John Teets

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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.

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Duval Street on a sultry summer weeknight, ready for Edward Hopper. 📷

“The destiny of humanity is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees." — T.H. White 🌱📷

Welcome to the perfume factory. 🌱📷

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Whoever said may you live in interesting times can absolutely go fuck themselves.

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." — Nelson Mandela 🌱📷

My blood ran a little cold last night when this came up in the TCM listings. It's a 1968 movie by Peter Bogdanovich, and the guy in the illustration is Boris Karloff.

#tbt: Three years ago today, saying goodbye to the big place in Tennessee. (Of course I took the painting.) 📷

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This whole thread, but especially this. Imagine what your birth certificate means to administrative judges that Donald Trump gets to hire. Imagine the heartfelt opinion Roberts will write about how, wow, it turns out that we DO defer to findings of fact made by those ALJs.

I made the point on Twitter years ago that all Constitutional protections *must* apply to everyone, no matter what their status is, because nobody can prove their status without those rights. And I got "That's not true, I have my birth certificate." But what obligates anyone to look at it or care?

A pool is undeniably a luxury. When it's good it's very, very good, and when it's bad it's... expensive. 🌱📷

Give me your tired, your poor, and I'll round 'em up and ship 'em off.

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Brokebuck Mountain.

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This should horrify every decent American. Remember they mean deporting millions of Dreamers, farmworkers, long-settled immigrants who have contributed to our nation for decades. Businesses will suffer and families would be separated from coast to coast. Our neighbors, our coworkers, our loved ones.

"Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of the man who can fabricate it." — Hannah Arendt 🌱📷

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Liberal Silicon Valley is a myth akin to liberal mass media. How a Network of Tech Billionaires Helped J.D. Vance Leap Into Power www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/t...

How a Network of Tech Billionaires Helped J.D. Vance Leap Into Powerwww.nytimes.com Mr. Vance spent less than five years in Silicon Valley’s tech industry, but the connections he made with Peter Thiel and others became crucial to his political ascent.

The only clouds were fluffy and pink. 🌱📷

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Julie Allen

Thanks!

"Fear is taking over our world. Fear that weʼre going to be attacked, fear that there are communists lurking around every corner, fear that Black culture may take over the world, fear of Elvis Presleyʼs hips.... Well, maybe that one is a real." — Christopher Isherwood 🌱📷

I happened to turn on the TV this morning just in time to see Fred and Ginger dancing to "Night and Day," and it hit me like a brick: Beauty and grace helped people get through the worst of the Depression and a war. Arts and culture are more valuable now than ever. 📷

"Gender." As ever, thanks, autocorrect. 😎

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Vesna

Orange gelato with a squirt of raspberry syrup, perfect for a hot day.

Back so soon? Unexpected but quite welcome, this orchid decided to bloom twice this year. Welcome home! 🌱📷

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Benjamin Dreyer

Put the ipecac away, Mother. There's a new patent potion for that, Douthat's Panegyric.

"If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going." — Harriet Tubman 🌱📷

Monochrome Monday. 🌱📷

"A former president was shot, an American citizen killed while simply exercising his freedom to support the candidate of his choosing. We cannot, we must not go down this road in America." — Joe Biden, today

Sunrise wields a golden paintbrush. 🌱📷

Blue. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBlue #photography 📷🌱

Vying for the light, they rise and bend and twist to find their place in the sun. 🌱📷

"We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. The most alarming spectacle today is Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist." — E.B. White 🌱📷