Nice news for native bee enthusiasts. And the comments alone are worth the price of admission.

Absolutely this.

Expanding and reforming the federal courts is necessary for Democrats to accomplish anything legislatively. And it's essentially the only way to save our constitutional order (assuming that's a priority...and it seems to be for the Democrats).

Holly the Heeler at 16 weeks. You can start to see the adult dog emerging at this age. This is her "these are not the droids you're looking for" stare. #blueheeler #cattledog #puppies

I had no idea you'd had an ACD! As for outsmarting: I got her from a dog trainer friend of mine who bottle-raised her after she and her sibs lost her mom at 10 days. She gave her an excellent head start, but I told her this is like playing a 24-7 game of chess. And I've had a Border Collie mix! 😂

If only we could. Instead its one absurdity after another. Must adapt and swerve as we can I suppose.

I continue to be stunned in spite of myself at how many people are just mystified by the gobsmackingly obvious. But it’s not like the legacy media didn’t sane wash him at every opportunity.

Somehow a metaphor for our country.

Everything blows. I’m sorry about the trip. 🫤

Oh yeah, a real fucking head scratcher we got here. Maddening.

A gray and brown Blue Heeler puppy stares up with her trademark heeler stare.

When he’s silly enough to think he’s allowed to put the flirt pole away. #puppies #blueheeler

Wow! That’s a cool thing to have!

I was 21 when I saw Clinton play sax on Arsenio Hall. It absolutely riveted me. A decade later, I recall a presidential election turning on whether voters wanted to "have a beer" with Bush. Would be great if we all made a sober analysis of character and policy alone, but human psychology is human.

By the way, this Holly is a Gallimore special, and she comes with a story. Nancy bottled raised her and a brother after they lost their mother at 10 days of age.

Yes!!!! Something special about them indeed.

Puppy snores and puppy grunts are proof that the world is worthwhile.

Thank you! We’re really enjoying her.

A Blue Heeler puppy is fast asleep in the passenger seat of a car. Her glorious and large ears are sticking straight up.

A Blue Heeler puppy looks at the camera. She has a grey face with black covering her right eye and light tan sock paws.

Probably a bad time with Armageddon on the horizon and all, but I have acquired a puppy. This is Holly, a 13-week old Blue Heeler. The cat was annoyed at first but now enjoys watching her chase balls. The heated seat puts her to sleep every time. #blueheeler #puppies

NEW POLL on Dem. structural reforms: U.S. adults support 18-yr term limits for Supreme Court justices by a 50-point margin (GOP is +34 in favor), favor statehood for Puerto Rico and limits on pardons by POTUS, and are split on DC statehood, packing the Court:

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-thirds...

The Pain Is the Plan MAGA is actively seeking to immiserate the country in order to cement their power over the rest of us.

"One of the best takeaways those of us on the left or the center can hold is that tariffs, the annihilation of the safety net, aggressive tax cuts, and all of their other fiscal policies are not about enrichment as an end unto itself: they’re about impoverishment as a means to reinforce hierarchy."

Worry, Don't Panic, Over Trump's Efforts to Subvert the Elections America's system is quite foolproof but he can still try to delegitimize it

His attacks on the midterms are real and dangerous… and aren’t going to work. Running down the case for an optimistic threat assessment @theunpopulist.net :

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The Fight Is Upon Us: What The Right to Vote Looks Like on Trump’s Terrain of Violence Both the calendar and the events in Minneapolis have brought the midterm...

The Fight Is Upon Us: What The Right to Vote Looks Like on Trump’s Terrain of Violence talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...

“Wait until after the election” becomes “we just won, relax” becomes “if you criticize them you’re just helping the GOP” which then goes back to “wait until after the election.” Every time.

I think they’re trying to get Black people to the streets because shooting white people isn’t working out for them narratively.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

the people who are always clutching democrats like they are their relatives dont get it. these people, including the ones "on our side" work for us. they do as we tell them to. we dont beg them to come around to our way of thinking. they follow our orders.

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It’s common and sort of understandable to see Miller as this evil genius. Important to remember he’s actually a complete fucking moron who, when he got a chance, immediately engineered a PR disaster that shitcanned Trump’s best-polling issue. Always the way with these types.

Been waiting for this.

This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country.

The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.