Tonight's #MacAndCheese was disappointing as the pasta absorbed too much of the cheese sauce - or there wasn't enough sauce 🤔 #Foodsky #WhatsForDinner It's a #ratio issue that I'm still trying to work out. #Recipe #RandD #KitchenChemistry

We were discussing Elon Musk being the first half Trillionaire To put that into context The magnitude of difference between trillion, billion & million is illustrated with this example of the time scale A million seconds is 12 days A billion seconds is 31 years A trillion seconds is 31,688 years

Breaking in a new toy 🥰 #dogsofbluesky

"There is no mystery too great that man should not strive to understand it." -CA67- #Photography 🌔 This morning's #Moon #Quote #Writing 🌳 #ThroughTheTrees #GalaxyS23Ultra Bon Lundi mes amis 🍸

"In August, Trump Jr.’s lawyer sent a cease-and-desist letter to Beach to stop representing himself as a business partner of Trump Jr. Beach denied ever receiving or seeing the letter. The Journal reviewed the letter and texts in which Beach confirmed receipt..." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

From reading to more reading 📚 and a few chores completed in between. #Booksky #CaféAuLait #AllTheDevilsAreHere #Fiction #LouisePenny And now, back to reading! #History #Politics #Drift Bon Lundi à tous 🍸

Republicans like to claim they aren't actually cutting Medicaid. Which is an easily disproven lie.

As we wait for the sun to rise - one of us impatiently by the front door 🥺 there's a chapter & coffee. #Booksky #DogsOfBluesky With black bears in our area, I don't feel comfortable walking Hutch in the dark. #ReadMore2025 #CoffeeLoversClub #MorningRitual At least my workouts are done 😁

Timeline cleanse! Sometimes you just need to chew on a rope...

*evil cat laughter*

My #goto recipe for #biscuits is @altonbrown.bsky.social 's 🍞 They bake into the most perfect vehicle for butter 🧈 be it honey, hot sauce, compound, or cinnamon. #WhatsCooking #Baking #ChezMoi #Homemade #Perfection #KitchenChemistry Bon Dimanche 🍸

"'They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van,' she said..." abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"There are those who build walls and those who tirelessly work to take them down. Some define borders while others bravely defy those imaginary lines. We are the choices we make. We are the causes we choose to fight for." -CA67- #Writing #Quote #Booksky Reading @maddow.msnbc.com 's "Drift" 📖

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

The specific provision is section 2 of the Calling Forth Act of 1792: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... For more background on the judicial review provision, and on how President Washington expressly relied upon it in putting down the Whiskey Rebellion, see: www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/427_pa9s...

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

Roasted spaghetti squash with a little spaghetti pasta (for texture) topped with a tomato & sausage sauce for one of those nights when @doranpayne.bsky.social & I don't feel like cooking 🍝 #Foodsky #WhatsForDinner #MealPrep #MakeAheadMeals #WhatsCooking #HealthyChoices #Seasonal Bon Dimanche ☕️

File this under “essential function.” 🤡 #Shutdown abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

After the Trump administration sought to privately email some crucial spreadsheets instead of filing them on the public docket, a judge scolds: "We have no secrets here. The government needs to file everything publicly and needs to do so now." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's worth asking how differently things might look on the ground right now if #SCOTUS hadn't eviscerated Bivens—and made it all-but impossible to bring damages suits against federal officers (like ICE agents) who violate our constitutional rights. This is from my rebuttal in Hernández v. Mesa:

With my morning workouts done, Hutch & I are waiting for the sun to rise to go for our walk 🐾 #SamsungHealthapp #Fitness #HealthyChoices The laundry has been separated, and while a spaghetti squash roasts in the oven, there's #reading and #CaféAuLait #Booksky #Fiction #ThreePines Bon matin ☕️

64% of America think country now too polarized to solve nation’s problems. It is broken. "Polarization" viewed as 2nd most important issue. Exploiting social media echo chambers to spread misinformation (about immigrants, crime, economy, vaccines, etc) BIG part of this...

The snack was fresh crunchy vegetables with extremely spicy hummus 🌶 for dinner jasmine rice with air-fried pork & vegetable dumplings. #WhatsForDinner #Foodsky #HealthyChoices Texture and spice and everything nice #Umami Bonne soirée à tous 🍶

Stephen Miller, meet Anne Frank.

The theater of fascism, where the only thing that's real is the fear that it intends to provoke.

"Full is your face as you sway to and fro Ever so natural, your grace I'm warm in its glow Lasting but a day To all too soon fall A beautiful display One that holds me enthralled." -CA67- #Photography #WritingExercise #Bloomscrolling #Verse #Prose #OneStanza #Gardening Bon Samedi mes amis 🍸

Despicable old shrew... www.them.us/story/trump-...

The $1 Trump coin is real. But with inflation under Trump, it’ll only be worth 65¢ soon enough. This man’s ego is a bottomless pit. www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/b...

"Any time spent reading is time well spent." -CA67- #Writing #Quote Breakfast and a book; feeding mind and body 🍎 #Booksky #NonFiction #History #Politics #War #Reading Maddow's Drift Bon Samedi à tous ☕️

I regret to tell you that the image above is not a parody. We are a nation run by Beavis-like juveniles. (With flamethrowers.) open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

"Sometimes it's not about being better, it's just about the simple joy there is in being." -CA67- #Writing #Quote Workouts completed, Hutch walked, & a few chores also ticked off the #TodoList 📃 So now, back to #Coffee & #reading which is my happy place. #Booksky #eReader #DogsOfBluesky

First they shut down the government. Then they tampered with federal workers’ emails to shift the blame. This is corruption in broad daylight.

"The feel of them in my hands; their weight Hardcover, soft, or paperback There's just something about books They never lack Be them old or new, borrowed, given, or found Each is a possibility A discovery." -CA67- #Booksky #MyLoveOfBooks #ReadMore2025 #Writing #Reading #Education #ReadBannedBooks

“The statue, spray-painted bronze, appeared fully restored today, with only minor damage still apparent and Trump and Epstein’s hands once again clasped together…” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

"The warmth of the sun, the feel of it upon her skin She opened to welcome it Unafraid." -CA67- #Photography #WritingExercise #Bloomscrolling #Verse #OneStanza #Prose #Nature #Flowers Bon Vendredi à tous 🍹

Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"

A gorgeous 2016 cartoon by Harry Bliss for THE NEW YORKER

Not quite sure where I found the motivation, but I did and my workouts are done 🌅 Now, it's waiting for the sun to rise to take Hutch for her walk 🐾 #SamsungHealthapp #Fitness #MentalHealth #StressManagement Until then, there's #reading & my #CaféAuLait. #Booksky Bon matin à tous ☕️

Republicans control every branch in Washington. Now, Trump is openly giddy about using the shutdown to slash and burn federal resources that working Americans count on. His shutdown, and firings, will hurt people in every part of this country.

"You crossed my path Yesterday morning My mind lost in math Halted my step count: the warning The flit of your wings, & the warmth of the sun How the breeze did sing The search for pollen: your fun." -CA67- #Photography #WritingExercise #Bloomscrolling #Poetry #Verse #OneStanza #FlowersOfBluesky

Remember: Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes every year. They pay into government funded healthcare programs, but can't access them except in case of emergency. Emergency Medicaid spending accounted for less than 1% of total Medicaid spending in 2023.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but unprecedented numbers of immigrants are dying under the second Trump administration. Some people care. Read about it in the latest edition of Huddles Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-moral-...