#TornadoWatch in E #Kansas N #Missouri extreme W #Illinois extreme SE #Iowa esp #Quincy #KansasCity #OverlandPark #Olathe #LeesSummit #IndependenceMO #LawrenceKS #Lenexa #ShawneeKS #BlueSprings #Leavenworth #EmporiaKS
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#Wxx #Wxtwitter #SPC #SevereWx #Tornado #wind #Hail #Bskywx #bsky #IAwx #ILwx #KSwx #MOwx #KCwx

D1
#EnhancedRisk in E #TornadoAlley esp #SpringfieldMO #KansasCity #Olathe #OverlandPark #IndependenceMO #LeesSummit #Topeka #FayettevilleAR #FortSmith
10% SIG #Tornado/ 15% SIG #Wind/ SIG #Hail Risks
#Wxx #Wxtwitter #SPC #SevereWx #Bskywx #Bsky #KSwx #OKwx #ARwx #MOwx #KSwx #TXwx #KCwx #NEwx #IAwx

D3
#EnhancedRisk in E #TornadoAlley esp #OklahomaCity #Norman #Tulsa #BrokenArrow #Joplin #KansasCity #Olathe #LeesSummit #IndependenceMO #OverlandPark #Topeka #Lawrence #Wichita
30% SIG #SevereWx Risk
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D3
#EnhancedRisk in E #TornadoAlley esp #OklahomaCity #Norman #Tulsa #BrokenArrow #Joplin #KansasCity #Olathe #LeesSummit #IndependenceMO #OverlandPark #Topeka #LawrenceKS
30% SIG #SevereWx Risk
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D4
#EnhancedRisk in E #TornadoAlley esp #OklahomaCity #Norman #Tulsa #BrokenArrow #Joplin #KansasCity #Olathe #LeesSummit #IndependenceMO #OverlandPark #Topeka #LawrenceKS #BellaVista
30% #SevereWx Risk
#Wxx #Wxtwitter #SPC #Tornado #Wind #Hail #Bskywx #Bsky #KSwx #OKwx #ARwx #MOwx #KSwx #TXwx #KCwx

Hot chocolate with coffee art of "KC" under a crown in the foam

Ahadu Coffee in Lee's Summit, MO makes the best hot chocolate in the city.

None of that grit at the bottom you get with lesser shops

#hotchocolate #Leessummit
#kcmoarea #supportlocalbusiness

Aviation weather for Lee's Summit Municipal airport (USA) is “KLXT 071853Z AUTO 20016G22KT 10SM CLR 19/M03 A2984 RMK AO2 SLP104 T01891033 $” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/klxt/en #leessummitmunicipalairport #airport #leessummit #usa #klxt #metar #aviation […]

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Cellphone Photo (halftone) (L-to-R): some kind of attachment for a vacuum (maybe?), a charging base (maybe?), a tapered comb, two electric clippers (one corded, one battery operated, both with polished stainless steel housings), two pairs of scissors (both polished stainless steel) with their tips hidden beneath a dark, folded towel, arrayed along a blonde, pine shelf). Lee's Summit, Missouri October 2017

The Tools of Her Trade:
hair styling paraphernalia of my talented niece
Salon Metric
#LeesSummit, #Missouri
October 2017
#BlueSkyArtShow #Shiny #Phonetography #ClassicMono

Let them underestimate us—5-3 is coming, and we’re taking every corner of the map. 💙✊

#FlipTheMap #BlueWave #Belton #Grandview #LeesSummit #Midtown #Westport #Northland #EverySeatCounts #GrassrootsPower #WeAreTheStorm

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Glory Bound Tattoo
Lees Summit Mo

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JAMES HAS BEEN #LOCATED SAFE!!! THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SHARED HIS FLYER!!!

#MISSINGPERSON #MISSING @annettelawless.bsky.social #KansasMissing #MissingInKS #MissingInKansas #LeesSummit #Missour

#KansasCity #Independence #Raytown #BlueSprings #LeesSummit #HigherLadiesClub
#Blaze #Chill #LGBTQIA #Gardening💚

Don't forget one week from today! meet at the Kansas City Library in the plaza for a meet-and-greet. bring a friend, and let's talk about the issues we care about.
#kansascity #kansassky #kansas #kc #missouri #kck #overlandpark #joco #northkc #gladstone #bluesprings #independence #leessummit

Photo: A highway overpass stretches across the middle of the frame. A pedestrian walkway on the near side of the overpass is guarded by chain link fencing. Behind the fencing several banners are spread, reading as follows (except in all caps) (l to r): "Rise Up. Resist." "Democracy" "Big Beautiful Bill Hurts You [Betrayal]" "Resist" "Rise Up. Save Our Constitution * Not Cons" "Stop Masked Gestapo" There are several people tending the banners on the walkway that you can't see, and a couple of protesters waving at the cars passing beneath them. There are cars moving across the bottom of the frame, beneath the overpass, in both directions. Pro Tip for Photographers hiking through hip high grass across highway shoulders and medians to photograph people protesting on overpasses: wear long pants and insect repellant. There are a lot of ticks in Missouri. They pile on quick. [ *files this under: Next Time I'll…* ]

The #PopUpDemonstration on the Overpass
NW Blue Parkway Bridge Over I-470
1 July 2025
#LeesSummit, #Missouri

Photo: This is Dave. Dave's sign says, "FUCK ICE," in bold black letters against a white background. Dave's khaki ballcap says, "Resist Fascism." Dave drove quite a ways to be here.

Photo: This is Cat. Cat's sign, printed in black and red ink on white, reads, "Hands Off! Science / handsoffnow.org " Cat is a scientist.

This is Paisley. Paisley holds a hand-wrought sign in turquoise and red that reads "Honk [with sound line blaring from the "k"] For our Republic." Paisley, an organizer for Indivisible Kansas City, wants you know that the group will be staffing a table at the First Friday celebration in Kansas City's Crossroads District where they'll be soliciting and recording first-person accounts of the negative impacts Americans are experiencing as a result of the current administration's disastrous corruption, ill-advised "policies," or fascist proclivities.

Photo: This is Ashley. Ashley's hand-lettered sign reads, in purple and red letters, "Schmidt & Hawley Voted For Medicaid Cuts." (This is true and well worth remembering, especially since Hawley spent a LOT of money on television ads across the state over the past month to announce he was *defending* medical services to Missourians *and* told reporters this past week: "This has been an unhappy episode here in Congress, this effort to cut Medicaid. And I think, frankly, my party needs to do some soul-searching. If you want to be a working-class party, you’ve got to deliver for working-class people. You cannot take away health care from working people. And unless this is changed going forward, that is what will happen in coming years. So I’m going to do everything I can to stop that." Exactly one day later, he voted to take health care away from the people of his state. One day. So if that was "everything he could do to stop it," that speaks poorly of his, um stamina, and you should not vote him ever again. Nor should buy or read any book by him that purports to describe /Manhood/ or promote "The Masculine Virtues America Needs."

Signs and Wonders No. 4
#PopUpDemonstration
1 July 2025
#LeesSummit, #Missouri
Atten: ‪@paisleyplanet.bsky.social‬
All: See alt text for "Honk for our Republic" for an important message from Paisley.

Photo: This is Mike. At every demonstration, it seems that there is at least one protester who proudly raises the American flag to affirm that the demonstrators are motivated by patriotism as well as strong personal antipathy to (depending on the protester) fascism, bigotry, racism, misogyny, monopoly capitalism, or unbridled greed; and attesting to their faith that America is not inextricably bound to those monstrosities. At this demonstration, that is Mike, shown here holding a large flag by its staff in one hand and waving to passing motorists and their passengers with the other. A large blue pick up is passing very close to him. Three red lights are suspended on a yardarm across the intersection (the left turn signal (probably also red) is blocked by the flag's staff). Behind the flag: blue sky.

Signs and Wonders No. 3
#PopUpDemonstration
1 July 2025
#LeesSummit, #Missouri
A star-spangled banner yet waving, above …?

Photo: This is Jana. Jana's carefully lettered navy blue sign reads, "Big Betrayal Bill / Billionaires Win / We Lose." (The Senate had approved the "big" bill, returning it to the House earlier in the day, on a 51-50 vote.)

Photo: This is Pam. Pam's hand-lettered sign reads, "Love [with a heart for the "o"] Not Hate Makes America Great" The flip side carries a different message. "But this," Pam says, "is my favorite."

Photo: This is Carole. Carole's sign contains just four letters: "T.A.C.O." The periods verifying that this does not refer to the delicious Mexican staple, but rather the acronym coined by Wall Street investors to describe the administration's tariff "strategy:" Trump Always Chickens Out.

Photo: This is Lenny. Lenny's two-panel hi-viz yellow/green sign reads, "Due Process [on the left panel, and] Breakfast of Champion Democracies [on the right]." Well in, Lenny.

Signs and Wonders No. 2
#PopUpDemonstration
1 July 2025
#LeesSummit, #Missouri

Photo: A person in a curly haired white wig and long white fake beard wears a stars & stripes top hat with matching shirt. He carries a poster on a yard stick featuring the iconic Uncle Sam pointing and saying, "I Want You!" Another sign, hanging from a string around his neck, reads simply, "FUCK TRUMP." He wears blue jeans. A cell phone is attached to the top of the Fuck-Trump sign, with the camera pointing outward. There is a bandage wrapped around his left arm, an artifact of an assault by a MAGA reactionary at another demonstration this previous month. This is Uncle Sam Andy. I've seen him at a lot of demonstrations this year, but we haven't talked before. As I approached him at this one, he asked me, through his bull horn, "Are you friend or foe?" Or something similar. As I started to get close enough to respond, however, he said, "Oh I've seen you before." Uncle Sam Andy's signage is pretty blunt, but his demeanor is friendly, even jolly, as he engages drivers in the passing cars and trucks. It's just when you walk straight up to him, as I did, that he gets a little defensive, he says. Then he describes the encounter in which his arm was injured. "It's just a deep bruise, you know. So I try not to overuse it."

Signs and Wonders No. 1
#PopUpDemonstration
1 July 2025
#LeesSummit, #Missouri
Uncle Sam Andy (speaking through a bull horn): "You don't have to say, 'Fuck Trump,' out loud. You can say it to yourself quietly."
Uncle Sam Andy is a regular at Kansas City Area anti-fascist events.

Photo: Looking northward along NW Blue Parkway. In the foreground, Mark grins widely, holding a sign reading, "DOGE stole All Your Tax & Private Data," over the head Beth, who laughs while holding a sign reading, "Republicans are Cowards Liars & Thieves." Next to them, Melinda holds a sign on black poster board with the words "We Are Not OK" above a chalk drawing of an upside-down American flag (signaling distress) while holding a similarly oriented smaller U.S. flag. Behind them, a couple dozen more demonstrators line the curb and sidewalk also holding signs, waving at drivers and passengers in cars and trucks who are waiting for the light to change. With each batch of vehicles passing through the intersection, one or two horns honk, thumbs are raised, or hands are waved in approval in at least a few of those vehicles. Some passengers lower their windows to shout their approval.

Photo: Looking southward along NW Blue Parkway. In the foreground, Rick raises a sign on hi-viz green posterboard reading, "Hands off! Our Democracy," while chatting with Jana, whose sign reads, "Honk if you [heart] Democracy." Nearby, Lori holds up a sign reading, "When Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty." Behind them, a couple dozen more demonstrators line the curb and sidewalk also holding signs, waving at drivers and passengers in cars and trucks who are waiting for the light to change.

Indivisible Kansas City continues its #LocalResistance, organizing a well-attended, well-received
#PopUpDemonstration
1 July 2025
#LeesSummit, #Missouri.
Protesters along the west side of NW Blue Parkway from both ends. Additional demonstrators lined the south side of NW Chipman Road to the east.

Tuesday Night Mood.
Sitting down after a birthday dinner with my niece and my family to edit pictures from today's #PopUpDemonstration in #LeesSummit, #Missouri, where the turn out was good and the people wonderful and I am grateful for all of that, but I'm also thinking that ...

Photo: A rooster (red comb and head with yellow neck, red body, blue back, blue tail and green left wing) in profile holds a standard black mail box (with red flag, down) under his left wing while standing by the side of a two-lane highway. He is made of metal. It is October, but the leaves on the trees visible further down the road have not yet started to turn. We may wonder what he's thinking. Is he wondering why some member of his harem has crossed the road? Is he wondering what prompted her to leave? Has he any regrets as to how he treated her? We may never know. And we must wonder, we must ask ourselves, why has he brought along his mailbox to stand this lonely vigil with him? It's just another unanswered mystery of the highways. Lee's Summit, Missouri October 2020 D5100: ƒ/8, 1/250, 55mm, ISO125

A Rooster and His Mailbox
#LeesSummit, #Missouri
October 2020
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekZforZoology
#RoostersOfBlueSky

❌👑 #NOW #NoKings protest #LeesSummit #MISSOURI

Photo: a clock on a post, like a lamp post, but it's a clock, with a face with roman numeral numbers. So triple X. But safe for work. The clock shows 8:32. The photograph was taken at 1425. But, "does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?" Lee's Summit, Missouri June 2023 TG-6: ƒ/5, 1/400, 11.88mm, ISO100

Right, Twice a Day
I used to work with a therapy dog (Suzi Q). Whenever you asked her what time it was, she would always answer, "Right now!"
#LeesSummit, #Missouri
June 2023
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforX

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Farmers Market Lee's Summit Missouri has eggs $4.50 from Randolph Farms and Birk's Coffee Beans for $14.00
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Just some puppy’s I did.
As always find me in #leessummit at #gloryboundtattoo


#tattoo #art

a poster that says grab a friend get in line with two people wearing masks Alt: a poster that says grab a friend get in line with two people wearing masks

I voted with my best friend @nockergeek.bsky.social
School board nominees and a school bond issue was on the ballot! Time well spent
Jackson County, MO make time to vote today for the health of your community.
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I’m so excited to share my completed Medusa tattoo 🐍 ✨ Medusa, to me, speaks of a tragedy turned to a woman’s strength. Remember your power 💕 #tat #tattoo #tattooshop #kc #kansascity #kcmo #mo #missouri #casscounty #belton #beltonmo #leessummit #leessummitmo #grandview #grandviewmo #bluesprings