A new blog post is up today at chickadeegardens.com all about the June garden, a very floriferous time of the year. #chickadeegardens #PNWgardening #summerdrygarden #droughttolerantlandscape 🌱

We touched on the growing signs of narcissistic collapse, how Donald's cruelty has infected the country, the national trauma & how long it will take to repair the damage. As for now? “We’re so traumatized that most of us don’t even recognize it,” Mary told me. open.substack.com/pub/america/...

Senate Republicans just started a marathon voting session known as vote-a-rama in the Senate. Not to improve your life. Not to lower your costs. But to funnel $70 billion more to ICE and the abuses I saw at Delaney Hall. Not another dime.

Congressional statute: "There is a Director of National Intelligence who shall be appointed by the President ... Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise." 50 U.S. Code § 3023

What’s sad is that so many of us sounded the alarm on this and the same people who dismissed us then are the ones who are silent now.

Sums things up!

If only every time someone voluntarily used ChatGPT or AI, they had trouble breathing. Imagine what this is doing to ecosystems? 🌱 Delete AI from your phone and browser with Firefox.

Garden column for June 1st. 🌱 #gardening

For the gardening feeds 🌱

WA gardeners, this could be a pretty sweet deal. 🌱

🛑 Trump is trying to dismantle the US Forest Service and sell off our public lands. Our forests, our water, our wildlife, and thousands of jobs are on the line. Congress can stop this illegal plan right now. Tell them: Protect our forests.🌳

WOW: ‘Exodus’: Stunning NY Times Deep Dive Reveals More Than 10,000 Lawyers Have Left Trump Administration. Lawyers don't want to support Trump's agenda and don't want to get disbarred doing what Trump demands. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/u...

🌱 Seed starting in soil rolls has become my favorite method of planting seeds. The seedlings end up strong and healthy because they have extra space to grow long roots. These four 6" pots contain an entire packet of Pinwheel Marigolds. There are approx. 27 plants in each pot. #garden #Zone8b

🍃🌱🌲🥀 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #PNWgardening #plantsky #nativeplants Collomia grandiflora (Large-flowered Collomia) in my native landscape. And an out-of-focus Collomia grandiflora with Dichelostemma congesta, Erigeron glaucus, and non-native Papaver rhoeas in the background.

Weeding and rolling around in the colors of the garden this morning! Chilly too! 🌱 #PNWGardening

Yellow-Fronted Bumblebee. One of the many #bombus species in the #PNW 🌱 #bees #nature

🪴🌱 Yippee, finally ID’d a plant I’ve seen growing wild, in the sometimes soggy zone near a pond in the woods (those are all scientific terms 😁). Pacific Ninebark. Oregon Flora is a project of Oregon State University, takes a while but found it there. oregonflora.org/taxa/garden....

After a torrential rain storm last night, I was happy to see lots of wildflowers still standing tall on my morning walk. 🌱

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. This is what experts say you need to know:

Rep. Garcia on Pam Bondi: "She continues to push all of the investigation and the blame on Acting AG Todd Blanche. She said, 'Acting AG Blanche was managing the entire investigation.'"

Correct. Trump raped her! Gavin isn’t afraid to say it plainly!

Why is Trump so obsessed with taking over our museums, arts, cultural institutions — and slapping his name and face on everything? It’s all part of his attack on the American mind. It's straight from the fascist playbook. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEH7sF6pA4s

🌱Stop using Deet🚫. Start drinking gin and tonics (quinine is a real repellent). What essential oils repel them most? clove and cinnamon - add to some lotion (both also repels tics). Put up a BatBNB box! Plant phlox, yarrow, penstemon and more to attract 🦇to gobble millions of mosquitos!

🍃🌱🪴🥀 #gardeningfeed #gardensky Has anyone else noticed the deluge of 10- to 20-second videos posted to a gardening feed just this morning? They're all about "morning in the garden" (or other romanticism); they're posted by new profiles, each with no actual profile and few Followers and Following.

“I’ve spent my entire career singing songs abt real ppl w/real issues.I've been blessed w/the opportunity to be a voice for those who have felt like they didn't have one.It greatly upsets me that any fan who has been moved by my music may now feel like I’m abandoning the meaning behind those songs.”

Yesterday in a cabinet meeting, Trump casually threatened to "blow up" Oman, one of America's oldest allies in the region. Here's how that's reported in today's NYT (it's not). It's front page news around the world, however. NYT editors think you don't need to know this.

We need a law that requires the president to divest from all stocks that could generate a conflict of interest. Trump’s recent disclosures show why. bit.ly/4dXnm4z

This is just so mindblowingly corrupt. And there's something new like this almost every day. The corruption is beyond staggering. It's bottomless.

A list of Ken Paxton scandals over the past 20 years. thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/17/k...

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

Go full jugular all the time. Really glad to see some newer candidates get it.

US supreme court ruling could eliminate two majority-Black districts and entrench Republican control from Congress to county school boards

ICE is expanding at an unprecedented pace. We've partnered with @defiance.org and @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social to map prospective detention facilities nationwide. Sign up at gtfoice.org for alerts, events, and actions you can take.

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Talarico is willing to theologically go toe-to-toe with white Christian Nationalism. And, importantly, he treats it as fundamental to this moment that Trump and Trumpism are wrecking our common life at a very profound moral and spiritual level. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2109...

It’s all right there for the taking. Republicans are corrupt pedophiles across the board. They’re child rapists looking out for other child rapists. Rub their noses in the shit. They are sick fucks and they deserve to rot.

Do it, cowards

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’ @JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist.

Two days ago a sitting US Senator was pepper sprayed for protesting ICE and it didn’t even become national news.

One thing that won't get enough attention about John Cornyn's loss to Ken Paxton is that, no matter what happens in November, Texas Republicans just willingly gave up seniority in the Senate, one of the most prized currencies in federal politics. Let me explain what I mean... (thread)

Garden column for May 25th. 🌱 #gardening

🌿🌱 This book is helpful for those with a new home, or who want to welcome native bees, birds and other critters. Some plants suggested are PNW fire hazards (arborvitae, tall grasses) and others may stir up allergies (Goldenrod). Book is focused on East coast especially. #gardening

Last Memorial Day, the San Diego Union-Tribune ran a piece on what this day really means. One number stopped me then, and it stops me now. According to a USAA survey, only 46 percent of American adults know this day is meant to honor U.S. military personnel who died in service to our country.

I’m sorry to my Canadian follower who comments often, I can’t remember your handle. But I hope you see this! Hilarious but true! 😂🥺

Trump is utterly incapable of acting like a decent human being. Re: his awful Memorial Day post. Not only is he unfit for the presidency, he’s unfit for the human race.

Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund is a tool that could divert public money to his supporters—even January 6ers, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/wezHmYLW

Today Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology for the role the Vatican played in legitimizing slavery and for it failing to condemn it for centuries, calling it a wound in Christian memory. He also called for AI to be disarmed. This Pope isn’t holding back and I’m here for it.

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

"As this war stumbles to a close, it is clear that the president, too, is lost: He didn’t know what he was doing when he began it, and now he doesn’t know how to get out of it." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...