Kitty, Kitka, Resista

Good morning from NC US...
Pictures of beautiful, sane places help me remember the good in the wider world..

Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson (1866-1928) was a Swedish painter, graphic artist, amateur photographer and art teacher.

Women Painters
by Carl Wilhelmson, 1902
Oil on canvas
149 cm x 124 cm
Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm Sweden

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

"I was only following orders" wasn't an acceptable excuse at the Nuremberg trials & won't work now.

#AccountabilityIsComing

My esteem for Mr. Glass knows no bounds...

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Philadelphia lawmakers introduce 'ICE Out' legislation to restrict federal operations in city

The City of Philadelphia has introduced legislation to limited ICE in the city. The Federal Agents can not be masked, must have ID visible, must have arrested warrants signed by federal judges. They can't attack people. If they can't do this, they will be arrested.
youtu.be/i5Yvg_HHfbE?...

Part of me appreciates Jeff Bezos spending tens of millions of dollars for Melania to be publicly humiliated.

"Can we adjust to bike lanes in our own neighborhood?

Yes, we can. We can do this. We have to do it. We have to make adjustments that are uncomfortable in our own neighborhoods. Because we have to do our part on this."

- former Berkeley resident Sophie Hahn, May 2022

If anyone else in the United States of America is pissed,

just reskeet this.

WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH

Congress had better step up!

PERIOD

They are the vanguard.

THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE US IN SHORT FORM

Peace
MBM

There were no good orcs because orcs don’t exist. What they are meant to embody does exist.

Cruelty. Sadism. Compliance to brutal authority. Wanton destruction. Hatred of the powerless. Cowardice in the face of bravery.

The debate is over.

There are no good orcs.

Congress could stop this if they chose to do so.
Congress has a responsibility to uphold the constitution.
Impeach and remove the traitor pee resident, who continues to commit crimes and encourage others to do so every day.

I can't get over how true the lazy aristocrat thing is.

I guarantee you that there were house members who had been
ignoring all their constituents cries for impeachment.

Then some staffer came in and said "Hey, want to impeach Noem? There are articles floating around."

"Oh sure why not."

ICE Agent Stuffs Sock Under Mask To Give Himself Chin

ICE Agent Stuffs Sock Under Mask To Give Himself Chin

Pretty Lights

Grabbed this from the archives, it's the big May 11, 2024 storm.
It's one of the better ones that I have showing the Auroral Dunes formation.

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#Twizel, #NewZealand
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"Looks with your eyes, See with your Soul."

#Aurora #Nightscape #Landscape #Photography #EastCoastKin #BucketList

Art by Lar DeSouza…

Last night, my colleague @repilhan.bsky.social was attacked for doing her job as she spoke with her constituents. I’m relieved to hear that she is okay.

Political violence has NO place in our country.

Rand Paul: "There has to be an investigation. I don't know who trusts an investigation done by DHS when they're the ones calling this person an 'assassin,' a 'domestic terrorist,' saying he was assaulting police. How can they be in charge of an independent investigation? Something's got to happen."

Black-and-white portrait photograph of Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley (1941–1981), the brilliant New Zealand-born astronomer and cosmologist who revolutionized our understanding of galaxy evolution. She is shown in a close-up headshot against a plain, softly lit gray background, smiling warmly and just past the camera with an intelligent, approachable, and joyful expression. Tinsley has short, wavy dark hair styled in soft curls that frame her face, and she wears earrings with round pearl or gem accents. Her eyes are bright and engaging, and her expression radiates quiet confidence and enthusiasm, capturing her during her groundbreaking career in the 1960s or early 1970s when she developed influential models of stellar populations and demonstrated that galaxies evolve significantly over cosmic time.

Beatrice Tinsley was born #OTD in 1941.

British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist, and the first female professor of #astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve, grow, and die. #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

“I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

RAND PAUL: If a country bombed our air defense missiles, captured & removed our president, & blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war?

RUBIO: We just don't believe this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition

PAUL: Of course it would be an act of war!

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

*chef's kiss*

Imagine a bucket full of rabid, hungry rats.

Imagine their feral, furious combat.

That's what's happening in the White House today.

This is amazing.

MN's National Guard has arrived and are distributing donuts, coffee and hot chocolate to anti-ice protestors.

They're wearing reflective vests so protestors know they're not Trump Troopers.

Politics the way schumers and Jeffries do it just enables the fascists. They are the culmination of the strategic framework democrats have been following since the Gingrich revolution at least. That approach has obviously failed and a different leadership philosophy is required.

US judge threatens ICE chief with contempt, orders court appearance The chief judge of Minnesota's federal court ordered the acting chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to appear in court on Friday to personally explain why that agency has not complied wi...

US District Court Judge Patrick Schiltz ordered acting ICE director Todd Lyons to appear in court Friday & warned he could be held in contempt for repeatedly failing to comply with court orders.

ICE has repeatedly ignored or delayed bond hearings & release orders for detained immigrants.

"Don't worry, I've got you"

‘For Alex’
Alex Jeffrey Pretti
1988 - 2026 rest in peace sir..🕊️

Beautiful tribute by illustrator MJ.Hiblen (@mjhiblenart on Instagram)...😢

Just think about what would be happening in the US right now if Kamala had been elected.

Stephen Colbert announced that his last show airs May 21st.
What a coincidence, that's National Cancel Paramount+ Day.

More than 31,000 nurses, health care workers strike at Kaiser Permanente, arguing for safe staffing levels, fair wages Tens of thousands of nurses and health care workers at Kaiser Permanente facilities across California and Hawaii went on strike on Monday morning.

Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers in California & Hawaii go on strike. “More than 31,000 workers across at least two dozen hospitals and hundreds of clinics run by the non-profit health care system walked off the job at 7 a.m. PT..." abcnews.go.com/Health/31000...