a little white flower

I think this one's got it beat by just a smidge.

Of course. Senate Republicans released a budget blueprint that would clear the way for a filibuster-proof bill to provide up to $70 billion for ICE and Border Patrol bypassing Democrats who have refused to fund the agencies without immigration enforcement restrictions. #DefundICE

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'Tis Tulip Tuesday
#DrawAFlowerADay

Simple drawings of flowers including a daffodil

A feral daffodil, my favourite!
#DrawAFlowerADay

Kash Patel’s feelings got hurt, so now he’s suing for $250 million. The Atlantic published a story last week citing more than two dozen sources alleging that the FBI Director has been showing up drunk, missing meetings,

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Peter Lorre would have made a perfect Ferengi (on DS9, obviously).

The National Science Foundation which funds a quarter of all basic scientific research in the country is being dismantled.

Simple drawings of flowers including a fleur-de-lis

#DrawAFlowerADay fleur-de-lis

Noodles have existed as a concept for millennia. Really, they should be called oldles.

#SundayPunday

Trump just posted threatening to knock out every power plant and every bridge in Iran if they don’t take his deal. He called it “the Iran Killing Machine.” Targeting civilian infrastructure isn’t negotiation it’s a war crime threat, posted publicly on social media like it’s nothing.

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I've had a few, so here's a white rose.
#DrawAFlowerADay

Broke: "Homosexuality is a mental illness!"

Woke: "Neuroqueer is valid identity!"

Bespoke: "Yeah, I'm on the spectrum: the rainbow spectrum!" (I've been saying this one for years.)

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#DrawAFlowerADay blue and white petunia

If you gave a scorpion tiny maracas, you'd have a backwards rattlesnake.

#ShowerThoughts🤔

Simple drawings of flowers

#DrawAFlowerADay

Peter Cushing posing with a magnifying glass in Hammer's first Frankenstein film, The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Peter Cushing posing with a magnifying glass in Hammer's final Frankenstein film, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)

Cover art of Robert Bloch's The Skull of the Marquis de Sade, which was adapted by Amicus into The Skull (1965) starring Peter Cushing, who appears on this cover with a magnifying glass.

Peter Cushing posing with a fake magnifying glass in the ZAZ comedy Top Secret! (1984)

Tonight's aesthetic is Peter Cushing's magnifying glass collection.

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An experiment with red and purple
#DrawAFlowerADay

Next up, Frankenstein, and then...

Trump just told Americans to give up their rights and he’s proud of it. In his own words,“I am willing to risk the giving up of my Rights and Privileges as a Citizen.” He said that out loud on social media. While pressuring House Republicans to pass a warrantless surveillance law with zero reforms.

A white garment with some kind of food stain. Humiliating.

A pair of dirty hands rest on a car engine. Rough, tough, cool.

Here is an easy solution:

Food stains are humiliating, as they suggest you're a little baby who can't feed themselves.

Oil stains, such as those you'd get from working on your car, suggest you're tough, independent, and skilled.

Thus, simply cover your food stains with used motor oil.

That’s power this administration actually has to reckon with. Our forests aren’t just beautiful. They’re worth fighting for, in whatever language gets through.

#SaveOurForests #SaveUSFS

THE SENATE IS VOTING ON THE BOUNDARY WATERS RIGHT NOW!

Tonight, while most people are watching TV or putting their kids to bed, the U.S. Senate is taking a vote that could permanently end protections for one of the most beloved wilderness areas in America.

The Senate vote to destroy America’s most visited wilderness could happen with 24 hours’ notice and the deadline runs out at the end of April.

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If I ever take up contract killing, I know what I'm leaving on my victims' lips.
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It's the Prices, Stupid Consumer sentiment is at an all-time low because prices are at an all-time high. Consumer sentiment isn't broken, popular government data is just incomplete

The index of consumer sentiment isn't broken; models that try to predict it just don't have the right input variables. I fix that and find that, yes, high nominal price levels explain why the vibes are so off. It's the prices, stupid
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-14...

Cue that one quote from a filmmaker about how if you budget a movie for half a million dollars, it’s very hard to steal $50K, everyone would notice 10% missing.

But if you say that you’re making a blockbuster for 250 million, it’s VERY easy to mysteriously vanish (write off) 25 million.

Another pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to admit guilt in child sexual abuse case David Daniel has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors after a judge ruled that President Donald Trump's pardons in the Capitol attack did not apply to child exploitation.

Another Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by President Trump will plead guilty in a separate case involving child exploitation of multiple victims, according to federal court records.

I don't want bleeding edge tech crammed into every aspect of my life; I want 2005-era tech with two decades of quality-of-life improvements.

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.