Dawn 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini

Great shot!

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

a cartoon character holding a scroll of the u.s. constitution says hello i 'm the u.s. constitution ALT: a cartoon character holding a scroll of the u.s. constitution says hello i 'm the u.s. constitution

Roses are red
Violets are blue
If you’re born here
You’re a citizen too

What a timeline! For those that don’t know, China has been slowly enveloping Russia’s land over in northern Siberia and Putin cannot do much about it because his military is so spread out.

For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs.

Peter Thiel.

A single hot air balloon floating above Arches National Park, with layered sandstone mesas and distant desert formations fading into a hazy horizon under a pale sky.

A lone hot air balloon drifts above Arches National Park, floating over layered sandstone formations and distant mesas softened by morning haze.
#ArchesNationalPark #UtahLandscape #HotAirBalloon #DesertSouthwest #LandscapePhotography #WoodSpriteRoadTrip

Come check out Wayfinder's hot air balloon again tonight from 5-8 PM in Nashville's Walk of Fame Park 🔥
Right across the street from #NCE2026! @aasa.org

Excellent shot!

hot air balloon at dawn

Party balloons. None of my balloon friends was injured by Whiskey Pete’s military. This time.

A large number of hot air balloons and spectators in a field on a winter day

I went to the Hudson Hot Air Affair hot air balloon event in Hudson WI last weekend and took a few pictures on #35mm film

🧵 below with a few favorites from the day

#hotairballoon

A partially inflated hot air balloon surrounded by spectators

A mostly inflated hot air balloon in the prices of being warmed but still on the ground while a few people watch nearby

The same balloon as the first two pictures, now warmed enough to be lighter than the surrounding air

A few more hot air balloons being set up

A few pictures of them getting set up

A group of hot air balloons with various patterns and colors. Some are fully set up and some are still on the ground only partially inflated

A group of hot air balloons with various patterns and colors

A single balloon a short distance from the main group for some reason

There were quite a few there. Most were generally lined up in two rows and people could walk between them

The Hudson Hot Air Affair! That balloon is owned and piloted by my friend Chris O’Keefe.

A bunch of hot air balloons in a field and surrounded by spectators

A shot focusing on a single balloon from the group. The picture was taken from very nearby looking up at a fairly steep angle

A picture of a hot air balloon taken from below close enough to get a clear view of the interior of the balloon

A few pictures focusing on the same balloon, first two different exterior angles and then one from directly underneath (standing inches from the bakery) and looking inside one. I'd never seen one from this angle before, so that was interesting

Landscape image

Portrait image

Hot air, high desert

Hot air balloons of various colors and shapes crowd the Albuquerque sky during the International Balloon Fiesta, a 9-day event featuring pilots from around the world.

#BalloonFiesta #AlbuquerqueSkyline #HotAirBalloons

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It’s usually a few degrees warmer in the winter at altitude. Cold air sinks. Shadows keep the air on the ground cooler longer. You can feel the temperature difference as you come down to land and the balloon can acutely bounce off the cold layer if you aren’t in a fast enough descent.

A hot air balloon over South Lanarkshire where the temperature at ground level is about -4C.

This is commitment. It must be bitterly cold up there.

Hot air balloon getting ready in the morning. Near Hamilton, NZ, 2025.

#photography

It’s a gas balloon; there’s no mechanism for adding heat and the entire envelope is closed to contain the gas.

Victorian valentine card featuring a hot air balloon full of flowers with birds flying around it

Chapter IVa (added in?) #LastMan200

“Is there such a feeling as love at first sight? And if there be, and what does its nature differ from love, found it in long observation, and slow growth? Perhaps its effects are not so permanent; but they are, while they last, as violent and intense.“

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

Hyping up Team USA with my guy Dan Barefoot on Ice #Olympics #Skeleton

Raskin: What makes somebody a good lawyer?

You have to identify with the people who are the victims of injustice — not with their perpetrators.

So I would say to Pam Bondi: If you’re going to stand with the victimizers and not the victims, then you’re not a real lawyer.

Great sitting down with Brian Tyler Cohen to talk about everything from the courage we saw in Minnesota, to how Democrats can be true to our values and get stuff done, to how we’re building a community of changemakers at the Obama Foundation. youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw

Nothing to see here…just more criminals buying their way out prison.

peach blossoms

🌸 Happy Friday! 🌸

SEN. KAINE: “You said American whites are victims of a cultural genocide… are they represented in the senate? House? Presidency? CEO’s?”

Trump’s white nationalist pick for a top state department spot Jeremy Carl skewered by @kaine.senate.gov

He wants us to know if he ends up dead he’s been Epsteined.