🎬 that’s a wrap

The Green Bay Packers had a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk, the same NFL that kicked Colin Kaepernick out for social injustice.

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl THESE are THE WORST people

With all the chaos, let’s not forget the medicaid cuts continue….

If you’re in Iowa, call Mariannette Miller-Meeks at (202) 225-6576 to let her know how you feel about losing your healthcare.
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Sunday morning zen: #AGoodPlace

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Nancy Pelosi’s husband was brutally attacked in an act of political violence. She never called for revenge. The left didn’t seek violence against the right.

She’s urging the opposite: calm the rhetoric, listen to our better angels, and stop the slide into chaos.

Yes, Fox News Host Brian Kilmeade really said this about homeless people: “Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill 'em."

Planning on more than four years 🤔

Our Moloch | Garry Wills The gun is our Moloch. We sacrifice children to him daily—sometimes, as at Sandy Hook, by directly throwing them into the fire-hose of bullets from our protected private killing machines, sometimes by...

The time of assassins. A man was shot through the neck proclaiming that mass shootings were the price that must be paid for freedom- www.nybooks.com/online/2012/...

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl KIRK 48 hours later

I have something to say about the Charlie Kirk murder.
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Americans have short memories—keep reminding them. PLEASE SHARE!

Example: Charlatans “prescribe” vitamins & minerals for cancer.

What happens? People die more frequently and faster than those who take meds.

Pseudoscience and medical conspiracism is deadly.

More detail in this article I wrote:
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Beautiful sunset over West St. Louis County this evening. I love these late summer/early fall dawns and sunsets. Reminds me of the promise of a new day.

This Orchid mantis is at its L-2 stage, having only molted once. She is super tiny at this stage of her life. She'll be much larger as an adult.

My Portfolio:
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I have only ONE THING to say about this Charlie Kirk debacle:

THE EPSTEIN FILES.

Carry on.

Missouri passes Trump-backed redistricting plan to help the GOP in the midterms Opponents say the plan dilutes the power of Black voters around Kansas City and vow to block it in court or with a referendum. The governor, who's expected to sign the plan, says it reflects the state's conservative values.

JUST IN: Missouri lawmakers redraw the state's voting map for next year's election, answering President Trump's call to help keep the Republican majority in Congress.

Really? A national day for Kirk! Taco never acknowledged the Colorado shooting the same day Kirk was shot. Taco hasn’t cared about any of the shootings except his fake assassination attempt n the one where he had Kirk Assassinated! #arresttrump

There is no excuse for political violence in America. And no excuse for a U.S. president using a heinous killing as an occasion to treat his political opponents as accomplices to murder and threatening to use the full power of the government to attack them.

In 2023, the last full year for which complete data is available, the U.S. saw 46,728 gun deaths

Now it's time to Share/QP your #Corvids for #ThursJay, so I'm going with the Jay today from Yarrow Valley CP.

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I'm holding my tongue for now, but if you fuckers in the media don't stop trying to eulogize Charlie Kirk like he was Ted Kennedy or Bob Dole I am going to tell everybody what I think about that hate filled son of a........like I said I am currently holding my tongue, for now.

A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story A conversation with George Retes, an Army veteran swept up in a California raid

Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.

A Blue Jay takes flight with a caterpillar hanging out of its mouth.

Blue Jay with a fresh catch.
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Some thoughts on today’s awful murder