Emily Dickinson.
#Poetry

Engraved line of chinese poetry captioned "Stroking the sword while lamenting the social realities" (tE 剑伤世路），engravedbyShen Qianqiu. Ming Dynasty (Fig. 14)

Who up stroking they sword while lamenting social realities

#esva

Let’s talk about weather balloons—a.k.a. radiosondes—and why recent cuts to NWS staffing and balloon launch schedules are putting the public at risk (eg., Deaths in Texas). No satellite or model can replace what these humble balloons do. Here's why. 🧵

a woman just trying to get home gets shot

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"When President Jimmy Carter told me that America had become “an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery” nine years ago, he probably never believed it would become this naked and flagrant."

"If Americans don’t wake up to the scam soon, we may find ourselves living in a country where corruption isn’t just tolerated — it’s both official and permanent policy."

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Knit, knit, knit

Why Cory Booker’s Speech Matters Booker didn’t “accomplish” anything. He was a voice of one crying in the wilderness. And that’s how you build a dissident movement: with simple acts of witness.

"The catch is that in order to get attention, you have to be terrible. You have to lie or embrace evil. In the attention economy there is enormous demand for civic blasphemy. What’s hard is getting attention for messages about truth, or virtue, or love."

The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.

#esva #rt13 #wisteria

A stretch of beach and a wave of water that is bright yellow.

That yellow? That's pollen.👀
#esva #kiptopeke

“After the Storm”. 12x16” oil on linen
A typical scene here on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Now available at the Peninsula Gallery in Lewes, DE.
#artistsonbluesky #esva #oilpainting

Oooooooh. Nice morning.

#ESVA #SHORELIFE

“Hints of Spring”. 12x16”
In early spring, the fallow farmlands are covered with a beautiful mixture of purple dead nettle and henbit. And the maple trees are budding red. I love this subtle tinge of color amid the gray winter sky, trees and grass. It’s a hopeful sign.

My anxiety is thru the roof, I hope 9 cups of coffee & 14 hours on social media helps

Turns out...

It was Russia! Russia! Russia! all along

Trump is:
• Lifting Russian sanctions
• Cutting aide to Ukraine
• Eliminating Russian Cyber Command
• Firing/exposing top FBI/CIA intelligence/counterintelligence pros
• Allowing Russian embassy, consulates to reopen

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?

Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

Garbage Humans— modern day zombies. They eat hearts instead of brains.

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

DOGE lists 1,125 canceled contracts, claiming $7.2 billion in savings—but many were already completed, meaning no money was actually saved. In fact, 417 contracts saved $0, and another 51 added up to less than $1 million.

Misinformation spreads fast—sharing to set the record straight.

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Justin Foster on Substack Dear Democratic Leaders, I’m not a Democrat. I’m not here to make friends, polish reputations, or trade polite pleasantries. I’m writing because Trump and Musk’s hostile takeover of the federal gover...

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Why are the Democrats so spineless? | Moira Donegan No wonder the American public thinks of Democrats as out of touch, opportunistic and cowardly. That is because they are

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