Douglas Ryan, M. Ed

@patti3333.bsky.social thank you for adding me to your “Friends Who Will Never Be Redacted” starter pack. 💙💙💙

And every tree is connected to every other by an underground network of fungus.

My second favorite road in the country!

Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct?

Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

If Marjorie Taylor Greene *really* cared about the Epstein victims, she would read the names of the perpetrators on the House floor (where she would have immunity) before she leaves office.

Is it bad that nobody justifiably believes anything Putin says while the President of the United States believes everything he says?

Ditto from me! Thank you!

Yesterday we were all waiting in the Epstein line. Today, the entire country has turned into investigators, tracking which files are disappearing. Sixteen gone so far. There’s been a remarkable amount of teamwork, with people working together to identify the missing documents.

I once saw a red-shoulder crash through the top of oak tree branches and hit a squirrel. I was surprised it didn’t hurt itself.

Lovely composition!

JUST COMMON SENSE, REALLY…👇

Enjoy. 😎✨

I cried every time I had to leave that place.

Goldman: This guy is so clearly trying to follow the Putin model—using the government to make money, making sure his allies control the most important companies in the country, including our media companies, doling out money by deregulating their industries, and taking money from them in return…

My second favorite bird!

So Hard To Lie, When We Always Bring In The Receipts...

I’ll take a tit any day!

Crockett: As he stood up today in front of the American people, he sounded like a used car salesman. Like, let me just shout it out. Buy what I'm selling. Yes. This is a lemon. Yes. He is selling nothing but lemons

Try “ The Champagne Problem” and drink champagne as you watch.

Tetrapod for the win!

A rare moment of bipartisanship

Great start!

Hahahahaha

I read her every day! Not as fun as reading you, obviously, but absolutely as necessary!

They do eat hot dogs.

Oh, God, I wish!

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.

(Published Feb. 2025)

Call your reps and tell them we don’t want to go to war with Venezuela!

Love love love. Great eye.