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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The reason we are at war with Canada.

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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Cedar Point rollercoaster with clouds moving in. #photography #Ohio #cedarpoint

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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

'not true' would have been more appropriate than 'wrong'. Do better #WSJ

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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Jimi Hendrix's 1968 Fender Stratocaster at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in #Cleveland #Ohio #photography

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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I celebrated today by going to the #Obama #Library in #Chicago today.

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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Hiking bridge over Glade Creek in the New River Gorge National Park & Preserve. #Photography #Trails #WestVirginia

A sandy trail in the bottom of the photo leads up to a long, narrow bridge over a creek flowing from right to left. There are rocks and green trees surrounding the creek.

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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Kate's Falls in the New River National Park Gorge. The sedimentary rocks exposed in the gorge are about 330 million years old, dating back to the Paleozoic Era when the region was near sea level. #waterfallwednesday #newrivergorge #WestVirginia

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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Old bent steel rods is mounted to plate steel. Located at Ft Pickens in Pensacola, Florida #photography #pensacola #Florida

Old bent half inch steel rod is held by smaller rods to make a lock. It's mounted to plate steel. The red paint has come off of much of the rods. It looks ancient. Located at Ft Pickens in Pensacola, Florida

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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice honors the lives of more than 4,400 African Americans who were victims of racial terror lynchings between 1877 and 1950.

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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice Memorial Garden in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

One of my favorite cities. It's sinking too. These are from my visit last weekend.

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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Petroglyphs at the Canyon of the Ancients National Monument in Colorado. #photography #colorado #petroglyph

Ancient Native American petroglyphs carved into a dark desert-varnished sandstone cliff at Canyon of the Ancients, featuring handprints, human figures, animals, spirals, and geometric designs.

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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The Tomb Of The Unknown Slave at the St. Augustine Church Yard, 1206 Governor Nicholls St, New Orleans, LA

**THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SLAVE**

ON THIS OCTOBER 30, 2004, WE, THE FAITH COMMUNITY OF ST. AUGUSTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH, DEDICATE THIS SHRINE CONSISTING OF GRAVE CROSSES, CHAINS AND SHACKLES TO THE MEMORY OF THE NAMELESS, FACELESS TURFLESS AFRICANS WHO MET AN UNTIMELY DEATH IN FAUBOURG TREME. THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SLAVE IS COMMEMORATED HERE IN THIS GARDEN PLOT OF ST. AUGUSTINE CHURCH, THE ONLY PARISH IN THE UNITED STATES WHOSE FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR BOUGHT TWO OUTER ROWS OF PEWS EXCLUSIVELY FOR SLAVES TO USE FOR WORSHIP. THIS ST. AUGUSTINE/TREME SHRINE HONORS ALL SLAVES BURIED THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND THOSE SLAVES IN PARTICULAR WHO LIE BENEATH THE GROUND OF TREME IN UNMARKED, UNKNOWN GRAVES. THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THE CAMPUS OF ST. AUGUSTINE CHURCH SITS ASTRIDE THE BLOOD, SWEAT, TEARS AND SOME OF THE MORTAL REMAINS OF UNKNOWN SLAVES FROM AFRICA AND LOCAL AMERICAN INDIAN SLAVES WHO EITHER MET WITH FATAL TREACHERY, AND WERE THEREFORE BURIED QUICKLY AND SECRETLY, OR WERE BURIED HASTILY AND AT RANDOM BECAUSE OF YELLOW FEVER AND OTHER PLAGUES. EVEN NOW, SOME TREME LOCALS HAVE CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF SALVAGE/RESTORATION WORKERS UNEARTHING VARIOUS HUMAN BONES, SOMETIMES IN CONCENTRATED AREAS SUCH AS WELLS. IN OTHER WORDS, THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SLAVE IS A CONSTANT REMINDER THAT WE ARE WALKING ON HOLY GROUND. THUS, WE CANNOT CONSECRATE THIS TOMB, BECAUSE IT IS ALREADY CONSECRATED BY MANY SLAVES' INGLORIOUS DEATHS BEREFT OF ANY ACKNOWLEDGMENT, DIGNITY OR RESPECT, BUT ULTIMATELY GLORIOUS BY THEIR BLOOD, SWEAT, TEARS, FAITH, PRAYERS AND DEEP WORSHIP OF OUR CREATOR.

DONATED BY SYLVIA BARKER OF THE DANNY BARKER ESTATE

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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I found a particularly graphic place where the city is sinking. #NewOrleans www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Little Hoodoo's or rain pedestals (or sometimes mud pedestals or splash pedestals), a geological phenomenon. Each raindrop that hits the bare sand blasts it away, but wherever a pebble sits, it acts as an umbrella and shields the sand directly beneath it, leaving these columns behind. #photography

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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Artist puts finishing touches on a mural of Iryna Zarutska. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...

Artist puts finishing touches on a mural of Iryna Zarutska.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Iryna_Zarutska

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Rob Townsend @robtownsend.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

If Donald and Republicans want teachers to carry guns in school, they better start training them to be better shots. #guns #trump #teachers #Republicans #accuracy #WHCD