To wit: what good is a floor speech when 13 of @merkley.senate.gov's colleagues vote to confirm a Trump nominee judge?!! This person wouldn't directly answer who won the 2020 election and was weak on Jan 6! Why even vote them out of committee? newrepublic.com/post/202072/...

TY! Grateful for a senator who is willing to take a stand. But this isn't enough. We need actions to disrupt and obstruct this admin/GOP, and protect us. Work to stop parts of the big ugly budget bill is one example. Showing up at ICE facilities is another. Let words turn to action!!

45 yrs of US history, in 25 words:

Well, looks like we will find out how the Oregon National Guard general meant his remarks. There is a 2nd TRO on sending any national guard but I don't doubt it will also be appealed and likely overturned.

The youth are educating the elders on how to do it.

We have moved onto other birthday shenanigans. After a hh punch it's time for a banging rum flight at Rum Club PDX.

Crowd in Beaverton OR #NoKings protest so much larger than las time - easily 2-3xs. Couldn't ask for a better birthday party! @wyden.senate.gov I imagine this parade must make Speaker Johnson quake in his boots!

Listen to Coach.

Michigan J. Frog >>> Pepe the Frog.

Some decided to throw a giant nationwide party in my birthday 😉. Love the theme. You bet I'll be there.

I'm wondering if there's just one loser setting up all these gov accounts. They actually set up a duplicate account for one agency to post partisan crap. There was already a previous account and it posted useful information (even this year). And it's still there. I'm guessing bozo doesn't know.

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

💯%, Coach. 👇

Good advice! What a plus in Oregon (at least in Washington County) you can register for ballot updates. You are emailed when your ballot is mailed to you, when it's collected and when it's processed.

This is a saucy skeet.

I have to believe they are are totally planning to rig 2026 elections apnews.com/article/domi...

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"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Under the wire, wishing my amazing honey @finderdoug.bsky.social a happy anniversary! He makes my life better just by being who he is. ♥️♥️♥️ As it happened our contractor finally finished our fence replacement today. Is fence traditional for the 13th anniversary? 🤣🤣

Apropos of nothing going on in the world today: After narrowing wine price / style a bit, one question I like to ask sommeliers: What would I regret not having before I leave? This has yet to fail. Every somm has overlooked gems on their list they love to share and I get to try new things.

If you pay $10B to get rid of farm workers and then pay $10B to save farmers, you might be bad at business.

If you see this, share a pic on your device with no explanation

If you're surprised there are that many volunteers, a reminder that OR has a long, strong background of far right extremists and they basically run the GOP here. @sethcotlar.bsky.social is a good source on this. The only reason OR is purple / somewhat blue is they are outnumbered.

The only war here is waged by our tomatoes, attempting to overwhelm us by sheer numbers. We have stayed vigilant against the horde by roasting, BLTs, tomato sandwiches, sauce, varying salads, used in cooking, & gifting away! #WarRavagedPortland 🌱 (perhaps 13 tomato plants was a few too many?)

My zucchini is fully into decorative gourd season 🌱 #fatbottomedsquashyoumaketherockinworldgoround

It all comes back to money. Whether it's shares or profits or taxes or tariffs. As long as businesses make more (or lose less) money by capitulating, most businesses will keep doing that. I keep saying, and will continue repeating, no one ever saved democracy by putting profit first.

More like this.

Exactly this. For years now I've been telling people that using polite language doesn't mean you aren't being rude, cruel, hateful, disrespectful, etc so don't be surprised if you get called out for that.

Have been offline for most of the week - tomatopocalypse and visitors and more. Honestly, can't say catching up tonight that I'm sorry about it. The rate at which our country is going to hell in a hand basket seems to be accelerating.

Honestly the chocolate Hobnob S'more is perfection.

This is what we need. More of this. (thread notes a similar NEast arrangement) h/ @tuesdaymira.bsky.social

This yellow pear tomato thinks it's a chicken. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. 🤣🤣🤣 🌱

Hey @jerseyoutwest.bsky.social, remember when you gave away fig starts and I took one? It's about 2' tall and has hoop dreams. 😁 🌱

You might be into gardening when you get excited about the quality of your ChipDrop! 🌱 #welladjustedblades #lotsofleaves

Check out the size of this garlic clove (from the farmers market). Finally something appropriate for when a recipe calls for 1 clove 🤣🤣🤣🤣

#TomatoSeason in full swing here! 🌱 Would love to hear folks favorite uses! We've been doing greek salads, tomato sandwiches, roasted cherry tomatoes, "moonblush" (overnight mostly dried) tomatoes, tabbouleh, cherry tom's & ciliegine mozz salad, and use in cooking too.

Plenty of businesses were fine with the Reich in Germany. No one ever defended democracy by putting profit first.

God Bless Nishta Mehra for introducing me to the joy of Peach Tomato Basil salad. It marries the best of summer together in such a lovely way. Garden tomatoes & basil (& chive cause I like it), Hood River white peaches, s & wp, evoo, and bit of white balsamic to set off the sweetness.

And it's buried, but of course this guy is a GOPedo. Because every GOP accusation is a confession.

Inordinately proud of @finderdoug.bsky.social publishing his first novel!!!

Are we sure it will? Because it's been a long time since Kent State with a few incidents in between and endless officer involved shootings and we haven't reached that point yet

It's a terrible combination of sad, frustrating and infuriating when someone you care about is truly down the conspiracy/qanon hole. You know they will not listen to any rational information, logic or data. They are basically lost to you.

Every state with a liberal majority should gerrymander the F out of their maps to counter this. They chose war. Who cares if they file lawsuits? For the record, the current TX maps which were already ridiculously gerrymandered are still under litigation.

It's a Sea of Tomato Stakes. 🌱 (we use trimmed branches for a lot of it, we save the paid stuff for key uses like trellising, otherwise it'd be a fortune in bamboo and cages).

Not Enough Stakes For My Tomatoes: A Gardeners Tale. 🌱

I owe my plants an apology. I didn't water the garden because the forecast was a mild atmospheric river and nearly 1/2" of rain. We had a sprinkle in the wee hours this AM. Since then the rain has been moving around a little circle jist over us on radar. Now forecasting <1/10th" of rain.

Joys of the PNW: we are still getting rhubarb and strawberries, so I can still do a strawberry rhubarb crostata (with vanilla paste, lavender, rose water and a little Burlap & Barrel wild mesquite, which is milder than cinnamon).

It's blackberry foraging season. Foraging game still strong! These are from two roadside thickets within a block of our house. Because it's roadside fruit these will be either syrup or jam.

The squirrels get all the hazelnuts. And this year they've gone after the sunflowers. We normally consider it detente because they have left my veggies alone. But this? This is a declaration of war. 🌱