BREAKING: The U.S. Senate could vote as soon as next week to strip vital protections from the headwaters of the Boundary Waters, one of the nation’s largest and most visited wilderness areas. Tell your senators to vote NO & protect the Boundary Waters: https://bit.ly/4q5xagM

BREAKING Bill Clinton calls for public hearings in Epstein files

Fog The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. -Carl Sandburg

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ― John Steinbeck

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ― Albert Camus

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

— Cactus — #photography #macrophotography #classicmono #blackandwhite #eastcoastkin

“It’s chilling for us to see history repeating itself. The more confusion that sets in from the start, the harder it becomes to change minds that are already made up.” The lessons of Kent State

Field notes from beside a thirsty river and some book news! #ColoradoRiver open.substack.com/pub/wildword...

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

If you write primarily about nature and environmental issues, it can be hard to see the value of your work during times like these. I wrote about this a bit in my introduction to @biographic.bsky.social's weekly newsletter.

Literarium

Before the breathin' air is gone Before the sun is just a bright spot in the nighttime Out where the rivers like to run I stand alone and take back somethin' worth rememberin' Out in the Country - 3 Dog Night youtu.be/I5EZy3ZnLDs?...

Former fertilizer factory "SITOCO" in Orbetello, Italy The whole set is here: www.lifelog.it/go.asp?cef73... #involuzioneindustriale #pigeoneyes #sitoco #orbetello #montecatini #edison

#pigeoneyes #cef73baa

— Hill-Framed Ocean View, California — #photography #blackandwhite #classicmono #california

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” ― Benjamin Franklin

— Wintering Oaks, California — #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #eastcoastkin

Turn up your radio And let me hear the song Switch on your electric light Then we can get down to what is really wrong I long to hold you tight So I can feel you Sweet lady of the night I shall reveal you Caravan - Van Morrison youtu.be/t_YGC_vA0Og?...

One of my favorite spots on the planet to sit and rest. Overlooking the Senita Basin toward the Sonoyta Mountains and Growler Pass in Southern Arizona.

Inside an Iris #flowers #art #photography #macro

The fake date on this really sucks the joy out of thinking a judge might have tis sort of spine in the current government

@shanedignum.bsky.social how is the darkroom build going?

Democrats need to learn from this. 13 or 15 person Supreme Court.

Makes me glad I told TSA no when they asked if I would be using their facial recognition program at the checkpoint on the way to New Orleans.

Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Hmmm... guess I'll skip it

They moved on to premeditated murder.

"To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.” "Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top." Born on this day novelist & essayist Edward Abbey 1927 #Booksky

— The dawn sun catches the crests of waves to awaken souls on a new day. — #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #eastcoastkin

Thanks for that, Steve...

In a new Compact op-ed, TWS President Tracy Stone-Manning shares what she learned running the Bureau of Land Management and why we must rebuild a system that protects clean water, wildlife, and our freedom to get outside for future generations. Read here: https://bit.ly/4qHEdxa

Friends and family are all set with nostalgia today. I think there is a change coming, rough times with it. I feel it in my bones. Hug the ones you care for. Keep them and yourself safe. Lean on each other when you need to. Hold each other up when you can. We'll get through this. We always do.

The Western Defense Command wasn’t created to tear families apart. But after Pearl Harbor, Gen. John L. DeWitt pushed a narrative with no evidence — and it led to the forced removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans. History didn’t just happen. People made choices. 🔗 quietamericans.com/wdc

Former paper mill, Italy The whole set is here: www.lifelog.it/go.asp?ca0b3... #involuzioneindustriale #cartiera #papermill #pigeoneyes #ca0b368e

Those pesky humanoids Boise, known as the City of Trees, is home to more than its share of fox squirrels. From a squirrel's eye view, what's not to love about living in Boise? Around here there are a plethora of trees of various sizes, shapes, and life styles that provide all sorts of seeds, nuts,…

Thank you to everyone who came out for the Commodities collection in Dubai ❤️ #artexhibition #contemporaryart #dubaiart #dubaievents #artist

Despite the recent collapse of ConocoPhillips’ largest mobile drilling rig and thousands of gallons of diesel spilled in the Western Arctic, a federal court has allowed the company’s winter exploration to continue, for now. Read more: https://bit.ly/4brjmtg

Checking in from the Sonoran Desert to say; HAPPY BIRTHDAY CACTUS ED

Stop ICE Pentax 6x7, tri-x, and this legend I met on a solo photo walk.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Stunning words by Michael Dubois.

In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law. The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

— Shadow and Range #2 — #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome #art #eastcoastkin

Here’s a podcast that does a good job of laying out what’s at stake, and why all of us need to get off the sidelines to demand change.

For those feeling the cold, I don’t know if this helps, but here’s a bougainvillea growing off water fed by the outdoor shower I’ve been using down the Baja peninsula. Take heart, spring is happening somewhere.