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Steven Romo @stevenromo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dolly Parton never knew how many lives she touched. Mine was one of them. ❤️

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 25/07/2026

This is HISTORIC political corruption and EVERY American should be outraged. This isn't Trump's money—these are TAXPAYER dollars! Trump has been stealing money from blue states all along, and now his own lawyers have finally ADMITTED it in court. Time for accountability.

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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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Mike in Oly @mikeinoly.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Love this color combo. Every three years beds get divided and replanted offering opportunity to try new arrangements of colors together, which is part of the fun of collecting #irises. 🌱

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/01/2026

Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

This year has felt like 9 months of babysitting somebody else’s kid and they’re making you play a boardgame you don’t wanna play and making up the rules so only they can win and also they’re screaming the whole time and their parents aren’t coming home anytime soon and you’re paying them $150 a day

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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“Don't let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” ― Dalai Lama. Wishing you a calm and peaceful evening and a terrific Thursday! #WhiteWednesday #RoseWednesday #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

Three white roses and green leaves.

Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

Captured during a neighborhood walk. September 2025.

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

In winter, I always think I'll post more photos of #roses in summer when they're in bloom. But the garden keeps me so busy in summer, I'm lucky to snap a few photos let alone share them here. That said, here's 'Radiance' (HT, 1908), the most widely grown rose of its day and still a very good do'er!

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

White on white. The found hybrid tea rose, 'Hoag House Cream' flirting with white delphiniums. In the background is another tough old hybrid tea, 'Comtesse de Cassagne' from ~1919. 🌱 #roses #zone8b #bloomscrolling

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

A cluster of blooms from David Austin's "Charity 97" (Auschar). I received this by accident years ago and it's become one of our favorite #roses. I'm glad to see High Country Roses began offering it recently, because it really deserves to remain in commerce. 🌱 #zone8b #bloomscrolling #Englishroses

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Swallowtails have been frequently haunting the garden this June. I wasn't sure what was attracting them until I saw this one enjoying the self-sown Sweet William dianthus that pops up here and there at the edges of the garden. 🌱 #zone8b #bloomscrolling #flowersonFriday 🦋

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The State Department refuses to answer questions about Andry, including whether or not he is alive, even though lawmakers, his lawyers, his family, & all of us have consistently demanded information. The Department is banking on us forgetting him. www.washingtonblade.com/2025/06/09/5...

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51 lawmakers sign letter to Rubio about Andry Hernández Romero

U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) spoke about gay Venezuelan asylum seeker

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 97 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Andry José Hernández Romero with a makeup client.

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

A sublime bloom on "Alfred de Dalmas", a Portland Damask Moss rose from 1855, and the much less demure mossy buds and sepals that reveal Alfred's wild side. #roses #zone8b #flowerreport 🌱

Soft pink rose bloom against green foliage

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Just before "Umbra" (Hybrid Gallica, 2000) shatters, it reaches its most slatey purple color. I'm glad I snapped this photo this morning when I did, because a couple of hours later, there was a pool of purple petals on the ground. #roses #zone8b 🌱 #flowerreport

Wide flat rose bloom with slate grey and purple colored petals

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I grudgingly admire this China rose from 1902 - "Comtesse du Cayla". She wilts in the sun even faster than I do. So I was delighted to see this perfect bloom hanging out in the shade. #roses #zone8b 🌱 #bloomscrolling

Peach colored rose with an open center showing golden stamens. The bloom is surrounded by dark foliage.

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

The original Portland damask rose, "Duchess of Portland", began blooming in the garden today, and I wasn't the only one to notice. #bees #zone8b 🌱 #roses #bloomscrolling

Deep pink rose with an open center showing golden stamens and a honey bee. Below are blue forget-me-nots and tiny white Erigeron daisies with yellow centers

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

My favorite of the native brambles - the Thimbleberry - is currently in bloom here in the forests. #zone8b #nativeplants #pnw

Two pure white Thimbleberry flowers - with five wide petals that come to a point like a chubby star and an open center with a ring of golden stamens - against a background of wide, flat, fuzzy medium green Thimbleberry leaves

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

On today's walk - in the same forest a couple of months later - Monty and I stumbled across this ripening clump of Osoberry fruit. #zone8b #nativeplants #pnw

A clump of dark purple and yellow berries hang from a sunlit leafy stem with the trees and ferns of a Pacific northwest forest in the background

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

When 'Madame Lambard' (Tea, 1878) is wearing a flower (Geum 'Totally Tangerine'), it's just gilding the lily...so to speak! #roses 🌱 #zone8b #flowerreport

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I bought this rose as 'Le Grand Capitaine', a Bourbon from the 1840's. The nursery asserted that it was a very different plant than the rose in commerce as 'Eugène de Beauharnais' (China, 1831). I've now grown both #roses and see no difference at all - but both are utterly gorgeous. 🌱 #zone8b

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The #roses are beginning to do their thing here - tied with the irises this year thanks to our dry April. Not the first one out of the gate but the first one I took a decent picture of, here's the lovely (and slightly rusty) climbing hybrid tea 'Etoile de Hollande' discovered 1931. 🌱 #zone8b

Big red rose flower with streaks of white on some petals and golden stamens peeking out of the center.

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This speckled wood violet, Viola sororia 'Freckles', is one of two clumps I started from seed a few years ago, and they're just now reaching a good size. Well worth the wait! 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling #zone8b

A mass of white violet flowers speckled with purple against rich green heart shaped foliage

A solitary clump of violets that has white flowers speckled with purple against rich green heart shaped foliage

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I love this patch of Primula sieboldii that creeps a little larger every year. Like us, they only look delicate. They can endure hard times and abuse and come back strong. #flowerreport #bloomscrolling #zone8b 🌱

Deep pink primrose blooms on stalks floating above bright green leaves. In the background are deep green fern leaves.

Deep pink primrose blooms on stalks floating above bright green leaves. In the background are deep green fern and camellia leaves.

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Rep. Ritchie Torres @repritchie.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The Trump Administration deported Andry Jose Hernandez Romero, a gay make-up artist, to El Salvador’s maximum-security prison without even the slightest semblance of due process. If something happens to Andry, the Trump Administration will have blood on its hands.

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

A couple lungworts and a clump of 'Gravetye Giant' summer snowflakes are happily snuggled in to a shady spot otherwise dominated by the native Pacific Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum tenuipes) that grows throughout the woods here. 🌱 #zone8b #PNWNatives

Two clumps of lungwort plants with silvery splotches on their leaves. The plant in the foreground has pale blue flowers and the plant behind has flowers that open violet and turn cobalt blue. White bell shaped flowers of the summer snowflakes dangle above the lungwort on long green stems. And a soft blanket of green Pacific Waterleaf foliage surrounds the plants.

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Currently the old European roses in the garden are just bare stems, but soon they'll be showing off again. Here's a big bloom of 'Nouvelle Pivoine' (Hybrid Gallica, 1806) backed up by a chorus of blooms supplied by 'Félicité Parmentier' (Alba, 1836). #RoseWednesday 🌱 #zone8b #roses

A large, many petaled old-fashioned rose bloom is in the foreground. It's open flat with a green eye and darker pink center petals surrounded by softer pink petals with a touch of lilac. In a sea of green leaves behind the foreground rose are smaller light pink - almost white - blooms with a slightly deeper pink center.

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Spotted the first rose bud of the season. The Tea #roses are usually the first to bloom in my garden, so it's no surprise this bud was on the found rose called the "McClinton Tea", a fragrant old beauty with colors that remind me of strawberries and cream. Photo of blooms from last summer. 🌱 #zone8b

Red new leaves and bud emerging on a rose stem

Pink blend rose blooms in three stages of bloom: a dark pink bud, partially open Tea rose bloom and a fully blown bloom showing yellow stamens in the center and light pink petals edged in a darker pink

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

In the woods today, the lovely Salmonberries were blooming. They really live up to their Latin name, Rubus spectabilis. 🌱 #flowerreport #pnw #zone8b #nativeplants

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Sparkling in the shade garden this morning, Daphne odora 'Alba' caught my attention. The pure white blooms against the dark green foliage makes it my favorite of the winter daphnes. 🌱 #zone8b

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Just stumbled across this video from 10 years ago of our beloved #goldenretriever Henry telling us that it's his dinner time. As Betty White said, "Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same."

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Here in western Washington State, the woods are full of delicate Osoberry in bloom...and fantastic furry creatures. #goldenretrievers 🌱 #zone8b #nativeplants #pnw

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Another flashback for #RoseWednesday - this time from Sissinghurst Castle Garden where the gardeners truly understand how to work with #roses 🌱

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

For #RoseWednesday a shot of one of my favorite Hybrid Musk #roses, 'Danaë' (1913, Pemberton), receiving a visit from a bee.

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Darran Jaques @darranjaques.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Crocus tommasinianus or Tommy's are naturalising over the dining terrace borders on our Radlett, Hertfordshire project. It always amazes me the variety seen in the seedlings. #Garden #Gardening #Plants 🌱

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

For #SixOnSaturday here's a flashback to mid-December in beautiful #SantaBarbara #California. So many beautiful #Flowers were still in bloom in the days before Christmas, it felt like we were visiting summer. 🌱 #FlowerReport #Gardening #BloomScrolling

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

"O my Luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June..." (Robert Burns) Hybrid Perpetual rose 'Alfred Colomb' (1865) #roses #bloomscrolling #zone8b 🌱

A deep red bloom with many petals opening below two buds with the green sepals just separating to expose a bit of red beneath. In the background out of focus is a lavender pink hollyhock.

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

With a winter storm on the way this #RoseWednesday, my thoughts are with the old Tea roses. They should be hardy here in #Zone8b but you never know what temps might blow in. I've only lost small, young roses in past winters, but I've heard of winters in the past where all tender #roses were lost. 🌱

Bloom and bud of an old Tea rose, 'Souvenir de Pierre Notting" from 1895 (which was purchased under its found rose name, "Flamingo Garden Tea"). The blooms appear creamy white outdoors, and in hot weather they develop strong peach and yellow tones in the center. When cut and brought indoors, the blooms appear a buff yellow color.

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A crisp but beautiful start to the day at PDX this morning with the moon in the West and the sun just beginning to glow behind Mt Hood. #Portland #airport #PDX

An orange glowing morning sky behind Mt Hood. An airplane is ascending towards the mountain. The Columbia River and runway are in the foreground.

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Forgetting how sad winter salads are, I had a winter salad. It had spinach, arugula, devastation, chicken, feta, strawberries, & despair in it.

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Beki @bekid.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

To be added to the PNW gardeners list, comment on this post with: "ADD PNW GARDENER". Please do not use the hashtag or the 🌱 emoji in your comment.

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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

When I was a teenager my parents started doing relief work with the UNHCR in Namibia. The locals they partnered with were survivors of the Angolan civil war, who had been settled in a refugee camp near the Namibian / Angolan border.

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Apparently today is #Rose Day, and who am I to argue? Here's the lovely striped 'Madame Driout' from ~1901. Listed as a climbing Tea but should probably be called a Hybrid Tea based on its ancestry & growth habits. Very easy to grow and blooms generously all season. 🌱 #Roses #zone8b #bloomscrolling

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John @john121974.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I fully agree with @joansgarden.bsky.social - 'Salet' (1854) is hard to beat and a star among the old perpetual moss roses. At its best, it's one of the most romantic #roses in the garden. It does sucker a bit, but it's such a good rose, I view that as an advantage. 🌱 #zone8b #RoseWednesday

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