The Old Gardener, 1906 https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/13535

And this is why Dem Presidential hopefuls ALL need to start making threats of serious punishments TODAY. The future is a muddled mess right now, but plenty of powerful ppl no longer see MAGA authoritarian consolidation as likely. CAPITALIZE (heh) on that. To shape their actions NOW.

Deputy Secy of State Christopher Landau says the US “cannot pretend that we are partners” w/ NATO nations because the European Union—of which many are members—pursues “policies of civilizational suicide.” Landau is a former clerk of SCOTUS Justice Thomas. Stephen Miller lobbied for his appointment.

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

JD Vance: “The Russia-Ukraine thing has been a source of perennial frustration, I think, for the entire White House. I think there’s hope, should hopefully be some good news the next few weeks on that front.” Thing?

The NYT photo desk FTW. www.nytimes.com/athletic/685...

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high. This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.

What a good resource. Gift @hellgatenyc.com and @theonion.com subscriptions have been among my more successful presents bsky.app/profile/mari...

There's an important point here which I also just made on @cnn.com. DOJ created a make-believe armed conflict to justify the boat bombing scheme. But in practice DoD may be coloring outside DOJ's lines and could be committing crimes even under DOJ's alternate version of legal reality.

I do love a Christmas ritual , and making these Edible Christmas Tree Decorations, which are #RecipeOfTheDay – is one of them. I say edible, but when my kids were little, I cruelly mixed in a load of pepper so that they wouldn’t pull them off the tree to eat them all! www.nigella.com/recipes/edib...

Flurry I was trying to capture the feeling of all of the leaves on and off of the #Hazelnut #Trees coming at me. #PNW #FallColor #Photography

My great grandmother painted for fun. I grew up with one of her paintings – a stand of pine trees weighted down with heavy snow. I’ve always loved that painting so I thought I would create my own version. I hope you enjoy the results! SNOWY TREES, 12x12”, Acrylic ©2025 Jim Musil

A stormy sunrise, just minutes before the dark clouds moved in and heavy rain started. #BlueSkyArtShow #Sky #Photography #EastCoastKin

Last night's read by #CeliaImrie. I love her films. I was rooting for her and #JoeMarler on #CelebrityTraitors. 📚🚢🥂💃 #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #Books #HistoricalFiction #Titanic #BookSky

Blackledge Falls, Glastonbury, CT. Less than a mile. 7/6/24. GPS parking : 41.6977232, -72.4556960 GPS Falls: 41.7006911, -72.4586394 #connecticut #waterfalls #photography #waterfallphotography #longexposure #chasingwaterfalls #landscapephotography #hiking #outdoors

Back in business, bitches!! For once I’m pleased by my ribbing. A genius on YouTube said she can only make ribbing look good by doing twisted rib, so I decided to try it and I like it very much!

Cool shot of the moon tonight with little copycat moons beside it

Robert Reich Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3,200 workers in order to “right-size” its business. It paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay. It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders. Textbook corporate greed.

Abbe Lowell, the attorney who is representing Letitia James: “I can't tell you a time in the federal system...where a federal prosecutor thought a case was strong enough to bring to a grand jury, and the grand jury said no.” @kaitlancollins.bsky.social

Another system slated for Saturday night into Sunday. Fluffy. ❄️

Every dot on this map is a New Yorker who chipped in for the Transition to make sure we can hit the ground running on Day 1. $3 million raised from all five boroughs. $1 million to go. Thank you for powering this transition. Let's cross that finish line together.

Melania praised Russia’s “leadership and persistent diplomacy” hours after her husband told reporters: “I don’t know what the Kremlin is doing.”

Total dictator move.

Ignore the stock market. If you want to know our real economic health, look at small businesses. They are suffering right now.

"There does seem to be very much a parallel between a hurricane coming to town and CBP agents coming to town." Trump's occupation of New Orleans is destroying the city, with immigration agents harassing locals, intimidating tourists, and shuttering small businesses.

how long until Trump bans Chip Somodevilla of Getty from the White House? 😳

President Trump on Tuesday pardoned Timothy Leiweke, a real estate developer who had been charged by the president’s own Justice Department earlier this year with rigging the bidding process for a sports arena.

A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it. via @stateline.org www.newsfromthestates.com/article/medi...

lol yes when you tell Europe to rearm, this is what happens, you absolute muppets Can’t wait for the hand wringing that happens when they rediscover stupid nationalistic tendencies and get another arms race going followed by a fucking massive war Which was all preventable

🔴How Epstein Saved Bitcoin – and Accessed Trump’s Tech Inner Circle Newly released emails show Epstein helped rescue Bitcoin’s core developers during a governance crisis – drawing him deeper into the Silicon Valley networks that would frame crypto as a way around democratic states

🎤Reporter: Can you tell us about your meeting with Witkoff? 😵‍💫 Putin: I doubt you'll be interested, since it lasted five hours. Honestly, even I got tired of it. Five hours is too long.

Video evidence of a clear-cut war crime, for which Pete Hegseth bears clear responsibility.

True story ...

"Confident of military success, Putin refuses compromise in Moscow talks" Trump is encouraging Putin in his aggression against Ukraine, prolonging the war. How can this ruthless aggressor even think of Nobel's Peace Prize? There is no war prize... www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

MURDER! Ryan Goodman, a New York University law professor & former Pentagon lawyer: “Even under a law of armed conflict, they were all civilians, & we are not actually in armed conflict. Either way, it was all murder.” @rgoodlaw.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

NEW: Russian federal agencies continue to sponsor programs that facilitate the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia and expose them to Russian industry, culture, and patriotic history. Read more: isw.pub/OccupationUp...

NOW: A status hearing is underway in the case of six people, including Kat Abughazaleh, charged with a conspiracy tied to protests outside the ICE facility in Broadview.

New: A classified final version of the Pentagon inspector general’s report into Hegseth’s use of Signal to discuss sensitive military operations has been delivered to lawmakers for review, and a declassified, redacted version is set to be released publicly on Thursday. www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/p...

Starting momentarily: Trump attends peace agreement signing ceremony with Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo at the US Institute of Peace building in DC (which the administration is now calling—without a hint of irony—the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.) You can watch here:

If you put it on a banner then it's true.

The whole play of Trumpism: convincing working class people to blame other working class people—so billionaires can keep robbing us all.

Viking figurines were more than amulets: new analysis reveals their real roles A new study published in the journal Antiquity provides new insight into how anthropomorphic figurines from the Viking Age were produced, used, and eventually deposited... More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/11/viki...

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train. A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social. Please repost with your own caption.

Good morning from Haarlem. #GoodMorningFromHaarlem

Good morning, beautiful people. Another shot from my Oregon trip 💛 #Photography #Nature #Oregon #ForestBathing #JustBreathe

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

“the combination of wind and solar provided 15.1% more electricity than coal during the first nine months of this year… Capacity additions by solar, wind, and battery storage continue to dramatically outpace gas, coal and nuclear.” #CleanIsCheaper www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2025/12/sola...

Cool!

Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes? That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.