-examined Stormy Daniels in his trial - never paid her bill."
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3mjn7an2pn222
Unlike Stormy...
What nice $pots that face-eating-leopard has.
No! Can't be!