Angus has somehow gotten it through his pea brain that jumping off the bed is painful. I still slipped him a mickey so he’d spend the night on the dog bed instead of mine.

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin. This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

After reading Mark Carney's speech, I'm turning the "Europe invokes NATO against US aggression" square black. *sigh*

All four big dogs appear to have accepted the little dogs, though I think Loki is a little uncertain about them. Also, Angus is recovering slowly from his surgery. We've had problems at night — he wants to sleep on the bed where he feels safe but jumping is a no-no — but so far we've managed it.

More puppy pics for you, @thehappysorceress.bsky.social

I’m sitting here watching the puppies snooze because (1) hubby was on puppy watch all day, (2) son is not yet home from work and (3) the instant they wake up I have to take them out to pee so they don’t go on the floor.

Conked out in the boot tray

Timeline cleanse: winter in Maine

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

I'm in my office with a heavily sedated Angus (and Holly, though she's not heavily sedated) and I'm listening to my husband wrangle puppies downstairs... ...in full knowledge that I accepted the puppy acquisition with the caveat that I'm not puppy-sitting... ...and yes, I'm grinning.

Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.

20-year-old Pack n Play repurposed as puppy containment system

Puppies!

Its crazy the gradual increase of pleas we've made to ICE Hey can you wear a name tag? Hey do you have a warrant Hey can you please not wear masks? Hey can you please not murder us? The hell with training, that organization doesn't need to exist anymore.

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

A quick note to all the media covering Minneapolis right now, the Reich called my grandfather and great uncle "protesters" when all they were doing was stopping SS from disappearing their neighbors. So maybe don't be like the Nazi Press unless you are the Nazi Press.

Resorting to hot lemon water with cayenne pepper because the post nasal drip triggered by the cough that’s a side effect of the antihypertension med I was given is driving me batshit. Med has been changed up but she told me the cough might linger for another week or so. Fun.

Contemplating his life choices.

Bringing home my boy!

Surgery to remove the obstruction was successful. No serious complications and Angus should recover fully. My debt load… not so much.

So the president doesn’t like the “optics” of what ICE is doing. But there’s no such thing as sanitized, popular mass deportations—and that’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror. The policy is the terror, and the terror is the policy. trib.al/p7cjGIO

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

From an optics perspective... the protesters being the ones waving the US flag while Bovino et al looks like every awful nazi inspired movie we've ever seen... hats off to Minnesotans.

I'm also going to keep banging the drum that <fewer than 10> <Republicans> in Washington could end almost all of this immediately, by fulfilling their oaths & caucusing with the Democrats, & we should stop giving them <total free passes> every day & laser focus on that: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

absolutely WILD family drama story from older bro about younger bro Younger bro reconnected with his ex-GF of 30 years ago. Went to visit her in hospital recently. Discovered his ex-GF of 37 years ago was in the room across the hall. Walked over to say hi after concluding his business with 30-ex.

And Angus is at the hospital for the day. I didn’t have much choice. We figured out what he ate and even if he isn’t fully obstructed, which we don’t think he is, he’s still a seizure risk if he can’t absorb his meds. ***sigh*** debating whether to start a GoFundMe.

This is something that would definitely happen to @ravensnpennies.com and possibly already has

For the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution the government is sending armed agents of the state door to door to remind everyone what it was like in 1776.

You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

I have never wanted to get a tattoo but…

Saw this, rushed to block, discovered that I already had Lovely feeling

Hey, people are permanently losing their eyesight at some of these protests and have been for some time. These people, the ones that have put their bodies on the line, are among the people who would benefit from your usage of alt-text when posting protest related imagery.

Until the words “I think she’d be a great president for Venezuela” are uttered, her efforts to suck up are in vain.

Renee Good had a pulse when EMS arrived. I’m not sure it would have made a difference if ICE had let that civilian physician render aid before EMS arrived, but now we will never know. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Roses are red Nazis are lurking Beware of them here because

Task list has flown out the window. Dog is sick. Dunno what he ate but he has that hunched-over posture of a dog who maybe swallowed a sock? We've been through this before. Initiating the Motley protocol.

I want "Methamatics" to be the new shorthand for Trump Administration lunatic economic policies.

1/3 One time, he was cutting firewood and he accidently put the chainsaw into his boot (and left big toe). A neighbor who'd been helping him ran into the house and yelled for me to come out. I did. He was standing there grimacing. "Take a look and tell me if I need to go to the ER," was the request.

Task list of the day: • Clean office thoroughly • Filing and organization of mountains of financial papers and rabies vaccine certificates* • Finish warping the loom • ID fabrics for quilt *the two are not related

There's a guy down the road from us who has worked for CBP for decades. His job is routine customs oversight at the docks in Portland. What's about to happen in Maine is not something he signed up for but it's going to either end his career, or it'll ruin his community relationships. He can't win.

Getting care even 2 minutes earlier could've made a difference. I'd bet none of these 36-hours-of-videos cosplay agents knew that, but anyone who'd been on the job more than a year or two? They did. Which makes it depraved indifference on the part of anyone who didn't shoot but did interfere.

2026 Bingo Quilt updates! I've taken out two vague, throwaway squares and inserted, in black (because I predicted this a couple weeks ago), "Machado gives Trump her Nobel medal", and added (in red) "Maine winter breaks ICE" Have at it, reality. FWIW I'm going to assemble the squares this weekend.

once again: the civil rights movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...

We are in fact DESPERATE for winter coats, waterproof gloves, and good boots. We get so many wonderful donations but it is so cold and the numbers of unhoused unsheltered people are going up at the absolute worst time for it, and we run out of coats weekly.

Truth

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.