Such awesome faces. Our first shag is still with us, the love of our life. What a great concoction!
Happily married short fiction and poetry writer, found-object sculptor, dog lover, windsurfer. Let's eat!
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Such awesome faces. Our first shag is still with us, the love of our life. What a great concoction!
Our federal oversight work has protected *$4.4 billion dollars* in federal funds coming into Oregon so far. These dollars go to education programs, public health grants, transportation infrastructure, and more that Oregonians rely on every day. Read more: www.doj.state.or.us/oregon-depar...
Writing is the only answer to not writing. The more you write, even if it's drivel, the more that muscle strengthens for those times ahead when it will surely need to do the big lift.
Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history act.indivisible.org/sign/smithso...
Every day, the felon in chief and his goons chip another chunk from the American dream. Inspiration (thanks Paul Krugman for the link). youtu.be/6NXnxTNIWkc?...
United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero - Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.
NEW: A dozen House Democrats are suing Trump administration officials, alleging that ICE has prevented them from conducting oversight on federal immigration detention facilities and encroached on their constitutional authority to oversee the executive branch. From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
Oh, okay. Pam Bondi just fired the Epstein and Maxwell prosecutor, Maureen Comey. That'll kill the conspiracy theories.
Precious. Tell me dogs aren't brilliant.
Andy Beshear is terrific. That's all. www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
In the mood for a little short Gothic whack? Click through. Great site. theshortstory.co.uk/short-story-...
Don't you just hate interruptions at work?
Baby raccoon napping next to baby bunnies... 😊
New poem up at Backwards Trajectory. Hope you enjoy. backwardstrajectory.com/2025/07/14/w...
#booksky
He's baa-ack! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
Great tribute. So sorry for your loss. I thought my dog was/is the best dog ever. Clearly, there's room for two ... and a billion more.
rock on, bruce. youtu.be/4gRRE0Rk-SQ?...
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Hood River” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
In case you had any doubt, Jamie brings it: youtu.be/Fo5HHORa0kY?...
Protest rally today in Hood River, Oregon. Frequent honking from passing motorists showed broader support for campaign of resistance to Trump abuses.
Go, Jasmine. youtu.be/MkF1Exci9-0?...
So, you turned to the only remaining national newspaper covering ... well, the stuff you care about, so you could find out what happened with the protests on Saturday. Did you bring your magnifying glass. Can you see it, on this screen grab? Click to enlarge.
Thousands show up for #HandsOff in Portland, Ore.
When we all howl together we can make great things happen 🐺🐺🐺
#Indivisible #HandsOff #Asheville The people are rising!!!!
Tell me again why we’re letting a 78 year old, legit smelly, odorous, frail, loser old man who bankrupted a CASINO bankrupt the country? Congress? Any answers?
Get ready to march San Diego! #HandsOff
remembering fondly when people were like "don't promote 50501, it's not real, it's a psyop"
Bravo!
#HandsOff huge turnout in <10K town of Hood River, Ore. Always a big welcome for the lone MAGA guy driving his truck through the march. I swear I saw a smile on his face the last time. Must've loved being center of attention. Crowd estimates of 1,500-2K. Lots of smiles, despite the cause.
Great photo. What a man! Turd in a condom.
Last night, every Senate Democrat voted for my amendment calling for a $17 an hour federal minimum wage while every Republican but 1 opposed it. The movement to raise the minimum wage to a living wage is growing. In 2025, a job must lift you out of poverty, not keep you in it.
Some of a more than 1,000 people attending the Hands Off rally on Saturday marched from the waterfront in Hood River, Ore., to a downtown rally at Overlook Memorial Park's salmon fountain.
Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC
What is wrong with the felon-in-chief's face? Perhaps use a roller brush next time?
No Signal snafu necessary — RFK Jr's incompetence has always been broadcast. www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...
April 5 will be a day 'of love'
Stand Down King Klown!!
sorry for your loss. glad he left you with the perspective you have and share so lovingly.
If only conviction as a felon prohibited anyone from seeking the presidency in the U.S. Or bankruptcy filings. Or fomenting an attack on Congress (i.e. treason). If only. WTF is wrong with us?
Mad as hell? Not gonna take it any more? Say so Saturday, April 5. mobilize.us/s/O0jaFN
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So true. But just wait for the MAGA crowd and their GOP puppeteers to cry "socialism." When they do, tell them socialism is what we have -- even in the business sector, with public companies and ownership by any investor. Socialism is NOT communism. Hell, the U.S. military is a socialist model.
The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy. We must end that international embarrassment. Yes. We need Medicare for All.
The Trump fever is breaking. Voters who once backed him are waking up to economic chaos, broken promises, and buyer’s remorse. Is this the beginning of the end? Read more adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
lowestoftchronicle.com/issues/issue...
"She opened her mouth to talk and the cigarette stuck to her lipstick, flapping as she said “I’m sales, not warehouse.”" A spiky, clever short story from Stuart Watson: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/stua... #fiction Graphic @anchalastudio.bsky.social
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Absolutely 👇🏾😡
for president? Hell, yes, but we had our chance, and the GOP labeled him a socialist. The same party that embraces a convicted felon, sexual predator, multi-bankruptcy con man. Who would you prefer? www.youtube.com/live/QlrQKv1...
agree
In case y'all haven't seen this, ... www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Elon Musk just called Social Security a “Ponzi scheme.” And his team is working to gut the agency that makes sure your grandpa gets his check on time. It doesn’t have to be this way. I’m supporting a bill to increase benefits by $2,400/year and expand the program’s solvency.
I heart Tina Smith.
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New report from Watson Institute (no relation) @ Brown University. Military Entertainment Complex. #consumingwar
Here's a serious idea for government reform: Simplify the Income Tax system. How many headaches and hair-pulling moments, over all the schedules and catalog of instructions? Why must we pay $500+ to have someone else prepare our returns? Seriously, Bloated. Do this: Income x ?% = tax. Pay it. Done.
What, give up the happy throngs of fat people marching through the streets, happy as hell they can just take a spendy pill to counteract all their lifestyle choices? Put a few more miles on that stroll, Buffy, and don't stop at Dunkins.
If you have despaired of mealy-mouthed Dems (not you, AOC, Liz and others in the Gang of Few), you gotta love Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut. Pissed off, and not afraid to call out the Felon in Chief. Try his substack. It's free. www.chrismurphyct.com?r=616l&utm_c...
If it wasn't so likely, it wouldn't be as funny as it is. The best new comedy act going. Like Abbot and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, Nixon and Kissinger. www.borowitzreport.com/p/putin-agre...
Putin Agrees to Negotiate with Musk over Ownership of Trump www.borowitzreport.com/p/putin-agre...
I cancelled my subscription.
Who's gonna send in the cops? Who ARE the cops? Does this require our first military coup? Surely we can do better than Haiti et. al. Maybe if the Dems just walked out of Congress and waited outside. Deligitimize an illegitimate governance?
We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.
And don't forget the felon part. So sad that Merrick Garland couldn't get him for Jan. 6, when Justice got 1,270 of the rioters. Huge fail, in my book.
🚨BREAKING: In 4-3 decision, Wisconsin Supreme Court reverses lower court decision and DISMISSES voter suppression lawsuit. A big victory for our clients the WI Alliance for Retired Americans and voting rights in Wisconsin. Another stinging loss for the GOP! www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...
dancing on the ceiling over here ....
Thank you. Great site. I've recommended it to numerous friends.
If only he hadn't been pardoned. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/u...
Such a great article. I'm still quaking.
As traitors go free, an Episcopal minister speaks truth to power. Bravo, Rev. Budde. youtu.be/gNfrbAztlcs?...
A whirling mind leaves much behind. Just remembered a site built years ago for my photography. winkyblink.wordpress.com
Therapy for spare change at Santa Barbara farmers market. Willing listener and a willing talker.
New work up at the lit-mag with my favorite name ... Horror Sleaze Trash. Editor Arthur Graham is channeling John Martin for some latter-day Bukowskis. horrorsleazetrash.com/2025/01/18/s...
At farmers market in Santa Barbara, guy charges you to listen while you "share/vent." Isn't that what people do for free -- sharing and venting, that is. Most of us won't sit still for it.
Thx for sharing a remote taste, traveling with my collected Stevens at home. Good stuff.
New poetry to chew at Al Dente. @al_dente_journal
Hilarious. Where should we take shelter?
Always wistful to read these year-enders. Respect, yes, but if we were to ask the departed how they feel about being included, well, ....
Here are some of the notable people who died in 2024. They forged consequential lives in the arts and sciences, in public affairs and sports, in business and literature and more.
anything you recommend ... or didn't like even though it got a lot of buzz? No time here for huge detours to the middle of nowhere.
ohhh, what city and what store? Love Japanese lit, and thank you to all the translators who bring it to us.
It's a new year ahead, so time for this social defector to dip his toes back in. Not that I feel a compelling need to blab incessantly about trivia and things over which I have no control, but occasionally might dish up something deserving of a little more attention -- or discussion. Be nice.