One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.

Neutral doesn’t mean bland. Tile shopping with a client.

ICE is torturing a chaplain to a Cincinnati’s children’s hospital who is in this country legally. If sent back to his country of origin (Egypt) he will likely be executed. This is our government doing the torturing.

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Summertime relaxing on the Cape.

Pro-Israeli apologists for their crimes, seeking to portray every critic (including Jewish ones like me) as anti-Semites, often will ask, "Do you believe Israel has a right to exist?" My answer is "Do you believe these murdered Palestinian children had a right to exist?"

Reminder: applying for asylum is NOT a criminal act, even if you enter with only the clothes on your back.

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

Trump doesn’t understand why everyone hates Putin today since the Soviet Union was our ally in WWII, but everyone likes Japan and Germany now. He says he can’t understand it and neither can Putin. Dumbest MF on the planet.

Feels kinda important to point out that if non-citizens are required to carry proof of legal status, then citizens do too by default. This is absolutely insane.

Adam McKay is drafting a scene about this already for his next big movie on a major financial crash

At the Commencement for students graduating from University of Maryland School of Law I spent some time talking with law graduates about the significance of the oath they will take when they are admitted to the bar, and its importance to upholding the rule of law. Especially now.

Timeline break from the world. I mailed my mom her Mother’s Day flowers and card in one today. Watercolor with pen and ink highlights.

“Department of Government Efficiency.”

"Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups," the pope writes. NPR reports

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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Reminder: supporting the war in Ukraine is literally the most cost effective project the US military has ever undertaken. For a something like eight percent of the Pentagon’s annual budget, we have reduced the Russian military by something like half, a decades-long setback. Don’t let Russia win now.

Dark times acknowledged. Weird people are dismantling the systems of our government. Calling my senators and congressman. Tonight, finding serenity in the beauty of nature.

This week the aviation collision was breaking news, but takeover of the US Treasury and firing of thousands of FBI has not interrupted anything, not seen as an emergency. The dissolution of the US government is underway. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

Keep looking for the light.

Postcard watercolor. The marsh in the winter.

Another day along the way #artadventcalendar I have been enjoying seeing so many people’s art posts. They sure do brighten my scroll. Postcard, oil on linen.

Day 20 of #artadventcalendar is a pastel on paper, Tree on a Rock.

Day 17 #artadventcalendar big pineapple, oil on linen. The sign of welcome it’s intended to be hung by the door, procrastinator when it comes to framing.

Day 14 #artadventcalendar it’s that time of year when it’s hard to keep the days straight, so much activity and preparation for the holidays. Pen and ink of a proposal to add an office and give a little facelift to a greenhouse at a local nursery.

Day 15 #artadventcalendar (time flies!) is from my travel sketch book, 4x6 watercolor paper. Lighthouse, South Portland, ME, early September.

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

Day 13 #artadventcalendar edible architecture.

Day 11 #artadventcalendar gingerbread creations. Tradition.

Upside down starfish. Oil on canvas. #artadventcalendar day 9

Day 8 #artadventcalendar keeping to things small, a plein air oil on linen 5x7. Summertime salt marsh at high tide.

Day 7 of #artadventcalendar with another postcard watercolor. The day had been spent biking the carriage trails at Acadia National Park. I felt like a kid again.

Day 6 of #artadventcalendar is a small ink and watercolor sketch bringing back the feels from summer vacation.

Day 5 #artadventcalendar 3x5 watercolor of a white swan echinacea flower.

Day 4 of #artadventcalendar is a 9x12 oil on canvas painting.

Day 3 of #artadventcalendar ink and marker on paper. Request for a room to be added to the attic of a house I designed years ago, when we were still working graphite on vellum.

Day 2 of #artadventcalendar something from a sketchbook.

Day 1 of #artadventcalendar is an autumn still life as Thanksgiving festivities wind down.

A nation is be judged not by on how it exults its bullies and strongmen, but how it treats its most vulnerable. Like Japanese Americans, the trans community never did anything to deserve the kind of hatred and targeting they have received. We have a moral obligation to stand by them now. /4

This one is for my fellow carrot eaters. Recall on bagged organic carrots due to E. Coli outbreak. www.npr.org/2024/11/17/n...

The sunny little room where things get made. Sometimes it’s hard to contain things, then bits and pieces flow out the door. On this day, unusual tidiness.

Repair and refurbish. Gifted to friends for their wedding in 1986 (I’m that old) this quilt has seen a lot of living & been loved. Patched and binding replaced, ready for a new label and a wash. It is the 2nd quilt I made, the beginning of a hobby.

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Quilt top given to me in 2002 by my grandmother’s neighbor with the stipulation that I turn it not a quilt. She was nearly 100 and the top was hand pieced by her mother in law. Finally completed during Covid lockdown.

Me too. “Don’t complain, do something” personified.

Happy Labor Day! Hope everyone found a sweet spot to relax and enjoy the day.☀️🏖

Pear still life quilt. First attempt at appliqué. A work (hand quilting) in progress. Pattern by: Modern Quilt Studio