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@spiralup

Big on fostering joy and wonder. Pacific NW forest dweller. Intent on growing through everything. Dance, read, ski, create, love.

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Judge blocks subpoenas against Fed Chair Jerome Powell citing 'essentially zero evidence' Powell said the subpoenas were related to his testimony before the Senate in June about the renovation of Federal Reserve office buildings.

NEW: Boasberg blocks subpoenas in Powell’s case. "A mountain of evidence suggests that the Government served these subpoenas on the Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning.” www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

13.03.2026 19:16 👍 2048 🔁 597 💬 42 📌 15
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“The earth has music for those who listen.”
~ William Shakespeare

Good morning my friends! My local weather forecast predicts that I will be spending copious amounts of time wandering in the forest over the next week or so. Life is good. I hope that you have a great day. Be the light. Be the love❤️

13.03.2026 13:16 👍 270 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 0

The war is going so well that the secretary of defense is spending his morning yelling at cnn

13.03.2026 12:40 👍 6367 🔁 1057 💬 222 📌 37
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It’s almost like Putin and Netanyahu control our foreign policy.

13.03.2026 14:03 👍 10396 🔁 4181 💬 605 📌 274
Colourful collage of four stylised Black female figures in dresses with umbrellas on grass under a blue sky

Colourful collage of four stylised Black female figures in dresses with umbrellas on grass under a blue sky

Ekua Holmes (born in 1955), artist and illustrator known for her mixed media collages #womensart

12.03.2026 15:15 👍 518 🔁 103 💬 1 📌 5
Painting featuring three stylised female figures two dancing together the other sitting as if playing a guitar or banjo

Painting featuring three stylised female figures two dancing together the other sitting as if playing a guitar or banjo

Parisian avant-garde painter
Marie Laurencin,
The counryside dance, 1913
#WomensArt

13.03.2026 05:39 👍 255 🔁 49 💬 1 📌 1
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Long Overlooked as Crucial to Life, Fungi Start to Get Their Due Fungi create soil, sequester vast amounts of carbon, and contribute $55 trillion to the global economy, but knowledge about them is scarce. Now, mycologists are pushing to get the international scient...

" #Fungi create #soil, sequester vast amounts of carbon, and contribute $55 trillion to the global economy, but knowledge about them is scarce. Now, mycologists are pushing to get the international scientific community to recognize fungi on the same level as #plants and #animals." #science

12.03.2026 16:40 👍 779 🔁 165 💬 18 📌 0
Photo featuring a white woman sitting on a windowsill by an open window the figure is in shadow outside there are trees

Photo featuring a white woman sitting on a windowsill by an open window the figure is in shadow outside there are trees

Joni Mitchell, Laurel Canyon, 1969 singer, songwriter, musician, painter..... genius #WomensArt
(Photo G.Nash)

13.03.2026 05:52 👍 545 🔁 62 💬 2 📌 1

What did Trump do after finding out Putin was helping Iran target American troops in the Middle East?

Ease sanctions against Putin.

This is treasonous.

13.03.2026 09:39 👍 1208 🔁 466 💬 71 📌 26

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

12.03.2026 22:36 👍 25648 🔁 2767 💬 753 📌 151
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Gen. Grynkewich: "What I've observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve."

12.03.2026 15:54 👍 17230 🔁 4936 💬 1124 📌 699
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Another word you might use for it is "looting".

"This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

11.03.2026 20:39 👍 17077 🔁 6678 💬 1306 📌 427
US Representative Ted Lieu (L), Democrat from California, speaks to a reporter as he departs a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)

US Representative Ted Lieu (L), Democrat from California, speaks to a reporter as he departs a news conference at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)

Ted Lieu: “A foreign hacker likely has the Epstein Files — the best way to prevent blackmail of government officials, such as Trump & Howard Lutnick, would be for AG Pam Bondi to stop the cover up & release all the Epstein Files as required by law”

11.03.2026 19:42 👍 9126 🔁 2405 💬 277 📌 141
A stunningly violet violet

A stunningly violet violet

Day 1350 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and I shared white ones the other day, but how about this, for a stunner of a violet for today then?
In memory of a much loved Aunt who passed away today 💔 😥 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild

11.03.2026 14:51 👍 2622 🔁 234 💬 81 📌 7
Monochrome photograph featuring a group of women in saris each individually hugging a tree in a forest.

Monochrome photograph featuring a group of women in saris each individually hugging a tree in a forest.

Chipko movement ("to hug" in Hindi) non-violent women-led, forest conservation movement, 1970s, of India (Uttarakhand). Participants hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down, successfully preventing massive deforestation. Where "tree huggers' originated #WomensHistoryMonth

10.03.2026 15:26 👍 365 🔁 115 💬 0 📌 12
Painting of a sitting white woman wearing a warn shawl in an interior with hands together

Painting of a sitting white woman wearing a warn shawl in an interior with hands together

The Rosary (c.1912) by Irish artist Grace Henry #womensart

11.03.2026 06:22 👍 325 🔁 38 💬 0 📌 0
Two white women in uniforms with jackets, caps, boots and trousers sitting beside a truck while knitting

Two white women in uniforms with jackets, caps, boots and trousers sitting beside a truck while knitting

Women of the Free French ambulance corps, WW2, knitting while awaiting their next call on the Italian front #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

11.03.2026 14:20 👍 463 🔁 99 💬 2 📌 7
Photo of trees, river, ground, with snow. December 2021.

Photo of trees, river, ground, with snow. December 2021.

older photo, missing snow, and that window is nearly closed for this winter.
🤍🕊️
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#ArtistsOnBlueSky #BlueSkyArtShow #WomensArtBlueSky #Photography #PhotographersOnBlueSky #OregonCoast #Oregon #River #Snow

11.03.2026 12:41 👍 2686 🔁 214 💬 56 📌 4
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Pokemon Gogh

10.03.2026 18:02 👍 4210 🔁 1014 💬 25 📌 8
cool jellyfish that looks like a flower  (about 100mm diameter- lion’s mane?) red center with white petals long tentacles

cool jellyfish that looks like a flower (about 100mm diameter- lion’s mane?) red center with white petals long tentacles

saw a cool jellyfish that looks like a flower (about 100mm diameter- lion’s mane?)

11.03.2026 01:00 👍 655 🔁 65 💬 18 📌 3
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10.03.2026 11:57 👍 5250 🔁 1641 💬 97 📌 66
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"As difficult as it may seem, the secret to living in harmony is accepting others just as they are."

- Ellen Jaffe Jones

11.03.2026 15:08 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of a Black woman sculptor in a studio workibg on a sculpture resembling the head of a Black woman

Photo of a Black woman sculptor in a studio workibg on a sculpture resembling the head of a Black woman

Simone Leigh (born 1967), contemporary US artist from Chicago, in the studio working on her sculpture 'Brick House' #WomensArt

09.03.2026 16:19 👍 311 🔁 49 💬 0 📌 2
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Yuko Shimizu, a New York based award-winning Japanese illustrator #WomensArt #Tuesday

10.03.2026 06:12 👍 585 🔁 91 💬 1 📌 0
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Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

10.03.2026 12:15 👍 9456 🔁 1950 💬 357 📌 197

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

10.03.2026 14:02 👍 13835 🔁 3159 💬 91 📌 237
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"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."
~ Ram Dass

Good morning my friends! Removing myself from the noise and clamor, I begin to hear the musings of the wind, of the forest, of my own blood. The wisdom of the universe is not elusive, we are.

Please do have yourself a beautiful day. ❤️

10.03.2026 13:42 👍 126 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 2
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10.03.2026 12:09 👍 17669 🔁 5185 💬 482 📌 239
Four images featuring a work of art in wire and small pieces of colourful glass

Four images featuring a work of art in wire and small pieces of colourful glass

“Unwoven Light” by Korean artist Soo Sunny Park, sculptural installations using glass, wire and light #WomensArt

10.03.2026 06:08 👍 562 🔁 114 💬 6 📌 6