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BlueSky User #15,349,228. Into numbers too much. Writer and photographer. All pix w/ALT are my own. In "On Tyranny" Timothy Snyder says Resist the dictator early, disrupt his rise. timothysnyder.bsky.social Trying to read more...
Broken swing sets? Missing basketball nets? Have no fear, Renew Crew is here. Neighborhood parks are meant for recreation — not frustration. If it’s broken, this crew will fix it. If it’s run-down, they’ll renew it. Renew Crew: Coming soon to a park near you.
"Just one more thing, sir... It's kind of bothering me... If you're supposed to be president of the United States, why would you waste your time on stupid stuff like renaming lakes?"
SEATTLE on the NE 50th St Overpass No wind, no rain, no clouds stops us from fighting for America.🇺🇸🫡 🇺🇸
Pritzker: So here’s the truth, plain and simple: Our state is under siege. Not by protesters, immigrants, the deep state, the press, Canada or Mexico or Greenland, Antifa or Jewish space lasers or pride parades. No. Our state's under siege by a petty, corrupt man in Washington.
Texas spent three years trying to criminalize a drag performer and couldn’t prove a single child was harmed. A sailor’s father got out of ICE the same day they said he was staying. Trump judges blocked a fishing expedition for kids’ medical files. Eight wins they don’t want circulating:
Great News That’s Terrible For Trump: Eight Wins They Want To Keep Buried. Oops.
A drag queen beat Texas. A sailor's father came home. A warehouse supervisor took down a travel ban. Plus five more.
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The horse-riding librarians of the Pack Horse Library Project in Hindman, Kentucky, around 1940. This was a genuine New Deal initiative established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.
Looking out of the window now I almost can't believe I caught this colour at sunrise. It is and was torrential rain here in Glastonbury. It was brief but intense.
From the other place... I am sure this sort of BS is without consequence...
Fossil fuel billionaire mass murderers "A catastrophic glacial collapse in Nepal unleashed a tsunami of mud 100ft tall, exposing growing instability of the world's highest peaks under climate change. ... wave of water, mud & rock surged ... leaving hundreds dead or missing" via Hashem Al-Ghaili
Nepal's disaster agency says the death toll from catastrophic flash floods climbed to 626 with more than 2,400 people missing in the country, as poor weather hampers aerial rescue operations in devastated areas.
Rescuers search for thousands missing after floods at Nepal-China border
Poor weather hampered aerial rescue operations in Nepal as the search for thousands of missing people in areas devastated by catastrophic flash floods along the border with China entered its fourth day.
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A glacier collapses in Nepal. Villages disappear. Hundreds are dead. More are missing. Somewhere else it's fires. Somewhere else drought. Somewhere else floods. And every time we treat it as another isolated disaster. Climate collapse isn't coming. We're living through the fucking thing.
Mitch McConnell can get 75 days off as a US Senator, but women can’t get maternity leave. Welcome to America.
AOC: “We the people demand full protected and restored voting rights in the United States of America. We the people know that means we must respond to the arsonists redistricting the South with an organizing, legislative, and civil strategy of our own to dismantle their injustice and liberate..."
This is who Dolly Parton was. ❤️ “My dad couldn’t read and write, so I wanted to do something to make him feel part of something special.” So she did. Dolly turned her love for her dad into the Imagination Library, putting more than 330 MILLION books into the hands of children.
Saved a bunny from a predicament it got itself into poor guy, looks like hes alright though.
One of the greatest Sporting photos ever taken. MUHAMMAD ALI reacts to his first round knockout of Sonny Liston during the 1965 World Heavyweight Title fight. 📷 by Neil Leifer
My suggestion is to cancel your subscription to any media company that refers to Lake Ontario as Lake America.
Art Deco Finland: The Helsinki Central Railway Station, built 1919.
Communism!!!! How dare he create affordable housing when the city could have had a nice new data center!!!!!
Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They’ve protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. Flock camera destruction isn’t just popular — in some cases, it has also proven highly effective at getting rid of them. Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/985155/...
The ONLY reason why he did it is because someone told him he would lose the support of Tennessee and other red states if he didn’t lower the flags. He did it out of self preservation. He didn’t do it after Rep. Melissa Hortman was murdered, he wanted to piss off Minnesota.
