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John Vigar @johnevigar.bsky.social · 14h

Ceiling by Stephen Dykes Bower in Hambledon church, Hampshire

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Janice Blake @janiceblake.bsky.social · 2h

...and maybe open up a Senatorial seat in hopes that a Republican might win it!

Janice Blake @janiceblake.bsky.social · 2h

What ever possessed me to buy this book? I thought it would be inspiring! It turned out to be depressing. Sure, I've seen some of these places. And they were wonderful and worth seeing. But do I need a compendium like this?

Even if I had the time and money to take ten trips a year...
Forget it!

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Janice Blake @janiceblake.bsky.social · 4h

Nope! None.

😊

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Janice Blake @janiceblake.bsky.social · 4h

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

This, from the guy who thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Janice Blake @janiceblake.bsky.social · 9h

Went to the 2025 Los Angeles Printers Fair Sunday, at the International Printing Museum, Carson, CA. Such a treat to immerse myself in the work of so many talented print-makers and graphic artists. It was a return to the pre-computer world I used to work in, back in the day.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 1d

Star-shaped tile with a stylized flowering plant, anonymous, c. 1250 - c. 1299
Persia

(Rijksmuseum)

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Edward T. O'Donnell, Historian-at-Large @inthepastlane.bsky.social · 1d

Trump proclamation hails Christopher Columbus as “the original American hero.”
#ushistory #columbusday #indigenouspeoplesday #slavery #nativeamerian #confederatemonuments #christophercolumbus
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Trump proclamation hails Christopher Columbus as “the original American hero.” #ushistory #columbusday #indigenouspeoplesday #slavery #HistoryTikTok

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

The idea that political dissent can only be the product of “paid protesters” or “outside agitators” has a long history. Here is the Mississippi columnist Tom Ethridge in June 1963 concerned that attendees at the upcoming March on Washington might be “whipped into a frenzy by skilled agitators.”

“Aug 28 has been set as the date for this mass invasion of the captial by upward of 100,000 negroes…”

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d

Historian here, late to this but @jamellebouie.net comparison between Republican authoritarianism today and the Slave Power of the 1850s is in the mark. They spout states rights and small govt but unleash the repressive powers of the federal govt when it suits them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | It’s Not Government They Don’t Like

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Remy Michaels @remyscameraeye.bsky.social · 1d

Angel Of The Sky... Olivier The Northern Hawk Owl, looking intense, as he prepares to hunt. A true predator. Very elusive, he spends most of his time, in the Boreal Forests of the Great White North.
🦉📸 🇨🇦
#NorthernHawkOwl #Birds #Owls #Photography #BirdPhotography
#Wildlife #OntarioParks #Canada

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EdinburghGary @photoscotland.bsky.social · 2d

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”
- Henry David Thoreau

#Photography #Nikon

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Janice Blake @janiceblake.bsky.social · 1d

I assume this dog's name is "Scooter."

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Janice Blake @janiceblake.bsky.social · 1d

I've placed my cousin Henry's letters in chronological order so that I can trace his account, as reported to his family back home, of pilot training, which starts in a hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. I found two letters in the earliest dated envelope: February 22, 1943.

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 1d

"I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun."
Paul Simon, born on this day in 1941
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Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Official Video)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Janice Blake @janiceblake.bsky.social · 2d

Meanwhile: the Trump administration and right-wing influencers doubled down on their descriptions of Portland as a city in flames...

LET'S ALL STAND UP FOR CIVIL DISCOURSE...and bringing sensible, civilized law enforcement back to our cities' streets!

Among Portland Protests, It’s Frogs and Sharks and Bears, Oh My!

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Janice Blake @janiceblake.bsky.social · 2d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

The scenes:colorful, oversize animals dancing under the stern gaze of federal agents in riot gear has altered the national conversation about the protest

Among Portland Protests, It’s Frogs and Sharks and Bears, Oh My!

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Janice Blake @janiceblake.bsky.social · 2d

Similar views have been aired in dissents from the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, which have called pro-Trump rulings by the majority “misguided,” “dangerous” and an “existential threat to the rule of law.”

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Janice Blake @janiceblake.bsky.social · 2d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

"Some judges expressed concerns ...fearing critics would see partisanship in the justices’ consistent siding w the president over lower court judges.

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 3d

"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect."
Eleanor Roosevelt, born on this day in 1884

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

More than 23 million Americans are currently enrolled in Obamacare plans, and nearly all of them will face higher health care costs next year if extra federal funding for subsidies expires, as scheduled, on Dec. 31.

Obamacare Enrollment by State: Most Enrollees Live in Republican Areas

Millions of Americans depend on Obamacare. Here's where they live.

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Janice Blake @janiceblake.bsky.social · 3d

I've finally scanned--and read--them all--169 letters written to and by my cousin Henry Marad throughout his training with the U.S. Army Air Forces between May 4 1943 and September 7 1944. Henry was killed in a flight training accident in mid-September, 1944. He was 21 years old.

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