The flowing waters of Icicle Creek in Washington State. The water was high on this day and moving fast.

Icicle Creek in Washington State
#blueskyartshow #flowing

Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy.

What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.

When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.

Remember this.

Hell yes!

9-Year-old says what we all feel. YouTube video by Luke Beasley

I hope this young chap is president one day!

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Two Dogwood flowers highlighted in a beam of sunshine.

#blueskyartshow #two

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

🎯🎯

AOC on Epstein Files: We need to get to the bottom of it. It does not matter if you are a Republican, Democrat, or donor. We are talking about sexual crimes and trafficking.

"What can Democrats actually do?"

- Vote against funding for ICE and DHS

- State that any ICE officers who commit crimes under Trump will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law

- Encourage cities and states to refuse to cooperate with ICE

- Explain ICE is part of Trump's tyranny

“Heartbroken but also very angry… sickening lies by the administration… reprehensible and disgusting… Alex is clearly not holding a gun… please get the truth out about our son, he was a good man…”

And what are you going to do when he ignores you?

LMAO McGovern is on fire right now 🔥🔥🔥

Fiona watching the football game last Sunday.

A picture of a sunrise above the clouds. I took this picture on an early morning flight out of Florence.

#blueskyartshow #sky

This NOT about immigration, citizens are getting harshly handled arrested, having to experience the trauma of such a violent assault because that’s what it is.Fake ICE are using citizens as targets,bait, making them example to cause fear & for Americans to get used to a police state environment

Looking into an infinity tube of light. I took this picture at the SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention in Bellingham, WA.

#blueskyartshow #bright

I took this picture at the SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention in Bellingham, WA. It's a quirky, little museum run by volunteers.

After Life. It's listed as a drama but there were some laugh-out-loud parts for me.

Looking down a long, empty hallway of the Pike Place Market in Seattle.

Pike Place Market in Seattle after everyone's gone home.

#blueskyartshow #evening

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Um, didn’t Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of the USA official government, say that the president was an FBI informant for a pedophile operation?

Like, what happened? Why are there no reporters asking him about this every day?

Van Hollen: I will just say that anybody who thinks we're on the way to authoritarianism is wrong. We are there

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

A cozy picture of 2 chairs next to a fire in a fire kettle, in a backyard filled with green and foliage.

#blueskyartshow #home

Let’s be clear—this is bigger than Trump. The Epstein files show how banks, corporations, and even governments looked the other way while children were abused. Survivors deserve justice. We can’t let this cycle repeat.

The damage this man has done is incalculable.

The D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force established in Executive Order 14252 of March 27, 2025 (Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful), shall establish an online portal for Americans with law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experience to apply to join Federal law enforcement entities to support the policy goals described in Executive Order 14333. Each law enforcement agency that is a member of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, as well as other relevant components of the Department of Justice as the Attorney General determines, shall further, subject to the availability of appropriations and applicable law, immediately create and begin training, manning, hiring, and equipping a specialized unit that is dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the Nation’s capital that can be deployed whenever the circumstances necessitate, and that could be deployed, subject to applicable law, in other cities where public safety and order has been lost. ( (ii) The Secretary of Defense shall immediately begin ensuring that each State’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law. In coordination with the respective adjutants general, the Secretary of Defense shall designate an appropriate number of each State’s trained National Guard members to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization for such purposes. In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

Absolutely awesome. The Blue governors are fighting back hard and it is helping our morale. Beats strongly worded letters by a mile.

Tony

Fascism is expensive.