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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

19-25 October 2024 Economist magazine cover:

The 19th to the 25th of October 2024 The Economist magazine cover, which says "The envy of the world The American economy special report" and has a picture of a big wad of cash rolled up and taking off like a rocket.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

yours is "how it started" mine is "how it's going"

Al Pacino sitting at a desk with a tumbler of whiskey and a mountain of cocaine piled on the desk.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

third winter with (accent on) old, adopted chatty, gray tuxedo, alleycat named Buddy, who holes up all season in our bedroom (away from other cat, the Queen of the Universe). Leans agst me all night, sometimes. Talks half the night, too. Quite a cat.

Head, paw & tail of a curled up, sleeping gray tuxedo cat.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

this is who runs this account

from a group photo, detail of a 10-year-old boy with a kinda Howdy Doody look to him.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Eugene OR cowfish.jpeg Cowfish, 8pm, all door proceeds go to CLDC activist defense fund! 62 W. Broadway. Spread the word and see you there!!

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Just saw this (reproduced in Rebecca Solnit's newsletter):

A post by Congressman Sean Casten, referring to the released Epstein files and how they appear exactly as they would were they hiding evidence that the president of the United States is a child rapist.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

"Do you know how much i paid for this airport food? So, you live around here?"

a balding man with glasses leering into the camera in what looks like the blurry background of a banquet room.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

sometimes, if you take the plate off the back and spin the batteries a little, he'll come back on. otherwise, you'll need three new AAs.

picture of trump standing like a deactivated robot, erect & with his arm at his sides, while to his left several people are aiding a person whio has fainted on the floor.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

i like this sign from the big NYC protest tonight:

a homemade sign, black magic marker on card board, that reads "Fuck ICE, you fucking fascist fucks

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Something i picked up somewhere, awhile back:

a list of current average prices of 11/8/2024
gas: $2.96
Eggs: $3
Ground Beef: $6 per pound
Milk: $4.02
Bread: $2.03
Lumber: $571 per 1000 board ft.
New Car: $48,397
Used Car: $27,297
2 Bedroom rental: $1,532

Unemployment Rate: 4.1%
Inflation Rate: 2.4%
Average yearly Income: $37,585

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

when i got there (whole foods parking lot as close as i could get) i wept with joy at all the peeps, then the march:

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Thanks, whoever did this. See you all on OCTOBER 18 — No kings march & protest. Everybody in the streets!

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

from 02 Sep 2025 — until these goddam criminals and fascists and their crime spree is ended, and we take back this country for We, the People, take the power from these cruel and ignorant bullies, and bring them to justice:

The back end of a bicycle that is leaning against a retaining wall at the corner of the old fed bldg in Eugene OR, SE corner of 7th Ave. and High St. On the bike behind the seat sits a sign reading "Fascist housed here" and "ICE = neo-<swastika> (meaning neo-Nazis). A book is on the wall, by the bike: *Nihilistic times* — from the Tanner lectures of 2019 by Wendy Brown. Read it.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Tilly says, "after a playtime of chasing the ball, i become the ball."

Cat asleep in a gray chair, curled up in a ball.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Buddy says "feel my healing rays, and give me a treat, please"

Cat sitting on a table in front of a cupboard in darkened room with eyes a glow.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

i was at that corner eyeing ICE and saw the whole thing:

a bike is on the ground and beside it a man is being wrestled to the ground by a neo-Nazi ICE guy, at the corner of 7th Ave & High St, Eugene OR, shrtly before noon, 26Aug25.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

so this happened around noon today in Eugene OR @ fed bldg, 7th & High St, a dozen fascists converged and grabbed him and hauled him off (legal observers got his info):

a bike is on the ground and beside it a man is being wrestled to the ground by a neo-Nazi ICE guy, at the corner of 7th Ave & High St, Eugene OR, around 12 noon, 26Aug25.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

quoting the the preznit of the united states at 5am, without my coffee. (i'm without my coffee. fuck him.):

This afternoon he told reporters: “Our farmers are being hurt badly by, you know, they have very good workers, they've worked for them for 20 years, they're not citizens, but they've turned out to be, you know, great. And we're going to have to do something about that. We can't take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don't have maybe what they're supposed to have, maybe not. And you know what's going to happen and what is happening? They get rid of some of the people, because, you know, you go into a farm and you look and people don't, they've been there for 20, 25 years and they've worked great, and the owner of the farm loves them and everything else. And then you're supposed to throw them out, and you know what happens? They end up hiring the people, the criminals that have come in. The murderers from prisons and everything else. So we're gonna have an order on that pretty soon, I think. We can't do that to our farmers and leisure too, hotels. We're gonna have to use a lot of common sense on that.”

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

looks like 75 Dems today joined in the "who goes nazi?" game:

screen shot of a Jonathan Cohn news story about 75 Democrats joining Republicans to an anti-immigrant resolution.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

this just in: trump selling 'official' white house indulgences that work also as tariff relievers.

trump holds a photo of the fist front of a left hand, showing the fingers heavily tattooed.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The people are awakening & will once again come to the rescue of democracy, and further our freedoms against cruelties, tyrants, and oppressors.

Old North Church, Boston, spells out in lights on its tower below the steeple: "Let the warning ride forth once more: Tyranny is at our door."

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

so far this one is the winner of the day (but i haven't even got to muy rally in Eugene and i don't know where this is in the pic)

a young person in a protest crowd holding a sign with multi-colored letters spelling out "but — it was the gulf of mexico at birth!"

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

at Cory Booker's crescendo: "They keep forgetting that I am the Minority Leader"

A line drawn cartoon of aparty, two couples dancing, one strange dude in the corner.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

walt kelly,in 1970. 55 years later, ladies and gents, we are seeing 'full reapercushins'."

Walt Kelly's Pogo sitting on the big root of a tree, hand on chin contemplatively, saying "we have met the enemy and he is us."

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Tim, i'm in Eugene, OR & you're not preaching in German in the rust belt; you're just up the road. It's been almost 40 years. I can send you good American bourbon, tho i quit in 1992. (Trade for maple syrup.) i have tales. Love to Pat, & Ruthie, (ps) By the way, I still have your (not the cat):

A book and a cat on a orange herringbone patterned footstool.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Best hint so far as to what we're dealing with, and suitable for Sunday School. (Lalo Alcaraz via GoComics.com)

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

i'm having the croissant, thanks

A little brown tabby cat in a gray desk chair curled up in a circle, asleep.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

notes you don't want to find when you get up before dawn dept.

a sheet of printing paper on an oak desk, with hand written in sharpie note written on it: "don't open door!! until you're ready to deal w/the dead rat." & a little drawing of a rat & of a face in shock.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

misty watercolor memories...

infamous picture of mittens romney dining with the old orange p-o-s shortly after 2016 election.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

January 2017 — March 2020 every Tuesday, Eugene, OR (i need to make another sign)

two old guys standing on an urban corner with protest signs against trump and climate denial

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I made a cake Sunday. Hey, I'm 75, I never made a cake before. 65 years ago, maybe more, i ate cake like this at my grandmother's on Sundays, after fried chicken and rice&gravy, and butter beans. I called it a mahogany cake. It's a Mocha cake.

Half a cake, chocolate mocha cake on a plate.

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henry sholar @mapablue.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

well, this sucks... like Atrios, not at all surprised. these folks have always kinda disgusted me — hey, class & grifter loyalty above democracy, i get it...

posts by brian stelter on Bluesky about the 'morning joe' team going to mar-a-lago to talk "with" trump.

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