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On December 2nd, we will win this, Tennessee!💕

According to the latest polling from Emerson, @aftynbehn.bsky.social is statistically tied in the special election for Tennessee 7th District. If you know someone in this district, encourage them to vote on Dec. 2. She is a fearless fighter for the working class. www.aftynforcongress.com

Context matters. @aftynbehn4tn was protesting a child sex abuser who had admitted it. Now Republicans are attempting to shame her for it.

We were there. Covering the activism of the Byrd survivors, Aftyn, and others is how the Holler was born.

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🚨MAJOR BREAKING: MAGA is stunned into silence as news confirms National Guard shooter, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, entered the U.S. in 2021 and was vetted and granted LEGAL ASYLUM by the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION in April 2025.

Their entire narrative just collapsed.

Trump Administration Reportedly Approved National Guard Shooting Suspect’s Asylum Application: CNN The suspect in the shooting of two National Guardsmen in D.C. reportedly had his asylum application approved by the Trump administration earlier this year.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

A six-panel comic. In the first panel, a yellow warbler says "Hey so I'm going to go out on a limb here." In panels two through five, the warbler hops along a long branch against a blue sky with clouds. In panel 6, it stops at the end of the branch and sings.

As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.

A green pond surrounded by grasses and dense foliage. A long human shadow (me) stretches across the foreground and into the pond, where algae mats and patches of reflected blue sky share the surface.

reflecting shadows
truth ripples where sunlight lands
light stealing the lie

#vss365 #Reflection #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #BlueskyPhotography #Nature #Pond #Shadow #Truth #Reflections #Stillness #ImageAndVerse #Haiga

dusk’s reflection asks-
did I seize the day?
hush, I still have bills to pay…

#vss365 #reflection
#haikufeels #hush
#poetry #haiku
#photography
#eastcoastkin
#nature #scape

photo: My pic at dusk of a grove of trees, with their dark reflection spanning across a pond. Some days, we’re just too busy…

I’m horrified by the attack on two National Guard members today in D.C.

Praying for a full recovery and comfort for their families.

The violence has got to stop.

The suspect in the National Guard shooting served for 10 years in the Afghan Army alongside U.S. Special Forces. A relative says he has a wife and five sons, hadn’t spoken to him in months, and doesn’t know why he carried out the attack.

A collage of a jade plant (Crassula ovata). The main image shows the full plant in a small metal pot with a heart decoration, and the two smaller images show close-ups of its thick, oval, glossy green leaves against a plain background.

What more appropriate plant to share on Budget Day than a Money Tree? Crassula ovata, also known as the jade plant or tree-of-happiness, is said to bring prosperity and good luck to your home, but you must never give the plant away, or your good fortune will go with it! #folklore

Painting of crows in a bare winter tree with a house below with smoke coming out of the chimney under an early evening sky

Irish artist Mildred Anne Butler, Shades of Evening, 1904 #womensart #November

Photo of the Guam coastline

A legend from Guam’s Chamoru people tells of a giant fish who took massive bites out of the island's coast. To stop it from eating the rest of the island, a group of clever maidens sacrificed their magic hair and used it to weave a net that would be strong enough to hold the monster. #WyrdWednesday

Odin is hung from the World Tree. Illustration by Franz Stassen.

In order to learn the secrets of the dead, the Norse god Odin sacrificed himself. He hung for nine days and nights on Yggdrasil, the World Tree, with his enchanted spear in his side, denied food and water until Odin received an ecstatic vision of the sacred runes.
🎨Franz Stassen
#WyrdWednesday

"The Wooden Shoes of Little Wolff" (1880) by François Coppée is about a boy deprived of warm clothes by his abusive aunt. On Christmas Eve, he gives one of his shoes to a homeless child, and wakes up the next morning to find toys, riches, and sugar plums left for him. #WyrdWednesday

When black snails cross your path
Black clouds much moisture hath

~Rhyme from Devon

When a snail crossed their path, miners in Devon often avoided bad luck and stormy weather by offering the snail a tiny bite of their meal.
#Folklore #WyrdWednesday

The Hawaiian volcano goddess Pele tests the generosity of humans by shapeshifting into an old beggar woman or a beautiful young hitchhiker. Those kind enough to help a stranger are rewarded, while those who aren't get their homes or possessions destroyed. #WyrdWednesday

Karin Persdotter offered coins to Näcken in rivers and waterways, sometimes under bridges He finally came to her like a wave in the water. She admitted it, and they executed her.

#WyrdWednesday #Folklore

Stone with long channel on the side, as if formed by flowing blood.

The ‘Table de Sacrifice,’ 100 meters north of the stone alignments at Kerzérho, Erdeven, Brittany. In local folklore, this stone is ‘where the blood flows.’ #WyrdWednesday

📷 June, 2023

🔥🐦‍⬛🔥In Native American myth, the Raven - originally a white bird - brought the gift of fire to humans, but the heat and smoke from the flaming brand it bravely carried, scorched its feathers black.
#WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday

A blurry, black and white photo of a man in a hat kneeling at a headstone.

For decades, until 2010, someone appeared at Edgar Allan Poe's grave in Baltimore before dawn on Jan. 19, his birthday.

The mysterious visitor (aka The Poe Toaster), who was never identified, would leave behind three roses & a half-filled bottle of cognac as a tribute to the writer

#WyrdWednesday

In the Kwanzaa tale "The Collared Crow," a poor, childless couple is approached by a white-collared crow, who persuades them to give away their last seeds to a hungry flock of birds. The couple is rewarded for their generosity with eight children. #WyrdWednesday

A white rabbit with pink eyes and ears sits in a loaf.

Japan's version of the moon rabbit tale is a perfect example of self-sacrifice. Originating from a Sanskrit tale, it tells of a fox, a monkey, and a rabbit who found an exhausted old man collapsed in the mountains. The monkey gathered fruit and nuts, and the fox brought fish...
#WyrdWednesday
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In European folklore the wren is a heroic figure who brings fire to the world. All the birds hold a council, and the wren volunteers. But, in the process of flying close to the sun, its feathers are scorched, giving it its brown color and short tail feathers.
Art my own.
#WyrdWednesday #Folklore

All the President's Men is playing on TCM tonight.

Ah, how far the once-mighty Washington Post has fallen.

Along with pretty much all their legacy media cousins.

Thank goodness for the current wave of independent journalists, and for Bluesky as an organizing principle for them.

Courage, friends.

Folks, two things can true at the same time.

These 2 National Guard members should not have been shot, and it's a disgusting act of violence. And, Trump + Miller have deliberately deployed them to incite division { violence. That's part of Miller's plan. They have no reason to be in our cities.

You summed that up nicely.Never forget Trump thinks only Suckers and Losers fight for their country” (The Atlantic 2020, confirmed by 4 sources).
He dodged Vietnam with bone spurs, golfed while troops went unpaid, and called fallen heroes “losers.”
Trump is the worst humanity can package in one man.

Kristi Noem should be held in contempt.

Reminder that the president of the united states can't read.