Wonder what the president will make worse today.

I think about this post several times a week

Most Americans know what it would take to fix our broken country

- Abolish Citizens United
- Outlaw foreign influence
- End the electoral college
- Tax the oligarchs
- Reestablish rule of law
- Strict separation of church & state

It’s whether we have the courage to change our self-destructive ways

Many (or at least several) people voting as Republicans have identity issues. They believe their political affiliation transcends the policies a party supports.
And then the rest are racists, nazis, and really bad neighbors.

The loss of a child changes you, no matter their age. Life splits into the before and the after.
Madison will be remembered.
She mattered.

This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.

The sun setting over the Pacific Ocean with an amber sky and deep blue waves rolling into the beach, dotted with the silhouettes of 20+ surfers in the water along the horizon.

Last night’s sunset in San Diego:

The sun setting over the Pacific Ocean with an amber sky and deep blue waves rolling into the beach, dotted with the silhouettes of 20+ surfers in the water along the horizon.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

I don't know if Pete Hegseth is the most pathetic, insecure man in existence but he is the best example we have of pathetic, insecure men

A six frame photo collage: A hover fly, from the front, on a small white flower with golden yellow anthers. A pink rose. A macro close-up of a yellow petunia, with pale yellow anthers. A white rose. A California Golden Poppy. A white lily with red dashes on the petals.

#SixOnSaturday
#FlowerReport:

From San Jose, California, this week.

I agree. Billionaires don’t get that way in a vacuum.

This black-and-white close-up portrait photograph captures Jannetje Johanna “Hannie” Schaft (16 September 1920 – 17 April 1945), the legendary Dutch resistance fighter known to the Nazis as “the girl with the red hair.” Shown from the shoulders up against a plain, dark studio background, she gazes slightly upward and to the right of the frame with quiet intensity. Her expression is calm yet resolute—lips gently closed, eyes clear and steady—conveying youthful determination and inner strength. She wears a dark, textured knitted sweater with a round neckline, her thick, wavy hair framing her face in soft curls. The tight composition centers entirely on her face and upper torso, creating an intimate, almost contemplative mood that belies the extraordinary courage of the young law student who abandoned her studies to join the Raad van Verzet. She forged identity cards for Jewish families, smuggled weapons and illegal newspapers, and carried out daring assassinations of Nazi officers and Dutch collaborators. Arrested just weeks before liberation, she was executed by firing squad on 17 April 1945 in the dunes near Haarlem. This powerful image stands as an enduring historical symbol of ordinary heroism and defiance against fascism, immortalizing a woman whose short life became a beacon of Dutch resistance.

#OTD in 1945, Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft--𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳--was executed by the Nazis at age 24.

Law student turned saboteur, she smuggled weapons & assassinated collaborators. Captured weeks before liberation, she faced the firing squad with defiance. #courage #WWII #HistSky

Happy birthday!🎉

Me in my backyard

I turned 39 a couple of days ago.

A close-up photo of a golden yellow rose opening, with green leaves in the background.

A macro close-up photo of a hollyhock flower with white petals leading inward to a star shape around a jumble of light "threads" resembling a ball of twine from above. Some pollen has spilled out onto the inside of a petal. The outer part of the petals are white, with densely packed veins, all of which go from pink to red, to lay over a pool of maroon towards the center. .

#FridayFlowers
#FlowerReport:

From San Jose, California,
yesterday and Wednesday.

Sounds about right. Remove anyone who still believes in the rule of law.
“she allegedly expressed doubts about the viability of the probe”

I wonder what they think about.

Jeb reference…golden.

It’s the domestic violence.

It’s the guns.

It’s the combination of patriarchy and easy access to guns.

Domestic violence is a gun violence issue, and gun violence is a domestic violence issue. We cannot address one without addressing the other.

Remember the good old days? Like a year and a half ago, when @markhamillofficial.bsky.social showed up at his star on Hollywood Boulevard, asking tourists to take his picture, then trying to convince them he died in a jet ski accident for Jimmy Kimmel’s show.

Very pleased with our softball win tonight. We played a man down for half the game but played with sound fundamentals.

I had a pretty neat catch in RF.

This really is the only way to get rid of the stench and stain on our country's government.

A portrait ID photo of a mature woman. She is wearing a blouse. She has wavy hair that covers part of her forehead ad her ears. Her handwritten signature is visible in the picture.

17 April 1895 | A Czech Jewish woman, Pavla Friedová, was born in Votice.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 October 1944. She did not survive.
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The history of deportations of Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/3MdIVUA

I wouldn’t put it past any entitled white man from thinking he knows more than any professional in any field.

Right?!!!
It is not normal to defend someone who cuts up roadkill to take it home and mess with it.

Of course he posted a fake verse. He’s cosplaying the role of Secretary of Defense, even to the extent of giving the department a fake name.
We are fully cooked with these jokers in charge.

Just to be clear, Trump is bragging about "solving" the war he started

And the other nine are fictitious wars his enablers told him he solved when they brought him his dinner tray.

Sometimes Non-writers Need to Write Recently, I met a woman who I can tell is my soul sister.

I started writing on Substack - for my sanity and for people like David who deserve quality care too.
open.substack.com/pub/beanietv...

Police say former Virginia lieutenant governor, wife dead in murder-suicide Police in Virginia say Justin Fairfax, the state’s former lieutenant governor, shot and killed his wife and then fatally shot himself.

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
-Margaret Atwood

#WomenArePeople
#StopKillingUs