Kim Perry Pike

It took Trump 10 days to create an energy crisis reminiscent of the 1970s, replace Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei, and weaken our alliances worldwide. He put American servicemembers in harm’s way, resulting in seven deaths. None of this made you safer or better off.

Americans are going to suffer because Trump needed something to push the Epstein files off the front page.

170 dead schoolgirls, an ancient city flattened, 7 dead US soldiers, $110 a barrel, gas prices doubled - and all to replace an 86 year old dictator with his son.

Our bases are being bombed.
Our embassies are under attack.
Thousands of Americans are stranded.
Innocent Iranians are being murdered.
We’re spending $1B a day to wage an illegal war which has resulted in the deaths of 6 US soldiers & injuries to countless others.

And where is Trump?

Golfing.

The SAVE Act is Jim Crow 2.0. It would disenfranchise tens of millions of people.

If Trump is saying he won’t sign any bills until the SAVE Act is passed, then so be it: there will be total gridlock in the Senate.

Senate Democrats will not help pass the SAVE Act under any circumstances.

Louise Moillon, Bowl of Lemons and Oranges on a Box of Wood Shavings and Pomegranates, ca. 1630s.

(National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington. Photo Lee Stalsworth)

#InternationalWomensDay

My photo shows a famous wall painting from Pompeii known as the Sappho fresco. It shows the head and upper body of a young woman framed inside a painted circular border. She faces forward. Her eyes are large and dark, gazing to one side with a calm and thoughtful expression, as if pausing mid-thought. Her skin is pale, and her hair is dark brown and tightly curled, forming small ringlets around her face. A thin golden hairnet holds her curls in place. She wears small gold hoop earrings, and a brown cloak over a green garment. In her right hand she holds a thin dark metal stylus (writing tool) up against her lips, as if thinking about what to write. In her left hand she holds a small rectangular wooden wax writing tablet. The fresco is now on display at the Muso Archeologico Nazionale in Naples

The ‘Sappho’ fresco from Pompeii.

A beautiful Roman portrait of a young woman for #InternationalWomensDay

She holds a writing tablet, and raises a writing stylus to her lips in thoughtful contemplation. 55-70 AD.

Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor of White Bear Lake, MN lived a life of service and love for her family. We gathered at Dover Air Force base yesterday where she came home from Kuwait draped in the American flag with her loved ones there for her, including her beloved husband Joey.

Essential read: a statement from Cardinal Cupich. www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

Everything Trump said would happen if we voted for Kamala Harris is happening now.

We can throw another $500,000,000,000 at the Pentagon this year and spend $1,000,000,000/day on a wholly useless war, but we can't afford to hire doctors and nurses to take care of our veterans? The United States is such an irresponsible, messed up country right now.

Windows - Church of the Covenant (Boston)

Windows - Church of the Covenant (Boston) https://www.wikiart.org/en/louis-comfort-tiffany/windows-church-of-the-covenant-boston-1

The national suicide being committed by the Republican-led United States has no historical precedent. Centuries from now (if humanity survives that long), historians will struggle to explain how such a thing was possible.

The location of the plaque that was just hung, is in a place that it will not be visible to the public. While I am thankful for this first step, our lawsuit continues until they plaque is hung in accordance with the law.

OEF operation Epic Fury = operation Epstein Files

Photos of all the school children killed by a US strike in Minab, Ireland

The United States killed all these children last Saturday.

170 of them.

Every. Single. One.

It’s meeeeeeeeee

on this day in 1965 "what became known as Bloody Sunday occurred in Selma, Alabama. The march was named for the 600 marchers who were attacked while crossing Edmund Pettus bridge. Law enforcement officers attacked unarmed marchers with billy clubs and sprayed tear gas."

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it.

15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”

— President Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, December 10, 2002

This is spot on. If you feel you have no choice but to ratify a war once it’s begun, then you have no real power to begin with.

This is not the best part of the firing, but it’s in the Top 10.

Thank you, Sir, for speaking plain truth.

We’re 7 days into something that looks like a war, feels like a war, costs like a war, has the same economic effects of a war, but we’re not supposed to call it a war because it would require the President to follow that annoying thing called the United States Constitution.

Trump is burning through taxpayer dollars on wars just like he burned through his father’s money in the 80s.

Like clockwork.

I spit my coffee ☠️😂

Gavin Newsom’s TikTok page, y’all

“It is a miracle that a formless block of stone could have been reduced to a perfection that nature is scarcely able to create in the flesh.” Vasari on the 1498 Pieta of Michelangelo, born OTD 1475.

Trump economy in crapper. Dow and jobs down, growth down, costs (espec gas prices) up. And he's spending $1B on an unneccessary, illegal war.