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Thanks. Yuck.

What a deal! #nativeplants #CalifNativePlants

What in heaven's name is a "sharrow"?

What in heaven's name is a "sharrow"?

At the audiologist's.

I have a love-hate relationship with my hearing aids. They remedy my lifelong hearing loss but my neurodivergent brain hates all the noise they let in.

Hell is ambient noise.

The Trump DOJ is giving guns back to felons, including one alleged fake elector The Department of Justice is quietly restarting a decades-dormant program to restore gun rights to felons. One of them was an alleged fake elector in 2020.

I don't know why I'm surprised.
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The International Space Station may be visible tonight as it passes over the Bay Area! It will rise in the west at 8:59pm, reach an elevation of 35° above the northwestern horizon at 9:04pm, and enter shadow 34° above the northern horizon at 9:05pm. Forecast calls for clear skies.

Nobody in this Administration can agree on why they started this war or when it will end. The Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the President are all saying different things. Servicemembers’ lives are on the line, and they deserve better than this.

WATCH — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Every dollar we spend bombing people in the Middle East is one we’re not spending here at home. We’re always told we don’t have enough money for schools or healthcare or for veterans, but there’s always enough to bomb people on the other side of the world.”

Elon Musk admits in February 2026 that convincing married engineers to relocate to Starbase, 40 minutes from Brownsville and near the Mexican border, has become his biggest silent problem Elon Musk says convincing engineers to relocate to remote Starbase near the Mexico border has become SpaceX’s quiet challenge.

Elon Musk's a plague. Headline doesn't mention the worst stuff in the article.
Elon Musk admits in February 2026 that convincing married engineers to relocate to Starbase, 40 minutes from Brownsville and near the Mexican border, has become his biggest silent problem share.google/a8x8mhUGYNMA...

• 17 min ago Sen. Lindsey Graham on school strike in Iran: 'These things happen in war" BY JOEY CAPPELLETTI Share G The South Carolina Republican told reporters that he does not support an independent investigation into whether the U.S. military struck a school in Iran. "I'm not worried about that right now," said Graham, a staunch supporter of the war. "I'm sorry anybody died. I'm not taking the Iranian bait and listening to them." Graham added that if the U.S. were responsible for the deadly strike, it would be "a mistake." "These things happen in war."

Don’t be surprised. They don’t care if your child is killed by school shooters, either.

Hegseth gutted offices that would have probed Iran school strikes

The civilian carnage in this war is simply unacceptable. As always, with the Trump Administration, cruelty appears to be a feature.

Unlike Past U.S. Conflicts, Iran Attack Is Opposed by Most Americans

Write to your elected officials. Let them know how YOU feel about this war.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

Again, what's with the cruelty inflicted on children? What does that possibly accomplish?

Tennessee GOP Rep says Muslims 'don't belong in American society' Rep. Andy Ogles' social media post is the latest in a series of Islamophobic statements from House Republicans.

A little history might help. Did you know that there were Muslims who fought on the colonies' side in the War for Independence? Many of the enslaved people who were brought here by force and who helped build this nation were Muslims?
www.npr.org/2026/03/09/g...

Gullible, Cynical America The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time

Might be a good time to take a hard look in the mirror. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A great ep.

This is shaping up to being a new kind of war: all the old horrors but new & dreadful possibilities too.

Is this the one in which Worf discovers prune juice, "the warrior's drink"?

If it is any consolation, i have long had the impression that a lot of us are in that "something terrible... HS Musical" space at any given time. You are not alone.

Wishing you calm and a path to detachment. Good luck to you.

She was arrested for holding a protest sign in small-town California: ‘This is a testing ground’ Jenny O’Connell-Nowain was put under house arrest and her husband, Benjamin, lost his job after they protested at board of supervisors meetings

Source: The Guardian
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"We're very much and clearly winning.Like, really, really easily."
Define winning. Is this winning? bsky.app/profile/news... Have we killed enough women and children, elderly and civilians yet?

Oof. My body is trained to awake at 8. It is 9:11 and I really hate time change Sundays.

Sounds benign to me. Let her be.

Operational Excellence, Strategic Incompetence The president and his advisers are in the grip of “victory disease.”

Some clear thinking about Iran and the serial wars of Trump.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A long tradition. Bush Sr. saw to it that Reagan was not held responsible for Iran-Contra. Ford pardoned Nixon so we never dealt with Watergate. Go even farther back: Confederates were pretty much absolved of treason.

Americans are not big on holding white men responsible for their misdeeds.

I can't say "like" but i agree, this is a horror. I hate that my taxes are paying for it. I hate that I cannot figure out an effective way to protest it.

A challah and lit Shabbat candles on a table with a green tablecloth

Shabbat Shalom.

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