Please pay attention.

Purple breadseed poppies in bloom with a few fat seed heads

Poppies blooming 🥰

Today is National Lighthouse Day honoring the historical and cultural significance of lighthouses. I've posted this image before but have reprocessed it. It is the lighthouse at St. Marks Florida. #photography #landscape #EastCoastKin #bnw #blackandwhitephotography #infrared #fullspectrum #clouds

“.. The arrival of stagflation in earnest would put Donald Trump’s administration in the company of that of President Jimmy Carter and the economic afflictions of the late 1970s.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I prefer my income “well done”. 🤡

Rough batch of headlines today. 😞

@bloomberg.com @cnbc.com @wsj.com

BTIG calls it an “ominous signal” — the “significant dispersion beneath the surface” of the S&P in recent days ..

“.. we can't make the case that we are on the precipice of a -10% or worse decline. It does, however, add to our conviction that SPX likely back-tests the Feb. highs around 6100 ..”

Important.

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.

I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

60 years ago today, the signing of the Voting Rights Act ensured representation for every community in the nation.

Trump is attempting to violate that law now to roll back our progress.

This isn't just about Texas – this is about America.

I'm proud to stand for our democracy.

To those of you who accomplished things today, I salute you.

It can be hard to be productive in….such times.

When you are, give yourself credit.

It’s a form of resistance against the seeming hopelessness of the present. It means you haven’t given up.

And we can’t.

This is an important point

Much in DC in its formative years as our capital was deliberately “plain”

Because our government was supposedly not going to reflect the excess & exclusion of Old World royalty

The White House is stately & straightforward as a statement of principle

You know.
No kings.

This is the most intense tsunami footage I've ever seen.

It purportedly shows the tsunami from the 29 July Mw 8.8 quake in Kamchatka, Russia, filmed in that same region.

Source: seismic.kiwi on TikTok, although I've seen this video all over the internet and may originally be from VK or Telegram.

Tens of thousands of cornflowers in a field in Wicken. Research shows that the sight of them will help you recover from sources of stress more quickly & boost dopamine release in your brain, lifting your mood…in case you need it just now:

My son Griffin knew that "Car 54, Where Are You?" is one of my all-time favorite comedies & drew this for my birthday. The likenesses of Fred Gwynne & Joe E. Ross are absolute perfection & he even included the theme song! I treasure it as one of my most prized possessions.

Thanks Griff 🙏

❤️, dad

one of the most obvious lies imaginable (that wasn’t reported as such by our political press corps)

I’m sorry but I really have to stand up for myself and independent media here. Everyone is crediting Ken Delanian for the Maxwell sex offender waiver story, but I was hours ahead of him. Hours. Independent media is important.

Imagine if, instead of war memorials, in every town and village, there was a memorial to all the victims of domestic violence from that place.

Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.

A massive regressive national sales tax imposed upon every American by a president with no constitutional authority to impose a national sales tax. The reason why the founders gave this power to Congress is because this would never pass any Congress- even this one.

Unmasked: the man behind one of the fastest growing far-right YouTube channels Chris Booth’s channel – rife with neo-Nazi ideology, antisemitism and racism – garnered 2.3m views and likely thousands of dollars from YouTube in about two months

Unmasked: the man behind one of the fastest growing far-right YouTube channels Chris Booth’s channel – rife with neo-Nazi ideology, antisemitism and racism – garnered 2.3m views and likely thousands of dollars from YouTube in about two months www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

All this talk of WH being the 'people's house', Congress controls tarriffs, the purse, etc...
I don't see them stepping up to stop this lawless nonsense...
What am I missing, if anything?

Georgia detainee with prosthetic legs who objected to flooded cell sent to solitary Rodney Taylor placed in ‘restrictive unit’ for refusing to enter flooded cell because his prosthetic legs can’t get wet

This isn’t jail...it’s an Abu Ghraib remake. A double-amputee detainee in solitary? That’s not security...it’s sadism. Georgia’s system just proved how low America can sink when cruelty goes official.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Elon Musk’s DOGE Burned Through $21.7 Billion of Taxpayer Cash A report added up all the costs associated with DOGE and found it wasted billions by paying employees not to work, cancelling projects and more.

How is this humanly possible in just a couple of months...

Pay it back, fElon.

I Know Exactly What They Are Doing Rural foresight

I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.”

I beg to differ. This is curated failure open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

MOSCOW REPORTS BOOMING ECONOMY; But Observers Find Facts Unsupported by Figures 9.5% Growth Asserted Local Statistics Questioned Soviet Maintains Industry Showed 9.5% Growth in '62 (Published 1963)

NYT (Jan. 1963): MOSCOW REPORTS BOOMING ECONOMY
"Every three months, statistics on results of the state plan are published. The statistics are unfailingly optimistic. Each time they raise questions ... about the relationship of statistics to reality."

www.nytimes.com/1963/01/28/a...

Detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” are on a hunger strike over what they call inhumane, dangerous conditions.

Some haven’t eaten in 10 days. One of them, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized and still refuses food until they are treated with dignity.

If we are not educating our children, what are we even doing here?

We Can Save Public Radio and Television Viewers and listeners like us.

"No matter where I lived, I knew this was guaranteed because after moving into a new place, we’d plug in our old box television, adjust the shitty little antenna just so, and voila, like magic, there was PBS. It was free."

A $12 billion recovery would be golden for bondholders like GoldenTree but it would not be so golden for the people of Puerto Rico.

A $12 billion recovery would result in rate increases so high that Puerto Rico would have the highest electricity prices in the country—second only to Hawaii.