Warsh hearing so far has been kind of frustrating. No one has asked the questions that seem most relevant to me:
1) is Trump's criminal investigation into Powell appropriate?
2) what would you do if Trump threatened retribution against you if he didn't like your actions/Fed policy decisions?

Prince passed away 10 years ago today.

RIP, your music lives on.

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

The DOJ is now 123 days overdue in releasing the Epstein files.

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸

THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️

“you are the poet, you walk inside my dreams”

~anaïs nin

🎨 olga petrikova "wildflowers"

Sketch of a female Cooper's Hawk made with a bic pen.

Sketch of a female Cooper's Hawk

Bic pen on paper
5x6

#art #birds #nature #sciart

Busy planting up the pots and containers in the garden so I can paint from them in the summer sunshine. This oil was sold in 2022 and most years I prop up my easel here for some new work.

Busy planting up the pots and containers in the garden so I can paint from them in the summer sunshine. This oil was sold in 2022 and most years I prop up my easel here for some new work.

This.

Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are witnessing pure EVIL. 🤬

Indian ink outlines with selective watercolour washes, a bucket of water, a garden well, unkempt grass, an abstracted woman in colourful traditional dress, scattered violet Salvia transsylvanica flowers, high-key palette, strong visual flow --ar 7:5 --p --stylize 400 --v 8.1

A nice walk today, in gentle rain, with cherry trees in blossom, and vibrant yellow and purple flowers all along the track 👣

The last in this series, I think, and using my --p profile :)

"Woman at the Well" #synthart

Top 11 Most Challenged Books of 2025. Composite of 11 close-up crops of various book covers. Text at bottom: "Protect the freedom to read" ala.org/bbooks. American Library Association

The list of 2025's most challenged books was release this morning as part of ALA's State of America's Libraries Report.

Of the 4,235 unique titles that were challenged or banned in 2025, these were the top 11 most frequently targeted for censorship: https://bit.ly/3TE4cHi

#NationalLibraryWeek

Make it make sense.

8 children between the ages of 1 and 14 are dead after a mass shooting in Louisiana, police say Authorities in Louisiana say a gunman killed eight children in domestic-related shootings at two different homes in the city of Shreveport.

The Louisiana shooting of 10 this morning is the worst mass shooting since January 2024. Shreveport is Mike Johnson’s district and the useless fraud only sent “thoughts and prayers”. apnews.com/article/shre...

Man walking a Llama on the Denver Greenbelt.

Don't have any interesting new pet pics, so here's a guy walking his Llama.

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

These highly suspicious, perfectly-timed trades reek of insider trading from corrupt public officials.

The Justice Department must investigate, and Congress should hold hearings and pass reforms that work. If Republicans won’t root out this corruption, a Democratic majority Congress will.

Maybe don’t show up.

We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it.

He’s just burning your tax money.

Wow!

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Everyone should read this description of how the Roberts Court abused the Supreme Courts own rules and traditions to turn the previously rarely used "shadow docket" into a tool for legislating a right wing agenda from the bench.

These "interim rulings" aren't interim; they are policy. Gift article.

Dudes. As a society we taught young women to walk with keys between their fingers in dark parking lots and to carry pepper spray in their purse.

So yes. I’m asking you to be responsible for the actions of other men. After all, that’s what you’ve asked of women for centuries.

It’s your turn.

It’s time for Hegseth to go.

trump won’t go because he is afraid to fail, to be held accountable for his recklessness and incompetence.

Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020.

She missed these trials by a few months.

One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here.

I feel such a hole inside.

In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

Facts.

MAGA lawmaker avoided arrest for assault after Trump DOJ ally intervened: report Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) avoided an arrest for an alleged assault after one of President Donald Trump's staunch allies in the Department of Justice intervened, according to a new report. The Washington ...

GOP Rep. Cory Mills avoided an arrest for an assault after one of Donald Trump's staunch allies in the Department of Justice intervened, according to a new report.

1-in-7 people who signed up for an Affordable Care Act plan couldn’t pay their January bill. Premiums skyrocketed this year after Republicans let the enhanced premium tax credits expire.

www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Pet portrait painting demonstration in oils of a tortoiseshell cat lounging on top of a fence by American artist Patrick Saunders for a painting workshop

My pet portrait demonstration Friday morning on the final day of my first painting workshop for the Associated Women in the Arts.

“Pebbles”
• Oil on Linen
• 14” x 18”
• 2 Hours