Here are the Top 5 Dogs of February!
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of February!
a white orb covered in black speckles and spots rests on a dark sofa cushion. the left side is a dalmatianβs face, tucked in toward her haunches with her thin tail wrapped up to hug her face. she is looking at the camera with one sleepy brown eye.
This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10 (IG: fuji_bull)
This is Aly. She just learned about capitalism. Certainly not a perfect system, but if that is what it takes to put chippies on the table, she understands. 13/10 (IG: alythebichon)
These are all the dogs we sponsored in February β€οΈβπ©Ή
This delivery driver throws treats to all the dogs on his route to see if they can catch. Spoiler alert: some of them definitely cannot. Still 13/10 for all (TT: jezzyvi)
A family of frilly turkey tail mushrooms are a vibrant coffee brown, banded with lighter honey colored tones. The last snow of March melts into their fuzzy tops, and a white layer lies below. All photos by me
Here are some nice mushrooms
A pair of snow and sun bleached bracket polypores are bone white and richly textured, vaguely reminiscent of the Sydney opera house. All photos by me
Here are some nice mushrooms
Well we did bump into Bruce Percy earlier in the week!
NOBODYβS GIRL A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice Virginia Roberts Giuffre βVirginia Giuffre wasn't "kidnapped." There were no locked doors and no bars on windows. βJeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked girls using poverty, loneliness, and psychological terrorism. βVirginia Giuffre spent the last years of her life making sure this story got told. She died by suicide in April 2025, weeks before her memoir reached the world. βHer book is called Nobodyβs Girl. Her name deserves to be remembered and her story told to the world. - βTHOUGHT CATALOG
"I was about to spend more than two years in Epstein and Maxwellβs orbit. My job: to do whatever they asked whenever they asked it. There were no bars on the windows or locks on the doors. But I was a prisoner trapped in an invisible cage." β Virginia Giuffre
We are not angry enough.
Of course, Kristi Noem deserved to be fired. But rather than spend energy celebrating this Trump setback, let's recognize that the disaster of todayβs DHS runs much deeper than the (former) Secretary's incompetence - and keep stepping up the political pressure.
Kristi Noem funneled $200,000,000 to a brand new business her friend had just started 8 days earlier. No bid. No process. No proven business track record before receiving the taxpayer funded contract.
This must be the Trump Economy everyone's raving aboutβ¦π
Impeach her, NOW!
The Supreme Court was clear that Donald Trumpβs tariffs were illegal, but heβs doubling down.
Weβre headed to court to stop him β weβve won before and we will again.
Lesser Ury (1861-1931),
Thunderstorm on Lake Garda, c.1890
What has happened to my wonderful old department is typical of what Trump is doing to our government. Some thoughts on what's going on at the Department of Labor... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-stupid-sad-scandalous-sleazy
Bad people prosper because good people canβt fathom breaking the rulesβ¦fuck that!
Hey democrats, itβs time to break the rules.
Simple as that.
Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoftβs version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications. www.wired.com/story/openai...
#Photography #Monochrome #GracielaIturbide
This is why so many voters are fed up with the Democrats.
The protests around the White House to stop the war are massive and have been nonstop, the pressure on Trump is immense the US is really showing him. Wait a second.. sorry, wrong country.
Gulf countries face continued barrage of Iranian attacks as US, Israel pledge to continue military assault against Iran.
A win! Glad they didnβt cave. Senate Democrats blocked a spending bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security for a third time, insisting they would not approve the measure without new limits on immigration enforcement.
Thatβs three Republicans across two votes who showed moral courage and personal integrity by standing for the Constitution: Thomas Massie, Warren Davidson, and Rand Paul.
And five Democrats who didnβt: Henry Cuellar, Jared Golden, Greg Landsman, Juan Vargas, and John Fetterman.
World U.S. submarine torpedoes Iranian ship in Indian Ocean, reportedly killing at least 87 sailors Attack off coast of Galle, Sri Lanka, set off rescue efforts Thomson Reuters Posted: Mar 04, 2026 6:36 AM PST | Last Updated: March 4 Listen to this article i Estimated 4 minutes Workers in Galle, Sri Lanka, on Wednesday unload the bodies of Iranian sailors from a vehicle, after they were killed when the IRIS Dena warship sank outside Sri Lanka's territorial waters. (Eranga Jayawardena/The Associated Press)
An Iranian ship at a joint Indian naval exercise, where all vessels were required to be unarmed, paraded its sailors along other participants, including the US. The US then withdrew at the last minute, torpedoed the Iranian vessel, and refused to rescue survivors. 87 sailors killed, 60 missing.
BREAKING: The House of Representatives failed to pass a bill that would have required all troops to be withdrawn from Iran unless Congress separately declares war.
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