Brenda Harper
@brendaharp.bsky.social
Tree hugger, wise crone, dog lover, artist who loves other artists, foodie, reader of banned books.
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Merry Christmas, good folks of Blue Sky.
May your day be festive, full of warmth, love and good tidings.
Even in the darkest days there are reasons to be hopeful. To be grateful.
I am grateful for you. 🙏🏼
May your day be festive, full of warmth, love and good tidings.
Even in the darkest days there are reasons to be hopeful. To be grateful.
I am grateful for you. 🙏🏼
December 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Merry Christmas, good folks of Blue Sky.
May your day be festive, full of warmth, love and good tidings.
Even in the darkest days there are reasons to be hopeful. To be grateful.
I am grateful for you. 🙏🏼
May your day be festive, full of warmth, love and good tidings.
Even in the darkest days there are reasons to be hopeful. To be grateful.
I am grateful for you. 🙏🏼
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The five best books I read this year, all with deep meanings and things that stuck with me long after I closed the cover.
December 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The five best books I read this year, all with deep meanings and things that stuck with me long after I closed the cover.
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Big kudos to 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi for blowing the whistle on Bari Weiss, telling her colleagues in an email that Weiss ‘spiked the story’ after ‘the story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices’.
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CBS News Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment; Correspondent Calls Decision Political
The news organization said the segment about the El Salvador prison where the Trump administration sent deportees needed additional reporting.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Big kudos to 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi for blowing the whistle on Bari Weiss, telling her colleagues in an email that Weiss ‘spiked the story’ after ‘the story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices’.
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People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.
JD Vance gets the biggest applause of his speech so far when he says "by the grace of God we always will be a Christian nation"
December 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.
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This is straight-up, unvarnished Klan language from the Vice President of the United States.
We've had a lot of racist vice presidents and this one might be in the running for top of the list.
We've had a lot of racist vice presidents and this one might be in the running for top of the list.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is straight-up, unvarnished Klan language from the Vice President of the United States.
We've had a lot of racist vice presidents and this one might be in the running for top of the list.
We've had a lot of racist vice presidents and this one might be in the running for top of the list.
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Remember 2015 rally Trump?
2025 Grandpa Chaos can't even put together a couple of sentences. This ain't "the weave," folks. This rambling word salad is your sundowning FOTUS.
Cognitive decline...brought to you by rapidly failing adventures in WH physician chemistry.
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2025 Grandpa Chaos can't even put together a couple of sentences. This ain't "the weave," folks. This rambling word salad is your sundowning FOTUS.
Cognitive decline...brought to you by rapidly failing adventures in WH physician chemistry.
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This is some really bleak shit, folks. Take a hard look at your president.
December 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Remember 2015 rally Trump?
2025 Grandpa Chaos can't even put together a couple of sentences. This ain't "the weave," folks. This rambling word salad is your sundowning FOTUS.
Cognitive decline...brought to you by rapidly failing adventures in WH physician chemistry.
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2025 Grandpa Chaos can't even put together a couple of sentences. This ain't "the weave," folks. This rambling word salad is your sundowning FOTUS.
Cognitive decline...brought to you by rapidly failing adventures in WH physician chemistry.
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The #ColumbiaGorge is a perfect place to unwind and escape the worlds problems.
Lucky to live so close.
Have a peaceful day.
Nature photo day 338
#nature #photography #eastcoastkin #waterfallWednesday #hiking #photographersofbluesky #peace #landscapephotography #pnw #river #creek #forest
Lucky to live so close.
Have a peaceful day.
Nature photo day 338
#nature #photography #eastcoastkin #waterfallWednesday #hiking #photographersofbluesky #peace #landscapephotography #pnw #river #creek #forest
December 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The #ColumbiaGorge is a perfect place to unwind and escape the worlds problems.
Lucky to live so close.
Have a peaceful day.
Nature photo day 338
#nature #photography #eastcoastkin #waterfallWednesday #hiking #photographersofbluesky #peace #landscapephotography #pnw #river #creek #forest
Lucky to live so close.
Have a peaceful day.
Nature photo day 338
#nature #photography #eastcoastkin #waterfallWednesday #hiking #photographersofbluesky #peace #landscapephotography #pnw #river #creek #forest
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A great walk this morning on the edge of the Lakes. Wonderful to see the lingering mist in the valley below us. It hasn't rained all day today!
December 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A great walk this morning on the edge of the Lakes. Wonderful to see the lingering mist in the valley below us. It hasn't rained all day today!
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Maryland/DC friends, missing pupper! 💔
Curzon is missing. I let him out back to do his business and he just disappeared. I've looked and I haven't found them. Anybody if you're in the Potomac/ Bethesda area please keep an eye out.
December 15, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Maryland/DC friends, missing pupper! 💔
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Beyond the Tipping Point ~ #sky #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin #seascape #seaandsky #abstractlandscape #abstractwatercolor #watercolor #traditionalart #fineart #apocalyptic #postapocalyptic #climatechangeart #climatechange
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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They hate on our Black queens because they can’t handle their greatness.
December 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
They hate on our Black queens because they can’t handle their greatness.
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Ann Lowe was the Black genius behind Jackie Kennedy’s iconic wedding gown.
Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.
Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Ann Lowe was the Black genius behind Jackie Kennedy’s iconic wedding gown.
Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.
Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.
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They know every vile, grotesque, and illegal atrocity he has authored—and none of it matters.
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If Hell Exists, It Will Be Filled With Congressional Republicans
Growing up in the Church, I believed in Hell.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
They know every vile, grotesque, and illegal atrocity he has authored—and none of it matters.
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Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
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At no point during the five-year span that Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on the BBC, from October 1969 to December 1974, could the greatest comedic minds of their time come up with a skit more grotesquely absurd than Trump placing a fake peace-prize medal over his own head.
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
At no point during the five-year span that Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on the BBC, from October 1969 to December 1974, could the greatest comedic minds of their time come up with a skit more grotesquely absurd than Trump placing a fake peace-prize medal over his own head.
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I’m finding myself torn between a “Try to find the humour in it all” and a “This looks like a good place to start digging my bomb shelter” mindset so I might try writing some satire while on my breaks from mixing cement.
March 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I’m finding myself torn between a “Try to find the humour in it all” and a “This looks like a good place to start digging my bomb shelter” mindset so I might try writing some satire while on my breaks from mixing cement.
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I'm an Alberta based artist who has a thing for storms & space.
I do commissions & have originals & 50 different canvas & paper prints available earthskyart.ca/shop
#art #painting
I do commissions & have originals & 50 different canvas & paper prints available earthskyart.ca/shop
#art #painting
October 15, 2024 at 2:55 PM
I'm an Alberta based artist who has a thing for storms & space.
I do commissions & have originals & 50 different canvas & paper prints available earthskyart.ca/shop
#art #painting
I do commissions & have originals & 50 different canvas & paper prints available earthskyart.ca/shop
#art #painting
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Octopus Teapot by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto #Womensart
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Octopus Teapot by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto #Womensart
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December 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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💥 Russia: Ukrainian drone struck the 145-meter Grozny City skyscraper which houses the Chechen Security Council and other government offices in occupied Chechnya.
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
💥 Russia: Ukrainian drone struck the 145-meter Grozny City skyscraper which houses the Chechen Security Council and other government offices in occupied Chechnya.