Ellen Friedman
@ellen-friedman.bsky.social
Seeking joy in people, nature, science, art (watercolors!) and a bit of humor thrown in
Pinned
#California #Poppies
#watercolor #painting 12x9in
Windsor & Newton pigments
no4 Tintoretto mop + no12 & no10 Escoda Perla brushes
#watercolor #painting 12x9in
Windsor & Newton pigments
no4 Tintoretto mop + no12 & no10 Escoda Perla brushes
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December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
t***p's marked mental decline has not made him less evil.
he was evil before, and his evil nature continues even as his cognitive function appears to fall apart.
he was evil before, and his evil nature continues even as his cognitive function appears to fall apart.
It’s astounding how confident he is in his own mental capacity while sounding and acting like someone who badly needs to be sent to bed.
TRUMP: If they want to release my MRI it's ok w/me. It's perfect like my phone call where I got impeached
Q: What part of your body were they were looking at?
TRUMP: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn't the brain bc I took a cognitive test & aced it, which you would be incapable of doing
Q: What part of your body were they were looking at?
TRUMP: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn't the brain bc I took a cognitive test & aced it, which you would be incapable of doing
December 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
t***p's marked mental decline has not made him less evil.
he was evil before, and his evil nature continues even as his cognitive function appears to fall apart.
he was evil before, and his evil nature continues even as his cognitive function appears to fall apart.
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People die because they can't afford healthcare in this country...
And literally hundreds of millions of our tax dollars have been used so a billionaire can play golf?
And literally hundreds of millions of our tax dollars have been used so a billionaire can play golf?
November 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
People die because they can't afford healthcare in this country...
And literally hundreds of millions of our tax dollars have been used so a billionaire can play golf?
And literally hundreds of millions of our tax dollars have been used so a billionaire can play golf?
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Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Senator Kelly is correct.
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
Plus a Public Service Announcement:
KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.
The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
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Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
November 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
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He doesn’t care about you.
November 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
He doesn’t care about you.
For any other US president, this would be pronounced "bribery"
“Trump has delivered many of the rewards that Biden merely dangled before the Saudis,” Franklin Foer writes. One reason may be the kingdom “licensing the Trump name for a series of lavish mega-projects across the Gulf”:
Why the Gulf Monarchs Shower Trump With Gifts
Until now, no president had yielded to royal temptations from abroad.
bit.ly
November 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
For any other US president, this would be pronounced "bribery"
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November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@churchstreetimages.com Hello. I've just discovered BlueSkyArtShow
Notes mention "any art" but at a quick glance I only see photos.
Are paintings on theme OK to post?
Thanks
Notes mention "any art" but at a quick glance I only see photos.
Are paintings on theme OK to post?
Thanks
November 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
@churchstreetimages.com Hello. I've just discovered BlueSkyArtShow
Notes mention "any art" but at a quick glance I only see photos.
Are paintings on theme OK to post?
Thanks
Notes mention "any art" but at a quick glance I only see photos.
Are paintings on theme OK to post?
Thanks
My contribution for #SuperSeabirdSunday
#UKwildlife #birds #wildlifephotographer #eastcoastkin
Puffin on Skomer Island
In Pembrokeshire
Peeking out from their burrow
#UKwildlife #birds #wildlifephotographer #eastcoastkin
Puffin on Skomer Island
In Pembrokeshire
Peeking out from their burrow
November 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Such a beautiful carving of a horse from so very long ago
cc @daimbertyurt.bsky.social @rebeccagrambo.bsky.social
cc @daimbertyurt.bsky.social @rebeccagrambo.bsky.social
Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Such a beautiful carving of a horse from so very long ago
cc @daimbertyurt.bsky.social @rebeccagrambo.bsky.social
cc @daimbertyurt.bsky.social @rebeccagrambo.bsky.social
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Montejaque
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing
One of the white villages of Andalucía and a little doodle
#watercolour
@drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing
One of the white villages of Andalucía and a little doodle
#watercolour
@drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Montejaque
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing
One of the white villages of Andalucía and a little doodle
#watercolour
@drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing
One of the white villages of Andalucía and a little doodle
#watercolour
@drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social
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Measles vaccination efforts worldwide have had a substantial impact, averting nearly 59 million deaths from the infection from 2000 to 2024. “The measles vaccine has saved more lives than any other childhood immunization in the past 50 years." #RSNA25
www.statnews.com/2025/11/28/m...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/28/m...
Global measles vaccinations are nearly back to pre-pandemic levels, WHO report finds
New report suggests the number of children vaccinated against measles globally — which declined during the Covid-19 pandemic — is nearly back to pre-pandemic levels.
www.statnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Measles vaccination efforts worldwide have had a substantial impact, averting nearly 59 million deaths from the infection from 2000 to 2024. “The measles vaccine has saved more lives than any other childhood immunization in the past 50 years." #RSNA25
www.statnews.com/2025/11/28/m...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/28/m...
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memories 💔❤️
President Obama runs down the East Colonnade with Bo, the dog he promised his daughters if he won the election, on the dog's first day in the White House, 2009
#BarackObama #PresidentObama
President Obama runs down the East Colonnade with Bo, the dog he promised his daughters if he won the election, on the dog's first day in the White House, 2009
#BarackObama #PresidentObama
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
memories 💔❤️
President Obama runs down the East Colonnade with Bo, the dog he promised his daughters if he won the election, on the dog's first day in the White House, 2009
#BarackObama #PresidentObama
President Obama runs down the East Colonnade with Bo, the dog he promised his daughters if he won the election, on the dog's first day in the White House, 2009
#BarackObama #PresidentObama
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In recent times scientific research has been a primary driver of US economic growth. It's difficult to see that advantage being thrown away at the whim of one man. It will take decades to re-establish that momentum, assuming it's even possible.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
As funding falters, young brain scientists rethink careers in research
Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants.
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In recent times scientific research has been a primary driver of US economic growth. It's difficult to see that advantage being thrown away at the whim of one man. It will take decades to re-establish that momentum, assuming it's even possible.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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I think the Trump attack on DEI has already crossed into absolute hatred of all "others" including non-whites, women, non-christian, etc.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I think the Trump attack on DEI has already crossed into absolute hatred of all "others" including non-whites, women, non-christian, etc.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
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![Comic: Typical Geologic core sample. [Cylindrical core sample with labels for difference sections from top to bottom] Topsoil, till, granite bedrock, bottomsoil, roof of subway car, floor of subway car, more granite, municipal water main [gouge in core sample], slightly different granite, piece of screaming spelunker’s forearm, cool crystals with no resale value, mangled fragments of drillbit from previous attempt, some boring intrusive rock that’s basically granite but has a name like “diorite” or “Andalite” that you always have to look up, netherrack, Balrog wing. [break between next chunk of core sample] Granite, topsoil, cement, floorboards, carpet, possessions of a confused and angry homeowner in the other hemisphere.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicffnydtpbb2x24cfbblv2qtcwbr37zyw44vtqx47ocj2a26b2j2u@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Didn't know this song. Listening to it now
Thanks for the tip.
I hope you and yours had a lovely Thanksgiving
Thanks for the tip.
I hope you and yours had a lovely Thanksgiving
November 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Didn't know this song. Listening to it now
Thanks for the tip.
I hope you and yours had a lovely Thanksgiving
Thanks for the tip.
I hope you and yours had a lovely Thanksgiving
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I think of Thanksgiving as the holiday when you should celebrate immigrants as guests.
The origin story in the US is that it celebrates a time that indigenous people saved European immigrants from starving. My image is that each year we should repeat that.
The origin story in the US is that it celebrates a time that indigenous people saved European immigrants from starving. My image is that each year we should repeat that.
Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends.
November 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I think of Thanksgiving as the holiday when you should celebrate immigrants as guests.
The origin story in the US is that it celebrates a time that indigenous people saved European immigrants from starving. My image is that each year we should repeat that.
The origin story in the US is that it celebrates a time that indigenous people saved European immigrants from starving. My image is that each year we should repeat that.
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In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
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Some mouse pendants from a workshop at the Pratt community college in Seattle a few weeks ago. During this I did an interview with NPR, the article came out yesterday, www.npr.org/2025/11/27/n.... #jeffdeboer #mousearmour #npr #miniatureart
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Some mouse pendants from a workshop at the Pratt community college in Seattle a few weeks ago. During this I did an interview with NPR, the article came out yesterday, www.npr.org/2025/11/27/n.... #jeffdeboer #mousearmour #npr #miniatureart
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I am heartbroken by the tragic news that two National Guard members were shot near the White House today. My thoughts are with the families and everyone affected as we learn more. This kind of senseless violence has no place in our country.
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM