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Fortunately, every American has bone spurs!

We just need 1 or 2 more. DO IT!

A reminder that Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the entire Conservative-supporting press have spent the past week lambasting Keir Starmer for not joining the Iran war.

Here's what has happened since then to public opinion

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Wait a second there, lightning...
No one told me there would be consequences!

How Democrats flipped 22 Georgia counties with a utility board race The campaign for once-obscure regulatory positions could be a bellwether for midterm elections as skyrocketing electricity prices drive voters to the polls.

In a stunning upset, Democrats Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard unseated Republican incumbents Tim Echols and Fitz Johnson by record margins — installing Democrats on Georgia’s Public Service Commission for the first time in more than 20 years.

Zero in on Stephen Miller as a supervillain Democrats should make Trump’s unlikable adviser the face of the GOP

Stephen Miller is a fascist promoting a dictatorship. He's an offputting creep, too – the GOP's Dr. Evil. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says he's a “big problem” for Trump. But that's true only if Democrats take advantage and tie Miller to Republicans in the midterms.
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I think they look absolutely fabulous as a sidewalk spillover. Will look forward to seeing future shots of them! Love your account, by the way. 😊👍

I dig it, POD! 😊👍😂

Thank you! I do like them. 😂

Wax Begonia (Begonia cucullata) sidewalk spillover from a window box in the Gayborhood, shot in 2018.
(This one is for new follower @norska11.bsky.social, who apparently likes Begonias)
#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Pavementplants

After leaving the cage of fear
Original available।
Size 17 by 13 inch on paper medium oil

The key is with you
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Prints and digital files available.

No one likes me here

Size 8 by 6 inch on paper
Ink and pastel

Original available.

Everyday I come in her balcony

We build hope
Size 17 by 13 inch on paper
Medium oil
Original available.
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“I see a rose, that strange thing, and what’s there
But a seeming coloured something on the air
With the transparencies that make up me.
Thickened to existence by my notice”

Norman McCaig, 'Ego’

*Note: this plant needs extra high humidity, terrarium culture is advised.

Photo credits & permissions: (L) Steve's Leaves, Lewisville TX USA. (Top R) (Bottom R) Harmony Foliage, Sorrento FL USA.🌱

Here's Begonia wiformis (formerly B. U577), a Rhizomatous type of species Begonia from Vietnam. Juvenile leaves have prominent silver-green coloration. Mature leaves have a stark black margin, lightly bullated in contrast to the smooth green portion surrounding the veins. Blooms: pink.🌱 #begonias

Photo credits & permissions: (L) (Top R) Harmony Foliage, FL USA. (Bottom R) Wendy Corby.🌱

Here's Begonia 'Rain Dance', a Cane-like type of hybrid Begonia from the USA. Large olive green, angel wing shaped leaves w/ white spots. Blooms: dark pink. Origin: Irene Nuss, Westchester CA, USA 2000. Easy care houseplant.🌱 #begonias

We just blew up an Iranian ship in international waters and left all of the survivors to drown.

This is who we are now.

Freedom Over Fascism: Women Rise on International Women’s Day Human rights in the USA and immigrant rights are one fight. Stop the war, free the files, and end blank checks to ICE.

Freedom Over Fascism: Women Rise on International Women’s Day
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Andy is doing good work. You are too! Look at what we've done together! Thank you, Andy, for being a world class citizen! Thank you to everyone who has given! Andy's gonna hit that goal! Mind sending it around again? That oughtta do it! Love you guys!

AOC: The Pentagon has not passed an audit, and they are out here trying to kick people with disabilities off of Medicaid. It is corruption that is stealing from the public coffers — and that is the actual waste, fraud, and abuse.

But it’s his lucky baseball hat!

Don’t let Fox get away with it this time. Spread the word.

Fox & Friends Weekend replaced footage of Trump attending yesterday’s dignified transfer with a clip from 2025.

They clearly didn’t want their audience to see him disrespecting fallen soldiers wearing a baseball cap.
H/T: @BadFoxGraphics

Wars of incidental liberation. Or not. (Part 3) American power has always been the defense of human freedom — not this limp dick bloodlust and adulation of the behavior of our enemies

As a nation, we are most pathetic internally & abroad when we forget that our revolutionary founding documents embodied ideas about human equality & freedom that have spread into the world not just as aspirational benchmarks but as rights to be defended and upheld.

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A draft!

That should galvanize that lagging MAGA support!

Trump On Fence About Attending Ayatollah’s Funeral WASHINGTON—Carefully weighing the implications of his presence at a particularly tense moment in relations between Iran and the United States, President Trump told reporters Monday that he remained on...

Trump On Fence About Attending Ayatollah’s Funeral

If you're visiting another country, and your country is being led by a Psychopath-Narcissist-Machiavellian-Paranoid-Drug Addict-Pedophile-Rapist-Sadist, then you should fully expect to be asked for whom you voted.