𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙲𝚊𝚝 🐈‍⬛️

One of the many photos I took of Chrissie. She was a "top model". #caturdaycat #catsofbluesky #tabbycat #catlover

Volodymir Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, Leader of the Free World.

Trump was never big enough to handle this role. Such an international humiliation.

The future of democracy is a ball that we dropped today, maybe into the safer hands of President Zelenskyy, nevertheless to our shame.

Prison Company Foresees ‘Unprecedented’ Revenue, Announces Massive Newark ICE Lock-Up The Geo Group inked a 15-year contract worth $1.2 billion to reopen Delaney Hall, which will become the largest immigration detention center in the New York-metropolitan area.

New York/NJ, it's time to get ready. There's a 1000 bed concentration camp coming to Newark.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/27/i...

We’ll be writing every day in support of personal liberties. Here’s why workers aren’t persons.

by Jeff Bezos

New Filing Challenges Musk's and DOGE's Unconstitutional Actions, Disputing Government's Claims of Their "Advisory" Role - State Democracy Defenders Action Press ReleaseFebruary 26, 2025 WASHINGTON – Today, a group of federal employees refuted the government’s claim that Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are limited to an advis...

Despite the govt's claims, evidence shows Musk is violating the Constitution's Appointments Clause & undermining the separation of powers

The next step: a hearing on the plaintiff’s motion for a PI this Friday

We, @sddfund.bsky.social, are proud to stand up for the plaintiffs & the Constitution

Heron on a piece of driftwood with one leg raised. Behind it blue water with large rocks in the background.

Black-crowned night heron
Medford MA
#birds #BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin

"I do not want my picture in your offices. The President is not an idol, an icon or a portrait. Hang your kids' photos instead, and look at them each time you are making a decision." Volodymyr Zelenskyy 2019 inaugural speech

JFYI
#UkrainianView

Pretty orange tabby glaring at camera.

Well, it’s Monday…

Yeah, Maris isn’t psyched about it either.

Channel your grouchy #Monday energy and #CallCongress #protectcivilservice

☎️ US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121

#MarisMonday #Maris #catsofbluesky #catsky #cats #rescuecats

Mesmerized by their first snowfall.

#cats #pets #twins

A photo of a young Stephen King (badass author) holding a grey British short hair cat

A grey cat British short hair with a distinctively stocky body, thick coat, and broad face

A Cat

(Stephen King, American author, on the set of the movie Pet Sematary, 1989. ph: Abigayle Tarsches)
#cats #cats_and_art #StephenKing #grey_cats #british_shorthair

Photo shows an orange and white tabby cat asleep on top of a box of "Hot Fresh Pizza." The caption reads, "aromatherapy." The can-haz-cheezburger watermark at the bottom dates this vintage meme.

Happy #Caturday 2/22! Have a vintage lolcat.
#orangecats #catnap #pizza 🍕 💙🐈 #catsofbluesky

Trump team preps list of banned staffers The names include conservatives linked to Project 2025 and Republicans viewed as disloyal to the former president.

This Politico story from last October shows how easy it is to launder lies through the press. It claimed Trump would ban anyone tied to Project 2025 from a job in a second Trump administration.
“Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵

Journal page showing watercolor paintings of different species of bumble bees as well as pencil drawings and a work in progress with the tips of fingers holding a tiny paintbrush. Handwritten notes are interspersed among the bees.

Working on a bumble bee page in my IL prairie nature journal... so much diversity to celebrate as long as we keep working to maintain their habitats!
#insect #naturejournal #SciArt #prairie

Of all of Trumps shenanigans - aligning with Russia on the pretext of peace for Ukraine and announcing that USA no longer has the back of Europe is the most chilling. Thanks @hcrichardson.bsky.social for making sense once again of all of the madness coming on a daily basis.

#altText for #art is an art in itself. When you are describing art, the goal is to provide at least some of the experience that a viewer would get. Unlike descriptions for other kinds of images, more is better when describing an art piece. Here are 8 tips for better image descriptions of art:

Art for your feed. Healing Hearts series, hand-cut paper.

JUST NOW: “Elon is allowed in. His goons can go in. But not representatives of the people.”

@maxwellfrost.bsky.social and other members of Congress kept out of the Department of Education

This photo shows three cats laying cuddled together, two tabbies and a black cat. They are on a pillow in a sunny windowsill, all awake and looking up at the viewer expectantly.

Happy #Caturday from the whole clowder: Pele, Inky & Cleo! #cats #catsofbluesky 💙🐈

#Biology Rising: My version of volvox, the freshwater algae where daughter colonies live inside their mother cells and work together to move towards the light to survive. We are in a volvox moment, now. These are hand printed monotypes on sewing patterns, dipped in beeswax. #sciart #STEAM #art

The Logic of Destruction (audio) And how to resist it

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Yeah; you know how cute you are right now. A contented Nova Scotia seal, chilling during early stages of sunset, gave me some nice close approach photo opportunities. Mostly we just stared at each other. #photography #seals #novascotia #canada #wildlife #blueskyphotography #cuteanimals #eastcoast

Photograph of a marker drawing on the back of a sketchbook. The betta fish is a striking yellow-green with graceful decorative fins.

👩‍🎨 "Betta fish." #fightingfish #sharpies #art #sketchbook

We have this beautiful lake nearby and it's so cool to paint there 🧜‍♀️💕

#aquarellportrait #study #watercolor #aquarell #drawing #art #watercolorportrait #portraitpainting #watercolorart #zeichnen #malen #sketchingpeople #sketchbook #kunst

Bare trees against a winter dawn sky, pale icy blue at the bottom left, through orange at the right to lilac above.

I love these fleeting dawn skies in winter.

This is a neurographic sharpie marker drawing with watercolor. A mermaid and her infant are sunning on some boulders beside the seashore. She is nude and holding the baby to her breast in the sunshine. Her turquoise fish-tail tapers gracefully.

👩‍🎨 "Watermarkt."
#mermaid #madonna #seascape #neurography #watercolor

Two light-colored cats with dark ears and paws are cuddled together on a bed pillow. One is a kitten aged just a few months old.

Happy #Caturday from Desi & Maple!
#siamese #kitten #burmese #cats #catsofbluesky 💙🐈