I woke up at 4 am - looked up and saw this partial eclipse.

Bernie Sanders draws massive crowd in Macomb County to fight oligarchy Michigan is still “feeling the Bern.”

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Cartoon: Tsk, tsk I've tried to be patient with Democrats lately—they don’t have many cards to play. James Carville’s advice to “play possum” has some tactical merit, but come on. This administration is a ...

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Oil on canvas, tiger lily

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

Trump Targets the Presidio Trust in San Francisco, a Pelosi Achievement (Gift Article) President Trump seeks to significantly pare back the Presidio Trust, which oversees a signature park near the Golden Gate Bridge.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

Opinion | Fail, Caesar! (Gift Article) We can’t let Trump be a cruel emperor.

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Opinion | Germany’s Far-Right Comeback Germany’s attempts to “remember away” its Nazi past has instead paved the way for an extremist resurgence.

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New York Belongs to Trump Now New Yorkers want their mayor held accountable.

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Those tulips never stop.

Divine Rhythm and Blues collage

A ‘great shock’: Julianne Moore’s children’s book under review by Trump administration The actor’s book Freckleface Strawberry is on a list of library books suspended for a ‘compliance review’ after a presidential executive order

They're targeting children's books now.
#Books #BookBans #Censorship
A ‘great shock’: Julianne Moore’s children’s book under review by Trump administration www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Revealed: Trump’s confidential plan to put Ukraine in a stranglehold Panic in Kyiv as US president demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s First World War reparations

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Veerrry cold and lots of snow but I love the way the snow makes little stars on that Japanese Umbrella Pine that's not really a pine it's a sacred tree.

Washington Post opted not to publish anti-Musk ad campaign after initially being open | CNN Business The Washington Post scrapped an upcoming print ad from a pair of advocacy groups calling for the firing of Elon Musk as head of the Department of Government and Efficiency.

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USA v Canada ice hockey fight: Three fights in first nine seconds before US go on to win A 4 Nations game between the USA and Canada descends into chaos with three fights breaking out between players in the first nine seconds.

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The Opposition Is Already Growing Trump is getting substantial pushback, both from the courts and from other pockets of civic life.

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Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Throws Shade On Elon Musk Over $97 Billion Bid: ‘I Don’t Think He’s a Happy Person’ OpenAI CEO and founder Sam Altman threw shade Elon Musk's way after the latter offered to take control of OpenAI, a move Altman theorized is to "slow us down."

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Noem warns the public that they can’t trust the government - which she is part of DHS chief signals that Musk’s team has access to FEMA systems containing Americans’ private information

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Last spring on Bird Island I saw how an aggressive male swan threatened a Canadian Goose family. I was astounded.

Opinion | Let’s Hear It for the Coyote Hiding in the Produce Aisle The wild creatures who have adapted to our ways are adept at remaining out of sight. But they are here, and they will always be with us.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/o...

Europeans on democracy’s frontlines offer advice to Americans: never give up With the new Trump era likely to pose unprecedented challenges the message from Europe’s fragile democracies is: stay united and safeguard your institutions

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Flint Art Museum has a room for children or those of us who are kids at heart to make collages with parts that are magnetized. I could spend all day there.

A landscape I painted last summer. I know it isn't even spring yet but I have summer days on my mind. Today it's in the 40's so I'll take a little road trip to Flint Institute of Arts.

State of my mind at the moment. Acrylic on canvas.

‘Make them pay’: Canada puts Trump’s ‘first friend’ Elon Musk’s Tesla in the crosshairs of tariff war Canada’s EV adoption rate is outpacing that of the U.S., with nearly 17% of new cars sold in the third quarter of 2024 being fully electric, compared to just 8% in the US.

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