It’s early in the week and I’m already pundited out.

It’s time. Meet in Selma. Saturday, May 16th. blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofaction/

Happy Mother’s Day to all those who mother. You don’t need to be the Hallmark definition of a mother to be honored. Those who love you know who you are. If you know someone who mothered you, give them a call today and thank them.

Caturday-Shadow has mastered the art of relaxation. Porch swings are the best.

Most Democratic politicians are still playing chess while Republicans are playing dodgeball with 20-pound kettlebells.

Louisiana is changing lines while voting is going on. That is more disenfranchising than the change made by 4 million Virginians. A law outlawing gerrymandering and basing lines on geography and population is desperately needed. Rep Comer’s district ain’t it.

Purrsist woke Shadow up by biting his ear. That is not his love language. She knows that now.

After the primaries end, watch GOP candidates realize he can’t help them in general election. Some (not all) will get up off their knees.

It’s National Nurses Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 On this day, we raise awareness of all nurse contributions and commitments and acknowledge the vital role nurses play in our lives This day is also the first day of National Nurses Week and National RN Recognition Day. We will be Okay Love Foxy

Glaring furiously Shadow expresses his displeasure at being awoken from a sound (back home after out all night) sleep by Purrsist biting his ear. She wanted his attention. She got it. There is a lesson here.

THIS IS EVERYTHING 🔥

I just went through the Met red carpet pics on NYT. Conclusions: The rich are different. Taste is not synonymous with wealth. Sitting down was not in the cards for most of the women pictured. It is time I will never get back but I kept going thinking it would get better.

If Democrats were the ones rigging elections, Trump never would have been President. EVER.

There is probably another country but it is unpronounceable and unfindable. Their population doesn’t fall for it either.

Today, on this May Day, my tree falling in the forest is I’m going to a public park with a lunch from home. No working today meant OT yesterday and working tomorrow. If you can’t stop everything, stop something. Not shopping online for a day is something.

A show for which the expression “gag me with a spoon” was invented.

Thank you @npr.org for this reporting (it was a driveway moment bringing tears) and thank you DJT for unleashing a media untethered to your whims. Because they don’t give a sh*t about pleasing or offending you. Unlike some others.

WaaaaWaaaaWaaaa! He's such a baby! (no offense to actual babies) Trump blames No Kings for assassination attempt open.substack.com/pub/populari...

@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social hit the nail on the head in his latest oped in NYTIMES. America has ceded its world leadership to Ukraine. Bluster, threats, historical ignorance reign supreme in DC. And it’s all happening in a year. American can do attitude for the “win”.

Excellent advice! Standing on one leg while brilliantly pink is way better than begging for crumbs in the park.

America gets to be the knife thrower’s target.

This is the best picture ever of AOC. She is the Statue of Liberty of New York chutzpah. You go, girl.

Yes, the system is rigged. So what do we, the rigged, do about it? Because it’s pretty obvious that the current crop of lawmakers won’t make any laws to address it.

Interesting program on @npr.org yesterday on taxes. South after Civil War low taxes crippled reformers, poll taxes, poll tests kept poor whites and Blacks from voting their best interest. The energy that still goes into depriving others could be so better spent.

The total obliviousness of American politicians is gobsmacking. Want some Bible? Before you take out splinters from eyes of other countries, remove the log from our own.

This pope won’t fit into world leaders’ pockets.

If it is hard to keep track of which dictator handbook is being followed, the Triumphal Arch echoes another arch from another dictator. With more gold of course.

Webster now has a picture for “blasphemy”.

NASA can still do BIG THINGS. Screw Elon and Bezos.

I’ve negotiated longer with my cat than JD Vance with the Iranians.

When being a paranoid turns out to be being a prophet

You could have had free universal healthcare this entire time. The money was always there.

Who in Congress will agree with Admiral McRaven? Who in the White House? Do the minions really believe the ride will last forever? Because he is starting to fling you off the merry go round. One. At. A. Time.

Taking a break from being angry at our national situation. Today, my focus is on the family (in a non ironic way). Hugging, laughing, cooking are all on the menu. Happy Easter or whatever lifts your spirits on this Sunday.

#40daysofgoodshit Day 40: I made it! First time ever sticking with a Lenten plan. Finding one good thing every day in my life was perfect prep for Easter. Hallelujah! Looking for light in a dark time. My daughter and grandson are here. We are going to the Ukrainian bakery/cafe for lunch. Good 💩!

The gold eagle let me listen with the sound off. Looks very Roman emperor, like Caligula or Nero did the decorating.

Birthright citizenship isn’t a close call—it’s settled constitutional law. Today’s oral argument made that clear, even as the stakes remain enormous. Here’s what mattered and what comes next. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

She's a great cartoonist

Trump has not “given” the USPS special control over mail ballots because that is not a thing that is his to give. PLEASE STOP PRETENDING THAT THE CARNIVAL BARKER HAS MAGIC POWERS JUST BECAUSE HE SAYS HE HAS MAGIC POWERS.

Pretending? Who’s pretending?

There’s already a date onboard for a general strike May 1st, National Strike No work, no school, no shopping www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...

When Donald Trump ran, his two biggest campaign promises were not to start new wars and to bring down prices. So what does he do? He starts a new war that drives up prices. Such breathtaking deceit and incompetence.

They joined the real stars of the show: the regular people who show up to protest at the risk of their lives, freedom.

“Well over 1,000 people lined up along the front of Paducah’s Bob Noble Park Saturday afternoon to rally against actions the Trump administration has taken over the course of the president’s second term.”@wkmsfm.bsky.social

On the floor of Congress and on every major TV news program DAILY.

Boots on the ground in Iran is like watching a car speeding to beat the train across the tracks, knowing they aren’t going to make it and being helpless to stop it. Someone who has his ear talk some sense.