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Ian Crook

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Vancouver-based amateur photographer, with occasional comments on political issues.

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Savor the Moment Photography @savorthemoment.bsky.social · 18h
#MaroonLake is nestled in the #ElkMountains and is picture perfect! #Aspen #Colorado #photography #landscape #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography #EastCoastKin #PhotographersofBluesky #travelphotography www.savorthemomentphotography.com/visiting-mar...
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 5h
A photographer in Australia captured a poignant moment: a male koala embracing and squeezing his deceased companion. This heartbreaking scene demonstrates that animals experience and suffer emotions in a way similar to humans. 🐨💔 National Geographic
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17h
🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social · 14h
Mōrena e te whanāu I'm not the only one photographing sunrises, this person one of quite a few admiring the view on Cheltenham Beach on a fine Spring morning here in Tāmaki Makaurau . Kia pai tō rā!
Photo taken at 7.00 am today on Cheltenham Beach with a person photographing the sunrise in the foreground, the sun rising just right of the centre, scattered pink tinged clouds at the top and Rangitoto with a thin layer of cloud just below its summit on the right.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 8h
This was obvious. Otherwise Schmitt wouldn’t have had Crabbe and Goyle take down the poster so fast.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h
BREAKING: MS NOW EXCLUSIVE. Republican Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway. GOP Judiciary staff told Schmitt the texts — obtained from the Trump DOJ — were "unvetted." Schmitt still used them.
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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.
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Sanslartigue @sanslartigue.bsky.social · 16h
#willametteriver #steelbridge #portlandoregon #blackandwhite #photography
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 15h
No matter how much money the GOP spends, nothing will hide the damage they've done to America in the eyes of voters. Read more on our Substack here: bit.ly/4hT9iMm
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futbolsound @futbolsound.bsky.social · 15h
The other side of all of this is that the antipathy towards 🇺🇸 from the 🇨🇦 side is historic. I've never ever seen this level of unified anger in 🇨🇦. It's deep, is largely deciding our politics, and will last a long time I believe. Don't expect 🇨🇦 to come say 'sorry' in 3-4 weeks as Trump claims.
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Felice S. @felicenj.bsky.social · 13h
If it wasn't for his enablers, Trump would be just a doddering old man.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h
"There’s no history of Americans in the Midwest worried about jobs going to Canada. There's no history of making Canada a kind of bugbear that is stealing from us." On pod, @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social is great on Trump's imploding effort to get MAGA to hate Canada newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Trump’s Fury at Canada Takes Darker Turn as GOPers Quietly Sound Alarm
As Trump’s trade war against Canada grows more unhinged, the author of a piece on GOP midterm woes explains how Trump’s anti-Canada derangement could alienate working-class voters.
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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.eurosky.social · 15h
#ClassicMono
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h
Hegseth prayed to God for help in violently destroying the Iranians, and said that God does not answer the prayers of the enemy Then Hegseth discovered that God doesn't answer his prayers, either
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 14h
I worked with leaders on both sides of the river as Secretary of Transportation to help get funding for the Brent Spence Bridge Project across the finish line. For about 20 years, people only talked about making something happen - now, we actually are.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h
“.. While crude flows from Persian Gulf nations (ex Iran) have recovered to 80% of pre-war levels, the same is not true for refined products. Their exports of gasoline, jet-fuel, and diesel, remain at around 50% of pre-war levels.” @javierblas.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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📷 Grant Swinbourne @grantswinbournephotography.com · 13h
Next on Landscape Photography World, Noelle Bennett talks about the first New Zealand landscape that caught her eye. Listen to the full interview, next Wednesday, where you get your podcasts or on grantswinbournephotography.com/lpw-podcast youtu.be/VQTy1NXd6as?...
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The Difference Light makes in New Zealand
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 13h
At least Trump has won the War on Woke The Iran War...not so much
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 12h
“There is a harvest of greed and corruption and cruelty that’s cropped up in the last ten years, lovingly tended by those who were supposed to strike it down.” New interview! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zswl...
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Trump Created a CRISIS that Half the Country Doesn't Know About! (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 11h
Some interesting charts from Martin Wolf's FT column. #economy #markets #debt @financialtimes.com
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h
Dems now leading GOP on every issue Quinnipiac polled, including the economy, national security, and immigration:
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
“.. My take .. is not that we are on the eve of disaster but that important countries are losing room for manoeuvre .. As the late economist Herbert Stein famously said, ‘If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.’” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/a120...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h
Reup: Yesterday Chuck Grassley claimed to be outraged that, along with all the other comms Jack Smith obtained when accessing devices of witnesses and criminals, he got journalists' request for comment. Chuck is trying to cover up how Trump defrauded MAGAts. emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/c...
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Chuck Grassley and Far Right Propagandists Covering Up How Trump Defrauded MAGAts - emptywheel
Far right propagandists and Chuck Grassley are outraged that journalists' communications -- communications that showed Trump defrauding MAGAt voters -- were among the things Jack Smith obtained from t...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h
Starting tomorrow, Illinoisans can apply for assistance with their energy bills. No working family should have to decide between heating their home or putting food on the table. We're making life more affordable for those struggling with rising monthly costs like utilities.
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Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 6h
Yellow Suede Shoes this guy owned the promenade on lake garda. einstein hair, yellow sneakers, and plenty to say. i want to be like him when i grow up. #EastCoastKin #Photography #Leica #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #urbangaze #humansofbluesky

A lakeside promenade at night. In the lower center, an older man sits alone on a slatted dark bench, legs crossed, a black leather bag in his lap and a phone in one hand. A great cloud of white curly hair frames his face; he wears amber-framed glasses, a cream sweater over a denim collar, rolled dark jeans, yellow socks, and bright yellow sneakers. His mouth is open as if mid-sentence, eyes turned to his right. Behind him, dense beds of burgundy coleus and red and pink flowers fill the left side of the frame, beside a tall black lamppost and a sculpted, cloud-pruned tree. Other people sit along a low stone wall that runs diagonally toward the water. Across the dark lake, a hillside town glows with hotels, a green-lit sign, palms, and a bell tower, its lights stretched into long rippling reflections of white, green, gold, and blue. The sky above is black. Pale stone pavers fan across the foreground.

The man is the anchor of a layered night scene: flowers in front, his bench in the middle, the lit shoreline behind. His white hair separates cleanly from the dark surroundings, and the yellow sneakers answer the cool blue of the bench and wall, pulling the eye down and back to his face. Caught mid-speech, he reads as a local holding his spot while the evening passes around him, a portrait built on personality rather than pose.

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Robert Loves Photography @robertspictures.bsky.social · 6h
#EastCoastKin #ECK #Photography #ArtChallenge #UrbanGaze
Hawley Wharf, Camden Market
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Robert Loves Photography @robertspictures.bsky.social · 5h
#EastCoastKin #ECK #Photography #ArtChallenge #HumansOfBlueSky #ClassicMono
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h
This is stupid, but if Trump tried to rename AI to gin up AI company registrations in Solvenia to profit off the migration (which is one hypothesis out there), it's not as stupid as it looks.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 16h
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Lani @echoesofblushy.bsky.social · 17h
Hike #39, Tamarack peak loop
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
alert the press -- Trump is conked out in the Oval Office again
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 8h
BREAKING: we just struck the 1st blow against Trump's illegal impoundment of almost $1B appropriated by Congress to help average folks We & partners sued to stop him from flushing away vast sums in housing support. Housing! The court just SUSPENDED his illegal action while we fully brief the case
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Meg in Pieces 🖤✨️🌙 @meg-in-pieces.bsky.social · 19h
Good morning perverts.... gaze upon my sunrise
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The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 5h
For the last 10 years
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 7h
Obscene
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 16h
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Impeach Trump ❤️🤍💙🌊 @potusvpotus.bsky.social · 9h
John Kennedy & Eric Schmitt with their big “gotcha” of Jack Smith. These fuckwits confused the Iowa Hawkeyes with the Atlanta Hawks, fabricated a scandal, called Smith a “dirtbag” and then got publicly humiliated. Who’s the dirtbag now, bitches? #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Trump #EpsteinFiles #POTUS
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h
Oh, bless your heart . . . I promise to send you anywhere—just as long as you promise not to come back.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 9h
NEW: Eric Schmitt’s general counsel, Ethan Harper, was expected to join the White House Staff Secretary’s office next week. But after yesterday’s Jack Smith fiasco, that’s in doubt. Harper was the man behind Schmitt, literally holding up the infamous board. FAFO. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Schmitt aide’s move to White House in doubt following Jack Smith hearing
Ethan Harper, Sen. Eric Schmitt’s general counsel, was expected to start at the White House next week.
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 23h
In today’s @theglobeandmail.com, Mr. Mason correctly puts the metaphorical boots to Queen of Stupid Danielle Smith’s contemptible referendum sleight of hand. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 11h
🇨🇦 🙋‍♀️
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rᥲყᥱ (shᥱ/thᥱყ) 🌷🏳️‍⚧️🌳 @rayelee.bsky.social · 20h
Saw this dark red dawn from the parking lot at work. But minutes count in a sunrise pic. It was gone by the time I made it to the break room. So I have stubbornly added back the red sky. 😤😂
Photo of a dark red dawn fading to a blue gray sky over a low desert mountain between the dark silhouettes of two trees.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h
An investigation reveals 3 other cases in which Ken Paxton covertly interfered with criminal investigations and prosecutions to protect Republican men who were facing sexual abuse or rape charges or order to get charges dropped or downgraded. It's not just Hoffman in Waco, but a consistent pattern.
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Ken Paxton's office struck plea deals in three other sex abuse cases beyond one facing scrutiny
The revelation comes as the Texas Attorney General struggles to gain ground with voters in his U.S. Senate race.
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G Dan Mitchell | Photography @gdanmitchell.com · 18h
From the archive: “Fog, Tree, And Pond” — Tree reflected in a pond in tule fog, San Joaquin Valley. gdanmitchell.com/2018/02/01/f... #centralvalley #fog #wetlands #photo #photography #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography #nature
Fog, Tree, and Pond
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Lisa Gerrish 💙 @gerrishlisa.bsky.social · 15h
Nice of Republicans to hold this clown show with Jack Smith a month before the midterms. It gave Smith the opportunity to remind everyone that he indeed found Trump had committed crimes and that 2 grand juries agreed to indict him on those crimes. 👍
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George @gorgeousgeorge3.bsky.social · 19h
Trump is THE BIGGEST HOAX EVER PERPETRATED ON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC! FACT!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h
I really wouldn't mind if Pope Bob excommunicated all the fascist Catholics on SCOTUS.
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Gernot Segelbacher 🪶 🧬 @gsegelbacher.bsky.social · 5h
Good morming
Oramge sun glow over horizon at sea
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 11h
"Those in attendance...received a book called “The War Department Field Manual,” a compilation of Hegseth’s past speeches. In a forward written by President Trump, the troops were told: “As your commander in chief, I will not ask you to fight dumb wars.” Perfect www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Five Takeaways From Hegseth’s Speech
The defense secretary gave a “State of the Force” address to hundreds of officers and enlisted servicemembers at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 7h
This is an actual post by the White House touting their “super intelligence.” They’re so incompetent, they spelled United States wrong. If you don’t believe me, click the link. x.com/whitehouse/s...
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10h
This morning, the Justice Department went after nearly an entire state's federal bench, all at once. The judges had said the government wasn't following court orders. The response was to try to remove the judges. Here's why every American should be paying attention. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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