THIS No one is coming to save us It's up to you and me There are enough of us if we stick together

Off to hit these streets! Good Trouble!

Wisdom from Schoolhouse Rock.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

Flowers from the neighborhood. Gardening is #resistance Coreopsis #photography #art #blueskyartshow

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security sunflowers #photography #flowers #art

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Before ACA I had a condition that required surgery but I delayed because I couldn't afford it When ACA passed, I was able to schedule surgery but with complications due to the delay in treatment, I almost died Now I will likely lose insurance again Grevillia #photography #flowers #art

“It's the only place. I don't have that anywhere else."

Sunflowers #flowers #photography #california #blueskyartshow

A dozen masked men in camouflage, helmets, night vision goggles, weapons drawn, explosives deployed, in broad daylight, blow the door off of a home with young children inside, all residents US citizens. Didn't even knock. Warrant? No one's asking anymore. #fuckice

I’ve posted this video on socialism for years and there were mild heart attacks on Twitter, somehow I think people will be more amenable now.

This poor man is going to need to hide in an attic so the government doesn't send him to a foreign concentration camp again.

Summer #photography #california #blueskyartshow #monochrome

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Brad Lander single handedly making Comptroller into a Super Hero role. #nyc

Yellow dahlia #photography #flowers #California #blueskyartshow

War is lunacy #photography #flowers #California #blueskyartshow

Viva El Mariachi! Amo Mucho California! #fuckice

Greed Is The Enemy Dahlias experimental scanography #flowers #ohotography #blueskyartshow

Immigrants feed America If you can't bring yourself to have compassion for them as human beings, at least admit that without them we are sort of fkd

Red Dahlia (closeup) experimental scanography #photography #flowers #blueskyartshow #bloomscrolling

It’s so easy to be an artist. You just do it. That, of course, is why it’s so hard to be an artist. You just have to do it. People despise how artistic courage highlights their own cowardice. Thus, crave the art, despise the artist. my random thoughts on it, better said by all the ppl in history

Red #photography #flowers #blueskyartshow #bloomscrolling

Another week begins in this dystopia political thriller we call a country #nokings Poppy #photography #flowers #California #blueskyartshow

This protest stretched seven miles between two Tesla dealerships in Silicon Valley CA #nokings

Ocean Beach per SFGate.com drone footage

Walking back to my car from the protest, these sidewalk dahlias said #nokings

yay Democracy #nokingsday

Thousands of protestors in Santa Cruz, CA I love my small town #nokingsday

no. kings.

You know who's in Los Angeles illegally? The military.

No Kings Bromeliad #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling

Chinga La Migra Peruvian lilies #photography #flowers #California

"Change everything about your lives immediately or I promise that your self-loathing will consume you forever. Clowns."

I was born in LA County. My heart is with the City Of Angels Dahlia #photography #flowers #California

poppy #flowers #photography #blueskyartshow

Dahlia our first of the year #photography #flowers #California

Blatten Flattened do better, BBC bbc.com/news/article...

Soon, peaches #fruit #photography #blueskyartshow

Poppy & Bee #photography #flowers #blueskyartshow

Palms, moon #photography #weekvfor5 #California #blueskyartshow

Peony #photography #flowers

Santa Cruz, CA #photography #california

Dahlia experimental scanography #photography #flowers

Pacific, Mustard #photography #flowers #california