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We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour.

Oh please please please let her be cooked. I want to believe in hell when I see evil like bondi.

Today's furcast pet is (almost) 2-year-old German Shepherd mix May! She brings all the sweetness, sensitivity, and loyalty. May's fully house trained and does well in a crate!

If you’re looking for a loving, soulful companion who just needs someone to believe in her, May's adoption info is below ->

Opinion | This Is Not a Drill

David French: Consider this column to be something like a fire drill. "It’s an alarm, one of thousands that should be ringing across the country. MAGA’s acts of aggression are already intimidating. Trump isn’t just trying to 'stop the steal' again; another kind of theft might already be underway."

This morning in DPRK News

A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules

It’s always good when the courts recognize what every single other person in the universe understands about the DOE CWG.

A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...

Wow

Honan the Hut… love it.

A political cartoon depicting a corkboard with four wanted posters for “Crimes Against The States.”

WANTED.
For crimes against The States.

How to Rein in ICE–NOW | Indivisible Act now with Indivisible to demand Congress rein in ICE, end aggressive enforcement, restrict ICE and Border Patrol funding, and protect communities.

Upset about #ice? Call your reps today and tell them to defund or limit funding. This is a rare moment when Democrats also have power and leverage indivisible.org/campaigns/ho...

Guinea-Bissau says plans for controversial U.S.-funded vaccine study need further review Plans for a controversial U.S.-funded hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau have been paused pending further review from national authorities.

Plans for a controversial U.S.-funded hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau have been paused pending further review from national authorities.
www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/g...

- If Ted Cruz flies to a warmer climate expect 3 more weeks of winter

We use bubble wrap. Has worked well before, except on the weird front yard hose bib, that comes straight out of the ground. That has frozen 3 times. Now has an old styrofoam box fitted and sealed around it, and for really cold spells a pet bed heater inside.

How do you unfreeze in-wall pipes? TIA

Things I learned in the '21 TX freeze:

- looser clothing keeps you warmer (sweatpants > yoga pants)
- put a sheet OVER your comforter on your bed
- drape a sheet around drafty doors, roll a towel on thresholds
- keep curtains and blinds closed
- use one or two rooms, close up rest of your home

Donald Trump is pulling America away from our founding ideals, lighting democracy on fire, trying to rig elections, and replacing the rule of law with the rule of Don.

They pulled an elderly Hmong man out of his home in the Twin Cities in -18° weather wearing only shorts. That’s sick. This administration is dismantling civil rights, ignoring due process, and turning cruelty into policy. This isn’t law and order. It’s state-sanctioned abuse.

A Killing in Minneapolis. A Gaslighting From the White House. Minutes after ICE shot her, the Trump administration had already declared Renee Nicole Good a ‘domestic terrorist.’

"Apparently Trump, Vance, and all their hirelings stand behind all the masked and unidentified and untrained ICE officers, no matter what any of them might do, no matter how unjustified or indefensible any of their acts."

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. @SenBillCassidy Of course, now the fear is that the ACIP will be filled up with people who know nothing about vaccines except suspicion. I’ve just spoken with Secretary Kennedy, and I’ll continue to talk with him to ensure this is not the case.

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. @SenBillCassidy As a doctor who treated patients for decades, my top priority is protecting children and families. Multiple children have died or were hospitalized from measles, and South Carolina continues to face a growing outbreak. Two children have died in my state from whooping cough. All of this was preventable with safe and effective vaccines. The vaccine schedule IS NOT A MANDATE. It’s a recommendation giving parents the power. Changing the pediatric vaccine schedule based on no scientific input on safety risks and little transparency will cause unnecessary fear for patients and doctors, and will make America sicker.

Republicans.

When you controlled Congress, you let RFK Jr. lie under oath, and confirmed him anyway. Now, folks will die.

You don't have to just regret your mistakes. You can fix them. Get your act together, and impeach and remove RFK Jr. Or we vote you out.

standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

“Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!” Incredible stuff from our leader, who I thought was planning to make America great again and whose second term has three Christmases to go

May TRUMP get what he deserves. AMEM #ArrestTRUMP
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Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)

RTs appreciated.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing The de facto Saudi ruler was branded a pariah in 2018 after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.

You can oversee the bloody dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist with a bone saw, and the president of the United States will smile, shake your hand and threaten to pull the license of a news outlet whose reporter asks you a question about it.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Sad to say… you’re right. 😣

…but you didn’t hear the opposite from the other side’s campaign. The fanatics running the GOP right now can’t help but tell this lie and others, even when acting out a fictional situation.

They cannot help themselves. Just like in real life.

Thanks Mr. Wilson.

I did notice Coulter and Team Severino mention more than once statements and asides along the lines of ‘political violence and false flag incidents overwhelmingly come from the left’ (the standard radical right talking point)…

With Some G.O.P. Backing, Senate Votes to End Trump’s Brazil Tariffs

When Trump finds out his MAGA minions in Congress are doing their job he’ll be pissed. He wants to do their job.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/politics/senate-vote-trump-brazil-tariffs.html