Took a night-train from Budapest Keleti to Stuttgart last night. They don’t make railway stations like they used to!

Three white tulips standing next to each other, their petals each have a light yellow stripe at the center, green stems and leaves. The background is dark, with some green showing.

VIENNESE IMPRESSIONS
Light and Shade
6 April 2026 St. Marx
Image © Merisi Vienna #VintageLens
#EastCoastKin #ECK #Photography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#Flowers #BloomScrolling #tulips

They are physically grabbing citizens and illegally detaining them in those privately run “immigration prisons”

CITIZENS !!!!!

ICE has to be dismantled
And guilty ICE personnel should be prosecuted.

I won the jackpot: a rare Dugong (sea cow). They look a bit like Manatees but aren’t related. They are far relatives of Elephants and they are HUGE!

Not sure wtf we're doing but it definitely doesn't feel like winning.

Gay Man DESTROYS Republicans who Banned Gay Adoption 🏳️‍🌈💪👏 YouTube video by Josh Helfgott

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Actor Alan Reed standing with his jacket open and his thumbs resting on his belt. He’s wearing a fedora and a short striped tie. He’s smiling with a sinister look.

#Filmnoir #filmsky #moviesky #tvsky #NoirNeckties

Actor Alan Reed was not only the blackmailing “beefy assistant” in
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946), he was the voice of Fred Flintstone (1960-1977).

🤷🏼

Stone effigies of an armoured knight and a lady on top of a tomb in Benington church, Hertfordshire. Both figures lie on their backs facing upwards and are shown at prayer. A large candlestick is visible in the background,

Faces of power from long ago fashioned most finely from stone. Here, Sir Edward de Benstede and his wife Joan Thornbury at Benington, Herts. Edward successfully navigated the end of Richard II’s reign to serve under Henry IV. Remarkably, he was around 77 when he died - a grand age. #TombTuesday

Agami Herons.

Impeachment, not the 25th. He is unfit for office, but his problems now are because he has surrounded himself with enablers and thinks he has no restrictions or consequences.

Spike Lee at the Knicks game at MSG.

#spikelee #popeleo #knicks #madisonsquaregarden

And the do nothing GOP Congress continues to enable their clearly mentally ill leader to the detriment of not only the US, but the world!

Sunrise this morning here in Glastonbury.

Amazonian royal flycatcher: #AGoodPlace

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I don’t necessarily think that it’s useful for serious political figures to endeavor to fully dissolve — as opposed to regulate and constrain — corporate entities, but I’d make an exception for Palantir. It cannot coexist with liberal democracy and it openly says so

Trump and his sons have enriched themselves by over 4 Billion dollars since he came into office

This is by FAR the most corrupt administration ever

Not a President……a terrorist!

The Cancer Victims Who Could Sink Bayer’s Roundup Settlement With thousands of cases piling up in U.S. courts, the company’s relief plans still face hurdles.

The Cancer Victims Who Could Sink Bayer’s Roundup Settlement. “They screwed up, basically, and when you screw up, you gotta be accountable.” With thousands of cases piling up in U.S. courts, the company’s relief plans still face hurdles. www.wsj.com/business/the...

A remarkable find in Maui! We identified the 96th hawksbill turtle in Hawaii and named him Cousteau, highlighting the importance of marine conservation efforts.

Goat's foot morning glory (Convolvulaceae: Ipomoea pes-caprae) can be found on tropical ocean shores around the globe. Also known as railroad vine, this evergreen perennial is one of the most widely-distributed salt-tolerant plants in the world. Padre Island National Seashore, Texas, 16 Jun 2017.

Goat's foot morning glory (Convolvulaceae: Ipomoea pes-caprae) can be found on tropical ocean shores around the globe. Also known as railroad vine, this evergreen perennial is one of the most widely-distributed salt-tolerant plants in the world. Padre Island National Seashore, Texas, 16 Jun 2017.

Monterey Park becomes the first city in California to ban "all data centers within city limits" Residents of the small enclave east of LA not only killed their city's proposed 250,000 square foot data center, they pushed city council to ban them altogether

The "public comments at the hearing before the vote left little doubt that Monterey Park residents overwhelmingly disdained not only the prospect of a massive, noisy, and polluting infrastructure project being erected in their backyards, but who that project would benefit, at their expense.”

WARSH: The broad contours of the economy are improving. The potential of the economy, the real results of the economy are improving.

TINA SMITH: The reality is there was almost 0 job growth in 2025. That looks to me like not a roaring economy, but a weak economy.

"I would have won Vietnam very quickly," Trump just said.
He's out of his mind. We need to get rid of him before he kills us all.

@silverduke.bsky.social

Rhododendron in my garden

Did American voters really think it was cute to vote for someone whose thing is to call people names? It’s something we’re taught at an early age not to do.
Minor in the scheme of things, but such a telling characteristic.

Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.

Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.

The system is rigged.

Happy 89th Birthday George Takei!

George Takei, born on April 20, 1937, in Los Angeles, California, is an actor, activist, and social media phenomenon who has lived one of the most remarkable lives in American entertainment.

As a child, Takei and his family were forcibly relocated to Japanese...