Beautiful! Years ago at a high school party at Pass-a-Grille the boys swam way out. Then one of these rays did a maneuver like this. Never saw 16-year olds swim back to shore so fast. Thx for this reminder.
Beautiful! Years ago at a high school party at Pass-a-Grille the boys swam way out. Then one of these rays did a maneuver like this. Never saw 16-year olds swim back to shore so fast. Thx for this reminder.
UNITE + RISE. St. Petersburg, Florida.
I live in a retirement community and recognize that blank gaze and slack jaw look of a person on the way to their goodbye.
Yeah, the books! They're endangered by books.
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Late last night DeSantis state employees painted over a large street mural "Black History Matters" in front of the Carter G. Woodson African American History museum in St. Pete. it's been there for several years with state approval. All our beautiful street murals are being destroyed.
Where are his kids today? That may be an indicator.
Their Eyes Were Watching Tom Clancy's God
Their Eyes Were Watching Tom Clancy's God
There are usually people near an emerging nest to protect the babies from seagulls and other predators, like other people who want to pick them up.
Once they're in the water, they swim; they don't go to the bottom. They're not going to be stepped on, just like we don't step on fish.
Two are planning on green burials in a privately owned preserve in a nearby county. A death doula is one of our group, so good help comes from her.
My book group read that last year. Much discussion followed. We're in a retirement community so it's a topic much on our minds.
I came for a visit because of the post that brought everyone else but I'm following because of those recipes. Chicken Provencal! And the cock joke.
Environmentalists and the Miccosukee went with the case more likely to prevail. In FL the environment is more likely to be protected than brown human beings (I live here). Spent my Sunday there in a protest vigil for the humans.
Private prison and surveillance companies like Geo Group, CoreCivic, and Palantir just reported massive profits last quarter thanks to lucrative government contracts for Trump's mass deportation machine. All of course donated to Trump's inauguration. They're getting rich off cruelty.
Me and my Florida neighbors fighting back.
This was the first Atlantic talk I've engaged with. Well worth my time. I'm glad I did.
Some people (ahem) take photos so they can check to see if the library has it.
In a retirement community (one-story, no tower, garden) on west coast FL & the monarchs are so plentiful that 2 of them bumped into me!! while competing with each other for airspace. I can usually see several by looking out my window. We have milkweed & we have beehive boxes too. Paradise.
Many of us spotted that. And now it's cast in maybe bronze? Out in the open?
Makeup and sweat on his collar.
My last kitties tapped me on my forehead, just gentle no-claws-involved pats. I miss that. RIP, Rusty and Skipper.
About "The Oriental ideology overcoming Xian ....": A nun at my Catholic high school told us in 1958 that the predictions at Fatima to be revealed in 1960 were going to say "the yellow race will rule us". (Predictions have not yet been revealed.) Raises questions.
Every day he's the same old embarrassment.
Does Maxwell get a deal from DOJ if she implicates Trump? Not a chance in hell. Does Maxwell get a deal from DOJ if she exonerates Trump? Probably. She knows both things very well. She’s a criminal & a liar given incentive by DOJ to lie to benefit herself. Release the files.
It's called "dehumanizing" and it has been done before. You know what I'm referring to, right? Have they tattooed numbers on their arms yet?
This is wild — House Republicans are so scared of voting to release the Epstein files they’re going home early. (We agree, @AdamKinzinger, telephone town halls don’t count. But that’s all we get around here. @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn @RepOgles @RepJohnRose)
This man is a genius storyteller!
This week, I’m hosting The Daily Show Tuesday through Thursday. It’s my first time hosting anything on TV. Ever. I’ve spent years writing behind the scenes, learning from truly great and talented people. Now, for three nights, I get to sit at the desk and do it myself.
Growing up in coastal FL in the '50s meant beach or fishing with family on Sunday. Bike rides, roller skating, reading. Weekdays after homework: badminton in the back yard, flashlight hide & seek after dark, then board games. Great neighbors. No TV 'til age 14; never bored.
this is amazing. he might think harder about faith than practically anyone in public life
I enjoyed that book. Don't we all sometimes wonder what our family members might be capable of doing?
I completed a deep reading of Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds for book discussion, then began The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner.
I use both because if one service doesn't have a title available, the other one does. And Hoopla seems to have newer titles. I just finished Behold, America by Churchwell. Highly recommend!
Most local libraries have free audiobooks and ebooks through apps Libby and Hoopla. Get a library card and download the apps.
“Alligator Alcatraz” will begin operations on Wednesday. This is your reminder that a prison without due process is a concentration camp.
Worked for me at an insurance company. The fatter the files, the better.
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
Allyship goes both ways.
It's possible that Grammarly has lost it's damn freaking mind. #writing #writingcommunity #booksky
Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.
So when do they start cutting things like White House staff, like kitchen and housekeeping, party planners, secretarial staff, and maybe security? That could save a bundle.
Am I correct in remembering that many expecting Russians with money were coming here during Trump's first term, staying in the vicinity of MAL, to give birth to dual-citizen babies?
If you’re born in America, you’re an American. Pass it on.
I worked in the office of a FL state legislator several years ago. He wouldn't even let a constituent or a lobbyist buy him a Big Mac. Because he followed the law.
And pay your own way. Max your card out. We'll wave 'bye.
Yes! Good work, Sarasota Ringling fans.
And the population of the U.S. is about 350 million. So by her figures we risked losing 2/3 of us? Just by fentanyl?
On my favorites shelf: Swamplandia (Russell) Cuddy (Myers), Winter's Tale (Helprin), Shadow Country (Matthiessen), anything by Faulkner and Erpenbeck.
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
That's the first thought I had when I saw the map image of the container ships heading just up the coast to Canada.
The test of a successful president has nothing to do with how much he gets done in 100 days or how much power he accumulates. The real test is how much better off are the people, and how much stronger is our democracy. By these measures, the second term of Trump is a travesty.
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Thank you for that. I really needed a big laugh today.
As we hit the First Hundred Days milestone for Trump, I have some thoughts: campaign-trails.ghost.io/the-worst-hu...
In my local St Pete FL Publix parking lot today. Hearing some grumbling about the guy as I walked the aisles in the store too.
Yes, and so inspiring, witty, always the coolest head in a world of mayhem.
Irish writers are magical.
Libraries are great for that.
Having just finished Patriot: A Memoir, by Alexei Navalny, now reading Careless People: a Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Optimism, by Sarah Wynne Phillips.
My daughters' grandfather was born here of Italian immigrants in the first decade of the 20th C. He was taken back to Italy to be baptized when he was 3. I have the paperwork. I wonder if that confers special status for them over there. Since that election my dtrs. hope so.
Thank you to my representative, Kathy Castor.
That's the first thing coming to my mind with each of these fabrications. How do they sleep....
My statement on Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I'm in south Pinellas and have that one too.. I love the sea turtle, a familiar creature here.
In St. Pete!
Always good words, Mitch!
Today I picked up a prescription and was very happy to read on the label that it was a fine product of Canada. It worked too.
So far this AM it seems like TG can't say much that isn't scripted, or echo canned comments that this admin widely shares.
St. Petersburg, a lovely "blue" dot on FL's west coast, would love you to visit. Great museums and a vibrant arts community.
Pinellas county system (St. Pete/Clearwater, etc.) has seed libraries in some branches. I love that they're in old card catalog drawers. Also ukuleles!
I won't be around to see it but I wonder when the books are written about the last few weeks, who will be the heroes? I'm waiting to see them in action.
French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
When my husband died in 2008 the Social Security office knew about his death in a matter of days, before his ashes were in my possession.
USA loses another war 🤦♂️
Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦
I've seen an old misunderstanding going around; that libraries don't benefit authors. But they do! A lot! Here's how:
Four year old photo. Thanks; it's genetic.
Agree, and I'm over 80. I have to read a little medieval history now as a reminder that there were other bad times.
I'd love to see the lyrics shared somewhere. I 🥲 a bit.
Meryl was amazing!
All that matters is your being able to find what you need when you need it, with some degree of efficiency. This arrangement also provides the occasional serendipitous find.
Probably true. Yep, new developments have sprung up all over the state in former ag acres. But I want to have orange and pink grapefruit trees in my back yard again.
'Citrus greening... is a bacterial disease that infects citrus plants. It's one of the most serious citrus diseases in the world." It has even killed orange trees in neighborhood yards far from commercial groves. Several other citrus varieties too. Univ. of FL is exploring fixes.
I live in FL, have all my long life, and I don't think there are many Florida oranges in my grocery store juice any more. Most groves were wiped out in the past 10 years by citrus greening. I'm probably drinking Brazilian juice too.
And if we can't trust him on something proven successfully and trusted for generations (82 years old and I got them all), what else will he do that we can't trust?
In which case, families would often send them to "institutions".
And Mexico Beach in Florida.
As we head into uncertain times, a few words from a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967 to the American Psychiatric Association. Sometimes we can't adapt.
Why do so many of his statements sound like he's calling for a mob hit?
All of them. But I'm in my 80s. Still do 4 also.
Is he selling Grammarly subs? Or he prefers the AI vibe? I, on the other hand, like to see personality in my reading.
You mean like Facebook and XTwit? 🤨 (i'm old so not sure on the details.)
I remember seeing a film of events in Stalinist USSR several years ago in which a large hall full of govt reps was about 1/3 cleared in a purge of his suspected "enemies." Their faces were scraped off existing photos. This seems similar.
That guy, and even a couple of the major newspapers, are taking swipes at LA, CA, and today New Orleans for doing something wrong that causes these disasters. Why no blame on FL for building houses on barrier islands? Oh yeah, that's right, Rep. governor and legislature. Never mind.
I've read several studies on happiness and it turns out the happiest people are those who help others. She must be a very sad person.
And sometimes they'll also let you volunteer. One of my most rewarding experiences is being part of Friends of the Library in my community.