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Editor, sometimes. Avocational choral singer, weekly. Wannabe other things, usually. Fan of pets, wordplay, and diagramless crossword puzzles. Grew up in Chicagoland; now living in NYC. Banner pic: Pine Meadow Lake, Harriman State Park, NY. Ahhhhh.
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Already your birthday in my time zone; sending pre-emptive good wishes!
69% percent of Democrats and 21% of Independents are either furious or angry.
Yeahhhhh, I thought not.
Well, we are indeed speaking of a "poly" number of legs.
Sigh. Other-side-of-the-coin-ish: bsky.app/profile/wenz...
My sister in London just sent me this, seen in the £1 shop on Hounslow High Street.
😁 I wonder. ...
I see someone on all fours. Well, I see half of her all-fours.
(Not that you asked me: My birthday is around the turn of the year, and having those two things coincide feels like a double whammy in the how's-it-goin' department. I still like having friends and fam acknowledge my birthday, though! 😁)
Trump tells a reporter who asks him about going to war with American cities to “be quiet” and “listen”
Once Donald Trump gets the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law – what comes next?
It had never before occurred to me that rain on Sunday is oxymoronic and illegal!
Mark your calendars and tell your friends: No Kings 2.0 on October 18. The sequel will be (and HAS to be) even bigger.
A Magnolia Warbler in a Winterberry bush. This migrating warbler wasn't interested in the berries, but the leaves caught this bird's attention. This warbler took a quick bath by getting his/her feathers wet from the wet leaves (too quick for me to get any photos but it was fun to watch.)
🤩 Greeting-card-worthy image.
This undersells what insurance exchange policyholders will feel if Congress doesn't act. The 18 percent increase is on the raw cost of insurance. But many will also lose enhanced subsidies that expire at the end of December. Those people will feel an average increase of *more than 75%.*
"The cost of companies’ health insurance plans for employees is expected to jump by an average of 6.5 per cent in 2026, the biggest increase in 15 years, according to a report by Mercer. For people who buy health insurance on government exchanges, the median increase for 2026 is 18 percent..."
Heck yes, you are.
Thank you, @ls1228.bsky.social! 🥳 🎉
Thanks to all! ❤️
Less than 24 hours in Texas and 11 more lives have been saved. Many more have been fed. ❤️🩹 #OperationUnstoppable
Collect 'em all!
For people in a state that is asking for a prescription, try a CVS MinuteClinic. Some MinuteClinic’s are getting around restrictions by having nurses on site who will give you a prescription during a visit. They ask to confirm if you are high risk but don’t ask for proof.
+1, Dr. Faust.
I think we would be surprised if you didn't!
Kennedy has insisted covid shots are still easy to obtain, claiming that @hassan.senate.gov was “making things up to scare people.” But The Post talked to people who are struggling to get the vaccine. Elaine Cox, a 68-year-old with lung disease, said she wept after being denied a prescription.
NO WAY 🤬 School children and teens on their way home using the Washington DC Metro were allegedly stopped, forced to show ID, and thrown to the ground in and around Union Station by multiple law enforcement agencies while the National Guard watched (Sept, 3 2025)
Those eyelashes might be ever-growing as well. 🤩
Ha!
😘
Huzzah!
Most excellent.
Same for my third round. 🎭
Yep, our third rounds match.
Woo, and, if I may say so, hoo.
Wouldja look at that.
Your next-to-last line looks familiar. Thought I might find some like-minded folk.
Yippee!
🤌🏻
Splendid.
Oh, yeah.
All glory and honor to Norm! Looking forward to seeing how many folks might have shared my penultimate guess. Wordle 1,541 4/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟨🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
P.S.: I was actually concerned about how this would turn out. Pleasantly surprised.
Lucy the Invincible! A perfect score by HM, as usual, and great cameos.
Goodness, your mom: bat stealer, taker of Band-Aids. ... What won't she try next?!
Are you someone who has been or could be affected by imminent ICE raids in Chicago? Do you have friends, family members or neighbors who have been or could be? If you have information you can share, please reach out to @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social on Signal or WhatsApp at 872-444-0011.
It’s obviously more symbolic than important, but I want the next president to set big machines to demolishing that nasty patio on day one. #bringbacktheroses
Ooooooooh; my favorite tool is a sledgehammer. ...
“No more foreign wars,” as the monkey’s paw curls shut.
Calling for RFK’s resignation is less than the bare minimum. People have already died bc of decisions he’s made. The impacts of what he’s done over the last few months will already be felt for decades even if they could all be reversed today. Not demanding actual consequences is missing the moment.
✔️ 👍🏻
Break-IN Capers, apparently! 😁
Um, not at all! 🤷♀️ 🤷♂️ 🤷♀️
When we were growing up, my siblings and I tried our dog's Milk Bones once. At least once. 🤔
@pareidolia.bsky.social
Some pareidolia courtesy of the city of Bologna #Italy @pareidolia.bsky.social
Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.
😍 (I once got my cat a cat toy ... in the form of an actual cat.)
Yessssssss!
"Madonna and Crabby Baby": 😆
😍 Way back when I had cats who'd actually sleep with/on me, I had an upper-body cat and a lower-body cat. I admire your useful busyness, Patrick.
P.S.: The Amazon box that I'm expecting today is nowhere near as interesting. Sigh.
🖤 🤍 Sia ❤️ HerdMom ❤️ Auntie Lisa ❤️ FL rescue friends
The CDC quietly neutered the best Covid data on the planet yesterday. ED data visualization has been stripped of age stratification, and state-by-state trends. ED data has been far better for state by state trends than WW. Poof.
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
More than a couple of folks' third and fourth letters got swapped today.
This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.
Not a great leap to go from killing civilians overseas to doing the same thing domestically.
Blowing up a boat that allegedly had drugs in it and killing alleged gang members in international waters without any due process is pretty clearly not legal. Vice President of 🇺🇸: “I don’t give a shit” A lawless regime.
🚨Trump drops all pretense and openly admits the mass raids in Chicago are about ICE raids and deportations (not crime), and essentially declares that he’s going to war with the city.
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
This is real, somehow
Congrats on the game, and thanks for the quote.
Hurray! At least one of today's other two-round folks has the same round-one tile pattern. Iiiiiiiiinteresting.
Yeah. I liked 'em both, then said, "Now wait just a minute; didn't I already see that handle. ..."
The green parrot of Wordle with a yellow eye? 🤔 Congrats!
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Huzzah!
Wordle 1,540 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
This is not a thorny issue. This is not fraught. It is extrajudicial killing. It is the killing of civilians under any standard of law. He killed them on the basis of his-say so that they are drug smugglers, mere criminals. It was premeditated. And he's saying he's going to do it again and again.
Man coveting the Nobel Peace Prize says peace is "wokey".
OK, he's liked these comments; we're still in business. For now. ...
Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border. This is how the police dealt with them. Literally beat the hell out of them. This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.
Of course, if it is us and he follows the advice, he won't see these comments, so we'll never know. 🎭
I have read Trump’s “war department” EO. This is nothing. He changed nothing. He added pretend secondary titles with no power under the law. He will make the government spend hundreds of millions for vanity labeling purposes. If you’re in the media and you don’t harp on that, you’re failing.
I know, right?! This question makes me nervous.
Dinner at the White House for “the most loyal of the loyal,” President Donald Trump says, September 5, 2025. Pool report:
¡Catalán!
Thank your lucky clovers!
And it's art, to boot.
Ride that wave!
🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 🎊 (In Korean)
See you soon, girlie!
[Throws confetti]
✨️🦷✨️🦷✨️🦷✨️🦷✨️🦷✨️
🎭 (a frequently used emoji over on this side of my phone). GFBW appears to have done a Vulcan mind meld with Standoffish Orangey.
Lawless ass government
😁
Lots of people asking why isn't my state issuing COVID vaccine executive orders? In most states you can already get vaccines without prescriptions, including: AL, AK, AR, CA, CT, DE, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NE, ND, NH, NJ, OH, OK, OR, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VT, WA, WI, WY
At least a few folks apparently had the same penultimate guess, and I'm rather amused. With a tinge of sadness.