#Plants #AerialRoots

Ok plant people. Cut or no cut? Or put in soul?

#Trees #Gods #Heroes #Quotes

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. -Czeslaw Milosz, poet and novelist (30 Jun 1911-2004)

#RescueDogsOfMastodon #Rotties #DogRescue

From a friend we used towork with in dog rescue---this is one of seven sweet Rotties all rescued and being cared for.

"🚨 OFFICIALLY RETIRED FROM THE BABY-MAKING BUSINESS 🚨
Well folks… after who knows how many years of paying child support in puppy kisses, I’ve officially hung up my uterus. 🎉✂️
I survived the storms.
I found my rescue.
I got my freedom ride.
And now… I got spayed.
No more surprise litters.
No more deadbeat boyfriends.
No more men telling me, “Just one more litter, it’ll be good for us.” 🙄
From here on out, I’m embracing my best life:
🐾 Sleeping in comfy beds.
🐾 Collecting treats instead of puppies.
🐾 Living my “hot girl retirement” era.
🐾 Being spoiled rotten without a single diaper to change.
Turns out getting rescued means more than just leaving the shelter—it means someone cared enough to make sure I’d never be used for breeding again.
My only job now?
To be loved.
To be spoiled.
And to remind everyone that every dog deserves a future that’s about belly rubs… not babies."

#TFGJohnson #MikeSevenPillarsJohnson
#SpeakerPOS

I DGAF if the new congress doesn't get anythingdone except seek justice for the Nation that got screwed over by Trump.

#TFG #IsHeDeadYet #PumpAndDump #PopularInformation

MFing son of a bitch:

https://popular.info/p/pump-and-dump-how-trump-made-636

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump released his 927-page financial disclosure. The filing, which reveals the sources of his income, shows that Trump made at least $2.2 billion in his first year in office.

While Trump is known for being a real estate developer, the filing shows that most of his income now comes from his crypto ventures. According to the report, Trump earned around $1.4 billion from crypto-related businesses. In comparison, Trump “reported over $620 million in real estate, hotel and golf-related income.”

Much of Trump’s crypto-related income is from his most frivolous venture — the Trump meme coin, $TRUMP. Trump launched his meme coin, which is a type of crypto token tied to a celebrity or joke, on January 17, 2025, just days before his inauguration for his second term.

#250Years #FrederickDouglas #WhatToTheSlaveIsTheFourthOfJuly”

Highly recomended reading. I never read this before today. Hat tip to a caller on 1A today.

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/nations-story-what-slave-fourth-july

#TFG #Envy #MaliciousEnvy #PresidentObama #LivingRentFree
#LucasBean

Why Trump Can't Keep Obama's Name Out Of His Mouth

....In 2009, researcher Niels van de Ven at Tilburg University published a landmark study on envy. His finding was that envy is not one emotion. It is two completely different ones that just happen to share a name.

The first is benign envy. This is the envy that makes you better. When you feel benign envy toward someone, you are motivated to work harder, improve yourself, and close the gap between where you are and where they are. It is painful but productive. It points you forward.

The second is malicious envy. This is the envy that makes you dangerous. When you feel malicious envy toward someone, you are not motivated to improve. You are motivated to destroy. You want to pull them down to your level because you have accepted, somewhere deep inside, that you will never reach theirs.

The difference between the two comes down to one thing. Whether you believe the gap can be closed.

Benign envy says the gap is closable. Keep going.

Malicious envy says the gap is permanent. Burn it down.

https://lucasbean.substack.com/p/why-trump-cant-keep-obamas-name-out

#TVStreaming #TheBear #FoodService

I am stressing about these last episodes last
services. So much has gone wrong.

I knew that kabuki threatre uses exclusively male actors including for female roles (and the lowkey hilarious reason why), which resulted in the onnagata tradition of expert crossdressers, many of whom would probably have identified as trans women in a modern context. and I knew that originally it had actresses and that they were forbidden by the military dictatorship for being lascivious and immoral.

having never looked up closely into kaubuki history, what I didn't know was that kabuki theatre was *invented* by a woman, Izumo-no-Okuni. who had an all-female troupe. which means that male roles were done by women dressing up as and presenting as men, including Okuni herself who is copiously portrayed in gallant warrior garb to do male roles, kinda like proto-Takarazuka

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumo_no_Okuni

This is good news!

The scientists behind the new independent organization Climate.us are the same experts Trump fired because they were researching and reporting on climate change.

Formerly NOAA’s http://Climate.gov, they didn’t disappear. They rebuilt.

Now they’re independent and preserving climate data, outside of political interference, with public support and a team of volunteer scientists.

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Science #Research

There is no "gender war."

#Male #Female #Gender #Equality

#TFGJohnson #FakeChristianJohnson #BiteMyJohnsonJohnson #SevenPillarsOfPedophileProtection
#MagaChristianExtremist

Um, listen here you money grubbing, scum sucking, mealey-mouthed, powerseeking, Godless Christian Nationalist asshole, don't threaten ME with a good time. What a piece of shit you are, Mike Johnson.

"If Democrats gain congressional control in the midterms, “impeachment’s not even the big concern,” Mike Johnson said during his remarks. “They’ll turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they’ll go after the president’s family, the Cabinet, his donors and friends — half of you in this room will be targeted.” "

#Law #Lawyers #JudgeSotomayor

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I tell law students if you're not used to fighting losing battles, don't become a lawyer. Our job is to stand up for people who can't do it themselves. Our job is to be the champion of lost causes. But right now, we can't lose the battles we are facing. We need trained and passionate and committed lawyers to fight this fight. With all the uncertainty that exists at this moment, this is our time to stand up and be heard. -Sonia Sotomayor, US Supreme Court Justice (b. 25 Jun 1954)

#BoxerPuppy #MissGertieB #BoxerDogLife

The most boxer dog thing she's done so far, aside from wigglekidneybean greeting us even when we were just in the other room.

She stood/sat that way for several minutes.

Remembering Ahmed Wishah, the Latest Palestinian Journalist Killed in Israel http://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/23/israel_gaza_journalists

#leftist #progressivenews #left #DemocracyNow #VSN

https://time.com/article/2026/06/17/us-iran-peace-deal-agreement-leaked-draft-text/?utm_campaign=heatmap_am&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=424430255&utm_content=424430255&utm_source=hs_email

The evening sun's rays shining through a tree top that bends in the breeze, continues through window blinds, then touches down on a hard wood floor.

Dude. I went through my medical records to find the date of a thing and saw shit in there that’s just not true. Never happened. The medical AI is already hallucinating bullshit into our files. And who’s the doctor gonna believe, you or the computer? Ohhh fuck…..

@ai6yr
Our daughter took this picture from somewhere in the hospital building this morning. You can barely see firefighters walking along the ridgeline.
She said there was a smell of smoke in the building but not bad enough to affect patients or operations.

In other news: in my unbelievably cishet, white VERY conservative home town... I hosted my very first queer event the other day.

2 people came. 7 people messaged the page for more info (it's a vetted event for safety). A third were too scared to attend.

Next time we have a few more who said they'd come too!

But god damn, it felt so fucking special hosting this mega radical liberatory space in the middle of the hellscape that is my home town. #LGBTQIA