John O'D
@jsheaod.bsky.social
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Traveler, photographer, and American expatriate in Paris. johnsheaodonnell.com no DMs please.
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired or sidelined at least two dozen generals and admirals over the past nine months in a series of ousters that could reshape the U.S. military for years to come."- looks like someone is prepping for a military coup
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This blight on the American soul has always been there: 3/4 Compromise, Southern Rebellion, Jim Crow, Dixiecrats, MAGA. But so too has a fierce, resolute, and morally superior resistance to it.
2 months ago
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"There is scarcely an evil known in these countries which may not be traced to their king as it’s source, nor a good which is not derived from the small fibres of republicanism existing among them." Thomas Jefferson to George Washington
2 months ago
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NO KINGS! You'd think as a judge your integrity should be above the norm. What about the Supreme Court Justices who aid and abet a convicted criminal who abuses his position for personal, family,
2 months ago
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... and friends' financial gain while moving back the clock on the once disenfranchised or newly so, and freeing criminals duly convicted. Yet another example of the fraying and dismantling of a once great nation's institutions in less than a year....
2 months ago
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The push by Trump to get Republican controlled states to gerrymander districts is just the first step...
3 months ago
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Trump is both trying to hide the economic news of the economic effects of his policies while engineering a state of emergency in majority Democtatic large cities so he can stop the midterm elections because the results are likely to be devastating for the Republicans.
3 months ago
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Time to boycott Israel just like Apartheid era South Africa
3 months ago
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Artist, Parker Croft, Cold Hollow, Vermont
#ice-out
#nokings
#resist
3 months ago
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Stop the genocide.
3 months ago
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Brian Tyler Cohen
4 months ago
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social
: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
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Standup to racists, sexists, fascists, monopolistic, and anti-educationist. If the old guard doesn't, replace them.
3 months ago
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Jimmy Kimmel is latest victim of Trump's chilling suppression of free speech as the Supreme Court aids him.
#orangedictatorship
#orangeauthoritarianism
3 months ago
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Deport Melania to Uganda
3 months ago
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Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
3 months ago
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This is what happens in authoritarian countries: MSNBC has fired Matthew Dowd, who remarked that Charlie Kirk had been pushing hate speech, adding that “hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions.”
3 months ago
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Finally, a national voice for sanity
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/opinion/trump-senate-democrats-shutdown.html
4 months ago
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Sinagoga de Santa MarĂa La Blanca and Museo Sefardi, Toledo
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#travelphotography
#toledo
#spain
4 months ago
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Calle Arco de Palacio and Catedral Primada Santa MarĂa de Toledo
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#travel
#spain
#toledo
#travelphotography
4 months ago
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Puente de Alcántara and the Alcázar, Toledo
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#toledo
#travelphotography
#travel
4 months ago
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Toledo
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#toledo
4 months ago
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Should anyone in the Fed resign simply because a CONVICTED FELON says so?! Trump should resign because he's destroying the international world order built and maintained for generations since WWII while corruptly enriching himself, his family, & cronies as he destroys the US economy.
4 months ago
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patterned walls, Segovia
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#segovia
4 months ago
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El Acueducto, Segovia
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#segovia
4 months ago
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Great Blue Heron, Snowy Egret, Great Egret
#photographer
#parisphotogher
#birds
4 months ago
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Turkey Vulture, Red-Tailed Hawk, Great Horned Owl, Cooper's Hawk
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#birds
4 months ago
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California Quail, Pileated Woodpecker, Cedar Waxwing, Acorn Woodpeckers
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#birds
4 months ago
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Tropical Kingbird, Black Vulture, Roseate Spoonbills, Great Kiskadee
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#birds
4 months ago
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American White Pelicans and Brown Pelicans
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#birds
4 months ago
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Brandts Cormorant, Long-billed Curley, Northern Shoveler, Pied-Billed Grebe
#photographer
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#parisphotographer
#birds
4 months ago
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Sanderling, Least Sandpiper, Marbled Godwit, Willet
#photographer
parisphotographer
#birds
4 months ago
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American Avocet, Western Gulls, Black Oystercatcher, Whimbrel
#photographer
#sfphotographer
#birds
4 months ago
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Widow Skimmer Dragonfly, Damselflies, Cardinal Meadowhawk Dragonfly
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#dragonflies
#damselflies
4 months ago
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Purple Sapphire Butterfly, Dark Glassy Tiger Butterfly, Lime Butterfly, and Luna Moth wing detail
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#butterflies
#lunamoth
4 months ago
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Common Buckeye, Knight Butterfly, Silvery Blue Butterfly, and Yellow Pansy Butterfly
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#butterflies
4 months ago
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mantis and longhorned beetle
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#insects
4 months ago
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Protea
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#flowers
#southafrica
#protea
4 months ago
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Protea
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#flowers
#southafrica
#protea
4 months ago
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Banksia
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#flowers
#australia
#banksia
4 months ago
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Banksia
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#flowers
#australia
#banksia
4 months ago
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Dr. Jack Brown
5 months ago
Birds of a feather...
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Robert Reich
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Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%... "That's just how it is."
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If the Democrats can't win the next election by landslides against the most corrupt, morally bankrupt administration in the history of the US and their Congressional mignons, then their messaging is crap.
4 months ago
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Passion flowers
#passiflora
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#flowers
5 months ago
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Passion flowers
#passiflora
#photography
#parisphotographer
#flowers
5 months ago
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Shaving brush flower, Pineapple ginger, Red hot poker, and Scarlet flame bean
#photographer
#flowers
#parisphotographer
#hawaii
5 months ago
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Pitcher plants
#pitcherplant
#flower
#photographer
#parisphotographer
5 months ago
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Dutchman's Pipe, Climbing Lily, Torch Ginger, and Cannonball Flower
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#flowers
#dutchmanspipe
#torchginger
#cannonballtree
5 months ago
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Water Lilies
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#flowers
#waterlily
5 months ago
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Bromeliads
#photographer
#parisphotographer
#flowers
#bromeliads
5 months ago
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