‘Catnomics’: how Japan’s feline fixation has become an industry worth billions

As a Californian, every election season I root hard for the decent people in TX fighting hard to flip their state. Paxton is one of the worse human beings to exist. He’s a pig. Rooting for TX to give him the boot.

Alberta Doesn’t Have Grievances. It Has Bad Politicians Here's my list. Feel free to post yours: @ABDanielleSmith @jkenney @FreeAlbertaRob @BrianJeanAB @rebeccakschulz @JasonNixonAB @PierrePoilievre The entire UCP caucus. #ableg #abpoli youtu.be/zRKT5zSRDkg

American politics is bananas. I can’t believe there is a whole generation growing up to think that it’s normal for known criminals to win party nominations and public office.

Public lying should be given public stocks as punishment. I would dig rotten fruit out of the dumpster in back of the Safeway and stand in a long-assed line for that.

thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/17/k... Ken Paxton Is No Stranger to Controversy. Here’s a Timeline of Nearly 20 Years of Scandals & Headlines. We’ve compiled every serious scandal the Attorney General has faced during his political ascendancy, and somehow managed to emerge unscathed from.

The real welfare queen in America is Jeff Bezos, worth $279 billion, who pays wages so low his workers rely on food stamps and Medicaid while he sailed on his $500 million yacht to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring because his tax rate is less than 1%.

🚨BREAKING: Rep. Chip Roy, author of the SAVE America Act, lost his Republican primary for Texas attorney general to outright election denier Mayes Middleton. While Trump did not endorse either candidate, he appeared to favor Middleton, who has praised the GOP for trying to “stop the steal” in 2020.

#OhCanada Trump posting deep fake AI videos of PM Carney. Such a great neighbour. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

🚨"RIGHT INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET"🚨 ICE agents continues to push peaceful protesters onto oncoming traffic outside the Delaney Detention Center. WATCH LIVE ⬇️ @JordanChariton & @JonFarinaPhoto

#TacoTuesdayParties 🎉 @angelsinvelvet.bsky.social @blueresister.bsky.social @ohsewnice.bsky.social @pattyger.bsky.social @sbh08mae.bsky.social @shepgirl.bsky.social @beansbeth.bsky.social @democratswin.bsky.social @theunionthug.bsky.social @imnotapu2.bsky.social @ltwlauren.bsky.social

New poll shows James Talarico beating both Cornyn and Paxton

"Fascism is just a kind of meaningless wickedness, an aberration, 'mass sadism', the sort of thing that would happen if you suddenly let loose an asylumful of homicidal maniacs."

Trump is secretly building a "military hospital" under the new ballroom. He is doing this so he can get daily/weekly care without being seen going to Walter Reed. It won't be done for 2 years. He WOULD NOT be doing this unless he was planning on staying share.google/DA7OG0HMhlqO...

Pro Tip: If the person you are thinking of voting for has felony convictions, pick someone else. Also, stop letting felons run for office.

This is Ken Paxton's mugshot. He was indicted on 3 felony counts for investment fraud. He was reported to the FBI by his own staff for bribery. He was impeached by his own party for corruption. Now he’s the Republican nominee for US Senate in Texas. Together we will stop him.

"The Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer, or Summer EBT program would have given qualifying families $120 per child to pay for lunches during the summer months in 2027. An estimated 3.75 million children statewide would have qualified."

Meiselas: Fox and Daily Wire are already out with their talking points. Mamdani wants to decide who deserves to keep their property. What’s your message to that audience? Mamdani: My message is the same as I would say to anyone: I want them to be able to afford to live in the city as well.

BOOM 💥 NEW: South Carolina Republicans saw the insane lines and slammed the brakes on another gerrymandering circus targeting Black voters and Jim Clyburn. S Carolina Dems made it clear: changing maps after voting already started is crazy work!

#OhCanada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Anyone surprised by Trump reducing the number of NATO bombers, submarines and warships? At some point, all Americans need to understand Trump is Putin’s bitch. open.substack.com/pub/olgalaut...

"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall...deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." The 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection is not abstract. It is literally life & death. IMPEACH. CONVICT. REMOVE. DOOR is taking a stand. Join us. #Resist

First they pepper-spray a U.S. Senator, then they repel the Governor. Who the fuck are these people? jerseyvindicator.org/2026/05/25/n...

“More than anything, Pope Leo's new encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," is an exhaustive account of what could happen if AI development goes awry—as for what happens if it goes right, Leo mostly leaves that to the reader’s imagination,” @FrancisXRocca writes: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

He's doing the Jesus Camp thing showing what sick fuck this Pulpit Pimp is!

Markwayne Mullin Will Punish Sanctuary Cities By Making Air Travel More Annoying For Everyone www.wonkette.com/p/markwayne-...

Observers roast Stephen Miller's 'nonsense' about food stamps: 'Lies so easily' #RawStory

Canada turning red is the geopolitical version of your golden retriever finally biting you.

Trump posted the exact same (crazy) thing on Truth Social 8 days apart. The cognitive isn't cognitiving.

🚨 On her birthday, 10-year-old Nayeli Gomez confronted ICE guards outside Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey — where detainees are on hunger and labor strike. Her father, who has diabetes, is detained inside.

What is big tech AI? Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

Approval of Mark Carney increases to 67%

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This is an attempt to silence people with knowledge of wrongdoing. NDAs breed corruption and only benefit the entity issuing them.

NAACP on court halting GOP effort to gerrymander in Alabama, “This attempt to redistrict is a continuation of Alabama’s gruesome and bloody history. Our NAACP chapters in Alabama mobilized to reject this map, and we will continue to fight”

According to Reuters, NATO is assembling a force made up of three divisions totaling around 60,000 troops for possible military operations against Russia. The deployment is reportedly planned for areas in Estonia and Latvia bordering Russia and Belarus.

According to a lawyer involved in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, Epstein would not have been able to commit his crimes without the complicity of banks. @congressmin.bsky.social and Oversight Dems will hold all involved accountable.

Glenn Greenwald to a Trump supporter: "You seem like a young guy to me. Have you ever thought about going and fighting in this war you're cheering on?"

#OhCanada balsilliepapers.ca/canadian-data/

💥 Neverending destruction of Russian resupplies and reinforcements that try to use the land corridor in occupied Ukraine. Footage from the highway section between Mariupol and Melitopol.

They literally spelled this out in #Project2025! Y'all just figuring this shit out is EXHAUSTING. #SheShed

🔴 Lithuania reports expanded Russian GPS interference. Darius Kuliesius, deputy head of Lithuania's communications regulator, stated on Tuesday that Russia has increased its Kaliningrad-based infrastructure to enable systemic GPS signal falsification reaching up to 450km into European territory.

One Nation Under "Shitler?!" open.substack.com/pub/chuckkel...

youtu.be/s6IOn1E7uCk?.... All Hell breaks loose as the p3dofuhrer's ICE targets New Jersey

The regime illegally deported him, lost a unanimous Supreme Court ruling, brought him back, and brought a bogus case against him to get revenge. A federal judge just threw the whole thing out. Read the full, incredible story: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/first-ever...

The level of disdain Spencer Pratt has for the unhoused is disgusting. And if you’re fine with this kind of talk, I don’t want to know you. Pratt: “They’re not homeless. They’re drug addicts. They are choosing to be on the streets because they want to do drugs…They want to have animals to abuse.”

@mark-carney.bsky.social is now calling Danielle Smith’s referendum question a “dangerous bluff,” comparing it directly to Brexit and warning Canadians that these kinds of votes have a habit of spiralling far beyond what people think they’re signing onto. via CBC www.cbc.ca/news/politic...