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@5280cj.bsky.social
Retiree living in self-imposed exile in protest.
Visiting the Republic of San Marino - a couple of shots from the old city, and a couple of sunset shots from Borgo-Maggiore. I don't use "breathtaking" lightly; but between the views, the light, and the wind...the old city is just that. Views to the east all the way to the Adriatic Sea.
It’s as if… wait for it… Trump has zero interest in the country and only seeks to stay in power with corruption and intimidation. We aren’t a serious country and we don’t have a functioning government.
Most prescient, clear/eyed work of writing I’ve read on reorg. Read it. Then act. “Call your senators. Call your representative. Not next week or later. Now. Tell them this is not a reorganization — it’s the destruction of a federal agency by executive fiat and that Congress must intervene.”
Kim Kelly@kimkelly.bsky.social · 4mo agoAmidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...
#birds - Making some feathered friends with my daughter at a local park yesterday. A good time was had by all!
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho... If you're interested in the history and reasoning as to why DHS is so broken, please check out Garrett Graff's excellent piece linked above and below. This is the ONLY summary that I've seen thus far that accurately tells this important story!
"ICE 101" — How Trump changed ICE and CBP into a fascist secret police
ICE and CBP are fatally flawed products of the post-9/11 War on Terror — now Trump has weaponized those very flaws to occupy America.
doomsdayscenario.co
@glennkirschner.bsky.social Apologies for the screen grab, but my question was way over the character limit.
#birds - After exhausting the supply of seeds I'd gifted to my feathered buddies, this intrepid bird decided that a closer inspection was in order.
#StareDown - an Eastern bluebird, and a couple of Cooper's hawks. The hawks appear to be staring 'through' me...
#birds - From the archives - Lake Naivasha, Kenya, September 2013. Photos taken by a friend of a friend while we were on a guided boat tour of the lake.
When people care enough to watch out for those less fortunate…THAT’S what makes America great. 👏 🥹
On a trip to Saint-Malo, France last week, my daughter caught this iPhone shot of the joy and chaos of a group of kitesurfers enjoying a blustery afternoon off of Plage de Rochebonne. There's nothing like the ocean to help put everything back into its proper perspective...
#birds - a juvenile Herring Gull in Saint-Malo, France enjoying life near Plage de Rochebonne (Rochebonne beach). Saint-Malo is quite unique and special.
www.npr.org/sections/the... I recently became aware of this incident, and the surrounding "conspiracy" that the weasel somehow shifted us into an alternate reality / timeline. It makes as much sense as anything, and the timing is totally right - 2016. Please send another weasel to fix it! 😁
Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider
The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland is offline, following a run-in with a small mammal that munched on a power cord.
npr.org
From a 2017 visit to Turkmenistan: the Darvaza Crater, some "locals" in the Karakum desert, the desert, and a shot from Kunya-Urgench. (The trip was from Ashgabat to Kunya-Urgench / Daşoguz, and back). A beautiful country with some, um, "idiosyncrasies."
The weather is cooling in Paris, but there is still a lot of color! From today at Parc André Citroën in the 15th arrondissement. #flowers
A few items that caught my eye recently in Paris' 5th arrondissement (some near rue Mouffetard / the Institut Océanographique is on rue Saint-Jaques). #streetart
Wouldn't it be the ultimate troll if Jill Biden posted daily pictures of Joe's normal, healthy ankles? 😀
