tidaloha 🌊 🤙

Thursday tide check: calm water, steady pilings, birds standing watch. Not every day needs waves — sometimes progress is just holding your line… a pause before the weekend current picks up.

What up Dock?

The dock says it all this Monday: stand steady, reflect often, and don’t rush the tide. Smooth water, quiet birds, and a calm start to the week. 🌤️🌊

What up Dock?

It was really good!

Happy Friday 🌞 Old dock posts, glassy water, sailboats on the horizon, and two birds soaking up the sunshine. A reminder to slow down, breathe deep, and let the tide wash the week away. Ride the tide. Carry aloha.

What’s up Dock?

🚨🥇 My Day 0 Olympics viewing guide!

We are BACK! I’ll make these for the next 17 days.

Last time around people found them really helpful. The Winter Olympics schedule is more manageable than Summer, but if you like them please help share.

Wednesday wisdom from the dock: stay steady like the dock pilings, go with the tide, and don’t forget to enjoy the view. Midweek island vibes activated. 🏝️🌊🤙

What’s up Dock?

Lol

Trump isn't just suing the IRS. He's waging a war on it.

His regime has...

-Shut down the IRS's Direct File program, a huge gift to the tax prep industry

-Gutted IRS staff, leaving fewer employees to assist taxpayers

-Deprioritized federal tax prosecutions, letting tax cheats off the hook

High tide at the dock this morning — full moon leftovers still flexing as the water dances around weathered pilings and sailboats drift in the distance.

What up Dock?

Saving History for the Future at Auschwitz-Birkenau How the memorial and museum plans to continue its mission of preservation after the last Holocaust survivors pass away.

"Anyone who is passingly historically literate has seen pictures of the faces and read the stories of victims of the Holocaust. But this is a different order of experience." ICYMI, @cfhervey.bsky.social the work of remembering the Holocaust:

The reality is and one that many American academics and experts are unwilling to utter is that these are death camps and just because the ash isn’t falling from the ovens yet doesn’t change that reality.

A historic photo of the Greensboro 4.

Feb. 1, 1960, 4 NC A&T students sat-in at the “whites only” counter at Woolworths in Greensboro. Their defiance ignited a movement led to the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Young people fuel movements. It is inspiring to see that today they still do.

#BlackHistoryMonth

Anne Frank likely died in a typhus epidemic that spread through the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

History rhymes, it rhymes

Close the camps, set fire to the prisons

Trump Falls for AI Thirst Trap Bot Fake news anchor attack on Gavin Newsom exposed

Donald Trump reposted a completely fake, AI-generated video smearing Gov. Gavin Newsom with made-up cartel claims, created by a bot account posing as a woman delivering “news.”

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Do you get it now?

affidavit of witness, signed Tiffany Doe.

The newly released Epstein files contain a sworn affidavit from a witness that states she witnessed Trump and Epstein physically and sexually abusing minor females while employed by Epstein from 1990-2000.

Link to source in reply.

It appears that 4chan was used as a massive psyop by Jeffrey Epstein and his associates to help install pro-pedophilia rightwing figures into the American government:

"The potential for manipulation is huge"

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Drawing down. Kidnapping with respect.

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

Pelicans lined up on dock posts like they’re clocking out for the weekend. Calm blue water, sailboats drifting by, and strong Friday vibes — a quiet reminder to slow down, breathe deep, and let the tide do its thing. What up dock.

What’s up Dock?

That a Chinese media company became greatly more censored once the US got hold of it. Yep, the country that lectures everyone else on freedom of speech.

We’re just not a free country.

Any American watching this play out between regime forces and journalists overseas would recognize it for what it is.

What up dock? Shrimp boat Dixiana chillin’ at the pier, blue skies overhead, sailboats drifting by — just another salty Fernandina moment 🦐⚓️

What’s up Dock?

40 years ago today, we lost seven heroes aboard Challenger. As an astronaut who commanded the space shuttle after this tragedy, I think about them often. Their courage pushed the boundaries of exploration. Today, we remember their sacrifice and the legacy they left behind.

What up, dock! Old wooden pier posts standing tall in glassy harbor water, sailboats drifting behind them, blue skies doing blue sky things.

What’s up Dock?

Alright… take a sec to recognize what you pushed through — the doubt you didn’t listen to, the anger you didn’t pass on, the moment you stayed when it would’ve been easier to check out. That’s real effort.

Carry that with you.
Until then, keep the songs going.
And the signal human.

The alt text is the best part

In my public television special “The Story of Fascism in Europe” (www.ricksteves.com/fascism), we learn from Europeans whose families lived through fascism that a strong democracy requires vigilant and engaged citizens. We are all participants, we are all responsible, and freedom isn’t guaranteed.

Hitler, Jews, and the Holocaust Hitler blamed Jews for Germany’s problems. Over the years, the Nazis targeted Jews with increasingly evil treatment, leading to the "Final Solution" — mass extermination. We visit the Auschwitz-Birken...

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day — and with masked troops in our streets, law-abiding neighbors being disappeared, a president othering and dehumanizing entire communities in our country, and big mysterious prisons awaiting his scapegoats, history is speaking to all of us.