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Me: "I’m sorry you have to deal with miserable people like her."
The woman freezes mid-stride and spins around.
Customer: "What did you just say to me!?"
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We’re back with more Holiday Wishes! This week we’re talking with Garlic Knitter, Claudia, Christine, and Jo.
A few notes:
First, my voice is not great. Some of these were recorded when I had a dreadful cold, so I apologize in advance.
Second, if you’re a sympathetic crier like I am, please know that when Christine and I are talking, we both get a little choked up while talking about grief and the infuriating unfairness of American healthcare. It’s an emotional conversation and a beautiful one – thank you for sharing so much of yourself, Christine.
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The Smart Bitches 20th Anniversary candle is an 11 ounce hand poured soy candle with notes of sea salt, book pages, sandalwood and jasmine.
The Bad Decisions Book Club candle, also 11 ounces, is designed to be the perfect pairing for late night reading, with scents of sweet tobacco, book pages, leather, rose, and sandalwood. I had a marvelous time picking out the scents.
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icanhascheezburger_feedSomeone who likes metal music are usually called a "metalhead." They like fast and angry music, dark and gothic decor, and have macabre hobbies. Take, for instance, this metalhead who likes to search for roadk*ll and then memorialize their bones in beautifully decorated and honorable works of art. This time, however, he didn't come across your common side of the road scene, he came across an orange kitten.
The cat seemed frozen to the core. But, as many medical professional say, no one is gone until the are warm and gone. That is because hypothermia can easily make someone appear like they have already left this world. But this kitten had not left yet, so the metalhead decided to let his sweet side shine and work hard at rescuing this little baby.
Thankfully, he was successful! He spent hours warming him up, manually pumping his heart, and feeding him. By the time they actually reached the vet, the baby was fully back to life. There is definitely a metal song in this tale somewhere. But for now, all us cat people are ready to start a metal band and call it Frozen Kitten Necromancer. We are all metalheads now and this kitten is our mascot!
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An example of violence on a cosmic scale, enormous
icanhascheezburger_feedIt's only the first week of December and you already want to clock out for the holidays. This is the time of year where it is perfectly professional to respond with "we'll circle back to this after the holidays." It's a difficult time to trudge through and find any sort of motivation to work. So let your cat comfort you, they are the purrfessionals in that after all. Your boss asks you to come in early? "Sorry, boss. Little Ketchup attacked the Christmas tree. Going to be a little late cleaning that up." Have a million emails coming in for projects that will take way longer than a few weeks to figure out? Send them a cute holiday photo of your cat dressed up as a snowman or something, that will distract them until you can circle back.
It's that time of the year to cuddle up with your kitty and enjoy the pretty lights you have put up in your house. Work? Your cat doesn't know what that even means! It's cold out and it feels like forever-darkness outside. Time to clock out and cuddle. Did a cat write this? Meow, meow, meow, who knows?! Just enjoy these festive silly kitty work memes below.
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Donald Trump underwent an MRI in October, which raised a lot of questions, considering Trump can't stop falling asleep in meetings, is slowing down dramatically, has daily bruising on his right hand and even seems to be losing control of one side of his body.
So, this MRI and 2nd "annual physical" (he had 2 annual exams, so clearly something is up) raised questions. After much pressuring, Trump's physician said that the MRI was for his heart and abdomen and that the images were "perfectly normal", which all readers should take with a grain of salt, since this administration will literally tell you Trump is the strongest and most alert President ever while he is literally sleeping during Cabinet meetings.
Gavin Newsom, widely considered to be the front runner for Democratic nomination for 2028, posted this letter from his physician, Dr. Doolittle.
notalwaysright_feedRead Giving Them Something To Chew On
I check out a woman and ask if she wants her receipt.
Customer: "I don't want it. But I also don’t want you to have it. You'll return my items and steal my money."
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President Donald Trump's administration drew criticism from climate advocates on Wednesday for taking a hatchet to fuel efficiency standards aimed at reducing US gas consumption and mitigating the damage done by human-made climate change.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has proposed slashing former President Joe Biden's fuel economy requirements for new cars down from 50.4 miles per gallon down to just 34.5 miles per gallon on average by 2031.
NHTSA claims that the change in fuel-efficiency standards would slash up-front costs to cars by roughly $900, although it acknowledges that this would also increase US gasoline consumption, which could mean higher prices at the gas pump.
The move has the support of America's major automobile manufacturers, who said the new rules would give them more flexibility. Ford CEO Jim Farley, for instance, told the Washington Post that the rule change means that the auto industry "can make real progress on carbon emissions and energy efficiency while still giving customers choice and affordability."
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I'll believe it when I see it, but it seems even some Republicans are finally tired of Pete Hegseth thumbing his nose at them. As we've discussed here, the Inspector General found Hegseth violated military regulations with the use of his personal phone and transmitting classified documents.
The report found Hegseth could have endangered our troops, and as ABC reported:
The Defense Department's inspector general concluded that the information Hegseth put in Signal had been properly classified by U.S. Central Command prior to the secretary sharing the information with his colleagues and his wife, two sources said. But because the information was so sensitive and risked putting troops in danger if it fell into enemy hands, the IG concluded it should not have been relayed using the commercial app, the people familiar with the details said.
The sources said that, according to the report, Hegseth refused to sit down for an interview as part of the investigation. But he told the IG in a statement that because he has the power to classify and declassify information, he acted within his rights.
Hegseth also insisted in his statement to the IG that the information he shared in the chat was not sensitive and that it would not put troops at risk if exposed -- an assertion the IG rejected.
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notalwaysright_feedRead We Accept Credit Card, Not Race Card
Customer: "You're just saying that to me because I'm Black!"
Me: "No, Ma'am, I don't care what color thief you are."
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dailykos_feedFor decades, the United States has played a major role in reducing child mortality. The Trump administration’s stance seems to be “well, what if we didn’t?”
The Gates Foundation issued a report Thursday that said about 200,000 more children worldwide under age 5 have died or will die this year compared with 2024. Last year saw 4.6 million children die before their age 5, but that is projected to increase to 4.8 million in 2025.
This is the first time this century that annual child deaths have increased. Child deaths have declined sharply since 1990, when 11.6 million children under 5 died. Nations made a concerted effort to drive that rate down, and it’s a genuine miracle that the number of deaths has been more than halved in just 35 years.
Bill Gates called the Trump administration’s cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development “a gigantic mistake,” which undersells it. The United States played a big role in decreasing child deaths, and now we are playing a pretty big role in increasing them.
The administration shuttered USAID in July because that is apparently now a thing we let the president do, even though the power to create and eliminate agencies rests with Congress. The courts stood aside as well, letting President Donald Trump slash billions in foreign aid.
These cuts have already directly impacted hundreds of thousands of children.
In Ethiopia, the cuts mean a shortage of hospital staff, leading to children being discharged prematurely. In Nigeria, children are dying from malnutrition. The administration is so dedicated to abject cruelty that it even destroyed food bound for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, food that could have fed 1.5 million kids.
Impact Counter, which projects the human costs of these cuts, estimated that over 600,000 people have died, two-thirds of whom are children. Reviewing the breakdowns of that data and the methodology is an emotional gut punch. How do you feel about 14.7 million fewer children receiving treatment for pneumonia or diarrhea? How about roughly 168,000 children dying per year from malnutrition? And here’s malaria, where aid cuts are projected to lead to over 6 million additional child malaria cases.
Children are also at greater risk thanks to the arbitrary termination of maternal and child health funds. The administration did that even in the face of a USAID memo saying this would eliminate postnatal care for over 11 million children.
A modeling study published in The Lancet in April predicted that the cuts to this funding would reverse the decline in maternal and child deaths, with maternal mortality increasing 29% by 2040, under-5 child deaths increasing by 23% in that time, and stillbirths by 13%. These are grim, brutal numbers, and Trump owns them.
The United States has removed itself from the global stage, stepping away from obligations and refusing to see itself as part of the larger world. Sure, millions of children may die, but that’s just the price we pay for “America first.”
dailykos_feedA daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know.
What the f-ck is the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace?
When you order a Nobel Peace Prize from Temu.
Hegseth could have killed troops with Signal chat leak
Does the defense secretary’s “warrior ethos” include endangering soldiers’ lives?
House speaker to struggling Americans: 'Relax'
Pop a chill pill and just take out a short-term loan for those groceries, sheesh.
Cartoon: Going after drug traffickers
… to give them presidential pardons.
Sean Duffy vows to make America smoggy again
He’s also vowing to bring back … station wagons?
Did The New York Times just grow a spine?
The Old Gray Lady is finally fighting for the First Amendment.
Minneapolis mayor tells Trump what the real 'garbage' is
Hint: It’s not the Somali community.
Tennessee is best sign yet for Democrats' 2026 hopes
We see a big blue wave on the horizon.
icanhascheezburger_feedCats are famously fluid creatures, and every cat owner has witnessed moments where their pet seems to forget that bones even exist. One minute they are a perfectly normal house cat and the next they are spilling over the edges of a bowl like a furry waterfall. They pour themselves into baskets, sinks, flowerpots, and cardboard boxes that should never accommodate their full bodies, yet somehow do. It is as if gravity bends around them out of respect.
Their ability to reshape themselves into whatever container they choose is both impressive and deeply confusing. A cat can stretch to the length of a baguette or compress into a perfect loaf without warning. They melt off couches like butter left in the sun and slide under doors with alarming determination. Scientists may try to describe it with flexibility and cartilage, but anyone who has lived with a cat knows the truth. Cats are liquid because they want to be.
And while their physics-defying behavior makes no logical sense, it always results in excellent entertainment. Every new puddle-cat formation feels like discovering a fresh law of nature, one that proves the world is a little stranger and a lot funnier with felines around.
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