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Lovely day and sunset

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Mister Lucky is telling me I should pamper him all day instead of working.

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Finally splurged for our anniversary

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The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

submitted 8 days ago • 834 comments

Someone who loves us sent a bit of spring

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

$4B for cutting medical research funds because????

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY

submitted 9 days ago • 37 comments

Happy Valentine’s Day to all kind and good people of the earth. May the love you give come back to you 10 fold. 🥰

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👀 “I understand my duty as a prosecutor to mean enforcing the law impartially, and that includes prosecuting a validly returned indictment regardless whether its dismissal would be politically advantageous, to the defendant or to those who appointed me.” - Former Acting USA, SDNY Danielle Sassoon.

submitted 9 days ago • 593 comments

Got our wee tabletop fountain and placed it between by Bones and Ferrengi Geeky Tiki glasses. #StarTrek meets zen.

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The NIH has announced an immediate lowering of university indirect cost rates to 15% effective today. Research costs universities- most charge 55%-70% overhead to cover the real administrative, lights on, heat the labs costs. This is effectively a massive budget cut with no serious rationale.

submitted 15 days ago • 30 comments

👀 DOJ acknowledges making two significant errors during a court hearing last week on efforts to dismantle USAID 1) It said only 500 employees had been placed on leave. Actual number was 2,140. 2) Said only future contracts were stopped. Existing contracts were also stopped.

submitted 12 days ago • 813 comments

Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 13 days ago • 3219 comments

Brunch in Binghamton #LostDogCafe

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The Pentagon is doubling the number of media outlets losing their workspaces. OUT: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC, CNN, Politico, The Hill, The War Zone, and NPR. IN: New York Post, The Washington Examiner, OANN, Newsmax, The Free Press, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart.

submitted 15 days ago • 737 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 16 days ago • 6590 comments

He got a bow tie!

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Our cheeky monkey boy is at the groomer this morning

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NBC Producers Deny Using AI In New Series ‘Detective Fireman Lawyer Chicago Los Angeles Show’ theonion.com/nbc-pro...

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Each year USAID buys 2 billion dollars worth of crops grown by US farmers across the land American food aid comes from American farmers Life saving food is rotting on the docks. Farmers in DC are have lost $340 million in unpaid bills since foreign aid was halted

submitted 17 days ago • 140 comments

We are going to see political investigations and prosecutions. The question is whether the public, the courts and the media will recognize and call them out as political. Will they stand up against them or will people stay silent and allow them to continue.

submitted 17 days ago • 906 comments

Happy first work Monday in February! Each day is closer to spring — at least in my hemisphere—whether it looks like it outside or not.

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Over the last nine days, the house has been out of session while the Democracy is sold for parts. Would have been nice had the Democrat come back on their own and sued, yelled, stood up, etc. Anything but stayed home

submitted 21 days ago • 1670 comments

I have a new food I am obsessed with: Eggplant “bacon” Made it twice this weekend.

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This is a national emergency:

submitted 21 days ago • 2192 comments

Elected to nothing www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 21 days ago • 316 comments

Good morning ☀️ Mister Lucky giving me the look. I wish I spoke dog or he spoke English.

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I’ve spent time on the phone this week with Pam Hemphill, the J6 “Granny” who served time for trespassing at the Capitol who is refusing her pardon, stating “We were wrong. If I accept the pardon it’s a slap in the face of the officers at the Capitol that day.” 1/2

submitted 22 days ago • 111 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 22 days ago • 503 comments

This chaos is already so much worse than the first time.

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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 22 days ago • 3628 comments

🔥🔥🔥🔥 @maddow.msnbc.com Kash Patel was the chief of staff for ACTING secretary of defense Chris Miller on January 6th and DENIED 14 calls for the National Guard and lied about it.

submitted 26 days ago • 246 comments

Trump is trying to bully our allies Canada, Colombia, Denmark, and Panama, threatening tariffs if they don't do what he says. Really? What about imposing tariffs on drug companies that charge us 10 times more than other countries pay for the same drug?

submitted 26 days ago • 128 comments

CNN's Jim Acosta signing off: "I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too." I will not give in to the lies. I will not give into the fear. Post it on your social media so people can hear from you too. Pass it on.

submitted 25 days ago • 688 comments

Live cam in Colombia right now:

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Massive threat that was tweeted and deleted this evening. When they tell you who they are believe them the first time…

submitted 27 days ago • 45 comments

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a case challenging Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting for individuals with certain felony convictions, which the state enshrined in its 1890 constitution with the express purpose of denying Black men the right to vote.

submitted 26 days ago • 577 comments