This government shut down is all about whether Republicans will get away with raising health care premiums by 75% for 20 million Americans and throwing 15 million people off their health care. We can't allow that to happen.

This is heavy on my mind. I'm 48 and for the first time I've used the heck out of my health insurance this year. 😕

Absolutely worth your time to watch this brief song. 😆🔥

While on the topic of streaming services, for $5 a month you can support your local PBS station and also get Passport, which provides extended access to an amazing library of content. Just saying.💙

Here's Morris to cleanse your timeline.

hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok

The more environmental elements you add, the more you attract pollinators, and that makes you a Superhero 🥳🐝

We are working our way through the Nightmare on Elm Street films. This Fat Boys video was from #4 "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" and I had clean forgotten about it. 😄 It is awesome and it is better than the movie. 🤌 youtu.be/qoew-9rQkDU?...

Of all the crummy weeds that hitch a ride with potted nursery plants, I think I got a good one! Ipomoea lacunosa, the whitestar, white morning-glory, or pitted morning-glory. A native morning glory, yay! ❤️ Host plant for a moth called Emmelina monodactyla (the T-moth or morning-glory plume moth) 🌱

Coping day to day over here by buying little Halloween treasures and looking at Halloween posts. Halloween and pets, it's what I'm living for... 🎃 #caturday #Halloween #littledog

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.

Going to post this often.

We trans people don't get to have legitimate concerns about how we're surveilled, assaulted, discriminated against, pinned down by legislation, abused, killed. The only concerns treated as legitimate are fever dreams from white christian nationalists, hypotheticals treated as imminent threats.

Sharing to read later. There's always an active local discussion on this topic due to the sheer volume of water-hungry data centers in Northern Virginia.

This is the best thread of comments I've seen in a minute! 😂 Also crazy that the spectators did not move away? That looks dangerous!

Absolute rage from audience member. “Is that your fucking legacy?! You bow down to a fucking pedophile!”

During the time RFK Jr was suffering from Heroin addiction, he has been accused of leading multiple family members down the path of addiction aswell, including his brother who tragically overdosed in 1984. Why is Hunter Biden villified for his addiction struggles while RFK Jr is made HHS Secretary?

It's been a heckuva summer, man. 💦

This is incredible news. His story really touched my heart. I'm glad he survived the prison horrors and I fervently hope he will be ok in Venezuela, the country he originally fled. 🏳️‍🌈❤️

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I worry about my family in Florida not getting the information they need to make the most informed evacuation decisions. And everyone else in Hurricane paths!

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Super enjoyable thread even if you never watched Jem but enjoy cartoon art 🙂 ✨️❤️

For my friends who aren't on FB, yesterday I shared what last Thursday's violent storm did to our house. 2 trees blew down & smashed our garage, obliterated a ton of plants & crushed the hood of our Ford Transit. Insurance processes are in motion, we are lucky it wasn't worse but lawd what a mess.

Hey Bluesky gardeners! A fallen tree in yesterday's violent storms obliterated many of my plants and landscaping. 😢 If I prune all the broken swamp milkweed plants where the stems were snapped in half, will they regrow this season? 🌱🦋🐛

MENACING

Sunday the 16th

Happy Obama Appreciation Day 🇺🇸 Confident 🇺🇸 Respectful 🇺🇸 Charismatic 🇺🇸 Goal-oriented 🇺🇸 A Lifelong Learner 🇺🇸 A Confident Conciliator 🇺🇸 And Willing to Make Hard Decisions 🇺🇸 This is what a World Leader looks like 🇺🇸 Thank you 🇺🇸 #SheShed

Tomorrow! It's the only Friday the 13th of the whole year. ❤️🔪

In a world of Jake Tappers, be a Terry Moran. Terry, @terrymoranabc.bsky.social we see you—and we the people ARE PISSED.

BREAKING: Feeble, impotent old man trips on stairs, declares martial law.

Stolen off of FB. This is so relatable! 🌷😆

Today is just amazing. 🤪❤️ Keep going! More!!

Knowing this makes me so happy. Right on, Director Sajet! ✊️🎨🖼

Super interesting thread about the effect of caffeine on the body and why you should avoid it during heat waves.

Target FORGOT TO WRITE COPY for their pride line this year i’m obsessed with how much big box stores dgaf and have stopped pretending to

The @rollingstone.com hed is a little more direct than the @nytimes.com. 🤡 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

New Suede album coming in September! 🥰

This account brings me a lot of happiness, and if you follow it you will also experience joy. Let's help their family out OK? ❤️

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Walk with me down Cassingle memory lane. ❤️ 🎶 The year is 1989, and Bobby Brown's "On Our Own" from the film "Ghostbusters II" would sit at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 3 whole weeks... and become a global hit. 👻 Fun fact: Babyface is on keyboards & backup vocals.

Wake me up when it's Hammer's 1960s England.

Sorry to be missing Assemblage 23 in Arlington tonight. I've never been able to muster the energy to go to things that I used to in my "old life". I'm not sure what will get me back to doing social things. I want to support the scene but I just can't. leave. my. house. 😕 youtu.be/yI8wZCm6qYM?...

Just terrible news this morning. My Congressman Gerry Connolly has suddenly succumbed to his cancer. 💔

Last night Joel and I watching the original "Evil Dead"-- Me: I don't think I like this movie anymore... it's pretty boring. Joel: Did you see the Onion today? 😆 Me: Yes I did. Shit.

Good morning from an Agreeable Tiger Moth (Spilosoma congrua) 🌞 #moths #northernvirginia

Just had my first box turtle sighting of the season! 🐢 Yay! It was a pretty small female in a hard to photograph place, under prickly bushes (ouch⭐️). I did my best to get a photo so I could see the markings. It is the same female I photographed last July. 🥰 #boxturtle #northernvirginia

Today's pleasant cassingle memory is Love and Rockets "So Alive" from 1989. I guess this was the first song I stumbled into on the radio that was in the goth zone. 🦇💜 I enjoyed the Wikipedia story about the song and paraphrased it here. #cassingle #LoveandRockets

Timeline cleanse: my little fleabane patch. 😊 The patch grows larger every year, and lives in a struggling part of the lawn under a huge old maple tree.