Americans are hostages to a predatory healthcare system accounting for 17.66 of every hundred dollars of GDP. That’s insane. The dollar sucking corporations make their living off American illness

Sheep Pen by Andy Galsworthy, photo from 2020 A wonderful example of environmental art by artist Andy Galsworthy. This is one of four slate sculptures in Tilberthwaite, #Cumbria made of natural materials. Great! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock #art #nature #environment #slate #LandscapePhotography

Criselda Vasquez (contemporary American artist) "The New American Gothic," 2017 Oil on canvas 72 x 48 in #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

BREAKING: A federal judge just ordered Pam Bondi to hand over a secret memo that ADMITS the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a complete scam. It was written by a prosecutor who quit the same day Garcia was charged. 👏 Let's go!!!

3 reasons Judge Crenshaw required govt to let him review “privileged” documents relevant to Abrego Garcia’s vindictive prosecution claim. (1) It’s not just the prosecutor’s state of mind that matters: “Cases do not magically appear on the desks of prosecutors.” 1/3

Fourteen years since leaving the #PacificNorthwest to instead reside on the Northern California coast, I still miss the dramatic autumnal colours shifts "up there". That said, I definitely don't miss the follow-up ice and snow that can come on suddenly in #ColumbiaRiver country. #photography

The fatal flaw of the Constitution was its faith that Americans would choose moral leaders. It presumed that honor would outweigh shame and that norms would guard what laws didn't. This was a mistake. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/the-consti...

On the 10th anniversary of SCOTUS recognition of a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, @espinsegall.bsky.social praises the ruling for its honest accounting of the value judgments underlying it--and criticizes the Roberts Court more broadly for its disingenuous originalism and formalism.

Every morning a new blank canvas. #photography #blueskyphotograph #sunrise #lakelife

Not if its body can't be found...😈

Mail ballot received in my PO box a few weeks ago. Ballot extracted a week ago Monday, ticked and signed. Dropped sealed ballot in the built-in drop box at City Hall, Tuesday. Last Friday morning, bright and early came this text from the County Registrar: Your vote received & counted. #Prop50

A full rainbow, framing a shadowy Sliabh Liag in the distance. County Donegal, Ireland.

#MondayMood #moreCoffee

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRforRock #photography

So much #insane assessment of Brightline and grade x'ings collisions. The real problem is #DriversStupidity. Period. The #MilwaukeeRoad regularly ran 100-110MPH steam passenger trains in the upper US Midwest 1930s-1950s and people #learned to keep clear of the tracks or suffer the consequences.

Commercial insurance is a full-on scam, a legal ponzi scheme. Really - customers are required to pay in on schedule, and actuaries that care not for you, personally, then decide when and whether you will be covered. No coverage and the insurer just pockets all the $$$, and earn interest on it.

“The rich archival collections of Ajami literature refute the pervasive myth of Africa’s supposed illiteracy that is perpetuated by the overemphasis on African oral traditions in academia and the privileging of external sources over local chronicles.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/theajami-s...

But who would #convict him?

#BlueSkyArtShow #Inside Burnished historic creatures of the sky, ensconced securely indoors at the #EvergreenAviatonMuseum at #McMinnville, OR. The star is the ginormous #SpruceGoose, and a relatively compact, gleaming #DC3 nestles under one of the Goose's broad wings.

GOP Sen. Rand Paul: I support America First. I support the idea that when we're $2T in the haul, we shouldn't be sending $20B to Argentina. We don't have it. It's borrowed. That's not America First. That's Argentina First.

😂😂😂😂

Laurent Parcelier (French, b.1962) "Shadow and Light," Oil on canvas #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

Huge breakers rolling up on lighthouse point. 🌊

C.S. Lewis responding to a letter from an American schoolgirl asking him for some writing advice. (Worth reading? ✅️)

OK. Now bring the House back to vote.

A noble act, but color me curious. California's FY 2025-26 state budget was looking mighty thin recently. Where'd Gav find $80M?

"Sleepy Joe B..." Oh. ⚡💥🤣

So that it can be converted to an ICE Detention Facility, filled with 1999 #potusEnemies. 😈🤣

#HerrDrumph has razed the #WHEastWing for its pompously grandiose new ballroom. The East Wing was historically the First Ladies' HQ. #Melania won't need an HQ anymore. Like all good #RepubliKKKanwomen, she'll be kept barefoot and working in the #KKKitchen from now on.

So, I solo-run our small regional history #archives, and have 20+ years worth of records and items like old social orgs' membership ledgers to catalog and conserve. Also about 5,000 photos, etc., to catalog and digitize. And just yesterday I got a new volunteer aide, a newly retired archivist!!!

This just never stops being funny 🤣

Friendly reminder: Dems successfully impeached the Dictator in the WH *twice.* The traitorous, treasonous GOP failed to uphold accountability and convict him, *twice.* But for their failures, we would not be here today. We do not have a one-man problem. We have a coup-complicity problem. 🆘🇺🇸

How about #MassSameSexWeddings that morning in front of #SCOTUS? #UpTheirs!

#AlphabetChallenge #weekQforQuiet #WaterWednesday The afternoon "Golden Hour" alongside the Columbia River shoreline, a little east of #Astoria Oregon. The now little-used rails of the former Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway's Astoria Branch glimmer invitingly.

May the spirits of the Three Graces of TX - the late Barbara Jordan, Molly Ivins and Gov. Anne Richards - descend upon and mightily *empower her* to #victory!

Your 9 o'clock photo is actually a video and your 77 seconds of nature zen. Visiting Bellingham today. Whatcom Falls with a few trees in fall colors. Park is slice of northwest nature relatively easy to visit without driving as several bus routes run on the closest streets. Park recovery! See part 2

Forest facts: - Trees grow exponentially faster as they age. - Older forests do more to moderate climate and are more resilient than young forests. - Biodiversity = resiliency. - Death and decay are normal and healthy. - Natural succession has no easy shortcuts.

And then First Lady Jackie Kennedy oversaw a finer restoration of the Truman reconstruction. Sadly, the Congress of 2016 specifically exempted the WH, Capitol and SCOTUS buildings from prevailing federal historic preservation codes. Herr Drumph is using that "privilege" to excess.

Do the people screaming “someone else swear her in” about Adelita Grijalva think that if someone else COULD, they haven’t done so just because?

And no thanks to the Congress of 2016 which reversed the federal historic preservation code covering the WH, Capitol and SCOTUS buildings specifically. Herr Drumph is just giddily rubbing our noses in that sad fact while being his usual disgusting self.

Yeah, #felon47 said today he wants the money "to restore the White House"...the same White House that Jackie Kennedy already restored after the building was gutted to the outer walls in the late 1950s so that it wouldn't collapse and also so modern utilities could be installed. "Restored" he says!🤣

ARE THEY FUKING KIDDING US???? Hey red state folks - when you lose your ACA healthcare because it doubled in price at least you can take comfort in knowing that your orange dictator wants $230M of YOUR tax dollars because others tried to hold him accountable.