James Garland
@jagar451
Scum, I’m told. Poet, Disgusted, Angry, Pessimistic, Glad to be Aging Out, Loaded with Regret, Overwhelmed by Idiocy, deep long blue. Not looking for a date. Not buying anything. Here to help, support, and vent my spleen, rage, and despair. 💙
Looking across the lowlands of Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge towards the Coastal Range yesterday, late afternoon, just before the rain.
I was thinking about the president today. I was thinking about the war, & ice, & how he doesn’t think of America in financial distress, & the Epstein files, & his, & all their racism & corruption & greed & arrogance, & their murderous ways. I was thinking about this new, ignorant America.
An important day. Salem OR came out strong, thousands lining Center Street, inundating the capital, gathered under the fading cherry blossoms under an impossibly blue sky, to resist. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Please, someone gran these guys. The best thing we ever did was to adopt the brothers...
Mochi is getting more comfortable in the new digs. It takes a little more time for the rest of us to settle in.
Good advice. My own retreat has been to local wildlife refuges- there are two within spitting distance, and more not too much farther afield. Good place to immerse in the world. And forget the nightmare unfolding in Washington.
Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge, late December, there’s a quiet place to be in the world. Still.
Ankeny Nat’l wildlife refuge tonight. Strange…it’s not raining. Cold but beautiful; bald eagles, mute swans, geese, ducks, and a red tailed hawk on a light pole.
It’s a blue Christmas indeed. I don’t have a clue what there is to celebrate as the country is gutted and with the belief that god is on their side.
Finished ridding the back deck of fallen big leaf maple leaves, fell into a chair just as a visitor flew in.
A little early for Caturday but tonight’s pose, white cats roasting by a sealed gas fireplace, seemed so Nat King Cold…
Tonight, looking again at Mamdani campaign footage, all that positive reaching back and forth…I think the last time I remember it candidate sparking that much energy was RFK 68
Stand-off at the back gate on a cloudy afternoon. It was the largest mouse he’d ever seen. Bravely stood guard.
I’m going to post these as I see them…I want to fill my feed with pictures of hope and unity, and rage against the dying of the American light.
Way to go Salem! Proud as hell… Salem showed up, by the thousands. A raucous, peaceful, empassioned protest! All ages, all walks of life, raising their voices to end the madness. Thank you Salem!
This from a message sent by Oregon governor Tina Kotek, standing firm against the unconstitutional deployment of troops in Portland. Thank you Governor.
My side of the bed this morning. Happy Caturday Bluesky! Another fine day to resist, or, Y’know, sleep all day.
Good morning Bluesky! We're cracking the bubbly because today I was allowed to reopen my account! It's been about 10 days. Apparently some "suspicious behavior" occurred, maybe a hacker. Can't imagine anyone bothering with an old fart's social media site. But there you go. It's great to be back.
Sunset tonight after a long day. Dragons and beasts drifted across the western sky. Almost peaceful. Good night, friends. Perhaps the files fall tomorrow, and perhaps this will all go away. Or perhaps tomorrow is just another day to get stronger, to resist.
Sunset, the Pacific Northwest edge of North America, end of July, 2025. There was a demonstration at the capitol today. But the crowd of rabblet rousers sparse, the excitement and passion lagged, and support from passing traffic nil. Like we’ve given up. Status quo. Sunuvabitch.
At the capitol. Diminished crowd. There’s an inherent sadness in it. It reminds me of the end of the movie “On the Beach”… the ever shrinking crowd bravely holding up the sign” there is still time brother”, the barroom caterwauling of waltzing Matilda as time runs out. Where’s the resistance?
Happy Caturday, Bluesky. They’re plotting an escape, I think. Perhaps they want to go to the capitol today. They hate maga. Good, sensible cats.
Good morning from Willamette Valley. A perfect day for peaceful protest. A perfect day to fight for the democracy. A perfect day to reclaim some joy, to do the right thing. A perfect day to stop the idiocy, the fascists, this twisted, perverted illusion of America.