"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, sunset, dawn & gloaming, on sea & continents & islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."
~ John Muir
Alithos Anesti!
"Moon joy" is real, but it has an important lesson for us too: Public service and public life is a gift and something to treasure—the uncommon chance to do something for a cause bigger than yourself.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-pure-j...
Every year! Never gets old.
Racquetball is pure therapy. Don't matter how hard you hit, it's coming back for more. (Protective eye wear is a must)
But what if it's Spring Training in person? With a Margarita? (We won)
About 50 something tiny plastic ducks on windowsill.
Still finding them from the grand kiddos hiding at Thanksgiving. I found it fun and sweet.
6 hours ago: I'm not really a big hockey guy.
Now: I WILL DIE FOR CONNOR HELLEBUYCK!
As a kid my dad would get the $5 nosebleed seats for Mariners games that included a hot dog and Pepsi. I thought we were living large! Such a big place for a young'un.
Stop, dont put that ju ju into the universe!
It’s time for a National Strike Day to support all the citizens in Minnesota, Oregon, Chicago, Los Angeles, Maine and everywhere else who are pushing back against the ICE Gestapo and the trump GOP.
Please repost if you support this.
Only speaking personally, but today’s execution isn’t scaring me from protecting our neighbors, as some suggest is ICE’s goal. Nor am I angry with incandescent rage, in that I know such rage is unhelpful. Rather, I feel like it has forced me to truly accept that the same fate might befall me.
They shot Renee Good in the face.
They kidnapped Liam Ramos.
They just executed a man on the street.
Unmask them. Prosecute them. No more secret police.
Establishing the run against authoritarian rule, as @edsbs.bsky.social says, requires the little things, the acts of resistance and kindness and community that eventually add up to something much larger and transformative.
I wrote about it for BadFaithTimes.com.
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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
The Seahawks have lost 3 games by a combined 9 points. They’ve won 15 games by a combined 235.
Best team in football.
I guess one clarifying aspect of the regime's occupation of Minneapolis is that *no one* is coming to save us. No elected officials will protect you against the lawless thugs marauding around your streets. They won't even pretend to offer help.
They will hold indignant press conferences though.
I would add Welsh to that.
Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.
Apparently need better editing skills!
Same, I used to sit on the floor with my back to the couch my dad took Sunday naps on. Frequently got shoulder pats and the closest my dad got to endearment. " your a good kid" "love you kiddo" then One day I saw Steve Laregrnt without a helmet, fandom sealed.
"the process of dying is still something to be lived"
The 60 minutes segment Bari Weiss killed is here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
i guess we should just all share the PBS FRONTLINE & PROPUBLICA documentary on CECOT
youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc
"Think not of the books you've bought as a "to be read" pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood."
- Luc van Donkersgoed
Fun fact: #Seahawks are the only team in NFL history to have a player with a sack, tackle for loss, interception, and blocked field goal in the same game.
Leonard Williams did it last year, Nick Emmanwori today.