Lindsey Halligan, the loyalist Trump handpicked to prosecute his political enemies, formally stepped down as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia following mounting pressure from federal judges criticizing her continued, illegitimate claim to the position.

I'm listening to Space Music and I love it (very calming)

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I wonder if @mikelepard.bsky.social is having such weather...

I miss the daily dose of lovely cat pics and Merrymack Sanctuary updates....Hard to imagine what kind of twisted, unhappy fk would hassle this person...

Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law

The program was going well until @marshallglasses.bsky.social pulled out a leafblower in the studio for his noise lawsuit story.

Not now exploding trees, we’re busy

This is SADISTIC

If Joe Biden had confused Iceland and Greenland, the press would go ape shit!

After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol. John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign. Pay-to-play imperialism.

“We are here at Davos to make one thing crystal clear: With President Trump, capitalism has a new sheriff in town.” --Howard Lutnick The "new sheriff's" horse is about to die of black lung disease.

Arrogance as economic strategy

I think of this Oh, so very often. Everyone dumps on Trump this and Trump that. Remember, he's got the entire GOP protecting, supporting and carrying water for him.

You've got this, Mr. Chairman

A day will come when Donald Trump no longer dominates our politics. Even though this is obvious, it’s hard to keep in mind. The future will belong to those who can think clearly about what happens next.

I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.

“…There is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.”

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

One of the most popular and crowd-pleasing arias in classical opera, "Perché non c'è cibo nella mia ciotola, donna?" tells an emotional tale of a desperately malnourished waif and translates into English as "Why Is There No Food In My Bowl, Woman?"

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He Protec but He Also Attac

Brooke Gladstone, so good!

I'm gone for two days and they change this fukker around?

“The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise - with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” - Abraham Lincoln, 1862

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"Welcome to Home Depot. Go and find it your fucking self"

Goodnight, sweet dreams, one more round (with luck) tomorrow.

It’s important to find your moments of joy in humanity, especially in dark and cold times

hovering #hummingbirds count as #BirdsInFlight, right? #BirdofTheDay #birds #avian #birdphotography

Well, would you look at this? I spotted a P-8 Poseidon — which is a modified 737 airframe — with no reg # coming out of dark mode in flight data I posted the day of the first boat strike.

Very therapeutic, actually.

I mean, to be fair, the sort of subnormal droogs who infest ICE now do very much experience a woman laughing at them as being like murder, and murder triggers a right to self defense. It was probably going to be either Renee Good or some girl at a bar with these thug scum.

Like I’ve been saying: I think one of the big political stories of the year is going to be non-conservative Christians getting loud.

"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless—like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup; you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle; you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." Bruce Lee #Nature #ForestFriday #VT365

Timeline Super Cleanse!

Take THAT you women's libber bitches!

Truth telling

whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him

All of this is because the United States had a knee jerk (heavy on the jerk) reaction to having a two term black President and not enough people got heir asses out of their recliners to go vote. Good job.

A Willet playing with its food today near East Beach in #SantaBarbara. #Birds #Nature #Photography

I-94 and Wilson, Chicago, IL

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

In today’s “this is an actual headline not a joke” i present:

This is Jade, the sweetest, most wonderful lady at our local shelter here in Burlington, VT. She is such a love but she's been waiting for a home for months because she's older and diabetic (well controlled with medication). She deserves a loving home of her own. 😢 www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...