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Gardener. Democrat. Dog Aficionado. All about peonies, politics and pups Hell is empty and all the skeets are here

Political quiz results that reveal closet politician match is Mamdani
Fluffy yellow peony
Blue Merle Australian shepherd wearing a French red beret because he is moving to France!
White tree peony
Blue Merle Australian Shepherd looking suspiciously innocent and carefree
Do you want to know how abjectly I debase myself, attempting to divine this forbidden knowledge from the impenetrable minds of celebrities? I contact Chris Pratt's publicist to seek Pratt's answer, even though—since we're all being so honest—I don't especially care to know it. (I am merely asking to be polite.) "We need to politely hold off as there isn't interest," comes the reply. Excuse me! That is actually not polite! I don't need to know that Chris Pratt isn't interested; and also, how can he not be interested in such an interesting topic? And also, I am the one who is not interested!
Bobs burgers scene with the family peering out a window and Gene remarking that Chanel 6 News will finger anything with a pulse while Bob tries to correct him by saying its fingers on the pulse
When he was a sophomore the editor of the paper was Keith Olbermann '75 - a sports journalist for most of his career who was also on Sports Center, had a prime-time show on MSNBC when he became a political commentator, and a sports correspondent for CNN as well as other local television and radio stations. So they covered stories about student council meetings, alumni issues and the new headmaster Donald Barr who was the father of William Barr, who would grow up to become Donald Trumps attorney general
Pics from Mark Chadbourn’s Bsky account Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions." Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately.
Picture of white double peony baroness Schroeder
Very goofy looking owl
Black and white terrier in a tuxedo bin with a fabric rose
Sweet black and white terrier puppy with a very boopable nose
Young and very handsome Paul Newman in a T-shirt and shorts holding a small tan and white dog affectionately
Blue bird staring angrily at camera who doesn’t have time for this foolishness
Photo of paramount plus cancellation
Goofy sweet fluffy himbo blue merle Australian Shepard standing on grass with his tongue hanging out
Donald Trump painted as Marie Antoinette Governor Newsom ... @GovPr... • Oct 1 TRUMP "MARIE ANTOINETTE" SAYS, "NO HEALTH CARE FOR YOU PEASANTS, BUT A BALLROOM FOR THE QUEEN!"
Well, the next time someone brings up a terrible anecdote about Cambodia or Vietnam, I will definitely drop the Star Wars story to show that people have two sides
A priest believed assaulted by ICE in Illinois
Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzonl Follow Eric Adams is fascinated by Idi Amin. Weeks passed. The budget was overdue and momentum was stalling around free buses. In a Hail Mary pass, Mamdani texted Mayor Eric Adams. Earlier in the year, Adams had hosted a meeting with progressive lawmakers at Gracie Mansion. Each person would introduce themselves and discuss policy proposals they were passionate about. Before Mamdani began, Adams said, "I read your bio - you were born in Uganda. I was fascinated by Idi Amin, referring to the leader who had expelled Mamdani's father. Mamdani went into his pitch about free buses. He thought Adams seemed into it but sensed that the mayor's staff didn't "love that he loved the idea." Afterward, the mayor came up to him to reiterate how interesting he thought Idi Amin was. "I said, Well, you know, my dad was expelled by him. He has a lot he can share," Mamdani recalls. Adams said, "Take my number. Let's have dinner sometime." (A
Book cover of a book called extra extraordinary chickens- a book of photographs of fancy fantastic chicken breed The picture is of a golden brown extremely fluffy chicken with feathers that form an elaborate headdress
a thousand people marched outside of Tom Homan's home in village of less than 1,500 after family was detained Payr POLICE ICE O Ice agents walk down a street during an enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, on 26 January. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images Marina Dunbar in New York Mon 7 Ape 2025 18.08 EDT| Share A mother and her three children who were taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents as part of a sweep in the tiny hometown of the Trump administration's "border czar", Tom Homan, have been released following days of outcry from community figures, advocates and protesters calling for their freedom. Over the weekend, about a thousand protesters marched outside of Homan's home in a small New York village, calling for the release of the family after they were detained last month. The family has not been named or spoken
And these viral outrage videos aren't just amorphous right-wing digital chatter, the sentiment behind them has quickly become the main conservative cope strategy for Trump's tariffs this week. Right-wing columnist Batya Ungar-Sargon was on Fox News on Sunday arguing that Trump's collapse of the global economy could actually help fix America's "crisis in masculinity." And investor Jason Howerton was posting memes on X this morning arguing the same thing, captioning a video of a guy jumping out of a plane with, "As soon as we bring back this energy to the common American man, we will be fully back. Why not you?" And podcaster and writer Laura Robinson said she's seen data that shows that many conservative men want to hurt the economy to specifically push women out of the workforce. Even Trump has leaned into the masculinist messaging, frantically posting on Truth Social this morning, "Don't be Weak! Don't be Stupid! Don't be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!"
a thousand people marched outside of Tom Homan's home in village of less than 1,500 after family was detained Payr POLICE ICE O Ice agents walk down a street during an enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, on 26 January. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images Marina Dunbar in New York Mon 7 Ape 2025 18.08 EDT| Share A mother and her three children who were taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents as part of a sweep in the tiny hometown of the Trump administration's "border czar", Tom Homan, have been released following days of outcry from community figures, advocates and protesters calling for their freedom. Over the weekend, about a thousand protesters marched outside of Homan's home in a small New York village, calling for the release of the family after they were detained last month. The family has not been named or spoken
Drew Barrymore in an exquisite light tulle dress surrounded by a fairytale backdrop and seated next to a large golden lion
Owl that looks like Lyndsey Graham after one too many mint juleps
Owl with brown feathers and golden eyes standing up on rock with a very disapproving expression
In the face of such changes, the public's most powerful options are often withholding labor power and purchasing power. Calling in sick from work or school, refusing to buy and stay-at-home demonstrations are notoriously difficult to police. Last month, an inestimable number of people participated in such actions to highlight a Day Without Immigrants. The prominence of billionaires in the administration and populist anger toward them make this type of approach even more viable in today's climate. Indeed, the diversification of resistance methods puts the United States on a similar trajectory to many democracy movements of the past. In anti-authoritarian movements of the 20th century, economic noncooperation - more so than protest alone - was the coordinated activity that split elites and made way for democratic breakthroughs. In apartheid South Africa, it was the enormous economic pressure - through boycotts of white-owned businesses, general strikes, divestments and capital flight - that brought the white supremacist National party to heel and elevated reformers who were willing to do business with Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress. In communist Poland, it was the ability of trade unionists to credibly call for general strikes (and credibly call off such strikes) that gave the Solidarity movement the leverage to negotiate a peaceful democratic transition. Mahatma Gandhi's noncooperation campaigns in India made the colony ungovernable by British colonial authorities. And when the Nazis invaded and occupied Denmark in the 1940s, noncooperation was near-total. No one remembered how to run the railroad. Teachers had to leave school early to tend to their gardens. Factory workers slowed down or stopped production altogether. Danes obscured the identities of their Jewish neighbors, gave them temporary haven and secured their passage through fishing boats to neutral territory, saving thousands of lives.
Eggnog (for 15) 12 large pasture-raised eggs, separated 1 cup of sugar 1 nice pinch of Maldon salt 1 pint golden rum (I like Mount Gay Eclipse) 1 cup brandy (Don't overthink it, Korbel will do you just fine) 4 ounces St Elizabeth Allspice Dram (optional) 1 pint organic heavy cream 1 quart organic whole milk 1 pint organic vanilla bean ice cream Whole nutmeg for grating Angostura bitters Beat the egg yolks, sugar, and nice pinch of Maldon salt until thick and ribbony. Add the rum, brandy, and allspice dram and stir thoroughly. The liquor "cooks" the eggs (I'm not sure if this is actually true but Helen says it is and no one in my family has ever gotten sick, so...). Add the milk and cream and continue whipping. Break up the ice cream and add. Beat the egs whites until stiff and fold in, and if you've got a copper bowl like my mother does use that- whites whip like a dream. Pour the eggnog into a fancy punch bowl (or just use that Ikea bowl you mixed it in) and refrigerate for 30 minutes
First page of Henry Mitchell On Gardening He was the Washington Post garden columnist for many many years and just a wise and wryly funny man
Billboard for the 2022 winning Kenneth Mejia campaign for LA city controller that shows the enormous amount of the budget that the police force consumes
Peach colored single flowered Peony seedling grown from open pollinated peony seed
Peony walk with tons of peonies of different colors and forms
Scruffy black and white terrier in a gold bow tie sitting on a sheepskin covered leopard print couch
Black and white scruffy terrier with a curly tail in the snow
Picture of a page of a website for the plant nursery Logees with a selection of their Rex Begonias that they have for sale
The gap currently stands at about 6.8 million votes, and will come down slightly more as the final remaining votes are counted. That's a drop of about 8%. But, perhaps more relevant to this analysis, the drop-off within the battleground states was only 0.8%, meaning Vice President Harris very nearly matched President Biden's vote total in the states that decided this election. In four of the battleground states (Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin) Harris actually won more votes than President Biden.
Alt text writing aid TEXT IDENTIFY WHO EXPRESSION DESCRIPTION COLOUR INTERESTING FEATURES Example pic is: A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara's head.
The Wall Street Journal has a new article alleging that Elon Musk and various board members have taken illegal drugs together. The volume of drug use by Musk and with board members has become concerning, some of these people said. In the culture Musk has created around him, some friends, including directors, feel there is an expectation to consume drugs with him because they think refraining could upset the billionaire, who has made them a lot of money, some of the people said. More so, they don't want to risk losing the social capital that comes from being close to Musk, which for some feels akin to having proximity to a king. Musk and his lawyer, Alex Spiro, didn't
for people taking the ADHD treatment and other common drugs - which, it was hard to ignore, sounded an awful lot like labor camps. I'm going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to," he said during a recorded podcast interview billed as a "Latino Town Hall" event, "to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need - three or four years if they need it - to learn to get reparented, to reconnect with communities."
Better pic of velvety red single dahlia
Red single dahlia with bees
Leather 1930s chairs with red and white Australian shepherd dog napping in it
Baptisia with purple blue flower spikes
the meantime, labour markets were shifting into an information economy. In a world in which most workers sat in front of a computer screen rather than lifted heavy objects off factory flo is, women experienced a more equal footing. This transformed power within households and led to the perception of a seemingly
Media Emma Curtis @e... • 3h We're all hurting. I don't have all the answers. But I know that things won't be this bleak forever. I ran against a MAGA incumbent in a "safe red" district in KY as a progressive, openly queer, 28-year-old trans woman. And I won.
Musk spent more on the election than *all* small-dollar donations to Trump combined. His wealth went up in a day about 200x more than that. Bezos' personal wealth also went up by about 14x the total value of the entire of WaPo in a day.
く Post darth T™ @darthbluesky.bsky.soc... always post and repost without fear about what u are proud of creating here your people here will never shame u for this • Talia Lavin @swor...• 10d i am truly sorry for all the book posts. it's a mix of panic and genuinely believing it's a good book. i dunno. im doing my best. October 29, 2024 at 9:10
just want to point out that Colorado went above and beyond to pass laws protecting trans kids this year and the result was them holding the House supermajority and keeping the Senate majority while losing zero seats (flipping one, and losing the one that was the guy who changed parties)
Media totally sucking up. NYT, which was two days ago telling us about Trump's rambling, incoherent speeches, is now telling us this about how he won: To watch him up close on this third run for president was to see him blend comedy, fury, optimism, darkness and cynicism like never before. He was an expert communicator, able to transmute legal and mortal peril to build upon his self mythology. He won new supporters and kept old ones in thrall. Robert Black • 1m That didn't happen, we all saw that not happening
In the meantime, labour markets were shifting into an information economy. In a world in which most workers sat in front of a computer screen rather than lifted heavy objects off factory flo is, women experienced a more equal footing. This transformed power within households and led to the perception of a seemingly constant celebration of female achievement.
く Post darth T™ @darthbluesky.bsky.soc... always post and repost without fear about what u are proud of creating here your people here will never shame u for this • Talia Lavin @swor...• 10d i am truly sorry for all the book posts. it's a mix of panic and genuinely believing it's a good book. i dunno. im doing my best.
く Post darth T™ @darthbluesky.bsky.soc... always post and repost without fear about what u are proud of creating here your people here will never shame u for this • Talia Lavin @swor...• 10d i am truly sorry for all the book posts. it's a mix of panic and genuinely believing it's a good book. i dunno. im doing my best.
These big sociological changes were reflected in voting patterns on Tuesday. The Republican victory was built around white working-class voters, but Trump succeeded in peeling off significantly more Black and Hispanic working-class voters compared with the 2020 election. This was especially true of the male voters within these groups. For them, class mattered more than race or ethnicity. There is no particular reason why a working-class Latino, for example, should be particularly attracted to a woke liberalism that favours recent undocumented immigrants and focuses on advancing the interests o women. It is also clear that the vast majority of working-class voters simply did not care about the threat to the liberal order, both domestic and international, posed specifically by Trump
Done • ft.com AA 川 FINANCIAL TIMES In the meantime, labour markets were shifting into an information economy. In a world in which most workers sat in front of a computer screen rather than lifted heavy objects off factory flo is, women experienced a more equal footing. This transformed power within households and led to the perception of a seemingly constant celebration of female achievement
Absolute appalling groveling sycophantic article about Trump’s speeches by the NYT “To watch him up close on this third run for president was to see him blend comedy, fury, optimism, darkness and cynicism like never before. He was an expert communicator, able to transmute legal and mortal peril to build upon his self mythology. He won new supporters and kept old ones in thrall”
Monty black and white terrier with a hat giving great side eye