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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

Karuizawa. March 2, 2024.

Happy Summer Solstice to All Who Celebrate!

No Kings protest, Mentor, Ohio. #dropkickmurphies

sure, the world is going up in flames, there's unrest in the streets, and America has become a global punchline, but at least Trump voters made the handful of trans athletes in the country feel extra bad

‘We were powerless’: inside the devastating Ohio State sexual abuse scandal - The Guardian

Huntington, Utah. January 4, 2024.

No Kings Protest. Mentor, Ohio.

No Kings Protest. Mentor, OH.

Green River, Utah. January 4, 2024.

Happy #PrideMonth Northeast Ohio! This June, I’m join my colleagues in the Equality Caucus in celebrating the strength, diversity, and resilience of the LGBTQI+ community. This June, and throughout the year, let’s keep working to create a more equal and just future for everyone.

If American poets aren’t quoting Bureau of Labor statistics I don’t know what we’re even doing here.

Medicare for All means Medicare for ALL — not some, or a few, or most. Health care is a human right. Every other major country recognizes that. It's long past time the United States does as well.

@lakesstiles.bsky.social Ramshackle Dales Way stile.

Oligarchy trickle down class war, warranted by the secret thought that “the poors deserve it.”

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Saguaro National Park. Tucson, AZ. January 22, 2025.

Does Qatar keep a stash on the shelf of 400 million jumbo jets like boxes of Frango mints, just to give one away as needs be? How long have they been kitting out this beast for the old man Trump?

Akron, Colorado. January 2, 2024.

Dumb as a box of rocks.

Big bluestem on the left. Little bluestem on the right. Germinated next to each other. Fire season ending now; in their DNA the word comes through: time to green up and grow grow grow.

Green River, Utah. January 4, 2024.

Little bluestem grass. Germinated last summer. Most what matters happens underground.

Jean, Nevada. January 5, 2024.