Watching Janna Lavin on PBS Nova. She’s a rock star astrophysicist at Barnard. Younger daughter now in France had her class at Barnard and we got to go to a talk Prof Lavin gave to a small group on her work on black holes. Wow!

Civil rights leaders announce ‘March on Washington’ to defend voting rights www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Private when they might be held accountable, public when they want to be paid or have roads and fire service.

Red Avadavat (Strawberry Finch) – India's Tiny Ruby of the Grasslands

“Perhaps the question to ask is: who is making all of the final decisions for the things that really matter to you in your life?”

We had cold vichyssoise, just a potato leek soup. Then we shared cantaloupe, ham, mortadella and some lacy Swiss cheese with French bread. It felt right to just graze some cold food.

It’s hard to capture the strange yellow hue and heavy “clouds” that don’t have rain. A desultory breeze might blow a branch but little else is moving. The birds don’t sing.

The Hierarchy of House: 1. Self-care 2. Cooking 3. Cleaning 4. Organizing There shall be no arguing or debating. If you reside with a small being, whether human or animal, activities as to them shall fall into the related category. And no, there is no debate as to them either.

Bridgette Bardo in France donated her wealth to animal healthcare. Every rescue adopted over age 10 years has a €1000 healthcare account to care for them and encourage adoption. Every person in FR has healthcare. In the US, Trump gives a few newborns $1000. But no healthcare.

Tania, the senior rescue cat, now lives in a stone 2-room summer cottage in a tiny town in rural France with two lovely ladies who love her already. She’s tired from her trip home and wasn’t resting well at the shelter. Her fur is softer already because she can eat and has had a nice brush out.

“Here I am,” says Worthley, “a white-haired gentleman. I’ll never see that tree that’s being planted today that will grow for another 250 years, but I care very deeply that it happens.” 📷 today.uconn.edu/2026/07/deep... #tree #trail

My newsletter this week: Silicon Valley never cared about what normal people want. It solved problems the industry itself introduced. First it made money by selling products, then by selling our data, then by selling us back to ourselves. Now it's fucked. www.leahreich.com/i-think-i-fi...

@warnock.senate.gov on “intellectually dishonest” redistricting efforts in the South: “The Supreme Court, the Roberts Court, has done a lot of damage, in my view, to our democracy.” More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

How I fit the articulating lames on the body armour for the Fat Henry mouse

I put on my mask and went outside in the yellow-tinged smoke sodden air. I cleaned out and refilled the bird bath because I thought their feathers might need more cleaning. Poor little things. (Wildfire smoke from the West enveloping states in the east).

Thank you. Got Tazio tea, made a batch with recipe you shared—lemonade, ice. (It’s great.)

It’s yellow darkness here and smells of wildfire smoke. The kids can’t go outside for flag football. Many are wearing masks. We don’t have such fires in CT nor do we burn coal like Ohio, which thinks it has clean air anyway because the wind bears away the coal smoke also to CT. Someone always pays.

started working on mosquito netting tonight using some polka dot tulle i got from mood the other week. i got one panel mostly done; my process for curtains is just "hem a rectangle and then gather it" lmao 😭 my fave gathering technique is zigzag stitch over a string of yarn

An agent from HSI—the criminal investigation arm of ICE—shot and killed a young man in May while responding to a local 911 call as part of Trump’s ‘Memphis Safe Task Force.’ The call had nothing to do with immigration. Jonah Neal. Say his name.

Roberts sent over the 2 women justices to soften the face of the court and the tone and content of questions put to them. This court is intellectually dishonest, clueless about the value of many traditions of appellate law, liars in their individual oaths and testimony, elitist and out of touch.

$1,100,000,000,000 That's 1.1 TRILLION dollars. That's $22 Billion for each US state. Just imagine what that could do on state and local levels.

TANECHAN is watching the bee. He seems curious about the yellow lump on its leg. #Illustration #CommentPls #RTpls

www.foxnews.com/us/two-teens... whitey can’t understand why Black parents are concerned for their sons’ safety.

Hupple. The general coarsening of values within a society leads to an overall decrease in empathy amongst its citizenry. - Ching

New photos for purchase in my shop! #birds www.leciamichellephotography.com/shop

"The #WritingPrompts are a monthly get-together for anyone with a #ChronicIllness, #MentalIllness or #disability. An opportunity to share, to listen, and to learn from one another through shared writing prompts.": buff.ly/cZ924RQ #DisabledPeople #StrongerTogether

"Girl with butterfly" by Ukrainian artist Anastasiia Grygorieva.

Just a month away, we have TWO Carnival In the Stacks events coming up, a Date Night for adults, which includes puttputt, beverages, and BBQ, and a more family-fun style event! www.hpldfriendsandfoundation.org/carnival

Sunday's Slow Cooker Chicken with Stuffing leftovers became chicken pie for dinner tonight. Yum! I love a nice leftover! #food #comfortfood

The more you know....

No DoD funding until women and people of color can be promoted!

Red states dragging us right down with them. www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...

A Crystal Star, Yellow Fringed Tulip in Bellingham, WA from 3/17/25. #TulipTuesday #TextureTues #Tulips #Flowers #Photography #WestCoastKin #MacroPhotography #BotanicalArt #Bloomscrolling #ECK #PNW

My favorite chicken thigh recipes all in one place. 🧡 recipes:https://cookingwithlei.com/asian-chicken-thigh-recipes/

Senator Ossoff gets it...he and Rev. Raphael Warnock are the progressives that So-called Progressive Bernardsheviks wish they were, including and especially King Bernardshevik himself, Vermont Jesus...

@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov We need some guidance for Washingtonians &commitments by large grocery chains on what they are doing to protect their patrons &ensure safe products. Illness from this parasite requires healthcare that people struggle to afford & lost wages. Help.

He's just trying to get us used to the idea of hereditary presidential succession.

A red-shouldered hawk carrying its prey. Some kind of bird. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Do you think the WiFi connection is better?

Explored Trondheim. A beautiful old town. The cathedral was started in 1100s on the grave of Saint Olaf. There is the oldest gay graffiti scratched in the stone “LAURENSIUS CELVI ANUS PETRI” which translates from Latin to “Lars is Peter’s butt”. We tried to find it but it was behind scaffolding.

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How was this human"the worst of the worst"? How are any of us any safer? ICE received significant funding from the Big Barfy Bill. Why weren't there any body cameras? Our data is up for grabs to any tech bro who kisses the ring yet ICE covers their faces like the Proud Boys and the KKK? #AbolishICE

Yves Tanguy, French-American (1900-1955), Demain on me fusille, 1928, oil on plywood, 61 x 50 cm, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland

This balletic branch balancing from a local great egret mayhaps shows the #PerfectPoise that Alan @alan678.bsky.social seeks from today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, although its elegance would make it a candidate for #MomentsOfMajesty too🐦📷🦉 #Birds #Photography #Nature #ECK

First in my new series on Microplastics! Danielle Eubank Microplastics I Oil on linen painting 16x20 in #microplastics #ocean #pollution #cocacola #plastic