Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, & Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/PCt6ha7c

Northern Flicker…flicking. #birds #photography #nature

Northern Flicker…flicking. #bird #photography #nature #OMSystem

The Tale of the Honeysuckle and the Humble Bumble #insect #photography #macro #OMSystem

American Goldfinch caught entering a texture indecision zone.

China is an engineering state that values construction projects and technological primacy, Dan Wang argues, "whereas the United States is a lawyerly society, obsessed with protecting wealth by making rules rather than producing material goods."

Ruby-throated Hummingbird acrobatics. #bird #nature #photography

American Goldfinch just winging it. #bird #photography #nature

American Goldfinch just winging it. #Birds #photography #nature

Whitelined Sphinx hummingbird moth swooped in for a visit during patio coffee time this morning.

An isolated coneflower in a wild flower area along the roadside.

Tree Swallow (m) checking things out. #bird #birds #birdsofbluesky #blueskybirds #omsystem

Imagine if Joe Biden, newly in office, had launched a company with Hunter Biden and used his social media to recruit financial backers. Then promised the most generous among them would earn an invitation to a private dinner with him ... Trump just did that.

Patterns

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

We just watched Trump & Vance do Putin’s bidding in the Oval Office & it was horrific. Not even two months into this administration & it’s a disaster for the free world.

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

While watching that horrifying, globe-shifting exchange with Zelenkskyy, I couldn't help but think about what a deliberately staged reality-TV moment it was, with two people ganging up on one and screaming a classic, totally petulant reality-TV accusation: They hadn't been thanked enough.

President Trump announces kleptocracy is here.

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

“When the richest man in the world can so easily undermine our [U.S.] place on the global stage, it is, quite simply, a harbinger of decline: a sign of a corrupted superpower so brittle that its sources of influence can be taken apart from within.” Ben Rhodes, fmr. Deputy National Security Advisor

Deep thoughts… Is it harder to enter the kingdom of heaven since Brexit? - Philomena Cunk # Um… #comedy #nonsense #Cunk

Rejoice! It’s Christmas Eve Eve!

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

Holiday themed image editing. Original in comments. #photography #OMSystems #macro

Always nice to have your bird feeders watched for you - so thoughtful. #birds #photography #raptor #OMSystem #nature

Playing with contrast and black and white. #OMSystem #photography #nature #flower

Pray for Greece

Bald Eagle coming in for lunch. Photographed, handheld, wityh the OM SYSTEM 150-400mm lens with the internal 1.25X lens teleconverter and the MC14 on the OM1 mark II camera. 1400mm FFEQ. #lisatomphotos #omsystem #omsystemambassador #baldeagle #eagles #birdphotography

And here's my last column for the NYT. But I'm not going to vanish. Watch this space. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...

Eastern Bluebird taking flight. #OMSystem #photography #birds #photographersofbluesky #naturephotography

Disassembled our daughter’s crib mobile from 49 years ago. Photographed the elements on a light box and then changed the background. A bit of whimsy for passing along that special time. #OMSytems #photography #photographersofbluesky #lightbox #fantasy

Just going to add that if the only way you can feel masculine is to be with someone who makes themself small and forfeits their personhood to cater to your ego, the last thing you are is masculine.

Remember 8 years ago when it was a huge deal that Trump wouldn’t divest from his businesses? Seems quaint now

“We’re all rapists here in the GOP” seems like a problematic message.

Truth

Nearly every single Republican voted against releasing the Matt Gaetz ethics report. Remember this the next time they pretend to care about protecting minors.

One from a late summer wildflower meadow. Captured with long telephoto to isolate this single bloom. #OMSystem #flower #microfourthirds #nature #photography

A reminder that the Party of Fiscal Responsibility added $7.8 trillion to the debt the last time they had unified control of government.

1. In April 2024, California raised the minimum wage for fast food chains to $20/hour The industry claimed it would be devastating & require significant job cuts and prices increases Here is what really happened: workers got a raise, prices went modestly, and the industry continued to add jobs

Narrator: They’re not. Trump could not care less about working class Americans.

This is the American Taliban. Stay safe. www.rawstory.com/threats-demo...

Artistic rendering of a forest mushroom just because. #fungi #photography #texture #nature

And so it begins. A surprise dusting overnight giving everything a seasonal kiss. #photography #snow #winter #iPhone