Squirrel Du Jour

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I’m fucking dead

good morning, Blue Sky

I am very knowledgeable about cat breeds.

COMPLETELY EXONERATED!

i spent my whole life believing the president didn't actually have a big ECONOMY BAD/GOOD lever on the resolute desk but then this group of yahoos went and built one and then broke the lever off

my country, 'tis of thee

a small tragedy in an ocean of incompetence (gift link)

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

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Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

Warsh hearing so far has been kind of frustrating. No one has asked the questions that seem most relevant to me: 1) is Trump's criminal investigation into Powell appropriate? 2) what would you do if Trump threatened retribution against you if he didn't like your actions/Fed policy decisions?

“Grandpa, what does ‘awesome’ mean?” “Well, back at one point, it was a word used to describe the planet’s great unfathomable wonders, although now it generally means ‘Thanks for emailing me that PDF’.”

All of these cute stories about robots running sub-4 min miles during a half marathon fail to mention how terrifying it will be when these things are hunting us for sport in 2029.

Whether it’s pictures of Barack Obama reading to a group of children with Zohran Mamdani or it’s pictures of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein on an island full of sex-trafficked minors, occupants of the oval office are making some controversial choices about who they take pictures with.

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

NASA’s Artemis II Reveals the Basin in Full For the very first time, the mysterious Orientale Basin has been fully photographed. Thanks to Artemis II, humanity now sees the Moon in unprecedented detail, reminding us of the endless wonders beyond Earth. 🛰️

Could we do a Truman Show situation where we build a fake Oval Office where he watches AI created fake news about himself and let him believe he's still president and tweet the hours away and meanwhile we can impeach him and move on...I'm not sure he'd know the difference

oh hey it’s a wacky new cartoon of no particular relevance to anything this morning www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Margaret Gipsy Moth (gift link)

Mr. President, it's the bees and spiders again!

Some thoughts about the President of the United States speaking about ending a civilization. The president speaks genocide. Anyone who has been involved in that conversation or associated actions would be complicit. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.

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The vibes RN

“Trump’s budget proposal, offered during the war, amounts to this: the wealth of working Americans will be transferred to oligarchs and defense contractors, and the government will no longer provide basic services.”

“that's it. I'm turning this car around right now!”

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Bob’s Steak House Pana, IL

Remembering German photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus who was killed in Afghanistan #OTD in 2014. The only woman on a team of 11 AP photographers who won the 2005 #Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News #Photography for coverage of the Iraq War. Afghanistan: Seen Through Her Lens theatln.tc/2pZHcET

“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

"Commercial art that is a meaningful representation of an idea, like the painting I'm part of, is as great as any fine art."

‘The decline in battery prices has been incredible. It’s like nothing anyone has ever seen before. Big, strong men with tears in their eyes come up to me and say, “Sir, have you seen the progress in batteries?”’

In case you were wondering: Yes, there is a Jonathan the Great Tortoise angle to the Pam Bondi firing news.

Photographer: Paul Caponigro (American, born 1932) Title: Hiei-San, Japan Date:1976 Gelatin silver print Gift of Joan Morgenstern in memory of Jerry and Pauline Lechanger Morgenstern Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Toshiro Mifune for Sapporo beer

Good CaturDogDay Folks

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

Pssst. Hey. Hey you. You lookin for a cat? I got watchu need.

Today's New Yorker cartoon, by Ivan Ehlers

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Military experts say it will be difficult for the United States to retrieve Iran's nuclear materials. An elderly rapist who shits himself in public says it will be easy. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Trump: Airport lines for you, caviar for me!

「戦、行きだおれ、病に、飢え。人界はうらみをのんで死んだ亡者でひしめいとる。タタリというならこの世はタタリそのもの…」 –もののけ姫 "These days, there are angry ghosts all around us—dead from wars, sickness, starvation. So you say you're under a curse? So's the whole damn world." –Princess Mononoke

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