Michael Craig

#Orchids are #flowers, too.

Oncostele Hot Cats, in bloom right now.

Cosmically, there is something very darkly funny about spending an entire decade of American politics obsessed with repudiating the mistakes of the Iraq War, and then immediately doing it again at the first opportunity, but with even less justification, planning, strategy, or foresight.

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

I love that; terrific color!

The funniest thing in the world is Donald trump threatening to stop legislating. Oh no more tax cuts for billionaires! Oh well!

Spring forward... Fall back... whatever.

Can we just pick ONE & stick with it once & for ALL?!!! ⏰

Small purple and white mini orchid flowers against a gray background

NoID mini-phal
#bloomscrolling #orchids #flowers #purple #blooms

At the orchid show. @orchids.bsky.social #photography

Green Cymbidium orchid flowers with petals there are still not fully opened encircling a white labellum with small red spots and a thin red lip

This was a first time flowering and yet to be named hybrid Cymbidium at the orchid show.

Cymbidium Western Movie x Cym. Designer

#orchid #flower #gardening #bloomscrolling #photography #naturephotography 🌱🌴🪴sky

Three red and yellow orchid flowers open, several unopened buds on the stem. The pot sits in a window sill.

The orchid is flourishing. Spring is just around the corner.

A white orchid flower with purple spots.

There was an orchid sale at the zoo today, so G came home with this. She said she asked for the easiest to keep alive.

Jewel orchid (Ludisia discolor) blooming indoors in bright morning light. Several tall flower spikes carry many tiny white star-shaped flowers above dark velvety leaves with pink veins.

Morning light on my blooming jewel orchid. ✨

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Cymbidium Hector Grey with green spotty flowers and a contrasting dark lip 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation

“.. Then he said he heard an officer say ‘Dudes, you killed that dude.’”

@miamiherald.com
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It's pretty bad when you are the chief lying liar who lies and can't get one of your obsequiously subordinate lying liars who lie to lie for you because even the subordinate knows it's just too big a lie to tell for anyone but the chief lying liar who lies so much that there is no lie he won't tell.

REPUBLICAN REP. MASSIE: “The only people benefitting from any of this are Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, people making those drones…”💰

The war industry bomb makers are raking in our taxpayer dollars as people die.

#NoWarOnIran

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

A purple orchid bloom in the sunshine

Closeup of a purple-pink orchid bloom with darker purple veining and a purple lip

From last year on this date; Phalaenopsis I-Hsin Red Jujube 'Razzle Dazzle'
#orchids #bloomscrolling #flowers #purple #mothorchids #blooms

Thank you! 😊

I’m so tired of bad people getting away with doing bad things.

Slyngstad always gets it right…

"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington -- not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict." Graduation Exercises at the United States Military Academy, 6/3/47 "Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war." Remarks at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10/19/50 [DDE's Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box

Was browsing the Eisenhower Library site this morning trying to find a quote I remembered.

President Eisenhower, WW2 military hero:

“In my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war… none has yet explained how war prevents war.”

A single, small oncidium orchid flower: petals and sepals are a brownish orange and slightly ruffled, the lip is bright orange, and the column is yellow

From my local garden center, a NoID Oncidium hybrid.
#bloomscrolling #flowers #orchids #oncidium #blooms #orange

23 year old Ruben Ray Martinez’s last words? “I’m sorry sir”.

ICE shot him 3 times and killed him.

Renee Good’s last words? “It’s ok I’m not mad”.

Alex Pretti’s last words? “Are you ok?”

These are the people DHS calls domestic terrorists. Threats. Aggressors.

Abolish ICE

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Headline and subhed of Washington Post op-ed arguing that there should be more representation of evangelical Christians on the Supreme Court and other government institutions.

I’m currently writing a book about what’s really wrong with #SCOTUS and how to fix it.

Suffice it to say, this ain’t it:

🤔💯💯💯

A long, upright, orchid flower stem with lots of little brownish orange and yellow blooms in front of a window

NoID Oncidium hybrid, in the morning sunshine...
#orchids #bloomscrolling #flowers #bronze #blooms