Patsy Cline

Forest silhouetted against a starry night sky, painting.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Forest, Mikalojus Ciurlionis, 1907.

Canada lynx

USDA goes full Scrooge on food stamp recipients—if they live in blue states Democratic governors across the country are accusing the Trump administration of, once again, playing politics with people's hunger.

Looks like the Trump administration is doing what it does best: playing politics with people’s hunger.

Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it.

Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.

Profound admiration

Teen brothers patrol the Chicago suburbs to track ICE agents and film raids

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.

Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.

Our duty is to stand up to brutality.

Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

A century ago, gray #wolves roamed much of CA, OR, and WA — then urbanization, ranching, and government extermination programs wiped them out.

Learn more in the last 2025 episode of Sounds Wild where we discuss their epic return on the West Coast and what their future looks like ➡️ bit.ly/4pNp0e5

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YouTube video by MS NOW 'Shackled' and 'Handcuffed': Deported college student in tears SPEAKING OUT on ICE encounter

FULL INTERVIEW: I spoke with Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, the nineteen year old Babson College freshman who was deported when going home to surprise her parents for Thanksgiving. "People say we're criminals. It's just not right." youtu.be/UuldnddRc10?...

Governor Newsom meets President Trump on the LAX tarmac during Trump's January 2025 visit to survey the damage left by the Los Angeles area firestorms. 11 months later, Trump has yet to actually transmit the formal request to Congress for critical disaster funding to help Southern California communities recover from the Palisades and Eaton fires — despite California's urgent pressure and bipartisan support on Capitol Hill.

In January, Donald Trump looked me in the eye on the tarmac, promising Angelenos that he'd help rebuild after the firestorms.

11 months later, he still hasn't delivered.

That's why I'm headed to D.C. to push for a long-overdue federal aid package for survivors.

HAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

A raku fired dolphin sculpture on a white background. It is iridescent with blues, reds, coppers.

A close up of the face of the dolphin.

A view of the other side of the dolphin.

A close up of the body and fin of the dolphin.

'Delphinus' is a star, leaping from the ocean, a celestial traveller caught between the depths and the heavens.

Born from fire and smoke in the unpredictable alchemy of raku, it's iridescent surface swirls with cosmic starlight, copper reds and nebula blues.

#ArtAdventCalendar #pottery

A single brown feather resting on undisturbed light brown sand with a long shadow reaching foward. The rising sun is suggested by the yellow/golden tones in the sky over the ocean. Big puffy gray/white clouds up top.

#Artadventcalendar
Light as a Feather

Three parrots socialize in a retro living room

Day 4 #ArtAdventCalendar Bird Salon, from a series. #collage

Abstract Landscape: orange sky with swirling dark blue clouds over a lake with ice, melt ponds and beach

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4 morning

Breakup
30x36 76x91
Oil on Canvas
2021

#art #painting

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

What if the Doors didn't just get into town about an hour ago?
Your turn, Go! 🎶

For 50 years, the median wage of hourly workers stagnated or declined while the stock market and CEO pay skyrocketed.

Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by the system?

People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system.

YouTube video by HBO It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley | Official Trailer | HBO

Shameless plug time.
The HBO Max movie we worked on, It's Never Over Jeff Buckley, is available for streaming starting this Thursday 12/4

It's a beautiful look at the brief but brilliant career of Jeff Buckley. You'll really enjoy it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGKg...

December Photo A Day – Theme Weeks
Legendary Music Venue Week 12/1-7

Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles

#travelphotography #travel #wanderlust #photography

A pollen dusted honey bee probing the nectaries of a white mallow flower with its proboscis

Honey bee on a white musk mallow flower 🌱🐝

#InsectThursday #Bloomscrolling #BugSky #EastCoastKin

Sarah Anne Johnson, WWSOSR (detail) (pigment print with oil paint, 2020) 📸🎨

Painting of winter night scene with a night sky filled with stars. The lower portion of the image is covered in white snow. In the bottom left, a dark, bare tree with red berries is visible. In the bottom right, two figures hold hands and look up at the sky. Rolling grey green hills are the background with trees and a house with a steeple. A large, bright comet with a fiery orange and red tail streaks across the sky.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Carson Ellis

'Some of you are probably fine with it’: Newsom confronts business elite on Trump The California governor used financial power brokers as a foil during an interview in New York City.

Gavin Newsom lit into an audience full of financial power brokers today, criticizing what he cast as their complicity with Trump’s agenda. He told attendees of the New York Times DealBook Summit that they should look into the kneepads he’s selling, in parody, to those “groveling to Trump’s needs.”

Acid Jazz
Ink/Acrylic
64”x48”
Canvas

Black and white hands on an orange background. Quilted fiber art detail of a larger piece.

#ArtAdventCalendar

“Reaching Out”
Quilted fiber art
2016

#beauty #fiberart #quiltsky

Forest floor: a fallen log, nestled among dry, brown leaves, and with a vibrant green fern draped over it. Everything is sprinkled with a light dusting of snow.

#AdventArtCalendar