Summer Butterflies & Blooms 🌱 #FlowerReport #CoastalSouthTexas

Oh, the summer flower colors always warm my heart. 🌱🌸

Thanks, everyone, for coming to today's #NotAloneTalk I hope you found it fun, interesting or helpful and that the rest of your day is pleasant.

It's national sugar cookie day, any fans? Also on the list: Nunavut Day International Emergency Kit Day Palau Constitution Day Argentina Independence Day, and Call of the Horizon Day (for dreaming and planning things you'd like to do) Who's dreaming of doing something special? #NotAloneTalk

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I’m a lifelong progressive. I don’t want Medicare For All. I want universal healthcare. And I want elected officials who understand the difference.

I am glad that we have twice now recently confirmed Democrats will not stand for rapists. The Republican Party is once again a cautionary tale about where you can very quickly end up

Oh boy it’s not real yet but damn

"Ronaldo said he wants his father to be remembered...as a man who sat on his porch every evening after work petting his dog and looking out in satisfaction at the life he’d built in this country."

Make no mistake. The people in the highest level of Trump's government share the exact same beliefs as these nazi bastards, and it's on us to defeat them and render them completely irrelevant.

Senator Elissa Slotkin just introduced the Protect the Polls Act, which will ensure ICE agents are not able to be at the ballot boxes in November's midterms and beyond. We need this legislation to pass immediately!

Where Time Slows Down. Kaoru Yamada

“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad.” ― Claude Monet Art by Claude Monet, The Cliff Walk at Pourville (1882)

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

Thank you for coming to #OCDTalkHour. Our next official chat will be 7 PM UK time next Wednesday. Feel free to keep the conversation going in between.

Because my links don't seem to have worked, passing this along. IOCDF conference #OCDTalkHour bsky.app/profile/eter...

IOCDF annual conference International OCD Foundation | Conferences for OCD Support #OCDTalkHour

I almost forgot; the IOCDF annual convention is this week, starting July 9! Virtual options are available. Will post link below. #CDDTalkHour

I'm not sure what I signed up for that I've been getting emails from this particular blog, but if there is anyone reading who deals with Hair pulling compulsions, you may find this interesting. #OCDTalkHour Link is to the community (bulletin

Are there any topics people would like to discuss for #OCDTalkHour today? Remember, this is a public forum, so only say what you're comfortable putting out there.

Hello, all. Last-minute switcheroo here. I'll be leading #OCDTalkHourTonight. Sam kindly agreed to swap with me because I have a conflict next week.

Man who gets it: "Because if we are willing to look away from credible allegations of sexual violence whenever the political stakes are high enough, then we are not, in fact, the movement we claim to be."

Some butterfly art

Ellman: You want to fire people over DEI? You know that disabled combat veterans are DEI hires? Did you know there are people I worked with who couldn’t work other jobs because they had tbi, or were missing limbs, or had chronic health issues caused by their service to this country?

The notion that we Americans must think twice before we make a statement or send an e mail or post a message that is critical of the government begs for ALL OF US to stand up and LOUDLY PROCLAIM our rights and DEMAND APOLOGIES from any government official at any level who questions that right.

We're late getting started this year. No green bean plants available. Is it too late to start from seed? Will be growing in containers. Southeast Michigan, zone 6. #Container Gardening #Michigan #USDA6

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Understand why people in the US are taking this framing as primarily US focused but the “migrants who died at sea” piece is a very direct shot at the European policies which continues to drown or otherwise kill people attempting to migrate their too,

Dawn Light Frederick Brosen American , b. 1954 Watercolour and graphite on paper

There is no reason to concede that this is a live issue. It’s settled law and clear text and even the original legislative debate about the 14A makes clear what the words on the paper mean apply-liberally.ghost.io/birthright-c...

Birthright citizenship is going to be the new Roe v Wade in the sense that Democrats need to win more elections than they lose in perpetuity to protect it, because Republicans are not making the mistake of appointing another Justice who will uphold it, ever

I want ice cream so much right now, but the power's been down since last night's storm, and we don't want to open the freezer in case there's a chance the food in there might still be okay. Ah, well. Another room-temperature sparkling water will have to do. Good night, all.

NEW: Trump's flurry of pardons to Clean Air Act violators were the latest move by his administration to undermine laws intended to fight climate change & curb air pollutants that harm human health, @karenzraick.bsky.social & I report.

Gregg Abbott has been Governor of Texas since 2015 and has spearheaded abortion bans, deaths of immigrants, & locking up immigrant kids. 📌Texans need to vote Gina Hinojosa for governor in order to protect our rights, freedoms and history. #GinaHinojosa #AbbottFailsTexas @ginafortexas.bsky.social

I was 17 when the song Straight Outta Compton came out. That song by itself made me at least think (as much as 17 year olds think) how my life would have been different if I were black. I think it shaped me as a young adult and helped me recognize racism as much as anything growing up.

If most of us can accept the fact that we're susceptible to manipulation, then open societies everywhere might actually have a chance.

Is there nothing this government won't stoop to? I can't believe they managed to indict him.

two chums taking stock of the situation… art by the late Molly Brett

In 1 1/2 years, the 119th Congress has introduced 81 bills that weaken or strip protections from public lands/waters. Just 25 members of Congress introduced or co-sponsored 65 of those bills. The 119th Congress has introduced 7 bills that sell or transfer management of public lands; 26 bills that...

Jesus Christ I am so sick of this cunt. "This case is really against the United States." Fuck Off. The United States didn't sexualy assault anyone. PLEASE VOTE IN THE MIDTERMS TO HOLD THIS PATHETIC PIG ACCOUNTABLE.

“Take Five” by Dave Brubeck Quartet was recorded 67 years ago today. Two years later it became a surprise hit and the biggest-selling jazz single ever.

Shame Won’t Save Us From the Autocrats One mistake anti-authoritarian movements keep repeating—and the urgent lesson for Americans. www.thebulwark.com/p/shame-wont...

These are political prisoners.

A mobula ray leaps clean over a hammerhead shark in the wild. Scientists still debate why rays jump, but the timing here is nearly impossible to replicate.

DEPENDS(no pun intended). Now in my 80s,observe Home Health Care is as much a ship wreck as indep,assisted living,or nursing.Care now mediocre in ALL cases+friends/family rarely visit.Best shot is improving/making more affordable group care.We oldies tend to support one another.Cardio drumming!

Thank you for joining #NotAloneTalk. That's it for this evening, but will be here again tomorrow night at 8 PM UK time.

Appears to be international asteroid day (not sure how to celebrate that, lol). Are you a sky watcher? Also, it's "clean your garbage disposal day." I definitely need to do that, having tossed some pasta down there and forgot to run it last night. #NotAloneTalk