Snoqualmie Falls!

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

On tyranny Aristotle and Plato’s words

I’m reading On Tyranny this morning. The connection is clear. Aristotle and Plato weren’t predicting the future. They were describing what they’d already watched happen.

Ancient philosophy came out of real situations people had to navigate. We’re witnessing it today. #Stoicism #StoicSisterhood

Michael Beggs
Bay of Fires Tasmania
East Coast Tasmania Australia

I rarely have flight envy but this gave it to me in spades.

Today I got over 200 ❤️s on my Wood Duck photo. That’s the most ever for any #photo I’ve posted online. 🥹 Thank you for your kindness and encouraging words. #Birder are the best! Photo: Red-shouldered Hawk a few years ago in Morro Bay, CA.

Nostalgia for upstate NY

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

American Kestrel deep dive. Toronto, Canada, April 17th 2026.
Photo by Jose Raposo

Black bird with red flashes on wings eats seeds on a railing

Red winged blackbird sporting his intense mating season colours 🪶

Amazing! This is the line to get into Peter Buttigieg’s town hall in Tulsa tonight.

Marys Peak (OR) on a surprising snowy April day

Marys Peak on a surprising snowy April day

A convicted felon as President of the United States talking about removing criminals is the very definition of hypocrisy.

DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states.

DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand.

My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases.

DOJ is now 0-5.

My firm is 5-0.

Lesson: When we fight we win.

When it was new I listened to it twice a day for a year. Still listen often. Every note, riff, harmony, word, beat is "woven indelibly into my heart and my brain," to quote another Simon song

Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy" This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation

Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy"
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Anemone (2025). I'm so glad I saw it but I can't watch it again: indescribably intense

What's a movie that's SO good, you can't watch it again?

I'll go first.
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (2022) was so good that I don't wanna rewatch. I don't want any of my thoughts about it to change.

Bruce Springsteen
@brucespringsteen.net

Water with soft waves with sunlight hitting it

I've been feeling very negative lately, so I want to better with documenting positive thoughts and sharing some of my favorite things every day in April.

Day 1 is when the sun hits water and it looks all✨ sparkly ✨

Digital painting of a red trillium, a striking bloom with three large burgundy red heart-shaped petals with three pointed green leaves behind. The center of the flower has creamy yellow fluffy bits (stamen or pistils? not sure of the correct terminology). The background is a blurred green and gray suggesting other plant life behind.

Day 2 of #DrawAFlowerADay... I haven't drawn much for the past few months so I'm easing back into it with flowers with simple, graphic shapes. Here's a red trillium from a beautiful reference photo provided by @g-lau.bsky.social

Someone sent me this.

Insane Auroras this weekend over Senja, Norway. #Senja #Norway #NorthernLights

Snow-covered Mount Etna in Sicily with three plumes of smoke rising

After days of hiding its face amid a crowd of... clouds, Mt Etna showed off a little on March 13th.

Trump said he sent ICE to airports to go after Somalis and other nonwhite people.

Some of his allies explained it's because ICE in airports will upset Democrats.

Video shows ICE standing around, harassing, or arresting people.

Why is anyone covering it as ICE helping speed up TSA security checks?

Robert Mueller, former FBI director and special counsel in Trump-Russia probe, dies | CNN Politics Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who led the historic probe into alleged collusion between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government, has died. He was 81.

Robert Mueller always said yes when his country asked for his service.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/21/p...

Old enough to remember when the 2nd Bush administration fired a civil servant for estimating the cost of invading Iraq at $200bn instead of the $50bn the admin was claiming. 🤔 What was the eventual price tag?

Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.

SCOOP: The Pentagon asked the White House today for more than *$200 billion* for Iran war supplemental, sources say

Some in WH think Congress won't support b/c it's so big

Will tee up giant battle in Congress

My last story for WaPo:

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One of many steps

Front a trickle to a fall

The long cascade.

In full motion.

Richardson falls on the Bruce trail.

Duncan, ON - Oct 2020

About 30km west of Collingwood on the Bruce Peninsula lies a small but pretty waterfall also known as Pinnacle Rock falls.
Beautiful step waterfall that is worth the hike.

#Waterfalls #DiscoverON #ShareCanGeo #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin