Penguin On A Bike
@blueforestpenguin.bsky.social
• Teacher & legal researcher/writer • Lover of the sky, mountains, the arts, science, nature, & running • Fight climate change, hate, inequality, & fascism • Vote Blue 🩵 • Eyes open, heart pure • 📷 & 🎨 mine unless otherwise credited •
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"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it.
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(My original #watercolor #art)
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(My original #watercolor #art)
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“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars — on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.”
(Robert Frost)
🎨 Andrew Wyeth
#wintersky
Between stars — on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.”
(Robert Frost)
🎨 Andrew Wyeth
#wintersky
January 23, 2026 at 7:00 PM
“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars — on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.”
(Robert Frost)
🎨 Andrew Wyeth
#wintersky
Between stars — on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.”
(Robert Frost)
🎨 Andrew Wyeth
#wintersky
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Watercolor Sky
January 31, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Watercolor Sky
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Beautiful! Here's a song to go with it. 🙂
youtu.be/yC3byQHTaw4?...
youtu.be/yC3byQHTaw4?...
The Night I Painted The Sky
YouTube video by Jimmy Buffett - Topic
youtu.be
January 31, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Beautiful! Here's a song to go with it. 🙂
youtu.be/yC3byQHTaw4?...
youtu.be/yC3byQHTaw4?...
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Many Native Americans are carrying tribal documents proving their U.S. citizenship in case they are stopped or questioned by federal immigration agents. This is why dozens of the 575 federally recognized Native nations are making it easier to get tribal IDs. (Associated Press)
Fearing ICE, Native Americans rush to prove their right to belong in the US
Many of the people whose ancestors lived in the U.S. thousands of years before Europeans are carrying tribal identification for protection against the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda.…
buff.ly
January 31, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Many Native Americans are carrying tribal documents proving their U.S. citizenship in case they are stopped or questioned by federal immigration agents. This is why dozens of the 575 federally recognized Native nations are making it easier to get tribal IDs. (Associated Press)
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Proud of my fellow Angelenos showing up today. Proud of this city, man, and the ways in which folks are doing their utmost to keep their neighbors safe. We are gonna win, man
January 31, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Proud of my fellow Angelenos showing up today. Proud of this city, man, and the ways in which folks are doing their utmost to keep their neighbors safe. We are gonna win, man
Watercolor Sky
January 31, 2026 at 3:06 AM
Watercolor Sky
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Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News
January 31, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Adam Zyglis, Buffalo News
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New additions to Trump's archipelago of concentration camps
January 31, 2026 at 12:19 AM
New additions to Trump's archipelago of concentration camps
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Downtown Minneapolis today! ✊
January 30, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Downtown Minneapolis today! ✊
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Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are
-skipping prenatal care
-requesting home births, even when not medically advised
-going w/o adequate food
Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early
-skipping prenatal care
-requesting home births, even when not medically advised
-going w/o adequate food
Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early
Fear of ICE is keeping pregnant immigrants in Minnesota from critical care
Health care providers in Minnesota said pregnant patients are having more complications linked to stress. But fear of immigration agents is keeping them from prenatal care.
19thnews.org
January 30, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are
-skipping prenatal care
-requesting home births, even when not medically advised
-going w/o adequate food
Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early
-skipping prenatal care
-requesting home births, even when not medically advised
-going w/o adequate food
Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early
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very fun to think that there are at least four votes for "the president can unilaterally rewrite a constitutional amendment"
A different kind of April fools
*SUPREME COURT SETS BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ARGUMENTS FOR APRIL 1
*SUPREME COURT SETS BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ARGUMENTS FOR APRIL 1
January 30, 2026 at 4:35 PM
very fun to think that there are at least four votes for "the president can unilaterally rewrite a constitutional amendment"
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Bondi: "At my direction" feds arrested journalists.
At direction of AG may be because:
"Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved...The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges." (per @kylegriffin1.bsky.social re @carolleonnig.bsky.social)
At direction of AG may be because:
"Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved...The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges." (per @kylegriffin1.bsky.social re @carolleonnig.bsky.social)
January 30, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Bondi: "At my direction" feds arrested journalists.
At direction of AG may be because:
"Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved...The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges." (per @kylegriffin1.bsky.social re @carolleonnig.bsky.social)
At direction of AG may be because:
"Career DOJ prosecutors in both Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved...The prosecutors believe the evidence does not support the charges." (per @kylegriffin1.bsky.social re @carolleonnig.bsky.social)
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Artist: Ryszard Kaja
Title: Dachshund
Title: Dachshund
January 30, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Artist: Ryszard Kaja
Title: Dachshund
Title: Dachshund
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Jean-Philippe Richard
January 29, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Jean-Philippe Richard
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Reflecting upon the Stars
A dead calm evening at Moke Lake, Queenstown.
I was lucky enough to catch a faint aurora in the background too!
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#Queenstown, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul"
#Astro #Aurora #Nightscape #Scape #Landscape #Photography #Art #EastCoastKin #Travel
A dead calm evening at Moke Lake, Queenstown.
I was lucky enough to catch a faint aurora in the background too!
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#Queenstown, #NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul"
#Astro #Aurora #Nightscape #Scape #Landscape #Photography #Art #EastCoastKin #Travel
January 29, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Reflecting upon the Stars
A dead calm evening at Moke Lake, Queenstown.
I was lucky enough to catch a faint aurora in the background too!
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#Queenstown, #NewZealand
-
"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul"
#Astro #Aurora #Nightscape #Scape #Landscape #Photography #Art #EastCoastKin #Travel
A dead calm evening at Moke Lake, Queenstown.
I was lucky enough to catch a faint aurora in the background too!
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#Queenstown, #NewZealand
-
"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul"
#Astro #Aurora #Nightscape #Scape #Landscape #Photography #Art #EastCoastKin #Travel
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"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?"
~ From ‘Middlemarch’ by George Eliot (1871)
#Sculpture, mammoth ivory, this carving of a water bird was created c. 33,000 years ago.
Found in a cave in Germany, it may be the earliest representation of a bird.
~ From ‘Middlemarch’ by George Eliot (1871)
#Sculpture, mammoth ivory, this carving of a water bird was created c. 33,000 years ago.
Found in a cave in Germany, it may be the earliest representation of a bird.
January 29, 2026 at 9:32 AM
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?"
~ From ‘Middlemarch’ by George Eliot (1871)
#Sculpture, mammoth ivory, this carving of a water bird was created c. 33,000 years ago.
Found in a cave in Germany, it may be the earliest representation of a bird.
~ From ‘Middlemarch’ by George Eliot (1871)
#Sculpture, mammoth ivory, this carving of a water bird was created c. 33,000 years ago.
Found in a cave in Germany, it may be the earliest representation of a bird.
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January 15, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law.
The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
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The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
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January 28, 2026 at 1:41 PM
In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law.
The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...
The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...
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“We’re barraged by videos of people we don’t know getting ripped from their families & beaten by agents whose salaries we pay. Bits & pieces come together about each day of unfolding tragedy, and more & more of us realize that those pieces belong to someone we know”
www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:11 PM
“We’re barraged by videos of people we don’t know getting ripped from their families & beaten by agents whose salaries we pay. Bits & pieces come together about each day of unfolding tragedy, and more & more of us realize that those pieces belong to someone we know”
www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
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I'm going to print this image out and hang it on my wall because the idea that this exists should fill everyone with absolute boiling fucking rage every day.
January 27, 2026 at 5:24 AM
I'm going to print this image out and hang it on my wall because the idea that this exists should fill everyone with absolute boiling fucking rage every day.