Elderqueer (he/him) out since the '70s. Former Chicago newspaper guy, from copy boy to boardroom via points between. Friend of facts. At home in Key West, missing my late husband after 36 years together.
Pinch one of the festive leaves, sniff your fingers and you'll know in an instant that Alpinia is a member of the ginger family. It's a great accent plant. 🌱📷
I'm a brain doc (Consultation-Liaison psych).
For *years* Trump’s shown uninterrupted, increasingly severe cognitive symptoms: he's incapable of linear thought at baseline.
Whatever disrupted Biden's linear thought in debate is at worst intermittent.
Bonus: he's not an overt fascist.
Not The Story!
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we have a gift for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” — Marie Curie
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Two grackles were raising a racket in my mussaenda, not their usual haunt, clacking and flitting as if the branches were electrified. Then the cause of their concern hopped onto the porch, a fledgling still in flight school. It didn't look sick or injured, just puzzled, so I didn't interfere. 1/2 📷
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ― George Orwell (with my view of the city's display from the pool, a poor sight line but a cool and comfy seat) 🌱📷
Happy Independence Day.
This is "Mooning Jesse," a basswood work I have on a guest room wall. Folk artist Ned Cartledge carved and painted it in 1991 to protest Sen. Jesse Helms's attempts to cut National Endowment for the Arts funds for controversial projects. Now I can call it "Mooning Ron."📷 1/7
"Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail.... It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish." — Terrence McNally
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The bartender says "sorry, we don't serve faster than light particles here."
Two tachyons walk into a bar.
The punchline comes before the joke
You know what the worst thing about time travel jokes is?
I know it's been said a lot but the conservative legal project is to make sure no right-wing agitator, murderer, terrorist, or rebel is ever punished for anything they do in pursuit of their complete domination of the rest of the country
Please pardon my provincial brag, but it's our mayor's birthday, and she's worth celebrating. Teri Johnston is the first lesbian to hold the office, and she's terrific. We elected Richard Heyman, a gay man, mayor in 1983 and 1987, among the first out and proud LGBTQ officeholders in the country. 📷🌈
The number of Google searches for Project 2025 skyrocketed after Taraji P. Henson mentioned it during her BET Awards appearance and encouraged the audience watching to Google it.
That single black woman did more for liberal causes than all the current DNC leaders and the candidates themselves.
"We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better." — Thurgood Marshall, born this day in 1908
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"The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day." — Harriet Beecher Stowe 🌱📷
"Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come." — Ellen DeGeneris
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There have been 24 Atlantic storms in the Satellite Era (1966-present) which have gone through a >70kt rapid intensification within a 36-hour period. (Min start of 35kt)
All of those storms originally formed in Aug, Sep, Oct, or Nov.
Until Beryl.
#Beryl is doing this in June.
Trump telling oil billionaires he would gladly accept a $1B bribe to be their puppet president: 1 day story
Biden has lousy first half of debate: Top headline on 3rd day & counting
Tropical trash: "Self-cleaners" like my Christmas palms only do half the job. They conveniently drop their dead fronds, rather than making you trim them. Not so their big, heavy flower stalks, which bring out the extendable pole saws, and liniment for aching shoulders. 🌱📷
