ICE & DHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Cosplay with Gov. Ugho, fake horsehair wig and hideous eye and lip makeup. Is that Bibi?
I'm not ugly! Trump likes me!
(LastWeekTonight) Feb. 15, 2026: John Oliver discusses Trump’s ICE’s repeated atrocities over the past months and explores the massive entity overseeing it all:
(NOVA PBS Official) Premiered Feb. 4, 2026: Do speech buttons really allow dogs to talk to us? Scientists investigate.
Imagine a world where our furry best friends could tell us exactly what they're thinking. A growing number of dog owners claim this is already happening, thanks to innovative word buttons that seem to unlock a new realm of canine communication.
What is it, Fido? - Umm, you gonna eat that?
But are these dogs truly understanding what we’re saying — and talking back? Are they really thinking creatively, applying words in new contexts? Or is this just clever conditioning?
To find out, scientists are conducting the largest animal communication study in history, analyzing millions of button presses from thousands of dogs worldwide.
Witness astonishing moments that challenge our assumptions about animal intelligence, from dogs that seem to engage in conversations to those who learn new words with incredible speed.
Viewers must prepare to question everything they thought they knew about the minds of dogs and discover just how far their linguistic abilities might stretch.
Air Bud Pt. III: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Web Exclusive)
(LastWeekTonight) John Oliver discusses the Air Bud franchise for the third time, including some surprising revelations about both the financing and production schedule for the newest Air Bud film.
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If I had to give one good reason to relist wolves on the endangered species list, it would be because they are a keystone species. Full stop. Their reintroduction will save the forest. The Native Americans knew it, and we forgot it and nearly lost all the wooded land. Now it's time to bring them back by protecting them as a vital part of nature. Join me in the campaign to save all animals but particularly the species central to the health of our woodlands.
An ecosystem is a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. It includes all of the living things interacting with each other and non-living environments (weather, earth, sun, soil, climate, atmosphere) in a given area.
In an ecosystem, all species rely on each other, and each organism has its’ own niche or role to play. A keystone species is a plant or animal that plays a disproportionately large role in the ecosystem – impacting both the prevalence and population levels of other species within their community. More
(FX via HEXXXX) Oct. 27, 2023: Follows the exploits of four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma who lie, cheat, and steal in order to get to the exotic, faraway, and mysterious land known as "California," where everything is golden and easy. To succeed, they will have to save enough money, outmaneuver the meth heads at the junkyard on the edge of town and survive a turf war against a much tougher rival gang. This first-of-its-kind creative team tells a story that resonates with them and their lived experiences -- which is amazingly universal for nearly all American teens trying to grow up, rebel, and make something better of their lives than what they see around them.
NC candidate Mark Robinson exposed as a homophobic enjoyer of kinky porn and self-described 'Black Nazi,' and Trump reunites with Rudy Giuliani
Do you have any touch up dye on you, Rudy?
(The Daily Show) Sept. 19, 2024: Ronny Chieng on the Black MAGA North Carolina Republican busted for posting weird comments on a porn site he was presumably masturbating to, Rudy Giuliani’s frightening performance at Trump’s Long Island rally, and the shocking truth behind JD Vance's cat eating stories. Plus, Troy Iwata joins with the inside scoop on one missing feline. #DailyShow #NorthCarolina #MarkRobinson #CNN
Trump claims to get “bigger crowds than Elvis,” hasn’t read wife Melania’s new [likely ghostwritten] tell-all book about life in the White House, and JD Vance has sex with couches, according to Kimmel's constituents
Men for men: Vote Republican.
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Sept. 19, 2024: #KimmelPolls have been rolling out over the past few days and they all say different things, Trump went on Fox News' Gutfeld to scream about the debate being rigged against him, he was in Uniondale, New York, last night where he bragged about calling Melania to tell her about the size of his crowd, he said he has bigger crowds than Elvis, Melania’s new book is coming out and she has been releasing little videos with riddles to unfold like her nude modeling, Trump admitted that he hasn’t read Melania’s book yet, Rudy Giuliani was at the rally as well to support Trump, JD Vance and Donny keep doubling down on this pet eating fib, Jimmy talks to some constituents in the audience to hear about things they have to report, a young mayor from the Sunshine State unwittingly provides us with a new edition of “This Week in Florida,” and Three Ridiculous Questions with Chris Hemsworth at a bar.
What can she do for you that I can't, Don?! - Yeah, Mr. Trump, take Boebert over that Bimbo!
They let you grab'em by the P, Bill. - That's my p.
(CIACNN) Meet the new Jewish Monica Lewinsky, here to take down another resident of the White House. Earth men are easy, even easier than the girls. Trump can be duped on long flights without Melania, who is at home doting on her precious Billionaire Boys Club son Barron. Laura Loomer gets off his plane, as seen here, and gets him off on his plane, not shown here.
Could she have more of an influence on DJ than absent Ivanka and missing Jared? Jealous sycophants like MTG notice and can't believe everyone else doesn't. Does Rep. Greene understand what Loomer is giving the Don? Apparently not. If she did, she'd send in Boeber to seduce the Orange One or at least take him to a play and make sure he stays at attention as has a good time. #CNN#CIA #OperationMockingbird #news
Who is Laura Loomer, the right-wing activist in Trump's inner circle?
(CNN) Sept. 12, 2024: As Jewish right-wing activist Laura Loomer has emerged as a member of former Pres. Trump's inner circle, CNN's Elle Reeve looks back on Loomer's history of controversy. CNN's Manu Raju breaks down the reaction on Capitol Hill, and CNN's Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar discuss with author Jesselyn Cook.
I'm finally in love. I hope Barron understands.
(News Reporter) Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) condemns cheating, lying, philandering Don the John Trump for having sex with and possibly falling in love with close traveling companion, extreme Republican, personal campaign advisor Laura Loomer yet hating Taylor "Nazi Barbie" Swift. In a shocking parallel of the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, eldest son Don Jr. is cheating on his fiancée psycho-loudmouth and aggrieved plastic surgery disaster Kimberly Guilfoyle, for partner of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. It sounds very Christian, with a rich alpha male being entitled to cheat on his wife or fiancée as part of the patriarchy they deny exists in the modern U.S. 💞💖💝💘😻❣️🥰😍
We miss our beloved, adopted (Shanghai victim) correspondent Dukkha Girl. She was on, she was gone, she came back, and now who knows where she is? So here's a replacement, Shoe0nHead, a clever allusion to that time someone asked the Zen master a koan and he "answered" by putting a sandal on his head and walking out. Ha.
But in a serious vein, if people only knew what dukkha is, they would have much more respect for what the Buddha found. What he taught, which made him so famous, is how to bring all suffering to an end. "Impossible!," people say, but it is possible, and a fraction of beings have already done it, giving the world the Noble Sangha, the community of those on the stages of awakening.
We would like to leave the term dukkha untranslated -- and nowadays not attempt to define "girl" either because of the libcon rancor and feminist hypocrisy that tends to engender -- because it's a multivalent Sanskrit word, having a range of meanings, with many shades and intensities.
Does the Buddha have advice for worldlings?
Translated, we prefer "disappointment," to show that it is much more than the common "suffering." Suffering sounds so bad that most of think we don't have that. But Tan Geoff is right to translate it as "stress" rather than distress, because even eustress (positive stress as comes from excitement) is included in this umbrella term. The best definition is long and comes from the Buddha:
It is not getting what we want, getting what we don't want, and all forms of ill and unease. It is pain, it is sadness, it is loss, it is ultimately that lack of fulfillment that drives us on to keep hoping and searching (craving) even though it continuously leaves us dissatisfied and off kilter and out of sorts.
No one gets me, except Grumpy Cats. He does.
The word dukkha at its root refers to an oxcart wheel that is off-center and therefore providing a bumpy, wonky, wobbly, uncertain, and unpleasant sometimes painful ride. All of life -- in all states of existence -- is beset by tinges of this. Hey, but what about the heavens? Even there, danger exists. They are not eternal, and they are certainly not fulfillment as they have been sold to us. They are temporary bliss, exalted, and that's the higher ones. The lower sensual ones seem little better than a good time on earth. Just ask the Indian, Greek, Sumerian, and Roman "gods" (the deus, devas) of the various pantheons, visitors from above acting like spoiled children with lots of power and beauty.
We ignore the danger of suffering, the misfortune others meet, until the S gets real (bad touch)
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It is completely wrong to interpret Buddhism as saying there is no pleasure. If there were no pleasure, the Buddha explains, no one would stay in samsara. Of course, there's pleasure. It is our relationship to pleasure that is problematic. We crave, grasp at, and cling to the pleasant; we exhibit aversion and fear toward the unpleasant; we get bored or confused and fall asleep with the neutral, the neither-pleasant-nor-unpleasant.
F all y'all! Maybe pleasure's the solution
Moreover, there is a hidden danger in pleasure and attachment, like a flower or fruit with a hidden thorn. Or to use a now less familiar simile, which was popular and easier to relate to in the Buddha's ancient agrarian proto-India, it is like licking honey off the blade of a knife or razor used to gather that honey. It's sweet until it slices your tongue.
Females can get lonely? But they're always going to the bathroom together, going out in packs, being friends on the phone and on social media with their filters and clique parties, accompanying each other to venues, talking to everyone, and acting like the whole world is a popularity contest in high school!
Of course girls get lonely, and women have it even worse. Everything that happens on the HS social scene is temporary, even in college, but IRL? Whoa, suddenly it's all forevermore.
Females are pitted against each other by the society, treated in curious and crappy ways by males, misunderstood by a male-dominated medical field, psychologized, medicated (with most of them being put on antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs), and told to smile to make viewers feel better as if it were their job to make us feel good. Dating/mating in particular is a problem. Anyhow, who knows? Let's ask a woman. Dukkha Girl! Oh, she's not here. Um, Shoe0nHead, take it away:
The Rise of ‘Female Loneliness’ (How to Fix It)
Am I the problem because I feel like the victim in all of this, wahhhhh. Everyone hates me!
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I'm cold, alone, and the ASPCA is going to kill me and call it a "euthanizing" favor. Save me.
Compton pit bull breeder mauled to death by his own dogs
(KTLA 5) LOS ANGELES, California - Feb. 16, 2024: A chaotic and gruesome scene unfolded in Compton (a ghetto in Los Angeles made famous by Snoop Dog, et. al.) Friday morning after a man who was breeding pit bulls (a similar breed) was mauled to death in his own backyard.
Get in my bag, Taylor, yer preggers!
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD), officials responded to the home on Thorson Ave., just south of Rosecrans Ave., around 7:00 am after a concerned friend visited the property and discovered the man’s mauled body.
"He was feeding the dogs at which point maybe there was an altercation between some of the dogs and [they] ultimately [turned on and] attacked and mauled the victim,” said Michael Gomez with LASD’s Homicide Bureau.
KTLA's Chris Wolfe reports on Feb. 16, 2024.
She's as blind as her beloved canine companion. Is it by chance or a life lesson?
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It is popularly believed that karma (intentional action, deed, conduct) means "what comes around goes around." And by this logic, the dog breeder here must have made these impressionable pit bulls vicious, the better to sell them as tough guardians for self-protection.
One sees citizens of South-Central Los Angeles and other parts of the city, such as the Venice Beach Boardwalk, walking vicious looking pit bulls on heavy chains. It's a trope. It's the obverse of West Side females carrying chihuahuas or Shitsus in their purses.
I'll be waiting in the realm of ghosts, Master.
If he did raise them to be vicious killers and they viciously killed him, isn't that karma? It may be karma except for the fact that karma does not work itself out that quickly. Lennon's "Instant Karma" is rare.
What does seem to happen is that we repeat our habitual karma over many lives, and when those deeds catch up with us, ripen and comet to fruition in this life, it may be for something like the thing we're doing now. So people deduce that, "Aha! It must have been that thing he was doing now."
But, in fact, it could, it is much likelier to be something that being did long ago bearing its results. Be nice to animals. Don't eat them. But if you do, will it be a surprise that in the future they will eat you? Not pets, pets rarely eat us, but domesticated livestock when we are reborn on the animal plane, in ghost or hellish realms, or by some good fortune (based on some previous skillful deed) on the human plane again, or wild animals.
IDK Y. I'm driven to eat you alive until you die.
Animals are not here by accident. Animals are not ours to abuse or even to use. They have consciousness, thoughts, feelings, karmic lives, personalities, and futures. The entire section of the Dharma known as the "Rebirth Tales" or Jatakas illustrates how they think and feel, how karma (sowing deeds) bears fruit, how the working out of deeds and results is unimaginably complex but knowable in general terms. Killing humans is worse, particularly moral humans, but killing or inducing (paying butchers) others to kill is also very bad karma.
SUTRA: Let go, Doggy
The Buddha was a Karmavadin: he taught the importance of deeds (karma) and their results.
There's an amazing Buddhist story, a Jataka Tale, in which a stingy man passes away without having told his wife or eldest son where he buried his treasure. He's still clinging to it in his heart, for all the good money does him as a dog.
The son searches in vain for it because the family needs it to live when he's gone. It comes to pass that he meets the Bodhisattva (the Buddha-to-be), who asks him what the problem is.
The son explains and is advised to feed the dog well and watch where he chooses to go to nap then dig in that spot. He does and finds the stash, becoming a believer in the process:
There is rebirth, there are wise people who know this world and other worlds by their own knowledge-and-vision, there are results of karma (vipaka and phala), there is a life (an afterlife) to come, humans can be reborn as animals based on their actions in this life, and there is something higher to live for than ordinary concerns like making and clinging to worldly riches.
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