Cathy (Deluded Wine Mom)

Senator Umberg Announces “No Kings” Legislation to Prevent Presidential Power Grab Official website of Senator Tom Umberg, representing California Senate District 34.

That’s why I authored SB 46, the No Kings and Election Qualifications Act—to ensure that no one, including Trump, can appear on the ballot if they don’t meet constitutional requirements.

This week on the #podcast, we’re tackling our first scifi novel by Ursula K. Le Guin: THE DISPOSSESSED!

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#booksky 💙📚

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Heat pump sales dipped in 2025. They still beat gas furnaces. Yet again, heat pumps were the most-shipped heating appliance in the U.S. And experts say the factors behind last year’s sales slide are temporary.

Despite “temporary headwinds,” heat pumps outsold gas furnaces in the U.S. in 2025 for the fourth year in a row. Heat pumps are two to four times as efficient as gas furnaces, helping households save money, story via Canary Media Inc. 🔌💡

Very disturbing!! A great documentary. I keep hearing that very little plastic /packaging is actually recycled, in spite of the number stamped on the package. What I would really like to know is what IS recycled. Follow @iFixit.com . Also, capitalism is stupid.

Dave blinks: Scientology pauses its UK expansion plans in the face of so much opposition Was it the newts? The bats? The water main?

Was it the newts? The bats? We’re not sure which of the objections raised to #Scientology’s plans for its UK headquarters was too much, but David Miscavige has put those plans on a temporary hold. ALSO: A new Ideal Org today in Puerto Rico, and we say goodbye to Fredrick Brennan.

YAY!!! BUFFLEHEADS!

Huntington Beach City Council

for a helpful frame of reference, let me just say that five hundred billion is a LOT of billions.

Forest Service vegetation plot marker in old-growth forest near Spirit Lake, Mount St. Helens, 1979. Red and yellow striped survey pole with white sign reading "03 01 391" stands among tall conifer trees with blue-tinted undergrowth. This plot documented pre-eruption forest composition at the species level. Photo: USDA Forest Service, 1979.

Same vegetation plot location after May 18, 1980 eruption, showing complete devastation. Survey pole with sign reading "03 01 391" stands in gray ash-covered wasteland. All traces of old-growth forest erased by pyroclastic flows reaching 1300°F (700°C). Broken volcanic terrain visible in background under blue sky. Photo: USDA Forest Service, 1980.

The U.S. Forest Service documented this vegetation plot near Spirit Lake in 1979—a careful species-level inventory of an old-growth forest.

After May 18, 1980, they returned to the same coordinates and put up another marker. Same spot. Different planet.

What's the Plan with Leah and Ezra · Indivisible The chaos out of the White House is meant to overwhelm us. Our antidote is community. Join Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin every Thursday to break down the week’s biggest politic...

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steam rises from the boiling water pouring out of the tea kettle. the hot water pours into a hole where the gardener has just pulled up a small patch of poison oak

steam rises from the spot where poison oak has been dug out from the soil, as the boiling water pours out of the kitchen kettle

#garden report

Poison Oak eradication -- chopped out / pulled up 4 hot spots of regrowth 🤞 #maintenance

#gardening #dutyofcare
#gardeners #peril

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We’re a day late in posting this, but this week’s #podcast episode is all about THE KIN ENIGMA by Darrel Miller, a hard scifi take on werewolves perfect for Crichton fans.

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#booksky 💙📚

France5 doc on Scientology may be the best film on the subject since 'Going Clear' It’s always interesting to see a major media organization take on the subject of Scientology, and put in so much effort and care as was obvious in the documentary that aired last night in France.

It’s always interesting to see major media take on #Scientology, and put in so much care as in the film that aired last night in France. We especially dug the Xenu sequence, the best since Alex Gibney’s HBO movie 'Going Clear' and its OT 3 telling in 2015. We have screenshots!

HB is standing up for our neighbors. Protest and essential items drop off. Every Sunday 1-2:30 at City Hall Main Street and Yorktown.

Crochet a Beautiful Bucket Hat With Raffia: 👉 tidd.ly/3Im48qp - designed by Olga Larchenkova #crochet #handmade #etsy #affiliate ☀️

Scientology's plans run into opposition not just from newts, but now also bats! There’s even more bad news for Scientology when it comes to its expansion plans for its UK headquarters, Saint Hill Manor in East Grinstead, England.

Even more bad news for #Scientology's expansion plans for its UK headquarters. Local governments and non-profit organizations are not so amenable to its plans to pave over ground in a place that features ancient woodlands and local fauna. Alex Barnes-Ross has the details!

I thought she left her trash behind?
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delicate dark pink and light pink apple blossoms decorate bony and otherwise bare branches. Orange stamens are waving and reaching out to beckon the pollinators to "land here! land here!" In the background are the dark greens of a nearby pine tree and what I think must be the leaves of a camellia.

apricot blossoms
#garden #love
#gardening #joy
#gardeners #delight

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Scientology has plenty to worry about when these former staffers put their heads together On Saturday, former Scientology London staffer Alex Barnes-Ross told us about his budding friendship with Edinburgh staffer Amir Essalhi, and Amir’s journey out of Scientology.

On Saturday, former #Scientology London staffer Alex Barnes-Ross told us about his budding friendship with Edinburgh staffer Amir Essalhi, and Amir’s journey out of Scientology. Now, they’ve had a meetup in Sunderland, and we asked Alex for his thoughts.

Yay!!! Bufflehead!!

well 2 poop identifiers have ID'd the big poop in my front yard as from a bear.

I haven't seen any news about bear sightings in my neighborhood, or our adjacent hilly and open regional park, but...

Does anybody know the best way to identify animal poop from a photo? I won't post it here tho.

Happy Sunday, Womble! I’m enjoying the last day of Gallifrey One, so not much reading time, but I’m about a quarter of the way through The Kin Enigma by Darrel Miller