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old white woman with glasses and a cane praying for Real Ceasefire, Real Peace. was on Xitter as Cui Bono?, the question persists
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Camellias in the snow #FlowerReport from VA #camellias #hrwx 🌱🌺❄️

Not open yet but it won't be long before this 3-leaf Akebia (Akebia trifoliata) is flowering again. The flowers are so dark as to look almost black unless the light is shining right through them. This vine is hardier than the 5-leaf Akebia & grows as a sun screen on my west facing porch. 🌱📸

Look At Me! #StillLife #Flowers #Tulip #Red #Photography

A weird discovery in my garden today, especially given that I live more than 100km from the sea. Was it dropped by a seagull, or did a cat bring it from a neighbour’s bin? 🌱

damn! 🌱

Iris reticulata 🌱📷 #bloomscrolling #gardening

Webinar on Johnny's Selected Seeds site is just one of the amazing tools they provide to gardeners and protected crop users. 🌱

Flowers on this whatever-it-is C. annuum are just getting better and better. The plant remains small, but is bursting with purple and white blooms against a backdrop of mottled black, dark green and occassionally purple leaves. It's not quite a Calico, but it's not far off. 🌱🌶️

🌱🐱🐈📦 Sunny in a box in SoCal.

...a little arm of wonder #bloomscrolling #photography #nature 🌱 #unclenchyourface #mentalhealth #community #noticethesmallstuff

I have written extensively on this. The government is responsible for not providing enough money to subsidize the cost of a healthy meal. SNAP recipients are tax payers! Nutrition is no longer taught in schools, nor is home economics. Stop policing what ppl eat! They’re allowed to indulge too.

Republicans seem surprised that Trump victim-blames Ukraine for the war. Feminists aren't surprised. This is how Trump has always talked about sexual violence. Rape and fascism are related phenomena. Both are how weak, pathetic men feel powerful. www.salon.com/2025/02/21/s...

Finally found time to read this. Stellar, emotional work from @justcalma.bsky.social www.theverge.com/features/611...

Calling yourself a king doesn't make you a king. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords make you a king.

"The scientific review officer said he could describe the impact of these layoffs on [NIH's] ability to review grant applications and fund research in two words: 'We’re fucked'" I guess at least I've been accurate in how I describe the current situation.

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

close! a provocative gesture is when you're at a club and a woman makes the "pussy-eating" hand/face gesture at you. this is a nazi salute

Trump admin says 75k employees (out of 2MM eligible) accepted the “Fork” resignation offer. If true - a big if - that’s 3.75% of the workforce. But in 2023, 6% of federal employees left anyway, due to normal attrition — and without a generous 6-months DOGE payoff. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Get YOURS today!!! shop.commoncause.org/fire-elon-mu...

Hey, uh if you feel so inclined, I have a shop. I’m broke as shit rn.

nigerian prince scam🎶 turned out he was a white man... 💋

What the shit "For FY26 we are told about plans to reduce the NSF budget by 50%-75% - such reduction will mean no new awards for at least a year, elimination of divisions, merging of programs." nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

So doing a “Project 2025” seems to poll as well as Project 2025 did before the election. Good thing the media didn’t get hoodwinked by the GOP’s intentions on whether they’d implement it if they won the election...🙄

This is getting at why I appreciate #TeslaTakeDown - wagingnonviolence.org/ipra/2025/02...

NEW: Trump's DOJ is threatening to prosecute a central New York sheriff. Why? The sheriff released a man ICE wanted to arrest, after the man completed his sentence. A constitutional scholar told us "there's no basis in the law" for such charges. But the DOJ wants to spook local officials. More:

A farm worker shared this photo with us from an Arizona watermelon field . It's physically demanding work. The loader crew is responsible for picking pick up hundreds of watermelons and loading them into the trailer. #WeFeedYou

⚡️63% of Ukrainians approve Zelensky as president, poll shows.

This week two GREAT examples of Democrats punching Trump in the face: 1. Ill Gov Pritzker to Trump: “We don’t have kings in America, and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one” 2. NY Gov Hochul: "New York hasn't labored under a king in over 250 years. We sure as hell are not going to start now."

Boycott for the month of March ALL Tyson food products. Please, Don’t be the one who thinks your single purchase won’t matter.

You've been waiting long enough. Here's another baby goat in a wig.

This is true— of DHS so far, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it spread. The use of polygraphs as a loyalty test has history, too. It used to be routine for federal workers suspected of being either communists or gay to have to pass polygraphs to keep their jobs. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

Weaving on a 24 shaft dobby loom 2017. I got bored! For years I had “shaft envy” & bought ever more expensive #multishaft looms. I created freeform #overshot to weave amazing motifs on simple looms. #FiberArtist #Weaving #HandWoven #LoomWeaving 🧶 #RigidHeddleWeaving #OvershotWeaving #WeavingPatterns

It’s the same carnivalesque, destructive anti-government energy and ideology that drove the Tea Party, only this time its face isn’t Joe and Jane white tax payer, it’s a white nationalist gazillionaire. No need for even the pretense of astroturfing.

This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

In 1966, the Mississippi state legislature briefly held a bill that would forcibly remove Black farmers from the state in favor of White farmers. Knowing history is important. Little has changed between racist strategies then and now. #history #blackhistorymonth

Israel Drops GENOCIDAL Leaflets On Gaza: They're Not Even Hiding It www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhKL...

The prime minister has failed to produce any evidence to back up “baseless” and “poisonous” claims in a newspaper article that large numbers of young disabled people are pretending they are not fit enough to work.

I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it. — alexis de tocqueville