Bill Cassidy owes us all an apology and I want to see him put forward legislation to counteract the harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to our public health.

I can't believe, in the year of our Lord 2025, that we need to remind people that the United States Postal Service is not a business. It is a public service. It is not meant to make a profit. It is meant to serve everyone regardless of profitability, location, etc.

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Started a new knitting swatch last night. I've never used linen yarn before. It feels weird to work with. Does anyone have tips? It's not even all linen. #knitting

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This right here. They could just stop, go home, and be back in Moscow in time to have their Christmas borscht. But they never entered into these negotiations with good faith. What they want is capitulation.

#civicslearning Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea). Wooboy. If we need an example of how "it's complicated" can be a person's entire life story, this is the guy. He was close with some pretty posh British lords, etc (He even met King George III). He sided with the British during the Revolution.

#civicslearning Why don't we learn more about Benjamin Rush? This is a guy who pioneered public education, mental health practices, and medical education in this country. My favorite thing about him is how tirelessly he worked to create a people capable of sustaining democracy.

#civicslearning My first reading was a brief history of Phillis Wheatley, who was the first African American woman poet. She was enslaved,then emancipated, and inspired abolitionists of her time, as well as poets into the modern day. www.civicsforlife.org/phillis-wheatley-american-poet/

This is your daily reminder that ICE MELTS WITH THE GENEROUS APPLICATION OF SALT. Stay salty, America.

It's been a long time since high school civics class. For a lot of us. I'm going to try and find free civics and government education for myself, and I'll try to document the process here. First up: Civics 101 micro-lessons from www.CivicsForLife.org

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It's 20 minutes until midnight, and Hamlet has decided that RIGHT NOW is the time to become World Parkour Champion (feline division). Sigh.

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Listening to a long historical narrative about the Great Stink of 1858, where the Thames became something like a barely moving cesspit that was so bad Parliament fucked off to Oxford the stench died down. I feel like there are parallels to be drawn, here.

Cat crimes already, this week. Trespassing, 1 count. I need my socks, dang it.

So now Denmark has set up a "Night Watch" to ensure that our idiot President doesn't try to seize Greenland in the middle of the night. May he choke on a Big Mac and drown in a Diet Coke.

Beans.

What do you think you're doing, hooman?

So let's get this right. Our president appears to have planned to jailbreak Jair Bolsonaro via a convoluted plan involving a staged protest, a damaged ankle monitor, and the U.S. Embassy in Brazil. Do we just play Yackety Sax when he enters a room, now?

I got my mom's cowl off the blocking board and tested it out. It's long enough to pull up as a hood, or slouch it as a cowl.. you can even double it up as a turtleneck. 100% superfine baby alpaca DK weight yarn on US6 needles. Linen stitch only. I don't do selfies much. Don't @ me.

Just got my mom's cowl pinned up and steam blocked. Now, we wait to see what it will be like tomorrow. #knitting #fiberarts

At this point I am willing to call Steve Witkoff an unregistered foreign agent. He's certainly not working in the interest of the United States or out allies.

So Kristi Noem now knows what the underside of a bus looks like. DOJ now says she was the one to have the final say on deportation flights. And there are rumblings re: a potential Kash Patel firing and "big shakeups" in the administration. Musical Cabinet Members, or is it just a revolving door?

@barackobama.bsky.social is Trump's white whale. He's always wanted to prosecute the guy who got the Peace Prize, who still has a higher approval rating than he does.

If this keeps up, I might start to believe @nytimes.com could be a legit source of news again. They have a LONG way to go, though.

I cubed roughly half a loaf of brioche today so I can make bread pudding in the wee hours Thursday morning. Now the big question. Ceramic baking dish or cast iron pan? Either way, we're gonna need Paula Dean levels of butter, & more rum that I should touch at 6 in the morning.

Looking for an absolute beginner guide or book for baking bread. Can't knead by hand due to a wrist issue, so no knead or machine knead is best. I tried one last week, and ended up making breadcrumbs out of it because it was too dense.

So it turns out I have a respiratory infection (boo! hiss!). But I have meds and a nice place to nap, so I guess that's a partial win.

I'm mostly over the respiratory ick from last week, though I do still have an intermittent cough. I need to get into the office this week, but will not go until I know I won't get anyone sick.

Oh, just wait till he INVADES A FOREIGN COUNTRY TO STEAL THEIR RESOURCES. Bring on the numbers plunge.

What amuses me about the #Ukraine peace negotiations is that yes, the US/UA reps will produce a plan that will probably still make concessions to RFed, but Putin will slap it down because it isn't the one he wanted. Vlad wants what he wants, regardless of anyone/anything else.

Yeah, I want that research. Algorithms are the devil.

The feline crime wave continues. We start off this week strong with a new count of trespassing.

There goes the neighborhood.

They're welcome to go back to using Roman numerals if that's what they want.

Is there a song that is technically okay but you cannot listen to it because it dredges up bad associated memories? For me, it's the entire Placebo album "Without You I'm Nothing" because my college boyfriend played it on loop one night so he could sleep. My memories of him are...less than great.

I mean. I'm from Louisiana. We need a new flag, too. It's not only difficult to see, it's a damned lie. The mother pelican feeding her chicks her own BLOOD to keep them alive. And I think we gave up on Union, Justice, and Confidence a while ago.

This week's Cat Crime Report for our household: Disturbing the Peace: 4 counts Loitering: 14 counts Petty Theft: 2 counts Harassment: 6 counts Assault: 1 count Aggravated Assault: 3 counts Murder 2: 1 count (lizard)

Alt text calls this "side eyes". I think this is "oh shit what now" eyes.

I went to the grocery store just to get out of the house. Realized I haven't set foot outside in 4 days. Work from home, they said. It's more flexible, they said. Riiight.

New bill would force websites to choose: ban VPNs or remove content boingboing.net/2025/11/21/n...

It's not just an option for military personnel to decline following illegal orders. It's their duty. It's a check on the possibility of rogue leadership.

I think more people should see this film. It's short and from the 1940s, but still true. youtube.com/shorts/9qivX...

I don't know what this bug I caught is, but it's kicking my ass. I hope you guys stay healthy safe. I'll be back later.

What was it that Mussolini said? For my friends, everything. For everyone else, the law.

My 🔥 take for today: Being a billionaire is a moral failing. You have more money than you could ever spend. You could do so much good with it, and you don't. When you run out of things to buy, you start buying people and power. When what you really need is a mirror.

Does anyone in our Bluesky #fiberarts community know any good tutorials for felting over mending on fine knit sweaters? I know it's POSSIBLE, I'm just not too confident in the Google machine these days, and while I think I did a pretty decent job, I want extra strength for my repairs.