Brad
@woofrock.bsky.social
By profession, educator. By temperament, learner. Prone to gaze at clouds, trees, rivers. Easily hooked by narrative media. Heartbroken by the regime, and now and again by bits of the past. Find peace in breathing in the present moment, taking action.
The cost of Trump's White House ballroom has doubled over the past five months:
In late July, the White House said the vanity project would cost $200 million. Now, it's $400 million.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
In late July, the White House said the vanity project would cost $200 million. Now, it's $400 million.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
The cost of Trump’s White House ballroom has doubled over the past five months
In late July, the White House said the president’s vanity project would cost $200 million. Now, it’s $400 million.
www.ms.now
December 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
"Kindness is countercultural," writes author Parker, and then he suggests Francis as a cure.
#kindness #counterculture #newYearnewWay
#kindness #counterculture #newYearnewWay
The Saint America Needs Now
Kindness has become countercultural. Perhaps Saint Francis can help.
www.theatlantic.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:50 AM
"Kindness is countercultural," writes author Parker, and then he suggests Francis as a cure.
#kindness #counterculture #newYearnewWay
#kindness #counterculture #newYearnewWay
Grand Lake, Colorado
Kris Ramer, 12/23/25
#WackyWeather #StillCSnow #Colorado
It’s been crazy warm here! Normally all of our lakes would have ice forming, but the lack of ice makes for some beautiful reflections!
Kris Ramer, 12/23/25
#WackyWeather #StillCSnow #Colorado
It’s been crazy warm here! Normally all of our lakes would have ice forming, but the lack of ice makes for some beautiful reflections!
December 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Grand Lake, Colorado
Kris Ramer, 12/23/25
#WackyWeather #StillCSnow #Colorado
It’s been crazy warm here! Normally all of our lakes would have ice forming, but the lack of ice makes for some beautiful reflections!
Kris Ramer, 12/23/25
#WackyWeather #StillCSnow #Colorado
It’s been crazy warm here! Normally all of our lakes would have ice forming, but the lack of ice makes for some beautiful reflections!
Bari Weiss’s Audience of One
Trump’s plan to corrupt the media is starting to work.
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
December 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Sonoran Desert landscape in Winter; Arizona USA. Galaxy S24 + Snapseed.
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Sonoran Desert landscape in Winter; Arizona USA. Galaxy S24 + Snapseed.
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“And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.”
Roy Bean
Mills Lake, RMNP, Colorado #mountains #nature #snow #hiking #nationalparks #wilderness #Colorado
Roy Bean
Mills Lake, RMNP, Colorado #mountains #nature #snow #hiking #nationalparks #wilderness #Colorado
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
“And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.”
Roy Bean
Mills Lake, RMNP, Colorado #mountains #nature #snow #hiking #nationalparks #wilderness #Colorado
Roy Bean
Mills Lake, RMNP, Colorado #mountains #nature #snow #hiking #nationalparks #wilderness #Colorado
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⛰Mountain Monday‼️
#MountainMonday
“Old-Man's View of the Divide”.
On Trail Ridge Road, the Old-Man-of-the-Mountain (Alpine Sunflower) in the foreground with the snow-dusted majesty of the Continental Divide in the background #RMNP #Wildflowers #Mountains
#MountainMonday
“Old-Man's View of the Divide”.
On Trail Ridge Road, the Old-Man-of-the-Mountain (Alpine Sunflower) in the foreground with the snow-dusted majesty of the Continental Divide in the background #RMNP #Wildflowers #Mountains
November 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
⛰Mountain Monday‼️
#MountainMonday
“Old-Man's View of the Divide”.
On Trail Ridge Road, the Old-Man-of-the-Mountain (Alpine Sunflower) in the foreground with the snow-dusted majesty of the Continental Divide in the background #RMNP #Wildflowers #Mountains
#MountainMonday
“Old-Man's View of the Divide”.
On Trail Ridge Road, the Old-Man-of-the-Mountain (Alpine Sunflower) in the foreground with the snow-dusted majesty of the Continental Divide in the background #RMNP #Wildflowers #Mountains
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Rock can be broken, but putting it back together can be impossible. Protect the National Parks #RMNP #Resist #Protest #RockyMountainNationalPark #LandscapePhotography #Photography @natashataylor746.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Rock can be broken, but putting it back together can be impossible. Protect the National Parks #RMNP #Resist #Protest #RockyMountainNationalPark #LandscapePhotography #Photography @natashataylor746.bsky.social
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“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
Jane Austin
Little Matterhorn, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado #wilderness #landscape #photography #rmnp #nationalparks #nature #hiking #blackandwhite #Colorado
Jane Austin
Little Matterhorn, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado #wilderness #landscape #photography #rmnp #nationalparks #nature #hiking #blackandwhite #Colorado
December 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
Jane Austin
Little Matterhorn, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado #wilderness #landscape #photography #rmnp #nationalparks #nature #hiking #blackandwhite #Colorado
Jane Austin
Little Matterhorn, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado #wilderness #landscape #photography #rmnp #nationalparks #nature #hiking #blackandwhite #Colorado
Why does no one stop this tomfoolery? Cheeto is oblivious to his own shame and idiocy. We have ample evidence of this. But surely there are others in DC and beyond who see this muck for what it is. Why not speak up, call out the ways this regime drags the US further into the mire?
#Cheeto #Shame
#Cheeto #Shame
Sleepy. Divisive. A fan of young Trump: A look at the new plaques on the Presidential Walk of Fame
President Donald Trump has added partisan and subjective plaques to a refashioned West Wing walkway he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame.
apnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
www.axios.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:10 AM
"It's the *most* wonderful time of the year."
(Stefano Mazzola / Getty: A #Krampus from the Flagellium group #scareschildren in Fusine di Valromana on December 5, 2025, in Tarvisio, Italy.)
(Stefano Mazzola / Getty: A #Krampus from the Flagellium group #scareschildren in Fusine di Valromana on December 5, 2025, in Tarvisio, Italy.)
December 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
"It's the *most* wonderful time of the year."
(Stefano Mazzola / Getty: A #Krampus from the Flagellium group #scareschildren in Fusine di Valromana on December 5, 2025, in Tarvisio, Italy.)
(Stefano Mazzola / Getty: A #Krampus from the Flagellium group #scareschildren in Fusine di Valromana on December 5, 2025, in Tarvisio, Italy.)
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December 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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"Quacks" was a pointed insult when more people believed the scientific process lead to truth. Now people can see the truth in their own neighborhoods. Such an odious shame that adults' learning is done at the expense of children's suffering!
#measles #vaccine #RFKJr
#measles #vaccine #RFKJr
A solid rule in public policy is most things take much longer to fix than they do to break and the rate of breakage now is so profound that we're just digging a hole that'll take longer to dig out of than we will have to fix it before someone is like "What if we try that again though?"
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is “accelerating” with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials say.
December 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"Tincher [a US citizen] has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours, where she saw about seven other detainees." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
December 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Hiking in the clouds for #SCAPE and #ForestFriday
#EastCoastKin #ericgphoto #landscapephotography #ArcanumAlumni #landscape #photography #G+Circle #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin #ericgphoto #landscapephotography #ArcanumAlumni #landscape #photography #G+Circle #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky
December 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Hiking in the clouds for #SCAPE and #ForestFriday
#EastCoastKin #ericgphoto #landscapephotography #ArcanumAlumni #landscape #photography #G+Circle #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin #ericgphoto #landscapephotography #ArcanumAlumni #landscape #photography #G+Circle #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This, the previous border militarization, occupation of our own cities, and the seizing of a Venezuelan ship in Venezuelan waters... I decry what we've become and pray that we hold unrestricted elections that can wrest power from this corrupt regime. #bordermiltarized #owncitiesoccupied #Venezuela
Trump administration adds militarized zone in California along southern US border
The Trump administration is adding another militarized zone to the southern U.S. border to support border security operations — this time in California.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This, the previous border militarization, occupation of our own cities, and the seizing of a Venezuelan ship in Venezuelan waters... I decry what we've become and pray that we hold unrestricted elections that can wrest power from this corrupt regime. #bordermiltarized #owncitiesoccupied #Venezuela