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US House committee releases more than 33,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein files
@timmiller.bsky.social on the Trump family's crypto profits: “Agnew resigned over $10K in a paper bag and…some other side deals. But this is $5 billion.” @stuartpstevens.bsky.social: “And no one in the Republican Party will say a thing.”
The winner of the Lina Lamont Memorable Quote Award -
vile & pathetic doesn’t quite fully capture the incident.
Millionaire apologises for snatching Majchrzak’s souvenir cap from young fan at US Open
Three Scottish brothers who embarked on a 9,000-mile row across the Pacific Ocean completed their journey Saturday, setting a new world record.
Americans once assumed their kids would be better off than they were. But business professor Scott Galloway says today's economic policies work to enrich Boomers and steal from younger generations.
Manni Coe was abused as a teenager. The predatory priest died before he could get justice and he is still waiting for recognition from the Church of England
"Here’s the truth we cannot escape: If Ashli Babbitt is honored, then few things are sacred. If loyalty to the Constitution and an attempt to overthrow it are treated as equal, we lose the very meaning of service." www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
‘Active Measures’ through the years
⚡️Russian soldier allegedly executes unarmed civilian in Donetsk Oblast, footage shows. Ukraine’s 1st Azov Corps said the victim was clearly in civilian clothing and unarmed, describing the incident as a direct violation of the Geneva Convention on the protection of civilians.
Republican Rep. Barry Moore was heckled during a townhall in Alabama before leaving out the back door.
Profiles in courage, every last one of them.
bsky.app/profile/your... Portugal's President: "Donald Trump Is A Soviet/Russian Asset" www.joemygod.com/2025/08/port...
For his new crime drama, “Caught Stealing,” Darren Aronofsky needed a cat that could manage a New York City set and hit the necessary marks. Enter Tonic, a seasoned pro.
As has been pointed out earlier ‘there is no bottom’
CNN host Erin Burnett was stunned at a remark the White House made about the war in Ukraine on Thursday.
A small group of about 10 writers, researchers and web development ninjas are launching an ambitious effort to preserve key climate data that the Trump administration has taken offline.
The correlation between ‘The Boys’ Vought International & The Heritage Foundation’s Vought is not merely a coincidence - power corrupts absolutely
Too much hate, rage & harm - we desperately need another path forward
I went for a walk this afternoon after the initial shock of the news here in Minneapolis. Kids move dinosaurs around this front garden every day. Innocence lost today especially heartbreaking. We are a city of neighborhoods. We are all together in mourning tonight. 🌱
I have all of these. I even have two Lavendar plants. My lil' Rosemary didn't make it but I have a really big Rosemary Plant now. She WILL survive. She will thrive.🌱💚
One must be cautious when walking in the garden at night. Almost walked through this. #AmGardening 🌱
#PrettyPurpleThursday 💜🌱
"Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove." ~ Ralph Ellison 🌱 #PrettyPurpleThursday 💜 #FlowerReport 🌺 #BloomScrolling 💮 #Gardening 💐 #Zone10a
🌱 #gardens #UrbanGardens #ClimateChange 🌱 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
…and the brain worm will lead us into a bright & glorious tomorrow
In the loop 2025 - all of this is rather ‘foreseeable’
Susan Collins just got brutally heckled
Plaud upgrades its card-sized AI note-taker with better range
Emma Heming Willis sat down with Diane Sawyer to discuss her husband, Bruce Willis, and his life with frontotemporal dementia. She says they have ‘moments’ where he’s his old self, but they go quickly.
Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire on Monday while operating a live video feed at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, reported on the war's civilian suffering while himself living in a tent and struggling to find food for his family reut.rs/4mW46Hi
Apple officially announces iPhone 17 event: ‘Awe dropping’
macOS Tahoe adds three new apps to your Mac, here’s what’s coming
Twelve highly commended photos in this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, from The Atlantic Photo:
My big boy kitty cat. Life is definitely good. #catlover #cats #catmom #catnap #lifeisgood
#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfPixelfed #catstodon #CatsOMastodon #catsoffediverse #alt #caturday #Ukraine #Compassion
#Puddling 🌱🦋
🌱🪲🕷🕸More overnight construction took place. Quite a few more reinforcement loops than yesterday 😁
Hello Gardening Friends, I'm not sure who recommended this book to me, but it is fantastic. I am in the midst of Chapter 3 and just finished the section on prisoners at Rikers Island and their gardens. Inspiring and confirming, the power of Gardening. I highly recommend it. 🌱
Carlin nailed it years ago…. www.facebook.com/share/r/1PNR...
Does it seem like we are working from a script written by Huxley, Atwood & Orwell?
The folks that worship him do so right up until they or their families are damaged or destroyed by his actions. They are blind to the damage until it’s too late.
The Trump administration has moved to end temporary protected status for immigrants from Honduras and other countries. Among them are health care workers tending to older and disabled people.
For the past 40 years, New York City has declared certain truly exceptional trees to be officially great. Here is a close-up look at 25 of the greatest Great Trees in the city. nyti.ms/4muzXim
I thought I'd share some early summer cheer as we head into winter— a video of my wisteria walkway in full bloom taken a couple of years ago. 🌱 #gardening
For the gardening feed 🌱
Peaceful reflection. Happy Sunday, #gardening friends! 🌱
Hydrangeas add a touch of grace to gardens. This bloom is from one of my pink flowering shrubs. "Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace." ~ Old French Proverb 🌱 #Gardening #Gardens #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Nature #Photography #Macro #Naturephotography #Hydrangeas
This afternoon’s project, a little bathing pool for the birds. Complete with staged platform & a dipping perch branch. Made from old bits & pieces so has cost nothing. I wonder who will be first to use?🌱
This beauty spent the better part of the afternoon on the Mexican sunflowers today. 🌱
🌱 Beautiful busy day in the garden🌞💙💚 #gardening #gardensky #bloomscrolling
"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment." — Ansel Adams 🌱📷
Sometimes you can see more clearly by looking back - The story of ‘Active Measures’ Jack Bryan - on CBSN youtu.be/Fv3PbSMI7tY Active Measures (2018) watchdocumentaries.com/active-measu...
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
#AnimalArtTuesday #ArtYear #smArtist " Little Refreshment" #Cats #Felines #Pets #Animals #Strays #Drinking from street #RainWater #DryPastel on #Pastelmat #Paper By Chantal Desprez
#cats #dogs #animallovers 🐾❤️
Good morning to all of you amazing people who followed me quite randomly... I'm trying to catch up, know that I'm working on it between bouts in the gardens 💚🌱🐝🦋🌻💚
🌱 Your Daily Moment of Sanity
It might be a challenge, but I like the idea of trying to use flowers that are both pretty and pollinator-friendly. And since most flowers are pretty, it's not really that hard! 🌱
Devin in the garden 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #DogsofBlueSky #SettersofBlueSky #IrishSetters
The boys eating the neighbors plants 🦌🌱
🌱TURNING THE CORNER. As Midsummer wanes, herds of fragrant Lycoris squamigera (Magic Lily, Surprise Lily, Naked Ladies) emerge, signaling wonder and the quiet truth: in cold-winter climates, the growing season is ever-closer to its inevitable end. Amaryllidaceae
"This pushback from the American Association of Pediatrics is exactly what we should be seeing across the board. Institutions should stand up on their hind legs, speak with their own authority." Waiting. @jvl.bsky.social joins @monacharen.bsky.social on Just Between Us, for Bulwark+ members only:
All that glitters in my garden is gold 🌱
“The more one gardens, the more one learns; and the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.” - Vita Sackville- West.🌱
Guest kitty in the hydrangea garden this morning. 🌱 #FlowerReport
It looks like southwest Michigan is getting pounded with lightning tonight, this has been continuous for a while now
"Gardening is not a rational act." ~ Margaret Atwood 🌱 On this #TinyFlowerTuesday I'm hoping you get some time to act irrationally. In your garden, preferably! #BloomScrolling 💛 #FlowerReport💮 #Gardening 🌺 #Zone10a
How Big Business Has Been Pardoned by This Administration Right Now With Perry Bacon 🎙️ | TNR live on Substack trib.al/2YcZSQa
Revisit our 2022 investigation with @nolanews.bsky.social:
🌱Working on a new garden plot with a friend. We removed the grass today. Tomorrow we amend and work the soil then plant! #freshstart #myfavoritethings
Never forget that Manafort trump’s OG campaign manager was instrumental in getting en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_... into power in Ukraine before being ousted from power. The corruption is deep.
Reading in the fern room at Como Conservatory today
Went to find some hope this morning at the spring flower show at Como. The Sweet Pea flowers smelled amazing!
Two more snapshots from Como Park Conservatory, winter 1966-67. I let the scanner auto enhance these & I'm not entirely satisfied with the color, but they're still neat.
Como Conservatory #mn #photography #dronephotography
Flamingos, Como Park Zoo & Conservatory, St. Paul 6/22/2023
Check this out, I have two of them. I have never seen a coneflower with flowers on both sides of the same flower. Has anyone else seen this?🌱 The one on the bottom is one flower.
A 10-year-old British girl has made chess history by becoming the youngest female player to ever beat a grandmaster. cnn.it/4705B2t
Historically accurate depictions of events makes corporate media uncomfortable. Courage is not understood nor practiced in these lairs.
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Nicholas Rossi was convicted of rape in Utah this week. A woman in Essex has made strikingly similar allegations, but prosecutors say there is insufficient evidence to charge him
To put today’s events in context check out this documentary from 2018 - watchdocumentaries.com/active-measu...
"Dad... Dad!" A #Ukrainian Defender was held in Russian captivity for 1,207 days. Today, he met his son for the first time after returning from captivity. It’s truly heart-wrenching... 📹: Slidstvo Info, TSN
Ron Howard talks about the time Bette Davis got mad at him, his feelings about J.D. Vance now, and when Andy Warhol made him want to shave his mustache www.vulture.com/article/ron-...
Glasshouse Works in Stewart, Ohio has closed. 😢 The owners were true collectors. It was interesting buying from them. You'd order...then you wouldn't hear a peep for six months+. Then one day, wha-la! A box of unusual Begonias would show up. 😊🌱 www.juniperlevelbotanicgarden.org/the-glasshou...
Today is a sad day. I had to put up the worst looking fence ever on my community garden plot because the deer eats keeping my tomatoes (and already ate all my bean plants). Soap isn't cutting it this year 😭 We had some fencing and stakes available to us, so that's what I used 🌱
Today’s Newfoundland & Labrador art share: “Shoreline Irises” (2022) 10 X 14” acrylic on paper painting by Reilly Fitzgerald. Original painting available #reillyfitzgerald #newfoundland #art
Danielle Spencer, an actress who played the little sister Dee Thomas on the sitcom “What’s Happening!!” in the late 1970s, has died. She was 60. A family spokesperson told the AP that Spencer died Monday after a yearslong battle with cancer. Photo from 2006 by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
A big reason for skepticism about Donald Trump’s desire to fight crime in D.C. is that he is, in many ways, objectively pro-crime, Jonathan Chait argues.
He’s sorta got that Seb Gorka & Rasputin vibe going on. I can only imagine that first time he & Hassett appear together to blow smoke.
Trump plans to nominate E.J. Antoni, a longtime critic of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to lead the agency.
‘Hemorrhage Foundation’ more like it
"The Munich Agreement" –history lessons Looking at current events,of course 1938 comes to mind.At that time, Munich city became a symbol of one of the most fateful decisions in history&the greatest diplomatic failure of the 20th century⤵️ 📹Chamberlain's speech after signing the agreement/ Iconic
In fact putin wants peace he just spells it differently - he just wants a piece of each nation that is not Russia
Palestinians in Gaza held a funeral procession on Monday for journalists for the Al Jazeera network who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday. Here's what we know about them. nyti.ms/4mJMa2J
‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza
My 7yr old wanted to hold up this Sapporo Giant cabbage for size comparison 😆 It was about 25lbs (11kg) but she did it! 💪 #gardensky #giant #heirloom #wow #funnykids #bluesky 🌱
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, ran a private school out of a house at their Palo Alto compound for 14 children, in violation of city code. The revelation comes after a school that the couple established for children from low-income families announced in April that it would close.
