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‼️ DM = BLOCK ‼️ Born and bred in the South; Adulting on the West Coast - Berkeley, Eugene, Portland area (40 years); Hoosier grandmother. I travel half the year, and I cook and research history the other half. Ex-evangelical. Solid Blue!

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Sign in window “End Trump’s Ice Age Now”

Sign in window “End Trump’s Ice Age Now”

Love in our Tribe, mural along Haight Street

Love in our Tribe, mural along Haight Street

Former Grateful Dead house on Ashbury Street

Former Grateful Dead house on Ashbury Street

06.03.2026 23:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Intersection sign at Haight/Ashbury

Intersection sign at Haight/Ashbury

Haight Street stores

Haight Street stores

Mural of internal view of an animal in Haight/Ashbury area

Mural of internal view of an animal in Haight/Ashbury area

Rasputin’s storefront Haight/Ashbury

Rasputin’s storefront Haight/Ashbury

Afternoon in the Haight

06.03.2026 23:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "Something big is in those files... Even [Trump] recognizes whatever's in there is so immovable in terms of the impact and damage that it would to to him that he cannot allow it to be made public."

06.03.2026 19:49 👍 830 🔁 251 💬 35 📌 13

My choice 😊

06.03.2026 19:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m married to the gayest of men 😏

06.03.2026 17:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hear you! I feel the same way.

06.03.2026 03:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In all of my life, I have never ever believed I would side against my own country.

I swore an oath to defend the Constitution and I genuinely love America. I risked my life for the values we hold dear.

But we are in the WRONG here. Period. And I cannot root for us to win,

06.03.2026 03:50 👍 272 🔁 42 💬 18 📌 3
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This is the man who is now in charge of US Homeland Security.

05.03.2026 18:53 👍 7957 🔁 2700 💬 704 📌 224

😂

05.03.2026 22:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Today’s a stellar day to leave MAGA.

05.03.2026 20:25 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

Paula White is a grifter… on LSD + PCP
😆jk😆

Her fake speaking in tongues blows compared to the insanity in the South.

Last yr I posted a section from Wiki about the Trump Tower apt she had owned for 20 yrs. That info is gone. Even if she sold it, the info is still relevant.

05.03.2026 19:58 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The image shows a rectangular Roman dice tower (turricula) made of four copper alloy (bronze) plates with punched cut-out Latin letters and cut-out decorative patterns. At the bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the opening. The tower is a Roman anti-cheating device. It has an open top and is hollow inside except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomize dice as they fall, ensuring unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the exit chute they rang the bells!  There is a decorative dolphin either side of the stepped exit chute. The top of the front plate has two decorative pine cone finials. Height 25 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped base to illustrate how it was used. 

The front  inscription reads:
PICTOS VICTOS
HOSTIS DELETA
LVDITE SECVRI

Translated as: ‘The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’.

Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads:

‘UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as ‘Use happily; may you live well’.

Found at a Roman villa at Froitzheim in Germany in 1985.

The image shows a rectangular Roman dice tower (turricula) made of four copper alloy (bronze) plates with punched cut-out Latin letters and cut-out decorative patterns. At the bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the opening. The tower is a Roman anti-cheating device. It has an open top and is hollow inside except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomize dice as they fall, ensuring unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the exit chute they rang the bells! There is a decorative dolphin either side of the stepped exit chute. The top of the front plate has two decorative pine cone finials. Height 25 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped base to illustrate how it was used. The front inscription reads: PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LVDITE SECVRI Translated as: ‘The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’. Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads: ‘UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as ‘Use happily; may you live well’. Found at a Roman villa at Froitzheim in Germany in 1985.

Roman anti-cheating gaming accessory!

This Roman ‘turricula’ (dice tower) was used to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲

Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over sloping internal levels, and appeared randomly below.

From Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400

📷 LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn

#Archaeology

05.03.2026 13:39 👍 910 🔁 274 💬 28 📌 49
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...

NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

05.03.2026 12:27 👍 970 🔁 532 💬 20 📌 48
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Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.

05.03.2026 19:11 👍 22291 🔁 4910 💬 750 📌 398

Markwayne 🤦‍♀️ He’s ignorant, stupid, and incompetent.

05.03.2026 19:15 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

One of my all time favorites, too!

05.03.2026 16:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Perfect choice! 👏

05.03.2026 16:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I remember this one 😊

05.03.2026 07:17 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hope you aren’t referring to your wife as a Roku clicker 😂

05.03.2026 04:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

"The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs... and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.”" www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

05.03.2026 02:39 👍 394 🔁 165 💬 28 📌 41

Yes!

05.03.2026 04:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That is an amazing fact. It’s very hard to believe.

05.03.2026 02:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

04.03.2026 22:12 👍 2580 🔁 1047 💬 462 📌 962

We have a bunch of 14-yr olds running DoD.

05.03.2026 00:01 👍 355 🔁 19 💬 13 📌 1

I know. It’s not good.

05.03.2026 01:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Different angle, showing the lead-up:

04.03.2026 22:30 👍 1622 🔁 733 💬 82 📌 165

The senator broke his hand

05.03.2026 01:23 👍 90 🔁 32 💬 11 📌 2

We hiked around for about two hours. Just breathing in the forest air was glorious. And, we have sun for the last week of our trip 😊

05.03.2026 01:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Best I can do right now 😉

bsky.app/profile/purr...

05.03.2026 00:14 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

1/3

tucson.com/news/local/b...

04.03.2026 04:01 👍 2402 🔁 1526 💬 62 📌 157