Bert B
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State Officials Are Stepping up to Protect Our Elections from Trump's Interference
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State Officials Are Stepping up to Protect Our Elections from Trump's Interference
YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner
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February 7, 2026 at 9:15 PM
State Officials Are Stepping up to Protect Our Elections from Trump's Interference
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No visit to Leuven / Louvain is complete without a walk through the quiet cobbled streets of the Groot Begijnhof / Grand Beguinage.
Where the cliché “like stepping back in time” is appropriate.
www.visitleuven.be/en/great-beg...
Where the cliché “like stepping back in time” is appropriate.
www.visitleuven.be/en/great-beg...
February 8, 2026 at 12:12 PM
No visit to Leuven / Louvain is complete without a walk through the quiet cobbled streets of the Groot Begijnhof / Grand Beguinage.
Where the cliché “like stepping back in time” is appropriate.
www.visitleuven.be/en/great-beg...
Where the cliché “like stepping back in time” is appropriate.
www.visitleuven.be/en/great-beg...
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved - Kurt Vonnegut
Pic of the day
#photography
Pic of the day
#photography
February 7, 2026 at 6:16 PM
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved - Kurt Vonnegut
Pic of the day
#photography
Pic of the day
#photography
Good question.
Hey friends, here's a new piece by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. My friend @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social and I discuss the officer-involved fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti on the CBC show The National.
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Is the Trump administration above the law in America?
YouTube video by CBC News: The National
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February 8, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Good question.
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Just love this heron ignoring but perfectly matching our decoy by the garden pond.
February 7, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Just love this heron ignoring but perfectly matching our decoy by the garden pond.
What a sad state of affairs. We are slowly turning into a dictatorship and those who could act to stop this from happening are doing from very little to nothing.
It only took them 12 months to build massive concentration camps all over the USA. You’d think there would be more uproar, but no. No one cares unless it’s in their backyard.
February 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
What a sad state of affairs. We are slowly turning into a dictatorship and those who could act to stop this from happening are doing from very little to nothing.
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Dalí treated sleep as a structural challenge in his work, capturing its precarious collapse through hyperrealistic detail. Sleep (1937) depicts a massive sagging head propped by thirteen crutches, as if rest required engineering.
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/3115415
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/3115415
February 8, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Dalí treated sleep as a structural challenge in his work, capturing its precarious collapse through hyperrealistic detail. Sleep (1937) depicts a massive sagging head propped by thirteen crutches, as if rest required engineering.
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/3115415
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/3115415
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Yes, weep for what we have lost. But don’t just weep. Turn these losses into a new beginning — based on what’s good in America and what has gone wrong. Some thoughts for your Sunday... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-cry-the-beloved-country
Sunday thought: Cry, the Beloved Country
But please don’t just cry for what we’ve lost.
robertreich.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Yes, weep for what we have lost. But don’t just weep. Turn these losses into a new beginning — based on what’s good in America and what has gone wrong. Some thoughts for your Sunday... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-cry-the-beloved-country
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Lawful vs. Unlawful Military Orders; Trump's Threats to Members of Congress; & Help for our Troops
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Lawful vs. Unlawful Military Orders; Trump's Threats to Members of Congress; & Help for our Troops
YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner
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November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Lawful vs. Unlawful Military Orders; Trump's Threats to Members of Congress; & Help for our Troops
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And since I am no longer a spring chicken, I hope God gets with the program ASAP.
November 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
And since I am no longer a spring chicken, I hope God gets with the program ASAP.
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Zohran Mamdani is the bright future of the Democratic Party — brimming with excellent ideas about what working families need.
I was delighted to chat with him earlier today.
If you're a New Yorker, don't forget to cast your vote for him by Tuesday, Nov. 4.
I was delighted to chat with him earlier today.
If you're a New Yorker, don't forget to cast your vote for him by Tuesday, Nov. 4.
October 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Zohran Mamdani is the bright future of the Democratic Party — brimming with excellent ideas about what working families need.
I was delighted to chat with him earlier today.
If you're a New Yorker, don't forget to cast your vote for him by Tuesday, Nov. 4.
I was delighted to chat with him earlier today.
If you're a New Yorker, don't forget to cast your vote for him by Tuesday, Nov. 4.
Corporations aren’t persons and money is definitely not speech!
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
October 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Corporations aren’t persons and money is definitely not speech!
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Trump is such a poor excuse of a human being!
As Joe Biden battles stage four cancer, Donald Trump calls him ugly and says that he loves watching him squirm.
What a pathetic human being.
What a pathetic human being.
October 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Trump is such a poor excuse of a human being!
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If Zohran Mamdani wins, his success should be a lesson for all progressives and all Democrats across America. Some thoughts...
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-five-ingredients-of-zorhans-secret
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-five-ingredients-of-zorhans-secret
October 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
If Zohran Mamdani wins, his success should be a lesson for all progressives and all Democrats across America. Some thoughts...
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-five-ingredients-of-zorhans-secret
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-five-ingredients-of-zorhans-secret
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Billie Eilish has a message for billionaires: “Give your money away, shorties.”
October 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Billie Eilish has a message for billionaires: “Give your money away, shorties.”
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Your daily reminder that Trump absolutely can fund SNAP through contingency funds.
He absolutely can prevent 42 million Americans — including 20 million children — from going hungry next month.
He is choosing not to. Don’t let him lie his way out of this.
He absolutely can prevent 42 million Americans — including 20 million children — from going hungry next month.
He is choosing not to. Don’t let him lie his way out of this.
October 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Your daily reminder that Trump absolutely can fund SNAP through contingency funds.
He absolutely can prevent 42 million Americans — including 20 million children — from going hungry next month.
He is choosing not to. Don’t let him lie his way out of this.
He absolutely can prevent 42 million Americans — including 20 million children — from going hungry next month.
He is choosing not to. Don’t let him lie his way out of this.
People, we need to pay attention! And then we need to act and prepare to stop this menace.
On social media, Donald Trump riffs, cusses, dodges, weaves, raises money, and spreads lies. “He is the world’s most outspoken troll, and its most dangerous,” Jill Lepore writes.
Trump and the Presidency That Wouldn’t Shut Up
His posts and rants are omnipresent, ugly, and unhinged. Don’t look to history to make it make sense.
www.newyorker.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
People, we need to pay attention! And then we need to act and prepare to stop this menace.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Decor for 'Romeo et Juliet'
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20800
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20800
October 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Decor for 'Romeo et Juliet'
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20800
https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20800