Look at this beauty from the orchid show at #NYBG #Fuchsia #FebruArty2026 #ColorADay #PinkMon #MagentaMonday #MacroMonday #Macro #Flowers #BloomScrolling #OnlyBeautifulThings #EastCoastKin #Photography #OrchidNYBG

#LunarNewYear greetings to one and all.

#Flowers Outside is just dirty, slowly melting white. So here's some inside white. My grocery store orchid still blooming!

Paphiopedilum Rosy Dawn (P. Astarte x P. Gwen Hannen; Aberconway, 1935) in winter sunlight #Orchidaceae

It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life

Here’s my list of 50 reasons why Trump is mentally unfit to be president. Share this with any family and friends who still make excuses for the mad king.

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Is there anything he does know? Help me unseat Mike Johnson in Louisiana’s 4th district. Like, comment, follow, and share to help!

Phalaenopsis I-Hsin Pikachu #orchids #bloomscrolling #flowers #yellow #ivory #blooms

And this was interestingly unanimous— and not being that well reflected yet in the offerings from actual Dem politicians. Word to the wise

Palantir paid zero federal income tax for fiscal year 2025, despite reporting $1.5 billion in income. itep.org/palantir-pay...

To understand the catastrophic turn in U.S. health policy, follow the money paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-ka...

Trump’s corrupt fossil fuel stooges pretend clean energy is expensive, but reality keeps intruding. Fossil fuel paid good money for those lies, so they’ll keep at it. www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

What’s one way we can rein in ICE? We can start by boycotting ICE’s corporate collaborators that are profiting from the agency’s cruelty. Watch.

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Phalaenopsis I-Hsin Red Jujube 'Razzle Dazzle' #orchids #bloomscrolling #flowers #pink #mothorchids #blooms

gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency

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Outside Trump Tower in NYC on President’s Day, protesters reminded him that he’s the worst president in history.

Oh, look! The New York Times mocks the intelligent and articulate AOC for how she spoke while is constantly covers for the loopy, incoherent Donald Trump.

Beethoven? Really? Listen to the 9th Symphony again, you didn't quite get it.

As a White House ethics lawyer I told staff: “Be allergic to free stuff” and not to even accept a can of soda from someone with business before the White House. So how has the story of a UAE royal making a deal worth nearly $200m to the Trump family fallen out of news? www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

A moth orchid's reproductive organs create an illusion of a bird's head and wings. 😊 #naturephotography #nature #macrophotography #macro #floralphotography #flowers #orchids #eastcoastkin #photography

Orchid for #MacroMonday and I think this is #fuchsia for #FebruArty2026 #EastCoastKin #bloomscrolling #photography #orchid coastal botanical gardens, GA

This unnamed Dendrobium, a cross between Den. Johnnie x tetragonum was ruled out by the CSNJC at Dueling Dogs yesterday. The group believes the color is great, but needs to be more mature. #orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #NaturePhotography #houseplants #gardening #bloomscrolling

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Ami Bera announces he will boycott Trump’s State of the Union

“The disorders & miseries which result [from factionalism] gradually incline the minds of men to seek security & repose in the absolute power of an individual.” A despot will exploit this for “his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.” —Washington www.americaamerica.news/p/washington...

Hegseth (boorishly): Russia's cool. NATO sucks. Your security problem, Europe, is you're too brown and gay. Vance (condescendingly): Russia's cool. Your security problem is you're too brown and Muslim. Rubio (politely): Who cares about Russia. Your problem is you're not white or Christian enough.

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Phalaenopsis Lianher Cranberry #orchids #bloomscrolling #flowers #red #mothorchids #blooms

Sometimes you wonder. Bloomberg this morning saying that you can't both believe that AI is a big deal and that we're in a bubble. But you absolutely can! That's exactly the story of the tech bubble of the 90s, major economic impact but not big profits. Sigh.

Me as a child: it must be very hard to become a CEO and be very hard work once you get the job Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

As somebody who has worked on Wall Street for the last 19 years, I promise you that a lot of people who are insanely rich - not just average millionaires, people with true wealth - are dumb as dog shit, but just have no morals and know ways to make tons of money by not caring about hurting people.

This is wild. 41 DUI arrests by a Tennessee trooper. All dismissed. 22 drivers were completely sober. He “resigned”. No explanation. No accountability. No apology. His personnel file doesn’t even mention the cases. Police departments shouldn’t be in the business of shielding corrupt officers. 1/2

So the United States will only use empty warehouses to house people it wants to terrorize, not people it wants to shelter from the cold. We really are not a very good-natured country.

I said it, and it’s true. rollcall.com/2026/02/12/e...

Cartoon by Sam and Cynthia Sousa Machado. #IGotThis

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Phalaenopsis I-Hsin Pikachu, enjoying the morning sunshine today. These have been open for months, so the yellow flowers have faded to ivory... #orchids #bloomscrolling #flowers #ivory #mothorchids #blooms

It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.

some past “multicultural economic zones” you may recall include the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the British Empire. while all of these had significant problems “no one will die to defend them” was memorably not among them

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Shock around Rubio speech seems a variation of same delusion that led legacy media to inaccurately declare it a softer touch, as if Rubio, a Latino man who once disputed Trumpism, is an alternative voice. He’s not. He joined fascism; now he’s a fascist; he gave a fascist speech, because fascism.

Artem Andreichuk (Ukrainian artist, b. 1983). "Orchids and green bananas", 2025. Acrylic on Canvas, 115x80 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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