It seems our wishes came true and he had a miserable Christmas Merry Christmas “creep in chief”

Republicans cut grant funding for programs that helped deaf and blind children because their grant proposal had words like diversity in them. Republicans do not care about us.

Some Head Start early childhood programs are being told by the federal government to remove a list of nearly 200 words and phrases from their funding applications or face denial. The words include "accessible," "belong," "Black," "disability," "female," "minority," "trauma," "tribal" and "women."

I haven’t been able to form a sentence in like 10 minutes

#Gardening One successful year. .

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Trump's MRI results are in.

AFTYN: “What a time to be alive! A battleground district in Tennessee… everyone loves an underdog story.” It’s Election Day in TN-7, and Rep. @aftynbehn.bsky.social says Tennesseans can send a message that they’re fed up with Trump and a Republican Party that has failed to deliver.

#Garden #TreeDahlia #DecemberBloom #Urbangarden Such an oddity, the tree dahlia given the ground to compete with the acanthus. Instagram Norfolk Botanical Garden, The Tree Dahlia (𝘿𝙖𝙝𝙡𝙞𝙖 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨) can reach up to 20 feet tall!

Impatient for spring, let this winter be swift with consistent rain. While walking the pavements strewn with the detritus of destructive forces, we found the poor man's impatience. #Garden #Impatience #UrbanJungle #Cuttings

#Gardening #Fungi #Urbanjungle #Surprise The feast is the harvest found amongst garbage, but documented. The mushrooms in the image are morel mushrooms, which belong to the genus Morchella. They are likely Morchella esculenta, also known as the common morel, yellow morel, or sponge morel.

No comparison to this found on Bastille Day; Hydrangea Seaweed Swill in the Bucket. #Hydrangea #Garden #Backyard #Bucket

COP30 overpromised, underdelivered, empowered distractions, backtracked on issues and once again gave big oil and big ag a free pass. Unfortunately, the suspicions of climate scientists (here in Brazil and abroad) were confirmed again.

San Francisco, the distressful turning point when I read: Between 2016 and 2023, household incomes in the Bay Area rose by 34%, but the cost of living surged by 46%. In total, nearly 3 in 10 people in the region are now struggling to cover basic needs; trump that. www.kqed.org/news/1206476...

I’m pretty amazed no one else is talking or writing about this. This is *not* going to go as Trump, Bondi, and Patel think. In fact, it’s clear they haven’t gamed this out at *all*.

If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.

November #Fungi #Nature found in the urban yard. | Nov 7, 2014

A “presidential” beer pong set. What are we doing here, folks?

#CaliforniaHistory, #DalyCity Skyline and John Daly before the 1957 Earthquake.

#Gardening #Garden #Pokeweed What hidden treasure found along the neglected garden?

This year is no show for the November mushrooms Must have had a wet October 2017. At least the Tree dahlia bloomed. #November #Fungi #UrbanJungle

Meager Thanksgiving Dinner, 2017. Ballotine, the chef doesn't remember. #Thanksgiving #MeagerMeals

RAW STORY: “The first woman nominated to lead the Naval Special Warfare command overseeing Navy SEALs had her promotion abruptly canceled — military sources blame Hegseth's hostility to women in combat roles.” 🤔 www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...

The Neglected Urban Jungle #Fungi #Gardening Three Days of November 2014,

Nine years ago, November 9. Paris, Gare de l'Est, early morning, missing the rain and the commuters carte postale de Reims Reims Cathedral's history involves extensive reconstruction after major damage, most notably during World War I when shelling caused significant structural and artistic loss.

posting today for no particular reason costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human

"They want to price people out of the ability to live." #TruthWarriors

Oh, wow. Thank you so much for providing space and frequency for this. Appreciate it. I'm an artist who's semi-retired due to disability. My work leans towards darker themes (gothic, eldritch, etc). I finally was able to get a new storefront up with prints: decwrk.com

a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

What kind of “government” needs to be convinced to not tear gas in streets where children are trick-or-treating “so they can spend Halloween weekend without fear” and “not be robbed of their innocence”? www.americaamerica.news/p/serving-a-...

‘Conversion therapy’ groups spend £2M on lobbying and promoting practice in soaring costs since promise to ban the “abusive” practice 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/conversion-therapy-groups-spend-2m-on-lobbying-and-promoting-practice-in-soaring-costs-since-promise-to-ban-the-abusive-practice/

If Washington won’t lead, Minnesota will. Trump is holding our tax dollars hostage and cutting off the funding that keeps 440,000 Minnesotans from hunger. I just announced $4 million in new funding for Minnesota’s food shelves to help our neighbors weather the storm.

NUTRITION is the KEY to good health. There are MILLIONS of people like me with disabilities & chronic illness that DEPEND on SNAP. The stress of worrying about are we getting our benefits or are we not, is troublesome alone. This Administration between cutting 1T from Medicaid & now this, is DEADLY!

Wednesday October 15 was Mushroom Day #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #ForestFriday #Nature #Mushrooms

Wow. Go @raskin.house.gov!

“When (Trump and Putin) meet, I don’t think anything will be achieved quickly,” 36-year-old Moscow resident Artyom Kondratov told The Associated Press. https://to.pbs.org/3JiPBz9

#garden #iris #breadediris Lost Memory June 2014, Drought above the Long Valley, Mendocino

Yeah, in a nutshell:

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of freedom who rise & resist. Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk & remind us freedom must never be taken for granted.” www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Starfish. I didn’t think I would get home in time to work on this so I had two entries today #inktober #inktober2025

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And so we begin a new week in this ongoing nightmare. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

We’re suing El Cajon and its Police Department for violating CA’s law prohibiting sharing license plate data with out of state law enforcement. When information about Californians leaves the state, we no longer have any say over it.

Under the leadership of Jane Fonda, over 550 celebrities have relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment. Her father, actor Henry Fonda, was one of the early members of the first Committee, a McCarthy-era initiative founded to oppose the infamous House Un-American Activities Committee.

A government run by billionaires is not “for the people”. It’s for billionaires. It’s why they’re getting billions in subsidies, tax breaks and government contracts. Meanwhile, working class Americans are losing their jobs and healthcare.