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Passionate about nature, the environment, photography, craft beer, bourbon, mezcal, and good food. Horrified by the current state of my country.
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It’s Worse (opens the original)
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With the Biden administration we felt hope that our republic was strong and could survive the Trump debacle. Yet, too many Americans continued to believe his lies in their selfishness that echoes his “me, me, me, first” and voted IQ47 back into office.Then, the horror of the second Trump administration began with a boom—an aftershock of immense proportions. The cutting of agencies, the slashing of funding, the attacks on human beings of every skin tone by cutting back healthcare and food funding
A patriot (opens the original)
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Patriot: Someone who feels a deep, active loyalty to their native land.I hold the Republican Congress in contempt for failure to do their jobs in service of the people who elected them, for their support of the attacks on those Trump considers enemies, for their silence and encouragement of the deportation of spouses of our military members and those undocumented people who help to keep our country running, for their lack of support for proven science both medical and ecological, for their utter
Clown Car Redux (opens the original)
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American 250 Thoughts (opens the original)
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50 summers ago, virtually as one, the country celebrated our bicentennial. It was a joyous day! The Civil Rights Act had been passed a bit over a decade earlier, the Vietnam War was finally over as were—I thought—my days of protest, Nixon was gone, the Equal Rights Amendment was out for ratification (which, sadly due to missed deadlines has been ratified but not enacted) and a fellow photographer, a life-long friend, took the attached portrait in celebration of our country.50 years into the futu
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