#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 25 - a song I associate with vinyl Creedence Clearwater Revival - Who'll Stop The Rain youtu.be/T9MXNbpXQ3g?...

Photo of a painting of my great grandmother and my namesake. The painting hung in my grandmother’s dining room throughout my childhood. Unfortunately it was damaged and eventually discarded. I am happy to have this photo of it. #art #family

What would a typical worker earn today if their wages had grown as fast as CEO pay over the past 50 years? Take a guess and watch this video to find out.

This is really good.

Two days ago, we discovered Trump has engaged in the most corrupt behavior of any president in history—giving secret technology to China's ally in exchange for the Trump family getting half a billion dollars. And nobody is still talking about it. #Corruption www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

One of the richest people in the world decided he wanted to be richer in money by making the rest of us poorer in many ways The idea of public good is alien to these mega rich. They build palaces for themselves instead of libraries for everyone. They are very rich people & exceedingly poor humans

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."

Trump on NATO: "The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call". We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.

Fronto-temporal dementia frankgeorge8675309.substack.com/p/dammit-its...

Never forget that billionaires spend billions to convince you that voting doesn't matter. Don't help them. Voting isn't the ONLY thing we can do, but it is the most powerful check on the executive. "Don't bother voting because there'll be no free elections" is oligarch propaganda.

Bravo sir, what I want to know is where the hell are the veteran organization. I am asking you American Legion, VFW, Marine Corp League, MOAA (military officers) and the rest of them. Stand up and be patriots. Tony

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

My 95 yr old mom is in a long term care facility in a small town in Northwest Ontario. She is happy. The care is good, she enjoys the meals, many activities are provided, she enjoys the many singers and bands that come in from the community to entertain the residents. Kudos to the staff and all!

Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich — not the poor or immigrants or any other group of people vilified as scapegoats. The richest 1% evade $163 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has yacht and private jet tax deductions. Hello?

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

DANISH PARLIAMENT MEMBER: “🇺🇸 had 30 bases on Greenland, why did you leave? You can resume that tomorrow without attacking a NATO ally… the rationale lacks factual foundation and doesn’t stand any logic testing.” (Unless the point is to hurt us and end NATO, a Putin/Xi goal)

My stack of #books to be #read is growing. I rec’d a number of new ones for Christmas. I just finished Louise Penny’s “The Black Wolf” and am now reading John Grishams “Widow”. In 2026 I plan to read more and #walk and #swim more, less scrolling and news.

Pretty cool www.bbc.com/news/article...

Good morning, my Bleeps. The birds don't know we're stressed. They're just continuing to do their bird things. Be like the birds.

The pocket puppy Ruby is at it again, lol #Beagle #Dog #DogsOfBluesky #SillyGirl

This is our pocket puppy, lol Ruby the #beagle she loves sticking her nose into pockets, silly girl. #Dogs #DogsOfBluesky

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

World Atlas just named Canada the most loved country in the world. The US didn’t even make the list. Most Canadians are currently boycotting their neighbours to the south, and it seems they’ve got the support of the world. Keep it up Canada!

I am all for using Canadian English. I am always correcting dictionaries etc on my computers.

REP. @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “The biggest ‘welfare queens’ in 🇺🇸 are corporations that don’t pay a penny in federal taxes, and CEOs who get a tax deduction for flying on a private jet — not hungry kids, or working parents who work multiple jobs.”

She’s a fine girl! Ruby Duby Doo🐾❤️ #Beagle #DogsOfBluesky #Dogs

Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more... 🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍

15.8 billion miles away from earth. 😳 Next up, a meeting with the Epsilon Eridani aliens in, checks watch, a million years.

This is the best music video ever created. I will not be taking questions at this time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y25s...

Went to the long term care this morning and added a couple of the buildings we painted to a steeple my mom had to make a little Christmas display. Took some pics of the Christmas decorations and tree at the facility. They are so kind their.

Today we painted village buildings to display for Christmas. Houses, bakery, petshop, horse barn etc. Thanks to my daughter in law for organizing it was so nice to get together with everyone. Tomorrow several of the pieces along with a steeple will be set up in my mom’s room in long term care🎄🏡🎅🏻

Ruby Duby Doo, just home from her walk. She says hi🐾 #DogsOfBluesky #Beagle #Dogs “Everybody thinks they have the best dog and none of them are wrong.”

The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

Ruby Duby Doo Such a good girl, except when she is being a demon dog. Love her❤️ #beagle #DogsOfBlueSky #Dogs #CanadaDog🇨🇦

Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running. This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937

Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.” Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.

My spouse and I a lovely visit with my brother and sister in law today.

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.

Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the loss of the Great Lakes freighter, the Edmund Fitzgerald and all its 29 souls, The ship that followed it across Lake Superior, the Arthur M Anderson, was still sailing last year, seen here in Buffalo last November. She spent 2025 in layup.

1.6 billion years old water found at the bottom of the Kidde Creek mine in Timmins Ontario by Canadian geologist Barbara Sherwood Lollar. “He said, ‘Our mass spectrometer is broken. This can’t be right.’ ” lol It takes an hour to get to the bottom of the mine, 2,377 m. macleans.ca/society/this...

26 new investments that will unlock $6.4 billion of critical minerals projects. Not bad for 6 months work. Here is the Federal news release on the 26 investments. 2/2 www.canada.ca/en/natural-r...

Those economic and trade missions are already starting to pay off. Vianode, a Norwegian company, is investing $2 billion in a synthetic graphite plant in Ontario. This is just the beginning. It will start with 300 jobs with plans to expand to 1,000. This is part of 1/2 www.mining.com/vianode-to-b...