"Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action." — Leonard Bernstein 🌱📷

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Tomorrow, the Vatican publishes what is arguably the most important papal social encyclical in 135 years. Pope Leo XIV opens it with a choice: build a new Tower of Babel, or build the holy city where God and humanity dwell together. Here’s what to expect — and why you should read it in full.

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Good night & gentle dreams

Georgia O'Keeffe, Sunflower New Mexico, 1935 #WomensArt In folklore the sunflower is considered a flower of loyalty because each day it turns its head to loyally follow the sun, from east to west 🌞

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“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.” ― Emily Dickinson Painting by Charles Courtney Curran, The Lanterns (1910)

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The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

Took the grandkiddos to the annual Butterfly Show at Cincinnati Krohn Conservatory. A great day to marvel at nature's beauty 🦋 and blue morphos. They did a great job keeping quiet and still to attract the butterflies!

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

A world that doesn't suck is possible

"… the major enemy, the strategic adversary is fascism. And not only historical fascism [...] but also the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behaviour, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us." ― Michel Foucault

Erroneously? The correct words are: Maliciously Knowingly Intentionally Illegally

Fading #monoprint Acrylic on Paper #art #printmaking #abstractfigurative

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NEW: When Pope Leo drops his new encyclical focused on AI next week, a co-founder of Anthropic will be there to help promote it. Why? Turns out, there was a decade-long effort by the Vatican and the tech world to forge a relationship — w/Anthropic at the center. religionnews.com/2026/05/22/w...

Henri Matisse (1913)

22 May 1844 - June 1926 Mary Cassatt, American (1844-1926), The Boating Party, 1893-94, oil on canvas, 90 x 117.3 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA

The little artist of nature, who paints the world with golden dust. Every small effort creates something beautiful. ✨💛🐝

Today in 1868, Darwin wrote to a friend, "It drives me mad & I know it does you too, that one has no time for reading anything beyond what must be read: my room is encumbered with unread books." 📚🧪

I walked out of the weed dispensary (Disneyland) knowing full well the younger people behind the counter would most probably roll their eyes when I said to be sure to register to vote, but I did it anyway and will keep doing so, everywhere I go. We need to vote in record numbers This is not a drill

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh #landscape #mountain #quote

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“The fact is you cannot be intelligent merely by choosing your opinions. The intelligent man is not the man who holds such-and-such views but the man who has sound reasons for what he believes and yet does not believe it dogmatically.” ― Bertrand Russell

21 May 1971, Marvin Gaye released his album 'What's Going On'. The concept album told the story of a Vietnam veteran returning to the country he had been fighting for, and seeing only the hatred, suffering and injustice. It is regarded as 1 of the greatest albums of the 20th century. #WhatsGoingOn

Ohio’s state sales tax exemption for data centers cost $1.6 BILLION in 2025 — 11x more than its original estimate. That’s $1.6 billion that could have gone to public schools and healthcare instead of Big Tech CEOs’ pockets. Is it any wonder communities are organizing against data centers?

Pam Bondi refused to release the full Epstein files. Next week, @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social and I are bringing the questions she’s avoided. The public deserves the truth.

#monoprint Acrylic on Paper #art #printmaking #abstractfigurative

Release the Epstein Files. Now. Anyone who is against their release is complicit.

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Honestly, we need to start showing this again. In prime time. To adults.

Yeah, the daily BS is a lot, but keep on keepin' on. Here's how: Join Postcards to Voters. Current GOTV postcard campaign is FL Vote by Mail sign-ups. Work for the Midterms starts now. Join @tovoters.bsky.social

Convicted Felon Donald Trump wants to give these Insurrectionists your money (Credit to Bill Weir for the original video post)

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Pope Leo will give a moral grammar Americans can use to stand up to the AI data centers swallowing their communities. He’ll give a course of action to those who fear a future being designed without them. And it will re-center this revolution on what it should have been about: the human person.

The terrifying part isn’t that elections could disappear. It’s that they could continue… ...while the system quietly becomes harder and harder to challenge. That’s the scenario I break down in today’s article. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

Nannie Helen Burroughs, educator, entrepreneur, advocate of women’s rights, daughter of formerly enslaved parents, founded a school in Washington DC in 1901. She observed, “Education & justice are democracy’s only life insurance.”

This is going to come across as pretentious and unhelpful, but I really recommend reading books. Reading a book is the only thing I do where I feel like I'm nourishing my attention span, rather than sanding it down. The trick is to just read whatever you enjoy — not what you feel like you should.

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The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”

I asked CBS News if Stephen Colbert will interview Pope Leo XIV on Thursday’s final Late Show. They declined to comment. Colbert lost his father and two brothers in a plane crash at age 10. The Catholic faith forged in that trial, tragedy, and redemption is the guiding light of his career.

m gonna post this video everyday so we NEVER FORGET what the INSURRECTIONIST Donald J. Trump did on Jan 6th

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We've got to stop these people.

🎨 In 1888, Gauguin painted Van Gogh at work on his iconic Sunflowers in Arles, France. Two genius post-impressionists, one house, two months — and one of art history's most dramatic friendships. Van Gogh reportedly disliked the portrait, saying it depicted him as a "madman." 🌻 #ArtHistory #FineArt