Craig and Susan are being as patient as can be expected – mostly because they can't reach the ribbons.

What a lovely piece. “…they try to make some good in a world they can’t trust.”

Just in time for the end of the semester, Clyde and Fritzi have opened a door-to-door homework-eating service.

"Nadine and the Great Guard Dog Caper," one of more than 50 fleeting escapades in The Undiscovered Adventures of Nadine, available now here! zinnart.com/products/the...

My latest for @rollingstone.com, about the non-starter peace plan in which the U.S. once again punts, instead of working toward a meaningful solution to the bloody war in Ukraine. uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-ukrain...

I couldn't think what book-sized box was arriving from Eau Claire, Wisconsin today. I only ordered this on Nov 9! So happy to have it. @georgepenney.bsky.social

Important article from @macwbishop.bsky.social

FYI, #UglyDogs & other animal lovers: I can now add my enthusiastic endorsement of @sandraolson.bsky.social ’s skill in painting a pet portrait from a photograph. (No image until after🎄) She painted the Baked Potato and Big Eyes for @pmskinner.bsky.social (disclaimer: no, the dogs are not ugly)

My copies arrived! One for the kids next door, one for me. #UglyDogs (no, the dogs aren't ugly) @blairbraverman.bsky.social @oliviawhen.com

It's the release date of The Day Leap Soared!! To celebrate here are all the dogs doing some interpretations of "reading."

“I’ll keep it real simple. This administration is taking the U.S. down a road to authoritarianism,” Ethan Wilson, a 42-year-old veteran of the war in Iraq, told @macwbishop.bsky.social at Saturday’s No Kings rally.

Probably a mistake to have narcissistic billionaire children with petty-god complexes run the society and economy of a people taught from birth that empathy is evil and selfishness is patriotism.

OMG @shanamccracken.bsky.social look at this!!

Sluggo does think of himself as a prize, but I’m giving you fair warning that he licked all those gumballs.

What is happening with ICE across our country is anti-policing. It is illegal. It is immoral. It is ineffective. And it is also stupid. It’s bad enough when police act like the hall monitors for a city. It’s worse when they act like the school bullies. And ICE ain’t police. it is utterly wrong.

"A.I." doth keepe showinge up yn productes lyke that annoyinge relative doth keepe showinge up at familye gatheringes

Cameron would like you to look after his best friend for the weekend.

Hey everyone, this is the destruction of the DOJ and the civil service in one statement.

And ‘major terrorist organization’ isn’t actually a thing. He’s just putting the word major in front of stuff as hyperbole cuz hyperbole is better than legal reasoning…

Just so everyone is clear, this right here is what an actual violation of the First Amendment looks like. When the head of the FCC says a company needs to do something about someone who displeased the administration or lose its license, that’s no joke unconstitutional

Our Lady of Persistent Hibiscus doesn’t rhyme legality with lethality to try to appear fake tough. She’s actually tough. And she’s a flower. What’s our excuse?

If you believe that Republican politicians care if you live or die, you don't understand mass psychosis – and you don't understand American politics.

A trans person has never threatened me. But the leather-faced worm-brained science-denying conspiracy nut in charge of America's healthcare is openly threatening to kill and maim tens of thousands of us.

WHILE TEXAS GETS GERRY'D DEMOCRACY GETS BURIED ~ BURMA-GRAM

@shanamccracken.bsky.social here is the UglyDogs story FYI

"Survival stories are rarely about women, and even less often do they recognize traditionally female tasks as the actual work of survival — not decorations of life, but the fight for life at its most essential." Wow from @blairbraverman.bsky.social Home production as SURVIVAL. Gift link.

Remember that everything happens for a reason. Unfortunately, the reasons are very often stupid and bad and wrong and must be thwarted. Night night.

Ursula prides herself on representing the bear minimum.

This will help you find a public radio or television station that stands to lose 50 percent or more of its revenue:

The SCOTUS shadow docket decision to let the Administration gut DOE, with its stated purpose of closing it, while the lower courts ponder the issue is like a court letting the state go ahead with a death penalty sentence while the appeals work their way through the courts.

The look when the menu said formal dress & coq au vin, and it’s t-shirts & chicken fingers.

Second look at strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as basis for government?

"Sluggo Stays Hydrated" (before and after) - chalk art demonstration at the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, 2025

Iran coordinated the ‘retaliation’ with Qatari officials, to let Iran save face while ensuring no casualties. It’s back channel diplomacy with missiles but still better than no diplomacy at all. Now the US needs to pause and be an adult. And it’s the adult part that worries me…

As the US urgently debates an attack on Iran, concerns about Iran’s nuclear program are being elided into a catch-all about a “threat to the Western World.” My latest for @rollingstone.com, about the reality behind the drumbeat marching America to war. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Yesterday I caught up with Ken Casey, the lead singer of the iconic punk band Dropkick Murphys at a rally of veterans and labor unions on the National Mall, to talk punk rock and politics. My latest for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

“Life and death on Ukraine’s battlefields is dominated by drones.”

Congress must immediately create and pass a bipartisan, stand-alone, veto-proof bill appropriating emergency funding for a bird flu vaccine. To do otherwise will, with high likelihood (it's a 'when', not an 'if'), lead to the death to millions.

Also in honor of Jeremy's birthday: proof of cookies @floregonian.com (recipe from @cathypaddock.bsky.social)

In lieu of scavenger hunt items #3 and #4, here's a sign "planted" in my neighborhood that always makes me smile (because it makes me think of @pmskinner.bsky.social) @floregonian.com #JeremyScavengerHunt2025

Ugly country. Ugly governance. Ugly society. Ugly choices. We don’t have to be this way. All of this is a choice. Every time you are not kind, in all things, your choice is ugly. My choice, in all things.

If you are frustrated with the Trump policy of coddling Russian war criminals, you can give a hand yourself. savelife.in.ua/en/

There are things every one of us can do in our daily lives to help ensure free and fair elections — and, in doing so, limit Trump’s power. Some actions are small — so small that you might dismiss them as unimportant. Don’t. Every important journey begins with a single step.

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

The big picture continues to look grim, but Ukraine is staving off disaster with innovation and courage of arms. Is Russia positioned to make substantial progress on the battlefield this summer? My latest for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A clip of Refried’s song 🥹

For anyone here on Bluesky still confused about who these uglydogs people are and why they're so obnoxiously supportive and positive, THIS is the human we first began to coalesce around. The is Bler. Bler is our Refried in some ways.

For those who are celebrating National Security Advisor Mike Waltz’s departure, you’re forgetting the first rule of personnel management in a Trump White House: The replacement is always, somehow, worse.

The “impromptu” meeting between Zelensky and Trump was clearly engineered, a bit of carefully orchestrated high-stakes unofficial diplomacy that would make a Jesuit like Pope Francis proud. My latest for @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...