Brad
@woofrock.bsky.social
By profession, educator. By temperament, learner. Prone to gaze at clouds, trees, rivers. Easily hooked by narrative media. Heartbroken by the regime, and now and again by bits of the past. Find peace in breathing in the present moment, taking action.
"Kindness is countercultural," writes author Parker, and then he suggests Francis as a cure. #kindness #counterculture #newYearnewWay
The Saint America Needs Now
Kindness has become countercultural. Perhaps Saint Francis can help.
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Grand Lake, Colorado Kris Ramer, 12/23/25 #WackyWeather #StillCSnow #Colorado It’s been crazy warm here! Normally all of our lakes would have ice forming, but the lack of ice makes for some beautiful reflections!
Lamentation. That's kinda what I'm thinking. #stateMedia #MinistryOfTruth #DemocracyDiesInTwilight
Bari Weiss’s Audience of One
Trump’s plan to corrupt the media is starting to work.
theatlantic.com
Sonoran Desert landscape in Winter; Arizona USA. Galaxy S24 + Snapseed.
“And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.” Roy Bean Mills Lake, RMNP, Colorado #mountains #nature #snow #hiking #nationalparks #wilderness #Colorado
⛰Mountain Monday‼️ #MountainMonday “Old-Man's View of the Divide”. On Trail Ridge Road, the Old-Man-of-the-Mountain (Alpine Sunflower) in the foreground with the snow-dusted majesty of the Continental Divide in the background #RMNP #Wildflowers #Mountains
Rock can be broken, but putting it back together can be impossible. Protect the National Parks #RMNP #Resist #Protest #RockyMountainNationalPark #LandscapePhotography #Photography @natashataylor746.bsky.social
“What are men to rocks and mountains?” Jane Austin Little Matterhorn, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado #wilderness #landscape #photography #rmnp #nationalparks #nature #hiking #blackandwhite #Colorado
Why does no one stop this tomfoolery? Cheeto is oblivious to his own shame and idiocy. We have ample evidence of this. But surely there are others in DC and beyond who see this muck for what it is. Why not speak up, call out the ways this regime drags the US further into the mire? #Cheeto #Shame
Sleepy. Divisive. A fan of young Trump: A look at the new plaques on the Presidential Walk of Fame
President Donald Trump has added partisan and subjective plaques to a refashioned West Wing walkway he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame.
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evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
"It's the *most* wonderful time of the year." (Stefano Mazzola / Getty: A #Krampus from the Flagellium group #scareschildren in Fusine di Valromana on December 5, 2025, in Tarvisio, Italy.)
“We must expand the VA, not hollow it out.” #killingVA #Project2025
'This Is Outrageous': Trump VA to Eliminate Up to 35,000 Healthcare Jobs This Month | Common Dreams
Before the end of the year, the Trump administration is planning to eliminate up to 35,000 healthcare jobs at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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make it stop #lawlessness #unconstitutional #shame
Kim Lane Scheppele@kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 9mo ago"Tincher [a US citizen] has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours, where she saw about seven other detainees." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…
This, the previous border militarization, occupation of our own cities, and the seizing of a Venezuelan ship in Venezuelan waters... I decry what we've become and pray that we hold unrestricted elections that can wrest power from this corrupt regime. #bordermiltarized #owncitiesoccupied #Venezuela
Trump administration adds militarized zone in California along southern US border
The Trump administration is adding another militarized zone to the southern U.S. border to support border security operations — this time in California.
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Well if Margaret says so, we'd best pay heed. #dystopia #2close4comfort #HandmaidsTale
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 9mo agoMargaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale has become ‘more and more plausible’
