Let sleeping dogs lie?

@johnhthepoet

Poet, essayist, writer. Sustainable development, green building. Bread baker, fly fisher, picture taker. #flyfishing #bread #sourdough

155 Following210 Followers3,071 Posts

Bluesky

Is this your profile?Claim it and johnhthepoet.dirty.social is yours.Claim profile

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· 28d

Superior National Forest / BWCA is burning, tourism down, economy hurting and MN CD8 is represented by a climate denier according to www.americanprogress.org/article/clim...

But Stauber wouldn’t say he believes humans cause climate change.

“The fact of the matter is, we know that the climate had been changing for a lot of years, and the fact of the matter is, scientists have said the temperature of the Earth has risen and fallen over these billions of years,” Stauber said.

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Jul 9

The Commentary does not note the tool is a work in progress. Nor does the linked web site. The screen capture is from moments ago. The zip code in question is and has been for decades, part of MN CD8. Emmer as you know, represents MN CD6.

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Jul 5

In honor of the holiday weekend, the "king's" jesters👇

scotus 6: Top row: Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito; bottom row: Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· May 26

Meet "NOBODY"👇‼️

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· May 19

It's the best price for US‼️

photo of 3 quarters, one dime, one penny
next to
four dimes, seven pennies

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· May 9

Clearly, this is no longer sufficient:

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Apr 22

an instigation to an archy

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Apr 22

Happy Earth Day!

2026 Earth Day Theme: Our Power, Our Planet

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Apr 2

"They started it by hitting US back first‼️"

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Mar 13

When they're all at Council, there's Gnome-one home!

A COUNCIL OF GNOMES.
Illustration of gnomes and fairies with woodland creatures gathering for a meeting.

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Feb 26

MN CD8 doesn't have much representation for it's environmental wonders like the BWCA. Remember come November: www.lcv.org/congressiona...

League Conservation Voters rating for Rep. Stauber MN CD8: 2025-3%; Lifetime 8%

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Feb 9

Man and woman with flashlights and foggy background. Caption: TRUST NO ONE The X Files

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Jan 30

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Jan 20

On the Fifth Day
by Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield

On the fifth day
the scientists who studied the rivers
were forbidden to speak
or to study the rivers.

The scientists who studied the air
were told not to speak of the air,
and the ones who worked for the farmers
were silenced,
and the ones who worked for the bees.

Someone, from deep in the Badlands,
began posting facts.

The facts were told not to speak
and were taken away.
The facts, surprised to be taken, were silent.

Now it was only the rivers
that spoke of the rivers,
and only the wind that spoke of its bees,

while the unpausing factual buds of the fruit trees
continued to move toward their fruit.

The silence spoke loudly of silence,
and the rivers kept speaking
of rivers, of boulders and air.

Bound to gravity, earless and tongueless,
the untested rivers kept speaking.

Bus drivers, shelf stockers,
code writers, machinists, accountants,
lab techs, cellists kept speaking.

They spoke, the fifth day,
of silence.

—2017

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Jan 12

Try one of these

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Jan 10

See how you feel about this👇

Corbin Trent

PS. Lets talk about dangerous jobs. About the risks our heroes take. Here are seventeen jobs more deadly than being a police officer:

Fishing workers. Loggers. Roofers. Construction helpers. Pilots. Garbage collectors. Structural ironworkers. Truck drivers. Miners. Farmers. Groundskeepers. Power-line workers. Construction laborers. Equipment operators. Agricultural workers. Landscaping supervisors. Mechanics supervisors.

Cops come in at number eighteen. Behind the guys who pick up your trash. Behind the guys who roof your house. Behind the farmers who grow your food and the truckers who deliver it.

But when a roofer falls off a ladder, nobody calls him a hero. When a logger gets crushed by a tree, nobody demands absolute immunity for the logging company. When a trucker dies in a wreck after driving thirty hours straight because that’s what the job requires, we don’t wrap his coffin in a flag.

We save that for the guys who shoot unarmed women in the face and call it self-defense.

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Jan 9

From a former FBI agent

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Dec 20

Here's a sketch for an appropriate monument to our FOTUS‼️

drawing of a hand with middle finger raised

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Dec 19

“a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner. Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire.” may the ghosts of Christmas do him as they did Scrooge

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Nov 27

Happy Thanksgiving from our flock to you and yours'

photo of a flock of wild turkeys on snow-covered ground with seasonal greenery in the foreground and woods in the background

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Nov 23

Doesn't this language have tRUMP admitting his orders are illegal⁉️👇

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Oct 31

Wishing a blessed Samhain and Happy Halloween to all who believe‼️

three streaking jack-o-lanterns against a black background

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Oct 30

tRUMP and GOP version of negotiating:

the famous "Death" issue of the National Lampoon magazine, released January 1973. The cover, photographed by Ronald G. Harris,[1] showed the dog with a gun pointed to his head, and the caption "If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog".

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Oct 28

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, the federal agency behind mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities. Cancel your Spotify subscription. #DontStreamFascism

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Sep 26

How does the tRUMP regime measure up against The Honorable Harvest?

The Honorable Harvest, a practice both ancient and urgent, applies to every exchange between people and the Earth. Its protocol is not written down, but if it were, it would look something like this:

Ask permission of the ones whose lives you seek. Abide by the answer.

Never take the first. Never take the last.

Harvest in a way that minimizes harm.

Take only what you need and leave some for others.

Use everything that you take.

Take only that which is given to you.

Share it, as the Earth has shared with you.

Be grateful.

Reciprocate the gift.

Sustain the ones who sustain you, and the Earth will last forever.

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Sep 20

About FOTUS: let an arse#ole scam an election, get buried in s#it‼️

Bright red bumper sticker with 2 lines of white letters:

86 TRUMP
Make America Great Again

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Sep 13

Teachers, firefighters and military personnel among those who lost jobs after posting their opinion on social media www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Sep 11

This👇 the kind of rhetoric "the left" is supposed to tone down?

DJT, FOTUS "I love the smell of deportations in the morning"

"Chicago abput to find out why it's called the Department of WAR"
over burning city w/helicopters in air and DJT squatting

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Sep 7

Trump's mug shot with text "Enema of Democracy"

Let sleeping dogs lie?@johnhthepoet· Aug 28

Kent State May 4, 1970 Nation Guard kills 4