#orchids #caturday #gardening Even Bobby is enjoying these bigbox salvaged orchids from last year. In a Florida winter when not even heaters could save some fancy orchids, celebrate the survivors. (or think about taking a big bite out of them.)

It's going to be the best year ever for the North-Central Florida peach-eating squirrels. They can have the fruit, but ah, the blossoms, they're mine. #gardening

#orchids, doing their thing (indoors so I may enjoy the beauty) despite Florida's Jekyll and Hyde winter. I wish my cats didn't love oncedium leaves as much as I love this plant's pretty color.

The most worthless three words in the US vernacular are now any variation of, US officials say...

I sincerely hope her family can reap enough in a defamation settlement from these shameless ghouls that her kids are able to pay full freight at the universities of their choice.

There's an editing error here. Should read "Trump has made bigotry a centerpiece of his administration." instead of: Trump has made eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts a centerpiece of his administration

Because in the last election, the people who said they care about such beautiful things forgot they cared and didn't bother to vote. Now this beautiful place, and the the magic it held, are lost. Effing vote next time. #KennedyCenter www.threads.com/@amay.a100/p...

Christmas T.Cat, about 100, lickus interruptus. #caturday.

How horrible are you if you are excluded from the memorial for one of history's truly horrible people?

Regardless of the inside baseball negotiations, and equivocating, Schumer got owned by his OWN WHIP. How can you lead the party when you can't keep your second in command in line? The time for change was last week.

It's time for Schumer to step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people. sign.moveon.org/petitions/sc...

It all sounds good to him until he figures out that if the money sucking insurance companies can't suck money from us, they won't have any big, beautiful money to give him. (When they're done choking on their martinis, II'm sure the insurance lobbyists will remind him of this.)

Victory comes in a big tent that has room for democratic-socialists, where that's the right model, progressives, centrists and even blue dogs, if that's what wins. It's not one or the other, it's all of the above.

Get on this #DNC

#Trump #Congress Not only did founders not envision a lowlife could rise so high, it never envisioned the 500 or so lowlife enablers in Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/o...

Until Democrats effectively break through the right wing media bubble, this is life.

You didn't want to see it, #rogan. It was there all along, the dehumanizing racism, lies, open bigotry. Millions of us saw and heard; you chose not to. Now you need to work to make it right with the same energy you used to support these bastards

Indeed. The scariest part? Hunting in the vacuum for inspiring leadership to lead us in to battle, we have landed on an inflatable frog. All that's left is to hop to it #resist #demleadership #DNC

There is a profound editing error near the end of this as the court is not moving toward sweeping presidential powers, they are moving toward sweeping powers for THIS president. And that, looking back at the Biden era rulings, is a disgrace. #supremecourt www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

Church lady analysis: Plastic appetizer cups from the Dollar Tree for individual servings, 6 to a pack, went from $1 to $1.25 under Biden. Today, for yogurt parfaits, $2 a pack @ DT. Church lady math says Drump's economy is at least three times worse than Biden's. Paper cups it is. #trumpeconomy

#Chicago Watching the division playoff game with the Brewers. Gotta give it to Chicagoans, putting on a sold-out ballgame amid the horrors of war. Here's to those stalwart fans dodging, well, whatever, to support their guys.

A full moon over Florida and my beautiful freak of nature is showing out. Night blooming cerus.

#Florida Attn: Walmart & Big Boxes: It's Fummer here; Still hot. but JUST enough cooler that we can pull 5 months of weeds, plant things we've been nursing in shaded pots, & get things in order for Winterish. We can't do this stuff if ALL the garden supplies are replaced with Christmas decor. STOP!

Big stretch for ancient -- and very territorial --Christmas Cat. #caturday

Nothing will change until we stop sane washing this regime-- Noem defeating the NFL, Miller battling Antifa, and pieces like this from AP about the unserious, uninformed, inattentive, juvenile Trump.There's no strategy; just a crazy naked emperor. #Trump #sanewashing apnews.com/article/gove...

#dnc @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social Grab the narrative. 24-7. all platforms; all the time. ALL hands on deck. Not press conferences, not stern letters, not fundraising letters. Precise, engaging, direct engagement. Break through the algorithms. DO IT!

Dems need to be 24-7-house-on-fire- everywhere, anywhere all the time relentlessly assaulting the stupidity that got us here. AND, standing tall at the gates of Democracy to protect the system of checks & balances and the workforce that keeps us running from idealogues Voght & Miller.

#usaid In the daily chaos and misery over the media's shortcomings, I believe that the #NYT has not taken its eyes off the politics and impact of cuts to USAID. The opinion work from Nicholas Kristoff from impact communities is wrenching and infuriating.

#shutdown #tariffs #democrats Nate Silver has been wrong a lot recently, but here he has things right. Democrats need to walk and chew gum: Do both, fight for health care & against tariffs. Go on offense, don't debate false narratives. instead lead with facts. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...

I wish elected #Democrats loved their voters the way the GOP loves a podcaster. #DNC you don't have our backs. You have truth buried in your briefcases but you don't have a narrative, and you don't have any fight. Yet, you'll want our votes, our work, and money. #senatedemocrats #hluserepublucans

Trump has told the world he is only president of some people; he is the enemy of the rest. It's the time for the shadow government to speak truth, clearly, loudly and without ceasing. #DNC,#senatedemocrats,#housedemocrats ask for our support, yet who among them has our backs?

You know how you fight crime in communities: by funding local police, mental health, intervention and fully staffed courts. Restore funding, remove troops from communities &:support local police. DOJ Funding Update: A Deeper Look at the Cuts - Council on Criminal Justice share.google/epoK5EwyaMEL...

This business-as-usual needs to stop. A government headed by a feckless lunatic that would go to "war" with its own citizenry should NOT be funded. He wants an apocalypse; give him a legislative one. #senatedemocrats #DNC #apocalypse

@democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social Where is your line? What is too far? If you ignore this because your bespoke consultants are telling you that's a winning strategy, the prize will be the ashes of Democracy and your comfort is meaningless. Hear the people. #dosonethingdemocrat

Still we do nothing. Count me among the #dosomethingdemocrats , The blue lifers who can barely stomach the tepid emails, "concern," "stern" rebukes. You are not hearing us & you are not making the case to independent & sane red voters. This battle needs ALL of us; blue dogs to progressives. Be bold.

This cannot be repeated often enough. Continuous, disciplined, factual, engaging communication that is ahead of the new cycle rather than reactive. There is no time and no place for dilettante and dabbler #Democrats

This is all true. But, we're not going to end it with pop-up boutique Democrats, showing up to throw out a post, opine at a symposium, write an oped here and there. This takes all-hands on deck, all the time with a clear message: Where is it, who's picking up the baton? #democrats

-- Stop.acting like there aren't armed military troops headed for our cities. --we are speeding toward serfdom in Trumfuckestan. --In short order we won't need to explain the economy; it will be clear to all. But, we will need to explain why we weren't louder & fiercer apnews.com/article/demo...

What a bunch of embarrassing amateurs.

They are the 19% we hate. That said, there is no singular candidate; only the candidate that can win that community because to escape the tiny minded, iron box of facism, we have to abandon purity tests, condemnation of "moderates" and rebuild the big tent. What's needed most now is leadership.

#Democrats #schumer #Jeffries You are battling a five-alarm fire with a warm cup of spit.

This seems like a state struggling with its moral priorities. (AP headlines)

There's something wrong when people think banging these two words together is good. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

Swampity, swamp, swampiest. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/07/08/a... #Florida #DeSantis #grift

When the smallest people with the most outsized egos are in charge of important things... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

Some good questions here for #schumer #jeffries Redefining the word leadership, and not in a good way. #iran #warpowers #congress www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

@democrats.senate.gov is there a war room, an organized strategy, a media campaign to defeat the poison pills? P25 sells off federal land.turns the federal workforce into a fielty goon squad, unconstitutionally siezes power. Beyond economic impact, this is a lethal reordering of US governance.

#chuckschumer #hakeemjefries #FEMA Again. Where is your redline. if the military rolling through American cities isn't it, how about turning federal emergency management funds into a presidential slush fund? That should be getting there, right? Fog a mirror, please.

Yep.

Night Blooming Cereus from dusk to dark in steamy Florida.