Goodnight everyone 💞. Dream of a better world ☮️. I know that's not easy right now. #Goodnighteveryone #KindnessMatters #WeMissYouRex #Dogsofbluesky #LoveYouRex #SweetDreamsSpike

Today's #SpikesSpots is the Riverwalk trail. The sky was clear today and we took a nice long walk in the woods. So much fun!
#Spike #PuppyLove #thursdayvibes #DogsofBlueSky

Remembering that time I impersonated a mountain goat at sunset.🐐 #ThrowbackThursday

"Evening Conversation" - my oil painting

Gorgeous white streamers in the sky tonight

The Big Guy and Blue have officially become pool buddies! #ApolloTheGSD #BonnieBlue

Corti calls today's #CortiRoll "Playing Opossum"

TONIGHT’S QUESTION
TH 8/07/2025

Is the motive behind the Trump Republican Administration tariffs
to elicit bribes from American
corporations and foreign companies
& governments in return for exemptions from the tariffs? 🤔🧐

As anti-Zionist Jews, we stand against Zionism — the ideology that used to justify genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid to maintain a Jewish-only nation-state on Palestinian land. Opposing Zionism includes challenging it — and all forms of supremacy — wherever we see them.

PLAIN TALK/Early Evening Edition
TH 8/07/2025

Featured Interview

VICTORY: Our clients UMD SJP will receive a $100,000 settlement from the University of Maryland — the highest financial penalty likely ever imposed on a US university for violating pro-Palestinian students’ free speech rights, to our knowledge.

palestinelegal.org/news/umd-set...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets in Jerusalem with a group of Republican lawmakers on an AIPAC organized trip, August 6, 2025. A group of around 70 men and women are all seen smiling broadly with Netanyahu in the middle (Kobi Gideon/ GPO).

Sometimes a photo stops you in your tracks.

Taken yesterday, Congressional Republicans sit smiling with the key architect of what major international agencies conclude is a genocide.

To answer future generations’ question: this is how it was allowed to happen.

(📸 Kobi Gideon, GPO)

A family of swans is feasting on algae and duckweed in one of the ponds at our home on Long Island. 🦢

I’m watching a live stream

Sitting on my porch, singing the song of my people
#Spike #PuppyLove #ThursdayFeeling #Dogsofbluesky

PLAIN TALK/Afternoon Edition
TH 8/07/2025

Solutions
Featured Post

We found the waste, fraud, and abuse…

Texas Battle Triggers National Gerrymandering War—These States Could Redistrict Next At least nine states are considering mid-cycle redistricting efforts in an attempt to gerrymander new congressional seats.

At least nine states are considering mid-cycle redistricting efforts in an attempt to gerrymander new congressional seats.

Seems like he’s acting like the taxpayers money is his.

Linda Rey (@lindarey) No caption needed…BUT SHARING IS NECESSARY.

substack.com/@lindarey/no...

Exactly

Federal judge orders two-week construction pause at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Experts testified newly laid down pavement would cause harmful runoff to spill into the wetlands surrounding the airstrip.

A federal judge ruled construction must temporarily stop at “Alligator Alcatraz” as hearings challenging the Everglades-based detention center’s environmental impact continue.

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

ICYMI

Opinion | Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common The Supreme Court may extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

In defanging the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court “would extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality,” our columnist @jamellebouie.net writes.

The top 1% now owns more than $54 trillion in wealth.

That’s 468 times more than the bottom 50%.

One man — Elon Musk — owns more than the bottom half COMBINED.

This is what I mean when I talk about oligarchy.

The Solar for All program significantly reduces electric bills for nearly a million working class Americans, creates many thousands of jobs and cuts carbon emissions.

That’s why the Trump administration wants to illegally cut it.

We won’t let them.