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1/10/2026

Vigil for all victims of #ICE

including for
Renee Nicole Good

#MillCreekPark #KCMO

#ReneeNicoleGood
#ReneeGood

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Boots on the Ground Midwest @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social · 16d

Join us Saturday at a peaceful vigil for Renee Nicole Good, and for all victims of ICE. Stand with us in solidarity with Minneapolis and immigrant communities across the country who continue to be targeted and terrorized by ICE.

Saturday, January 10th - 3:30pm
Mill Creek Park, KCMO

January 8, 2026 at 7:38 AM

GTBundy Photography

@gtbundyphotos.com

Happy Holiday's @ Lanterman's Mill @ Mill Creek MetroParks

#ChristmasPhotography #HolidayPhotography #ChristmasPhotos #FestiveSeason #ChristmasVibes #TisTheSeason
#christmas2025 #christmasdecor #christmasmagic #HolidayMagic #christmasscene #Youngstown #youngstownohio #millcreekpark

December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM

Debra Gangale Art

@debragangaleart.bsky.social

Enchanted Forest #Millcreekpark #enchantment #debragangale #oilpainting #landscape #autumn #blueskyart

November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM

Mike Smetzer

@msmetzer.bsky.social

Trout Brook entering Mill Creek Park in South Portland, Maine.

#autumncolors #LandscapePhoto #landscapephotography #treescape #autumn #scape #SouthPortland #maine #AutumnLeaves #MillCreekPark

This autumn photo by Mike Smetzer looks downstream from where Trout Brook enters Mill Creek Park in South Portland, Maine. The Greenbelt Walkway is on the right. Mill Creek Pond is under the open sky to the left.

November 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM

LaRoeBoat

@johnlaroe.bsky.social

Paris almost cried earlier. (see alt text)

No Kings 2.0
18 October 2025
MillCreekPark
Kansas City, Missouri

Photo: A woman stands on the red brick sidewalk of the Country Club Plaza. She holds a hand-made white poster-board sign. Its message is in all caps and has been lettered with a broad brush, not markers. It reads, "(in red letters) TRUMP (and in black letters) IS A (then in underlined red letters) RAPIST."
She has agreed to be photographed and has stood still to be photographed, but she looks away from the camera, out of the corners of her eyes to her right, behind the camera and beyond the photographer, where a team of private security guards had been lingering when he asked her to stop for a picture.
"I almost cried earlier," she says, "I felt no one was here and we're never going to change this. I don't feel safe. I feel like I should leave, but my family and my friends are here. I don't want to leave."
And then she did cry. One tear. Just the one. And she sniffed.
She is a black woman. She has a very faint accent.
"You didn't do anything wrong," she reassures the photographer.
There is a trash can to her left (our right), next to a street sign facing away from the camera. There is an entrance to a steak house behind her. Further down the sidewalk behind her, more demonstrators, now mixed with shoppers, are entering the Plaza.

No Kings 2.0
18 October 2025
MillCreekPark
Kansas City, Missouri

October 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM

LaRoeBoat

@johnlaroe.bsky.social

Tim comes to a lot of pro-democratic, anti-fascist protests, big and small. He participates in IndivisibleKC's Bridge Brigade, raising, tending, taking down, and folding banners on overpasses. He creates his own protest designs, prints them, and mounts them on foam core. He rocks.

Photo: Tim and Minnie Mouse
Tim, in a tie-dye t-shirt and No-Kings headscarf, holds a seasonally appropriate protest sign: a green skinned trump with decaying skin, his mouth open to show a bloodless tongue and sharp teeth, wearing a suit with a swastika pin, back-lit in orange with dark blue shading, and text reading "Night of the Living Dead" in green horror movie poster font and "America's Nightmare" (all caps) in a slightly exaggerated formal serif font.
A human-scale Minnie Mouse stands behind Tim (polka dot skirt & black tights), back to the camera, looking back over her shoulder as bubbles from her hand-held bubble gun drift over Tim's opposite shoulder, distracting him.

No Kings 2.0
18 October 2025
MillCreekPark
Kansas City, Missouri

October 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM

LaRoeBoat

@johnlaroe.bsky.social

Theodore called attention, at No Kings 2.0, to the ongoing Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons crisis. Last year, US-DOJ estimated that Indigenous women and girls face murder rates more than 10 times the national average in some communities. (see different links in each alt text)

Photo: A demonstrator, Theodore, holds a sign and wears face paint evocative of the indigenous people of North America: a red hand covering the mouth and most of the lower half of the face. This pattern is emblematic of the Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons crisis and a reminder of the unforgivably high rate of violent crimes against Native Americans and Alaskans
The home-made cardboard sign reads, "No One Is 'Illegal' On Stolen Land," in neat black, red, white and blue lettering.
More info:
https://www.ifsw.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-where-are-we-in-addressing-this-global-epidemic/
and
https://www.tarleton.edu/vawht/murdered-indigenous-women-girls/
No Kings 2.0
18 October 2025
MillCreekPark
Kansas City, Missouri

October 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM

LaRoeBoat

@johnlaroe.bsky.social

Of course Jess Piper ( @piperformissouri.bsky.social ) was there. She's the Executive Director for Blue Missouri, an organization whose strategy is literally: "Show Up Everywhere." (please see alt text)

No Kings 2.0
18 October 2025
MillCreekPark
Kansas City, Missouri

Jess Piper wears blue jeans and a black t-shirt. With her signature glasses on top of her head, she holds a hand-lettered, black-ink, cardboard sign that reads (in all caps), "Elect a Clown / Expect a Circus."
Behind her is a running path where several people stand. A man in a red long-sleeved Chiefs jacket who holds aloft a good-sized U.S. flag on a staff. A woman in a dark Harley Davidson t-shirt holds a hand-drawn sign depicting a frog emitting "Ribbit Ribbit" and the words "No Kings." Another woman in utility pants and a yellow top holds a hand-lettered sign reading (in all cap letters), "Resist."
A man in a tan flat cap sits back on a bench and looks like he'd like to take a nap.
A woman behind him wears red shorts and a black top and holds a sign reading, "Democracy not Dictatorship."
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Piper, a former teacher and candidate for a rural seat in the Missouri State House of Representatives, is a self-described "rural progressive." Yes. There are such beings. And she wants every one of them to have a reason to vote in every election.
That's why she was instrumental in organizing Blue Missouri and now serves as its
Executive Director. In 2022, 66 of Missouri’s 163 House Districts had no Democratic candidate on the ballot, leaving 2.5 million Missouri voters with no option to vote for a Democrat.
Another 38 districts were so grossly underfunded (with about $8 of funding per voter in the district) that the 832,480 voters in those districts may not have even known that they had the option of voting Democratic.
That's what Blue Missouri is trying to change.
If Democrats run in more local elections, even if they don't win, more Democrats will vote in those elections and Democratic candidates and progressive initiatives will fare better state-wide. And Things Can Change.
Anyone, everyone, who wants to change things for the better in this country would do well to start here: https://bluemissouri.org/

October 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM

LaRoeBoat

@johnlaroe.bsky.social

#NoKings 2.0
#MillCreekPark in
#KansasCity, #Missouri on
18 October 2025 got a lot of media attention, and every report put the number of demonstrators in the thousands.
How many thousands? Hard to say. This fountain, by the way, has an interesting back story. (see alt text)

Photo: Near the center is a fountain spraying bright blue water on and around "rampant" (rearing) horses. All around the fountain, sidewalks circling & radiating from the fountain & on the grass lawn of a park, there are people, many of them carrying signs: "Constitution / Bill of Rights / MAKE THEM REAL;" "Vote Them Out;" "Science Protects Us All;" "DEMOCRACY needs your COURAGE." Quite a few people are wearing deep yellow t-shirts, some of these are volunteers for Respect Missouri Voters.
https://respectmovoters.org/
Beyond the fountain and across the street is a row of stucco commercial buildings with red-tile roofs, a gold-roofed minaret-shaped tower, and the colorfully muraled Plaza Parkway Building, collectively the eastern edge of the Country Club Plaza.
About that fountain: According to the city's Parks Department, it was designed by Henri-Léon Gréber and sculpted in 1910, originally for a mansion on Long Island. It was purchased and brought to Kansas City in 1951 with funds provided by the "J.C. Nichols family, the city and private contributions, including a collection by school children in the Kansas City area." (J.C. Nichols was the developer of the Country Club Plaza, also a racist and antisemite who developed the neighborhood in which I live. He included "covenants" in the deeds of his housing developments that prohibited their sale to Blacks or Jews that were enforceable until 1974, 14 years after the fountain was dedicated as the J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain.)
Anyway, here's how the Parks Dept.'s fountain description:
"The fountain has four heroic horsemen which are said to represent four of the world’s mighty rivers:the Mississippi River (fending off an alligator), the Volga River (with the bear), the Seine and the Rhine. It also has four smaller figures of children playing on fish, commonly referred to as dolphins."
https://kcparks.org/places/fountain-millcreek/
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No Kings 2.0 / 18 October 2025
MillCreekPark
Kansas City, Missouri

October 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM

🌒 Heavy Metal Witch 🌘

@metal-mum.bsky.social

#KansasCityMissouri
#PeacefulProtestKCMO
#NoKINGS
#MillcreekPark
#PDX2MCI
#FuckICE
#FDT

Our trip to Kansas City for the Chiefs vs Raiders game was the perfect opportunity to represent Oregon and support the NO KINGS protest, promoting equality and justice for all. FROGS FOR FREEDOM!!!🐸

October 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM

Rick Knight

@gocatgo.bsky.social

Mill Creek Park Suspension Bridge
Youngstown, Ohio.
20 April 2025
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I'm going to try something a little different with this photograph. Stay tuned!
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#Youngstown
#YoungstownOhio
#MillCreekPark
#CinderellaBridge
#FineArtPrint
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August 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM

Johnson B.

@barryyourdead.bsky.social

So proud of my daughter. She is committed to standing up for fellow Americans. It was hot. While other 11 year olds are doing other things. She was out here in the heat with us completely committed to the cause! #kansascity #KCMO #missouri #kansascityplaza #millcreekpark #NoKings

June 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM

Rick Knight

@gocatgo.bsky.social

Mill Creek Park in Youngstown, Ohio.
#MillCreekPark
#Youngstown

May 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM

RBKnight

@rbknight.bsky.social

This is literally clickbait …
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#bait
#fishing
#youngstown
#millcreekpark
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April 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM

Bygone Echoes

@bygoneechoes.bsky.social

The Cinderella Bridge in Mill Creek Park isn’t just pretty—it’s a 19th-century icon still standing strong in Youngstown, OH. 💫 Have you ever strolled across this timeless treasure? Share your memories below! #Youngstown #OhioHistory #BygoneEchoes #MillCreekPark