@lukesamuel.bsky.social
Photographer, Disc golfer, Bass player, Gardener, Pro-democracy voter
Alpenglow on Mt Washington
#Alpenglow
#Oregon
Ballrooms and breadlines.
25.10.2025 15:41 — 👍 1410 🔁 595 💬 49 📌 22Bannon says Tr*ump is acting as a vehicle of divine providence. This is an old authoritarian propaganda theme.
24.10.2025 19:15 — 👍 829 🔁 339 💬 79 📌 28
White House down
"It won't interfere with the current building. It won't be. It'll be near it but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of. It's my favourite place. I love it." - Donald Trump, July 2025
24.10.2025 11:47 — 👍 578 🔁 206 💬 68 📌 23
The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Eugene, Oregon
#NoKings
"If you're afraid to attend a peaceful protest, you've lost your liberty."
Heather Cox Richardson
Hiked to the Delicate Arch in Arches, and met a feathered friend.
#Raven
#ArchesNationalPark
#DelicateArch
#Hiking
Not much better than exploring Arches National Park.
#NationalParks
#Arches
Downtown Portland, Oregon. “A real hellhole.”
Keep the authoritarian fascists out of our state.
Tonight’s Kansas sky
#Cloudscapes
Quaking Aspen
#Autumn
#QuakingAspen
#Colorado
Walk as far as you can see. Then walk some more.
#AutumnColors
#Oregon
Crater Lake Blue
#Oregon
#CraterLakeNationalPark
#Blue
A tranquil hike along the gentle running water of Sweet Creek.
#Oregon
#Hiking
#SweetCreek
Thanks, Jay. I’m happy to live where I do.
14.09.2025 23:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hiking along the Deschutes.
#Oregon
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
10.09.2025 23:41 — 👍 50046 🔁 12600 💬 1268 📌 538COMMENTARY: Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah today. And so were schoolchildren in Colorado. Because of the sick delusion that violence solves problems. None of us is safe.
11.09.2025 02:05 — 👍 2122 🔁 561 💬 63 📌 27Unbelievable.
10.09.2025 22:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0People have gone to prison based on evidence like this.
10.09.2025 06:21 — 👍 150 🔁 30 💬 4 📌 0
A night shot of the Siuslaw River reflecting the moon and the lights from the Mapleton bridge.
#Oregon
#NightPhotography
#Reflections
Notch Lake
#Oregon
#HikingGems
The sun dips below the horizon.
#Sunset
#Oregon
You find yourself in a surreal, unworldly space.
Complete solitude.
#Oregon
#Beachscape
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
28.08.2025 23:24 — 👍 16307 🔁 3823 💬 316 📌 317
An hour of solitude. An hour of silence. Mesmerizing. And the shades of blue…
#Oregon
#Hiking
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Green Lakes Trail in Oregon. A glorious hike.
#hiking
#Oregon
#ThreeSistersWilderness
Bayou-like Oregon green on the North fork of the Smith River in the Coast Range.
#solitude
#peacelikeariver
