William Bergmann

I think that light is what they call “hope” :)

[3/3] “Blue no matter who” is desperately needed in general elections.

In the primaries, the “who” always matters, every single time.

[2/3] centralizing party power in fewer and fewer hands.

Our parties are private organizations of citizens. They only work when we do the work. We need progressives to step up and both do the work and donate in order to see *our* candidates in office.

[1/3] Here’s the thing that so many miss:

We need to do the work ***between elections***.

Tens of millions of people have declared themselves “independents” over the years, but there is no “Independent Party”.

What they’ve really done is abdicate from the two functional parties we have,

There’s pain caused by the GOP, and then there’s pain caused by our own side, and that’s what I have a hard time with.

When it comes to “checks and balances”, that’s something for twenty years from now, once we’ve recovered from the damage from this administration.

Not saying he’ll be successful, but the margin there is razer-thin, and there may be a few who have a significant number of voters losing healthcare [or more likely insurance companies losing premiums].

We get to continue riding downward on the spiral.

Which is why we should have made him build that ballroom using the shutdown.

I can’t help but feel that if we had both chambers and the Presidency, but we needed 7 GOP Senators, we would have ended up kicking 20,000,000 people of their healthcare for those votes.

No, President Obama is not getting “royalties” from Obamacare

Tonight was a very bad night.

I’m not saying AI can wholesale replace individuals, but it can allow 3 people to do the work of 10.

Rather than shit on AI and automation, we need to rush ahead to meet it with things like universal basic income and universal healthcare.

We can be more than pack mules and digital hamsters.

The only thing even moderately surprising is the openness with which TFG communicates.

And, at the end of the day, he’s being completely factual here- he’s been shitting on us since Day 1.

Spending time with the #iPhone 17 Pro Max and the Leica Lux app. This is the Summilux 28MM with the Selenium film simulation.

Dad’s best friends

#photography
#portraits
#dogs
#kids
#AustralianCattleDog

Nah, he’s even mediocre there. Musk easily has him beat.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

My wife and kids walking down an aisle of trees at Bauman Orchard.

Kind of a heavy edit, but one of my favorite family portraits I’ve taken. A too-hot fall day at Bauman Orchard.

#sonyA7iii
#photography
#family

I don’t know if this is a MAGA-leaning writer, but he definitely misses the points like one.

There wasn’t anything much controversial about GF, and the protests didn’t happen because he was murdered.

The killer’s job was to protect and serve- a person who held, and violated, the public trust.

Australian Cattle Dog on a lawn.

I’ve had a few dogs over my 45 years on the planet, but Abbie might be my biggest challenge. Good thing she’s so pretty :) First picture on an iPhone 17 Pro.

#dogs #photography #iPhone #AustralianCattleDog

I’ve never read about Jesus and thought “You know, there’s a guy that wants people to worship him!”

Too many modern Christians are, at best, the thirsty nice guy simp who stalks a girl, rather than the kind, decent guy with a personality who ends up marrying her.

Do you want to be friends with the person who is mostly aligned with your beliefs because they’re also your beliefs, or the person who says they’re exactly aligned with your beliefs BECAUSE they want to be friends with you?

I definitely think he should enable open carry in DC for the rest of his term.

Sprint car in motion around Sharon Speedway.

Working on #ICM shots two weeks ago at Sharon Speedway. Definitely a work in progress.

#photography #sprintcars #racing #dirttrack

Always has been for the party of fiction.

An Egyptian goose stands with wings open as if to embrace his partner. His partner is standing faci g him and appears to be unperturbed.

Problem with #BlueSky is that there are many creative people. I try to share posts & explore those who may not be as prominent with their work whom I think should be seen. I plan to do more of that. Embrace who you know and don't know! Have a good day x

#UKbirding #UKWildlife #Birds #photography

It’s all ridiculous.

A chain link safety fence down the front straight of Sharon Speedway.

This is the safety fence at Sharon Speedway in #Ohio.

Being at a dirt track watching sprint cars roar around a track takes me back to one of the few memories I have of early childhood- a rare joy of youth that I can share with my kids.

#photography #dirttrack #racing #SonyAlpha

A path leading into the darkness on the Towpath Trail in Akron.

Another look at the amazing #towpathtrail minutes from my home and also downtown #akron.

#photography #adventures #summitmetroparks #NortheastOhio #SonyAlpha #35MM

Trees and a sunset as seen from a towpath trail just outside of downtown Akron.

This is one of the things I love most about #Akron- this is the view from the #towpath ten minutes' walk from downtown.

#landscape #photography #NortheastOhio #UrbanGaze #nature #SummitMetroparks #SonyAlpha #35MM

I’m sure the WNBA & AT&T came up with the four-point shot gimmick before Clark went down, but it really hurt the game to me.

I’d love to see them change it up next year and have a bunch of zones on the court partners can bid on for charity donations, and have a running score per partner onscreen.