It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Most Americans are genuinely good people, regardless of their political affiliation.
So when the White House says horrible things to make you hate your neighbor, the White House IS THE PROBLEM.

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

'Autumn Leaves'. Abstract painting of gold and ruddy fallen leaves floating or reflected in still water. A cool blue sky and golden light are also reflected. Daydreamy, perhaps. Which way is up or down?

'Out of all the seasons, it is the most honest about time... autumn is not shy about things coming to an end. It welcomes it, waving leafy flags of red, yellow and gold.'

Samantha Sotto Yambao, Water Moon

#BookWormSat (autumn)

🎨 Carole Garland

Painting. A woman in a black dress is leaning on a bench underneath an autumn tree. There's a house in the distance behind the trees.

'...autumn charms my melancholy mind.'
-Elizabeth Drew Stoddard

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🎨John Atkinson Grimshaw

Autumn landscape and trees, winding path, painting.

Ode to the West Wind~ Shelley.
‘O wild West Wind,
thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence
the leaves dead
Are driven,
like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing’. #BookWormSat 🍂🍁
🖼️ Autumn Landscape, António Cândido da Cunha, 1895.

Red chilli peppers hanging from their leafy and flowering plants

How beautiful
Red peppers
After the autumn gale

✍️ Yosa Buson
🖌️ Nakamura Hochu, detail of a six panel screen

#BookWormSat #autumn #haiku

A crow in profile, resting on a branch

On a bare branch
A crow is perched
Autumn evening

✍️ Matsuo Bashō
🖌️ Kawanabe Kyosai, Crow Resting

#BookWormSat #autumn #haiku

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"This sunlight shames November where he grieves
In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun
The day, though bough with bough be over-run.
But with a blessing every glade receives
High salutation ..."

Dante Gabriel Rosetti - Autumn Idleness

My photo of the autumnal woods at Alderley Edge, Cheshire, inspiration for the fantasy author Alan Garner.

"All things brown, and yellow, and red, are brought out by the autumn sun; the brown bark of trees, the brown fallen leaves, the brown stalks of plants; not a speck of yellow, red or brown the yellow sunlight does not find out."

- Richard Jefferies, 'Under The Acorns'
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A photo of a single golden autumn leaf resting on a river rock, titled "Move over, summer, autumn is here now [explored]" by join the dots and from the Creative Comons Archives, licensed under CC BY 2.0. Overlaying this photo is the text from a quote by Annie Dillard, taken from her natural history work "Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek". The quote is " It was as if the season’s colors were draining away like lifeblood, as if the year were molting and shedding. The year was rolling down, and a vital curve had been reached, the tilt that gives way to headlong rush. And when the monarch butterflies had passed and were gone, the skies were vacant, the air poised. The dark night into which the year was plunging was not a sleep but an awakening, a new and necessary austerity, the sparer climate for which I longed. The shed trees were brittle and still, the creek light and cold, and my spirit holding its breath.”

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🖊️Annie Dillard
📷Matt Clark CC deets in Alt

here's some decent replacements I follow. Not sure if more have been created to counter the spin from the regime.

A reminder - be aware that police will lead groups to arrest zones. Thousands were arrested in DC on 5/3/1971 for crossing - often at police direction - arbitrary and invisible “police lines”.
Use caution - especially if you see buses (for transport of mass arrestees) parked nearby protests.

If the Voting Rights Act is deemed unconstitutional, it won't be long until these malicious cartoon villains come for the Civil Rights Act. The biggest trick the Devil ever played was the "both sides are the same" nonsense.

When a government restricts a woman's access to healthcare, it seizes her bodily autonomy.

It is a form of incapacitation, incarceration, and imprisonment—rendering her unable to exercise agency over her own body.

Exactly this.

but adapting this in my head to motivational: will be frustrated when enough white people do decide...I hold out hope for, among others, the 30 percent of 2024 non-voters who are young people

Republicans have destroyed the lives of people who simply criticized Charlie Kirk. But when it comes to GOP officials praising Hitler, calling Black people “monkeys,” and threatening rape, they tell us, “Boys will be boys”:

after the downpour
a child crouches to count
the drowned petals
her fingers learning
the arithmetic of fleeting things

#Photography Mel
@mel789.bsky.social

Mike Johnson wishes he were a nerd. Instead, he's enabled the GOP to gut our nerdiest scientific infrastructure in favor of the extremist political agenda these people wish to substitute for facts.

I think you're implying "weak", and if you think weakness invites harassment, you fit in with them.

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

ICE is randomly targeting peaceful protesters because the point is to terrorize the public into accepting martial law.

Indiscriminate attacks send the message that there’s nothing you can do to stay safe.

The regime wants you to cower at home and cede the streets of your city to their control.

Some of you still have no clue. It’s not about MY bad experience with your religion. It’s about the fact that your religion has produced, and harbors, people that want to kill me and my kind. It’s about the fact that this has been going on for thousands of years.

John Oliver is our ferocious bodhisaatva

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

Option A: File a petition for a writ of mandamus and get a federal court to order him to do it. Then hold him in contempt when he doesn’t. Then have SCOTUS reverse anyway.

Option B: Keep pointing out that he hasn’t done it because he’s covering up the Epstein files.

Go with B. Shows he’s a

thinking about some poor vacant soul, that this is their takeaway from what we know of internet bullying,

finally a way to be powerful?

sorry baby, life ain't the Click movie. Guess you have to keep cowering while the grownups talk

So many firsts...

OpenAI with another 10 GW deal ...

To remind, 1 GW costs $60 billion to deploy.

OpenAI has made deals for 26 GW over the past two weeks.

So ... that's a $1.6 trillion commit for a company that had H1 revenue of $4.3 billion.

This. Is. A. Bubble.