Your filing system is impeccable.

I’ve never understood why people do that. There are so many shelters that will happily take a surrendered kitten (or adult cat), no questions asked.

Thanks for taking her in. She looks like she’s very loved.

“I was crying. I think a lot of it was shock,” he said. “People kept coming up to me and saying I was brave. They were like, ‘You’re a hero.’ I don’t feel like I did anything.”

…

“I still need to heal emotionally,” Haberl said. “But I’m going back because I have to go back.”

That’s why you’re a hero, my dude.

That’s normal, though. Interior doors nearly always open into a room.

At public events, some Supreme Court justices have defended their use of the emergency docket as a legitimate response to the increase in swift presidential policy-making by executive order, as opposed to legislation passed through Congress. Offering extensive reasoning or explanation, they argued, would risk locking the court into a position that might not turn out to be its final view.

I could almost accept this reasoning on the vagueness of their rulings. But the fact that, in nearly every case, they’ve allowed the administration to keep doing things that are causing massive upheaval in the lives of thousands of people seems at direct odds with such a conservative attitude.

We had one counter-protester show up with a big flag and an “I love Trump” t-shirt. He stood facing a group of people and tried to look intimidating. It didn’t work. People were mostly laughing at him. Meanwhile the cars going by were constantly honking and waving. It honestly looked like he was there in support unless you could see his shirt which nobody driving by could.

And also, now they might start arresting protesters on suspicion of being cartel hitters or some such bullshit.

It consisted of suing the federal government and getting an injunction from a judge saying they can’t be deployed. They are there. Legally they aren’t supposed to be doing anything. Beyond that, I’m not sure what you want the governor to do. Rally his own private militia to fight them off? If he did that it would literally justify their presence there and eliminate any legal restrictions.

Advice for any undocumented immigrants who are trying to work their way through the legal system to get asylum: Don’t go to your court dates.

Yeah, that’s illegal and this might cause ICE to come looking for you. But if you go into court, the judge will likely dismiss your case, at which point you WILL be arrested on site and deported as quickly as they can manage it. Federal immigration judges have been instructed to dismiss ALL asylum claims, regardless of merit.

Signers would be required to freeze tuition rates charged to American students for the next five years, among other conditions, according to the memo. In return, the schools would be given a “competitive advantage,” including priority for grants and invitations to White House events and discussions with officials, a White House official said in a statement.

Going to the white house to talk to officials there does not sound like an “advantage” under the current leadership. It sounds more like punishment.

Didn’t he re-write the lyrics for a bunch of different countries?

[edit] - maybe it was just Canada.

The really infuriating part here is that they’re making up the same sort of bogus claims about hundreds of protesters. This woman gets let go (for now) only because she’s a journalist and it’s getting a lot more attention.

See also: ribbons

One of our cats has a really unhealthy obsession with ribbon. The sort used in gift-wrapping or for party balloons. If anyone happens to leave a piece of ribbon lying around she will absolutely find it and try to eat it. More than once this has resulted in massive vomiting and/or diarrhea.

Columbo Day is even better because it carries over into Tuesday.

It’s just one more day.

“He was pointing something at me, your honor. I couldn’t be sure it wasn’t a weapon.”

Have you not noticed just how many unreasonable people there are around you?

Aren’t they already there?

So just so we’re all on the same page, withdrawing a legal opinion from a former AG is not the same thing as “removing a section of the state constitution”. An AG’s opinion indicates how their office will apply the law when deciding who and how to prosecute cases, but they don’t even get the final say on how that law is interpreted. The courts do. It’s bad and definitely indicates collusion, but let’s please use the proper language to describe what’s happening.

It was a stupid way for him to word that (no surprise, literally everything that comes out of his mouth is stupid), but I just want to point out that in the context of what he’s saying, what he intended to convey is that he got rid of the “freedom of speech” defense specifically for flag burning. Which… he didn’t. But he’s trying to by writing yet another executive order to instruct the DoJ to prosecute flag burners. Because, you know… a plague of flag burning is among the biggest problems facing our nation today.

Specifically, they wanted states that had abolished slavery to allow slave catchers to arrest and return escaped slaves within their borders.

Sound familiar?