A shout-out to Portland, Little Rock, Ocean City, San Diego, Indianapolis, Salem, Denver, Asheville, and Pittsburgh!
Husband, father, grandpa, retired prof; Wendell Berry is my muse. Fighting the long retreat as best I can. Ghost: solving-for-pattern.ghost.io/introduction
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A shout-out to Portland, Little Rock, Ocean City, San Diego, Indianapolis, Salem, Denver, Asheville, and Pittsburgh!
Last days of summer scenes, Kenai River Alaska.
NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
VACCINES SAVES LIVES!!!!👍🇺🇸🥳
Kristi Neom's "facts" are as authentic as her lips and hair extensions.
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Dead, alive, or hiding — doesn’t matter. Release the Epstein files.
Rare video capture of a Spotted Eagle Ray getting airborne then using its wings to brake. I took this video near St Petersburg, Florida. #nature #amazing #animals #awesome #wildilfe #ocean
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
If they enact a new illegal congressional map, Missouri will be sued.
This is my 95-year-old neighbor. He's been living alone since his wife passed away from cancer, and not long ago, he also lost his loyal companion dog. Now, every day, our chicken Hei Hei escapes the yard just to visit him. She sits with him, accepts treats, and lets him pet her like an old
Two remarkable Ambassadors for our Planet, 99 year old Sir David Attenborough and 91 year old Dr. Jane Goodall. They’ve dedicated their lives to educate and protect.. 🌍 #janegoodall #davidattenborough #nature #chimpanzees #wildlife #environment #drjanegoodall #jane #sirdavidattenborough #bbc #bsky
A wall of trees across Africa is slowing the Sahara’s advance — and teaching the world how to fight drought with nature. 🌍🌱 What lessons can the U.S. Southwest and beyond learn from the Great Green Wall? Read more medium.com/@alanworldvi... #ClimateResilience #Drought #Africa #Geography
The White House account on X boasts of “$8 trillion in tariff revenue.” 🤡
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Today we celebrate the strength and resilience of working people everywhere. Nearly 300,000 federal employees have lost their jobs this year not because of necessity, but because of a political agenda. And while people’s lives were destroyed in the name of “saving money,”
I just saw an article that said a CEO that stole a hat from a kid at a tennis event was the most hated man in America. I feel like that's forgeting someone.
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
True 😀
Why is the Draft Dodger-in-Chief trying to drag us into a war with Venezuela? The claim is that drug cartels are so out of control they’ve been designated an international terrorist organization, so we need to send warships. But we’re denying Venezuelan’s asylum claims who fled for their lives. 🤔
Dog realises when the point has been won and celebrates. #bluesky #dog #dogaday
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Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
Fatality.
Kamala Harris would not be secretly trying to deport innocent children to Guatemala if she was our president instead right now.
I didn’t really need more evidence that RFK Jr is nuts and delusional.
If this is the “strong leader” they keep selling us, why are they hiding him like Weekend at Bernie’s? 👀
Troops in the streets and he thinks he’s going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
POPE LEO: “Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms, large and small, which infects our world.” He prays for the victims in Minneapolis, and “the countless children killed and injured every day around the world”
Somewhere in Iceland.
Veggie gardens are unbelievable.
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
I’m not an ornithologist. Can anyone identify the bird in this photo?
I’m surprised this fascist regime hasn’t redefined Labor Day as celebrating women giving birth. How are you ladies doing out there with less rights? Raise your hand if you’re still pissed. ✋🏻 FYI: They want to take away our right to vote next.
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
Unafraid to speak truth to power, President of the American Academy of Pediatrics Dr. Susan Kressly joins @vinguptamd.bsky.social on Meidas Health for a powerful discussion on truth, conviction, and her deep commitment to ensuring optimal childhood health for the nation amid chaos at the CDC.
If all the documents were released, all the records, all the interviews, if every shred of paper written on the Epstein sex trafficking operation were released tomorrow, there would still be horrific things we’ll never know. Think about that.
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
My dream is for it to happen like it does to vampires. When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.
Exactly. It doesn't give him implicit authority, either.
Assuming he's sick, l just pray he follows the medical advice of "one of the world's foremost voices, advocates and experts on public health," RFK Jr.
I like the rebrand.
If we have to become an authoritarian state, can we at least get eco-cities, bullet trains, and renewable energy?
I'm going on record. You don't cover up dead. He's not dead. However, he's sick as shit. That you can cover up for a bit. But just a bit. Mostly I hope he feels like absolute shit and is very scared of death. That I can work with.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
Having a Slinger, which is hash browns under two hamburgers under four (?) eggs under roughly two gallons of chili. Fifteen bucks. I am the Anthony Bourdain of slop and you cannot stop me.
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders wants RFK Jr. under oath. He’s demanding a special Senate hearing on the CDC disaster RFK Jr. helped create. Go Bernie!
Good night 🌙
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Netflix co-founder and Democratic megadonor Reed Hastings has given $2 million to help California redraw its House maps in the latest indication of the campaign’s outsize stakes.
Gavin’s is better Just sayin’
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I think it's time to discuss the 25th Amendment.
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Science is real
California stepping up.
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
Last night, at the final show of her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour, Cyndi Lauper brought out Joni Mitchell (for “Carey”), Cher (“Girls Just Want To Have Fun”), SZA (“True Colors”), John Legend (“Time After Time”), and more. www.stereogum.com/2321337/cynd...
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
He won’t let the press anywhere near him. This is getting weirder and weirder.
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
Timeline cleanser: When you love your job 😊
I said 2PM but as this is my first, it is a little early. But that's okay... I hope. Take a look, vet and follow. These are all great folks. #StrongerTogether #BlueCrew #BreakfastCrew
What are “controversial topics”? Whether we should have free healthcare and UBI?
A look back at past Trump statements is interesting in this moment when stumbling to a golf course is the closest thing to a presidential activity the guy does. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
Civil War is breaking out…..
The DOJ is telling the court that all unaccompanied children Trump is sending to Guatemala have parents or guardians in that country who have requested their children be returned to them. The plaintiffs are saying that's not at all true. You can read the back and forth here:
Timely update on Trump’s supposed golf outing in VA. @meidastouch.com youtube.com/watch?v=yUZK...
Yup
Trump Regime collapsing under Trump's weakness and appointees idiocy. Grab your coffee we go live at 11 am Eastern. Join us in the lie chat.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
My brother opened up a shop that is geared to gays, liberals & everyone who is NOT MAGA! Check it out! thesalty.shop
Remember Marsha Blackburn is for this
🎯 #RobertFKennedyJr
occupydemocrats--🚨Philadelphia’s Democratic DA Larry Krasner just unveiled a BRILLIANT playbook for arresting and prosecuting Donald Trump’s fascist ICE agents and troops as MAGA’s crackdowns spiral out of control. www.instagram.com/reel/DN9QZb9...
I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
“Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” — Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
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They're releasing the Epstein files?
The Social Security Administration official who exposed that the Department of Government Efficiency had left millions of Americans’ personal data vulnerable says he has been forced to resign due to retaliation. Charles Borges, who served as the SSA’s chief data officer, told
🚨Children🚨Killed by🚨ICE Say their names. Their lives mattered and their deaths were govt. sanctioned murders. 1/2
spent the afternoon sitting under the canopy of trees my great-great grandparent planted as sapling wedding gifts
FEMA employee on leave describes "culture of fear “ among agency employee
All kidding aside, suffering from both leprosy & syphilis at 79 is no joke, but I am sure whatever cure RFKjr is mixing up will get him back on the golf course in no time.