ruth nixon 🐶🥑

dog walking, sanity running, thai eating, canadian gal. professional listener and rock solid feminist. #resist

[ruth nixon 🐶🥑 @Baddicus]

For anyone who may need it – this is my beautiful boy, Atticus. He is full of love and resilience. And he will carry that ball all the way home 💗#anthonybordain

[ruth nixon 🐶🥑 @Baddicus]

😭💔

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The dog at the shelter holds the reporter's hand and refuses to let go.

In the end, the reporter adopts the dog.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[ruth nixon 🐶🥑 @Baddicus]

@Angry_Staffer Every single day he is morphing into the exaggerated comic version of himself. And IMAGINE what Carney is thinking in this moment.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is what Trump's done to the people's house:

A third of it is rubble.

Another third is a cage match.

What a metaphor.

[ruth nixon 🐶🥑 @Baddicus]

@JeffBezos Dude, you’re the worst.

[Dean Guzman Wyrzykowski @deanguzmanw]

I’m now facing 31 years in prison — even more than before!

Prosecutors just added 3 more felony charges against me before my arraignment today.

All because I volunteered to save beagles from criminal abuse at Ridglan Farms.

[ruth nixon 🐶🥑 @Baddicus]

@beaglefreedom 🥺💗

[Rep. Mark Pocan @RepMarkPocan]

Just got off a productive call with the USDA where I learned Ridglan Farms has been told to surrender their federal breeding license by July 1 or the USDA would take official action.

They also gave us an official answer on how many dogs are left at Ridglan: 650. Even though Ridglan is losing their state (and potentially federal) licenses, it doesn't stop the on-site research they're conducting. I'll continue to work with the USDA and NIH to shut down the entire facility and find homes for the 650 remaining dogs!

[ruth nixon 🐶🥑 @Baddicus]

😍

[Dean Guzman Wyrzykowski @deanguzmanw]

BREAKING: The Ridglan dogs are being released!!

Nearly 1,000 beagles are being transferred to rescues before finding loving homes.

After decades of abuse, these pups will finally go outside, feel grass, and see the sun.

We celebrate today. And we will keep going until every dog at Ridglan, and in labs across the country, is free! 🐾

[Mayo Clinic @MayoClinic]

A Mayo Clinic-developed artificial intelligence (AI) model can help specialists detect pancreatic cancer on routine abdominal CT scans up to three years before clinical diagnosis. It identifies subtle signs of disease before tumors are visible, when curative treatment may still be possible. The findings, published in Gut, mark a milestone in Mayo Clinic's multiyear research effort to enable earlier detection of one of the deadliest cancers.

Learn more: https://t.co/EJySSkaW3P

[OnlyBangers @OnlyBangersEth]

Wholesome moment captured at Boston Marathon 🥹

[ruth nixon 🐶🥑 @Baddicus]

Incredible news!

[Ian Weissman, DO @DrIanWeissman]

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
https://t.co/13GBL8ujOV

[ruth nixon 🐶🥑 @Baddicus]

@niagaramarmiton Oh I’m so excited for you! Great. Let me know how you like it.
I’m well. Fonthill misses you. 💛

[ruth nixon 🐶🥑 @Baddicus]

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[Project Hail Mary Updates @HailMaryLogs]

The Project Hail Mary team just dropped an official template to build Rocky’s transparent enclosure. Yes, you can actually make his little habitat using plastic sheets, cutting, folding and glue.

[ruth nixon 🐶🥑 @Baddicus]

@Angry_Staffer Who gets held accountable for this (if it were a functioning government)??

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

There is no legal basis for this war. There is no imminent threat that demands this war. There is no stated objective for this war.