January Handl

Happy day to all! One of my favorite visitors, the Pine Marten! I love their high energy level. They have a high metabolic rate, and semi- retractable claws. They are excellent swimmers, and are able to rotate their ankles 180 degrees!
Hello Pine Marten!🌲

just to give yall an idea of what we’re walking through

There’s no other way to spin it.

The strikes are murder. They’re illegal. And they put our troops at greater risk.

RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory panel is beset by incompetence, bias, and procedural chaos The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' (ACIP) meetings used to be a geek’s dream: hours of long, maybe dreary presentation of extensive data

www.statnews.com/2025/12/06/a...

“Simply calling them terrorists does not make them so. It does not unlock some hidden lethal power.” Retired Army Lt. Col. Daniel Maurer, a former Judge Advocate General, on legal questions surrounding the September 2 strike on an alleged drug boat during which a second strike killed two survivors

Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order News Podcast · Series ·

My new podcast "Burn Order" is about the decision to incarcerate tens of thousands of Japanese-American families during World War II, and the remarkable fight against it.

6 episodes in total -- Eps. 1 and 2 are posted now. 3 and 4 will post tomorrow, December 8:

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Stephen Miller’s rhetoric “reminds me” of “Nazis,” says Rep. Ilhan Omar During a Sunday interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation," the Minnesota congresswoman critiqued the top White House adviser’s “white supremist” comments.

Ilhan Omar is exactly right to call out Stephen Miller's vile, dehumanizing rhetoric that directly echoes Nazi propaganda. This isn't just talk. It fuels real raids and hate targeting communities like hers. It's fascist language enabling cruel policy.

Sen. Mark Warner: "For them to now say they're going to show the first strikes but then the balance of the next hour with the second strike is somehow classified, that doesn't pass any smell test. I think Congress needs to see it and I think the American people need to see it."

"The group rallied amid frigid conditions at the Target store on East Lake Street, alleging it allowed agents to stage raids in the parking lot.

'You cannot celebrate our communities on your commercials while letting ICE stalk them in your parking lot'...”

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New Amnesty International Report Details Torture, Overcrowding at Krome and ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Amnesty International is raising alarms over what it describes as “cruel, inhuman and degrading” conditions at two major immigration detention centers in southern Florida, following a September 2025 r...

New Amnesty International Report Details Torture, Overcrowding at Krome and ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant detention centers. 'Alligator Alcatraz' uses 'the box' — a small, windowless isolation unit — as a primary means of punishment.
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Yes, they are....they voted a pedo into office.

WELKER: “Why should death without due process be the punishment? 🇺🇸 doesn't shoot people at the border who are bringing drugs in… Are you saying we should start shooting people at the border?” 🎯

COTTON: “No, I'm not, Kristen.” 😕

Hal Lambert is a fucking idiot. Adam Mockler is correct, tariffs are a regressive tax that disproportionately affects lower income families. The level of stupidity that comes out of these people’s mouths is palpable. Mockler is really good at this‼️🔥💥🔥

Hostis Curiae Podcast Episode · UnJustified · 12/07/2025 · 1h 7m

TODAY: DoJ contemplating trying to indict Letitia James a THIRD time, is the pipe bomber subject to Trump's 1/6 pardon, and Kash Patel's elite FBI SWAT designated driver service. Free to listen and subscribe: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Trump rants about Roger Clemens on Truth Social

Laser focused on the kitchen table issues affecting the American people

@citehchris - wow i absolutely love your outfit the black really brings out the pet hair on it

No matter how much he now tries to distance himself Rogan still can’t help gushing like a smitten teen about how he texts with Trump

Proximity to power is a helluva drug

The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.

MooCow a normal innocent tuxedo cat taking a bath

Happy #caturday everyone. MooCow wishes everyone a good weekend!

Today's frog is the southern pygmy toad. Yes, toads are frogs too.

BARTIROMO: What are you expecting the president's economic message to be?

SEN. McCORMICK: I think the message is that we inherited a trainwreck from the Biden administration and we made a lot of progress

Tom Nichols: “This ongoing game show of ‘strike a boat every day’ […] is making us into worse people — every one of us, whether we’re in uniform or just ordinary citizens. It is spiritually and morally corrosive on every level.”

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

This will be the cutest thing you see all day today. ❤️

A lichen-covered twig lies on a bed of dark brown dead leaves. The stick is completely covered with silver licked, some of which is large and branched like antlers or seaweed. There is also a large clump of green moss.

Good morning!
How are you holding up?
What are you up to today?

We had a fair westerly Friday night, which brought down a bunch of alder branches. Each is a tiny ecosystem of lichen and moss.

Today I'll be making my first batches of holiday candy -- chocolate clusters and toffee.
Have a nice day!

ICE: In city crackdowns, more than two-thirds of the people arrested had no criminal record at all, according to detailed reporting from multiple jurisdictions. These operations were described as public safety efforts, yet the data shows a completely different reality.

BASH: If you were to take the confirmation vote again, would you vote to make Hegseth defense sec?

CURTIS: That's a Q I can't answer without as much thoughtful research as I did the first time

B: Now you have evidence

C: But if you by what's in the paper it's impossible to know what's going on

Most of the GOP are more interested in getting rich from campaign contributions from corporate executives and billionaires than serving their constituents.They are fine with Trump dragging us all into hell while we watch his sick body decompose right before our eyes.
#GOPISCOMPLICIT
#PINKS

Agree 💯 With Mr. Olbermann.....

it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this