A love for roses ✨

Happy Canada Day to my friends to the north. Keep being the great country and good neighbor that you are. ❤️🤍❤️

From the pond 🌱 🌿 #FlowerReport #bloomscrolling

It was just reported that Trump made over $2 billion in the first year of his presidency. My friend @katiecouric.bsky.social asked me: Is this really legal? Watch and subscribe to IsThisReallyLegal.org for answers. Thanks Katie, and keep the questions coming, everyone! youtube.com/shorts/ZqHDT...

Not legal, but who holds him accountable? Thanks Liz! Great convo! 💙🇺🇸❤️

Seattle at sunset #photography

Ferdinand Pichard rose is a highly unique and fragrant hybrid perpetual rose known for its striking, pale pink cupped blooms striped with bold crimson and purple splashes. It is celebrated for its repeat-blooming habit, disease resistance, and strong, sweet and fruity fragrance. By H. H. Bussemas

More so than any vanity monument in DC, this attack on a school full of children will be one of POTUS’s defining legacies. The pointless mass slaughter of kids in a war waged for personal amusement. apnews.com/article/iran...

Window with the green of the trees outside shining through and a vase of Sweet Williams at St Christopher’s Church on the Surrey Hills. #WindowsonWednesday #Churches #SurrryHills #Photography

“In a carefully scripted interview on state TV, Putin looked bored with the details of governing Russia and managing the frustrations of his citizens, but he did not appear tired of his war in Ukraine,” Simon Shuster reports. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Happy Birthday, Debbie Harry! 🎶 What's one of your favorite Blondie songs? 🎶 Born in Florida on July 1, 1945, Deborah Ann Harry was adopted at 3 months old & grew up in New Jersey. She began her music career as a backing singer with the folk rock group The Wind in the Willows in 1966. In 1974, she 👇

This man makes me wish I lived in Georgia so I could vote to reelect him to the Senate. I guess I'll just have to wait to vote for Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social when, hopefully, the Dems draft him to run for President! 🇺🇸 #AwesomeOssoff2028

Frances Seward, abstract landscape photographer based in New Mexico #WomensArt

GOP MOC will have to go and kiss the ring of president at 37% and they will lose support but if they don't go they will also lose support.

Sit and Talk - If you’re born in America - You’re a citizen - that’s the 14th amendment to the Constitution - Most of us know this and support the constitution - and then there are the Republicans who don’t get America. youtu.be/r_b0shuZRiQ?...

Seattle at sunset #photography

Good morning, happy Half Way Day (and Canada Day!)! It’s my Friday and I can’t wait for the day to be over. I hope everyone has fun weekend plans ready for the Fourth (for my US friends) or a usual summer weekend. Let’s get to this day so I can start my mini-vacation. Have a great day!

Today's news roundup: -Oman proposed Hormuz fee plan to US: NYT -Cuban official says talks with the US are at a standstill, announces UN debate on US oil embargo -WH task force aims to boost Trump’s election claims with declassified intelligence documents 👇 www.justsecurity.org/145333/early...

Yellow rose #Roses #RoseWednesday #Flowers #Bloomscrolling #Photography

Neighbor: "Would you like some chocolate buttercream cake? We have a bunch left over from my granddaughter's birthday." Me:

".. the White House threatened to hold back delivery of interceptors that Saudi Arabia needs to shoot down Iranian missiles and drones, if the kingdom didn’t reverse course .." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

🫢🥳🥰 Sounds great

7-1-26 Today is #NationalGingersnapDay I hope you have a wonderful day! 💙✌️😎

Here's Begonia macahensis, a Shrub-like type of species from Brazil. Plant discovered on tree trunks, in Alto Macahé, in the Rio de Janeiro. Bushy plant w/ elongated leaves, dark green, Blooms: large panicles of pink flowers. Origin: Glaziou, France. Published: 1909. Easy care houseplant.🌱 #begonias

“The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), a breakaway ultraconservative priestly fraternity, is set to consecrate four bishops on July 1, despite the Catholic Church's reqmt that appointments be approved by the pope. The Vatican has warned the group…that members involved…would risk excommunication…”

Here’s a gift link to the @nytopinion.nytimes.com roundtable conversation about the end of the #SCOTUS term—featuring @williambaude.bsky.social, @kateshaw.bsky.social, and me:

Resting now so I have enough energy to wake the whole house at 3:00 AM.

Andrew Weissmann on Ari Melber's show, archived here: archive.org/details/MSNO... @weissmann.substack.com

Gazanias/African Daisies #gardening 🌱

JAMES CAGNEY getting his selfie skills going in a publicity photo for 'Picture Snatcher' in 1933.

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy on the set of ‘Guess Who's Coming To Dinner’ (1967). GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967) 2wks after TRACY finished filming & 2 days after his death, anti-miscegenation laws were finally struck down by the Supreme Court.

June 20, 2026

Kleptocracy

Susan Point is a contemporary Musqueam Coast Salish artist from Canada, who works in the Coast Salish tradition #WomensArt

Despite the heat the roses are coping well #GardensHour 🌱

“A radical legal theory emerged half a century ago—and a new Supreme Court decision just made it American law,” @petermshane argues: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“The Most Surprising Part of the Birthright-Citizenship Decision” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

An English Bluebell a day (although I forgot for a few days 😬) until I run out of photos #43

The Roberts Court likes to think of itself as originalist—but its recent overturning of a 90-year-old decision shows “a distinctly modern and stilted understanding of the separation of powers,” George Thomas argues: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

First time in over 360 years that pelicans have bred at St James’s Park, London. Four chicks hatched last month. #BirdoftheDay #LivingLandscapes #London #Photography

Kyle MacLachlan and David Lynch on the set of Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)

World Cup co-hosts Mexico beat Ecuador 2-0 to reach round of 16 https://aje.news/dc1f4j

#Bloomscrolling #ColourADay #BlueTue Baptisia australis, which I love for the drooping foliage as much as the Lupin like blooms.

'Peonies' by Japanese painter Kiyohara Yukinobu (1643-1682) #WomensArt

At some point I'm going to write a series of articles dissecting the denial ecosystem around Syrian chemical weapons and how manufactured, unfalsifiable doubt obstructs accountability, hopefully starting in August. Really nerd out on it.

"Having a Sister #2" by artist Sergiu Ciochină

Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder in 'Dracula', Premiere Magazine, 1992 📸 : Helmut Newton

JD Vance says his faith makes him averse to “low wage foreigners”