Hope everyone’s week went well! We’re having a neighborhood Oktoberfest tonight so that is always fun.
Nancy Pelosi, a force on Capitol Hill for decades, to retire from Congress
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/nancy-pelosi-retire-congress
Armed ICE agents in Chicago drag daycare worker out of facility and arrest her
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/chicago-ice-agents-detain-daycare-worker
Judge orders White House to use American Sign Language interpreters at briefings
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/05/nx-s1-5599118/white-house-asl-deaf-american-sign-language-judge-order
Mexican women outraged by public sexual assault on their president
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/06/mexicans-outraged-by-public-sex-assault-on-president
Shut up and take my money!
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz reportedly in talks for ‘The Mummy 4’ reunion
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/entertainment/brendan-fraser-rachel-weisz-mummy-reunion-scli-intl
Enjoy your weekend!
…the daycare thing I can’t see how anyone gets over being how this shit works so that *these* people get to keep pulling the rest of *this* stuff
…I dunno…maybe by sunday I’ll be even more pissed about sorta-the-same-shit-but-a-different-facet-of-the-princess-cut-bullshit-gem…but…fuck me…DOGE-y motherfucker got 3/4 of the vote to award him the “if you hit these numbers the world is too mad to live” $1trillion pay package…the same week the numbers for…what was the covid-speak for it…”excess” deaths downstream of going full DOGE on USAID get posted
…I don’t begrudge people the solace of their faith…but I confess the fact that nobody gets smote these days really is hard to see past for me…& I know the adaptation is never quite like the book or whatever & it’s not my fandom to gatekeep or what have you…but…c’mon…where’s a long-haired unwashed proto-hippy with an ass-jawbone when you need one lately?
…it’s like these people never even read that bloody book…how’s it gonna look he comes back & we’re all “yeah, the money lending *is* the temple – we’re real proud of that part, chief”?
Prison?
Yoda: Threaten me with a good time, you musn’t
…also yoda…”tri-al…say I did not”
This is a quite lengthy block quote from Politico New York so I apologize but it made my heart sing:
I’ve never been to PR but I’ve always wanted to go. Better Half has been, of course, work-related, but not me. The Caribe Hilton! That must be some kind of 60s-ish Fontainebleau Miami Beach-like place, where we used to haunt when we had our bolt-hole in South Beach.
Thanks for the memory!
…I hope he doesn’t get lit up by the not-the-messiah lot when that bit rolls around…but it is hard not to feel he provides some antidote-looking appearances that would be cause for optimism if they go the distance…not the least of which being that appointment of lisa khan…given…well
…the screamingly amoral nature of the market sector that provides that sort of thing at the bargain basement price of awarding the likes of elon the historic pay package that would pay out in full if we fully commit to the world economy being tethered to their personally being pot-committed to a fully underwater equity/valuation foundation to the whole book-keeping vortex that props up their competing sales pitches while doing this shit to stay in the black & keep the shareholders sweet
…I really am trying to not go off like I’m the damn firework today…but…I get all the stuff about all the predatory shit that lives in the cracks of the online spaces like the fucking bogeyman or the shit under the bed your kid is scared of & you want to be able to tell them doesn’t exist in the room they’re in…& how that platform/environment/system/business is like if the metaverse actually was a thing & it had a playroom/crèche designation like a PG certificate on a DVD or a video game or whatever…I see how there’s grains of truth running through what he’s saying…but playing the specifically-pedo threat to let it be *that* that’s the problem & not any of the way-worse-shit where the money lives?
…meanwhile
…& I lean towards aristotle’s golden mean when it comes to the advantages of all things in moderation outweighing the allure of anything in too radical a degree
…but these assholes make it real fucking hard to be the shepherd or whatever it is that’d sound way better if it was delivered by a pissed off samuel l jackson holding a loaded gun & not like some internet rando crashing out because that was the fashion at the time & I have an onion tied to my belt?
Hochul’s comment is such an asshole thing to say. Yeah if people are pushing for no reason, human nature is to dig our heels in and stubbornly refuse.
What if people push for childhood nutrition improvements or public safety or better political oversight, she’s just saying she will refuse because of her nature? Fucking rude.
Your neighbors know it’s … November, right?
Time is fluid.
Oh, and this quote from Kickback is priceless:
“I hear you, but I’m the type of person, the more you push me, the more I’m not going to do what you want,” Hochul responded. “So little lesson to all of our friends out there.”
She’s the Hacka di tutti Hacki. If I slipped her $40 at a Port Authority multisex bathroom you’d better believe she’d do what I want.
But to be fair [insert Letterkenny “to be fair” compilation] she mostly leaves us alone and when she does meddle in NYC it’s mostly for the good. Unlike her predecessor, the disgraced former Governor and two-time loser to Zohran Mamdani, and did everything in his power to sap any signs of life or energy from NYC during the pandemic. Here’s a doll, Handsy. Where did we hurt you?
I have to let this go. It’s like I’ve been in a toxic marriage and need to move on. BTW, the Halloween candy arrived. I was napping when Better Half brought the box upstairs. When I awoke the box was suspiciously open. BH said, “It came like that. It was in an envelope and…um…”
In the assortment were bite-size Hershey Cookies ‘n Cream chocolates. After dinner last night (Better Half has gotten quite good at making my pasta sauces, but he needs to cut up the cherry tomatoes and the peppers so we’re not actually eating ratatouille dumped over pappardelle) I broke out the Cookies ‘n Cream things as a lagniappe.
A successful night all in all.
I thought it surprising and kind of fascinating that she embraced Mamdani wayyyy before the rest of the state and national party did. I don’t think she’s great shakes or whatever, but to your point, she’s not a thug like Cuomo and she at least seems aware that cozying up to Trump is not a winning strategy.
Ganz genau, as we say in the Fatherland. Let’s toast a new, non-sclerotic regime (certainly not Nazi but I couldn’t think of a Soviet version…)
You know, I’ve pondered this question, and my answer keeps being “Who the fuck knows?” This is one of the most bizarre road-to-Damascus conversions I’ve ever seen in politics. There’s gotta be a grift there, but what?
What the hell is going on with Marjorie Taylor Greene?
I think she’s just mad about the Senate thing and burning bridges over it. She’s still a giant bigoted nutbar, but she does seem smart enough to realize that Trump isn’t forever and that somebody’s gonna have to pick up the torch eventually.
…ok…so…I go a bit off the deep end whenever there’s a way to dive off down a theory of mind rabbit hole & almost certainly should not be trusted about that sort of thing on the basis of unhealthy enthusiasm for topics of infinite scope & suchlike
…that said…in a sort of oversimplified exercise that curtails those excesses down to somewhere around where the dial reads “if we assume a mind with the sort of properties we give to moderately successful pack animals but driving a human suit the way probably more people associate with the first men in black flick than an old comic strip called numbskulls & try to assess it the way jane goodall or someone big into wolves that gets mad about all that alpha business might”
…well…believe them when they tell you who they are, I guess?
…& she says she hasn’t changed except for the parts where she sees the side of the game she was playing for the busted flush it always was & now her instinctive-triangulation targets for why that has to be someone else’s fault in a way that means she ought to be dug in where she can switch horses mid-stream but stay on all the same gravy trains
…she’s trying to be a professional-ly-stopped-clock twice a day like clockwork to maintain relevance using the superpower of not-lying-when-she-said-that-bit to stay ahead of the competition for being the face doing the sickos thing through your overton window…give or take…& is still exactly as awful a person & terrible fit for the role of being the sort of cog in the sort of machine being elected to remains essentially job security for that whole grift
There are a limited number of media darling slots, and “Insane Republican who we can show in a moderate light” is almost always a winner.
Oh that’s easy to explain.
She’s a pick me ass bitch who thought she was special and “not like other girls” so the republican party would treat her like a person instead of how they treat women.
She’s finally learned that they think she’s just as expendable as the other women and has no value except to parrot what they tell her to say.
When she could say all the dumb QANON crap and whatever else they wanted, this was fine and she was too stupid to understand her place. Now she’s still wanting to follow through on some of her personal convictions – the Epstein files for example – and they’re not cool with it and she’s finally learning she’s not a special one for them and is getting the same treatment that they give women in general. Basically, shit.
…one of my favorite bits from josh johnson’s “oh, goody – at least it’s thursday” addition to the youtube catalog this week about the epic hater status achieved by the people who weren’t cuomo in that race was when he recounted sliwa going after him in one of the debates…after the part where he already responded to why don’t you drop out if that looks like statistically it’d improve the chances mamdani would lose with “why should I drop out – people *like* me?”… about the harrassment/assault/whatever & how much that cost new york because what, they’re lying andrew…all of them…all these women are lying about you & that’s new york’s tab to pay & what have you…& josh is like “dude hates cuomo so much he’s out here standing up for women *as a republican*”
…it’s funny ‘cos it’s true?
Does anyone else ever think we are surrounded by weird fucking cults with only the most tenuous grasp on reality? There’s no rational reason to give this mediocre buffoon with serious mental problems this kind of money.
Elon Musk wins $1 trillion pay package tying him to Tesla for a decade
…I am literally biting my lip in lieu of having to cut off my fingers so I don’t start typing & never stop today…I’m surprised the metaphorical inferno currently atop my spine isn’t visible from fucking space…or by any deities playing absent landlord in the general spiritual vicinity
…still no offer to make my dreams come true for the low low price of my one immortal soul, though…so…apparently my hell-zoopla page has me listed in their version of detroit or some shit?
Cults are bad. This cult also has control of the world’s economic engine which is … not ideal.
A better Pelosi headline: One of the Greatest Wall Street Investors of All Time Announces Retirement
…outstanding
It also is why it’s on sight between her and AOC, who wanted to end Congressional stock trading. Kind of a tell!
Someone please help me understand this shit. You just lost a massive wave of elections, with Latino voters turning against you in overwhelming numbers. So rationally, you contact ICE Barbie and tell her to cool it with this fucking insanity because it’s alienating a critical voter bloc and racists aren’t making up the difference. Except that’s not what happens. They double-down on the fucking horrors. Why? What don’t I understand?
You don’t understand that all Hispanics are illegals and voting for the Libtards. If we deport them all, they can’t vote. Only old white men should be allowed to vote & even those need to pinky promise that they will only vote for republicans.
…it’s like “I’m a little teapot” but for facism
…I’m a little tinpot – *snark* & *spout*
…I fly off my handle or my ass gets the rout
…when you hear my [dog]whistle give me clout
…or I’ll trip me up & you can pour one out
…might be improved if it had been “bark” & “snout” in the asterixes there…for the bark vs bite in the little loud dog that thinks it’s a bear or a wolf or some such shit & the herd of buffalo better leap up & start behaving like proper sheep?