Karen Hall

Mt Fuji and pale blue sky, water in foreground with small boats.

Today's in Japan it's Mountain Day (山の日, Yama no Hi) so I thought I'd put together a small collection of my favourite prints featuring Mount Fuji, Japan's most iconic sacred mountain.
🎨'Yoshiwara' from the series 'Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji' - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1855.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe
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Hum!
Does this sound familiar?

Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.

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Join us on September 30, 2025, for a webinar featuring a panel of practitioners from Missouri, Virginia, Arkansas, and Kansas City, who will highlight creative ways to address their needs for locally sourced, genetically appropriate seed. Learn more: bit.ly/4llfSL9

One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

Join me in continuing to resist!
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I am once again reminding people that neuroscientists have physically measured people’s empathy responses prior to gaining great power and after gaining great power and when they said “power corrupts absolutely,” they have the data 📊 now to back that up.

Started this today! 🍾

Avelo Out of Eugene! Avelo Airlines operates flights in and out of Eugene; their deportation flights operate out of Mesa, Arizona. Their complicity in these deportations makes it imperative for us to take a stand.   ...

Avelo flies out of the city I live in - Eugene, OR. Values that helped form the culture of Eugene are in direct opposition with their practices in AZ. Help me get Avelo booted out of our airport - tell them to take their baggage elsewhere!
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NO KINGS: Rise Up for Justice Eugene Oregon · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS: Rise Up for Justice Eugene Oregon” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Join me on June 14

I'm taking action on June 14 to remind Trump and his enablers that America has No Kings. Join me in Eugene to reject authoritarianism and show the world what democracy really looks like. app.sosha.ai/s/x95BbcZJ

I'm just sitting here sobbing.

This kid knows. Dad probably worked his ass off so his kid could succeed. May Creator bless them and keep all safe.

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I recognize this is an exceedingly difficult time and for many of you this is a crisis on several levels. I respect those challenges and I don't consider press rights superior to the rights of others. However, all other rights depend on press rights. We cannot allow them to be chilled. This was explained by civil rights icon and longtime congressmember John Lewis: "If it hadn't been for the media, for brave, courageous journalists, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings." Democracy cannot function without an informed public. The public cannot be informed without a free press. It is your shared responsibility to ensure press are able to do their job. Several of you have been supportive over the years and I thank you for that. But your support is now needed more than ever. Please ensure your teams are aware of these egregious violations and ensure you take all possible steps to protect the press, and thereby the public and our country itself. Sincerely, Adam Rose Press Rights Chair Los Angeles Press Club

Dozens of journalists were assaulted by law enforcement in Los Angeles this weekend.

The press were just doing their job -- a sacred one explicitly protected by law.

Press rights orgs will follow up collectively tomorrow.

Tonight, I emailed evidence to local/state/federal officials. My sign off:

Going through the immigration process is LEGAL.

Masking your face, refusing to identify yourself, and snatching up immigrants who are going through the legal immigration process IS KIDNAPPING.

Kidnapping is an illegal act.

"ICE" are the "illegals".

I think they took this from Bea Arthur, talking to Rose Nyland. But it checks out.

NO KINGS: Rise Up for Justice Eugene Oregon · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS: Rise Up for Justice Eugene Oregon” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Didn't know until recently how much time Drumpf spent with Nixon over the years. Did I get that right?

Transit advocates rally at Oregon’s Capitol to support climate-friendly transportation initiatives “We’ve been ready for a transportation system that offers us real choices,” one advocate said.

Portland: Neighbors Welcome is a member of the Move Oregon Forward Coalition - we need abundant transit to build abundant housing across the state

Great to see PNW Board member Indi Namkoong quoted in this @oregonian.com article about their rally yesterday #orleg
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Did you enjoy eating food without having it make you sick and possibly die? Oh well.

We’ll have estimates later today, but small towns are really showing up. You can tell, it’s catching local media off guard. Reporters are like, “Wow, we didn’t expect this kind of turnout here.” As for the comments on those stories, ignore the usual MAGA noise.

This 👇 all of this 👇!!

This little '80s koto synthesizer is one of my super favourites 😍

It's all over the Promise Mascot Agency soundtrack

(along with heaps of actual traditional Japanese instruments)

Hilarious!

the three of us are having a conversation

Night Night, Blue Sky Walkers, sleep tight.😴

Sunset over my beloved Blue Ridge Mountains, NC.

Spot. On.