Dave Haldiman
@opposablethumbs.bsky.social
Must have liberal democracy and progressive policies. Nature is my church. Science, art, humor, Tao, kindness, acceptance. Ret'd ad producer and motion camera. Here to learn, laugh, meet, interact, care. And to fight the MAGA oligarchy and AI.
Pinned
In a land of granite
an acorn finds a fissure
Boulders tumble
(A reminder that big changes often grow from small seeds.)
#Photography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Poetry #Haiku #Mountains #Yosemite #Resist
an acorn finds a fissure
Boulders tumble
(A reminder that big changes often grow from small seeds.)
#Photography #NaturePhotography #Nature #Poetry #Haiku #Mountains #Yosemite #Resist
Witness the glory of the President of the United States. (sound up)
The reasons why this bag of degraded protoplasm is in this position have been described in great detail. There are two easily available constitutional solutions for removal, but republicans simply won't allow us to be rescued.
The reasons why this bag of degraded protoplasm is in this position have been described in great detail. There are two easily available constitutional solutions for removal, but republicans simply won't allow us to be rescued.
That split second between “this is fine” and “why is this happening.”
January 7, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Witness the glory of the President of the United States. (sound up)
The reasons why this bag of degraded protoplasm is in this position have been described in great detail. There are two easily available constitutional solutions for removal, but republicans simply won't allow us to be rescued.
The reasons why this bag of degraded protoplasm is in this position have been described in great detail. There are two easily available constitutional solutions for removal, but republicans simply won't allow us to be rescued.
Basically, the difference between Miller and Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels is that Goebbels would have had Miller executed for being Jewish.
In an interview, Miller cited the "Monroe doctrine" as he stated that he essentially believes the US should be able to invade & control sovereign nations "to secure our interests in our hemisphere".
This is fascist expanionist ideology being masked as "national security".
#Pinks
This is fascist expanionist ideology being masked as "national security".
#Pinks
January 6, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Basically, the difference between Miller and Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels is that Goebbels would have had Miller executed for being Jewish.
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January 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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Department of Interior says if you put a sticker over Trump's face on your national park entrance pass, the pass will be invalidated.
Meanwhile Trump's decision to put his face on the passes is being challenged in court
Meanwhile Trump's decision to put his face on the passes is being challenged in court
DOI cracks down on stickers covering Trump's face on national park passes
Park passes with protest stickers are facing new scrutiny.
www.sfgate.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Department of Interior says if you put a sticker over Trump's face on your national park entrance pass, the pass will be invalidated.
Meanwhile Trump's decision to put his face on the passes is being challenged in court
Meanwhile Trump's decision to put his face on the passes is being challenged in court
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A CONVERSATION
“The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.”
Rosa Luxemburg
“Let the dust settle, and you will see more clearly.
Genereux Philip
#dont-let-them-steal-your-joy #sunflower #courage #inspire #slavaukraini #50501 #nokings
#rosa-luxemburg #genereux-philip
“The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.”
Rosa Luxemburg
“Let the dust settle, and you will see more clearly.
Genereux Philip
#dont-let-them-steal-your-joy #sunflower #courage #inspire #slavaukraini #50501 #nokings
#rosa-luxemburg #genereux-philip
January 4, 2026 at 11:24 PM
A CONVERSATION
“The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.”
Rosa Luxemburg
“Let the dust settle, and you will see more clearly.
Genereux Philip
#dont-let-them-steal-your-joy #sunflower #courage #inspire #slavaukraini #50501 #nokings
#rosa-luxemburg #genereux-philip
“The most revolutionary act is a clear view of the world as it really is.”
Rosa Luxemburg
“Let the dust settle, and you will see more clearly.
Genereux Philip
#dont-let-them-steal-your-joy #sunflower #courage #inspire #slavaukraini #50501 #nokings
#rosa-luxemburg #genereux-philip
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14AS3 isn't some fanciful stretch of a technicality to get at Trump just b/c he's bad. He demonstrates the very core of its purpose: you can't have free and fair elections with opponents who violently reject them. You can't have democracy with a party that mixes electoral competition with terrorism.
January 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
14AS3 isn't some fanciful stretch of a technicality to get at Trump just b/c he's bad. He demonstrates the very core of its purpose: you can't have free and fair elections with opponents who violently reject them. You can't have democracy with a party that mixes electoral competition with terrorism.
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© O. Winston Link
Drive-in, West Virginia
1956
Drive-in, West Virginia
1956
January 1, 2026 at 6:02 PM
© O. Winston Link
Drive-in, West Virginia
1956
Drive-in, West Virginia
1956
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From 1978, "Midnight Sun" by Sarah Vaughan, with Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Ray Brown and Louie Bellson.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yTv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yTv...
Midnight Sun
YouTube video by Sarah Vaughan - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:13 AM
From 1978, "Midnight Sun" by Sarah Vaughan, with Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Ray Brown and Louie Bellson.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yTv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yTv...
Here's Margaret Sullivan's excellent response to Bari Weiss's trite manifesto of purpose for #CBS
Should the news media 'love America'? Here's how.
Not the way CBS News seems to have in mind
margaretsullivan.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Here's Margaret Sullivan's excellent response to Bari Weiss's trite manifesto of purpose for #CBS
Reposted by Dave Haldiman
Alfred Brendel by Sophia Evans
"I familiarise myself with a piece & wait for it to tell me what it's about, & what makes it a masterpiece."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_l...
"I familiarise myself with a piece & wait for it to tell me what it's about, & what makes it a masterpiece."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_l...
January 5, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Alfred Brendel by Sophia Evans
"I familiarise myself with a piece & wait for it to tell me what it's about, & what makes it a masterpiece."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_l...
"I familiarise myself with a piece & wait for it to tell me what it's about, & what makes it a masterpiece."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz_l...
I'm guessing this is how an entertainment mega-conglomerate is taking advantage of the zeitgeist, expecting millions to be made by appealing to the approval of "greed is good" belligerence in large portions of societies. Ugly stuff.
January 5, 2026 at 6:31 PM
I'm guessing this is how an entertainment mega-conglomerate is taking advantage of the zeitgeist, expecting millions to be made by appealing to the approval of "greed is good" belligerence in large portions of societies. Ugly stuff.
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This is objectively untrue. Shutdown starts Jan 30. That doesn't change w/o Dem votes. Nor any non-reconciliation legislation. Also other kinds of obstruction and forcing votes.
The minority party is not completely powerless, esp. in the Senate. If they pretend to be, that is a choice, not reality.
The minority party is not completely powerless, esp. in the Senate. If they pretend to be, that is a choice, not reality.
They don't have any power to do anything. They have none. Zero. Zilch. Everything else is virtue signaling. It's futile gestures.
January 5, 2026 at 5:44 PM
This is objectively untrue. Shutdown starts Jan 30. That doesn't change w/o Dem votes. Nor any non-reconciliation legislation. Also other kinds of obstruction and forcing votes.
The minority party is not completely powerless, esp. in the Senate. If they pretend to be, that is a choice, not reality.
The minority party is not completely powerless, esp. in the Senate. If they pretend to be, that is a choice, not reality.
Sen. Mark Kelly:
"Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired service member that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that."
#Patriot #Resist
"Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired service member that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that."
#Patriot #Resist
NEW: Sen. Mark Kelly RESPONDS to Pete Hegseth for censuring him, cutting his military pension, threatening to demote his rank, and warning of possible criminal prosecution for telling soldiers to obey their oath.
January 5, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Manno, lnuk, Indigenous Canadian (1923-1973), Bear on Ice, 1964, stone, 8.9 x 15.9 x 8.3 cm, private collection
January 5, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Manno, lnuk, Indigenous Canadian (1923-1973), Bear on Ice, 1964, stone, 8.9 x 15.9 x 8.3 cm, private collection
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Assistant director Robert Florey and co-star Martha Raye break up over Chaplin's antics during the filming of "Monsieur Verdoux" (1947).
January 5, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Assistant director Robert Florey and co-star Martha Raye break up over Chaplin's antics during the filming of "Monsieur Verdoux" (1947).
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"The cult of the individual acquired such monstrous size chiefly because Stalin himself, using all conceivable methods, supported the glorification of his own person."
Khrushchev, On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
Khrushchev, On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 11:57 AM
"The cult of the individual acquired such monstrous size chiefly because Stalin himself, using all conceivable methods, supported the glorification of his own person."
Khrushchev, On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
Khrushchev, On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
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Three great pianists share a birthday today. Listen to each of them play Beethoven's final Piano Sonata, op. 111.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTPg...
Alfred Brendel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUxF...
Maurizio Pollini
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNd0...
🎨 Andy Warhol, 1987
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTPg...
Alfred Brendel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUxF...
Maurizio Pollini
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNd0...
🎨 Andy Warhol, 1987
January 5, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Three great pianists share a birthday today. Listen to each of them play Beethoven's final Piano Sonata, op. 111.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTPg...
Alfred Brendel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUxF...
Maurizio Pollini
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNd0...
🎨 Andy Warhol, 1987
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTPg...
Alfred Brendel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUxF...
Maurizio Pollini
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNd0...
🎨 Andy Warhol, 1987
Gather 'round children and I'll tell you the sad tale of Congress, once proudly considered first among the co-equal branches of the U.S. government. We have lived in hope that one fine day something will awaken the sniveling giant. Could this finally be . . . ? Ehh, time for bed.
The Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen to the United States:
“The Kingdom of Denmark, and thus Greenland, is a member of NATO and is therefore covered by the Alliance’s collective security guarantee.” I “strongly urge the United States to cease its threats.”
“The Kingdom of Denmark, and thus Greenland, is a member of NATO and is therefore covered by the Alliance’s collective security guarantee.” I “strongly urge the United States to cease its threats.”
January 4, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Gather 'round children and I'll tell you the sad tale of Congress, once proudly considered first among the co-equal branches of the U.S. government. We have lived in hope that one fine day something will awaken the sniveling giant. Could this finally be . . . ? Ehh, time for bed.
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To be fully seen
is to be encountered where we do not resolve-
where the light breaks
not to be admired for coherence,
but to be recognized in contradiction,
To be fully seen
is to have one’s unfinished edges
met without urgency,
as if incompleteness were not a problem
but a presence.
#Selfloved
is to be encountered where we do not resolve-
where the light breaks
not to be admired for coherence,
but to be recognized in contradiction,
To be fully seen
is to have one’s unfinished edges
met without urgency,
as if incompleteness were not a problem
but a presence.
#Selfloved
January 4, 2026 at 3:57 PM
To be fully seen
is to be encountered where we do not resolve-
where the light breaks
not to be admired for coherence,
but to be recognized in contradiction,
To be fully seen
is to have one’s unfinished edges
met without urgency,
as if incompleteness were not a problem
but a presence.
#Selfloved
is to be encountered where we do not resolve-
where the light breaks
not to be admired for coherence,
but to be recognized in contradiction,
To be fully seen
is to have one’s unfinished edges
met without urgency,
as if incompleteness were not a problem
but a presence.
#Selfloved
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And then there are other days...
January 4, 2026 at 4:59 PM
And then there are other days...
From the wise Timothy Snyder:
"Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped -- so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is more about regime change in the United States than it was about anything in Venezuela."
"Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped -- so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is more about regime change in the United States than it was about anything in Venezuela."
Venezuela: The Precedents
And America: The Future
snyder.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:13 PM
From the wise Timothy Snyder:
"Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped -- so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is more about regime change in the United States than it was about anything in Venezuela."
"Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped -- so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is more about regime change in the United States than it was about anything in Venezuela."