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Founder/owner/editor/national affairs columnist, Falls Church News-Press, progressive weekly newspaper inside the DC beltway since 1991, FCNP.com. Author, LGBT best sellers, Extraordinary Hearts & Gay Men in the Feminist Revolution. I follow back.
There is indeed a volcanic rage growing in the US against Trump and his โ24/7 for saleโ corrupt presidency, against the loss of affordable healthcare, against an economy where full time employees need SNAP and Medicaid to survive, and against the loss of rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
30.12.2025 09:10 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Trump and his White House are a batch of depraved criminals. The desecration of the Kennedy Center is only their latest caper.
19.12.2025 18:14 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Out this week, Nicholas Bentonโs latest book is a compilation of 2025 works subsumed under the titles of โPlease Donโt Eat Your Childrenโ (the title derived from Jonathan Swiftโs satire) and โCult Centuryโ (describing the current thatโs led to Trump).
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I asked Senator Warner this about DNI Gabbard
08.09.2025 13:23 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Australia rejects Trumpism ๐
03.05.2025 11:58 โ ๐ 7190 ๐ 1160 ๐ฌ 192 ๐ 119It would have benefited Trump to have watched Sesame Street.
It would have taught him how to not be a major asshole.
Big Bird's ass would make him a Sunday face. Just sayin'.
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02.05.2025 23:08 โ ๐ 24136 ๐ 5305 ๐ฌ 473 ๐ 203A scene overlooking a wide creek with trees bringing in new leaves and blue skies in the background.
Beautiful spring day here in the eastern Pennsylvania
03.05.2025 13:46 โ ๐ 1728 ๐ 94 ๐ฌ 42 ๐ 3NO OUTS AND TWO BALLS OH NO
03.05.2025 01:02 โ ๐ 649 ๐ 79 ๐ฌ 98 ๐ 45Weekly tradition: finding some rays of light no matter how dark the clouds. There is always some light. Finding it matters most when it is hardest.
Tell me something good.
What good thing happened in your life this week?
Felt brand new or felt like your old self again, just something good.
This image shows the large elegant barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365, located in the southern constellation of Fornax at a distance of 56 million light years. The bright and intensely blue star directly below the galaxy core is supernova SN2012fr, which was discovered by Alain Klotz (TAROT La Silla telescope) on 27th October 2012. As of 10th November 2012 the supernova appeared to be nearing its peak, with an R magnitude of 11.90. To get an idea of how bright this event is we can calculate the absolute magnitude M of the supernova using the following formula where m is the apparent magnitude and D the distance in parsecs: M = m - 5(log10(D) - 1) This gives an absolute magnitude of -19.27 for SN2012fr. This means that if the supernova had occurred at a distance to us similar to Betelgeuse (643 light years), then its apparent magnitude would be -12.80, same as the full Moon! Image details: Date: 7th and 9th November 2012 Exposure: LRGB: 205:57:56:51m, total 6hrs 9mins @ -30C Telescope: 10" Serrurier Truss Newtonian f/5 Camera: QSI 683wsg with Lodestar guider Filters: Astrodon LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Taken from my observatory in Auckland, New Zealand
NGC 1365 and Supernova SN2012fr - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/dsnfg9
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