Cardinals, that bright spot in the winter landscape (a window view).

It's 16 degrees F and getting colder here in eastern Kentucky, so we're all snuggled in and hunkered down. (Back ground black cat is Amy, foreground gray cat is Gurrly, and orange and white dude is Jake).

hard to get anything done when fuzzy folks want to sleep on you.

Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent. We are about to go to war for oil, while citing a lie as justification. Again.

memories, these two sweet boys Tippecanoe and Eli were brothers that we lost in 2022, one to cancer and the other to the complications of diabetes.

Is it just me, but isn’t our President a whopping piece of shit?

been reading Demon Copperhead off & on for more than a month (it's pretty intense), last night I had a dream where elite intellectual folks were looking down on me for reading Barbara Kingsolver (??) just before I woke up; in that waking fog it suddenly hit me Demon Copperhead = David Copperfield +

Trump hoodwinked his voters and he’s still trying to do it today… 2024: he dropped a campaign video titled “Make America Affordable Again” on day one. 2025: he hasn’t done squat to bring costs down, prices are climbing, and suddenly “affordability is a Democrat scam” because he’s panicking.

Since I haven’t seen anyone mention this: When the U.S. commits war crimes it puts our troops in danger also, as it gives a green light to other countries that they can do the same to us

Agree or disagree?

WTF: They are disappearing humans, lying to the public, demolishing the people’s house, courting dictators, blowing up boats and protecting pedophiles. Donald Trump is corrupt. Everyone in his freak show of an administration is corrupt and yet these congressional Republicans look the other way.

This is Alice, she's almost 16 and she's tired of the struggle - she's been back and forth to the vet many, many times in the past six months, and I think she's just done with all of it, even eating is getting to be too much and Alice always loved to eat...I think Alice is going to leave us soon.

It has taken this country almost 250 years to be $37 trillion in debt! One man alone responsible for 1/3 of 250 years worth of debt! At the same time making the majority of the country poorer, and him and his family raking in billions!

we have chopped veggies, layered noodles, sauce and cheese and turned on the slow-cooker, so count-down the Thanksgiving dinner veggie lasagna is 4 hours from now. Twenty years now our Thanksgiving tradition.

Oct 2024 NASA launched a probe to study Jupiter's moon Europa, the most likely place for life outside of earth...it will get there in 2030...I have to wonder sometimes, will the US still have the scientific staff at NASA who can guide the probe and retrieve the information in 2030?

Dear Americans, read this, then read it again, and then vote for progressive democrats who will bring our country into the 21st century with all of the other advanced nations of earth.

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A Message to Tiny Sausage Trump. 😜

To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?

$2000 won’t buy you healthcare in the US. $2000 won’t give you “negotiating power” with insurance companies. A one time payment is not a healthcare plan. It’s time for Medicare for all.

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

I cannot emphasize how important this article is for understanding how far down our DOJ has fallen in the past 11 months. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Extremely edifying and interesting (long) thread on Mamdani's transition team and the wide-ranging, much needed change they will help him bring to NYC, which may inspire other cities as well.

on Veterans Day I often think of my two Aunts Mary Greer and Sue Greer Schiller who served as nurses during WWII. Mary was an Army nurse (Captain) and Sue was a Navy Nurse. I only have pictures of Mary in uniform from the 1940's. Both aunts spent some time in northern Africa during the war.

So with 8 Dems help the Senate will pass a compromise CR; does anyone actually believe that Speaker Johnson will recall the House to vote on it? There's indications he has no plans to reconvene until after Dec. 2. So giving up that leverage will result zip, nada.

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Holy shit — look at this food bank line happening while Trump tees off on the back nine!

It's been a pleasant, sunny, but blustery day, with the wind bringing down most of the leaves, but there are still patches of bright color like this tree at the lower edge of our property (caught on two different days).

the fire of November, when the hills look like torches.

WOW. Kudos to the Cuban representative who really told Waltz off!

This article is too important to be blocked by a paywall, so I am gifting it to everyone. A sober assessment of how far we have moved towards authoritarianism on 12 major dimensions. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The sudden appearance of ads for Tiktok is weird. Tiktok is wildly popular, used by millions all over the world for years, but now that it's been purchased by new owners, and I have to wonder if the sudden need to tout Tiktok in ads is because there are plans that would make it less popular.

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

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Every single elected Representative, Congressman, every Federal Judge, needs to stand up and call this out for exactly what it is: murder. Morally this is no different from him standing on 5th avenue and shooting someone randomly. (p.s. thank you Sen. Paul for speaking up).

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I started listening to this and I suddenly found myself sobbing out loud, this is the most awful thing I've ever heard any person in office say publicly in my lifetime, much less any president: "we're just going to kill people." This is unbearable.

my personal response to T's AI video of himself as a king in a fighter jet: why in the world would he think this video portrays him positively, why would anyone like a "leader" that dumps "shit" on the ordinary people of his country; to me it seems much more like a video his critics would make.

In Gate City, VA yesterday at the No Kings rally the participants spent as much time talking to each other as waving their signs at passers by, and that was important, to create new connections, to build community among those fighting against authoritarianism in a region that mostly votes "red."

Gate City (pop. 2,000), Virginia, County seat of Scott County (pop. 21,400), had a larger than expected turnout at it's No Kings with 103 adults humans and 3 dogs (some of whom wore signs). #nokings www.timesnews.net/news/a-repub...

No Kings Rally

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been telling us that for more than a decade

We march because we love America. Don't let them say otherwise.

Made my sign for tomorrow (Oct 18) specifically as a response to GOPs scurrilous lies.

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we feed several feral kitties from our back porch, this morning they showed their gratitude by leaving us a dead chipmunk (ground squirrel) as a gift. The gift may have been well intended reciprocity, but we declined to eat it. ;)