Leon Seaman
@leonseaman.bsky.social
An immigrant, now a citizen, concerned for our democracy in the face of Trump's blatant cruelty and criminality!
No Kings! The most basic tenet of the American creed, and our message to this Republican Congress:
October 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
No Kings! The most basic tenet of the American creed, and our message to this Republican Congress:
Our first snow on the Cascades this past weekend. It was a really dry winter, and the summers are just getting warmer!
October 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Our first snow on the Cascades this past weekend. It was a really dry winter, and the summers are just getting warmer!
I'm staggered by the hypocrisy of the cynical alliance between Trump and his 'Christian' supporters. He's what Jesus abhorred, a self-aggrandizing bully, bigot, and braggart! Read Mark 10.35-45. Read the Constitution!
Hear Enya's rendition of "How Can I Keep from Singing"! youtu.be/whIYv3_CvqU?...
Hear Enya's rendition of "How Can I Keep from Singing"! youtu.be/whIYv3_CvqU?...
Enya - (1991) Shepherd Moons - 03 How Can I Keep From Singing
YouTube video by ItalyEnya
youtu.be
September 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I'm staggered by the hypocrisy of the cynical alliance between Trump and his 'Christian' supporters. He's what Jesus abhorred, a self-aggrandizing bully, bigot, and braggart! Read Mark 10.35-45. Read the Constitution!
Hear Enya's rendition of "How Can I Keep from Singing"! youtu.be/whIYv3_CvqU?...
Hear Enya's rendition of "How Can I Keep from Singing"! youtu.be/whIYv3_CvqU?...
Nature doesn't lie! Our autumn crocuses are in full flower and some leaves on neighborhood trees are beginning to turn! Fall is coming! I love feeling that cooler nip in the air, even as the sun continues to shine. My favorite season!
September 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Nature doesn't lie! Our autumn crocuses are in full flower and some leaves on neighborhood trees are beginning to turn! Fall is coming! I love feeling that cooler nip in the air, even as the sun continues to shine. My favorite season!
We all know the saying, "The winners write the history!" Here's an honest, fascinating article on how/why that's both literally and dangerously true. Long, but worth the read!
Gift article from New York Times. Read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...
Gift article from New York Times. Read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...
What if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong?
www.nytimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We all know the saying, "The winners write the history!" Here's an honest, fascinating article on how/why that's both literally and dangerously true. Long, but worth the read!
Gift article from New York Times. Read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...
Gift article from New York Times. Read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...
This article brings together musician Aaron Copland, historian, Heather Cox Richardson, and one of our greatest historical figures, Abraham Lincoln. I love it!
Explore this gift article from New York Times. Read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/a...
Explore this gift article from New York Times. Read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/a...
Heather Cox Richardson Enters the History of ‘Lincoln Portrait’
www.nytimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This article brings together musician Aaron Copland, historian, Heather Cox Richardson, and one of our greatest historical figures, Abraham Lincoln. I love it!
Explore this gift article from New York Times. Read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/a...
Explore this gift article from New York Times. Read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/a...
The War on Women
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The War on Women
When we said women and people who loved them needed to vote like their lives depended on it in 2024, it wasn’t hyperbole.
open.substack.com
July 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The War on Women
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
I really admired Jacinda Ardern, especially for her obvious empathy!
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/s...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/s...
Jacinda Ardern Thinks World Leaders Need More Kindness
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I really admired Jacinda Ardern, especially for her obvious empathy!
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/s...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/s...
When I hear false narratives about the history of racism in our country, I just read the original covenants to our house (from 1943). Read for yourself (middle paragraph). Racism was--and for some still is--all too real! Isn't it better to acknowledge it and deal with it than to try to deny it?
May 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
When I hear false narratives about the history of racism in our country, I just read the original covenants to our house (from 1943). Read for yourself (middle paragraph). Racism was--and for some still is--all too real! Isn't it better to acknowledge it and deal with it than to try to deny it?
Trump's sycophantic cabinet was so obsequious last week that even right-wing commentator Ann Coulter found it more reminiscent of North Korea than the USA.
John Quincy Adams' speech before SCOTUS, from the movie, 'Amistad', provides a fitting rejoinder:
www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeche...
John Quincy Adams' speech before SCOTUS, from the movie, 'Amistad', provides a fitting rejoinder:
www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeche...
American Rhetoric: Movie Speech from Amistad - John Quincy Adams Addresses the Supreme Court
Full text and audio mp3 and video of movie Amistad - John Quincy Adams Addresses the U.S. Supreme Court
www.americanrhetoric.com
May 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Trump's sycophantic cabinet was so obsequious last week that even right-wing commentator Ann Coulter found it more reminiscent of North Korea than the USA.
John Quincy Adams' speech before SCOTUS, from the movie, 'Amistad', provides a fitting rejoinder:
www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeche...
John Quincy Adams' speech before SCOTUS, from the movie, 'Amistad', provides a fitting rejoinder:
www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeche...
A squirrel clings to a branch of our blossoming hawthorn tree, warming up in the sun on a cool morning in Seattle.
May 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A squirrel clings to a branch of our blossoming hawthorn tree, warming up in the sun on a cool morning in Seattle.
The term 'woke' is used derisively by conservatives, many of whom call themselves 'Christian.' I was once a Christian myself and taught New Testament. 'Woke' is in fact a thoroughly Christian idea and term. But neither Trump nor his followers read their texts thoughtfully, if at all!
April 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The term 'woke' is used derisively by conservatives, many of whom call themselves 'Christian.' I was once a Christian myself and taught New Testament. 'Woke' is in fact a thoroughly Christian idea and term. But neither Trump nor his followers read their texts thoughtfully, if at all!
Well, spring has sprung in Seattle! My neighbor's cherry tree is now in full bloom. Beautiful!
April 1, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Well, spring has sprung in Seattle! My neighbor's cherry tree is now in full bloom. Beautiful!
A must-read and very timely warning for us in the US about how the erosion of democracy by autocrats! This is just what Trump is up to!
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...
For Some Autocrats, Even Rigged Elections Can Be Too Much of a Threat (Gift Article)
Protests are raging in Turkey after the arrest of the country’s most prominent opposition politician.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A must-read and very timely warning for us in the US about how the erosion of democracy by autocrats! This is just what Trump is up to!
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...
Mount Rainier/Tahoma looms over Seattle at dusk! Like Mount Fuji and Tokyo, it is almost synonymous with our city. It is a reminder that we sit on the same 'ring of fire' around the edge of the Pacific and also that, as they say in New Zealand, we live in an 'edgy world.'
March 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Mount Rainier/Tahoma looms over Seattle at dusk! Like Mount Fuji and Tokyo, it is almost synonymous with our city. It is a reminder that we sit on the same 'ring of fire' around the edge of the Pacific and also that, as they say in New Zealand, we live in an 'edgy world.'
After the cool, wet, and windy weather of the last few days, we have record high 75-degree temperatures in Seattle today! Nice, of course, but one can't help wondering what summer will bring this year, as Earth continues to warm!
Love the cherry blossom, though!
Love the cherry blossom, though!
March 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
After the cool, wet, and windy weather of the last few days, we have record high 75-degree temperatures in Seattle today! Nice, of course, but one can't help wondering what summer will bring this year, as Earth continues to warm!
Love the cherry blossom, though!
Love the cherry blossom, though!
The Trump cult's rabid anti-immigrant rhetoric has stoked an appetite for cruelty among his supporters that his goons are only too willing to indulge. Sickening!!
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Lewelyn Dixon, UW lab technician, held in Tacoma ICE detention center
Lewelyn Dixon, a lab technician who has lived in the U.S. for 50 years and is a green card holder, is being held at an ICE detention center in Tacoma.
www.seattletimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The Trump cult's rabid anti-immigrant rhetoric has stoked an appetite for cruelty among his supporters that his goons are only too willing to indulge. Sickening!!
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Yesterday we had wind and rain, and snow in the Cascades, but it hasn't stopped my neighbor's cherry trees from blossoming. Last winter equinox we had a rainbow right over our street. Welcome glimpses of beauty!
March 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Yesterday we had wind and rain, and snow in the Cascades, but it hasn't stopped my neighbor's cherry trees from blossoming. Last winter equinox we had a rainbow right over our street. Welcome glimpses of beauty!
This is a great article by the conservative former judge and legal scholar, J. Michael Luttig, who's been courageously outspoken against Trump's behavior:
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
Opinion | Trump Won’t Win a War Against the Courts (Gift Article)
The judiciary will never surrender to the president its constitutional role to interpret the Constitution.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
This is a great article by the conservative former judge and legal scholar, J. Michael Luttig, who's been courageously outspoken against Trump's behavior:
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
Having seen this post WW2 War Dept. video from the National Archives recommended by people on BlueSky, I finally watched it. It's a priceless illustration from the past of what's going on in our country today. You'll be happy you took the time to watch it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAq...
Don't Be a Sucker
YouTube video by US National Archives
www.youtube.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Having seen this post WW2 War Dept. video from the National Archives recommended by people on BlueSky, I finally watched it. It's a priceless illustration from the past of what's going on in our country today. You'll be happy you took the time to watch it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAq...
Lincoln was not the first to look beyond the Constitution's compromise on slavery to the Declaration of Independence's 'all men are created equal' as the true and ever-more-inclusive spirit of America, but his evocation of it at Gettysburg is the most memorable, as generations of us have discovered!
March 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Lincoln was not the first to look beyond the Constitution's compromise on slavery to the Declaration of Independence's 'all men are created equal' as the true and ever-more-inclusive spirit of America, but his evocation of it at Gettysburg is the most memorable, as generations of us have discovered!
New snow on the Cascades. Although it's officially Spring, Winter is having a late fling here in Seattle! Seems to have a harder time letting go the last few years!
March 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New snow on the Cascades. Although it's officially Spring, Winter is having a late fling here in Seattle! Seems to have a harder time letting go the last few years!
HCR has a wonderful knack for illustrating the current moment by recalling real incidents and personalities from our history. Read this all the way to the end.
March 22, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
March 22, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
March 22, 2025
Perhaps in response to the growing outcry over last weekend’s rendition of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under a legal justification a federal judge has found questionable, President Donald Trump...
open.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
HCR has a wonderful knack for illustrating the current moment by recalling real incidents and personalities from our history. Read this all the way to the end.
March 22, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
March 22, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
By the way, if you're looking for a great, 'non-elitist' definition of what a sycophant is, check this out:
clip.cafe/101-dalmatia...
clip.cafe/101-dalmatia...
'I thought we liked stripes this year. What kind of sycophant are you? Uh, what kind of...' - 101 Dalmatians
Frederick:
I thought we liked stripes this year.
Cruella De Vil:
What kind of sycophant are you?
Frederick:
Uh, what kind of sycophant would you like me to be?
clip.cafe
March 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
By the way, if you're looking for a great, 'non-elitist' definition of what a sycophant is, check this out:
clip.cafe/101-dalmatia...
clip.cafe/101-dalmatia...
When I first visited the USA in 1974 Nixon had tried but failed to cover up his role in Watergate and resigned under bipartisan threat of impeachment.
I was impressed! Like all countries, the US has a checkered past, but was willing to face up to it, and to face down abuses of power.
What happened?
I was impressed! Like all countries, the US has a checkered past, but was willing to face up to it, and to face down abuses of power.
What happened?
March 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
When I first visited the USA in 1974 Nixon had tried but failed to cover up his role in Watergate and resigned under bipartisan threat of impeachment.
I was impressed! Like all countries, the US has a checkered past, but was willing to face up to it, and to face down abuses of power.
What happened?
I was impressed! Like all countries, the US has a checkered past, but was willing to face up to it, and to face down abuses of power.
What happened?