Happy National Puppy Day. Here's Oscar (fka 'Rudolph') along with 9 of his 11 littermates. Oscar is the one with his posterior to the camera, the largest of the lot, the one who clearly can't be bothered with the rules of the game. He's now 120 lbs.

PSA!

He absolutely has! Setting the bar for the rest of the Democratic Party.

Berlin has entered the chat. #HandsOff

Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff

#HandsOff Talkeetna, Alaska photo credit Wendy Battino

Massive #HandsOff rallies across the country 🔥🔥🔥

The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff

"[W]hat I find most repulsive in America is not the extreme freedom that prevails there but the shortage of any guarantee against tyranny." Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835

All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”

travel warnings dropping like dominoes

Not inviting any overseas family or friends to come visit in the foreseeable future.

If government fails you, there is always the opportunity to act. Bike lane painting skills 💯 by Xavier Treviño

5pm ET, hearing on Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act and the defiance of court order. The public can listen by telephone. Let the number of callers show we are paying attention.

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I dropped an email to the Iditarod to voice my dismay over the withdrawal/involuntary scratching of 3 back-of-the-pack mushers. #uglydogs

#uglydogs Just in case anyone might want to, I dunno, give some feedback on the rookie withdrawals…

Die CDU hat nach ihrem rechtspopulistisch zugespitzten Wahlkampf über eine Million Wähler an die AfD verloren 👉 https://taz.de/!6071327/

Deutschland hat gewählt, und die AfD gilt als die große Siegerin. Wie lässt sich ihr Ergebnis einordnen, und welche geografischen Merkmale prägen ihre Unterstützung? @hudde.bsky.social und ich haben das AfD-Zweitstimmenergebnis in den 299 Bundestagswahlkreisen ausgewertet. Ein Thread. 🧵👇

🇺🇸🤔 US defense stocks are falling. Over the month: • Lockheed Martin: -16.41% • Northrop Grumman: -13% • General Dynamics: -10.93% • Raytheon Technologies: -2.66% European defense stocks are rising: 🇩🇪 Rheinmetall: +36.4% 🇫🇷 Thales: +22.66% 🇬🇧 BAE Systems: +10.17% 🇪🇺 Airbus: +5.85%

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

I just subscribed to 5 Calls Newsletter! Great app with scripts for calls to legislators on a broad range of urgent issues. buttondown.com/5calls

Stanislav Aseyev, who survived nearly three years in the torture prison Izolatysiia in Donetsk, traveled last week to Sednaya, Asad's torture prison in Syria. It's enormously important that this story be told, and enormously meaningful that it's @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social who is telling it.