Retired medical laboratory professional. US Army veteran; Vietnam Era. Artist, gardener, chicken keeper, bibliophile, dog lover, amateur chef.
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There's a kind of hush... I live on a lake in WA. Mostly upscale second homes. Summers are usually nuts with boats, skis, tubes. Holidays were insane. The 4th was .. quiet. Now it's labor day weekend ... and almost silent. Have we all given up? I just want to cry ;(.
PS ... you'll get better food and often cheaper. Our locally owned Mexican restaurant serves up a combo platter for 10.99 In a nice environment with real cutlery.
Yes, the world id in the toilet, but I spotted an otter, a kingfisher and an osprey while sipping coffee on my deck. I'm OK with that, finding joy wherever I can.
Dear Smithsonian.......send your historical records to Canada before they're destroyed.
Reposting because in times like these we still need to remember that the world is a beautiful place ... we need to cherish it.
This straight-up NAZI shit. He’s lost his mind. This was America. This straight-up NAZI shit. He’s lost his mind. This is America. This straight-up NAZI shit. He’s lost his mind. This is America?
And then we get Vance! H ow is that better?
PLE ASE! Stop with the Epstein Files.The "files"are the distraction while he continues with his agenda; military control of our major cities,control of of our educational institutions, a national "Christian" church and ethnic cleansing of our country. All of these have been happening,but "Epstein"!
Of course he's guilty! The big question is will anyone DO SOMETHING about it. And unfortunately, the answer to that is "no way".
The book the film is based on was released yesterday. I'm up to chapter 3. Definitely a good read!
I'm on chapter 2 and can't put it down! Everyone needs to read this; before it happens again. www.amazon.com/Audible-Ghos...
I found a cure for post Trump depression: a puppy!
Pedophiles are very territorial.
Sen. Ron Johnson just floated sending Obama to Guantanamo. These people aren’t trolling...they’re laying groundwork. For arrests. For show trials. For dictatorship. Don’t laugh it off. Call it what it is: fascism with a smile.
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal — and we as a nation are directly implicated in the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. In response, the United States must stop all military assistance to Israel. There's no moral clarity in wreaking vengeance on innocent people.
I never want to hear "but the Holocaust" again!!
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NEW: Israel has once again bombed Gaza’s only Catholic Church, Holy Family, this time killing three and wounding at least 10 others, including Parish Priest Gabriele Romanelli, who suffered leg injuries. The attack last week was widely condemned. unicornriot.ninja/2025/israel-...
Can't say what I would like to on a public forum, but ... 😆😆😆
Hmmm ... do yo think those "statistics" included input from rural American voters?
Whatever makes you think that "one side has all the guns"?
If my taxes don’t pave my roads or fix my bridges or keep my schools open 5 days a week or pay local teachers a living wage or help keep my hospital open or help my neighbor’s kid eat lunch or fund public television or my healthcare… Why the f’ck should I pay taxes?
Grateful to @georgetakei.bsky.social for amplifying my video about the absurd book bans in Tennessee. Also grateful to @penamerica.bsky.social for fighting the good fight to defend authors like George.
This is a great article, I had no idea! Shit is about to get real!
www.huffpost.com/entry/measle...
@pattymurray.bsky.social , @cantwell.senate.gov , @jayapal.house.gov Are you folks going to do anything about this? NOT IN WA! EVER!!!
I think we can all agree with that @mickeykuhns.bsky.social
I've been doing some research. In 2025 a group of wealthy men got together and conspired a way to reduce their taxes. In 1775 a group of wealthy men got together and conspired a way to reduce their taxes. I will be doing more research...
The beginning of the militarization of all law enforcement against citizens.Nassau County Executive gave the Nassau County Police Department the authority to make arrests like ice agents. Do not believe this is legal, but our local police departments aren’t fighting “the deputization or objecting
They are grooming us. First we saw masked ICE thugs. Then National Guard. Now Marines. We are becoming a police state, inch by inch, vote by vote :(
Thou shalt boycott Florida.
Does anyone else wonder how much Jake Tapper was paid for his hit job on Biden?
Lisa Murkowski we are called the UNITED States of America! This is the face of a woman who SOLD OUT THE COUNTRY in exchange for special pork barrel perks for her state!
Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp. This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.
We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.
The Lady who runs this planet is VERY PISSED !!!
Actually FEMA funds are being used to build the concentration camp in Florida. FACT!
This is why I can't be a Christian.
"Alligator Alcatraz" implies that it is a prison, not a concentration camp. Let's shame the people who tolerate it. I vote for Auschwitz: Florida.
Anyone who owns their own business can easily choose not to pay all of their taxes. Best practice is to start small; you didn't make as much money this year, did you? Next year you will show a loss. Maybe a little more business the year after that?
Please, "Alligator Auschwitz" ... it's a concentration cap, not a prison.
WA, like CA, returns far more in taxes than we ever get back. We subsidize those red states.
Politics was as nasty (or nastier) in Jefferson's time. Read up on John Adams :(
They were already cruel. The rest of us never noticed.
The existence they are sending us to never really existed in America. They are sending us back to Victorian England, Look it up, and forget the movies.
Ted Cruz: “If you’re not born in the United States you are not a citizen of the United States.” Spoiler: Ted Cruz was born in Canada. Oh “lying teddy” you silly man… 😂😅
Unfortunately, it might come to that :(
Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social -Harvey Milk, who was a Navy veteran, has a message for you from the other side:
In a Democracy the people elect the government they deserve. Thomas Jefferson
Crap! We'll have to wait until they release him... if the do :(
On his way in? I REALLY want to see that there are no MS13 tats and prove trump a liar (again).
Could someone get a good closeup picture of his hands?
So you are OK with them killing a "symbolic" number of our troops to help them save face?
Paintballs filled with indelible dye?
Do you think one of the civilian technicians killed in these strikes might have had a young daughter he wanted to see again?
Well played.
Right now I want to move into a cottage next to the brook with no electronics.
No matter where someone was born, the United States should never tolerate inhumane treatment. Yet right now, detainees in ICE custody are facing conditions that are simply unacceptable in any country that claims to uphold human rights, let alone one that prides itself on freedom and the rule of law.
My ex ran a small business. I worked with him every day. His idea to beat SS taxes was to show only one income (his) so we capped out. Guess who had no SS income reported for 6 years? SCREWED!
Here’s why I post so much about Covid: after your 3rd infection the risk of developing Long Covid is 37% and keeps increasing each round, this is published science. So I’d rather nag at people going to cons to mask now, than say I told you so when you are too disabled to travel to any in the future.
Dear god, this would be one of the reasons I am no longer a Christian :(
Israel's Prime Minister may think no one will notice what he's doing in Gaza while he bombs Iran. People face starvation. 55,000 killed. Aid workers and doctors turned away at the border. Shooting at innocent people desperate for food. The world sees you, Benjamin Netanyahu.
I really NEVER want to hear "But the Holocaust" ever again!
I believe it!
WTF @maddow.msnbc.com ! Did you film your broadcast yesterday??!!
Hey Magats! If he starts a war they will have reinstitute the draft!
You mean we won't stand for it the way we didn't stand for the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII? Oh, wait...
Oh, to be dog; happy and unaware of the world beyond your garden gate :)
This is a heads up for our representatives. They are coming for you. Whether you bow to the king or not; they are coming for you! Time to stand up and fight!!!
Find one of the No Kings protests happening near you, and take part in it today: www.nokings.org#map
I remember Kent State.
I'm getting a very bad feeling about the safety of the protests planned for Saturday.
Don't let them lie to you about Senator Padilla. DHS is claiming the agents DID NOT KNOW he was a senator. He CLEARLY says (BEFORE he is tackled and cuffed) "I am Senator Alex Padilla and I have a question for the secretary."
They lie about everything
Larry, could you warn folks in the UK not to come here. It's not safe now and it will get worse.
CRAP! I really AM old. I remember them ... the Little Rascals.
Maybe; but it WAS the mast influential! And I watched it the day it aired. Mom was clutching her pearls :)
Farm workers in Western WA are afraid. The crops will rot on the trees with no one to pick them. Remove cherries, peaches and apples from your diet; the will be expensive.
Guy Fawkes! It's the only way ... there are too many of them ...
Why is ICE arresting employees but not employers? DOJ policy is to charge the most culpable people. The employers would seem to qualify.
Guy Fawkes ;)
These people are HEROES! They deserve state and local support!
Have you looked at the video of an LAPD cop deliberately aiming at and shooting a member of the Australian Press?
LAPD when they think no one’s looking
Journalists feel safer wearing American Red Cross apparel than press vests. Juan Proaño, CEO of League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), details his experience in LA during the protests.
There is a version of the video out there in slow motion. He definitely took aim. And I'm sure the men standing next to him know his name.
Excellent! I was hoping there would be an official response!
I'm wondering how LAPD deliberately aiming at and shooting a member of the Australian Press is going to be received overseas.
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
I prefer "The Hanging Tree" from Hunger Games. The people in front knew they would die, but they couldn't kill all of them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jq5...
Right now, Westeros looks like a good place for an extended visit.
Former Angeleans now living in other states know what's going on 🫢