Thank you #SenatorMarkKelly for your service to America!

Thank you for this article. I'm astounded that it's just now front page in the AZ Republic nearly a month later! Nearly 750,000 AZ seniors on traditional Medicare (like me) should be outraged that we will now be subjected to an ai algorithm dictating the pre-authorization process for our healthcare.

www.azcentral.com/story/news/p... #Arizona is one of the test states in a controversial new federal pilot program that uses #AI to approve & deny some #Medicare claims

"Springtime for Putin" coming soon to the Trump-Kennedy Center stage. Opening act will be "Comrade Krasnov Reads the (Unredacted) Epstein Files" 😉

A few pics from a recent visit to the Newport OR area so that I can give a shout out to #OregonCoastAcquarium for their wonderful marine biology displays and wildlife education programs. Also, fuck the ICE fascists who want put a detention facility in this magnificent tourist destination.

Too funny not to share 🤣

Meanwhile in the MAGAverse

The biggest most beautiful toys.

We passed thru the #LakeTahoe area on one of our recent truck camper adventures and wanted to give a shout out to all the folks who are doing the work to #KeepTahoeBlue at keeptahoeblue.org

Grateful on this Thanksgiving Day that we have real American heroes like Senator Mark Kelly to defend our democracy against incompetent drunkards and dotards like Whiskey Pete and Dementia Don

The secret TrumpSpeak decoder ring

I love how Mamdani takes care to protect his private parts from the orange Bubba groper

JFC, this clown should just wear the Ronald McDonalds suit 🤡

Another Republican convicted of actual voter fraud.

Annual Veterans Day remembrance of my Army time 1976 -1979. This pic at Ft Jackson SC during Basic Combat Training.

I approve of this message

At today's #NoKings rally in Coos Bay OR

The Aravaipa Creek Wilderness in AZ. Another reason why we need to keep public lands in public hands: just on the doorstep of a major mining project, yet haven to bighorns, coatimundi, mountain lions, javelina, bear, deer, bobcats, exotic birds, etc. Truly deserving to be called big & beautiful.

Florida Man strikes again. Just another example of a Republican program designed to siphon off public education tax dollars, which in turn leads to the kind of waste, fraud, and abuse that Repugs love. I'm sure a donation to Trump will earn this guy a pardon.

When it's really lawfare

Recent pics from visiting friends in Durango CO. Parts of Robert Redford's "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" were filmed here. Also, this used to be Lauren Boebert's district until she carpetbaggered her way to an even redder district a few years ago.

You can't appease tyrants

I'm sure the Magats will be impressed because 66 is so much more bigly than .00001

Visiting the White Mountains of AZ in our truck camper. We are so fortunate to have public lands like these for all of us to enjoy, and so we must be ever vigilant to keep Trump from selling these treasures off to whoever puts the biggest bribe in his pocket. Also, #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles.

Enjoying a paddle down the Salt River, a riparian oasis in the desert just outside Phx. Meanwhile, down the road in Tucson, Amazon wants to build a data center that would use 6% of their supply of reclaimed water, which could potentially dry up what remains of the Santa Cruz River riparian area.

Back on the Cole Park bridge over Hwy 60 again this morning. Once again, kudos to all the folks who came out at 6:30am to beat the forecasted 110+ degree heat. #VeteransAgainstTrump

Ashurst Lake AZ. We came to observe osprey, but were fascinated by all the other colorful characters flitting thru the trees like Top Gun fighters: orioles, goldfinches, warblers, wrens, swallows, sparrows, meadowlarks, etc. It's really dry out there right now folks, please recreate responsibly.

At the Indivisible Arizona rally on the Cole Park bridge over Hwy 60 this morning. Kudos to all the folks who came out at 6:30am to beat the 100-degree heat, because people gotta get out there and rally against the fascism taking over our federal government. #VeteransAgainstTrump

Visited Picture Canyon in Flagstaff for the first time recently. The city acquired this preserve from the State Land Dept with funding from a voter-approved Open Space bond and a Growing Smarter grant from AZ State Parks. Treated water provides year-round critical habitat for wildlife and songbirds.

From Wikipedia regarding Dr Michael Baden and his assessment of the Jeffrey Epstein autopsy

One possible future

Early morning packrafting on the Lower Salt River a few days ago

Wilhelm Reich’s 1933 book - The Mass Psychology of Fascism - concluded that a key characteristic of fascism is the ability to derive joy from inflicting cruelty.

At today's No Kings rally in downtown Chandler near City Hall; great turnout, many thanks to the folks who organized this event!

At yesterday's 50501 rally at the AZ state capital

This is the most sense they've ever made.