Hope

The red rose Dark Desire blooming, its crimson petals edged with purple seen against green leaves. US Botanic Garden. Washington, DC (May 2024)

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” —Abraham Lincoln 🌹
#PresidentsDay #roses

At 7, Tatum gives us all a lesson. “You can be anything you want to be. Don't let nobody tell that you can't." She embodies self belief . She reminds us that doubt is planted by people who stopped believing in themselves & decided you shouldn't either.
Take it in.
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And we’re got big news! Next year’s artist in residence is none other than @roxanegay.bsky.social!!!! Imagine getting to study writing with her AND me!!! At the same time!! APPLY!!!

GO CATS!!! BEAT ASWho 🐻⬇️🏀

Obnoxious ASWho fans….who would guess. 🐻⬇️ #ArizonaWBB

All Gray All Day! #Unrivaled

She did it!!!

Aliyah Boston advances to the Unrivaled 1-on-1 quarterfinals after a victory over Breanna Stewart. She finished the game on an 11-3 run after Stewart scored the first 4 points. #Unrivaled

The law was passed and signed under Schwarzenegger

Gotta ❤️ Plum!!

IT'S ABOUT TO GO DOWN!
#UNRIVALED #UNRIVALEDWBB
TUHNIGHT!

HAYES: “The target turned out to be 4 party balloons… No Mexican cartel drones. Just Border Patrol agents with a borrowed experimental space laser shooting at (party balloons).”🎪

The Trump regime, folks 🤦🏼- Bondi, Duffy etc all lied about why El Paso airport shut down.🎈

Pete Hegseth handed loss as GOP-appointed judge blocks move to reduce veteran Dem's rank A judge stepped in Thursday to block the Pentagon's move to try and reduce Sen. Mark Kelly's (D-AZ) rank or censure him — a loss for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and major win for Kelly. Federal Jud...

Good for Mark Kelly!!!!!

Judge finds that he cannot be sanctioned or lowered in rank in a big F U to Hegseth!

#Pinks
#ProudBlue

www.rawstory.com/judge-blocks...

In a country with a bad president, be a Bad Bunny. [Cartoon by Matt Davies]

Damn straight. #wewillnotbeerased

Juat saw the Manhattan borough president on Instagram, and they’re actually doing this -- there were flags placed in the park. But also, there will be a protest on Thursday 4 p.m. and he and activists will be hoisting a new flag on the official flag poll.

Let the Trump gestapo take it down again.

FDA declines to review Moderna application for new flu vaccine Moderna requests meeting to discuss refusal as decision could have implications for all new and updated vaccines

NEW: The FDA just shot down Moderna's new flu shot. From me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Benito effect... activity on Bluesky spiked 70% during the Super Bowl 👀

Go CATS!! 🐻⬇️ #Wildcats #1

You know who isn't in the Epstein Files?

Bad Bunny.

Happy Monday Bsky! ☕🐰

The NFL announces that next year's Super Bowl halftime performer will be Zohran Mamdani.

Yes, Green Day did a great job at the Superbowl.

Trump runt: The Super Bowl Halftime Show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER! It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of Success, Creativity, or Excellence. Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching from throughout the U.S.A., and all over the World. This “Show” is just a “slap in the face” to our Country, which is setting new standards and records every single day — including the Best Stock Market and 401(k)s in History! There is nothing inspirational about this mess of a Halftime Show and watch, it will get great reviews from the Fake News Media, because they haven’t got a clue of what is going on in the REAL WORLD — And, by the way, the NFL should immediately replace its ridiculous new Kickoff Rule. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

This is how you know the halftime show was superb.

Bad Bunny orders of magnitude more entertaining than this boring game.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

We owe the existence of the modern half time show to Black people.

So even Trump wasn't watching Kid Rock?

Trump and his sycophants and enablers and spokespeople look so petty and small after that exuberant explosion of love and culture.

Like the tiny, tiny people they actually are.

i would not recommend reading trump’s unhinged post because all he knows how to do is diminish joy, and bad bunny just created so much of it.

Raphal de la Ghetto @ilovesmick All these white people mad about Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl performance... I hope next year they get Bad Bunny performing the whole set in Spanish. 5:32 PM • 2/11/25 • 6.7M Views

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