“Trump won white evangelical and born-again voters by a 65-point margin, 82 percent to 17 percent. He lost everyone else by 18 points, 58 percent to 40 percent.”

“None of us can be held responsible for the wrongs of our ancestors. But if today we choose not to do the right and necessary thing, that burden we own.” Nikole Hannah-Jones, Journalist, MacArthur Fellow, Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

#wildturkeys #birds

#whitetail #icefield

Winter birds and icicles

Bald eagle checking us out

Winter Sunset

Icy hike in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe,” H. G. Wells, 1920

Theme song for this past week: Minneapolis, Portland, where next?

When you love getting your picture taken!

Winter sunset

Republicans defy Trump and JD Vance. Maybe American democracy will survive?

Winter sky and reflection, Tidewater

Frosty morning!

Winter Sunset

Winter Moonrise

I was talking with a rural Trump voter yesterday who was very angry. He said, “Where’s my $2 gasoline?” ⛽️ I don’t think he’ll vote D in the midterms but I do think he’ll stay home.

Spanberger, in contrast, has stood firm in her commitment to maintaining institutional autonomy in response to Ryan’s forced resignation and not allowing Virginia schools to become a “punching bag” for partisan agendas…

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No Kings, Williamsburg, VA. Lots of horns blowing in support too!

No Kings Williamsburg, VA

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Scenic world

Any Senators here? I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise. RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably. He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably. He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably. 1/

The cop killers want some money.

Sunset

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…” JFK. So sad to see the USA abandon science and scientific achievement.

#summerstorms #crapemyrtle #tidewater

Stormy skies and a bald eagle 🦅 yesterday evening

Thunder and lightning in Tidewater, VA

Both Canada and Mexico are far better neighbors than we deserve.

The president of Aix-Marseilles University is welcoming US scientific refugees.He "likened the situation to that of European academics who fled persecution by Nazi Germany both before and during World War II" www.politico.eu/article/meet...

These anti-vaccine MAGA morons are gonna kill us all. Conservatives are opposed to progress, so that’s why they try to take us back to the Stone Age where people died regularly from things that are preventable. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue www.propublica.org/article/whoo...

Seen in Williamsburg, Virginia. 6/14/2025

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More than 6000 scientists have signed a declaration condemning "Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe" www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

This is what humans do for one another

Why sheriff Taylor doesn't carry a gun. Clip from 'The Andy Griffith Show', season 5, episode 23. Broadcast on March 1st, 1965.

#lillies #flowers #springtime

Sunset pics from Tidewater Virginia

Red skies at night

Since Donald Trump is freaking out about Bruce Springsteen calling this the most corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration, it would be a shame if this video was shared even more widely....