#Cats sense when snuggles are needed and just bring it. The best nursemaids. #Catsofbluesky #Catlove

For my friends in academia:

A. True. American. Hero. 😎✨

From Monday's #pleinair painting at @jmmontpelier.bsky.social : the gardens of Annie duPont #watercolor #beginnerpainter

If Democratic congressional leadership don’t lead an en masse halt to all legislative business after today, I don’t know why they’re worth supporting. What moment could more demand a response of intractable and tedious opposition? Shut it all down, and refuse to budge.

"The Dandelion's pallid tube/ Astonishes the Grass, And Winter instantly becomes / An infinite Alas --" #NationalPoetryMonth @emilydickinson.bsky.social

#HandsOff rally in Culpeper, Virginia, with approximately 500 people split between five locations downtown. And my favorite sign:

Stocked up on household goods & nonperishable food stuffs. Next: assemble my apocalypse team. #tariffapocalypse #economy #thisshitsucks

Madeleines with orange zest & Grand Marnier #baking #ragebaking

Dickinson anticipated authoritarianism:

Judge Alsup is not amused by reports that people he ordered reinstated were put on admin leave. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Phone calls, postcards, protests, and there's this: RAGE BAKING. Published in 2020, recipes are quite timely: "Im-Peach-Ment Upside-Down Cake" #baking #resistance

Lemon/blueberry sponge, set (almost) lemon curd, blackberry bavarois, and blackberry gelee. Nephew is up for the challenge! #ragebaking #entremet #baking

Cue Etta James: "At Last . . ."

In fairness, he owns the government, also, so the performance of all his enterprises is not shocking.

Bye bye Bezos. #cancelAmazon

Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."

Time is closing in on the first federal election of 2025 Josh Weil is the Democratic Nominee for U.S. Congress in the special election for Florida's 6th District. 🦋REPOSTS APPRECIATED🦋 Please support his campaign @joshweil.bsky.social secure.actblue.com/donate/weil-... #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy

Jake knows how I feel #Caturday

Royal icing takes more practice than I'm willing to give. #FebruaryBakes #baking #cookies

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

Sylvia says, Don't follow us if you ban books.

Cosmos, one of the last blooms left #garden

Good info to get the most from this platform

First post on Bluesky, and first time baking one of these tarts #baking