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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 07/04/2026

Just now on my screen. My brain is having a hard time processing this moment.

Screenshot with two skeets. @attackerman: "'A whole civilization will die tonight' is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they've had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I'm staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history." Second skeet from @ericholthaus saying "y'all" with an image from Artemis II with the Moon in the foreground, and a sliver of the Earth showing on the upper left side of it.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 15/10/2025

And tasty! We’ve been gorging on them and still had plenty left over for the winter.

Three trays of red and yellow dried tomatoes.

Table covered with jars of preserved tomatoes, peaches, and pickles

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 15/10/2025

I guess summer is really over. Next up, green tomato chutney.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 27/09/2025

Happening now in war ravaged Portland: the city's Parks and Recreation Department (the most subversive of all government entities, is giving away trees.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 27/09/2025

Dispatch from the eastern front: the city of Portland’s free yard tree at Mt. Tabor calm so far. Two trees obtained safely.

Parks and Recreation Department sign thanking us for planting trees.

Volunteer loading free tree into Portland residents’ car.

People looking at trees in the tree nursery.

The registration table and volunteers at the city of Portland’s free yard tree event.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 31/07/2025

I got a female kitten for my old boy after he lost his two dogs in the same year. He was ready to die—even stopped eating. The little girl changed everything! He’s 17 and tears around after her like he was 8.

Brown and black tabby cat with white chest lying on cat bed with gray female cat sitting next to him.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 14/06/2025

I'm keeping my long covid-impaired lungs at home today, but I'm wearing my favorite t-shirt.

Me, wearing a navy blue t-shirt with "RESIST" on the front, with Smoky Bear's raised fist as the "I" in resist.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 26/01/2025

If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery

white poppy with dark purple center with bright purple salvia in background.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 27/11/2024

A first for me—a heated gown for my mammogram. It’s the little things.

An appliance that looks like a toaster oven with hospital gowns in it.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 24/11/2024

I appreciate that, but the crosstabs show it was weighted to include a representative sample of voters. Tbf, the under-30s had the closest split on tariff support--50-50. But to your point, all age groups also acknowledge that it will probably raise prices for them. We're a nation of nihilists.

Screenshot of crosstabs in CBS/YouGov poll on Trump and Trump policies on question of tariffs, showing all age groups support imposing tariffs on imports.

Screenshot of crosstabs for CBS/YouGov poll showing breakdown of age groups for the question of whether tariffs would make prices higher or lower for Americans, showing roughly 60% of every age groups say prices would be higher.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 19/11/2024

And its psychedelic sibling.

Promotional poster for 60s kids' tv show HR Pufnstuf featuring lead cast members, Withiepoo, Jimmy and his magic flute Freddy, and the friendly dragon, HR Pufnstuf.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 10/08/2024

My boy Watson stopped eating last winter when the dog he grew up with died. It was getting dangerous, because he's an old guy, and it took medicine and special food to get him to eat. Then we got him a kitten, and it's all better. Though she thinks he naps too much.

Gray kitten lying on top of an old brown, black, and white tabby who just wants to sleep.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 27/06/2024

"You weren't trying to sleep here, were you?"

Small gray cat on top of sleepy big tabby cat.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 14/01/2024

Meet Sally, Watson's new companion since he lost his dogs. He's less than thrilled, but at least getting interested. Anyway, I'm already being a bad kitten mom.

Gray kitten named Sally watching bird videos on an iPad.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 06/12/2023

Three for three. Bwahahahahahaha!

Screenshot from old video promoting the "Young Guns"--Kevin McCarthy, Eric Cantor, and Paul Ryan--from 2013.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 28/11/2023

We had to say goodbye to this littlie yesterday. Belle made it through congenital liver disease, diabetes, and cancer, but an enlarged heart proved to be just too much. She was the friendliest, happiest girl you could ever imagine and brought untold joy for the almost 15 years we had with her.

Belle, a brown and black brindled terrier mix with a white face, big brown eyes, and huge ears standing on the beach.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 21/09/2023

Today in slow learning. Was McCarthy asleep for the last 13 years in Republicanism?

Highlight of a quote from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy bemoaning the "whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down" after hardliners hand him a second massive legislative defeat in two days' time.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 25/08/2023

Before and after pics for his testimonial for that "Dentures in a day" place in the strip mall.

Donald Trump scowling in his mug shot in Fulton, Co. Georgia.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 21/08/2023

My faithful COVID companion Watson, hanging in there for day 11 and the Paxlovid rebound phase of this thing. And I was so hopeful after a negative test yesterday. Sigh.

Watson, a big brown and black tabby doing what he's best at: lounging.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 15/08/2023

Watson has been my COVID nursemaid, loving this opportunity for uninterrupted cuddles. It would be a lot more endearing if it wasn't 100+ degrees out there and my house had air conditioning.

Big brown and black tabby cat named Watson, taking up my entire lap.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 11/08/2023

The Oregon coast is just the best place ever, even when you're a little old and a little blind and a little deaf. It's Belle's happiest place on earth.

Belle, a Cairn/Jack Russell terrier mix with a very gray face, smiling at camera and standing on the beach.

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