Ryan Brooks

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Smoky Mountains, 2009

The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn ) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

🔊TURN DOWN THE VOLUME

Californians don't want to hear commercials at a volume any louder than what they were previously enjoying their program at.

I just signed legislation enforcing this regulation across streaming platforms.

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

Trump’s order to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago is illegal, immoral, and must be stopped by the courts. ICE is already wreaking havoc in our communities. Let’s call this what it is: an invasion by out-of-state troops coming here only with the purpose of tormenting Chicagoans.

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

Mountain with morning sunlight hitting the tops.

Have a mountain with some pretty light. 🤷‍♀️

A deer fawn

Blacktail Deer fawn, Western Washington

Small woodpecker with black and white markings a bright red spot on the back of its head.

Mid-sized woodpecker with black shoulders and edges of its wings, a broad white band across is rump, a white breast, and a stunning crimson red head.

Downy and red-headed woodpeckers were gracious photography subjects today.

Stowe Vermont

A path through a bamboo forest

#ImageAndVerse

Leonard Cohen

Traveling Light

…I'm just a fool
A dreamer who
Forgot to dream Of the me and you
I am not alone
I've met a few
Traveling light like
We used to do…

#photography #poetry

📸 by me 🖤

Great Egret

#birds 🪶
#birdphotography
#egret

photo of a black cat with what can only be described as a reproachful expression

I SNEEZED REALLY VIOLENTLY AND THIS IS THE LOOK SHE GAVE ME IM CRYING

'Live your life in such a way that if the escalator stops, you don't assume it's because people hate you.

NEWSFLASH:

ALL THE MOST POWERFUL MEN ON THE PLANET ARE IN THE EPSTEIN FILES.

I don’t even need the files to tell me that. All I have to do is look at how people are acting.

Please watch and re-post ad infinitum. This is beyond insane and dangerous AF.

YouTube video by Democracy Docket Can We Actually Save America?

We need to build a new opposition movement. In this video, I lay out the challenge ahead and what I think we need to do to make it happen. Please watch, comment, and share. youtu.be/_GUgnpAYMCc

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes.

That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.

I don’t understand how any of these approval numbers could be this high. Even 27% seems too high to me!

Minou the rescue cat sitting on her stoop like a fluffy little Queen!

For #FlashbackFriday here's me, Minou, looking like a fluffy little QUEEN!

My painting SEDONA TRAIL

Hot dog. Hot tub.

Petals like wispy tentacles, yellow, orange, peach, glinting in the sun with background of green leaves

Dahlia of the day🧡💛💖