Jennifer Vanek

"The Truth is, These are Not Very Bright Guys, and Things Got Out of Hand"

A pebbled crust of ceramic parchment fungus grows along the broken end of a mossy log under blue skies. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Oof. We’ve fallen so far, so fast.

Art of the dumbf**k Happy Friday. There are 571 days until the midterm elections. Republicans vote to wreck Medicaid, Republicans go to war against ideas and SCOTUS kinda sorta says kidnapping is bad.

Our latest: Art of the dumbf**k

Pink and orange parrot tulips

Parrot tulip seasonnnnnnnn

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M51, shown here, is a spiral galaxy, about 30 million light years away, that is in the process of merging with a smaller galaxy.

I finally had a chance to process M51 the whirlpool Galaxy from April 6th taken with the Quattro 250p with Starizona Nexus reducer/corrector, ZWO ASI2600MC Pro, IDAS GNB filter, 300x6=30min.

This Is Why Dictatorships Fail
The authors of the Constitution separated powers for a reason.
By Anne Applebaum

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

They are willing to cut medicare, medicaid, social security,school lunch, teacher training, meals on wheels, USAid etc etc in order to give trillions in tax cuts to benefit corporations and the very rich

Tariffs? Out of control. Prices? Skyrocketing.
Emergency powers? He’s abusing them.
And yet… not a single question about whether he’s even fit to serve.

Cuddling a water sausage.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Perspective changes everything.
[Ars Mathermatica]

“No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession – if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning.”

Anne Applebaum

"No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music."

RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.

If you have a dictionary that you don't show love
Oh, yes, son, we're talking to you.

MTG is caught “buying the dip” as AOC renews call to ban members’ insider trades. So, as the economy tanked, some members of Congress were most focused on making themselves rich.

MTG Caught. AOC Renews Call to Ban Members’ Trades

🎶 Because the list (the list) does not exist
Because the list does not exist 🎶

~ Hall and Oates on tariff deals

We cannot abandon this young man- a gay makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison, by a disgraced former Milwaukee cop with major credibility issues
He is Andry Hernández Romero.

God knows what will happen to him. Call your representatives. Call the WH.
We care

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The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.