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The federal government under Stephen Miller is explicitly trying to start a civil war.

That is my statement.

oh cool so these guys are being called away from their actual livelihoods to go get booed by washingtonians and chicagoans and portlanders etc for free lol

The answer, once the dust settles and we rebuild our country (literally), is another Convention and the expulsion of theocrats, monarchists, and authoritarians from the new Union.

That's basically how my mother's dog reacted to me bringing home kittens - though with no wall-climbing and lots of tail-wagging. (The kittens did not welcome her attentions.) (The elder cats did not welcome the kittens.) (Everyone is more tolerant after 4 weeks to get accustomed.)

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

Cats. Although we do also have a frenetic yap dog.

In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies What one Arizona doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.

In the 5 to 10 percent of symptomatic cases where the fungus invades the vital organs, the death rate is as high as 25 percent. The pathogen is so powerful the U.S. army weighed whether to develop it into a bioterrorism weapon in the 1960s.

Which is slightly hilarious because she's a little white fluffle dog (46% poodle/16% chihuahua) and easily intimidated by a cat who stands its ground. One of our new kittens has her cowed.

My mother never got around to taking an obedience class with her dog, and the good news is Trixie doesn't leave our house and yard without a leash, because when she comes near another dog she *sounds* utterly savage and prepared to rumble.

A raven, a black bat, a black cat, and a black wolf.

My kind of Halloween greeting! 😍

It’s actually extremely funny when you’re out taking pictures of eagles and they start chirping. Like, they’ll rip your face off with those talons if you give them enough of a reason, but at least they’ll sound like whiny little babies while they’re doing it.

It's especially popular at the Haunted Mansion, apparently (which *does* claim to be seeking an additional ghost).

.@morganevelyncook on TikTok is trying to figure out why Trump is sending troops to Portland, Oregon, and her video is the greatest thing ever 🤣

Always nice to have someone else to preemptively block pointed out to me by name.

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Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

... probably not the worst thing in the world if ICE decides to pick a fight with every local PD

even though most cops are likely very sympathetic to the admin the combination of "this is our turf" and "stop gassing me, fuckface" is a powerful one

I have this hypothesis, supported by nothing, that some evangelicals who talk endlessly about how life is just an endless series of temptations to commit horrible sins, and the world is full of demons barraging you with temptations at every turn, are accurately describing their own experience.

Yeah, once I heard about the ICE holding facility that was renting out its detainees to local farmers - doing the same work they'd been doing before ICE snatched them but now for $1/day - I realized where this was going.

The “but that’s illegal” crowd is going to find out soon what those of us on the academic and research side have been saying for months is true in that you cannot “legally” fight a legal fascist framework when countering fascism is seen as terrorism and illegal

The AI bubble, which accounts for over a third of the US stock market, which exceeds the amount of consumer spending, which has literally warped the entire tech industry into an incestuous ponzi scheme of funding, is 17 times bigger than the dot com bubble.

I have to wonder how much of Miller's desperation is coming from the knowledge (or strong suspicion) that he's out the door once Trump strokes out and Vance gets sworn in. His power entirely depends on having a senile President who signs whatever Miller hands him.

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

A cuneiform tablet, from around 4000 years ago, inscribed by an Assyrian woman named Lamassi, responding to her useless husband after her criticized her weaving by saying that he didn’t love the fabric she used. She responded in this tablet by saying “who is this man who lives in your house and who is criticizing the textiles when they get to him”. I feel like he got off easy.

New tablet main character just dropped à la Ea Nassir: Lamassi’s Useless Husband. #archaeology 🏺

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

woman on local news being interviewed outside the stadium. she’s under a pink blanket with sunglasses on over the blanket. the chyron reads TAYLOR SWIFT FAN » WOMAN HIDES IDENTITY BECAUSE SHE CALLED IN SICK TO WORK

We bought a pair of plastic breadboxes that lock shut for the same reason.

Yes, so does our Siamese, and so did the voidbeast we lost in February.

I had this discussion with our Siamese years ago when he knocked the lid off the flour canister and tried to start eating. This conversation (mere days after letting him into the house) led to his name being changed from Gabriel to Loki.