Don Pedro

Troops in Iran without a congressional vote is unacceptable. Call your reps!

One more shot from the snowy day at the feeder. #birdwatching #birds #flicker

Busy day at the feeder.

Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested. It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

Midtown Manhattan Mariachis!

Bob Weir, a founding member of the iconic American rock group the Grateful Dead who seemingly never stopped touring for six decades, has died at 78. https://cnn.it/3LtRBFV

"It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation." --Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Sunday vibes.

Elon Musk's poison hall of mirrors from @cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Why are there so many songs about September?

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

Cigars!

Firing the top general in the US because he is black and replacing him with a less qualified white guy seems like the exact opposite of merit based hiring. Let's not pretend this about merit.

Microsoft said it created a new phase of physical existence that is not a liquid, solid or gas, a development many experts didn’t think possible.

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

Massive celebrations sweep across Syria as the nation ushers in 2025, marking the start of a new era free from the former Assad regime. This footage captures the jubilant atmosphere in Damascus.

When Mitch McConnell is our last defense against the coming days, you know we are in some deep kimchee.

U.S. border agents seized 3,000 fake Gibson guitars that arrived from Asia at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport. They would have been worth nearly $18 million if they were genuine, making it the largest counterfeit instrument seizure in history.

Working my way through my late father-in-law‘s John LeCarre collection. Elevates genre fiction to literature. I’ve become a hard-core fan.