Update from the war zone in Portland.

"One thing we can count on the tRump administration for, it's doubling down on dubious dumbassery"

Some pictures from Fiestas gone by...

Amazing day flying in ABQ!

100% agree 👇

Moon rise tonight. I loved the hues of lavender in the clouds.

Describe your Bluesky account with one image

3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it. Here's the overview, the sponsors, & how to fight back: www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina...

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

This tells you everything you need to know about the evangelical faith.

While doing considerably better, I'm still not over the Moderna COVID vax I got Friday evening. Up potting 5 mum plants didn't help. The part that has surprised me the most about all of it is my blood sugar has been all over the map during this time. I wear a CGM to help me keep my potassium 1/

🌱9a Mums are up potted into 5 gallon containers and are happily soaking in 6" high trays of water.

🌱9a Patio tomato seeds planted and outside to germinate: Tiny Tim Yellow Pear Black Cherry Principe Borghese Flamme Gardener's Delight 2nd qrt Pisces

THIS👇!

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

The frame for my pool's foundation (LOTS of cardboard, ag cloth, & 4" of sand) is finally in place and the solar lights are over where the pool will eventually be.

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I'm proudly anti-fascist.

Some great insights👇.

We've always gotten Pfizer COVID vax. Yesterday we got Moderna & it has kicked our butts. My spouse has done better than me, but neither of us are doing well. I got up at 9:30, made coffee, then immediately went back to bed. The stiff necks & headaches are brutal. I also had chills for hours.

No greater truth has ever been written than this👇.

🌱9a I FORGOT I had already ordered a bunch of bulbs & ordered a bunch more. The 2nd batch arrived today.🙄 10 Miss Saigon Hyacinth 10 Peter Stuyvesant Hyacinth 10 Woodstock Hyacinth 30 Mixed Hyacinth 10 Willem van Oranje Tulip 50 Ziva Paperwhites I think I'm going to fill a kiddie pool w/ soil. 🥴

Trump's spiritual advisor & mega church pastor Robert Morris has pled guilty to raping a child for 4 years, starting when she was 12. He made 0 apology. His punishment is 6 months jail 6 Months for rape😓 Not an immigrant. Not a drag queen. A MAGA “Christian.” Every MAGA accusation is a confession.

I am introducing ‘The Restrict Ugly Money Portraits’ (TRUMP) Act, which would prohibit President Trump from minting money that features his own likeness.

🌱9a None of my mums are in bud right now so I bought 5 grocery store mum plants* today (white, red, orange, yellow, purple). Sometime next week, once I recover from COVID vax I just got, I'll up pot them to 5 gal containers. * whoever picked them for me at curbside got plants in full bud!

🌱9a Up potted 3 portulacas 1->5 gal a bougainvillea from 2->5 gal 13 rooted Elephant Bush cuttings into 13 - 1 gal dug up 9 White-Veined Dutchman’s Pipe volunteers from the ground around where my big plant use to sit -> a 10 gal pot. Moved all, but⬆️, onto cardboard covered ground & watered well.

We just got our COVID vax a few minutes ago. We're going to wait a week or so then get RSV vax. After that we'll probably get flu vax. We wear N95 masks in public, so that buys us some grace period.

Texas, working hard to become a shithole country.

🌱9a I ordered 4 bags (8 cu ft) of potting soil for delivery tomorrow afternoon. Then I had to make a trip into town to get a caliper compressor so my spouse can change the brake pads on my Prius. While in town I picked up 3 more bags of potting soil. Now I can up pot plants in the morning, too. 😊

Got an appointment for tomorrow afternoon to get out COVID vax. Hopefully nothing will be happening here this weekend as the vax usually takes us both down for a couple of days.

🌱9a Finally got the items below planted + up potted the 4 new olive saplings, the 4 Sea Holly root divisions I started earlier this year, a Antelope butterfly weed, a Pixie Agapanthus, & a Stokesia 'Honeysong Purple'. I still have another Antelope butterfly weed to up pot, but I ran out of soil. 😒

I had to post this. It's a compulsion...sorry.

📷📸📹🎥🎬 OK, this is the camera I’m manifesting! Have manifested half a lens so far. Lol. I’m looking forward to my last chapter of filmmaking being an awesome one. I love the Sony camera I have now but thousands of hours later it’s time for an upgrade. 🙏

Let’s start with an apology. I actually through that this picture was an AI-generated fake, because surely, surely the president would not be so juvenile as to trot out “Trump 2028” hats at a high-stakes meeting with the Congressional Democratic leadership. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Your daily reminder that the last three times the government shut down, Donald Trump was president of the United States and Republicans controlled the House and Senate. They can't govern.

The #TrumpEpsteinShutdown is hurting America, but it's protecting pedophiles.

I was today years old when I found out orchids are monocots! DOH!

This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours. Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator

“Maximize pain” — that is what the White House literally told the GOP their strategy is. Imagine responding to the fight for human dignity with a strategy for maximizing pain. History will remember those who stood up, spoke out, and did what was right in this moment for the American people.

📌On this date in 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and a Washington Post columnist, was brutally murdered by the Saudi government. 📌Trump did nothing. His grotesque family continues to receive BILLIONS in payoffs from that Saudi govt. 📌RIP, Jamal. Choke on your money, Donny. #freepress

I have learned to expect very little in terms of courage in Dems, bur I hope that they fully appreciate that we will NOT TOLERATE any capitulation at this point. If we all have to bear the pain, then so be it. But do not lead us into chaos & get NOTHING for it. WIN or die trying! Period

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social. The enemy within.

Q: Why won’t Senate republicans bypass the 60 vote threshold and keep the government open? They did it a couple of weeks ago to approve Trump nominees in bulk. A: They WANT the shutdown. To accelerate more privatization of government services. To enrich their donors. It’s 💯 a Trump shutdown.

Just astounding. The reason they can shove through 100 Trump nominees at once is because the GOP changed the rules to eliminate the 60-vote requirement. Something they won’t do to fund the government. Yet they blame Dems.

Thinking about this piece from 2024 today...

All the more reason for Democrats to hold firm. "Never interrupt your opponent while he is making a mistake." No persuadable voter is going to think Democrats took their benefits away. They will correctly see Trump & Republicans, who control everything, chose to do it.

Trumps speech: ASMR - Asshole Simply Mumbling Rubbish