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Photos from a trip to the Olypic Pennisula, Washinton in 2015 These are from the lodge at Lake Quinalt and the drive between the lodge and Port Angeles .

Is there anything more absurd than a person having a right to kill me because we live on two opposite banks of a river, and our kings quarrel with each other?" ~~Blaise Pascal .

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"Mindblowing shot of the Northern Lights at the Oregon Coast!" 📷 Zak Stone | Zak Stone Photography 2017 .

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Silver falls (Oregon) 📷 SkyRose Images 2022 .

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Mt Adams 2018 📷Sky Rose Images .

Fishing in Oregon 📷SkyRose Images 2022 .

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Remember that trump and his DOJ have broken the law by refusing to release nearly half the Epstein files. Can't help but wonder who they are protecting especially since trump's name comes up thousands of times in the files. .

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"For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ‘40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‘Here I am, read me.’ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books." ~Maya Angelou .

Great Spotted Woodpecker. 📷 Michal Lewandowski. 2018 .

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Willamette Falls, Oregon City. 📷 Beryl Moore Photography 2018 .

Fall colors in Oregon 📷 SkyRose Images 2018 .

The Portland Japanese Garden is beyond beautiful during the peak of fall color, usually around the third week of October. 📷 Kris Sproul Photography 2017 .

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Surreal shot of Crater Lake in Oregon. 📷 NASA 2017 .

Yes, I remember those years well as I was a teenager at the time. 🤣😃😁😄 .

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“A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They’d rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin .

"Grace is not an occasional additive in our world that some people occasionally merit but a revolution inherent in all creation." —Richard Rohr, The Divine Dance .

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Today marks the 85th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy On Sept. 29-30, 1941, Nazis shot over 30,000 Jews in Kyiv. Entire families were forced to walk the "Road of Death" to the ravine where approx 100,000, nearly the entirity of Jews in Kyiv, were killed at Babyn Yar. ~24hoursofukraine .

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"That looks berry nice mouse…. One of the bramble family foraging for the haw berries this afternoon there is lots of natural food that grows in our garden" 📷Gez Robinson Photography 2024 .

Last Thursday, the White House, almost as soon as Judge Kelly entered his order forcing the administration to restore access to CNN, MSNOW, and Politico, began searching for play in the joints.

"One man’s falsehood is another man’s truth" "Trump doesn’t respect the law; he simply sees it as an impediment to doing what he wants to do. And when he learns he can get away with flouting it, he will not hesitate to do so again. And again." . joycevance.substack.com/p/consequenc...

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Consequences

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heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

"On Friday the administration announced it is refusing to spend about a billion dollars Congress appropriated for programs that help the American people—a refusal the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) says is illegal—and on Saturday, Trump used taxpayer money for his own vanity ads"

September 28, 2026

It has become routine for Trump to spend the weekend posting wildly on social media, and this weekend was no exception.

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Ukraine Captures Hundreds While Taking Key Territory

The same week of the capture, Trump told Ukraine to stop bombing Russian refineries. Last year Trump said Ukraine had ‘no cards’. Now he's saying: 'Please stop trying to win so diesel prices go down to $5gal instead of $8gal so I don’t look so bad for the Iran thing?' No US diesel comes from Russia

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On Day 1,680 of Putin’s three-day war, the The Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) have announced that they reclaimed another 51 square kilometers (nearly 20 square miles) of territory.

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Zelensky warns that Russia is looking to "increase the involvement of foreigners" in its armed forces. North Korea is preparing to deploy another 10,000 troops against Ukraine, in addition to the more than 8,000 military personnel currently stationed in Russia .

Russia beginning 'additional mobilization' of troops, North Korean recruitment, Zelensky warns

The president said that Russia is looking to "increase the involvement of foreigners" in its armed forces. North Korea is preparing to deploy another 10,000 troops against Ukraine, in addition to the ...

Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi liberates 3 more settlements, inflicts 2,000 Russian losses, 3rd Army Corps announces. The villages of Ridkodub, Nove, and Katerynivka were liberated amid newly-reported territorial gains of 51 square kilometers. . kyivindependent.com/ukraines-ope...

Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi liberates 3 more settlements, inflicts 2,000 Russian losses, 3rd Army Corps announces

The villages of Ridkodub, Nove, and Katerynivka were liberated amid newly-reported territorial gains of 51 square kilometers.

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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics

“In the 20 years I've been in this field, I've never seen the immigration court strip children of their right to seek safety & protection under the law. We're witnessing the unraveling of due process protections that have been enshrined in our laws for decades. Children deserve better” Monsters

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Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.

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Rubio Says Incident at UK Air Base RAF Fairford ‘Clearly Involved’ a Foreign Actor

"Do we think if it was Iran Rubio would have held back the name of this “foreign actor"? Or perhaps the foreign actor is one that that is committing sabotage all over Europe right now and bombing Ukrainian hospitals without any condemnation from the Trump regime" . www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/w...

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The U.S. secretary of state, Marco Rubio, told Fox News that what happened at a base used by U.S. bombers flying to Iran was “very serious,” without providing details.

Those who screamed about cheating in elections is now all in for trump to do it "G. Elliott Morris monthly poll which found overwhelming public opposition to various forms of Trump Election Day fuckery. Though it must be noted that there is meaningful support for these illicit tactics among MAGAs"

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"Civility and respect for judges have been replaced by bravado and not-so-subtle challenges to the courts' authority. Lurking in every case is the question of whether the Trump administration will obey the rulings that go against it." . newsletters.democracydocket.com/trumps-doj-i...

Trump's DOJ is daring judges to stop it

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Ukraine sanctions 44 people involved in Russia's sham parliamentary elections in occupied territories. The elections were accompanied by "mass falsifications, forced voting, and predetermined turnout figures," Ukraine's presidential office said . kyivindependent.com/ukraine-sanc...

Ukraine sanctions 44 people involved in Russia's sham parliamentary elections in occupied territories

The elections were accompanied by "mass falsifications, forced voting, and predetermined turnout figures," Ukraine's presidential office said.

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Zelensky says over 10,000 Russian troops killed or wounded this week as Ukrainian military advances in Lyman sector. "The occupiers continue to be eliminated, and the designated objectives are being achieved," President Volodymyr Zelensky said. . kyivindependent.com/zelensky-say...

Zelensky says over 10,000 Russian troops killed or wounded this week as Ukrainian military advances in Lyman sector

"The occupiers continue to be eliminated, and the designated objectives are being achieved," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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Ukraine enters winter better prepared than last year but risks remain. "More critical facilities now have additional backup power, infrastructure elements have greater protection, & we've accumulated more reserve equipment & spare parts while increasing the number of repair crews & machinery"

Ukraine enters winter better prepared than last year, PM says, but risks remain

"More critical facilities now have additional backup power, important infrastructure elements have greater protection, and we have accumulated more reserve equipment and spare parts while increasing t...

Ukrainian military delivers 4 tons of food to occupied Oleshky by drones, according to regional authorities. Kherson Oblast Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said Russian forces have attempted to disrupt the deliveries. . kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-mi...

Ukrainian military delivers 4 tons of food to occupied Oleshky by drones, according to regional authorities

Kherson Oblast Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said Russian forces have attempted to disrupt the deliveries.

Dropping like flies by Clay Bennett. .

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