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Ora Tor
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Civil War historian & Wide Awake. Prefers democracy (system) & republic (state). Kind to nonhumans. Retired from social studies, financial analysis, & small business. Traveled over 50k US miles for my research. Nature knows best & intends no ill will.
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A favorite album of all time. Every song is spectacular. Treat The Kids Right, Roots Radical, & Peace Officer though!
Peace officer: are you a warrior, a warrior? Why you carrying so much ammunition, more than an aircraft carrier?

Little changed from Inner City Blues, & Jimmy knew it.

#jimmycliff
Colorful album cover of Special by Jimmy Cliff. This album is post-dreds for Jimmy. The cover has green plants, a yellow building, and Jimmy in the color of glory and love and honesty. Lost a great one.
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Jacob Lawrence
War Series: Going Home
1947
#art
#painting
#war
#cominghome
#midcenturymodern
Bright blue around the men returning home from war by ship. Blood red stains white bandages on army green-grey-clad soldiers. Modern art in the post WWII style. One scene in a series by this author as commentary on war.
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Balmorhea State Park, west Texas. The park showcases a New Deal CCC project that's reported to be the world’s largest spring-fed pool: "3.5-million-US-gallon (13,000 m3); a constant flow of 22 to 28 million US gallons (110,000 m3); water temp ~72°F/22°C ..."
#photo
#photography
#pool
#water
#parks
Pool of blue-green fresh water for swimming. Daily occupancy is capped. Blond midwest stones in CCC-built pool border, steps, and walkways. Floor of pool is dirt and sand; fish swim. Few trees surround, but ones present are without leaves and curvy, or evergreen and plump. None are quite tall, and the clear blue sky is bigger than anything for miles.
November 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Baby cloud blanket clings to momma mountains.
Our Earth is the magic we seek.
And so are we.

#mountains
#RockyMountains
#trains
#travel
#photo
#photography
#EastCoastKin
#America
#love
Rocky mountain scene on the summer solstice in 2017. Train cars stopped at mining equipment in foreground; evidence of a highway and bridge is beyond. Looming large, the mountain range of green until the snowcaps start is hugged by long clouds upon it and nowhere else in the view. Blue sky beyond the hug reaches across the wide open.
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Old Faithful ~10:32 a.m. on a June day under the big sky.

#Yellowstone
#YellowstoneNP
#photo
#photography
#EastCoastKin
#travel
#mountain
#OldFaithful
Steamy white and grey Old Faithful eruption set against late morning blue sky. Gently sloping rock land swells here and drops there. Range rim in distance is dark breaking across the light.
November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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"Authorities in Trinidad and Tobago, which is located just 11 kilometers from Venezuela at its closest point, announced a few days ago that they would be holding joint military exercises with the US for the second time."
#Venezuela
#TrinidadandTobago

www.infomoney.com.br/mundo/venezu...
Venezuela condemns US military exercises in the Caribbean. According to Vladimir Padrino, the simulations represent a threat to Venezuela, as well as to the entire continent. Estadão Content 22/11/2025 19:44 • Updated 47 minutes ago
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomi...
Household Debt Balances Grow Steadily; Mortgage Originations Tick Up in Third Quarter
November 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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ME GOP Laurel Libby = bad for Maine, & water seeks its own level, so of course she's aligned with Collins & nat'l GOP for millions of dollars & a PAC.
mainemorningstar.com/2025/11/17/l...

#Maine
#MEpolitics
#GOP
@janetmillsforme.bsky.social
@grahamformaine.bsky.social
@davidcostello.bsky.social
Post announcing Laurel Libby--Maine state GOP who violates the privacy of children and leads mobs against them and loves Collins & Heritage--by ME resident and writer Crash Barry.
November 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Yellowstone hotcool magic glow day.
June 2017

#photo
#photography
#EastCoastKin
#Yellowstone
#travel
#nature
#water
#landscape
Minerals dye the flesh of the Rockies. Chartreuse and pumpkin carve through the dustrock to the coolblue steaming hotpool. It's the natural science amusement park that is Yellowstone NP. Wolves don't know borders.
November 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Saguaro yoga class north of Phoenix.

#cactus
#Arizona
#photography
#EastCoastKin
#landscape
#desert
#southwest
#travel
#photo
A troop of saguaros say hello to the clouds crossing the blue sky. Shrubs adds puffs of green to the land, and the distant hills are moody.
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Route 66 to Oatman AZ. Those hills hide the little community, and this stretch of the Mother Road has vehicle size limits.

#Route66
#MotherRoad
#highway
#photography
#photo
#landscape
#America
#ModelT
#ModelA
#EastCoastKin
#travel
This is original Route 66--two lanes and lonely. Road curves and follows awe-inspiring path. Gray and green chaparral leads to rugged sienna outcrops.
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Feed

Between Ogden UT and the ID border
2017

#agriculture
#America
#photo
#photography
#WindowsonWednesday
#WindowsWednesday
#travel
#EastCoastKin
Milling and elevator company in northern Utah. White building with attached warehouse and silo system for storage and processing. America's heartland.
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Textures of the Grand Prismatic and every single thing around it.
Yellowstone NP
June 2017

#photography
#photo
#YellowstoneNationalPark
#landscape
#travel
#EastCoastKin
#nature
#water
Grand Prismatic hot pool in green blue yellow beige and steaming like a freight train that I never want to come through here. Ripples of rust water-carved land in foreground, lands of pointed firs on distant upslope.
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Myrtle
10 Nov 16

#beach
#ocean
#SouthCarolina
#sky
#travel
#roads
#photo
#photography
#EastCoastKin
Myrtle Beach SC in the state park area. Blue sky with light lace clouds. High-rises on developed portion of beach in the distance. Somewhat clean sets rolling in.
November 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Mare's tails and fish scales, and the rain'll come in 12 to 36.

#Maine
#photo
#photography
#landscape
#sky
#EastCoastKin
#clouds
#travel
#oldroad
Autumn sky shows a mixer on the way. Some trees have rusty leaves, other trees are skeleton fingers. Cotton balls and gauze in sets of cloud swells roll from west to east and on to the sea.
November 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Bongino pretty much advertising he has reasons for anxiety.
BTC YouTube of Bongino on Fox. Bongino wears a dark suit and red tie on the Fox News set.
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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He's gross.

www.wral.com/story/witnes...
Political News Witness in the Mueller investigation and informal Trump adviser gets 10 years in prison in child sex case George Nader, who was a key witness in the Russia investigation and informally advised President Donald Trump's team on foreign policy, was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison by a federal judge in Virginia, stemming from his convictions on child sex charges.
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Try again.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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No, she has not said that. I reside in the state and disagree with the OP. Mills sat in the same room with Trump and told him to his face she'd see him court. I don't buy that she'd cave and reopen, and her post on here yesterday literally says for Democrats to fight.
Janet Mills post on B S yesterday urging Democrats to fight because access to healthcare is a right.
November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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One of my great pumpkins waited all night for the full moon.

Northern New England November
#ForestFriday
#November
#Autumn
#sky
#moon
#shadows
#clouds
#photography
#myphotos
Orange pumpkin lit from within so the traditional carved face beacons a smile. The full moon above agrees and comes out from behind the clouds on a darklight night post Hallows' Eve.
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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And the rainbow hangs on for all of us, whether we happen to catch it or not.

Just south of Bozeman.
#MT
#montana
#photography
#rainbow
#travel
#clouds
#sky
#hope
#love
#myphotography
Rainbow reaching through the dense gray clouds. Mountains are behind all of it, trust me.
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Tower of power in Bighorn County.

#MT
#montana
#america
#landscape
#travel
#agriculture
#photography
#myphotography
#roads
#RockyMountains
MT site of a multi-location flouring mill company. Blue sky and puffy clouds on a sunny day. Giant metal flouring mill structure emerges from a brick structure. Yellow, orange, green, and black used in the advertising art consistent with American heartland landscapes.
November 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Dam!
Sure am off kilter.
Yellowtail Dam
Bighorn Canyon
around the way from John Bozeman's trail

#MT
#montana
#photos
#photography
#landscape
#travel
#myphotos
#EastCoastKin
The Yellowtail Dam, where the Bighorn Canyon starts to look like a scrubbed little Grand Canyon--mesmerizing green water, pastel geological striations on steep canyon walls, and a narrow rushing river good for rafting and kayaking.
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Me being a historian in the presence of some of my kin has made them view our exchanges as a competition, or I am not allowed to talk about my craft with them--these are my choices with certain members of family, and they, to the last one, vote Trump since '16 and conservative always.
Political cartoon in B+W of airplane passengers with low self esteem frustrated by the pilot's expertise so the passengers vote "yes" to a peer flying the plane despite being inexperienced.
November 6, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Small biz is reportedly responsible for 80% of US jobs.
Here's a small biz outlook update:
"September 2025: Small Business Optimism Declines in September"

www.nfib.com/news/monthly...
The NFIB Research Foundation has collected Small Business Economic Trends data with quarterly surveys since the 4th quarter of 1973 and monthly surveys since 1986. Survey respondents are drawn from NFIB’s membership. The report is released on the second Tuesday of each month. This survey was conducted in September 2025. September 2025: Small Business Optimism Declines in September The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index declined 2.0 points in September to 98.8. This was the first decline in three months, though it remains above the survey’s 52-year average of 98. The Uncertainty Index rose 7 points from August to 100, the fourth-highest reading in over 51 years. Optimism among small business owners decreased in September. While most owners evaluate their own business as currently healthy, they are having to manage rising inflationary pressures, slower sales expectations, and ongoing labor market challenges. Although uncertainty is high, small business owners remain resilient as they seek to better understand how policy changes will impact their operations.
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM