James William

Oh lovely, word smithing, I love it. Is it a song or songs for a special occasion? 🤔

Hi Rose - pretty good - songwriting in the studio right now ☺️

A view of the Blue Mountain, a ridge that stretches the length of the US state of Pennsylvania.

Storm clouds tower over a farm at the end of the season in Lowhill Pennsylvania.

This enclave of houses and utilitarian structures is part of an old homestead situated at Fogelsville.

An icy mineral-laden creek wends its way through snow packed banks in Kempton.

The Kiefer Historic Farm is one of the working jewels of Berks County. From left: siloes, livestock barns, a massive tractor shed and more livestock shelters are just the “ business side” of the beautiful property. A long white fenced drive separates the work from the gracious late 1800s Victorian style farmhouse- one of the finest Pennsylvania German examples extant. Finally on the extreme right is a charming original springhouse - summer kitchen. The farm is not open to the public.

A 250 year old mill close to Washington’s Crossing bridge.

I look at clouds from both sides now
Lynn Township

At Coplay Creek- along the banks, Delaware People once fished and trapped.

Florida Man Dressed as Ronald McDonald Arrested, Tells Cops 'I Am a Clown, Stupid' A Florida man dressed up like Ronald McDonald got arrested for trespassing ... and when cops told him he looked like a clown, the guy responded, "No s***, I am a clown, stupid."

www.tmz.com/watch/2025-0... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

What do you have against turnips? This is disparaging to a fine vegetable. Not my favorite vegetable, but even as a vegetable it shows more courage, integrity and humility than #Krasnov

The Art of The Steal
Dump Trump

New to Bluesky. Looking for left leaning people as confused and horrified at current events as I am. I might be old but I care!
Trying to learn to navigate this platform. Bear with me!

He’s definitely not dealing with his issues.

How John Roberts Has Empowered a Lawless Presidency The Chief Justice’s rebuke of Donald Trump over his calls to impeach judges obscures Roberts’s own role in fostering the destruction in Washington.

For @newyorker.com: I wrote a crash course on how John Roberts empowered the current destruction and lawlessness in Washington.

There’s a perception this began with the immunity ruling, but he has long been pushing the idea of an unrestrained, unchecked presidency. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

Read for yourself: Here are the attack plans that Trump advisers shared on Signal. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

it is BUCK WILD that they are just texting this shit to each other

Opinion | Trump and Musk Are Suffering From Soros Derangement Syndrome (Gift Article) The president thinks popular political opposition to his policies is manufactured.

my latest is on the white house's apparent belief that all of their political opposition is actually fake www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/o...

honestly a little surprised that this is getting full scandal treatment from the press and i think one reason is that it is secretive. high ranking officials were *hiding* something and the (idiotic) aphorism that the "cover-up is worse than the crime" has kicked the scandal instinct into gear.

The last time Lancaster County elected a Democrat to the Pennsylvania Senate was in 1889, when John S. Hoover won a special election.

136 years later, James Malone joins the club.

A portion of John Quincy Adams' Amistad argument before SCOTUS: "I will not recur to the Declaration of Independence--your Honors have it implanted in your hearts--but one of the grievous charges brought against George III. was, that he had made laws for sending men beyond seas for trial. That was one of the most odious of those acts of tyranny which occasioned the American revolution. The whole of the reasoning is not applicable to this case, but I submit to your Honors that, if the President has the power to do it in the case of Africans, and send them beyond seas for trial, he could do it by the same authority in the case of American citizens. By a simple order to the marshal of the district, he could just as well seize forty citizens of the United States, on the demand of a foreign minister, and send them beyond seas for trial before a foreign court."

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

One thing that is clear from these headlines is that the big news orgs don't have a vocabulary or strategy for how to report to readers when the President claims to do something he not only lacks authority to do but even the power to do. That's a very basic, foundational thing.

By Erica L. Green Erica L. Green is a White House correspondent. She reported from Washington. March 25, 2025 Updated 9:04 p.m. ET President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that will require proof of U.S. citizenship on election forms, in an aggressive push to catch and combat voter fraud, which is exceedingly rare but constantly cited by Mr. Trump as a reason

Read in app By Patrick Marley President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday requiring people to provide documents proving they are citizens when they register to vote, a mandate that experts said could prevent millions of Americans from voting. The order reflects Trump's long-standing fixation on election administration as well as his baseless claims following the 2016 and 2020 presidential races that both were riddled with fraud, particularly illegal voting by noncitizens. There is no evidence that widespread corruption, by noncitizens or others, tainted either contest.

Why do news organizations keep misstating the effect of this executive order? The president does not regulate elections in this country.

Exclusive: DOGE staffer, 'Big Balls', provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show The best-known member of Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.

www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...

If Trump issued an Executive Order requiring all newspapers to send articles to the WH for review before publication, would newspapers report it is a “requirement” or “mandate”? Or would the fact it’s preposterously illegal and unconstitutional make right into the lede and headline?

The Trump admin. has detained and revoked the visa of Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk. Last year, she coauthored a piece arguing for “the equal dignity and humanity of all people,” including Palestinians. www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.