Comfortably Dumb - BlueSky Edition

Publish it again. Every journalist who has published Epstein stuff before should just publish it again.

Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."

h/t @msnbc.com

Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.

If you’d told me a decade ago that the NYT and WaPo would roll over for a Republican president going full fascist while the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal went on the attack — and that Bill Kristol was pressing the attack harder than Nancy Pelosi — well, I’d have had you committed.

This is theft. These reports belong to the American people - they should be easily accessible by all.

my friend Coral

Coral is a young goliath grouper, resident to a reef in the Florida Keys.

There were once countless groupers here, of all different species. They’ve been hunted nearly to extinction.

Like the few living coral formations on her reef, she survives here in spite of us.

#MarineLife

Opinion | We Will Regret Not Standing Up to This Venomous Cruelty

Excellent. Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

The Maumee river, surrounded on both sides by trees. With big white clouds in the blue sky

Oh yeah, it's beautiful here

#photography #nature

A section of the Maumee River that cuts through the Auduban Islands

A Great Blue Heron standing on the rivers edge

We may not have the topography of other places in this country, but don't tell me my little corner of the world ain't beautiful.

Baby we're beautiful

#photography #nature

The Texas flood is another example of a rain event, that statistically, happens once every 500-1000 years in this location. 15-20” of rain in 12-24 hrs meets threshold in this part of TX
Estimate is limited by historical record and these rare events happen in various localized places each year. 1/

This is bullshit.

Not only do ICE bounty hunters refuse to identify themselves, they won’t say where they’re taking the people they’re kidnapping.

Deliberately shuffling detainees from facility to facility so families can’t find them & they miss their chance at legal counsel.
(Anaheim, CA)

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

There’s something SERIOUSLY WRONG with a political system like this.

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Be the dumpster fire that lights the way

A statue of a Union soldier with fireworks in the backround

People watching a fireworks show to celebrate the 4th of July

On this 4th I'm celebrating the continuous pursuit of America ideals. A nation of laws. A nation where all men are equal, regardless of race, religion or creed. A nation where those free men are guaranteed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. No kings. From our founders, to our heros in arms, to all the civil rights leaders here at home, we are a nation unbent. Defiance is in our blood. We chased out a monarchy, broke the cruel practice of slavery, defended the free world in its darkest hours, and we marched. We marched to give women equal rights in their country. We marched to give black men and black women equal rights in their country. We marched to give gays the right to get married and love openly and peacefully in their country. And one by one, struggle by struggle, these true patriots - most of who history will never remember - pushed this nation closer to its founding values. We are a beautiful project. A project built on rejecting the the dark impulses that wish to subdo men and rob them of life and liberty. Our history is beautiful, messy, contradictory. Our project is never complete. The work to push our country closer to its true values continues. I'm proud of that work. I'm proud each and every day to be an American.

Happy 4th of July!

A reminder that Elon Musk starved 300,000 people.

Apathy is the enemy.

No matter what happens in D.C. focus on local elections.

Sheriffs, commissioners, judges, school boards, tax collectors - they all matter.

Every election is the most important election.

One of my favorite quotes from one of our greatest presidents, Teddy Roosevelt: "Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders. Cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and their children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance."

Teddy says it a lot better than I can

Don't let greedy men sell off your heritage. Find and call your senators:

www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

Want to plant trees to offset fossil fuels? You'd need all of North and Central America, study finds Planting trees can help save the planet, right? A new study finds that to offset all the planet-warming carbon emissions from fossil fuel reserves, trees would have to entirely cover an area the size ...

I got 99 reasons to plant trees, but carbon offsetting ain't one.

Little too much flow for my kayak. Like being on a treadmill. Need it to stop raining for a week lol.

So no kayaking today, but still got some pictures to edit. Not a waste!

By a lot. A LOT.

"That's why America is great": New York City protesters push back with love and defiance "Keep fighting for what is right."

Thousands of protesters jammed the streets around Manhattan’s Bryant Park on Saturday afternoon in a massive march that spilled down Fifth Avenue.

The veteran, Bill. He's holding an American flag and a sign that reads "I fought in a war to uphold our Constitution. Our wanna be king didn't and wont."

My description about my time with Bill

#NoKings

I mean, at this point we've known the refs will let NY play with a level of physicality they won't let Detroit play with. Still, it's pretty insane to see game in and out

This Pistons-Knicks series might be the best one of the 1st round. #NBA

WHAT A 2ND QUARTER FUCK YES

It's been a great 2nd quarter but the Pistons need to finish it strong. Can't let the Knicks rebuild a lead going into half

Absolute disaster of a 1st quarter. Pistons have a hell of a hole to try to climb out of