@btwalt.bsky.social
Democracy and anti-discrimination advocate, rooted in my experiences and the civil-rights movement.
Snow and ice swirling down after a healthy snow storm in Western North Carolina.
02.02.2026 16:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(HC Richardson) "We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done,” journalist Garrett Graff wrote: “A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.”
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Hold your congressional reps accountable with @5calls.org Impeach the psychopath now: 5calls.org
20.01.2026 17:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Maga turd
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11am -1pm Saturday, April 5th, 2025 - Downtown AVL - Pack Square
02.04.2025 16:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's time for my taxpayer dollars to quit going to Israel. Sick of their civilian carnage, the genocide and their f-ing settlements.
22.03.2025 15:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My wife has the ROAR pink sign, and I have the Celebrate women sign!
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This is what our river floodplains look like in the Western North Carolina region. Helene is the gift that keeps on giving.
11.03.2025 20:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It was great!
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View of Women's Day March in Downtown Asheville, NC 03-08-25 with the crowd stretching down the middle of Patton Avenue from Pack Square all the way to Pritchard Park. People holding signs and an elderly women with a walker makes the trek.
March from Pack Square to Broadway to College to Haywood to Patton and back to Pack Square. Get up, stand up!
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In camera panoramic stitch, complete with jitters. Woman in foreground dressed from The Handmaids' Tale. 600-700 people attended.
In camera stitch of Women's Day Rally, 03-08-2025 in downtown Asheville, NC. Around 600-700 people were there.🙂
10.03.2025 18:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0MORE COWBELL!
Asheville Protest Tuesday March 4th (Tomorrow)
9:30am-11am
Federal Building
151 Patton Ave
Downtown Asheville near the Grove Arcade
Support the US Forest Service, NOAA, Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, & the Park Service!
Raise your voice to protect Democracy and the Constitution.
Took down my FB for 2morrows boycott. This is probably a prelude to ditching it all together. I like blogs better anyway!
27.02.2025 15:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Resist. Rebel. Revolt.
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Nice book. Gotten several off the Internet Archive.
19.02.2025 22:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great minds, 1st trying every non-violent method available. But not giving up!
19.02.2025 22:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0WHAT TO DO? Change all your passwords. Get survival manual texts. Change all personal communications to encrypted communications ie SIGNAL. Prepare for non-violence but also continued widespread chaos. Join with friends to form phone trees. How far will you go for your country and freedoms?
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A low key head and shoulders image of John H White, the first Black American to win a Pulitzer Prize for photography in 1982. John looks into the camera with a smile, he has a short Afro, a nice mustache and a Nikon F camera around his neck.
John H. White, the first Black American photographer to win the Pulitzer Prize in photography in 1982.
11.02.2025 19:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No matter their race, creed, ethnicity, or immigration status, your neighbors are not - and never have been - your enemy.
The villains in the American story have always been the wealthy and powerful interests seeking to turn you against your neighbor in order to maintain their place at the top.
Other symptoms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD):
Inappropriate social behavior.
Loss of empathy.
Lack of judgment.
Loss of inhibition.
Increasing trouble using and understanding written and spoken language.
Trouble naming things.
An unforgettable morning in Patagonia's Torres del Paine National Park. Gale force winds transform the calm turquoise waters of Lago Pehoe into a raging sea, blowing away crashing waves and literally lifting the water off the surface!
Patagonia truly is wilderness untamed! Furious winds transform the turquoise waters of lago Pehoe into a raging sea, blowing crashing waves side ways & literally lifting the water off the surface!
#bluesky #photography #landscape #travel #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography #sunrise
The inequities of the failures of the US justice system have never more apparent, than in today's headline events, on 01/20/2025.
20.01.2025 17:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Top body shot of fiddler Bobby Hicks (1933-2024, Madison County, NC) with a smile on his face, mid-bow stroke at Merlefest 2011.
Here goes something! Life long lib with social democratic vals. Musician, photographer, environmentalist, small land steward. Recouping from Helene & a vicious hailstorm. NC mtns. Between CA, two disasters and the election, what can I say? I'll insert a pretty picture to lively up this gathering.
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