JoAnn T. Blankenship
@jotimblank.bsky.social
Retired expat Iiving in Costa Rica. I'm a liberal, an old hippie, a vegetarian and a widow. I take pics of my cats and nature. 😻🦋🌺 #Vegetarian #Cats #Beatles #Widow #MeidasTouch #StandWithUkraine🇺🇦 #ProtestPeacefully
WW2 combat artist (& Charles Schulz inspiration) Bill Mauldin on Kent State:
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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MAGA Cult Slayer 👏👏👏👏👏👏 Inappropriately touching children is an EXTREMELY lopsided Republican issue. Disagree? Then why are all of the Republicans blocking the release of the files? And yes, they are. I don’t wanna hear any one of you say otherwise.
Man demands mariachi band stop playing-at restaurant in Mexico City. "Do you think it's correct for a mariachi to play in a place like this!" man yells. "It's the style of the restaurant," manager says. "It's your decision to come in or not to come in-but this is our style."
Pete Hegseth needs impeached. Obsessing about beards while losing a war
Overheard Trump's voice (as I clicked to make it go away) saying that where he goes to campaign they win and where he doesn't they don't, and I realized that's part of why he's campaigning in safe red districts. He wants credit for the wins and no blame for losses. It's about his ego, not the party.
A stunning new video by New York Times reporter reveals hundreds of seats empty at Trump's rally in deep-red Alabama.
Holy smokes. This is incredible! Brazil must survive the manipulation and foreign aggression. Stand strong with Lula!
Word is, Trump is planning to do 5–7 rallies per week through the midterms. Bruh, there’s no damn way he can keep up the kind of stamina that takes. This might finally finish him.
🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters
The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...
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My fear is that Musk will buy this election and we’ll all sit here shaking our heads saying, “But the polls said …”
They thought they were going to see Ed Sheeran ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Attendees listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Alabama REUTERS/Jessica Koscielniak
You choose to live. You choose to make your life all you want it to be
85-90% of handguns used in criminal activity in Toronto can be traced back to the USA. At what point do WE call a NATIONAL SECURITY EMERGENCY and impose some pain on the Americans? If they can do it over 41 lbs of fentanyl, surely we can do it over thousands of illegal guns.
Handwriting on the back of this says “The Watchover”. Photo from my collection, no date.
A plague case has been linked to a lab worker’s death in Siberia. Nearly 200 people are now under observation after the lab worker died from plague. Because apparently “deadly plague at a Russian lab” wasn’t ominous enough. www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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JUST FILED: Hegseth’s “no fatties” speech appears to backfire youtu.be/0ufgevYau6g
Hegseth RANTS at Troops as Iran War DRAGS ON
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports
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Remember the leaked White House pharmacy records from Trump I? Bet the pills are really flying out of the pharmacy this term.