Thoeni
@thoeni.bsky.social
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Retired research librarian. Internationalist. Independent. Idealist. Idealogue. Writer. Artist. I take photos too. All photos are my own except for re-posts. No reuse unless authorized by me. No DMs please. 🐈🐈‍⬛🕊️🦋🐝📚📸
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thoeni.bsky.social
Racism, Nazism, and rape…not idle boyish banter.
thoeni.bsky.social
This looks like a painting!
thoeni.bsky.social
Can’t find the words! Beautiful is not enough. Stunning. Gorgeous. Breathtaking.
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cwebbonline.com
I’ve had the good fortune of missing these ads entirely. I can’t believe our tax dollars are funding this crap.

F*CK ICE‼️
thoeni.bsky.social
Your wish is lovely. As a child, I was taught “ Ladybug, ladybug fly away home. Your house is on fire. Your children will burn.” I looked it up, it’s an old nursery rhyme. Farmers used to burn fields for crops, my father burned his wheat fields after harvest. So, you’re warning the ladybug!
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kurtandersen.bsky.social
My conversation with Joanna Coles on on her @thedailybeast.Baku.social podcast about supervillain Donald Trump, his minion Bobby Kennedy Jr., his late buddy Jeffrey Epstein, and more. We had fun. youtu.be/2jcSZhti47g?...
What I Learned After RFK Jr. Sold Me Drugs: Author | The Daily Beast Podcast
YouTube video by The Daily Beast
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kurtandersen.bsky.social
Excellent accidental double feature in the @nytimes.com today—random folks resisting MAGA’s police state tactics in Chicago, and how a group of the German elite resisted the Nazis’ police state tactics 80-90 years ago. Gift links: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...
thoeni.bsky.social
#RoseWednesday
#EastCoastKin
#Bridgeport
#MobilePhotography

“It was roses, roses, all the way,
With myrtle mixed in my path like mad:
The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway,
The church-spires flamed, such flags they had,
A year ago on this very day.”
-The Patriot, by Robert Browning
A Rose, a flashy, and an orange door
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Linus is right. Release the Epstein files!
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lincolnproject.us
He would rather shut down our government than have you see the truth. It's not complicated.
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cwebbonline.com
Boom! Who’s winning the shutdown debate? THE ACA.

More Republicans than Democrats use the ACA marketplace. So the GOP’s base is relying on the same program their party is causing premiums to skyrocket.

45% of ACA marketplace enrollees are Republicans, and most live in GOP-held districts.
thoeni.bsky.social
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#EastCoastKin
#PhotoHour #birds
#egrets
#Mobilephotography #nature #wildlife #photography

“All my life, men with blackened insides
have fought to keep
the flutter of a white egret in my chest
from bursting into flight, into glory.”

Chris Abani, "White Egret" from Smoking the Bible.
White Egret with reflection
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January
thoeni.bsky.social
Found the whole citation! The are quite a few translations.

At the foot of the lighthouse it is dark. ~Japanese proverb, quoted in J. Long, Eastern Proverbs and Emblems Illustrating Old Truths, 1881
thoeni.bsky.social
I can’t find my source! I remember it’s from 1800s.
thoeni.bsky.social
At the foot of the lighthouse it is dark. ~Japanese proverb

Good Morning, Blue Sky!

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#birds
#gulls
#EastCoastKin
#photography
#MobilePhotography
#FayerweatherIslanLighthouse
#BlackRock
Gull flying, lighthouse, sailboat
thoeni.bsky.social
A red #dahlia peeking through red leaves.
🌹🌱
#coloraday
#RedWed
#EastCoastKin #gardening
#USgardening
#FlowerFeed
#dahlias
#mobilephotography
#photography
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thebulwark.com
"I do think he needs help, and I don't think anybody around him on a day-to-day basis wants to get him any help, because they have more power based upon his diminished capacity."

@jbpritzker.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
thoeni.bsky.social
$694 million when the State governors are saying “go away?”