#Cats sense when snuggles are needed and just bring it. The best nursemaids. #Catsofbluesky #Catlove

For my friends in academia:

A. True. American. Hero. 😎✨

From Monday's #pleinair painting at @jmmontpelier.bsky.social : the gardens of Annie duPont
#watercolor #beginnerpainter

If Democratic congressional leadership don’t lead an en masse halt to all legislative business after today, I don’t know why they’re worth supporting. What moment could more demand a response of intractable and tedious opposition? Shut it all down, and refuse to budge.

Lovely! I like these tiny ruffled Daffs, too <3

"The Dandelion's pallid tube/ Astonishes the Grass,
And Winter instantly becomes / An infinite Alas --"
#NationalPoetryMonth @emilydickinson.bsky.social

About 10 people interviewed for the article

Our group was interviewed by the Orange County paper.

#HandsOff rally in Culpeper, Virginia, with approximately 500 people split between five locations downtown. And my favorite sign:

I'm assembling my apocalypse team. Who has skills?

Stocked up on household goods & nonperishable food stuffs. Next: assemble my apocalypse team. #tariffapocalypse #economy #thisshitsucks

Yep. I did my panic buying tonight. Feels like a bad apocalyptic movie.

Madeleines with orange zest & Grand Marnier #baking #ragebaking

Dickinson anticipated authoritarianism:

The Court has read news reports that, in at least one agency, probationary employees are being rehired but then placed on administrative leave en masse. This is not allowed by the preliminary injunction, for it would not restore the services the preliminary injunction intends to restore. Defendants shall state the extent to which any rehired probationary employees are being placed on administrative leave by MARCH 18, 2025, AT NOON.

Judge Alsup is not amused by reports that people he ordered reinstated were put on admin leave.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Phone calls, postcards, protests, and there's this: RAGE BAKING. Published in 2020, recipes are quite timely: "Im-Peach-Ment Upside-Down Cake" #baking #resistance

Lemon/blueberry sponge, set (almost) lemon curd, blackberry bavarois, and blackberry gelee. Nephew is up for the challenge! #ragebaking #entremet #baking

Cue Etta James: "At Last . . ."

@cohslgates.bsky.social

In fairness, he owns the government, also, so the performance of all his enterprises is not shocking.

Bye bye Bezos. #cancelAmazon

Alina Habba on veterans who have been fired from government jobs: "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment."

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Jake knows how I feel #Caturday

Thriftbooks.com is an independent bookseller, unrelated to Amazon.

Royal icing takes more practice than I'm willing to give. #FebruaryBakes #baking #cookies

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

Wow -- this duo looks like Jake and Sylvia <3