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Our messy unity will be our strength.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

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I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

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This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

The lights are all blinking red.

So many bastards, so little time.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

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Thursday Night Open Thread: Trixie at 9 Weeks

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Here is her 8.5-week portrait. We’ll try for 9.5 this weekend.

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So when they said crate training, I’m pretty sure they didn’t mean ON TOP OF THE CRATE.

Trixie at 9 Weeks

After an evening of zoomies and harassing Scout, time for a power nap.

So far she’s been a dream puppy, lulling me into a false sense of confidence. She’s sleeping through the night and asks to go outside for potty. She did have an accident in her crate today – crate training is still stressing her out, so not a surprise.

Funny crate story – this a.m. she was howling at the top of her lungs and it completely upset the ducks, they rushed to the patio door and made about as much noise as she did. But it startled her enough she was quiet long enough I could let her out. Which settled the ducks right down. My critters are weird.

Today she and Scout really made a connection, I’m not sure why, I just keep an eye out to make sure play doesn’t get too rough. Trixie already has a bruised and swollen toe – first, it got shut in a door and then, after it seemed almost healed, she was winding around Scout’s legs and Scout stepped on the SAME toe, because that’s what happens when you’ve banged your toe…

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    eclare

    So cute! Thank you so much for the photos and write ups. I can’t even imagine how big a crate must be for a Great Dane.

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    WaterGirl

    ouch on the toe!  so adorable.  who’s a good girl?

    that’s when they get you on the potty training.  just when you let your guard down for a second… :-)

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    NotMax

    One can readily pinpoint where the unspoken deep sigh of intemperance fits in that last paragraph.

    The team behind the study had two main questions. The first was whether young puppies who had yet to spend any significant time with humans were sensitive to human attempts to communicate. The second was whether there was a genetic basis for the puppies’ social smarts.

    In 2017, Bray and her co-authors started testing 375 eight to ten-week-old Labrador and golden retriever puppies from Canine Companions for Independence, an organization that breeds service dogs to support individuals with disabilities or those suffering from post-traumatic stress. Crucially, Canine Companions also keeps extensive information on the pedigree of each dog going back decades, which facilitated the genetic aspect of the study.

    At this age, the puppies had spent nearly every minute of the day either with their mom or with their littermates. This made the pups perfect collaborators for trying to get at the question of whether dogs’ feats of social cognition were learned or innate. However, on a more practical level, puppies were not always a dream to work with for the scientists.

    “They’re adorable and it’s fun to work with them,” says MacLean. “But they’re puppies, they have short attention spans and they pee and poop on everything. At the start of this project, it was like, ‘Puppies!’ And by the end it was, ‘Puppies.’” Source

    ;)

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    Redshift

    Aww, who’s an adorable puppy!

    I was chatting with a friend this evening who’s fostering a momma dog and eight puppies for two weeks. (Also very cute.) She said they’re allowed to have dogs in their apartment, but didn’t know if they were allowed to have nine, so it seemed best just to not ask. ?

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    brendancalling

    Thanks for the pups, y’all. I learned that a good friend of mine, who was very kind to my boy, died yesterday at 44, leaving behind 2 girls and their dad.

    The pup pictures help quite a bit

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    Mo MacArbie

    Let’s see, mostly white with black, sleeps on her back on top of her house. Yep, definitely part beagle.

    Doo-daleedle-oodee doo-deleedle-adee
    Bum babump badabump bam bum
    Bum babump ba

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    wenchacha

    @NotMax: I hear that! After watching my under-one grandson for six weeks, I had doubts as to whether I am up to raising a Labrador again. Puppies, indeed.

    Nevertheless, we are awaiting a litter for a pup sometime in March. Ready or not!

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