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Double rainbow this evening here in war-ravaged Portland!

Ways the National Guard Can Actually Help “War-Ravaged” Portland “President Trump’s declaration on Saturday that he had authorized the use of federal forces to ‘protect war-ravaged’ Portland, Ore., prompted bewil...

"Subdue the real domestic terrorists—i.e., drivers who don’t know how to merge onto I-5."
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To be clear, this is the South rising again.

1925 or 2025? 1. There’s an innovative American automotive manufacturer being run by a total bigot. 2. In large swaths of the country, a marginalized community i...

Seems what's old is what's new in America again. (SIGH).
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All I know is the day penguins actually export something I AM HERE FOR IT.

They must have been letting Elon do the “math” again…

“He will behave now as he hopes everyone will someday behave. Because civilization isn’t a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily. It vanishes far more quickly than he ever would have thought possible. And if he wishes to live, he must do what he can to prevent the world he wants to live in from fading away. As long as there's war, life is a preventative measure.” -Steven Galloway, from The Cellist of Sarajevo

THIS IS LITERALLY HOW WORLD WAR II STARTED.

I would like a return ticket to Precedented Eventsville please.
Thank you.

Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who agrees that if you want people to stop calling your party a bunch of Nazis, then your party leaders should stop doing Nazi things like the Sieg Heil.

Did you notsee this coming?

“Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.” -William Faulkner

Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?

Poppy says to tell you it’s important to stay warm when the winter weather descends.

All the best views have these ears!

Exactly the way Gollum looked at the Ring:

If this isn’t the cutest thing I’ve seen all year I don’t know what is.

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

Sunset and the Peter Iredale; Warrenton, OR

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.

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I miss hanging out with you!

I love it that this came across my feed for whatever deep algorithmic reason (does it know the names of our animals?!), because this is my Poppy (sitting upright) and her (grown) kittens.

The text of a poem by Clint Smith beginning “When people say ‘we have made it through worse before’[…]”

This, from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social, has been on my mind today.

Figured I’d try a new place on for size. Pretty sure the Official Offering of the Internet is a cat picture, so here’s Poppy trying a box on for size.