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Kurt Smith
11 days ago
Feeling small in the North Cascades.
#bigworld
#humility
#mountains
#winter
#hiking
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Kurt Smith
19 days ago
Took my snowshoes (and my camera kit!) out for a pleasant wander in the North Cascades this week.
#northcascades
#landscapephotography
#photography
#hiking
#snowshoe
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Kurt Smith
24 days ago
I was in Ohio last week visiting family. Mother Nature created this scene and I responded by making a photograph.
#ohio
#sunset
#autumn
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Kurt Smith
about 2 months ago
My home-to-trailhead vehicle has been unreliable of late, so my “fall color” adventures have been local (image
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#photography
#landscapes
#hiking
#fall
#autumn
#pacificnorthwest
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Kurt Smith
about 2 months ago
Several days ago I had a plan to head to the mountains to hike to a high and fairly remote spot I know to photograph fall colors. Unfortunately , mechanical problems with my truck kept me at home, but the very next day I was walking country roads near my home and this scene presented itself.
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Kurt Smith
2 months ago
My neighbor’s pasture, looking spooky this foggy Pacific Northwest morning.
#halloween
#spooky
#fog
#photography
#autumn
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Kurt Smith
3 months ago
A beautiful evening to practice footwork. “Football is Life.”
#soccer
#football
#sunset
#fitness
#calgary
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Kurt Smith
3 months ago
Our son made this timeless photograph of me taking his daughter (my granddaughter) for her first lesson on her strider bike.
#grandpa
#family
#memories
#granddaughter
#bicycle
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Kurt Smith
3 months ago
A friend generously gifted me a kayak he wasn’t using and this week
@leahwantstogarden.bsky.social
made this picture of me on my first time out, paddling in a tranquil bay of the Salish Sea.
#kayak
#salishsea
#pacificnorthwest
#washingtonstate
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Kurt Smith
3 months ago
It was a good week to spend time in Leah’s garden, habitat for all kinds of wee beasties, and, for me, a reliable retreat. @leahwantstogarden
#gardening
#solace
#habitat
#nature
#photography
#naturephotography
#environment
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Rep. Emily Randall
3 months ago
Proud to share that my bipartisan TERRA Act received a committee hearing today, bringing it one step closer to passage! This bill cuts red tape for Tribal Nations to access federal resources to be climate resilient and prepared, like rising seas washing away communities on the Olympic Peninsula. 🌊
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Kurt Smith
4 months ago
Smoke in the atmosphere from several late summer wildfires made for otherworldly — even beautiful? — golden light at sunset last evening. Fortunately the air quality is not too bad (“moderate” is what the weather service says) and the forecast is for cool, rainy days ahead.
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Kurt Smith
4 months ago
The Cascade Mountains of Washington and Oregon have been my playground for decades, but, because family has recently moved to Canada, I’m now beginning to set my sights on the Canadian Rockies. Oh my!
#Canada
#Canadianrockies
#photography
#landscapephotography
#blackandwhite
#monochrome
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Kurt Smith
4 months ago
Sometimes she says she is a ballerina, while other times — like when she’s wearing a dress like this — I’d bet she is playing Princess. At all times, her Grandpa thinks she is a wonder and can be whatever she wants to be.
#photography
#granddaughter
#childhood
#imagination
#family
#diary
#grandpa
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Kurt Smith
4 months ago
Waiting for a ferry.
#photography
#blackandwhite
#monochrome
#salishsea
#pugetsound
#pacificnorthwest
#seattle
#everydaylife
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Kurt Smith
5 months ago
I went to Leah’s garden, hoping to find a photograph or two, of what Wendell Berry called “the art of the commonplace.” @leahwantstogarden
#garden
#nature
#hummingbird
#dahlia
#waterlily
#photography
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Kurt Smith
5 months ago
Two travelogue pictures from a roadtrip I did into last week with my fur buddy. We visited family in Alberta, Canada.
#canada
#roadtrip
#sculpture
#alberta
#travel
#dogs
#sunset
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Kurt Smith
5 months ago
A roadtrip this week to British Columbia and Alberta to visit family took me through the Canadian Rockies. Though I just returned home to Washington state, I’m already looking forward to many more trips north when I plan to take my mountain bike, hiking boots, snowshoes, and cross country skis.
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Kurt Smith
6 months ago
Adventures with Grandpa: My Princess and I went looking for treasure under the canopy of a Camperdown Elm.
#pirates
#grandpa
#nature
#princess
#family
#makingmemories
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Kurt Smith
6 months ago
“It’s a big world out there, Frodo.” My friend
@theklahini.bsky.social
is that tiny human (in the patch of sunlight lower left) moving through a limitless landscape on a recent backcountry trip in the North Cascades.
#adventure
#northcascades
#mountainlife
#hobbits
#feelingsmall
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Kurt Smith
6 months ago
In Leah’s garden.
@leahwantstogarden.bsky.social
#garden
#peaceful
#nature
#solice
#hummingbird
#macrophotography
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Sherrilyn Ifill
6 months ago
Make this go viral.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Kurt Smith
6 months ago
A soul-healing moment I was fortunate to experience and photograph in Leah’s garden last week. Such a peaceful place to get away from it all.
@leahwantstogarden.bsky.social
#garden
#hummingbird
#peaceful
#mothernature
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jamelle
6 months ago
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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Alt National Park Service
7 months ago
Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.
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Alt National Park Service
8 months ago
WTF? FBI agents arrested a Milwaukee county judge on Friday, accusing her of shielding an immigrant from federal authorities. The allegation? That Judge Hannah Dugan “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” someone they were pursuing, according to a now-deleted post by Mr. Patel.
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BeSeriousUSA 🐝
8 months ago
“I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees” - Emilio Zapata
#BeLikeHarvard
#Veritas
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Marc Elias
8 months ago
🚨Attention Members of the DC Bar🚨 Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for: Diane Seltzer for President Amanda Molina for Treasurer Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother. Get your ballot and vote ASAP.
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Pete Buttigieg
9 months ago
Today House Republicans, cheered on by the richest person on Earth, passed a budget framework that will cut support for the poorest people in our country. All while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and massively increasing the deficit.
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Hakeem Jeffries
9 months ago
The Trump Tariffs are driving up the cost of living. House Democrats only need three Republicans to join us. And we can stop the harm being done to the economy.
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ACLU
9 months ago
BREAKING: A federal court ordered Mahmoud Khalil's lawsuit should proceed in New Jersey instead of Louisiana, 1,500 miles from his family. This is an important step towards justice.
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Alt National Park Service
9 months ago
Thank you, Senator Cory Booker!
#Resist
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U.S. Representative Al Green
9 months ago
On April 1, 1807, Ohio’s “Black Laws” barred Black Ohioans from testifying against whites and codified white supremacy. These laws restricted all aspects of Black life, even as Ohio became a refuge for those escaping slavery. 141 days to Slavery Remembrance Day.
#CountDowntoSRD
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Kurt Smith
9 months ago
Just curious: Which do you prefer?
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reposted by
Barack Obama
9 months ago
Wisconsin! Judge Susan Crawford will work to protect your rights and freedoms. So get out there and vote today by 8pm. You can find your polling place at
wisdems.org/vote
. If you have any questions about voting, call or text the Voter Assistance Hotline at 608-336-3232.
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Katie Phang
9 months ago
@booker.senate.gov
has been speaking on the Senate floor for more than 20 HOURS and counting.
#RESPECT
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Matt McDermott
9 months ago
Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk. Watch here:
www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
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U.S. Representative Al Green
9 months ago
Forced to work beyond plantations, enslaved women’s labor was leased to factories, universities, & government buildings, while some institutions outright owned them. This reflects how institutions were complicit in slavery. 144 days until Slavery Remembrance Day.
#CountDowntoSRD
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Adam Kinzinger
9 months ago
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Pete Buttigieg
9 months ago
So, which is it? If this info wasn’t classified, that in itself would be a scandalous screw-up that must be explained. And if it was classified, then the Trump administration lied to Congress and to the American people.
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Alt National Park Service
9 months ago
Welcome to all our new followers! 💚
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This is extraordinary courage. If we dig deep enough, I believe we all have a measure of it of our own. Thank you Mr Elias for leading the way.
add a skeleton here at some point
9 months ago
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Marc Elias
9 months ago
I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey. Defiantly, ME
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My Open Letter to Elon Musk
From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” This is my response.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-open-letter-to-elon-musk/
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9 months ago
stop whining about your missed Social Security check, says psycho oligarch
open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...
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stop whining about your missed Social Security check, says psycho oligarch
we’re being governed by evil shitheads
https://open.substack.com/pub/jefftiedrich/p/stop-whining-about-your-missed-social?r=x9qj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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U.S. Representative Al Green
9 months ago
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous fiction novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was written in response to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, exposing the harsh reality of slavery. She used proceeds from her fame to support anti-slavery causes. 151 days until Slavery Remembrance Day.
#CountDowntoSRD
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Alternative View, Pacific Northwest
9 months ago
Olympia, Washington! There’s a Save the United States Postal Service rally in front of the Tivoli Fountain (by the Capitol building) tomorrow, March 23rd at 1 pm! Cc:
@altusps.bsky.social
@rogueusps.bsky.social
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Lakota Man 🪶
9 months ago
Trump’s America
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Alt National Park Service
9 months ago
We are fighting like hell to stop Musk’s staffers. They come into our buildings, forcibly removing us with the FBI, U.S. Marshals, and police. This coup must be stopped.
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