Annie Grace’s DNA test results came back today. In the least surprising news of ever, she’s a purebred Great Pyrenees, albeit a smaller than normal one. To me, she’s just perfect. Dogs are the greatest creatures on earth.

Bedtime. Few things in life are as meaningful as the bond you build with your dog. Pats win and Annie Grace is here for it all, thankfully.

It’s important that your rescue dog supports your team.

More of this, please. Plainly call out the corruption and nonsense.

I’ve had her for 5 weeks and she’s already trying to borrow my books. Annie has excellent taste in literature at least. You should be reading @lukeoneil47.bsky.social’s latest ‘We Had It Coming’ too.

If Renee Good was wearing a red MAGA hat and got shot in the face at point-blank range while slowly turning *away* from a cop at a No Kings rally The MAGA propaganda machine would've already turned her into Ashli Babbitt II

"Fuckin' bitch."

On a night desperately calling for escapist TV…The Price is Right at Night definitely qualifies. Also, the dog looked me in the eye and ripped a legit 8 second fart with reverb off the leather. She’s the closest thing to a daughter I’ve ever had. 😎🐾

11 million people in America have the flu right now. 124,000 of them are hospitalized. Three children in MA have died of it so far. Regardless of your thoughts on vaccines or the dismissive "it's cold & flu season," this year's flu virus is vicious. Fever, severe body aches, a hacking cough... 1/

This isn’t doing much to help her breath I’ll be honest

I just spent 10 minutes explaining to my dog that she can’t have any edamame and yet that’s still not the weirdest thing that’s happened today

It's always about the money. Yet again, @juddlegum.bsky.social at @popular.info is doing the work the failed corporate media won't do.

This is how she sleeps lol. (Note the socks on the radiator in the background. Power Masshole move, get them toasty warm for the cold morning walk).

Also 100% she’s ripping farts directly into my pillows

Few things in life are better than this. I adopted Annie one month ago today. She is a gift. Dogs are the greatest creatures on earth.

This is an incredible piece of writing from the latest Welcome to Hell World, the essential newsletter of our times. @lukeoneil47.bsky.social, in addition to his own brilliant writing, regularly features other brilliant writers, almost all of whom will find new ways to break your heart.

America's previous wars for oil have all worked out so spectacularly; what could possibly go wrong with this one?

The Venezuela bombings*, brought to you by the Donald J. Trump Institute for Peace. *Also Nigeria and Iran

Whoever leaked that 60 Minutes video is a hero. Now do the Epstein Files.

This is horrifying + entirely within character for this administration. White Christian Nationalism is a feature, not a bug. Co-Presidents Miller and Vought are all in on making life as miserable as possible for everyone that isn't white, straight, cis, and their bastardized version of Christian.

The only place he should be adding his name is the Trump-Kennedy Measles Outbreak

This is a terrific piece about dictators, directors, and movie madness, via @annaleen.bsky.social in @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-465/

Snorting Adderall is one way to help a dementia patient lie faster. (And louder). #MAHA

The grotesquery of this is off the charts. The so-called Christians at DOGE and OMB celebrated death sentences for tens of thousands of innocent people with a sheet cake. MAGA isn't only immoral; it is utterly amoral.

Annie is all (non-MAGA) of us seeing President Puddingbrain’s vile post about the Reiners. How low we have fallen. And the bottom is still not in sight.

$900 billion for an annual US Military budget isn't enough for these pigs. But tell me again how we can't afford to extend ACA credits and keeep millions of Americans from losing their health insurance and SNAP must be cut to offset tax cuts for the rich. Poverty is a policy choice in America.

Meta is a far-right nation-state of its own. Allowing Big Tech companies to operate with impunity, as Meta does, is helping to destroy democracy in America and globally. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

We picked up our new rescue dog, Annie Grace, Saturday afternoon. This was our first meeting, and it was an amazing moment—watch to the end! #rescuedog #adoptdontshop

You know that if Trump's grandkids start fighting at Thanksgiving and he breaks it up, he'll immediately claim he's now solved 9 wars and isn't getting the credit he so richly deserves.

Tell you what, MAGAs: go to work today, stick your finger in a female colleague's face and tell her "quiet, quiet piggy." Oh, what? You'd never do that because you'd be fired immediately? 1/

The current administration is filled with evangelical true believers. Project 2025 is explicitly aiming to force Christian Nationalism on all Americans. 1/

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Trump and Epstein r*ped young girls the right way. By Ezra Klein (with apologies to @nytpitchbot.bsky.social)

"The law has in-groups that it protects but does not bind, and out-groups that the law binds but does not protect" demonstrated daily in Worcester. @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social exc. interview w/@billshaner.bsky.social. Episode 45: The 'From Here' Contingent www.worcestersucks.email/p/episode-45...

Also @massago.bsky.social really oughta be looking into this...the (alleged) crime and the odious coverup.

"Cruelty dressed up as patriotism" sums up MAGA philosophy succinctly. Scott Monty on the power of grace: www.linkedin.com/pulse/streng...

Gonna have to "borrow" this one when the opportunity presents itself

@suemailman.bsky.social is a Real One. Thank you for all you do to try and pull this lumbering city forward despite the crank obstacles (crankstacles, @billshaner.bsky.social?). Worcester needs a lot more folks like Sue, and a lot fewer like the D5 councilor-elect and Money Moe. Let's get to it.

No matter the election results in Worcester, the pedophile cover-up perpetrated by city "leaders" to protect one of their own in-group members is going to blow up. Soon. The cover-up is always worse than the crime. In this instance, both are horrific. Read @thisweekinwoo.bsky.social story:

The work @billshaner.bsky.social and @thisweekinwoo.bsky.social to shine a light on a horrific crime and even more disgusting cover-up is invaluable. Regardless of the election outcome, 2026 is going to see some long-overdue hoisting of crank petards in Worcester.

When does an actual journalist call out this fraud's daily lie-athon? He's so full of shit it stinks from here. Our failed corporate media refuses to question anything from this phony Christian fascist.

WORCESTER: Don’t vote for Maureen Binienda for school committee! As superintendent, she covered up for this monster. Grotesque that our current mayor just endorsed her anyway.

I'm gonna be a MAGAt for Halloween and take all the candy from the poor kids, give it to the rich kids, and then tell the poor kids to blame the Dems

"Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy and the animating force in Republican politics. In short, we are awash in bullshit." open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

Using SNAP benefits as a cudgel, threatening the food security of 42 million people—including CHILDREN—in a bad-faith political pissing contest over how much to fuck over poor people more generally is morally indefensible on its face.

Because the CoC and old guard that still runs Worcester behind the scenes is terrified that voters might check to see which councilors favor a CRB and which...don't. And maybe fearing turnout climbing over 20% and knocking off one of those old guard councilors too. Shadier than an old oak tree.

This is an insane story. @gofundme.com set up more than a million donation pages without permission. If you're affiliated with a nonprofit organization, read this and claim your page ASAP! nonprofitnewsfeed.com/news/1-4-mil...

FACT:

Vote for HYDRANYM No. 21!!! it's the word game for @flaminghydra.com subscribers flaminghydra.com/hydranym-no-...

If MAGA is so certain that George Soros is paying all of the #NoKings protestors, why did the MAGA majority in Congress give him such a huge tax cut via the One Big Beautiful Welfare Bill for Billionaires?