A reminder:

TRUMP: “Open the strait by 8 p.m. or I'll end your civilization”

IRAN: “No.”

TRUMP: “Okay, fine. You want to play hardball, we'll play hardball. How about I agree to all of your terms?”

IRAN: “Yes.”

TRUMP: “Then we have a deal, losers.”

FCC chair Brendan Carr, who has threatened to revoke the licenses of broadcast outlets whose Iran war coverage displeases him, plans to attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as a guest this Saturday.
The suck-up media will never learn: When you invite fascists to dinner, they devour you.

This is what happens when the executive branch and the judicial branch are corrupt. ICE illegally (who are the illegals now, ya masked compensators??) detains them and a SCOTUS ruling necessitates every single habeas case.

We have become hated because we have allowed hate—unaddressed/denied foundational racism—to fester, to find God, to grow billionaires, to build walls, to turn truth, to be God, and to give to that God all the power.

Life imitating art.

The crescent 🌙 and Venus last night. Viewed over the Nisqually River in Ashford, WA.

A fuzzy great horned fledgling perches on a branch.

FINALLY. We’ve graduated from owlet to fledgling! The other one is still in the nest, but progress! 🦉🪶

In a nutshell. 😊

Every system, program, structure, institution, agency, and department in this damn country has been stripped of expertise and populated by friends of this ridiculous man we have let become dictator. Every single one.

Breathtaking Auroras spotted over Alaska 🌌

Sarah Longwell: We are committing superpower suicide in real time. Trump is making China Great Again. Poll: People in *every single one* of the top US-allied countries now believe it’s better to depend on China than on the US. The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.

Evening grosbeaks.

Screenshot of law and order svu scene with z folder on desk labeled “Epstein.”

🧐

“Under a Rainbow Sky”

Bisti Badlands of New Mexico

#Scape #ECK

Aurora from Norway 🌌

NOW!!!!!!

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

Sunset on Mt Rainier

Good night, Bluesky!

Last light on Tahoma from Puyallup, Washington
📸Brian Foley

Crazy sunset 🌅

If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.

Mt Rainier

Another gorgeous day in the PNW! 73f in Seattle.
📸Matthew Pfab

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

Barry McCaffrey: Trump muses on awarding himself the Medal of Honor. A truly vile insult to the US Armed Forces.

Completely brilliant messaging fm Iran...

...t's a ready-made Democratic campaign ad.

So. Much. Winning. 🙄

#trumptariffs #trumpeconomy #trumptaxes #corporateamerica #fdjt

Two headlines but its same story:
-Food prices alarm sounds
-Wall St bank earnings shatter records, traders thrive on Iran war volatility

"The worst crises should not be the best times for companies in vital survival sectors" read @isabellamweber.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

Wakey, wakey