"...Trump was hosting a fund raiser at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, as the U.S. offensive began. The New York Times reported last November that tickets for the dinner dance were $1 million apiece. ... today, “#SendBarron” trended on social media."

VEGETARIAN LASAGNE SOUP Wks ago someone posted re Lasagne Soup.Theirs wasn't vegetarian. I looked at various recipes incl. vegan & winged it tonight, really satisfying and G. enjoyed. Broad egg noodles vs. lasagne, smokey tempeh "bacon", lentils, veg broth, onion, celery, kale, garlic,pesto,herbs.

A bright and lovely #moon (whose crisp seas my phone camera couldn't capture) made the one block return trip to the recycle bins enjoyable.

"..I am always reminded of the three rules of Roy Cohn, Joseph McCarthy’s acolyte and Donald Trump’s mentor. First rule is “attack, attack attack.” Second rule is “never apologize”. Third rule is “whatever happens, declare victory.’ .."

Forgotten winter photos Spotted in my backup these Jan & Feb phone pix mostly taken near our Vancouver, BC home, I am putting extra details in "alt" text. Point Grey Rd Park, Stephens St. newly built home, Bayswater St. witch-hazel, False Creek north seawall.

Hegseth’s Ultimatum-The Atlantic Daily-2026Feb26 W.Gottsegen "The Pentagon’s version..could not be used to facilitate the mass surveillance of Americans, nor could it be used in fully autonomous weaponry—situations where computers, rather than humans, make the final decision about whom to kill."

open.substack.com/pub/borowitz... Andy Borowitz' shareable report, Trump’s Sexual Misconduct With Children.

Hey, it's Sack time!

Daphne brightened my walk Feb 24 with its sweet perfume.

A U.S. veteran adopted an orphan from Iran. Decades later, ICE is trying to deport her www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

WHY SOME PRICE INCREASES FEEL SHARPER Next opera season tix felt pricey this year, though just $45 more than last. It's $120 higher than 2022, same seating orchestra level. First seats years ago were up in the rafters. Maybe day-to-day price hikes such as groceries are less noticeable.

tenor.com/en-GB/view/s... Didn't watch the speech but in clips the Republican lawmakers' many standing ovations made me think of trained seals clapping. Can't help thinking... ASSN. of ASSES BAND of BLOWHARDS CLUB of CONS DEN of DECEIVERS ...you get the idea. How do they sleep at night?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 3 Stories re Tumbler Ridge #mass_shooting- 2 more in replies. Puzzling if the threats to mourning families now connect to the arrest of shooter’s brother (no such thing reported.) The ChatGPT red flag story tells some employees wanted to contact authorities but couldn’t.

Sacred Clowns: A Novel Tony Hillerman Oct 2009 · A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Book 11 Deal ends 3/1/26 Ebook of 1 of Tony Hillerman's excellent Jim Chee/Joe Leaphorn novels is available for $2 right now. I read a lot of the series when I was still reading print editions, including from the library.

NICE NEON AFTERNOON Sharon Steele's photo of Gord @whisperingslim.bsky.social presenting his Vancouver neons this afternoon. It was well attended and fun. Congratulation's Gord on another successful fundraiser for Old Hastings Mill Store Museum. If you have FB: www.facebook.com/OldHastingsM...

Somewhere over, beside, behind the #rainbow? Weirdest, most local weather ever. Ten minutes after spotting this rainbow over Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, BC) I noticed it's raining behind our building and in the driveway beside us but not in front of the building.

"...Karen was told repeatedly that #ICE agents are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “I was told this by multiple sources,” she says. “There is all the incentive in the world to find a reason – any reason – not to let someone go...” ‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’:

subscriptions.cbc.ca/newsletter_s... There's been a few media stories on over-bright #headlights recently, the issue is "coming out" of obscurity I guess. My post of 11 days earlier is also below this link.

"𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬" The Atlantic Daily - February 20, 2026, Rogé Karma "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 #𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝. 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐬?" (𝑇𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠)

#CANADIANS SEE #U.S. AS BIGGEST THREAT: POLL. VancSun-21Feb2026-N. Al Mallees "...There's a gender divide on the issue. Women were more likely to say the U.S. poses the greatest foreign threat to national security, with 64 per cent saying so compared with 45per cent of men, Nanos said..." #TRUMP

"DOJ Scrubs Record of Interviews With Trump Accuser From Epstein Files" O B S T R U C T I O N!! l.smartnews.com/p-7c7BXy9y/5...

share.google/wi4kzYFJgUbz... #TRUMP #TARIFF #SCOTUS In one of the commentaries on this BBC news page re the SCOTUS ruling against Trump's tariffs he is quoted saying what he REALLY thinks of the judges (tho' supposedly just those ruling against his "emergency" legal basis): "fools and lapdogs”.

BRING ON THE DOGS AND PONIES, UFOs, IRAN THREATS... did someone say we should celebrate the joyous exoneration? (Take me to your leader...)

VANCOUVER'S KITSILANO BEACH late afternoon. We live nearby. One woman apparently ready to swim... not me. Glad for my well insulated coat and ear warmer.

NOT FEELING SENT? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y3V... I explained to the man of the house-who long ago hooked me on New York Times' crossword-I was singing Sam Cooke's song because of a fresh appearance in the puzzle grid of "send" as the answer to the clue "elate." Never heard this usage elsewhere.

LIGHTING UP THE PAST-VANCOUVER'S NEON SIGNS TEA & TALK, photog. GORD MCCAW Feb 22, 2pm-1575 Alma St @ Point Grey Rd, Vancouver, BC Just finished making the Powerpoint for Gord's presentation next Sunday at the Old Hastings Mill Store Museum (Vancouver's oldest bldg.) $25 fundraiser for the museum

OUR #HUMMINGBIRD FEEDER IS BEING VISITED After last night's light snow that's already melted away we just saw the hummer visiting our new windowside feeder I just put up Sunday. Was seeing the bird around a birch tree across the street for weeks. Just did first clean/refill last night. (See reply.)

#Russian Robots flooding Bluesky with adult content? Hope the platform can get a handle on the flood of unlabeled, unwanted adult content flooding in tonight. I say Russian bots because I suspect Putin or others would try to disrupt anti Trump posts thru platform poisoning.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... How long it is going to take Americans to become aware of terrible things being done in their name in a pretense of making the US safer? Note in an MS Now interview the family's lawyer said they were in the US legally/following prescribed process. #ICE #TRUMP #NOEM

What Actually Happened to Shakespeare's Son Hamnet? share.google/8CHP6JLUUUME... As per article, tho' possible, plague wasn't recorded as cause of Hamnet Shakespeare's death. My thought leaving the film was gratitude we have modern medicine & hoping the US replaces its present anti science fed govt.

#ICE Barbie Michael De Adder) I almost hesitate to share humour re #Kristi_Noem but what else is there?

The forest is the system: Not the individual trees. Many people try to build resilience by making themselves bigger, stronger, more independent. They stockpile resources, they build higher walls, they try to go it alone. HOWEVER, We The People are stronger together. Unite!

𝐈’𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 It's been ages since I forgot my phone at home but tonight I didn't notice this till I went to silence it at choir practice. My phone tote bag is also my wallet. No phone means no d/license, bank cards (or parking app--glad the street wasn't metered.)

Al Jazeera English: #Epstein #DOJ #PedoFührer Just believe them.

CONDITIONS in #ICE_DETENTION_FACILITIES Americans can claim to be ignorant of terrible conditions in ICE prisons while fed govt blocks oversight inspections & mainstream media doesn't report on it. Need to 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 the hidden horrors, inhumane, torturous.

Those Who Agree - "It is completely inappropriate to seek to weaken Canada, to go and ask for assistance to break up this country from a foreign power" 🟢 All: 81% 🟢 BC: 86% 🟢 ON: 83% 🟢 ATL: 83% 🟢 SK/MB: 82% 🟢 QC: 72% 🟢 AB: 69% Read it free: canadianpolling.substack.com/p/canadians-...

Heather Cox Richardson had a meaningful letter this #Valentine's_Day, After I replied "how odd it is that marking love and caring Feb 14 is so commercialized and customarily thought of as just for couples and little kids", I thought I should share my 2011 Valentine poem (with graphics.)

youtu.be/-1bBEj9biOo?... Highly recommend this on the threat Trump poses to Canada (and the world), separatism in Alberta & Quebec, the need to address this existential threat to Canada's continued existence. Appeasement & putting all our eggs in the US basket is an outdated choice which will fail.

PAPERBRUSH (Edgeworthia Chrysantha Lindl, according to PlantNet) An early flowering shrub I've never seen before, in our Kitsilano, Vancouver, BC neighborhood yesterday. There aren't many early yellow bloom bushes I know: witchhazel, forsythia, mahonia, but I've been seeing them all this year.

#TRUMP ALT OLYMPICS MEDAL CEREMONY - Synchronized Pedophile Protection ~Michael De Adder We see Maxwell takes the gold, Bondi the silver and Leavitt the bronze medal. I guess the boys get their own competition. Who's in the running...Johnson? Patel? Blanche?

There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.

Tonight's pairing with my #Butternut_Squash_soup (with Ginger & Lime) is focaccia/mozzarella/tomato toasted sandwiches. When I splurge on fresh bocconcini we have that sandwich untoasted but regular mozza wants melting. Most soups I make regularly are my own recipes but that web recipe is a winner.

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise. BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

AM I AUTHENTIC? I did see at least one pop-up while inaugurating our new laptop querying if I was human/bot. It took me @ 5 hours to set up &/or authenticate additional software we are subscribed to or to replicate all our log-ins & regular uses. Ready now for G's forthcoming photo presentation.

Canada’s 10th #school_shooting unfolds in the news (Tumbler Ridge high school), just as the trial for our worst mass killing by vehicle commences (Lapu Lapu festival). Both attackers had mental health police interactions, the family of yesterday’s shooter petitioned to get confiscated guns back.

#DHS defying court orders "...the record shows a constitutional crisis unfolding at alarming speed. In just weeks, during the month of January 2026, the court confronted evidence of roughly 90 violations of court orders for release, including 10 or more in a single week..."

Yes, headlights have become blindingly bright in Canada 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐄𝐂𝐇𝐍𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘 𝐎𝐔𝐓-𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 VancSun,10Feb2026, KENN OLIVER What I find hard to understand is why car manufacturers think blinding oncoming drivers increases safety. 1𝑠𝑡 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝐼'𝑚 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔.

'Maybe they're waiting for something that only happens thousands of years later' share.google/GPBLVZj5OX3E... Love this author's style & the sentence, "It's not as if they were normal seawater microbes happily swimming around, dividing and growing when they fell to the seafloor and forgot to die.'