Steve Sickels
@ssickels.bsky.social
Photographer | Challenging myself to “learn” the guitar, make some music, and having great fun while I’m at it | Hoping for a return to kind and thoughtful sanity
A short version of the gorgeous ballad, “Lawns,” by Carla Bley. (My attempt at it, anyway…) #sologuitar #solojazzguitar #guitar #jazzguitar #jazz #carlabley
Lawns
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October 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A short version of the gorgeous ballad, “Lawns,” by Carla Bley. (My attempt at it, anyway…) #sologuitar #solojazzguitar #guitar #jazzguitar #jazz #carlabley
This is sickening. (Note the the label on the pallet: “Dispose.”)
September 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This is sickening. (Note the the label on the pallet: “Dispose.”)
Dismantling our public health. Throwing science out the window.
The chair of the #ACIP is a #COVID-contrarian, Martin Kulldorff, as are others on the committee (i.e., Robert Malone). COVID-contrarians also have hands on the lever of vaccine policy at #FDA (i.e., Vinay Prasad, Tracy Beth Hoeg), at #NIH (i.e., Jay Bhattacharya). 1/
September 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Dismantling our public health. Throwing science out the window.
This captures it. Sickening.
That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.
August 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This captures it. Sickening.
Indeed. 😥
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Indeed. 😥
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What if he threw a $45 million parade and nobody came?
Boring. Low energy. Sad!
Boring. Low energy. Sad!
June 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
What if he threw a $45 million parade and nobody came?
Boring. Low energy. Sad!
Boring. Low energy. Sad!
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Trump parade vs No Kings march, San Diego
June 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Trump parade vs No Kings march, San Diego
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I am at a loss for words!
The amount of hate & political violence seems never ending when it comes to Trump & his people. There is literally NO good that he brings out of people… just darkness.
We need compassionate & educated warriors, leading our nation not incompetent hateful assholes!
The amount of hate & political violence seems never ending when it comes to Trump & his people. There is literally NO good that he brings out of people… just darkness.
We need compassionate & educated warriors, leading our nation not incompetent hateful assholes!
June 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I am at a loss for words!
The amount of hate & political violence seems never ending when it comes to Trump & his people. There is literally NO good that he brings out of people… just darkness.
We need compassionate & educated warriors, leading our nation not incompetent hateful assholes!
The amount of hate & political violence seems never ending when it comes to Trump & his people. There is literally NO good that he brings out of people… just darkness.
We need compassionate & educated warriors, leading our nation not incompetent hateful assholes!
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Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
June 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
May 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
My first guitar post on Bluesky: me playing once through "Stella by Starlight," (very) roughly the way Miles introduces it on "'58 Miles." #guitar #sologuitar #jazz #milesdavis
Stella by Starlight
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May 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
My first guitar post on Bluesky: me playing once through "Stella by Starlight," (very) roughly the way Miles introduces it on "'58 Miles." #guitar #sologuitar #jazz #milesdavis
Dunes and lagoons, Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil. #lencoismaranhenses #brazil #dunes #photography #landscapephotography
May 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Dunes and lagoons, Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil. #lencoismaranhenses #brazil #dunes #photography #landscapephotography
Dunes and lagoons, Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil.. #lencoismaranhenses #brazil #dunes #photography #landscapephotography
May 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Dunes and lagoons, Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil.. #lencoismaranhenses #brazil #dunes #photography #landscapephotography
Dunes and lagoons, Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil.. #lencoismaranhenses #brazil #dunes #photography #landscapephotography
May 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Dunes and lagoons, Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil.. #lencoismaranhenses #brazil #dunes #photography #landscapephotography
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staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
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May 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
🧢 @trumpfile.org
this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch
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Tragic. And infuriating.
Thank you, Trump voters. As we fall behind on research for Alzheimer's, cancer, Parkinson's, and much else, as well as pandemic prevention, you all are to blame.
The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. https://cbsn.ws/4daiCrv
April 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Tragic. And infuriating.
Dunes and lagoons, Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil.. #lencoismaranhenses #brazil #dunes #photography #landscapephotography
April 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Dunes and lagoons, Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil.. #lencoismaranhenses #brazil #dunes #photography #landscapephotography
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This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.
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April 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.
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The Trump Admin is trying to disappear almost 200 more people to El Salvador.
This is a violation of due process.
If we let Trump get away with disappearing immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act, there is nothing stopping him from disappearing U.S. citizens next. (1/2)
This is a violation of due process.
If we let Trump get away with disappearing immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act, there is nothing stopping him from disappearing U.S. citizens next. (1/2)
April 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The Trump Admin is trying to disappear almost 200 more people to El Salvador.
This is a violation of due process.
If we let Trump get away with disappearing immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act, there is nothing stopping him from disappearing U.S. citizens next. (1/2)
This is a violation of due process.
If we let Trump get away with disappearing immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act, there is nothing stopping him from disappearing U.S. citizens next. (1/2)
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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS.
This is it. This is where America ends.
This is it. This is where America ends.
April 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS.
This is it. This is where America ends.
This is it. This is where America ends.
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Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.
April 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.
Yes, seems right. And horrible and truly frightening.
April 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Yes, seems right. And horrible and truly frightening.
“If not, then all is lost.” This! So frightening.
CJ Roberts has stayed court order to return Md man erroneously deported, but his quick deadline for gov brief shows sense of urgency. Gov argument under Art II here is nonsense. I think it's highly likely SCOTUS orders his return. If not, then all is lost. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
April 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
“If not, then all is lost.” This! So frightening.
This is so scary and awful.
Trump’s Justice Department is currently asking the Supreme Court for permission to build a deportation machine that can disappear anyone, citizen and immigrant alike, to a foreign prison forever, permanently extinguishing their constitutional rights with zero due process. slate.com/news-and-pol...
April 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This is so scary and awful.