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Adventure traveler, WI dog dad, guitar harmonica uke player, music obsessed, gardener, cook, gourmand, reader, optimist, peacenik, tree hugger, kindness adjacent, lifelong lefty, respectfully irreligious ietsist, recovered lawyer, risk biz, ally 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦✊🏿⚧️🔬🔭🌳☮️🦄🧪
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WI Badgers look sharp today in the NCAA men's bball tourney. Great balance today. My earlier concerns appear unwarranted. This game ain't over, but looking good on all fronts.

Rural folks will be especially impacted by this cruel idiot. The fact that they brought this upon themselves by voting Trump gives me no satisfaction, but it should be raised as a point of fact at every opportunity so they don't continue voting for people who don't care if they live or die.

March is still Women's History Month. You can honor women authors by reading their books. BookSky

"Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested." -- Franz Kafka, The Trial #BookSky

STRATEGERY! (A tragedy)

I’m feeling a little environmental embrittlement myself these days.

Little known fact. Camp Randall is not named after me. 😆 Badger Nation! Seriously, if you are in the area in the fall, go to a Badger game in Camp Randall and experience this. It is so fun to be in the middle of it...every single home game since 1993 or so. youtu.be/SoXHXLYTAgs?...

Poseur.

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Bet you didn't know this factoid about Judge Crawford. JUDGE CRAWFORD FOR WI SUPREME COURT!!!

Our Wisconsin Badger UW Law (me) / Michigan State Spartan Ph.D (she) family gets heated on sport. Six years in married grad housing in the 80's made the Spartans my #2 fave, while three years in Madison early 90's hardened her anti-Badger Spartitude. Both WI natives, 42 years together. Go figure. 🤷

Judge Crawford (VOTE CRAWFORD! WI) has Wisconsin beating Marquette in the championship.😆 Hahahahahahahaha....of course she does. GO BADGERS.

SCONNIE! Tony has always been an optimist. BE LIKE TONY.

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💯 agree.

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Fuck Zuck. Zuck Sucks.

From ROE to DOBBS, the GOP never said "nothing we can do" or "our hands are tied." They just applied brute force until they prevailed. They have prevailed, for now. Dem leadership: comply in advance is not a strategy. Politics is rarely three dimensional chess. Politics is about brute force.

Lying liars who lie.

Morning break. Another favorite. Such a splendid version of the song. Nearly perfect, methinks. The Glen Hansard/Swell Season record shop and coffee shop live appearances are just so solid. The way this one builds is remarkable; the band is so dialed in to the vibe. youtu.be/rUMt6rMMSZE?...

The Trump Administration has not undertaken any action that has demonstrably improved the lives of ordinary Americans. Almost makes one think that isn't their goal. 😉

My Baroque playlist is not calming. That is all. Carry on.

"Know when to walk away...know when to RUN." Past time to apply some Kenny Rogers procedural rule action.

"Flood faces rare HURRICANE in Nebraska" I'd say.

Damn right I'd wave a Canadian flag at a town hall. Infuriated at the treatment of our closest neighbor and ally, who we have shared so much with for so long. Truly abhorrent. I grew up in northern WI near the MN border, where we share so much culture and tradition with our northern neighbors.

I gotta admit I'm a bit worried about my law school alma mater Wisconsin Badgers men's NCAA tournament game in Denver today. Playing at elevation after 4 games in 4 days at Big 10 tournament. Tough Montana team. Not a great draw relative to seed line. LET'S GO BADGERS! 'SCONNIE!

Ol' John Prine had it right, you GOP pricks... "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" youtu.be/iE7lVN07Q-Y?...

What? youtu.be/vn_PSJsl0LQ?...

Good morning #BreakfastCrew We will be spending the day at a village near our #BlueCrew friend Paul @paspuggie48.bsky.social called Castle Combe in England Join us for coffee, tea & pastries & meet some new friends! Also, I’ll be hosting the Thursday 🦋 Meet & Greet at noon EST today. Stop on by!

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Even red state dipshits are figuring out it is all a lie, all a grift. The GOP reps just look you in the eye and lie to your face. Spout talking points, never answer a question.

Swasticars just ain't what they used to be.

📣 Using ALMA 📡, in which ESO is a partner, astronomers have discovered oxygen in the most distant known galaxy! This record-breaking detection is making scientists rethink how quickly galaxies formed in the early Universe 🤔 Read more: www.eso.org/public/news/... 🔭 🧪 ☄️

Trump fails every economics test. Lifetime of business failure. Gifted a half a billion to start, lost it, many bankruptcies. Grifter. 34 Felony convictions. Lived off debt. Only successful at being a TV game show host and convincing GOP he's not a racist rapist grifting felonious loser. No.

Really need to up my frog game. 🤔

🔆 Good morning! Happy #VernalEquinox 🧪 Spring equinox 2025: Say goodbye to winter in the Northern Hemisphere today www.space.com/the-universe... As the Northern Hemisphere welcomes spring today, the Southern Hemisphere is marked with the first day of autumn.

Happy Spring! 🎉Vernal Equinox happened at 4:01am CST but super hardy motherwort has been popping up for a while already, and I’ve even harvested some tender foliage for medicinal use. 🌱🌷 #spring #gardensky #medicinalherbs #ostara #springequinox

It's spring. 🌱 The sun is shining. 🌞 There's a lot of work to do. There's no excuse... I'm in the garden now. 👩‍🌾

I wrecked the El Camino Would have been DWI So I just walked off and left it Laying on its side The troopers found it in the morning And they said it's purely luck I wasn't killed I probably ought to quit my drinking But I don't believe I will youtu.be/2vqVHuiNRkI?...

Just. So. Wrong.

Elon Musk is not finding “waste and abuse”. He is simply slashing regulations and firing regulators that keep you safe, just so he can add a few more zeros to his bank account.

Another of my many favorite songwriters. If you get a chance to see him live or with his band, go. During COVID he played live solo shows from home regularly. Look 'em up if you enjoy this sort of thing. Those shows were simply excellent. Really accessible songs to play. youtu.be/ds91CIwn6V4?...

The Japanese cherry tree. 🌳 #nature #photography

A seemingly ocean of tulips stretching endlessly in Hokkaido, Japan. Image credit The Figen

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