There's something magical about autumn - the crispy leaves, the pumpkin-spice-scented air, the cozy sweaters, and the orange-tinted sunshine. But you know what makes it even better? Cats who refuse to let the dogs have all the fun. Because while some kitties believe the outside world exists purely so they can watch it from a sun-drenched windowsill, others are born adventurers, whiskers forward, tails up, hearts brave. Enter Mr. Tippums: gentleman explorer, leaf-crunching enthusiast, and absolute cat king of the harness walk.
Harness training cats used to sound like a punchline - until the internet discovered just how many felines secretly crave adventure. And Mr. Tippums? He's proof that cats can be bold, curious, and surprisingly cooperative when given the right encouragement (and, let's be honest, the right treats). From climbing trees like a squirrel to bird-watching by the lake like a tiny floofy philosopher contemplating life, he's making autumn look pawsitively cinematic.
It's easy to forget, but every cat is different. Some prefer blanket forts, snack time, and zero surprises. Others, like Tippums, want stories to tell: new smells, new sights, and new places to sniff. And honestly? We love seeing it. Seeing a cat exploring safely on a leash, with a hooman watching out for them, is the kind of wholesome content that warms us all the way down to the toe beans.
There's no rule that says cats can't be brave. No rule that says they can't enjoy a stroll under orange autumn trees. And absolutely no rule that says only dogs get to go on walkies. So here's to Mr. Tippums: autumn adventurer, tree conqueror, lake-side daydreamer. A new day, a new story, a new adventure - and a reminder that life gets even better when you share it with a whiskered explorer by your side.
Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back.
Welcome to another week of the justice system being, well, not great! At least this week, we can mix things up a bit.
Of course, there’s no way a week could go by without more news about interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan. But we’ve also got a couple trips to state courts this time around, with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton continuing to be racist and awful, and Washington state dropping some really dystopian surveillance-state stuff on us all.
Your weekly Lindsey Halligan update: Not great for Lindsey
Lindsey Halligan—everyone’s favorite insurance lawyer turned defense attorney for President Donald Trump turned Smithsonian Institution anti-woke scold turned interim United States attorney turned surprise texting pal—is extremely busy fending off so, so many motions. That’s the fallout when you agree to be the vessel for Trump’s retribution efforts. But what if Halligan had even more to worry about?
Enter the request from watchdog group Campaign for Accountability that both the Florida and Virginia state bars investigate Halligan for, well, everything.
Fam, is it good when the bar complaint about your behavior runs 17 pages? And has, like, multiple subheadings? We’ve got the so-called investigations of both former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. We’ve got the Comey and James grand jury proceedings and indictments. Do we have the unsolicited texts to Lawfare’s Anna Bower? Hell yeah we do.
Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, shown in August.
The complaint alleges that Halligan likely violated an ethics rule about making false statements of fact or law to a tribunal, given that it looks like she just might have had a wee bit of trouble telling the truth to the grand juries in both her big cases. That weird unsolicited text exchange with Bower? Well, that one might violate the rule against lawyers making extrajudicial statements that could interfere with the fairness of a jury trial.
There’s an ethics rule specific to prosecutors that bars them from filing a case if they know it lacks probable cause. To be fair, it might not be that Halligan willingly violated that rule. After all, it could be that she has no idea what probable cause actually requires.
That brings us to the allegation that’s got to sting the most here: that Halligan may have violated the rule requiring a lawyer to provide competent representation and to have "the legal knowledge, skill, thoroughness and preparation reasonably necessary for the representation.”
Man, it has to feel rough when a bar complaint about you runs down your paper-thin resume as evidence that you are so out of your depth that perhaps a state bar should sanction you.
Ken Paxton continues to be the worst
When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is not abusing the power of his office by suing the makers of Tylenol, he is abusing the power of his office by trying to shut down a nonprofit that works to increase civic participation and voting by Latinos.
And now the group is fighting back. Jolt Initiative sued Paxton to try to stop him from revoking their nonprofit charter.
Paxton’s efforts are a transparent effort to suppress the Latino vote by deliberately conflating voter registration drives with illegally registering noncitizens to vote. Now, Paxton’s filing against Jolt didn’t actually allege that they registered noncitizens to vote. No, it’s that holding voter registration drives near DMV locations “illuminates its unlawful motive.”
Huh? Well, since citizens can register to vote at the DMV, having voter drives near the DMV, of course, means you are trying to register noncitizens. No, really, that’s Paxton’s argument.
Paxton’s stretching here because let’s face it, the only way he and his pals will continue to hold power in Texas is by suppressing the vote.
President Donald Trump, shown on Nov. 9.
Only the best people
In 2020, during his first term, Trump tapped Joshua Kindred for a lifetime seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. Kindred’s lifetime seat turned out to be pretty short, though, as he quit after an investigation alleged that he had an “inappropriately sexualized relationship” with a law clerk, created a hostile work environment for clerks that featured abusive sexual conduct and sexual harassment, sent vulgar texts about his sex life, and then lied about everything to the chief judge.
Last year, the U.S. Judicial Conference even referred Kindred to Congress for potential impeachment—even though he resigned—saying his behavior was so reprehensible that Congress should review it.
And now, not only does Kindred not have his judge job, but also he is also no longer allowed to practice law in Alaska. The state Supreme Court disbarred him, dropping a 67-page decision detailing his malfeasance. Really a top-notch judicial pick you got there, Trump.
The 8th Circuit gets somehow even suckier
In its quest to become a rubber stamp for conservatives, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit overturned a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board that had found that Home Depot unlawfully terminated someone for having “BLM”—as in “Black Lives Matter”—on their work apron. Home Depot allowed people to personalize their aprons but allegedly told the employee, a person of color, they had to remove it since the company’s policy said that work aprons were not an appropriate place for religious beliefs, causes, or political messages. Home Depot also helpfully explained that if they had to let someone have “BLM” on a work apron, they would also have to allow swastikas.
Okaaaaaay.
In overturning the NLRB’s ruling, the 8th Circuit panel managed to completely eclipse the racism of Home Depot with some breathtaking racism of their own. You see, there were special circumstances here, according to the panel. This Home Depot store is in New Brighton, Minnesota, and the court determined that the “conditions” facing the store “gave rise to legitimate safety concerns.”
What concerns? Well, you see, George Floyd’s murder. No, really:
The activity in dispute was not a display at a random location in the United States; it was not at a normal moment in time; and it was not a generic message for equal rights or employee protection. [The employee’s] BLM message was broadcast only a few miles from the site of George Floyd's murder.
“A few miles” is doing a lot of work here. New Brighton is a suburb of Minneapolis that abuts the opposite end of the city from where Floyd was murdered. It’s several miles away … by freeway.
This must have been during the unrest, then, right?
Nope. The judges decided that an employee wearing “BLM” on their uniform in February 2021—months after Floyd’s murder and the subsequent protests—was “a clear risk to customer and employee safety,” and that the slogan reasonably threatened the security of the workplace.
Just come out and say that you are going to let companies be racist. It would save us all a bunch of time.
Flock data is a public record, and that is not great!
A few months ago, you might have heard about Texas deputies reportedly using Flock Safety, an automated license-plate reader, to track down someone who had allegedly had a self-managed abortion as part of a “death investigation” and possible prosecution.
Sure, the deputies said they were just trying to find her to check on her welfare, and that’s why they reportedly conducted a nationwide search of over 83,000 Flock cameras and reviewed her text messages about the abortion.
So, what could be worse than cops tapping into a giant network of surveillance cameras whenever they feel like it? Glad you asked.
How about if, at least in Washington state, everything from those Flock cameras are public records and therefore can be requested by anyone? Why should law enforcement have all the fun of using a dystopian surveillance tool to track people? Better to just throw open the doors to every bad actor!
And speaking of bad actors. Eight Washington state law enforcement agencies had already shared access to their Flock networks directly with U.S. Border Patrol.
So, a private company built a vast network of surveillance cameras. Which police have access to. And maybe in some places, anyone does. And maybe in other places, Border Patrol does as well. This surveillance state sucks.
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a Substack post by economist/entrepreneur Skander Garroum:
You know that feeling when you're waiting for the cable guy, and they said 'between 8am and 6pm, and you waste your entire day, and they never show up? Now imagine that, except the cable guy is 'electricity,' the day is '50 years,' and you're one of 600 million people. At some point, you stop waiting and figure it out yourself.
What's happening across Sub-Saharan Africa right now is the most ambitious infrastructure project in human history, except it's not being built by governments or utilities or World Bank consortiums. It's being built by startups selling solar panels to farmers on payment plans. And it's working. Over 30 million solar products sold in 2024. 400,000 new solar installations every month across Africa. 50% market share captured by companies that didn't exist 15 years ago. Carbon credits subsidizing the cost. IoT chips in every device. 90%+ repayment rates on loans to people earning $2/day.
And if you understand what's happening in Africa, you understand the template for how infrastructure will get built everywhere else for the next 50 years.
The immigrant from India believed her husband when he said that if she wasn’t gone by the time he got to their Georgia home in 10 minutes, he would kill her.
She said her husband and his family, who are also immigrants, abused her throughout their marriage, beating her with a belt, pouring hot water on her, cutting her, and pushing her head through a wall.
“Several times I tried to escape, but they found me and brought me back home,” said the woman, who is in the country illegally and spoke on the condition of anonymity because she is afraid being identified would harm her chances of gaining legal status.
With no time to run after her husband’s call in July 2020, she dialed 911, even though she knew she could be deported. The police arrived to find the husband threatening her with a knife in front of their young children, she recalled. He was arrested but not prosecuted, she said.
The woman and her children sought services from the Tahirih Justice Center, a national nonprofit organization that serves immigrant survivors of gender-based violence. She is still winding through the immigration process five years later.
Besides immigrants’ increased vulnerability to sexual violence, they face a host of mental health and physical challenges, researchers say. They have high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, suicide, and anxiety, accordingto a 2024 study.
“Personally, I know anxiety related to the current political climate is precipitating expensive emergency room visits and negatively impacting people’s ability to get to work and make a living,” said Nicole E. Warren, a nurse midwife and an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in Baltimore.
Immigrants without legal status also face increased rates of chronic conditions and higher death rates from preventable diseases due to their limited access to health care and their fear of seeking it, advocates say.
“One of our clients was so afraid to leave her home that she avoided seeking medical care during her pregnancy, out of fear of interacting with ICE,” said Miriam Camero, director of client advocacy, social services, at Tahirih.
Food banks have reported that many immigrants in need of food assistance have stopped coming, for fear of deportation.
It has always been difficult for people without legal immigration status to get help when they need it. The Trump administration’s crackdown on people in the country illegally has intensified the pressure. The situation has also hampered the advocates and attorneys who defend their rights.
“We’re working extra hours to do all the work,” said Vanessa Wilkins, executive director of Tahirih’s office in Atlanta. “The safety planning and added protection that clients might need, including documents just to make sure they are safe, can definitely make you feel overwhelmed.”
U Visas
For domestic abuse survivors without legal status, like the woman from India, going to the authorities seems more fraught amid the immigration crackdown, said Maricarmen Garza, chief counsel of the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence.
“There are just no guarantees,” Garza said, “especially with how law enforcement is intertwined in enforcing immigration law.”
In more than half of states, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents can collaborate by formal written agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies to identify and remove people in the country illegally. Advocates say this can interfere with victims’ efforts to get a certificate to file for a “U visa,” which would allow them to live and work in the U.S. with the possibility of lawful permanent residency.
The battered woman from India recalls police telling her that if she did not press charges, she could get a certificate for a U visa. She agreed to their suggestion but recalls the anxiety of filing about five abuse reports over two years to get the certificate. “I got panic attacks just writing them down, because it meant I was reliving the situations again,” she said.
When asked for comment about the difficulties immigrant domestic violence victims face, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson touted President Donald Trump’s efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. “The president’s successful effort to deport criminal illegal aliens is making all victims safer and ensuring they will never again be harmed by dangerous criminal illegal aliens,” Jackson said in a statement. She said “allegations without evidence” that immigrants have been told to drop charges “should not be taken seriously.”
Immigrant women without legal status can be particularly vulnerable to abuse and exploitation because of language barriers, as well as cultural and social isolation,researchers have found.
According toa 2023 report, lifetime rates of abuse by intimate partners range up to 93% in some immigrant groups, compared with about 41% of U.S.-born women experiencing such abuse in their lifetime.
As the Trump administration reshapes the country’s immigration system, survivors of violence who entered the country illegally have a tough time proving their abuse and trauma to get relief, advocates say.
A refugee health and asylum program at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore provides immigrant victims of abuse with free forensic evaluations to support their claims for humanitarian relief, including applications for U visas.
Warren, the program’s associate director for women’s health, said that in the past, a written affidavit of the clinic’s findings was enough to corroborate an applicant’s legal accounts of past trauma.
“Now, we are getting requests for our in-person testimony,” Warren said.
Application Backlogs
The woman from India applied for a visa after she received a certificate from law enforcement allowing her to do so in 2023. Hers is one of nearly 11.6 million pending visa applications,according to data through June— the highest volume of cases ever recorded by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The number of pending U visa applications is 415,000, according to the agency.
Only about 10,000 U visas are issued per year, and it can take more than seven years to process applications, Garza said.
Adding to the pressure, the Trump administration has reduced the availability of Section 8 housing, which helps low-income individuals and others pay their rent.As of September, people without legal authorization to be in the United States are not eligible to receive rental help over U.S. citizens.
“If Tahirih wasn’t behind me, I could be homeless,” said the woman, who said she can afford only half her rent.
Victims’ advocates say they are working harder than ever to support their clients but are stretched thin as they face federal funding cuts and increased demand.
The Tahirih center reported a 200% increase in call volume in the four months after Trump took office, compared with the same period last year.
“At the end of the day there are a lot of emails and a lot of people we aren’t able to reach as quickly as in the past,” said Casey Carter Swegman, the center’s director of public policy.
To reach immigrant survivors of abuse who are afraid to come forward, advocates are “getting back to basics,” said Joanna Otero-Cruz, executive director and president of the Philadelphia group Women Against Abuse.
“We’re doing grassroots outreach to hairdressers and other small-business owners,” she said. “They’re the eyes and ears for us.”
In Riverhead, New York, a 38-year-old woman who emigrated from El Salvador said she has twice been the victim of domestic abuse but was too scared to report it to police.
She said the second assault was by a man for whom she cooked and cleaned in his home. The woman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of her sense of shame and her fears of deportation, said he raped her, took pictures of her naked, and threatened to put them on social media if she tried to go to the police. He then stalked her, she said.
Noemi Sanchez, Long Island regional coordinator for the Rural & Migrant Ministry, a nonprofit that supports farm workers, is working closely with the woman to elevate her self-esteem and help her understand that “no woman deserves to have a man mistreat them.”
Meanwhile, the survivor from India received a temporary work permit in 2024 and is employed as a certified nursing assistant, which “helps me survive,” she said.
“I have really come a long way,” she added. “It wasn’t easy. I had great support behind me. They didn’t let me down.”
National Domestic Violence Hotline:People who have experienced domestic abuse can get confidential help atthehotline.orgor by calling800-799-7233.
We got a new manager. The general sentiment in the team was "it could only get better."
What he was great at was kissing up to his bosses and throwing us under the bus while not doing anything. To make a long story short, he was eventually fired for embezzling money and tried to pin it on us.
Though Democrats caved on the government shutdown, the week has overall been a political win, with President Donald Trump and his crew scrambling to dodge questions about inflation, health care, and—of course—the Epstein files.
Veterans and their families received a pleasant surprise when former President Barack Obama boarded their Honor Flight to personallygreet them upon their arrival in Washington, D.C., ahead of Veterans Day festivities.
A group of Senate Democrats, fresh off of caving to GOP demands to end the government shutdown, appeared on morning news shows to try to spin their cowardice.
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett took questions outside of the White House, where CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked him about therising costs Americans continue to face.
Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, who was arguably the network’s most high-profile promoter of election conspiracies that cost Fox millions in payouts, was back promoting those debunked conspiracies on her “business” show.
Trump and first ladyMelania Trump announced a new executive order, reportedlyallocating $25 million to support teenagers leaving the foster care system—and the president had a hard time with reading comprehension.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Ozwas asked by Fox News, in the broadest terms imaginable, "What would Trumpcare look like?"
There's something deeply satisfying about organizing your digital life—like alphabetizing your spice rack or labeling your houseplants by personality type. — Read the rest
We had a big sale that lasted all of October, and only October. It was called the 'October Sale' and it ended on October 31. It's the first week of November, and my boss is getting tired of being called to the registers to explain to customers that the sale is over.
Customer: "Look, I know the sale ended last week, but is there any way I can get a discount?"
When I first started working in a particular adult store forever ago, the shop was pre-renovations and looked fairly... dated. It had two frosted glass doors at the entrance, and we would latch one of the doors open during open hours.
It meant people could peer into the store from the mall, so we had to be mindful of what exactly people could see from the doorway.
Donald J. Trump's thin skin is on display again as he took to Truth Social to lash out at MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene again. On Friday, Trump pulled his endorsement for Greene after the Georgia Congresswoman refused to back down on the Epstein Files, which doesn't make him look guilty at all (wink wink).
This is, without a doubt, the wildest breakup in politics. Greene, who has overlooked Trump's staggering corruption, finally drew a line in the sand with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, the now-deceased wealthy financier who trafficked and raped underage girls (also known as children), and had a longstanding friendship with the president, among other influential figures.
Pulling his endorsement wasn't enough for the Pumpkin Pol Pot. Dipshitler just can't let go of Marge.
"Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!), betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned Left, performed poorly on the pathetic View, and became the RINO that we all know she always was," Donald wrote. "Just another Fake politician, no different than Rand Paul Jr. (Thomas Massie), who got caught being a full fledged Republican In Name Only (RINO)! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"
About 30 minutes later, Trump posted, "Marjorie “Traitor” Green is a disgrace to our GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY!"
Happy Caturday, online feline family! We all know cats are fluffy, funny, and delightfully judgmental - but they're also tiny, purring therapists with toe beans and fluffy tails. When life feels heavy, when stress piles up like unfolded laundry, or when the world just feels a little too loud, our cats are there. One slow blink, one soft paw on our chest, one rumbling purr that vibrates straight into the soul - and suddenly, everything feels lighter. Cats don't just improve our mental health… they protect it with their adorable, floofy lives.
There's something magical about the way a cat can sense when we need them most. They curl into our laps during anxious moments, they purr us through the bad days, and they make us laugh when nothing else can. Their presence is a warm blanket for the heart. And when you add cat memes to the mix? That's bonus serotonin in feline form.
That's exactly why we bring you Caturday Best every week - a curated collection of the funniest, sweetest, most pawsitively healing cat memes the internet has coughed up. Because sometimes we need jokes, sometimes we need cuddles, and sometimes we just need to see a derpy loaf sitting in a box two sizes too small. Take a deep breath, cuddle your emotional support gremlin, and let the memes work their magic. Happy Caturday!
Some people wake up to the smell of coffee, some to breakfast, others to that same iPhone alarm you've been hearing since 2008, but not this Mom. No, she woke up to soft little mews, and when she went to her closet to investigate, she found a purrfect little family of a momma cat and her newborn kittens! The pregnant cat must have decided her home felt like a safe space to give birth in, snuck into the closet, and brought her kittens into the world all while the hoomans of the house snored away.
But what's so wholesome about this pawsitively hilarious and heartwarming 'not my cat' story is that this beautiful occurrence turned this mom and her kids into cat lovers. They helped the momma cat raise her babies, and the kids worked together to name them all, and eventually, decided to adopt them. Now, they're all one big fluffy family, and it seems like the momma cat's intuition was right - this was a safe space. The hoomans may think they chose her, but she actually chose them first.
The CDS strikes again, and this time, it came with some purrfectly tiny presents. Good things do come in small packages.
The Leopards Ate My Face subreddit unearthed some great cases of Republicans forced to deal with the consequences of voting for President Donald Trump.
Here’s a good one:
“I voted for Trump and 100% believe what he is doing. But at the same time I keep reading people saying If you are on snap for more then a year you need to get a job. I agree,” Ryan says.
If he voted for Trump and agrees that able-bodied individuals like him should have to work, then what’s the problem? What’s wrong with buying a bicycle? Sapulpa, the town he mentions, is in Oklahoma, so it won’t get too cold.
Oh, the need for a “fake” resume? Nah, you have to be a Trump family member to get by on those.
Here’s another:
Okay, Avi voted for it. Cool. Glad he’s happy with how everything is going.
“Ultimately it's better for America that the Republican party is not represented by literal Hitler loving Nazis and regardless of the past we should do what we can to stop that from
happening,” says the guy who voted for the Hitler-loving Nazis.
Also, kind of not our problem? Why is it up to liberals and Democrats to fix the Republican Party? Get your own house in order, Avi.
Americans were “dying with Biden,” but now Ryan is crying with Trump. And that economic instability and rising prices? Trump did that.
P.S.—The so-called Department of Government Efficiency didn’t find billions in fraud.
Greetings, Anna Bella! I’m sure your support for Trump will be amply rewarded!
Instead, despite needing help with food, water, dog food, and clothing, she voted for Trump, hoping to get amply rewarded. And she’ll likely vote for the next Republican for the same reason, even as she scrapes by.
Wow, the hate for Biden …
Daniel almost gets it. Yes, Trump doesn’t have to worry about health insurance because, as he puts it, “Oh yeah you're super rich and don't have to worry about it.”
But his threat to leave the Republican Party? “[A]fter 60 years on this earth in a lifelong republican I'm sick to my fucking stomach,” he writes. “This country is losing respect we're losing our liberty. We're losing our jobs. We're losing our healthcare. I didn't like the Obama care but it's the only insurance I could get.”
Hey, at least he knows what Obamacare is, which many of his ilk don’t. But Democrats gave him the insurance he’s on, while Republicans want only to rip it away from him.
I don’t understand his anger. This is exactly what he voted for. He should be happy!
On the other hand, if Daniel really does consider Trump’s policies a threat to his health care, our nation’s liberties, and our standing in the world … maybe there's still hope for him?
It was the first allegation of a crime committed in space — back in 2019. But by 2020 it had led to
charges of lying to federal authorities.
And now a former Air Force intelligence officer "has pleaded guilty to lying to a federal agent," reports CNBC, "by falsely claiming that her estranged astronaut wife illegally accessed her bank account while aboard the International Space Station for six months, prosecutors in Houston, Texas, said Friday."
The guilty plea by Summer Worden, 50, on Thursday comes more than five years after she was indicted in the space case for lying about actions by her wife, Anne McClain, a U.S. Army colonel, West Point graduate and Iraq war combat veteran, while they were in the midst of a divorce. The claim came at a time when Worden said that the couple was engaged in a custody battle over what Worden's then-6-year-old son, who had been conceived through in vitro fertilizationand carried by a surrogate...
McClain was aboard the Space Station from December 2018 through June 2019. She recently commanded the SpaceX Crew-10 crew mission to the Space Station from March this year until August.
Worden, who remains free on bond, is scheduled to be sentenced on February 12. She faces a maximum possible sentence of up to five years in prison.
This may seem like your average rescue story, but it's not. It's not normal because A) maine coon cats are never normal, and B) the sick and senior cats are the most overlooked when it comes to finding their furrever families. But not Yukon! This scraggly maine coon cat was taken in by a foster family, even though he didn't look his best. He was given an incorrect meowdication that caused his hair to fall out. Over the course of a year, they nursed him back to health, restoring his floof, his faith in humanity, and most impurrtantly, his meowrvelous magnificence! The feline and family fell in love with each other, and they made the choice to adopt him into their loving home.
This wholesome rescue story is a reminder for all of us out there to give the "ugly" ones a chance. Just because they're not as fluffy as the others or as playful as that cute kitten doesn't mean that they won't be a great cat. They just want to be loved, to be petted, and to be fed two square meals a day like any other kitty (although they may insist that they require six meals per day). If you have the space in your hearts and homes, go take one of the cats that have been in the shelter for the longest time. They might surprise you with how much love they have to give.
Need a little extra heavy metal with your morning smoothie? Consumer Reports tested 23 protein powders and shakes and discovered that over two-thirds are spiked with more lead than what their experts consider safe for an entire day. Some brands took the "mass" in "mass gainer" a bit too literally, packing in more lead than a Thompson submachine gun. — Read the rest
Customer: "What is this?"
Me: "Your chicken tinga tacos."
Customer: "I ordered fish tacos!"
Customer's Son: "No, you ordered the chicken tinga tacos, mom!"
A mother and her small child in a pram are walking beside me up the street.
Mother: "When we get home, would you like sliced avocado or mashed avocado?"
Whether or not Rep. Don Bacon shuts up and slinks back on the MAGA train, taking these shots on CNN at President TV Watcher has got to endanger ketchup bottles in the White House. More importantly, it sends a public message that Trump’s MAGA lackeys in Congress are beginning to feel not so keen on continuing to roll over and play dead at his command.
Bacon told cohost Pamela Brown that there are enough House Republicans to vote to release Epstein files in the House despite Trump’s attack on them as weak and foolish. “We don’t want to be aligned on that side of this,” Bacon said. “We want transparency, and the White House needs to realize the train has left the station. They need to accept the fact it's going to happen.”
Bacon accused Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, of having “poorly handled” the case. But, he said, “the process is working” in Congress, and praised the work of the House Oversight Committee. He noted that the bill to release the files will also have to pass in the Senate and then go to Trump. But even if the bill stalls in the Senate, the Epstein scandal is not going to go away.
Asked if there will be a veto-proof majority in the House, Bacon said, “I think it will be. I mean, most Republicans, we're not going to vote to help shield Epstein and all the information on there. In the end, we know transparency is best.” Translation: they want the Epstein files made public, even if that harms President P***y Grabber.
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