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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Trump has begun dismissing federal workers, with furloughed staff at the Department of Health and Human Services now facing permanent layoffs. The cuts are hitting the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention especially hard.

Happy world mental health day

Dorothy Devore by Fred Hartsook, early 1920’s.

October (1878), by Jules Bastien-Lepage. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October...

The IBM Thinkpad 700T (1992) was one of the first tablets to use a stylus, ran on an i386 processor and used a solid state drive.

Oh.

#BlueSkyVets #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory

The flower world of autumn colors looks like a picture-perfect scene.

Mr. President. Stop breaking the law.  The shutdown does not give you the right to fire thousands of hard working federal employees. Instead of giving huge tax breaks to your billionaire friends, show some respect for the struggling working families of our country.

"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come." @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod

Hedy Lamarr by Laszlo Willinger for Lady of the Tropics (1939)

#WorldHomelessDay #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in. Why the delay? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

Blue Mistflower #NativePlants

I love this image.

#BlueskyArtShow #Glow A golden dandelion

Drew Barrymore by David LaChapelle for Premiere Magazine (1995)

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection. Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

Well not since the 20s, but I'm sure that Chicago can recruit more numbers now. Soup kitchens could really make a comeback.

Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.

As Bill Hick's once said matter is dense energy and we are all one. #haiku

you know what fair

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I had someone who passed me on the right, up onto a sidewalk. My response?

Seen it.

Mountains and clouds. Mercantour, October 2005. #photography #landscape #mountains #clouds #autumn #Mercantour #France

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

America is not building enough housing and Americans are facing sky-high housing costs as a result. Today, the Senate took a historic step to change that. The ROAD to Housing Act will help communities – urban, suburban, and rural – build more housing and bring down costs.

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Unless you're gay apparently. No one has ever been perfect upon reflection, not anyone.

Clock Tower of Dubrovnik Dubrovnik, Croatia Happy Thursday!! #UrbanGaze #Urban #Architecture #Dubrovnik #Croatia #Travel #Photography #EastCoastKin