RIP Rob Reiner

🎶 Have yourself a merry, centrist Christmas 🎶

“The Sand Pebbles” is a great look at what happens when a military unit offloads its operational and maintenance responsibilities onto others in order to focus its energy into “warfighting” efforts.

🎶 Oh, the mobs outside are frightful But the burning barricades delightful Since my head has no place to go Let it roll, let it roll, let it roll 🎶

You’re welcome.

Rebel with a prehensile tail

A Christmas fair named “Lapland”? Is its main attraction a gantlet of seated demonic Santas whom you and your children must navigate safely before being allowed to leave?

Claw and Order

Is Putin banking Trump will withdraw from NATO or refuse to honor its obligation under Article 5 if Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania invoke it? Wherever would he get that idea?

I just discovered Mr. Cox (or more accurately, his best cat ever Jim, but since cats really do know …)

From crack pipes to all night liquor store burglary binges. The silent crisis of raccoon loneliness and how we can address it.

Someone, somewhere, please be recording all this evidence of Trump and Hegseth’s consciousness of guilt. Like every time they open their mouths. They can’t help but lie, but those lies show they know what they did was … well, not wrong because that concept is beneath them. Culpable, punishable

A tent big enough to accommodate the shit Ms. Jacobson describes here is too slime-slathered, too seeped in moral rot, too decayed to accommodate me or any decent person. Fuck the Democratic Party.

The buck stops there - at the highest officer in the chain of command willing to fall on their sword or too slow to avoid being pushed onto it.

Did Senate Gabe just smile and give us a Vegemite sandwich?

An unexpected benefit to living in France: When you’re sick, your neighbors bring you homemade beignets.

Right, because America famously didn’t commit war crimes in Iraq …

I wonder if the rescue of two survivors of a Navy missile attack in November had anything to do with this murder of two survivors in September. Did some courageous person say no? Someone with enough juice to take Hegseth on? Did someone send Hegseth a copy of the decision in the Calley appeal?

While the US won’t receive messages from other country’s security services because it’s entire national security infrastructure is run by Russian assets.

Cc: @senategabe.bsky.social

1/4 I don’t see how this context explains anything about this moment. Possibly, it’s meant as a pre-defense for enlisted people in the chain that has already led to at least 83 murders? Enlisted, BTW, are no more an “undifferentiated mass” than Hertling says of the military as a whole. There’s a …

Darmok and Jalad’s breakfast.

Semper complicis is our guide Our shame, our story too …

Bootlicking in, bootlicking out.

Grok’s Holocaust denial is not a bug, it’s a feature.

I see your possum and raise you three possums.

File this under “Things I Regret Teaching My Animals” along with teaching my horse how to open gates and my dog how to ring bells when he wants to go out, a desire so strong it can never be satisfied.

Wall Street needs granny’s pension - it literally pays the insurance premium covering its moral hazard. Who benefited from the mortgage crisis bailouts? Who’s going to benefit this time around? Not granny, not her grandchildren, not you, not me.

A passel of possums in a pannier.

And now, sadly, it is safe.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

A tent that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene is a tent too small, too mean, too bigoted, too uncaring for the folks who built the tent in the first place and who are depended upon to keep it standing. Fuck you and all like you @raskin.house.gov.

I think people should be able to be as happy as this kitten playing with a bit of yarn is.

Still Life With Possum, Petite Pumpkin And Peanut Puffs

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

He is a very powerful wizard....

Xeni Jardin was right.

In honor of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social This one’s for you @support.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team @jay.bsky.team

Sarah Kendzior banned from Bsky for quoting Johnny Cash lyric: substack.com/profile/3455...

And one for the New York Times: Sulzberger

I ran a controlled study wherein I disagreed and debated with goldfish who refused to breath on land. And I did it because that’s how science works.

Is “VICTIM“ in the Epstein email about Trump Katie Johnson or someone else? Whether or no, I hope someone’s watching out for them. cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFile...

Right. Rainbows, pictures of scenic places in Missouri and elsewhere and pro-democracy content are obviously worthy of a suspension.

With Sarah Kendzior being banned from this platform the question becomes whether BS is really a true option for democracy lovers & defenders. Arbitrarily silencing one voice has a ripple effect that actually muzzles us all. The free flow of info & discourse has just been rendered less free..

Simple reinstatement of Sarah Kendzior isn’t enough at this point: 1. Reinstatement; 2. Investigation and disclosure of what caused the suspension; and 3. Transparent, clear, specific and public rules about how accounts are suspended.

Why is it taking so long for you @support.bsky.team to undo what is a baseless, undeserved suspension of Sarah Kendzior and likely the result of an op against her? Has the Trump regime installed a monitor here, too? Is there a pre-filed suit settlement announcement in the offing? Literally, WTF?!?

Just attended a very moving Remembrance Day ceremony in my village. Sometimes I think Americans are so willing to go to war because for the most part, war’s consequences haven’t hit most of us personally. But for Pearl Harbor, it happens elsewhere.

Hey @jay.bsky.team! Unsuspend @sarahkendzior.bsky.social! Now! And then, stop throttling her account!

Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.

Dem leadership to newly elected Dem governors: Drop dead.