BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court won't hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the #Washington State Voting Rights Act. These crucial state-level voting rights protections will remain in place in the Evergreen State. #SCOTUS
This meme reminds me of the struggle to place and glue many clips accurately spaced around a metal hoop working with local crew equipped with tape measures with only 1/8th inch markings outside the White House a few years ago. 😬
Shafts of sunlight break through the cloudy sky, illuminating parts of a cityscape of Seattle, WA, that includes our prominent landmark, the Space Needle.
The Waxing Crescent Moon is shining bright tonight high up in the sky.
The second capture is to show the Earthshine part and the last one is the blending of the first two, in order to see some details of the illuminated part of the Earthshine crescent moon, which is already 24.8%.
For #MountainMonday. I thought I'd post this now before the onslaught of real eclipse photos, fake eclipse photos, and AI eclipse photos. This is Mount Baker (Komo Kulshan) in Washington State with a rather nice bit of sunset light on the clouds behind.
Long shot, but if you're in D.C. in the Fort Totten area, one of my cats is missing. Exie is a short hair tuxedo, gray and white. Has a flea collar around his neck. He's missing all his teeth but one, so he won't last long out in the wild. #dc#washington#washingtondc
Sehr beklagenswert.
War das in der Politik schon jemals wirklich anders?
Hier ein Auszug aus dem, was der berühmte #CharlesDickens anlässlich seines Besuchs in Den #USA schrieb, bei dem er wie ein Popstar gefeiert wurde. Ich hätte jefoch mit mehr Suchen auch Ähnliches über den antiken Stadtstaat #Athen gefunden:
"#Washington kann als die Firmenzentale des tabakgeschwängerten Speichels bezeichnet werden",...
...wetterte #Dickens in seinen "American Notes". "Die Sache selbst ist eine Übertreibung an Ekelhaftigkeit, die nicht zu überbieten ist."
"Was die #Politiker anbelangt, so kam €Dickens zu dem Schluss, dass sie, wie alle anderen in #Amerika auch, von Geld und nicht von Idealen motiviert waren.
"Ich bin enttäuscht", schrieb er in einem berühmten Brief. "Dies ist nicht die Republik, die ich mir vorgestellt habe."
Last week, a group of Wenatchi-P’squosa people gathered on Badger Mountain to demonstrate against the solar development that’s under proposal there.
It threatens Indigenous foodways and other cultural resources. Families have gathered heirloom organic root vegetables on the mountain for countless generations. “It’s a mother. It’s a grandmother. It’s part of our family,” one of the organizers said.