So, it's okay for a cat to run away and hide under the bed when visitors come, but,
when I do it, it's "rude" and "antisocial."

"Scotland" by palette knife painter Georgia Hart

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

23 people could stop this genocidal war criminal. That’s it. 23.

20 Republican senators and 3 republican reps in the house and he’d be out of politics forever. But they won’t.

They’re addicted to power. A drug so strong they’d rather see a civilization die than give it up.

I’m old enough to remember when Trump said Obama would start a war with Iran because he’s “weak and he’s ineffective,” and has “absolutely no ability to negotiate.”

It’s always projection with Donald.

Always.

Sunset on a mirror lake w mist

Today is the 6th anniversary of what my mom still insists is the best landscape photograph I’ve ever done.

(We had just settled down in rural New Hampshire for the pandemic- little did we know how many months we’d be there!)

So when he bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, you were cool with that?

When he made fun of a handicapped reporter, you were cool with that?

When he had a mob attack the capital to steal the election, you were cool with that?

But now gas is expensive so you regret your vote?

Yeah?

These are the things that have historically led to revolutions. Not sustainable.

Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more.

It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

This teenager saved his neighbor's dog from drowning in a freezing pond. This is Bernard. His family contacted emergency services right away, but high school senior Hugh Pinneo got to Bernard first. Hugh said he's "just glad I acted that day and saved the dog's life." We are too. 12/10 for all

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Protester sprayed with chemical irritant while agents pinned him to the ground Protesters gathered on Blaisdell Avenue in south Minneapolis between 28th and 29th streets after federal agents detained two teenagers, according to witnesses. Protesters were shouting and tensions escalated before agents began detaining observers like the man seen below, who was pinned to the ground when a federal agent sprayed a chemical irritant directly into his face.

Is it @startribune.com policy to refer to anyone confronting ICE as a protester? This obscures the nature of what people are doing. We're not protesting ICE. We're constitutional observers documenting human rights abuses by agents of the state.

Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.

JONATHAN ROSS THREAD: 🧵 I think a certain # of women have seen the video from Ross’s cellphone showing the taunts that led to Renee’s murder.

And we feel in our bones that we’ve left immigration officer territory and entered domestic violence territory very quickly.

Here’s why: 👇🧵

I have given a compliment to every person who has come into my office today. there WILL be kindness and love in this world if i have to put it there by myself

what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me"

you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist

This is so fucking enraging.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Good description🤨

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

🎯

I am begging one, JUST ONE, congressional reporter to follow up with Mike Johnson by asking, "What are the American people to make of a Speaker of the House who tells us daily that he's not aware of what's happening on Capitol Hill and the White House?"

I know it may be hard to find something to be thankful for this year, but remember, there are always cats.

I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.

The fact that Megyn Kelly minimized raping 15 year olds and wasn't immediately canceled from every platform, including @siriusxmprog.bsky.social and YouTube, tells you EVERYTHING that is wrong with right wing media and this country in general.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

A tweet from Adam (@AdameMedia) reads: “JUST IN: A moment of disgrace for America on the world stage. U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz hurls a barrage of misinformation about Cuba and gets cut off: ‘This is the UN General Assembly, not a Signal chat.’” The image shows Mike Waltz speaking at the UN General Assembly podium with his name and title displayed on-screen.

That’s gonna leave a mark!