The Dude has spoken:

"ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"

.@chuckdpe.bsky.social and @flavorflav.bsky.social meet 👑 Mavis Staples at Newport Folk Festival 🙌

#avatar #atla #Epsteinclientlist

July storms arrive
With rain, thunder and lightning
Depart with rainbows.

The Most Ironic Independence Day in American History So Far...

Library of Congress staff just showed what resistance looks like. After Trump abruptly fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the respected Librarian of Congress, he tried to install Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General, as acting librarian. Staff weren’t having it.

Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.

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MAGA is almost here.
#oc #parody #VEEP

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6 Creative Ways People Are Preserving Nature—And You Can Too Read a roundup of stories about creative ways people are preserving and protecting nature from our “Tiny Nature Triumphs” newsletter.

Last fall, we ran a newsletter about creative ways people are making a difference for the environment right where they are.

Check out some of the highlights here:
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Federal employees have dedicated their careers to helping Americans. Now Team Kentucky is stepping up to help them in return. On Thursday, we're hosting a virtual career fair for federal employees who have recently lost their job. Visit TeamKY4FedEmployees.ky.gov for more information and resources.

We're good, but man is Frankfort getting it bad.

Who did this?

Massive crowd at Boston’s city hall plaza for the #HandsOff protest against Trump and Musk

Wow! Updated estimates now put turnout at 2.3 million — and we’re still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you’re free, come out and join us. Over 1,400 events are planned across the country.

I decided the song needed an updated verse. Steal it if you feel it, everybody. And add your own verses.

"I saw the billionaires, go down to Mar A Lago
Like the gangsters, to Capone's Chicago
And they were all there schemin'
To steal the American Dream an'
Take this land from you and me"

A message to MAGA

January sky
Aglow with sunset fire
Over snowy fields.
#kentucky #winter

That's mildly horrifying 😂

Winter in Kentucky.

Kangaroo species went extinct in the Pleistocene. Research hops in with a possible explanation. In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species, including nearly two dozen kinds of kangaroos. Two theories suggest why.

In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species, including nearly two dozen kinds of kangaroos. Two theories suggest why.

Northern lights may brighten some New Year's skies over the U.S. The northern lights could be visible Tuesday night and Wednesday night over the Northern Hemisphere due to a geomagnetic storm.

The northern lights could be visible Tuesday night and Wednesday night over the Northern Hemisphere due to a geomagnetic storm. via @chandelis.bsky.social

‘We all see ourselves in him’: How Scrim went from shy stray to New Orleans’ favorite outlaw “Scrim, it turns out, had a whole life before New Orleans,” said Doug McCash, arts and culture writer for The Times-Picayune.

A shy rescue dog named Scrim has been on the run after jumping from a second floor window. It was his second escape and the jump was caught on surveillance camera. People have been posting sightings of the dog running around various neighborhoods of New Orleans ever since.

A December Haiku

The cold winter sky
Lit aflame by the slow dawn
As I sip coffee.

The Geminids meteor shower peaks at the end of the week. Here's what to expect The Geminids are one of the best and most visible annual meteor showers, when at least 120 meteors can usually be seen per hour. But 2024 will be different, thanks to the year's final full moon.

The Geminids are one of the best and most visible annual meteor showers, when at least 120 meteors can usually be seen per hour. But 2024 will be different, thanks to the year's final full moon.

December hiking, with doggo. Red River Gorge, Kentucky.