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1939…all over again.

submitted 19 hours ago • 49 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 3 days ago • 1571 comments

Retired 40 days ago and the goal is to create a new piece every day (or at least work on a new piece). This is the progress from Day 3 to Day 40. #ArtYear #watercolor

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Donald Trump promised he wouldn't cut Medicaid. This week, his friends in DC voted for a bill that would leave 3.4 million Illinoisans, including 1.4 million children, in the dust. Another middle finger to working families and the most vulnerable in our state.

submitted 6 days ago • 96 comments

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

submitted 8 days ago • 6053 comments

Happy Carnival, y’all! Swamp blues in corn country. #tabbenoit #iowa #englerttheater #Carnival

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Tesla’s shareholders just lost another $38,640,000,000 today — a total $TSLA loss of $600 billion since December. Tesla’s CEO was not in the office. In literally any other public company ever, this would be the point where the CEO gets fired.

submitted 10 days ago • 1675 comments

If you’ve been to Roscoe, MT, just up the East Rosebud, you know this bar. Shown is the final piece and the studies that went into it. I used washes of Cobalt blue, Alizarin crimson and Cadmium yellow to make for a more luminous grizzly.

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Worked hard on a concept last week, and … every variation looked like 💩. Returned to doodles today, wanting to play with simple colors and a common watercolor technique. Much more pleased. Simple, simple, simple. #ArtYear

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The top health care companies in America spent 95% of their profits to make their CEOs & stockholders obscenely rich. How many Americans would be alive today if those companies spent $2.6 trillion on disease prevention and primary care, instead of stock buybacks and dividends?

submitted 25 days ago • 260 comments

Fight the oligarchy! Lining up in Iowa City to do our part

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

If I could just get the artwork I see in my mind onto the paper, I’d be another Monet/Wyeth/Wood. #artproblems

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday’s piece, from a trail at Iowa’s Ledges State Park. Trying to scratch my artistic itch after a 30-year absence. #ArtYear

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Murphy: "Let me say that again. The man that my Republican colleagues are about to vote to lead the FBI believes there is irrefutable proof that the agency he is about to lead secretly organized the violent assault on the Capitol. That is bananas. My Republican colleagues know that."

submitted 17 days ago • 130 comments

@aclu.org Iowa, @iowademocrats.bsky.social, @50501movement.bsky.social Want to know why we’re losing and democracy dying? I’ve reached out to all to volunteer and to resist and only heard crickets! Be better! Now! @aoc.bsky.social is right

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

How The National Park Service Fired 1,000 Workers www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/02/how-...

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submitted 22 days ago • 176 comments

See ya at the Nike Trail Portland Trail Social at 11:00 today! gobeyondracing.com/event/portla...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Our team reviewed the entire DOGE website. Nothing they have identified constitutes evidence of fraud or corruption—both of which are crimes. Feel free to audit us. The funds were allotted by Congress, and OIGs regularly reviewed expenditures for fraud.

submitted 22 days ago • 515 comments

Got cutesy for Valentines Day. #watercolors

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

submitted 23 days ago • 793 comments

I can understand why US hockey players would be upset with having the anthem booed. Can they understand why citizens of an ally would be upset when the US president economically attacks their country and muses about annexation? #hockey #fournationshockey

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Surprising amount of prep work for a 4 x 6, essentially black and white (Payne’s Gray, actually) piece. I am usually attracted to colors, but the stark photo I took for this piece has always resonated. #watercolors

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

After a 30-year layoff, I’m finding time to paint nearly every day in retirement. The goal is a 4 x 4 every day, hoping the skill, techniques and creativity come back. #watercolors

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

We're surprised, but there are still spots available in the Wilderness First Aid class. Join us in Bend on 2/22-23 to learn life-saving skills when you're out on the trail. It's important and we'll have a fun time. adventuremedics.com/class/wilder...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Please Participate If You Can. Kindly Repost! 💙😎

submitted 33 days ago • 605 comments

NEW RACE ANNOUNCEMENT: The Firelane Trail Trial debuts May 17th. This one is steep and unique, and short, with a livestream party. Check it out: gobeyondracing.com/races/firela...

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments