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may cause a lack of belief in our political system, a love of beaches, art and nature. contrarian views fester here. take only as directed by your doctor. 1312
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Eagle rays are the most adorable of cartilaginous fish 🥰🦅🦈 #spottedeagleray #eagleray #stingraysofcoralcity #stingray #smile #elasmobranch #remora #bestinshow #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity #civicpridethroughbiodiversity #glennnevis

It's here: MASN is now offering a direct-to-consumer streaming option for in-market fans to watch every available Nationals and Orioles game. More details here: www.masnsports.com/component/ea...

The Dems lost to this

NEVER ever thought I’d be a librarian for PBS 🤯 And now I’ve had the honor of being Resident Librarian for PBS and PBS Kids for a year 💙🩵

The turnaround from pro-leopard to "Oh no, my face" was impressively fast.

I was alive and an adult during the Contract With America which some of us called the Contract On America. It was a gimmick but it worked. House Dems could create something similar: Be super clear about what would happen if there are elections and they win back the House starting DAY ONE.

It’s just frustrating that the media can allow politicians to openly pontificate if being a brown father of 3 makes a person a potential terrorist deserving of prison while asking if every white mass shooter is actually just a tortured soul like Ernest Hemingway.

Obscene waste of our tax dollars. How many homeless people could be helped? How many libraries?

“You know whose opinion I wanted to hear? Mark Cuban’s” If I say something like this I’m signaling to you that I’ve been taken hostage

Fascinating. It's almost like many organizers said that cities should fund alternative models of violence prevention... but those organizers were called "naive" and "unrealistic" thetriibe.com/2025/04/prit...

“Use promo code: FAFO.”

Hilarious comments here 😂

Looks like the evidence for this weird chemical abundance in an exoplanet atmosphere has gotten stronger with new JWST data: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s... Is it really a sign of life? That’s still not clear; lots of analysis left to do. But it’ll be interesting to see how it all pans out! 🧪 🔭

Damn this Cornell guy is out of touch. Sharpton is not the king of Black people. Lmao

The mask is completely off. This is a version of what the Democrats are supporting in israel. Now that we see it here in our living rooms, on our streets, are you ready to demand more from the blue team?

Patterns on the beach for #WeekPforPatterns #AlphabetChallenge #beach #EastCoastKin #sunset #nature #seascape #photography #PhotographersOfBlueSky

"taking nourishment" and "this press conference is an indication that I still have my wits about me" are pretty insane metrics for how a public official should decide whether to run, & yet it's this ubiquitous metric that explains a lot of Congress right now.

Nothing about fighting for you. As long as he is “taking nourishment” he will stay. Please get these mummified egotistical leeches out of office and into a warm bath.

My neck hurts just looking at this. Well timed shot

Someone knows who this man is and where he spends his time. He should be identified. And he should not feel comfortable showing his face in public after this.

I am once again begging people to realize that the law is words on paper and is not self executing. "That's illegal" is not and has never been synonymous with "that's impossible" or "that can't be done." "That's illegal" means "you might get in trouble for that depending on who you are."

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

Anna’s Hummingbird 🌎 Northern California #birds #photography #birdphotography #birding

12 Dem Senators and 48 Dem House members voted for the Laken Riley Act—allowing US Govt to deport immigrants on the mere accusation of a crime. As you see those 60 Dems complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, among many more—please know they enabled this fascism.

#flowers #nature #photography

Soak up the sun ☀️ 🌷 #naturebeauty #springday #tulips #photography

Meanwhile, in America, children are starving, and women are dying from lack of proper healthcare.

Subject to change if sending you to El Salvador polls well with Republicans.

Criminal record or no, sending people to rot in a foreign prison is not something anyone should be doing.

I'm truly not interested in a political project that "restores" the US. I only care about one that completely transforms it.

I guess admitting you were wrong is admitting your kid is dead because of your own ignorance, so the only way to beat the guilt is to double down.

I was there 😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

We are excited to officially join Bluesky! Follow us for news and updates on our efforts to protect our ocean and marine protected areas 🌊

Great shot!

It’s not wokeness, it’s free speech. So yeah, I write Black and white. Take that, people who this really pisses off haha

BREAKING: US Politicians were buying tariff exempt companies before the news like $AAPL Apple. Take Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene. She bought $AAPL, $AMZN, $DELL, $NKE, and others before the surprise announcement today, buyjng the companies as they fell. Unusual.

New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Good morning my friends. Have a nice day.

Got a reminder today to not give up on people. Went to the beach today. Lost my keys. Random stranger helps me look and finds them. There are still more good people in this world than bad. Let’s change this place together.

Composition on point

Twin Cities, please join us on May 15! No movie riffing, just @maryjopehl.bsky.social @kevinwmurphy.bsky.social and me doing comedy with guests @johnmoe.bsky.social @itsthebrandi.bsky.social, Mary Mack, Ben Katzner, Bryan Miller, Shanan Custer & Eric Webster. theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/r...

profoundly embarrassing shit happening in the democratic party

Damn this is a ratio hall of famer for this collaborator. 🤡

This is incrementally more than doing nothing, so I guess that’s something, but I don’t get the point of these types of actions

Remember these things every time a Democrat president gets stopped by the parliamentarian