It's Caturday (with a few dogs too!)

 For Saturday's Critters this week:

It's a shoe box tunnel for the out-of-focus electric train going around in a circle. TP (a.k.a Tiny Patches) was my only cat interested in watching the strange thing going around and around.

Not my photo, from the internet.

My son Russell as an infant...today is his...*&)S* birthday!

Three years ago Russ posed with his father and a frog in Florida.

Persephone (Queen of the underworld), the pit mix, is a sweet sissy.  Stormagedon is the barking home protector. These little critters are at home with my family where a grandson and ex-daughter-in-law live.

Sweet Muffin, who was born on my front porch in St. Augustine FL. She lived then in Tampa and Black Mountain, and was the sweetest little calico I ever had.

Panther, my last cat...who had been somewhat feral until a friend gave her lots of lovin'.

You may have seen this before...

Have a simply wonderful weekend, everyone!

Today's quote:

 “Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come,” the poet and author Carl Sandburg

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Americans of Conscience give this:

Good news boost

Want to know what's going right lately? A lot. Check it out:

• The Economic Progress Institute highlights 10 recent social equity and economic progress wins for Rhode Islanders.
• WI’s Supreme Court clears the way to permanently ban so-called “conversion therapy.”
• 20 states sue the administration for releasing private Medicaid data to deportation officials.
• 20 states sue the presidential administration for unconstitutionally cutting billions in disaster preparedness funding.
• Key West’s City Council voids an agreement with ICE that would have trained and deputized local police to enforce unjust federal immigration policies.
• Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issues an executive directive to provide cash cards funded by philanthropy to aspiring Americans who miss work due to fear of ICE activity.
• Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller signs an executive order to protect the rights of community members who immigrated to or are seeking refuge in the U.S.
• The Pittsburgh City Council unanimously passes three bills to further safeguard LGBTQ+ residents from medical and other forms of discrimination.
• Cassandra Chase is elected mayor of Lakewood, CA, becoming the first Black woman ever elected to serve as mayor of the city.
• Fort Collins, CO police implement the Blue Envelope Program, designed to make interactions with police safer and easier for drivers with communication-related disabilities.
• Washington, DC moves a step closer to ranked-choice elections.
• NYC's recent primary was the largest and most diverse ranked-choice voting election in U.S. history.
• 76% of NYC voters want to keep or expand ranked-choice voting.
• Avelo Airlines, which contracted with the federal government to operate ICE deportation flights out of Arizona, closes operations on the entire west coast.
• Drag Race’s production company helps support small-town Prides across the country.
• Immigration rights advocacy groups sue the administration over lack of access to legal counsel and violations of due process for people detained at an inhumane detention camp in the Everglades.
• Local residents demonstrate outside an Albuquerque Walmart in protest of ICE activity being allowed on the premises, which resulted in a community member being tased by agents.
• Community members protest against the immigration detention and attempted deportation of former hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman.
• California farmworkers launch a statewide labor strike to protest immigration raids.
• Arcade workers in a Denver restaurant and performance venue join their local IATSE union and receive voluntary recognition from management.
• The United Nations’ top court rules that a healthy environment is a human right.
• 79% of U.S. adults across the entire political spectrum affirm the importance of childhood vaccinations.
• AEW wrestler Brody King raises more than $27,000 for families affected by ICE through t-shirt sales.
• The percentage of Americans who affirm the reality of climate change now outnumbers those who don’t believe in it by a ratio of more than four to one.
• Pope Leo will not rescind Pope Francis’ declaration of approval for blessings of same-sex couples.
• In recognition of her efforts to support LGBTQ+ rights and enhance climate protections, Pattie Gonia becomes the first drag artist to make the Time100 list.
• Sinners becomes the first film to stream with Black American Sign Language interpretation available to audiences.
• Michael Jordan opens a fourth free health clinic for North Carolinians who are uninsured or underinsured.
• Animal crossing bypasses funded by the 2021 infrastructure bill provide safe passage for animals and safer roads for drivers.
• Boston opens a new park named in honor of Rita Hester Green, one of the people whose death inspired the creation of the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
• Marisol Magaña, Andrew Roa, and their daughter raise money to support Los Angeles street vendors who cannot safely work due to ICE activity.
• Demand for clean wind and solar energy continues to rise in the U.S.
• LGBTQ+ people of color break records with this year’s Emmy nominations.
• Seven winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics call for appropriate taxation of the extremely wealthy.
• In June, Poland generated more power from clean energy sources than from coal for the first time.
• Budapest residents gather for a massive Pride celebration in defiance of Hungary's new, oppressive anti-LGBTQ+ laws.
• In honor of Mandela Day, South African cooks collaborate to make 67,000 liters of soup for food-insecure community members.