Monday, July 20, 2026

The Resistance At Work

I found this past week fairly interesting, between those who spoke out against the regime, and Cankles own inept, lie-filled "speech" last week, but let's focus on the Truth Tellers, those who are standing up ...


This week Elizabeth Oyer, a former DOJ Pardon Attorney, testified before the Senate against Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general about how he fired her after she refused to "rubber stamp" a dangerous political favor for Cankles:

"Two days after Mr. Blanche was confirmed as Deputy Attorney General, he fired me from my position as the department's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a political favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr. Blanche's office had asked me to recommend restoring the gun ownership rights of a convicted domestic abuser [Mel Gibson]. I raised concerns about public safety, but Mr. Blanche's staff pressured me to go along anyway. I did not. Domestic violence is the leading type of homicide among women. When a domestic abuser is armed, his victim is five times more likely to be killed. But because this particular domestic abuser had a personal relationship with the President, Mr. Blanche's staff asked me to set aside my concerns. When I wouldn't, Mr. Blanche fired me within hours."

Gibson pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery in 2011 after his romantic partner Oksana Grigorieva accused him of hitting her and their daughter, whom she was holding in her arms at the time. She also revealed that he punched her in the mouth, breaking her teeth, and was verbally abusive on numerous phone calls.

And, well, since we know that Cankles also abuses women, and is an adjudicated rapist, he saw a kindred spirit in Gibson.

Oyer continued:

"[Blanche] then took extraordinary measures to silence me. He sent U.S. marshals to my home in an effort to prevent me from speaking with members of Congress. I was shocked to hear Mr. Blanche's testimony about this yesterday. What he said about my firing is provably false. His claim that it had nothing to do with the concerns I raised is contradicted by documents and evidence. His claim that he tried to call me before sending marshals to my home is flat-out false. His claim that it is normal for DOJ to use armed law enforcement officers to deliver mail to the homes of its former employees is preposterous. The casual lies that Mr. Blanche tells, even while sitting in this chair, testifying to this committee are emblematic of a much larger problem."

The problem, of course, is that Todd Blanche is utterly immoral and works only for the president and not for We The People; he doesn't believe in the rule of law for the president, for domestic abusers like Mel Gibson, or even for himself. He wants power and like so many on the right he will do whatever his racist rapist con artist boss demands of him.

He should not be allowed anywhere near the Department of Justice and good on Elizabeth Oyer for standing up to Blanche and his thug boss.


Georgia Democrat Senator Jon Ossoff proved himself more than capable of taking on Cankles and his criminal regime and his inept appointees, like Jay Clayton, the nominee for Director of National Intelligence who refused to admit that Cankles lost the 2020 election.

"Who won the 2020 election?"

Clayton, the current U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, didn't disappoint and showed himself to be a Cankles lapdog.

"Umm... You know, I'm not, I'm not gonna do this with you."

"This is a job interview! We've established that you have an obligation to be honest and forthright with the committee. [Do you] have an obligation to be honest and forthright with the committee?"

"Yes."

"Who won the 2020 election?"

"Like I said, I'm not, I'm not going to get into that with you."

"But you do have an obligation to be honest and forthright with the committee?"

"Is anything that I just said not honest or forthright?"

"Yes, you're not being honest or forthright. Who won the 2020 election?"

"I think I've answered the question. We can keep doing this."

"Well, we're going to keep doing it because you're not being honest and forthright."

"I'm not going to engage in the theater."

"It's a simple question, Mr. Clayton. Who won the 2020 presidential election?"

"I've answered it."

"You're here asking for the support of senators to lead America's intelligence community. We've established that you have an obligation to be honest and forthright with this committee and with the American public, but you refuse to answer a simple matter of fact about the 2020 election. Is that right?"

"No, that's not right."

"Then answer the question! Who won the 2020 election?"

"I have answered the question."

"Answer it. What is your answer?"

"I've given you my answer."

"What is your answer? You refuse to answer a basic question about who won a presidential election, but you asked to lead America's intelligence community. Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this question, to have to indulge the President's delusions? We know, you know, everybody in this room knows the truthful answer to that question. Why can you not give it?"

"I think I gave you the answer."

This man wants to serve as the most powerful intelligence official in our entire national security organization and het he is so in fear of angering an 80-year-old toddler that he can’t answer a simple question.

His brazenness is rooted in a confidence that Republicans, also living in fear of angering a demented doddering asshat, will choose partisan interests over national ones. He knows that the GOP will vote to confirm him no matter what he does or doesn't say.

If he gets this job he will begin to enact Cankles’ fascist, criminal agenda and anyone, on either side of the aisle, should be voted out of office at the first opportunity.


When JD Vance's old "childless cat ladies" insult went viral during the 2024 campaign, Amanda McGonigle of Massachusetts decided to fight back by starting an Instagram account called CatsOnACouch and then what happened to her …

The account was mostly cat pictures to mock the Vice President. Her mission was to troll JD every day and rack up more followers than he has and nearly 2 million followers later, she's about a million short of that goal.

On May 14, Vance flew to Bangor, Maine, to tout his anti-fraud task force and Amanda McGonigle registered to attend, following every instruction the White House sent and subsequently receiving confirmation from Vance's own office along with event materials.

At the airport, waiting in line, five-armed Secret Service agents approached, called her by name and pulled her, and her friend, out of the line and informed her that the event was suddenly "private" and told her:

"We know where you stand."

Let that sink in; the US Secret Service, which exists to stop assassins, was assigned to monitor a cat account.

The ACLU of Maine filed suit naming the Executive Office of the President and the Secret Service. The complaint calls it what it is: viewpoint discrimination, First Amendment retaliation at a taxpayer-funded public event, closed to one citizen because of her jokes. Even the ACLU's lawyers got into it, calling her social media posts "purr-tected speech," and the puns did not stop there.

McGonigle isn't blinking either, noting that it's well within her rights to say:

"I think JD Vance is an unlikeable idiot."

Oddly enough the Secret Service declined to comment and so did the White House. But it’s not all funny. This administration has a pattern of using federal power against its critics, and this is what that pattern looks like at street level: armed agents, a watchlist with a cat lady's name on it, a public event that turns "private" the moment someone who laughed at JD shows up. Oh, and remember, JD Vance coined "childless cat ladies" so he created his own nemesis with his own mouth.

Amanda McGonigle was a million followers short of catching JD Vance when the Secret Service pulled her out of that line and that may have just closed the gap for her.

She’s one person closer with my follow.


In the wake of the horrifying murders of three innocent migrants at the hands of the ICEstapo, the Cankles regime has released their popagandists Flying Monkeys to smear the victims and justify their actions.

Lydia Moynihan, a correspondent for the New York Post, was sent on CNN to do verbal battle with former GOP strategist turned Democrat Ana Navarro, and it did not go well for her. She began by saying:

“[Cankles] feels very keenly in folks in his administration that he was elected to do this. He was elected because people wanted deportations. And I think it's important when we talk about this issue to provide the context because they see every day that passes if we aren't deporting potentially unvetted illegal criminals that—”

Navarro stopped her:

THEY’RE NOT CRIMINALS!  He had a LEGAL permit to be in the country, and he was not a criminal, and over 70 % of the people that are getting deported and detained do not have criminal records! So be careful with your words and be accurate on national TV!”

“My point is that—”

“You’re lying!”

The moderator stepped in at this point to prove that Moynihan was, in fact, lying,

“In the two cases that we're talking about here, you have one individual who had no criminal record, who'd been in the country for 35 years, had never had an interaction with law enforcement, and he was not the target. In Maine, you had somebody, we actually don't know what his immigration status was, but we do know that he had a work permit and he had a Social Security number that issued. And Anna is correct, that most of the arrests that are being made are people who do not have criminal records.”

That’s The Resistance.

Shut them down. Shut down the lies. Stop the people who are defending the actions of the most heinous, morally reprehensible acts of fascistic violence committed on behalf of a demented pedophile.

Be the whistleblower or the sitting US Senator, or the cat lady, or the political commentator, or just a citizen with a voice … Stand up! Speak up!

Saturday, July 18, 2026

Why Is It ...

… that most people don’t realize that when I say I hope we can be more than friends, I mean we can be strangers.

… that some people tell you I’m the nicest person they’ve ever met and some people say I am a bitch? Well, believe them both because they got the version they deserved.

… that while an apple a day keeps the doctor away, it also keeps most people away if you throw it hard enough.

… that my co-workers have yet to learn that “Fuck that shit” is a perfectly acceptable substitution for “No.”

… that when life feels extra rough I ask myself, “Did you poop your pants,” and if the answer is No then I’m still winning.

… that the other day when a co-worker told me they were mad at me I suggested they slip on a cape so they can be SuperMad.

… that no one is laughing at the Amish anymore? Is it because they’re the ones clickety-clacking right past every gas station?

… that my To-Do List always includes barking up the wrong tree, putting all my eggs in one basket, judging a book by its cover, rocking the boat, and add fuel to the fire.

… that while my mind still think I’m 25, my body says my mind is dumb.

… that when I can’t sleep I tend to think of things like, how many vampires have been run over by people who back up only using their mirrors?

Friday, July 17, 2026

I Didn't Say It ...

Jasmine Crockett, Democrat Representative from Texas, on Cankles obsession with the Nobel Peace Prize:

“This self-obsessed president keeps whining about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, but under his administration a father was just killed by ICE. Children are still locked away in detention centers. And this war he promised he’d end? It’s still going [so] spare us the pity party. We deserve better.”

Peace isn’t killing schoolgirls in Iran or Americans on the streets of this country. Peace isn’t starting wars in Iran and threatening to start more wars.

But that illiterate fuck in the White House is too delusional to see that.

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Hunter Biden, on the death of Miss Lindsey:

“When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of [Cankles]. I thought of the time before [Cankles] when he was a brother to Senator McCain. A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father, “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God every created.” This is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after [but] because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love. I will choose to remember the time before [Cankles] because I believe in an America after [him].”

Once again, Hunter is spot on … this time about the fall of Lindsey Graham after hitching his wagon to a traitor.

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Thomas Massie, GOP Representative from Kentucky, on Cankles and the GOP screaming about election fraud:

“It’s ironic that we Republicans control the House, Senate, Supreme, Supreme Court and White House –and we’re lying about election fraud? We won all the damn elections. What are we doing with that? We’re bankrupting the country. We’re starting new wars. We’re violating the Constitution. We Republicans are not cracking down on the fraud.”

Seriously, how do you control every branch of governemt if the other party cheated at the election.

Make it make sense.

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Raphael Warnock, Democrat Senator from Georgia, on Cankles perpetual fight to relitigate the outcome of the 2020 election:

“[He] lost in Georgia in 2020. That’s not my opinion, it’s a fact. The votes were counted, recounted, audited, and litigated. He lost, he lost, he lost. He’s trying to sow doubt on the integrity of our elections in Georgia a so he can create the pretext to interfere in 2026. This president is a liar, a cheater, and a fraud and he has shown us over and over again that staying in power matters more to him than anything else.”

We’ve all heard the phone call or Cankles demanding Georgia find 11,780 votes so he could win the state. And we all remember Miss Lindsey going after Georgia and being smacked down by every single court, including Scotus.

Do not believe the GOP lies.

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Michael Fanone, former DC police officer attacked on the Capitol on January 6, on Lindsey Graham’s death:

“Lindsey Graham is dead. I will always remember my first and only encounter with him when he looked the grieving mother of a dead police officer in the face and barked that he wasn’t going to listen to her blame [Cankles] for January 6th. When I showed him my body cam footage of that day he turned away and looked at his phone. Rest in Piss, you fucking worthless scumbag. If there is a Hell I hope you’re in it.”

Harsh words? I don’t think so, not when you remember that the day after January 6 Lindsey Graham spoke in Congress saying he was “done” with Cankles after the insurrection, and then just a few months later he completely switched his opinion.

Res in Piss, indeed.

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Thursday, July 16, 2026

Bobservations

Last weekend we had a lawn service come out and give the back yard a refresh, trimming trees, cutting branches back, shaping hedges and holly bushes and the popcorn tree. The workers are all Latino so Carlos was walking them around the yard telling them what we wanted done and he didn't know I was there. 

At the side yard, under the trees, was our Pet Cemetery and I heard Carlos telling them that the big stones under the trees are cat and dog graves and not to remove those markers. But when he mentioned Tuxedo, whom I buried under the trees and then placed a rectangle paver over him, he told the men not to move the paver because that was the grave site of, as Carlos said, “El gato más espectacular de todos los tiempos” or “the most spectacular cat ever.”

All the times that Carlos poked at me for my love of The Great Tuxedo and now he says this.

I love that man.

This Tale of Tuxedo is from June 2010 and is entitled “Artist’s Model”:

"Years ago, in San Francisco, a friend and I stumbled upon a cool little furniture store in the Mission, where I saw this piece of wrought iron sculpture called "Twisted Kitty."

I bought it instantly.

This morning, finding Tuxedo on the floor, I wondered if, in one of his Nine Lives, he'd been the inspiration."

Tuxedo was a lot of things but he was most definitely bendy!

Sam Neill, star of the original “Jurassic Park,” died Monday at 78. His death came just two months after he announced he was cancer-free following his battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. 

I had a crush on Sam ever since I saw him in “Dead Calm” with Nicole Kidman. As both a younger man and an older man he was always a most handsome fella.

RIP

Lindsey Graham has barely boarded the Handbasket to Hell and already the South Carolina Sludge™ is eyeing his seat … Nancy Mace, whom the entire state just said “Oh Hell no” to when she ran for governor is lurking around, and so is Nikki “I am the Queen of Flip Flopping” Haley.

Oh, and Cankles wants Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a native of South Carolina, to run for the seat and at least with him you’d be trading one sold-his-soul-to-the-Devil closeted gay man for a sold-his-soul-to-the-Devil out gay man.

Dear goddess, let’s get Democrat Annie Andrews into that office!

Remember married Kristin Cabot, the woman caught on camera at a Coldplay concert making out with her married boss, on the Jumbotron?

Well, I guess her fifteen minutes of fame wasn’t enough for the boss’ sidepiece and Kristin is now telling anyone who will listen that Coldplay frontman Chris Martin never reached out to check on her.

Oh Kristin, go sit in a corner and think about what you’ve done, and then get a real life.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, if football players dressed like this I might be more interested in watching them, um, “play.”

In a Sunday night Truth Social post, the 80-year-old demented man in the White House claimed that his approval rating was ::: hold for laughter ::: “59 percent” and that “prices [were] coming down along with the lowering of oil and gas.”

Seriously? Could anyone in DC get the straitjacket and haul this doddering old rapist off to the Nut Barn?

Atila Escolano Sanchez is a Spanish male model and musician based in Madrid, and is also an avid trail runner so, if you could catch him Would You Hit It?

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Architecture Wednesday: The Old Ballroom

Now this is how you do a ballroom, you know …

This home was once a ballroom in a former Edwardian hotel on Loughborough Road in south-west London before being renovated into an expansive three-bedroom, three-bathroom 1880 square foot apartment.

Originally conceived as a grand hotel for the urban expansion of Lambeth, the building is nestled among grand Victorian and Edwardian villas that were built to accommodate merchants and clerks leaving the smog of the city. It was also a salsa club and an acrobat arena before it was converted into apartments in 2008 all while retaining its original decorative scheme and grandeur.

Situated on the first floor—what we call the second floor in America—the apartment has an amplified sense of volume with soaring ceilings and a number of mezzanine levels, as well as a stuccoed dome that provides a focal point; the dome was recently repainted and wired with atmospheric up-lighting.

The open plan kitchen features a charming outdoor terrace paved with chequerboard flags and catches the south-facing sun. It has plenty of room for a table and chairs as well as pots full of herbs and flowers for the horticulturally inclined.

The main reception area opens up to a double-height space finished in a pastel palette while light floods into the space via expansive sash windows, which have recently undergone a full restoration to improve energy efficiency. A working fireplace provides a central point for the sitting room while the main floor includes an office, a full bathroom and adjoining bedroom currently used as a nursery.

Upstairs, on the left mezzanine, is the primary bedroom suite, with intricate decorative period plasterwork stretching out overhead and along the upper part of the walls. The room also has dual-aspect windows looking over the front and side of the street as well as an en suite bathroom with a large tub edged in Moroccan tiles, a vanity and water closet.

On the opposite side of the upper story is a second bedroom suite, with windows to the front, built-in storage space and a separate en suite.

As always, click to emBIGGERate …