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Cats may not have the title of “man’s best friend,” but they’ll certainly run any household. Our feline friends are , cuddly, and of course, chaotic. So obviously there are some excellent funny cat memes to be enjoyed.

Even if you don’t own a mini lion of your own, you probably know about their best (read: quirky) qualities. Cats are expert nappers. They’re independent. They fit into the smallest of places. And they’ll knock anything off of a high platform. Especially if it has water in it. Or is a beloved family heirloom.

Still not over that mini figurine, Frank!

But as much as cats may test our patience, they really are the best pets you could ask for. Because even if they don’t show it all the time, cats really do love us. At least we’re pretty sure.

Although after they see all these cat memes, they might present us with a few extra hairballs as revenge. Worth it!

The 23 Funniest Cat Memes

1. Okay but where is Atlantis?

2. Don’t even talk about the food sound.

3. If only we had these kinds of demonstrations in pre calc.

4. We really don’t know what to tell you, bud.

5. These stress levels aren’t sustainable!

6. Hi, Cirque Du Soleil? We have something for you.

If it fits I sits#meowed #TheMeowedClub

From @jirosan77 pic.twitter.com/SqBnbTNwkh

— Meowed (@Meowed) November 30, 2022

7. What is this “I” word you speak of?

8. Sure! Can we pop it?

9. This is what kitchen dreams are made of.

10. We will happily review these files for you.

Happy #Caturdaypic.twitter.com/iCtkIwOU09

— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) August 27, 2022

11. Sign us up.

12. *Classic* cat .

13. We can pet themThe in the afternoon. On Wednesdays. If it’s between 60 and 78 degrees outside.

14. Yes of course we know how to do the Excel.

15. Well you are a loaf, so…

16. Keep your standards high.

A cat that unconsciously refuses kisses even when he’s sleeping. pic.twitter.com/29li2esNOY

— translated cats (@TranslatedCats) August 18, 2022

17. LITTLE snack??

18. It’s a thrill every day.

19. You got this bud!

Cat be like….#Caturday pic.twitter.com/MMq480sZom

— Rock & Tattoo Lady… (@PenelopeRuzy) August 20, 2022

20. Why yes we did. Do you have some time to talk about your auto insurance?

21. *mleep*

22. Okay but we would watch this.

23. Catzilla has arrived!

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Emergency public safety responders rescued nearly two dozen people and 16 animals from their homes in northern San Benito County as pouring rains and rising floodwaters engulfed homes, streets and properties Jan. 9, according to authorities. 

A total of 23 people were rescued from Lovers Lane, starting in the early afternoon, according to San Benito County Public Information Officer Monica Leon. Of the 16 animals rescued, 15 were dogs and one was a cat. 

The rescue efforts were complete by early in the evening Jan. 9, Leon said. No injuries were reported. 

More than 35 response units from the San Benito Sheriff’s Office, Hollister Police Department, CalFire, Hollister Fire, San Benito County Search and Rescue and animal control services were on scene to assist in the emergency rescue. 

The rescued residents had stayed at their homes despite numerous flood warnings and evacuation notices throughout the week—which escalated to a mandatory evacuation order by around 12pm Jan. 9. County officials had begun warning Lovers Lane residents to prepare to evacuate on Jan. 4 as Pacheco Creek looked to be on pace to swell over its banks, Leon noted. 

Sheriff’s personnel went door to door to notify residents of the danger in person, and tacked paper notices on the homes where there was no answer, Leon added. 

When the order to evacuate was called on Jan. 9, emergency responders set up a mobile command site near Lovers Lane, knowing that some residents were still home, Leon explained. 

By the time the Jan. 9 rescue operation started, only 11 people in the evacuation order zone had voluntarily left, and 80 either did not answer the door or declined to leave their homes, Leon said. Even as emergency responders were rescuing some Lovers Lane residents, 39 people still refused to leave their flooded properties. 

“Water rises fast, and there was a significant amount of rain to create this flooding,” Leon said. 

The most recent storm, which lasted from Jan. 9-10, dumped up to three inches of rain on some areas of South Valley. With the ground saturated from a line of strong storms in recent weeks, many waterways in the region didn’t have much time to subside before the latest downpour, according to weather experts. 

As of Jan. 10, mandatory evacuation orders were still in effect for Lovers Lane, as well as Lake Road, San Felipe Road from Highway 156 to the county line, Dunneville Estates and portions of Shore Road from San Felipe Road to Frazier Lake Road, according to county officials. 

The residents and animals who were rescued Jan. 9 were transported to a temporary evacuation center established at the Hollister Veterans Memorial Building. 

Leon and other county officials urge people to keep an eye on the county’s website and social media accounts for the most updated information about the weather, flood warnings and road closures. 

An interactive map showing road closures and other disruptions can be found online at https://tinyurl.com/3zdswjx3. 

“We are currently putting up updates and monitoring all the notifications about the weather, and monitoring all water levels,” Leon said. 

More than 250 organizations from 29 countries came together Friday to pressure the Salvadoran government to drop the charges against and release five water defenders who were instrumental in achieving a 2017 legislative ban on metal mining in El Salvador.

Global alarm has been building since Miguel Ángel Gámez, Alejandro Laínez García, Pedro Antonio Rivas Laínez, Teodoro Antonio Pacheco, and Saúl Agustín Rivas Ortega were detained in northern El Salvador on January 11. In a case that critics call politically motivated, they are accused of murdering an alleged military informant over three decades ago and of illicit association, which the government of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has used to detain tens of thousands of supposed gang members.

The groups’ joint statement highlights that “thanks in part to its ill-advised embrace of Bitcoin, the Salvadoran government is under enormous pressure to find new revenues” and is reportedly considering reversing the historic mining ban—despite environmental concerns and the Central American country’s ongoing water issues due to the climate emergency and pollution.

“Among El Salvador’s greatest heroes of this century are the brave water defenders, including several of those arrested last week.”

“The five are accused by El Salvador’s attorney general of an alleged murder over 30 years ago during the brutal civil war in El Salvador that claimed the lives of 75,000,” explained the organizations. “The victims of crimes from that war, which saw a U.S.-backed dictatorship and right-wing death squads kill tens of thousands, have, for decades, been calling for justice.”

“The current government, however, has chosen to actively uphold decades of impunity,” the groups continued. “Rather than investigate or prosecute those responsible for the dozens of cases of human rights violations and crimes against humanity that members of the Salvadoran military committed against the Santa Marta community (including the murders of the Lempa River massacre in 1980, where 30 people were assassinated and 189 were disappeared), the government is now re-victimizing the community by targeting their leaders, who have been outspoken against the policies of the current government.”

“This further raises questions about whether the attorney general’s true motivation is to attempt to silence these water defenders, especially in light of the current administration’s crusade to criminalize, persecute, and demobilize its political opponents,” adds the statement, spearheaded by the U.S.-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)—which in 2009 honored the National Roundtable on Metals Mining, a coalition the arrested men helped build, with its annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award.

The collective demand that Bukele’s government “drop the charges against the five water defenders and otherwise release them from prison to await their trial” came a day after a Salvadoran judge ruled that the case should proceed and the leaders of the Association of Economic and Social Development (ADES) Santa Marta should remain detained.

\u201c#SantaMartaNoEst\u00e1Sola| La comunidad Santa Marta es ejemplo de organizaci\u00f3n en defensa de los bienes naturales. El movimiento ambiental acompa\u00f1a sus resistencias y demanda que se respete los derechos de los l\u00edderes ambientalistas detenidos de @ades_sm y la comunidad.\u201d

— ADES Santa Marta (@ADES Santa Marta)
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“Among El Salvador’s greatest heroes of this century are the brave water defenders, including several of those arrested last week, who led the 13-year fight that culminated in El Salvador’s legislature voting unanimously in 2017 to make that country the first in the world to ban all metals mining to save its rivers,” IPS senior adviser John Cavanagh told Common Dreams.

Cavanagh, who co-authored with Robin Broad The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed, stressed that Bukele “is desperate for revenues” because he “has so mismanaged El Salvador’s finances.”

“So for Bukele’s government, why not arrest key water defenders if you are exploring overturning the mining ban for the revenues that gold mining brings?” he said. “This is the great fear of water defenders in El Salvador. And, this is why there is now a global outcry over these arrests.”

\u201c#SantaMarta | Diversos colectivos ambientalistas est\u00e1n afuera del Centro Judicial Isidro Men\u00e9ndez, exigiendo la libertad de los l\u00edderes comunitarios de Caba\u00f1as.\n\nVidalina Morales, presidenta de @ades_sm, habla de la lucha antiminera que han librado.\n\n\u270d\ud83c\udffb @GuerreroMarvin\u201d

— MalaYerba (@MalaYerba)
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Pedro Cabezas of the Central American Alliance on Mining said in an email to Common Dreams that “different from previous presidents, the government of Nayib Bukele has shown no interest in implementing pending aspects of the mining prohibitions of 2017, like environmental remediation and reparation for the victims of the mining conflicts.”

“On the contrary,” he explained, “recent government actions signal an imminent reopening of the mining sector: El Salvador joined the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining in 2021, legislation to create a Directorate of Hydrocarbons, Energy, and Mines was passed at the legislature this year, there are rumors that the current secret negotiations of a Free Trade Agreement with China involve negotiations on mining, and there are testimonies from the communities that representatives of mining companies are visiting their territories to offer social programs and to lease large quantities of land.”

“With that in mind,” Cabezas concluded, “the only explanation for the arbitrary detention of five community leaders of Santa Marta, the community that led the anti-mining struggle for more than 12 years in order to protect the fragile water supply in El Salvador, is to demobilize potential grassroots opposition to the government’s plans.”

\u201c\ud83d\udea8 Last week, police arrested five prominent Water Defenders in El Salvador. Together with @CISPES & @stopESmining, we call on the Salvadoran government to drop the charges.\n\n251 groups from 29 countries around the world have joined in this urgent call: https://t.co/wkfeRe4MGB\u201d

— Institute for Policy Studies (@Institute for Policy Studies)
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Given Bukele and Attorney General Rodolfo Delgado’s track records as well as the state of exception that began in March—under which state security forces have been accused of widespread human rights abuses—advocates in El Salvador and around the world fear for the men’s safety.

As Yesenia Portillo, program director at the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), told Common Dreams: “Under ordinary circumstances, the arrests of internationally recognized water defenders would be major cause for concern. But in El Salvador today, where torture and deadly prison conditions reign under the current state of exception, this quickly becomes a matter of life and death.”

While allies of the water defenders have pointed out that “the allegations against them have major holes and contradictions, President Bukele’s near-total control over both the judiciary and the prosecution casts serious doubt on whether a fair trial is even possible,” Portillo said. “Since Attorney General Delgado was illegally appointed last May, virtually all cases he has brought have been sent to trial—whether there is evidence or not—and even the most compelling petitions for alternative measures to avoid a lengthy pretrial detention get denied.”

“We are deeply concerned for the well-being of these men and the dangerous precedent this sets in El Salvador,” Portillo added. “With these arrests, the Bukele administration is indicating to the world that their idea of ‘justice’ is to allow the atrocities carried out by U.S.-backed state forces during the 1980s to remain in impunity, while punishing the leaders of communities, like Santa Marta, who bore the brunt of that very violence.”

This post has been updated with comment from CISPES.

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