Things are getting worse

Donald Trump dismantled the safety net that has for years protected miners from lung disease

NYT: “If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived.” 😳🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

The clouds reflect the transitional colors of lavender and golden gray, like a page of quiet time smudged by a palette. At such a time, it is suitable to slow down and quietly feel the gentleness of the day

Newsom: "Arrest me. Let's just get it over with, tough guy. I don't give a damn ... Tom, arrest me. Let's go."

The waves gently hit the shore, and the afterglow of the setting sun is reluctant to leave. Tonight, it is very quiet and beautiful

I saw the childhood scene

The White House is a international AUCTION HOUSE right now......

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Rule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice says Speaking at Georgetown Law, Chief Justice John Roberts denounced “ad hominem” criticism of the justices.

It's almost as if granting a criminal blanket immunity was a bad idea.

The #wildflower orchard is full of cow parsley, red campion & cowslips. Mowed the pathway today 🌱 #GardensHour

🌙 The night is gentle and the daytime flowers remain in the mind. Purple iris blooms quietly in the mind, like a dream that does not want to wake up. May tonight be as peaceful and beautiful as this sea of flowers, and may everyone have their own moment of peace. Good night 💜

Chris Finch on Julius Randle's playmaking

"It's really what turned our season around. -- I've always known he's a really good playmaker. Our time in New Orleans, he played a little bit like this. -- It's everything for us. It's been everything for our turnaround."

Lost in the Arizona desert, pregnant and alone: Guatemalan woman tells her story Erika Mateo, 35 weeks pregnant, traveled more than 2,000 miles to get to the U.S.-Mexico border. Here's what happened after she was detained in Ariz.

“These are our community members. They're our neighbors. We don't want to send our friends away. We don't care where they're from...

"We would want them to stand up for us, so we're standing up. Tucson is resisting.”

www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

Big white Great Egret standing on an inclined log scratching its chin, with a curved neck and stooped shoulders in front of chaotic reeds.

I love how the flowing, curved #lines of this Great Egret contrast with the straight but chaotic lines of the background vegetation.

#BlueSkyArtShow #birds #photography #birdphotography

'The sun, emerged from its gray shrouds of cloud, shone with a summer brilliance on the untouched slopes'

✍️ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

#BookwormSat #sunshine #nature #photography
📷 me, #Galway

Growing flowers really is addictive and each one is worth the wait 💗

David Steiner of FedEx is tapped to be the U.S. Postal Service's new leader The U.S. Postal Service's governing board has named David Steiner, a board member of USPS competitor FedEx, to be the next postmaster general following the controversial term of Louis DeJoy.

The U.S. Postal Service's governing board has named David Steiner, a board member of USPS competitor FedEx, to be the next postmaster general following the controversial term of Louis DeJoy.

"The Record Reflects Defendants Have Done Nothing at All" On Tuesday, a federal judge in Maryland, Paula Xinis, took up Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s motion for “additional relief.” The motion asked the Judge to:

1/ On 4/16, fed’l Judge Paula Xinis characterized the steps the gov’t had taken to facilitate Kilmer Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.S. by saying, “The record reflects defendants have done nothing at all.” She ordered expedited discovery including depositions. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-record...

Um dia cheio de energia

Can someone get me an interpreter!
I can’t understand baby talk.

Heater, laying in bed, patiently waiting for breakfast.

I used to have nightmares about getting a pet and forgetting to feed it.

I have not had a single one of those dreams since getting Heater because there is not a chance in Hell she will let me forget breakfast.

www.cbc.ca/news/world/s.... Anyone else feeling the glow knowing trump only has his sycophants in positions of power and leadership?

Sunday Pinks.

A red house with white trim and approximately ten Roosevelt elk sitting in the grass in front of it. One large elk is standing and looking directly into the camera. A tree covered hill is in the background.

When the cute little red house seems to belong to the elk, not people.

#RooseveltElk #Photography #Intruding #StopStaring #Picturesque #Animals #Nature

Tribune Tulips. Yesterday on Chicago's Magnificent Mile in front of Tribune Tower.

A white winged dove on the wall

Looked out the window, stopped everything to belt out:

“Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song, sounds like she's singing
Ooh, ooh, ooh!”

multiple blue and green wallpaper samples with green plants

#Green #BlueSkyArtShow

This is blatantly anti-Catholic and makes fun of Catholicism. Will ANYONE in the Catholic Church speak out against it?

Crockett: He wants there to be a portion of the budget that goes up to $1 trillion on the defense side. They have failed the very last seven audits. So why would they continue to get raises, which they always do. Yet we're going to hurt the most vulnerable amongst us.