Has anyone had success removing matts from a feral kitten's fur? I had a long-haired 6 month old spayed yesterday & I really don't want to release her with these matts. Vet won't do it w/o a full blood panel.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

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Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

OMG: “The healthy baby boy was born through natural birth early Monday at 1:38 a.m., standing at birth at 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 139 pounds… While it was a natural birth, zoo staffers were on hand and created a soft-landing area to cushion the calf’s 6-foot drop during delivery.”

🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

The Books section—with Becca Rothfeld, Ron Charles, Michael Dirda—is one place where the Washington Post is definitively better than the Times. So they're getting rid of it

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

college should be free, and the pursuit of education simply for the sake of learning and exploring and expanding your world view should be encouraged and respected.

Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

George Saunders tells @janeciab.bsky.social about writing Vigil and developing his own take on the afterlife.

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

Never underestimate the capacity of evil people to lie. If you *accept* the lie, you endorse the evil.

Alex Pretti was the best of us.

One of the things I was most worried about is starting to come to fruition. RFK Jr. will succeed in eliminating all of our vaccines if allowed to remain in office. His disinformation campaign and the falling demand for vaccines will cause American companies to stop making them.

We’re gonna need a bigger Hague. digbysblog.net/2026/01/23/d...

Washington Post weighs in on Trump’s planned sale/demolition of the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal. Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely.

History will likely teach the US had more to lose by abandoning our European allies than it ever had to gain from Donald Trump

This post by @pkrugman.bsky.social on "Sundowning" is worth reading. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-sundow... Agree with this conclusion:

In a remarkable court filing, DOJ also revealed that DOGE employees traded Social Security data on an unapproved third party server — Cloudflare — and may have sent private SSA info to a top DOGE adviser. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

"Don’t talk to Chat. Mourn the dead blogs. Fight like hell for the living."

But the bigger reason that you should write and make art, is that your work is someone else's respite. You don't know who they are. They may be someone in the future. But if you have escaped into a book, or a painting, or a TV show... Someone created that. You can do that for someone else.

If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is. Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.

NC peeps- just got off the phone with cult member masquerading as House Rep Tim Moore’s Gastonia office and they whole heartedly support ICE murdering an American citizen. Just thought everyone should know. In case you have thoughts on that his number is 980-460-8110.

Yep, a stealth heat tax. Also known as climate-flation, or the steadily rising costs of climate impacts. Talk to everyone you know about this and fossil-flation, the steadily rising costs of our dependency on fossil fuels, and you have the beginnings of a new kind of economic populism.

Whew, this new CNN poll is brutal.... 58% say first year was a failure. Net approval on key issues: - Venezuela: -16 - Immigration: -16 (was +3 in Mar) - Economy: -21 - Foreign affairs: -21 - Job approval: -22 (39-61) - Tariffs: -25 (new low) - Healthcare: -27 (new low) www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...

The one thing authoritarian leaders usually have going for them is the general apathy of the majority when they make a move solely against a marginal group in society. But when they occupy an entire city with clumsy, brutal force, that just forces everyone out of that apathy.

reminder that roughly half the ships in the sea are carrying fossil fuels back and forth to burn--a job that the sun is willing to do for free, and without endangering anything

BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the clean ACA tax credit extension that the House passed to save millions of people thousands of dollars each. If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.

Trump’s line is that disrespect to law enforcement is punishable by death. Impeach and remove. This is not tolerable.

‘My own morality’ University fraud Business fraud Rape Pedophile Multiple sexual assaults Walking in on naked children Gassing protesters Asking to ‘shoot protesters in the legs’ Charity thief Cut family out of health insurance Multiple affairs This list IS NOT EXHAUSTIVE.

Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Elizabeth Strout - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped – so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is about regime change in the United States. It only succeeds if Americans allow it to do so. snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...

The US invades a sovereign nation and kidnaps its president and first lady and a story about it doesn't make the front pages of the four largest newspapers in NC. I know print is increasingly irrelevant but this feels like front page news, and some of the smaller "local" papers know it.

Mark Kelly puts out a statement saying "The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves of a foreign nation." This is probably the strongest statement alongside Gallego's I've read.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

LOLLY WILLOWES is celebrating its 100th birthday(!!) & this STW classic will be our first book for #NYRBWomen26, starting January 3! Details here: www.joiedevivre9.com/nyrbwomen26....

this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)

Mary Oliver bringing truth this morning. @maryoliverdaily.bsky.social