FiddleCatBrenda

I had a sneaking suspicion that my reticence at setting up a TikTok account as an artist (or getting back on other popular social media platforms, for that matter) had some sort of rational basis to it…

CONTEXT: “ if you’re an artist and not on social media, then you (effectively) don’t exist!”

Good to know that there is a name for this!

Just got mine, and thank you for the prompt to complete & cast it promptly!

Beautiful! I wish I had a decent shot to post of Charlotte, a large orb weaver who set up shop in my potted banana plants after I reprimanded her for obstructing a traffic lane not zoned for housing.

I LOVE this!!!!

AGREE! Someone downthread made a great suggestion that they be deployed to find and remove invasive plants from state lands. That's 100% legit given the immense economic harm they can cause to the agriculture sector.

THIS! ⬆️ It's 100% defensible since it would concurrently shore up Illinois' economy, of which the agriculture is a critical element (I'm in SoCal, but I fact-checked that), and invasive plants can cause tremendous economic harm.

It’s Time for the States to Start Investigating Trump Democratic-led state governments can hold the aspiring autocrat’s feet to the fire.

Trump needs to be investigated. That's not a purely theoretical idea, because we don't need Congress or the DOJ to do it. ICYMI Steven Strauss: www.thebulwark.com/p/state-comm...

The regime banned non government drones from flying over Chicago for 12 days

They’re suppressing the media

Without drones, it’s difficult to capture the black hawks. The children being dragged from the homes in the middle of the night

They know the world is watching, & they don’t want us to see

Thugs.

The Wrecking Ball Named Russ Vought: How One Man Is Taking a Sledgehammer to Democracy How a Christian Nationalist Turned OMB Into a Weapon Against Democracy

Schedule F: the boring-sounding guillotine that could end the Republic. Russ Vought doesn’t want to “drain the swamp.” He wants to salt the earth.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Thank you from L.A.! And I 💯 agree.

+1

Four cats: Granny Blacky-Whitey (Laxmi), Jaz, Shiva & Chair Man Mao (Dusty)

The Kitty Committee concurs!

When you see a headline that makes a claim that sounds absolutely bananas & cites some “study”, don’t just believe it because the headline used one science word. Look at the source. Was it even peer reviewed? Where? What are experts in the field saying about it? If it sounds ridiculous it might be.

I’ve learned to throw stuff like that in the bin outside for that exact reason:
Me drifting off to sleep
Clunk…clunk…CRASH
(jerks awake) “WTF was that?!”
You know the rest.
Even if not awakened by a loud noise, each morning starting with a post-shower kitchen garbage pickup op sucks.

Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

YouTube video by Rick Wilson's Against All Enemies Trump's Insane Speech To America's Generals

Appreciate @therickwilson.bsky.social YouTube video outlining pathological lying felon insurrectionist trump remarks to our nations military leaders

youtu.be/BUwXrZCP8Zs?...

warning them to FOLLOW HIS ORDERS to invade American cities or be ‘fired’

This is authoritarianism not democracy

@cnn.com

Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown.

Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.

Wow…I can almost smell that through my screen! If only I had room for more roses….🌹

HEATER!!! 😻

Fascinating read! ⬇️

Your health care premiums could MORE THAN DOUBLE thanks to Donald Trump.

That’s the health care affordability crisis that Democrats are fighting to fix.

'Sad But True' I firmly believe firing Fed Chair Jerome Powell will be the last stop on the autocratic autobahn we’ve all been barreling down these last nine months, with a drug-addled madman behind the wheel.

“Trump knows if he can control the Federal Reserve he can wield the power to print money. He can reward those who play along with his burgeoning criminal enterprise and debank those who stand up to him or fund the political parties and organizations that oppose him.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasler

Concur! 👍

Fighting for Our Stolen Neighbors: ICE, Tear Gas and a Guitar Blown Open "Being out here to demand what is right is the only way to stay human," says Jessica Darrow.

organizingmythoughts.org/fighting-for...

And Cher is adorable!

I just did the exact same thing when I went out back to chuck out some compost! I told Charlotte sternly that she’s in a traffic lane that is not zoned for housing, and needs to move. She relocated to some potted banana plants and we’ve been peacefully coexisting since then.

💯 same here! 😹