The Jan. 6 plaque honoring police was just installed in the Capitol — at 4 a.m.: Three years since Congress ignored its own deadline, the memorial plaque recognizing the service of law enforcement on Jan. 6 is finally on display in the very building they defended from a mob of Trump supporters.

Noem’s firing is proof that protests don’t just fill the streets, they can shape how institutions behave. And judges, lawmakers, and even Trump’s allies seem to be getting the message. Historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social adds, “a democracy means the people rule.” #Velshi

61 years ago today at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama.

Half a million displaced in a country of approx. 5.9 million. The majority have been displaced multiple times. People are sleeping in the streets. It is Ramadan. People can't check on family b/c they know Israel is weaponizing phones & internet. This is layers of physical & psychological warfare.

“Humum, Lola need to chat. You know that thou shalt not work or read on #Caturday right? #catsofbluesky #tuxedocats #Cats #Photography

An unusually friendly house sparrow perched next to me on a park bench in Rouen, France. (Archive) #SmallBirdSaturday #BirdOfTheDay #Travel #EastCoastKin #Nature #Birds #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography

Vile, despicable POS 😡

The flowing waters of the Cascade tumble downward toward stately Chatsworth House and the rolling hills of Derbyshire, England . #BlueSkyArtShow #flowing #PalacesandGardens #Waterfalls #Scape #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography

On the plus side, with all this evidence the war crimes trials should be short.

In the words of Mad’s Alfred E. Neuman, “What, me worry?” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Lucifer has a point

🪻🌼🪻"When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight." 💜Love's Labour's Lost. #ShakespeareSunday

These are wild times when a funeral service is the most inspiring thing you’ve seen all week. Grateful for this man’s leadership. Rest in Power Rev. Jesse Jackson🙏🏼🕊️🕯️

It worked! A parent arrived with dinner shortly after the first photo was taken. #BirdOfTheDay #ShoutItOut

Some anemones and hyacinths for #FlowersOnFriday .This weekend, I hope you all find reminders of the beauty in our universe. (Archived photo) #OnlyBeautifulThings #Flowers #DailyFlower #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #scape #garden

This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

In light of current events, this article from 2024 may be worth a read. reader.foreignaffairs.com/2024/11/11/t...

One last shot of the Snowy Owl in Wisconsin near Lake Michigan... #birds #owls #birders #birding #nature #birdphotography

Boz is working those abs ‘cause it’s #jellybellyfriday and he’s ready for it! #catsofbluesky #Cats #CaturdayEve #TuxedoCats #Photography #Pets

6/ If a War Powers Resolution becomes the way we debate war, then the burden is forever shifted. Instead of the president seeking approval before starting war, the opponents need to muster the votes to stop it. That's not how our founders designed it.

The Trump Administration is considering asking Congress for new emergency spending for the Iran War. Hell no. This is our chance to draw a line in the sand and use our power to stop this war before it kills more Americans and sends the Middle East into more chaos.

I’m a hell no on funding for Trump’s illegal, disastrous Iran War.

Pete Hegseth, if he does not resign, should at least get out of the way and let better men than him talk to the nation and to the press. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

Iraq's first lady, Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed, a political/humanitarian figure from a prominent (& very political) Sulimaniyah-rooted Kurdish family closely tied to the PUK, coming in hot with a free history lesson for people who think Iraqi Kurds might be unquestioningly game for more US bait-and-switch.

Happy World Book Day, UK style, everyone! #WorldBookDay #HappyWorldBookDay See you in April for the more international one.📚😀

For World Book Day, my Nephew went to School dressed, attired, clothed, covered, garbed, robed, sheathed as a Thesaurus.

This beautiful iris appeared a few years ago, but sadly has never returned. #ThrowbackThursday #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #onlybeautifulthings #DailyFlower

Happy #WhiskersWednesday from Lola, who is reminding her human pals that it’s election season again and THIS time around they need to listen to those cat ladies ! #TuxedoCats #Cats #catsofbluesky #EastCoastKin #Photography #Pets

✅Requirement number one for any position in this administration : Can lie with impunity . www.ms.now/news/exclusi...

Today in US Department of State Catch-22s, FUBAR extreme, "there are only idiots at the wheel of this monumental disaster" edition: "Leave Qatar now, there's no safe way out."

Congress confirmed as SecDef an unqualified Islamophobe w/ Crusader & white supremacist tattoos, a raging disdain for the professional military & civ-mil relations, & unchecked gender issues and is now shocked that he's at a podium speaking like a commander in the Uruk Hai a/b "warfighters"

Yay! A #TACO for an otherwise depressing and unappetizing #TacoTuesday #Tahttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/03/doj-drop-law-firms-case-trump-executive-orders?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Good morning. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #PerfectLighting a bird capture in good lighting. The Alt theme is #Finches Good luck. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

"My father is three years dead, my godfather is now dead, and at 53, I am nearer the end of the journey than the beginning. In the tortuous TSA line of life, I’m one step closer to taking off my shoes and walking through the metal detector to the great airport terminal in the sky."

Harry Belafonte 1 Mar 1927🎂 #MusicSky🎵

“The April’s in her eyes. It is love’s spring, And these the showers to bring it on.—Be cheerful.” A&C A3S2 #ShakespeareSunday

As fit as…a morris for May Day. All's Well That Ends Well #ShakespeareSunday

#shakespearesunday "Proud-pied April, dressed in all her trim, hath put a spirit of youth into everything.." 🐑🐑 Sonnet 98 #spring

“Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows” - Sonnet 33 #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social ~ Magnolias and Irises by Louis C. Tiffany, @metmuseum.org

"It is love’s spring, And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful." Antony and Cleopatra Act 3, Scene 2 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Spring

Wary new parents protect their four chicks. (Archive) #Birds #Nature #BirdOftheDay #FourOrMore #EastCoastKin #Photography #Spring

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden. “King Henry VI Part 2: #ShakespeareSunday

When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! 'The Winter's Tale' 4.2, l. 1 #ShakespeareSunday

"Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden And choke the herbs for want of husbandry." Henry VI, Part 2  Act 3, Scene 1 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Spring

“give me an egg, and I’ll give  thee two crowns.” - King Lear (Act 1, Scene 4) #ShakespeareSunday #Faberge @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social ~ The Basket of Flowers Egg The Tsarina kept the egg in her study at the Winter Palace.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, Sonnet 18 #ShakespeareSunday #Bloomscrolling Photo mine.

April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything. Sonnet 98 #ShakespeareSunday