Time to take a break from social media. But before I go- I'll leave you with this-

85% does not warm the cockles of my heart...

The ethereal, breathtaking landscapes of Danish realist painter, Peder Mørk Mønsted, 1859-1941. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 The Gallerist©️

There is still beauty in the world. (Vietnam, harvesting water lilies, photographer unknown.)

LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Britain said on Sunday it was recognising a Palestinian state after Israel failed to meet conditions including a ceasefire in the nearly two-year-old Gaza war.

TOAD WILL NOW WALK ON A HIGH WIRE, AND HE WILL NOT FALL DOWN.

My interview with former Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah. She was fired for speaking out. And as she tells me, some in the media are afraid to report on her side of the story. youtu.be/9hTB0CcuDDw?si…

This!!

Time for things falling, things ending, things waiting #Photography #Artsy #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #Leaves #HarvestSeason

How is it happening here? How has America fallen apart in nine months faster than it did in the eight years of rakes smashing our faces under George W. Bush? www.thefarce.org/why-trump-ca...

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest a little afterward #LazyDays #GetYourSlothOn #bloomscrolling #photography #nature #flowers #gardens

He's completely slipped his cracker, hasn't he?

By, Jove- I think he's got it!

AOC, with the 🎤 drop on Trump's obscenely corrupt Border Czar Tom Homan. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👇

Marc Chagall, The Circus Rider, c. 1927. Oil on canvas. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Soul Space | The Art Institute of Chicago

Just because.

Happy to say that I've read a good number of these- Some are my all-time favorites, I might add. Now that I've got this list, I'll work my way through the rest!

"We're losing expertise, and gaining incompetency"

Carl Sagan wrote this in 1995 and I think about it a lot.

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

Pure fire and total respect. 🔥🔥

I remember when people would get all pissy about bringing up Idiocracy.

You're looking at a Morelet's Tree Frog (Agalychnis moreletii), and more importantly, she's looking at you. 🐸 They're also known as "Black-eyed Tree Frogs", for obvious reasons. Those big eyes collect light without acting like reflectors, allowing them to hunt at night.

Starmer to announce the recognition of a Palestinian state tomorrow (Sunday).

Just adding this.. for the history.

Every statistic about how bad the economy is getting is going to be buried or cooked by the end of the year. Quarterly earnings reports shifting to semi-annual earnings will ensure private companies don’t inject reality too often by talking about declining sales, etc.

AOC is spot on. I'm pissed at every cowardly democrat who voted to honor this deeply flawed, hateful man.

I wish things were at least less stupid if they had to be so dire

The House already voted on the CR yesterday and it only takes a simple majority, so nothing can stop MAGA there But this 60-vote rule in Senate gives Democrats power I think MAGA is going to change the rules of the Senate and effectively end the 60-vote rule AND the filibuster & ram this through

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

⚠️California it’s time. ▪️Stand for democracy. ▪️Vote YES on prop 50. ▪️Maps are temporary. ▪️Theirs are not.

Happy Saturday from the beautiful female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Black form). She is enjoying wild White Crownbeard nectar along the edge of our southwestern woods. #Photography99 📷🌱 #Butterflies 🦋 #SwallowtailSeason

Solidarity is our way out of this mess, friends. 🌺

Stephen Miller says what?

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

Every day this administration invents new, increasingly crappier way to screw your over, things that in the past reality the Onion would be ashamed to put out.

Said it before, I'll say it again: The "not technically illegal" aspect of AI is going to be used by unethical companies to provide users with things they previously could only get on the darkest, nastiest secret corners of the web. No-age-limit chatbots and stolen schoolgirl photos are the start

Beautiful video from @canada.lifestyle32 - credit #Canada 🫎 💦

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

This reads like a parody, a satire. This reads like "jfc I can't believe this is real."

*administration’s plan to torpedo air pollution limits and cancer prevention programs while ripping away health care and cancer treatment and canceling clean energy investments will increase preventable cancer cases among Americans. All to enhance polluters’ profits and cut taxes for the superrich.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

They deserve our protection.

Explains ⬆️ in Russian aggression: “Pentagon officials sat down with a group of European diplomats in late August and delivered a stern message: The U.S. planned to cut off some security assistance to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, all NATO members bordering Russia.” www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The H1-B fiasco that is about to unfold is almost certainly a Stephen Miller Special to continue “whiteifying” the country, packaged in a way that Trump will see as a “deal” that gives him further leverage over companies to do what he wants