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Ghost forest.

#landscape #driftless #trempealeaunationalwildliferefuge
#staywell #bekind #gooutside

Loose brush showing scrub trees and golden grasses in the foreground. Bluffs of the Driftless region in the background with a blue sky. The blackbirds, tiny specks, gather to the right of the image in trees and the grasses.

Gathering of blackbirds.
Informed by a photo from September, 2022.

Every year blackbirds gather for their migration to somewhere hopefully warmer.
A scene from the Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge.
#abstractart #landscape #driftless #trempealeaunationalwildliferefuge
#staywell #beprettigood

I hear from people who are surprised I'm still talking about ICE, they thought they'd withdrawn from MN.

No, they have not. In some respects they've escalated.

Some asked why MN is a target. Are there are there a lot more illegals or criminals here?

No, it's not about that. It's about a grudge.

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

Perhaps you could do a follow up article on: "Medications to regulate the heart or thin the blood to reduce stroke risk can have problematic side effects." as the long term effects are not clearly articulated in the medical literature.

Awkward Robot
WIP

#awkwardrobots #blueskyart #foundpaper #analogart #art #kunst #handpainted #contemporaryart
#staysafe #bekind #beprettigood

Going out again today to walk with a crowd holding up signs and talking of a different path.

Storm over Trempealeau
Acrylic/paper
This piece is in "Driftless" exhibit at the Winona County History Center til Feb 28, 10-4. TU-FRI. Pulled together by the River Arts Alliance.
Feels weird to be promoting my work now.
To make up for that, there is a march, SAT 1-3 in Winona, MN.
#beprettigood

Must be nice. Not certain my insurance would cover “in an abundance of caution” .

echogram of a heart artery. Dated 1/30/2023.

3 years on. Takes a licking, keeps on ticking.

Dang lucky guy. Dang good cardio team at Gundersen Lutheran. Dang.

#gratitude #heart #luckyguy

Blood on their hands
Always on their mind
Jan. 30, 2026

#monoprint #abstractart #kunst #handprinted #gelliprint #blueskyart
#staywell #beprettigood #strike

@hcrichardson.bsky.social mentioned today that there is probably more to the Epstein Files than pedophilia. Follow the money. It's the only other thing he cares about.
Lots of money flowed through E's banks.

Friday would be a good day to release the Epstein Files.

Thin, crooked lines span between two groupings of blues colored messy clouds. On a painted yellow sheet of paper with some red-brown clouds.

Tendrils between us, 2026

Visited by anger, sadness, and finally hope.
I'll do better tomorrow finding those tendrils.

#staysafe #beGood #bePretti
#resist #noice #nokings #nowars
#bluskyart #art #kunst #analogart

ICE AGENT GROUP PHOTOS ("AMERICA! AMERICA! 2022", 5ft10"x7ft10", charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton)

I saw that it had been 38 days past the date the Epstein Files were legally required to be released.
The 34 count felon seems concerned about their release.
Huh, who woulda thought?

The Epstein Files have not been released.

They are executing American citizens in broad daylight and people are videoing them doing it but we will not be distracted.

Release the Epstein Files.

Ah, they still haven't released the Files, meanwhile the madman rants and proves he had lost his marbles somewhere in Florida.
Let's reorder the international political, economic, social fabric so a demented old man can avoid spending the rest of his life in jail.
#releasethefiles #staysafe #begood

My grandfather went to jail for this

A series of stylized fish swim above a pool of water that shifts color from orange in the upper right corner to a dark shade of purple blue on the lower right.

Even with the fact that my friends and families are being terrorized every day in the Twin Cities, I do occasionally try to make art.
There is a spot in the #trempealeaunationalwildliferefuge where fish go to mate.

#fishspawn #handpainted #artsky #contemporaryart #kunst
#staysafe #beGood #makeart

They might as well admit they are evil robots cause they ain't acting human.
#staysafe #begood

I just realized @rebeccaforwi.bsky.social is in this photo too.

Got to see @petebuttigieg.bsky.social in La Crosse last evening. A true patriot and great orator. He took questions from the audience that ranged over many topics.
The loudest applause was he when asked a question about the president and the news cycle.
Hope is action realized.

I do not see anything in the news about the Epstein Files being released. 20+ days they seem to be breaking the law that the big dog signed. Maybe they could sic all those street dogs on it cause all they are doing in the Twin Cities is causing pain.

#epsteinfiles #noice #staysafe #begood

WTIP, Grand Marias, MN, is playing several cuts from @zoekeating.com recordings on an all cello night of the String Theory show.

Hey, remember the Epstein Files? I do.

Fascism!: The US Army Publishes a Pamphlet in 1945 Explaining How to Spot Fascism at Home and Abroad 'Fascism is a word that’s been used a great deal these last few years,' says the article pictured above (scanned in full here at the Internet Archive).

Fascism!: The US Army Publishes a Pamphlet in 1945 Explaining How to Spot Fascism at Home and Abroad

It's not hard to see right now.

www.openculture.com/2023/06/fasc...

Hand painted sign on cardboard that says: No Ice, No Kings, No War.

Mary Kay says there were 600 at the vigil today at Broadway & Main in Winona, Minnesota.
Mary Kay walks the events and hand counts, so I believe her.
She also brings a van load of signs to lend to the signless.
Mary Kay deserves a medal.

#noice #nokings #nowars #winonamn #vigilforgood

January 9, 2026 Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.

January 9, 2026

"If we permit discrimination, prejudice, or hate to rob anyone of his democratic rights, our own freedom and all democracy is threatened.” 2/2