1,000 times yes to this:

Grasslands dawn #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography

A Pink Morning. 3°C and a remarkable dawn. Blackbirds.

Yep.

A Fine End. 4°C after a rainy day. Owls.

It not about DEI. It is about discrimination & hate. What's next? Hitleresque death panels for the disabled? (gift link⬇️) "In each case, the federal officials cited language in the programs’ grant applications related to goals for diversity, equity and inclusion." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...

Winterland in the Rocky Mountains, Canada 🇨🇦

If the latest Knives Out is not a commentary on religion in America, I’ve not seen it. Josh O’Connor is brilliant. youtu.be/eHM1K1JByBI?...

Every time I think to myself “he can’t do that”, I remember that he demolished a third of the White House without consequences.

This is horrible news. I hope it is not a harbinger of things to come. Neighboring MO is nearly as bad and likely to follow suit.

Watch attempts to use the horrific mass shooting in Australia as “proof” that gun safety laws don’t work Bondi is Australia’s first deadly mass shooting in 3 years Brown is USA’s first deadly mass shooting in 3 days And the 15th deadly & 389th overall mass shooting of 2025 There is no comparison

Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent. We are about to go to war for oil, while citing a lie as justification. Again.

I’m so sick and tired of this. She was on private property, in front of her own home. If what ICE is doing is moral and necessary, then why the brutality? They know they are wrong.

“My guess would be that someone, somewhere, entered an instruction to generate winter and Christmas songs that avoided “controversial” subjects such as divine and human love. And so we get mush. In a reverse sublimation, the sacred becomes slop.” substack.com/@snyder/note...

A Crisp Morning. 3°C after a slight frost. Wood Pigeon.

Evening Light. 5°C and very calm. A Barn Owl in the valley.

Accused of rape and running a porn business to lure in innocent women, yet somehow defended by the so called leadership of our gov’t. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

What a remarkable mother. A lion of courage. (gift link below) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/w...

This was never, ever about "illegal immigration." It has ALWAYS been about Trump, Noem, Vance, and Miller's RACISM, pure and simple. My heart breaks for this man, his family, and friends.

One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.

This is heartbreaking news. www.cnn.com/2025/12/10/e...

In spirit, content and intent, this was really no different to a Klan rally. The exception being the wholesale absence of outrage in mainstream media. This period of history will be an indictment on those standing silent, as much as the monster himself.

Early Morning Blue Skies. 9°C . Hares in long grass.

Mine was one of the 300,000 signatures. Proud to have put my name on the line. MO politicians are MAGA bullies and must be stopped.

Every single day it gets so, so, so much worse here.

1,000 times yes to this:

Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory) Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

Trump, Noem, and their ICE minions are sadists, pure and simple.

Just A Hint Of Sunlight. 8°C with rain approaching. Starlings.

How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!! No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

A Watery Sun. 9°C with views to the River Humber. Sheep on the hillside.

Meditating today on this gem by @josephfasano.bsky.social “…he didn’t ask if he deserved that mercy. He stood. He took the new life.”

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

I saw it today – two banks of Kyiv: one with electricity, the other without. A powerful sight.

Kevin Kallaugher, The Economist

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

Early Morning Light. 4°C and in need of wellies. Hares in the valley.

An Early Evening Wander. 3°C and clear skies. Rooks heading for nests.

There are 75,977 people born in Somalia who are now citizens of the United States, including those specific people. He is talking about US citizens. He is talking about *us*. The truth is that none of us are garbage, and the job of the US president is to represent all of us. We, the people.

1,000 times yes to every word of this: "This is not about humanity deserving to be fed but about the inhumanity of those withholding the meal. No one went hungry in the presence of Jesus, and no one should live with food scarcity in a land filled with supposed Christians."

When your order is to "kill everybody," and that includes survivors clinging to debris in the middle of the ocean, you're not making the country safer. You're just committing murder. My latest cartoon on Pepperspectives. @davidpepperoh.bsky.social

I’m keep thinking about all the taxpayer dollars they are going to need to entertain the massive crowds who will fill a ballroom this size. All while millions can barely afford food and housing….and those who cannot. That ballroom is a monument to this country’s shame at electing Trump.

This interview and documentary will break your heart, as it should. What Trump/Musk’s destruction of USAID has done to the world will be forever and ever a tragedy.

Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌

Down By The Beck. -2°C and a sharp frost. Wood Pigeon.

Exactly this: