#ego #lavishSpending #alwaysMoreoutrage

The Saint America Needs Now Kindness has become countercultural. Perhaps Saint Francis can help.

"Kindness is countercultural," writes author Parker, and then he suggests Francis as a cure.

#kindness #counterculture #newYearnewWay

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!

Bari Weiss’s Audience of One Trump’s plan to corrupt the media is starting to work.

Lamentation. That's kinda what I'm thinking.

#stateMedia #MinistryOfTruth #DemocracyDiesInTwilight

A joy to see smart, strong youth in these dark times.

#youth #compassion #resistance

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

The Truth Physics Can No Longer Ignore The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

New vistas to explore. I like it!

#chances2learn #complexity #sayNotoReductionism

⛰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

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.

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

#TikTok #NonUSOwner #OilMoney

"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.)

An aerial view of enormous cracks in the one of the glaciers in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park .

Textures 🧊

“Almost Heaven”

Big Bend National Park/TX

#Stunday #EastCoastKin

'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.

“We must expand the VA, not hollow it out.”
#killingVA #Project2025

"Quacks" was a pointed insult when more people believed the scientific process lead to truth. Now people can see the truth in their own neighborhoods. Such an odious shame that adults' learning is done at the expense of children's suffering!
#measles #vaccine #RFKJr

make it stop

#lawlessness #unconstitutional #shame

#Indiana #Illinois #WearASweater

Forested mountain summit ridge trail in the clouds

Hiking in the clouds for #SCAPE and #ForestFriday

#EastCoastKin #ericgphoto #landscapephotography #ArcanumAlumni #landscape #photography #G+Circle #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky

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…

The people have power, y'all!

#No2gerrymandering #INdidGood #DemocracyHasLegs

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.

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

John Roberts’s Dream Is Finally Coming True The chief justice has been working to neuter the Voting Rights Act since the beginning of his career.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... #Votingrights #fascism #StillWeRise

#SundaySilence #❄️

but, like, a ball's a sphere, which has circles in it; so that's many circles, which is even better

#moribundUSEdDept #CivilRightsYetLive #WeFightOn

Well if Margaret says so, we'd best pay heed.

#dystopia #2close4comfort #HandmaidsTale