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Chronicles of a Catsitter: Up Harlem Hill

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/up-harlem-hill
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Thu, 14/03/2024 - 00:00

Mai Tran began catsitting in 2021 while Tran was on pandemic unemployment, often staying overnight in people’s homes. Tran has now cared for twenty-two cats and traveled to ten apartments all over New York City, observing the interior lives of cat owners and appeasing their neuroses. From home vet visits to black eyes to refugee cats, Chronicles of a Catsitter documents the most memorable days on the job.

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Most people who know me know that I catsit. It’s not my go-to conversation topic, but it often comes up logistically, like when I tell people I live in X neighborhood but am actually heading back to X place for the week, or when I’m making plans to meet someone, or when I say I have to leave the function early to feed the cats (I never have to; I just want to leave).

Eating Their Own

https://digbysblog.net/2024/03/13/eating-their-own-2/
Created
Thu, 14/03/2024 - 00:00
MAGA purges the RNC “The RNC is entering the 2024 election with a third of the Democratic National Committee’s reserves,” writes David Graham in The Atlantic. Graham noted last month that the Republican National Committee has ceased functioning as a political party. Today, it operates as another arm of the Trump Organization, now with loyalist Michael Whatley, immediate past chair of the North Carolina GOP installed as chair, and Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as co-chair. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that “with the political equivalent of shock and awe,” Team Trump has begun a purge of the RNC staff. “The senior leadership has been almost entirely replaced or reassigned, while dozens of lower-ranking officials including state directors were either fired or told to reapply for their jobs.” The RNC is now eating its own. Given the RNC’s years of electoral losses post-2016, clearing out the dead wood makes sense, Graham writes, and presidential nominees typically take control of the party.

What I Think It’s Like Working at a Company That Makes Condoms

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-i-think-its-like-working-at-a-company-…
Created
Wed, 13/03/2024 - 23:00

EMPLOYEE: You see any good penises lately?

SECOND EMPLOYEE: It’s Tuesday. So, yes.

EMPLOYEE: Me too. Our whole job is to look at, then discuss penises at a professional level.

SECOND EMPLOYEE: Yes, we’re just professionals who study penises and then have meetings to discuss what we learned about the penises so we can make a better product for penises. Five days a week, 260 working days a year.

EMPLOYEE: Speaking of which, today I’m giving a presentation to our coworkers, who are also penis professionals. I’ll be sharing all of the new things we’ve learned recently about the experience of sex from the perspective of the penis.

SECOND EMPLOYEE: Is the one employee who works in the Vagina Department going to be there?

EMPLOYEE: Unimportant. What are you working on today?

the paper is edible too, so stop complaining and eat up your Mondrian pastiche

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Created
Wed, 13/03/2024 - 18:00
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Labor must freeze all AUKUS payments underwriting US Navy shipyards with taxpayer money

https://johnmenadue.com/labor-must-freeze-all-aukus-payments-underwriting-us-na…
Created
Wed, 13/03/2024 - 17:33
ALP rank-and-file activist group, Labor Against War, has called on the Albanese government to immediately freeze all planned AUKUS payments earmarked to underwrite the US Navy industrial shipyards. The call comes after the US announced it has cut its budget for the Virginia-class submarine, slashing its 2025 construction plans in half for the nuclear-powered boats. Continue reading »

He Likes Hitler

https://digbysblog.net/2024/03/12/he-likes-hitler/
Created
Wed, 13/03/2024 - 10:30
He really likes him I’ve always thought it didn’t make any sense that Donald Trump kept a copy of Mein Kampf on his nightstand because he doesn’t read. (He later said it was a book of Hitler’s speeches given to him by a friend.) I do think someone has told him that Hitler built the Autobahn which is why he thinks he’s just great: Huffington Post: John Kelly, Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, discussed the former president’s apparent dictatorial aspirations for a new book by CNN’s Jim Sciutto. “My theory on why he likes the dictators so much is that’s who he is,” Kelly said, according to an article published Monday about the forthcoming book by the CNN anchor and chief national security analyst. Kelly told Sciutto, “Every incoming president is shocked that they actually have so little power without going to the Congress, which is a good thing. It’s Civics 101, separation of powers, three equal branches of government.” “But in his case, he was shocked that he didn’t have dictatorial-type powers to send U.S.

There Ought To Be A Law

https://digbysblog.net/2024/03/12/there-ought-to-be-a-law/
Created
Wed, 13/03/2024 - 09:00
I don’t know if Biden will get credit for this but he should. It’s from the Hur transcripts: It’s important not to get too carried away here. Biden may not have owned stock but he wasn’t called the Senator from MBNA for nothing. Representing Delaware he took up for a lot of banks in his day, including shepherding through a punitive bankruptcy bill back in 2005 on their behalf. He played the game. But there is no evidence that he personally enriched himself while in office. He bought some real estate back in the 70s that ended up being worth quite a lot. And he sold books and gave speeches like they all do. But of all people accused of influence peddling he’s one of the least likely.

Who knew we had so many countries?

https://digbysblog.net/2024/03/12/who-knew-we-had-so-many-countries/
Created
Wed, 13/03/2024 - 09:00
According to the Hur transcripts Biden had very detailed and distinct memories of the past including time he spent in Mongolia. George Conway recalled Trump’s embarrassing ignorance about world geography and linked to this article in the Independent about a list he made a few years ago: Mr Conway’s Twitter thread came after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly berated an NPR reporter who was asking him about the president’s Ukraine scandal which sparked an impeachment inquiry in Congress. Mr Trump has been accused of withholding crucial military aid to Ukraine as it fought a war with Russia while demanding the country’s president announce political investigations into his own 2020 political rival, Joe Biden.