One of the most realistic parts of Lord of the Rings is that almost no one wanted to get involved, until it was very nearly too late.
ICE is offering a $132K to $185K per year for supervisory roles & $306K per year to concentration camp managers. Both jobs have ZERO education requirement.
Meanwhile the average starting salary is $46,526 for teachers and $68,485 for nurses. Both jobs require a Bachelors degree & often a graduate degree.
It's a lie that we can't pay teachers & nurses. An uneducated and sick populace is easier to control, creates higher crime rates, and feeds the prison industrial complex. This is by design.
"Another farmworker, Gabriel, who came out to speak, brought a backpack full of yellow envelopes containing all his tax documents over the decades.
“These are my taxes. I have been paying my taxes for 19 years, without rights,” he said, as he pulled out each envelope and threw them on the ground in front of the podium. “I’ve been doing this year, after year, after year. For a promise that I would get my citizenship, this is my testimony that I am not a criminal. We are not criminals.”"
#farmworkers #food #farming #immigration #workers #labor #California #HumanRights
https://lamag.com/news-and-politics/farmworkers-call-for-worker-led-strikes-and-boycotts-amid-recent-raids-targeting-farms-at-a-press-conference-on-monday
Running a used book store means you get to make up your own awesome filing system
The bucket list shot I didn't know I needed until the opportunity arose. A shot of a Golden Eagle and Badger engaged in a stare down. July 18, 2025
#wildlifephotography
This rock is amazing!
The director of Voice of America’s newsroom says Kari Lake is violating VOA’s legally mandated charter. https://savevoa.com/statements/violation-of-the-charter-and-ai-policies.html
savevoa.comVOA newsroom director says Lake is violating VOA charterShow that a free and independent press matters and is in our country’s national interest.
(D.Burch) 
"I'm nimble like a cat."
Yeah, but like which cat?
David Barton isn’t just a primary pitchman for the Ten Commandments law in Texas
His fingerprints appear on 28 bills that have cropped up before the legislatures in 18 states this year.
A data analysis of the bills exposes how their language, structure and requirements are inherently identical.
In dozens of instances, they match model legislation pitched by Barton verbatim.
At the Texas hearing, Barton’s eyes fixated on the cover of the rare 1782 Aitken Bible.
“It also says it’s ‘a neat Edition of the Holy Scriptures for the use of schools,’” he continued. “It has the Ten Commandments.”
In actuality, Barton lifted language from Philadelphia printer Robert Aitken
calling on Congress to sanction a Bible that could also be for
“the use of schools.”
Christian nationalists have for years falsely claimed the Revolutionary-era printing includes a government promotion of Christianity.
Barton has long been accused of taking historical quotes out of context,
and in 2012, the Christian publisher of his bestselling book on Thomas Jefferson ceased its production because “basic truths just were not there.”
Texas is one of three states in the last two years to pass a law requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in public schools.
The mandates are part of a coordinated nationwide effort to overturn a 1980 Supreme Court ruling forbidding Kentucky from requiring Ten Commandments displays in classrooms.
www.the74million.org · 28 Bills, Ten Commandments and 1 Source: A Christian Right ‘Bill Mill’
I haven’t forgotten.
Trump Administration Deports 82-Year-Old Pennsylvania Grandfather to Guatemala - https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-administration-deports-82-year-old-pennsylvania-grandfather-to-guatemala/ On June 20, 82-year-old Luis Leon, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, went to a Philadelphia immigration office with his wife to replace his lost green card. Instead, Leon, who immigrated to the U.S. from Chile in 1987, was handcuffed by two officers and hauled away with no explanation, according to a report in Friday’s The Morning Call, a local Allentown newspaper.
Mediaite · Trump Administration Deports 82-Year-Old Pennsylvania Grandfather to Guatemala
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Flower mystery solved. I showed my normal flower vendor the unidentified flowers from a couple weeks ago and he said feverfew.
So here you go: feverfew on the left, chamomile (from a different vendor) on the right.
Ah! Le Voilà. Postcard from my collection, mailed 1903.
What she said 
Red-shouldered hawk
Time to try and get some meow meows 
Goodnight my dear friends 
Former Chelsea footballer Pedro Rodríguez posted photos of his son Marc who chose to celebrate his birthday wearing a dress and tiara
The happiness, love, and support in these photos is inspiring, but they were met with hate
What I would have given to wear a dress and tiara for my birthday 
We would all have a better life if we just believed women.