Mockingbird, MPH, CHES

I wish therapists could operate across state lines because I’d give you the name of mine who helped me become more comfortable with “they are adults and they are the ones who have to live with the consequences of their decisions and if they won’t accept help or listen, it’s not my fault.”

CIA abruptly closes World Factbook | American Libraries Magazine Martin Holland writes: “The Central Intelligence Agency has taken The World Factbook, one of the oldest and most well-known sites on the internet, offline. Old pages are still accessible via the Inter...

"...The [current presidential] administration has discontinued collection of or cut off access to an estimated 3,000 data sets."
americanlibrariesmagazine.org/latest-links...

A brown tabby cat is sitting on a wooden table sniffing one of the red flowers of a dozen red roses in a cut crystal vase.

Stanley was introduced to roses 🌹 today. ❤️

I was diagnosed with locally advanced colon cancer at age 46, one small step from metastatic cancer. At the time, screening started at age 50 and I had no known family history.

Colon cancer (and other cancers) are increasingly common at younger ages. Get checked out. Get more time.

"A 37-year-old man originally from Zimbabwe compared the deportation to a smuggling operation and said he and the other migrants were “dropped like U.P.S. packages” in Cameroon.

...none of the deportees had any history of violent crime."

I loved sitting on a large animal and flying around and over things. I think I messed up my risk tolerance of that by amazing older, more experienced riders by staying on like a burr when my horse ran away with me after like my third lesson? And it felt like a partner sport, neither of you want pain

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

dear parents of small testicle-equipped children:
mumps used to be the leading cause of testicular malfunction.
whether or not you have grandchildren is ultimately not up to you but don't shoot yourself in the foot here.
get your children vaccinated.

Harrisonburg Mennonites stage anti-ICE protest at Target store A group organized by Mennonite Action gathered for a hymn sing inside the Harrisonburg Target store on Saturday.

Yep, the Mennonites are rising up. They took over the Target for an anti-ICE hymn sing to shame Target for their cooperation. augustafreepress.com/news/harriso...

Yeah it is appalling but, honestly, it’s also just kinda lame. Real “sir, this is a Wendy’s” energy. Normal people don’t talk or think in ethnonationalist terms

Judge Orders ICE to Let Clergy Give Communion to Detained Migrants on Ash Wednesday

Enraging that this took a court order:

"Catholic nuns and clergy had visited the facility for years, offering prayer services and holy communion to detainees during visitor hours.

Trump Administration immigration authorities rolled back that access in September..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

She really has the most perfect name.

Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

The MAGA vision of the US is one where Native Americans and people from Asia, Africa, and Latin America have made no real contributions to the country.

pause menus are so fucked up now

what do you mean the queen wants a chicken shack like crazy

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Once again, the right hand had no idea what the far-right hand was doing.

“The interagency process has atrophied under Mr. Trump, who has dramatically shrunk the size of the National Security Council during his second term, even as the portfolio of international crises has grown.“

I have one of Jack’s marvelous labradorite pendants and you should treat yourself or someone you love

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

ICE has completely broken our social contract.

They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations

A photo of a cat under a bed with a rotisserie chicken with the caption: This is Beans. Beans stole a while rotisserie chicken off the counter. Not a piece. The whole chicken. Beans dragged it under the bed and growled at us for forty minutes. Beans is 9 pounds.

Become ungovernable

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause

What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

roses are red
violets are blue
tom homan’s a bitch
greg bovino, too

Vile of course in all the obvious ways but also keeps raising the question these guys never answer, which is, if all this is true, why doesn't Mexico count as Western Civilization?

Troop 6000

It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️

Love Bad Sisters so much.

The apres ski is the only part I was ever interested in. Drinking, whether alcohol or cocoa, and cheese and playing in snow? Heaven. Why ruin it by risking breaking a leg?

"The man who settled and built the nation of my birth…"

Surely he's not talking about Christopher Columbus, who never set foot in North America, much less built the United States, where Marco Rubio was unfortunately born?

It’s lovely!!

I grew up in Baton Rouge, and only rich kids skied. Even water skiing was very upper middle class. I had bad knees and the doctors told me to never do any kind of skiing and I don’t feel like I missed anything. Also, my Montreal cousin who was into skiing was such a dick.