CathyM
Stories by CathyM
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PWB Peeps: National Mutt Day!
Hi, Peeps – I know I often lean toward pooties, but who can resist Mutt Day? Actually, there are two – July 31st and December 2nd. But first~ According to the website (https://articles.hepper.com/national-mutt-day/) “sometimes known as National Mixed Breed Dog Day, began in 2005. An animal welfare advocate named Colleen Paige came up with the…
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PWB Peeps: Try to Remember Redux
Hi, Peeps — Just wanted to be sure something is posted. (Apologies to all who get the Fantasticks and Frankie stuck in their head, like I did…) But first: Try To Remember, that time once again, Sir when Grass was green and you were Yellow Try to Remember when food was so tender that you…
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PWB Peeps: Sektrit Armee Rydin AGAIN
Hi, all! I saw that Fostermom’s diary today had closed comments so I think this will work A gentle reminder of how we do things: 🐱🐶🐦 A gentle reminder of how we do things: 🐱🐶🐦 Uh — TEN —Hut! Iz Me, Kummandur Pixie! Da troops haz bin migraytud. Dey haz tryd tu lurn. Dey haz…
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PWB Peeps: National Horse and PJs again?
Once again – I get the same holiday! And it looks like I managed to copy/paste a lot of last year’s, so I’ll add to it. Also, note: I could NOT figure out which image this system said needed alt text or attribution – it kept showing me TWO, so I just fudged it. I…
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Night may never be the same…
Well, this is yet another nightmare in the the continuing saga of “they can’t get away with this, can they?”” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/climate/fcc-space-mirror.html F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to…
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Trump Cuts Endangered Habitat Protection
Another Friday dump and run for the Orange Regime. News stories now reporting that the minions of the Great Evil One (sorry, I’m really pissed about this) have UNDONE the Wildlife Protection Act: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/climate/endangered-species-act-harm.htm Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining The rule change ends a safeguard that had been…
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PWB Peeps: Another on the fly…
Hi, Peeps – I didn’t see Golden owl’s posting of a diary, and I’m in the middle of six things so let me post, and I can edit and add more in just a bit (I hope!) I’m gonna try an embed, and I hope I don’t break anything: Whee! It looks like it worked!…
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BREAKING: Rump Ousts Remaining Election Assistance Commission Members UPDATED
Breaking (in more ways than one): I can’t believe this is anything except really bad news: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-members-ahead-midterms-rcna353781 that one is paywalled https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/politics/trump-fires-election-assistance-commissioners Trump fires Election Assistance Commission leaders The White House on Thursday fired the leadership of the federal agency that provides funding and security guidance to election officials, according to sources familiar with the…
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PWB Peeps: Whatever Day
Hi, Peeps – it’s been a crazy couple of weeks, so this might not be polished because I keep forgetting how to format these diaries. So I’ve just invented a holiday: “Whatever Day” – no rules and you can observe it any way you want. It’s also the Roswell UFO Days, if you lean toward…
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Judge: No, DOJ – no PA voter lists for YOU!
Another bit of good news – let’s savor it (PS – I apologize for still not getting the hang of formatting in the upgrade): https://bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social/post/3mpckht2zas22 BREAKING: Federal court REJECTS Department of Justice lawsuit to gain access to Pennsylvania voter records. Another victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. Another defeat for DOJ. DOJ is…
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Is No One Protesting on July 4th??
I’m confused and concerned – the reliable protests have seemed to vanish, and even the biggies like Indivisible, Mobilize and No Kings are silent. Is NO ONE going to protest on the 250th anniversary of our country? I’m old and disabled, or I’d try to organize something. Are there protests scheduled that just don’t seem…
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Climate.us !Ex- NOAA employees revive important data site
This is the kind of good news I want to wake up to in the morning!! https://www.npr.org/2026/06/26/nx-s1-5869615/climate-noaa-data-trump-doge Scientists, educators, farmers and the broader public now have a new website for climate information in the United States. The site, Climate.us, launched this week and fills a void left when a government-run climate information website was shut…
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PWB Peeps: Adopt a Cat Month
Hi, Peeps ! Happy Friday…! So far no one has done the Adopt a Cat month (that I recall) so I’m grabbing it. It’s Juneteenth, of course, but there are kossacks who will be covering that well. And First, Da Rulz: So… we all know it’s better to adopt than buy from a breeder… and…
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PWB Peeps Evening Fill-in Open Thread
Hi, Peeps – It’s almost 7:15 and I’m not seeing the evening open thread from strawbale, so I’m gonna throw this together, so you can chat if you want.
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Are Media Banned from the Cage Fight??
I was very disturbed to read that there’s information that the UFC corporation has been given the right to ban any media they don’t want! Looks like the original info came from WAPO (but I don’t have a subscription)… what has me inflamed is that by the time we learn the truth about this, IT…
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Rump Gives OUR $700m to Coal Companies
According to the BBC just now: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0209r62k5o Trump announces $700m coal investment using wartime powers All of this is extra ironic, since The House just told Rump he didn’t HAVE wartime powers!! Donald Trump plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to revive the US coal industry, with much of the new funding coming…
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PWB Peeps: Hot Air Donut Day?
Hi, Peeps! I hope the week went well for you. I’m doing this early, so I can’t predict for me… but working on this while a handyman works on my house. The holiday site tells me it’s Hot Air Balloon Day and Donut Day and of course it’s Pride Month… and our friends are more…
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PWB Peeps: International Being You Day
HI, Peeps! I once again cannot get the hang of this, but being me, I’m gonna just keep plugging along and hope that it works. There are several celebrations today, but seems like our furred and feathered friends could really “get into” being themselves! It’s important to be yourself, and sometimes we forget that. Sometimes…
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PWB Peeps: National Animal Disaster Preparedness Day
Hi, Peeps – Well, today is National Animal Disaster Preparedness Day and our furred and feathered friends want to help us prepare! But first: Whew! I figured out how to get the Rulz into the diary! 🙂 So – let’s talk about how disasters don’t just affect hoomins, but also our good friends… I’m always…
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FEMA: Come back, workers! We didn’t mean it!
Welp… this is not surprising- FEMA just realized they are understaffed for hurricane season and the world cup. NYT: The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reversing job cuts that Kristi Noem made as homeland security secretary before she was fired last month. The agency said staff members who had been let go or placed on…
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PWB Peeps: National Hairball Awareness Day – manual publish
Hi, Peeps! Since I doubt there would be other diaries celebrating this important day, I figured I’d feature it. 🙂 But sadly I found no hairball images in my collection. So let’s take a moment of hacking in memory of hairballs… and move on. 😉 But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity:…
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Appeals Court lets Don build Ballroom… for now
Because he’s such a lawless youknowhat, this stay of Leon’s order WILL be construed by them as an opening and I’d bet they will bring those ‘dozers and girders in and try to begin that ballroom before there’s another court hearing. (Apologies for not knowing how to indent the article, so hopefully you can see…
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PWBPeeps: April madness
Hi, Peeps – It’s Goldenowl’s turn but she might not have gotten on yet – so here’s a fast Peeps Diary – if I can do it! Here’s a bunch of fun photos just because We are finding our way to peeps and hopefully having a grand ol’ time! Okay, maybe not all 🤣😜😂😜🤣😜😂 stashing…
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PWB Peeps: Hug Your Dog Day!
Hi, Peeps — Well, I lucked out and got National Hug Your Dog day, (This is just one mention — at dogster.com). I’m pretty much a cat person, but if there are…
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Randy Rainbow takes on Petie and Department of War!
Just in time to help us deal, Randy has another song (Warning: definitely NSFW — rough language to start). Can anyone tell me what song he’s parodying?
