Tootfinder

We had to drive over to Queanbeyan to pick up an order at the farm shop there.
We don't get there very often so we took the opportunity to go for a bit of a wander by the river afterwards. I forgot how pretty it is.
#Queanbeyan #Australia

Good evening folks! these are the last two #photos from our hike in the #schwarzwald (seen on my blog).
I saw that little stream next to our route and stepped down there to take some photos. The strong highlights in the back made it very hard to take the photos that I had intended. I guess …

"Henry Bolton, former politician who was the leader of the UK Independence Party, is utterly aghast at the rumors that Trump is sending emissaries to moscow to rubber-stamp putin’s invasion. If this is true, Bolton argues, Trump isn’t just selling out Ukraine, he’s tearing up every rule that’s kept europe relatively peaceful for the last 50 years and confirming to every tin-pot dictator that borders are just suggestions."
Some People Get It – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2025/11/30/some-people-get-it/

Peaceful sunrise over the LA basin, looking North from Rancho Palos Verdes. Mary and Joseph Retreat Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA. August, 2025. #ranchopalosverdes #sunrise #landscape

New #Pixelfed post:
#Fediverse

thank goodness we had a peaceful transfer of power
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/07/president-biden-rose-garden-speech-trump-election/76108284007/

Biden says 'giving up is unforgivable,' assures peaceful transfer of power after Trump win
President Biden vowed Thursday to ensure a "peaceful transfer of power" following Donald Trump's decisive victory in 2024 election.

Moody Urbanity 🟩
情绪化城市 🟩
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Russia strikes peaceful cities again – partisans respond in Crimea: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/23/russia-strikes-peaceful-cities-again.html

“The President has sent agents here to create chaos and riots in Portland,
to induce a reaction,
to induce protests,
to induce conflicts.
His goal is to make Portland look like what he’s been describing it as,”
Oregon’s junior senator,
Jeff Merkley said.
“He wants to induce a violent exchange.
Let us not grant him that wish.
Let us be the force of orderly, peaceful protest.”

No Fishing on this morning walk...
(From a beautiful and positively frozen Sunday AM in late 2022... I shared those images already back then, but hey...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Good morning on this #siletSunday - it's windy and rainy outside. Maybe I'll just have a walk later. I'm quite happy that we did a hike yesterday!
And just now I used the time to write about a hike I did this May:

Long weekend upcoming here in Germany!
I was able to take this photo during our #vaction in the #schwarzwald on a rainy day. I was really happy to see this kind of misty moment.
I hope you enjoy viewing it as much as I enjoyed the hike.
Some more about this day can be read here:…

Protip: if you get tired of the flood of AI discourse, just read it as being short for "Artificial Inseminaton" for a while.

Such a peaceful man, so peaceful, more peaceful than Jesus or Ghandi.
Did I mention that this peaceful man is in charge of the world's most powerful military and has nuclear launch codes?
So why is Norway in a panic about the retribution that this peaceful many may inflict if he does not get the Nobel Peace Prize?
Perhaps he is not really a peaceful man? (I wonder if he is a man at all.)
"Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize…

Asking “…all the soldiers of the army of the US not to point their rifles at humanity," is _not_ having “…urged U.S. soldiers to…incite violence,” in fact seems to be the opposite of a call for violence (it is a call to be peaceful).
Petro is the current President of Columbia.
https://www.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Bon Iver:
🎵 Everything Is Peaceful Love
#BonIver
https://boniver.bandcamp.com/track/everything-is-peaceful-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/4XosapYiYaXGcxc83p3DD9

A "war" which is very "civil";
Donald Trump says he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/27/portland-oregon-us-military-trump

Sometimes when I go to the swimming pool it's fun to jump in the deep end, sink to the bottom (a whole 2 metres down) and hold my breath for 15-20 seconds or so. It's so quiet and peaceful that for a moment you can forget everything.
But this, this is completely unimaginable. A new world record has been set for free diving - Alexey Molchanov has swum down to 126 metres (and back up again!) and held his breath for over 4½ minutes.
My mind is completely and utterly boggled. Not to mention my lungs.
#freediving
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c4gvw7zmwgko

🔥 War expands: Russia strikes peaceful cities again while Europe prepares for a major storm!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/19/war-expands-russia-strikes-peaceful.html

“We’re constantly told, you know, we need to see peaceful protests. Well, here’s a peaceful protest … We projected a piece of journalism on to a wall and now people have been arrested for malicious communications. I think that, frankly, says a lot more about the policing of Trump’s visit than it does about what we did.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/four-arrested-after-image-of-trump-and-epstein-projected-onto-windsor-castle-ahead-of-presidents-visit

ICE purposefully rammed their vehicle into a protestor’s truck in California.
In Chicago, federal agents tear gassed local police during a protest.
This is what happens when a wannabe dictator is running the country.
This is why millions of Americans peacefully stood up to defend our rights in the No Kings protests.
Peaceful protest is not a crime. It’s the foundation of our democracy.
I’m Fred Wellman
—Army combat veteran, entrepreneur, dad, MeidasTouch …

How does genocide happen in 2025? Because of toadies like Keir Starmer.
He should be sitting at The Hague alongside Netanyahu, Trump, Friedrich Merz, and everyone else who is complicit in the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people.
#israel #genocide

#WarRavagedPortland
Portlanders mock Trump by posting pics of peaceful weekend activities in ‘War ravaged’ city | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/portland-oregon-war-ravaged-trump-mocked-b2835092.html

Moody Urbanity - Metro Consistency 🗿
情绪化城市 - 都市质地 🗿
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Bon Iver:
🎵 Everything Is Peaceful Love
#BonIver
https://boniver.bandcamp.com/track/everything-is-peaceful-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/4XosapYiYaXGcxc83p3DD9

[OT] I'm not particularly interested in AI or AGI, because it seems to lack incentives for moving toward a peaceful, more caring world where attention is authentic. The incentive is mostly to outsmart.

New #Pixelfed post:
#Nature

This is another photo I was able to take in the #schwarzwald . You might have seen it in my recent blog post. But I wanted to share it here as well.
What really surprises me is how it looked on location vs here now. On location there was a lot of forest around, lots of clutter. It was a challenge to find this view through the foreground so that I could single out this gem of a tree but…

Starmer who champions '“law and order,” 'presses the police to obstruct peaceful demonstrations and oversees mass arrests of non-violent sit-ins. Yet when police take a safety-based decision to bar the notoriously violent fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv — already banned by Amsterdam City Council because of the riots they instigated in the Dutch city last November — he claims anti-semitism, in order to ingratiate himself with the pro-Israel political right.'
| Morning Star

#NoKings #Berlin
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/842166/

Here at one of my favourite tumuli, in Thetford forest, in East Anglia, UK. This is the view from the top. Very peaceful.
#SilentSunday

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

“We understand that Katie, whose home was safely protected by dozens of heavily armed security and police, was terrified of our sidewalk chalk and messages — terrifying messages such ‘immigrants are people’ or ‘protect the constitution’ ... We believe in those statements deeply, in our peaceful activism, and the belief that every single human being here in Arlington deserves to be treated with the same dignity and respect that Katie and Stephen expect from us.”

Chalk messages at Arlington home of top White House official strike a nerve with GOP heavyweights | ARLnow.com
A sidewalk chalk protest at the North Arlington home of a top Trump administration official became a talking point for powerful Republican voices this week. The Sunday demonstration around the home of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller involved a handful of activists writing in chalk on sidewalk slabs with messages like "hate

Fascist Paramilitary dragging peaceful protesters across a property line so they can violently attack and abduct protesters. [Portland]
As the source states, this is a metaphor for what is happening all over the country right now. The Fascist s are trying everything they can to escalate.
Source: https://v.redd.it/4v6vdviwehxf1

The president thinks his rule is absolute.
But in America, we don’t have kings,
and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty.
Grow our movement and join us.
📍 Where: Alameda Park,
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
When: 12 Noon, October 18, 2025
The rally at Alameda Park will be followed by a march to De La Guerra Plaza.
More details on the rally and march will follow.

NO KINGS Santa Barbara · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together. The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down…

🇺🇳 The #UN General Assembly has endorsed a roadmap toward Palestinian statehood without Hamas involvement.
The “New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution” (document A/80/L.1/Rev.1) was adopted by a recorded vote of 142 in favor to 10 against with 12 abstentions.
The text of the declaration demands that…

Concrete Jungle II 🏗️
水泥丛林 II 🏗️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

A peaceful morning on the Chicago River.

view from my window

Freedom fighters were always called "terrorists" by occupying powers who demand abject submission. Now that's extended to people who utter even the most timid peaceful protests as well.

No Kings rally in Evanston, IL, looking N, W and S.
A good time, peaceful, neighborly. Democracy.
cc
@…
@…
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For the past three weeks, I’ve been attending protests at the Broadview ICE facility.
There’s been a vigil there for almost two decades at this point, but they started ramping up after three protesters were arrested four weeks ago.
Three weeks ago, we went, and it was very peaceful.
We ended up actually getting a car to turn around.
Last week, when we went, ICE assaulted a lot of us.
We went early because they changed their deportation time to around 6 a.m.

I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE.
An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.

If your life is too peaceful you need a cat in your life
#cats

I wonder how hard it would be to fabricate something that might (inadvertently, of course) disrupt the functioning of a drone that was, for instance, flying around a peaceful demonstration? I know it’s a federal felony (punishable by up to 20 years in prison) to shoot them down, or point a laser at them. But maybe something in a pocket, or backpack? So it’s not visible? #askingforafriend…

(From BlueSky post)
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
Source: https://

Set in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows author Carol Sturka, who is one of only twelve people in the world immune to an extraterrestrial virus that transforms the world's population into a peaceful and content hive mind (the "Others")

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Rufus Wainwright:
🎵 Peaceful Afternoon
#RufusWainwright
https://open.spotify.com/track/66mTrUrfuDLFPQCB8R188W

Moody Urbanity - Old & New II 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 II 🔆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Me too!
https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115487186656267241

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Grounding
Jan Hammer Group:
🎵 Peaceful Sundown
#JanHammerGroup
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xfOvIRVN08EgN2wB0LyWY

I have some more #photos from the lake from the previous post 😄
For these I went on another side of the lake where there were quite some heather around. - While my wife was taking a small snack, I walked around and searched for nice foregrounds with which I could play and make an appealing memory
And even though I'd also have taken a small rest, I'm more than happy that I spe…

“‘Sending armed soldiers to suppress peaceful protests is what kings and dictators do — and Greg Abbott just proved he’s one of them,’ Texas House Minority Leader Gene Wu said in a statement.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/greg-abbott-…

Abbott to send National Guard to Austin for No Kings rally
Abbott’s deployments come as Republicans, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, vilify the planned nationwide protests as a “hate America” gathering.

Favorite landscape and time of year.
(Upper glacial valleys are often so colorful and especially in autumn, when the colors of the many different types of rocks are complemented by those of the tundra vegetation up there... it's a harsh climate/environment, at the same time so peaceful/friendly [if the weather is right] — a feast for the eyes and good for the soul... yet, each time also a bittersweet experience, seeing how fast glaciers are disappearing)

Some leftists have criticized #NoKingsDay2 as useless. Though it was the largest protest in US history, it didn't change anything. I would go further to say that protests like these generally won't change anything. Dictators aren't forced to step down by 2% of the population coming out for one day. If they're forced to step down by protests, those protests are sustained. They are every single day. They are accompanied by general strikes.
We've been watching that happen all over the world. Portland in 2020 gave us a taste of that in the US. The George Floyd Rebellion was the type of resistance that actually brings down dictators like Trump. Occasional protests, no matter how large, can simply be ignored. That is precisely the reason the US developed a militarized police force in the first place. You need more, more than the largest protests in US history, more than Occupy, more than the resistance of the 60's and 70's, more than, and different from, anything we've seen in our lives.
And yet... Each protest has grown, and grown bolder. Some have grown more persistent. If you think of protest as the path to achieve change, you will lose. It is not. But it is a path to escalate. Some people, some otherwise comfortable white folks, came out for their first time. Some people got pepper sprayed for the first time. Some people questioned authority, stood up for the first time, and have had an experience that will radicalize them for the rest of their lives.
Protest is not useful in and of itself. It is training. It's making connections. Authoritarian regimes rely on the illusion of compliance, so visual resistance does actually undermine their power.
Liberals like to teach that non-violence is all about staying peaceful no matter what, that there's some way that morality simply overwhelms an enemy. I remember reading Langston Hughes' A Dream Deferred in high school. I said it was a threat. My teacher said, "you're wrong, he was a pacifist." Pacifism is a threat. If you can spit at me, beat me, shoot me, and I will not move, if I have the strength to absorb violence without flinching, without even rising to violence, what will happen when you push me too far?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
For peaceful resistance to work, there must be ambiguity. It must not be clear if or when the resistance will stop being peaceful. Peaceful resistance with no possibility of escalation is just cowardice.
My critique then is not so harsh as some other anarchists. If you think that protest alone will work, you're probably going to lose. If you are prepared to escalate, if you are prepared to absorb violence without flinching, then it could be possible for protest alone to topple the dictator. The cracks are already beginning to show.
And then what?
The problems that lead to the George Floyd uprising were never resolved. The problems that lead to Occupy where never resolve. The DAPL was built, protesters were maimed, it leaked multiple times (exactly as predicted). Segregation never went away, it only changed forms. The fact that immigrants have different courts and different rights means that anyone can be arbitrarily kidnaped and renditioned to an arbitrary country. We never did anything about the torture black site. FFS, people can still be stripped of their voting rights and slavery is still legal in the US. The people who control both parties in the US are killing our children and grand children with oil wars and climate change.
Toppling the dictator does nothing to resolve all of the problems that existed before him.
No, #NoKingsDay was absolutely not useless. #NoKings and related protests are extremely useful but they aren't sufficient. But, I think we still need to challenge the movement on two points:
How do you escalate after you're ignored or brutalized?
What do you demand after you win?
#USPol

As huge companies, giant universities, and $billionaire race to kiss the orange ass, I increasing am losing faith that existing legal, Constitutional, or peaceful procedures are going to end our national nightmare.

#goodmorning from a grey morning walk.
It's chill and I don't feel 100% well.
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I tried creating the alt text with #mistral today. I thought: if I'm using a tool for that, I could also just support a European company. 🤔

In short: I’ve spent over 500 hours watching the Moomins, and it’s still my favorite series of all time.
I truly love the world of the Moomins from the 90s. It is not only a way for me to escape today's shit. but a place that feels alive inside me, where friends cook together, wander through the woods, and make each other laugh in the sunshine. It gives me a sense of direction whenever the outside world feels too shit and broken.
I love it because life in the valley shows tha…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
John Williams, John Williams & Boston Symphony Orchestra:
🎵 Concerto For Violin And Orchestra - 2. Slowly (In Peaceful Contemplation)
#JohnWilliams #BostonSymphonyOrchestra
https://open.spotify.com/track/0a4RZyE7k6yKLHcY6SrtJd

https://www.compactmag.com/article/what-bap-learned-from-feminism/
I have no idea why so many people equate matriarchy with equality when they clearly contradict each other.

" @… noted that authoritarian regimes fear mass organizing and peaceful protest because they reveal a regime’s unpopularity and show that it is losing its grip on power."
"Much as tossing chests of tea into Boston Harbor did about 250 years ago." - @…

October 16, 2025
Yesterday the Trump administration announced it would pay furloughed troops by using funds Congress appropriated for research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDTE) for fiscal year 2026.

Russia is erasing our memories of a peaceful life: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/russia-is-erasing-our-memories.html

Welcome back - been busy the last days with meeting friends etc 🙂
But I wanted to show some more #photos from the #Lotharsteig in the #nationalparkschwarzwald . Different from …

The president thinks his rule is absolute.
But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty.
Grow our movement and join us.
The rally at Alameda Park will be followed by a march to De La Guerra Plaza
#SantaBarbara #nokings

No Kings 2 RallySanta Barbara
Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Guts feat. Lorine Chia:
🎵 Peaceful Life
#NowPlaying #Guts #LorineChia
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

It should be noted that the Nacirema absolutely do kill those outside of their tribes during highly ritualized combat. In fact, they are known and feared by many surrounding tribes for their war-like nature. But the previously mentioned taboo seems to be against the execution of the ritual for either enslavement or sacrifice of outsiders for sacrifice or enslavement within tribal territory. Similarly, the Nacirema will not seize slaves during their war raids to bring within their territory. However, it does seem that the tribute system which the Nacirema impose on other tribes favors slavery.
The Elihcian people even tell stories of a chief who tried to end a slave-like practice among their people and refused tribute to the Nacirema. The chief of the Nacirema send emissaries to plot the murder of great chief of the Elihcian with the strongest nobles who were the largest slave owners. The war chief of the Elihcian, a friend of the Nacirema chief, then took over the tribe, enslaved many and paid even more tribute to the Nacirema chief. Many tribes to the South of the Nacirema have very similar stories.
Strangely, again, the Nacirema do not see themselves as war-like. Rather, they see themselves as peaceful. When talking about war and war-raids, they will even sometimes use a phase that means "maintaining" or "sustaining peace" to describe them.
Again, it seems to be the use of ritual that allows them to declare slavery and human sacrifice as "justice" and to declare war as "peace."

Navigating the herd.
(There were 170 highland cattle, sometimes just a few inches away... quite a few blocking the path with their calves and feeling agitated so we had to navigate/bypass through the talus fields higher up, giving these beauties more space...)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday doubled down on his criticisms of millions of protesters who joined Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies across the nation,
decrying the peaceful demonstrations as evidence of
“a rise of Marxism in the Democratic Party.”
https://www.politico.co…

One reason why we chose #Baiersbronn for our last vacation was the #Landesgartenschau (#Garden show?).
It would have been a gem for flower and garden

"The degree of equality of women within countries predicts best—better than their degree of democracy and better than their level of wealth, income inequality or ethno-religious identity—how peaceful or conflict-ridden their countries are. Further, democracies with higher levels of violence against women are less stable and more likely to choose force rather than diplomacy to resolve conflict."
The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy
https://www.juancole.com/2025/10/mortal-sins-patriarchy.html

Ukraine strikes hard at Russian factories while the occupier destroys peaceful cities: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/ukraine-strikes-hard-at-russian.html

Oh it seems I'm lacking a bit behind with all the #photos from the #schwarzwald . Well, I don't want to flood you with all the forest. 😄
These photos are from another hike to another hike though the Black Forest and to one of those very cool black lakes. This time I brought my pol…

Father Larry Dowling's account of leading a Eucharistic Procession to offer Holy Communion to those held by ice in Broadview, IL (near Chicago) and being barred from doing so.
"No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ."

Iran had been enriching uranium up to 60% purity
— a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels
— after Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers in 2018.
Tehran long has maintained its atomic program is peaceful, though the West and the IAEA say Iran had an organized nuclear weapons program up until 2003.
Iran says it is no longer enriching uranium at any of its nuclear sites;

Iran says it is no longer enriching uranium at any of its nuclear sites; AP explains
Iran had been enriching uranium up to 60% purity — a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels — after U.S.

Met new friends on my morning walk.
#goodmorning #morningwalk #sheep

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Leon Bridges:
🎵 Peaceful Place
#LeonBridges
https://open.spotify.com/track/2OiJ2pEQlLPnOywokPkG4N

Moody Urbanity - Inclination ↖️
情绪化城市 - 傾斜 ↖️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year,
the Trump administration is now reportedly considering granting protection to members of far-right European parties.
According to the New York Times, the proposal that Donald Trump is now weighing would prioritize Europeans who are allegedly
“targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”
The pro…

Trump could soon make America’s refugee program a tool for white nationalism
The White House is considering a plan to overhaul refugee admissions in favor of right-wing whites.

Get a sense of scale of the Broadview ice facility and the peaceful city of Chicago.
I made this to help people be more realistic about the scale and scope of what’s going on (and not going on) in Chicago.
cc @… @…

Video of fascist paramilitary using excessive force on peaceful protesters in Portland used as evidence during Federal trial this week. Portland Police testified they observed ICE used excessive force
Source: https://v.redd.it/tp80zg6bcwyf1

I just updated my latest #Pixelfed post to cut back on the excessive emojis, haha.
https://pixelfed.social/p/midtsveen/869670749084242036

hey! here are the last four #photos from our walk in the #schwarzwald . There were some pretty beautyful trails and - also a little blister-issue. But thanks to being prepared, it was easy to fix and we could enjoy the rest of the walk.
Some more photos and a short clip are on the blog:

Urban Adventure 🏞️
城市探险 🏞️
📷Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️Ilford HP5, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

New #Pixelfed post!
#Fediverse

NO KINGS Santa Barbara
Rally · Volunteer organized
Saturday, October 18
12 – 3pm PDT
Alameda Park
1400 Santa Barbara St
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/839871/

NO KINGS Santa Barbara · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together. The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down…

Whil I'm editing photos from our vacation I quickly share this from last year for #WaterfallWednesday .
Enjoy!
#photography #nature

Moody Urbanity - Odes II 🎶
情绪化城市 - 颂 II🎶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

A federal judge in Illinois has ordered the Trump administration to stop beating, shooting at, and generally using violence against journalists and peaceful protesters.
The Thursday ruling comes as ICE and the National Guard tear through the streets of Chicago,
shooting at and arresting journalists, protesters, and immigrants alike.
Judge Sara Ellis, an Obama appointee overseeing this case,
has suspended federal agents from
“using riot control weapons,”
…

Judge Orders ICE to Stop Injuring Journalists Reporting on Them
A federal judge has ordered all of Trump’s agents to stop using violence against journalists and protesters.

One more photo stop that we did after quite a rain pour in the #schwarzwald.
We came up this path when I turned around and saw the sun beams through the canopy. At first I was really stunned to be honest as I hardly *ever* see such scenes!
Strangely I took ways less photos than might have been appropriate, but those two I found worth sharing.
Some more story about them:

Hey guys! two more #schwarzwald #photos! And I found them a perfect fit for #FootpathFriday as well.
This day's hike was so diverse. narrow trails, ferns and moss, a lake, some heat…

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said on X on Saturday that Trump’s threats
“are beneath the honor of our nation,
but the reality is that he wants to occupy our city and break our Constitution.”

“We must defend our democracy from this authoritarianism
by protecting each other and protecting Chicago from Donald Trump,” Johnson wrote.

Largely peaceful protests broke out across the city on Saturday,
with thousands of marchers taking over Michigan Avenue demandin…

Trump border czar warns sanctuary cities nationwide to ‘expect action’
The Trump administration plans federal action in cities with immigrant-friendly policies nationwide to support immigration enforcement, according to border czar Tom Homan.

Moody Urbanity - Relations IV 🧶
情绪化城市 - 关系 IV 🧶
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ Shanghai GP3 400 Pan
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes:
🎵 Peaceful Ones
#LonnieListonSmith #TheCosmicEchoes
https://atrice.bandcamp.com/track/lonnie-liston-smith-the-cosmic-echoes-peaceful-ones-mercatale-in-val-di-pesa-atrice-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Gssby4egWBROYsuPtrSx7

On The Road - To Xi’An/Urban Tomb 🪦
在路上 - 去西安/城市坟茔 🪦
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Heyo, I want to share this #photo from a walk in June near #Ebersberg. It's been quite a nice walk, yet no SUPER photos. But maybe enough to bring a smile on your face :)

On The Road - To Xi’An ⛅️
在路上 - 去西安 ⛅️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️Kentmere Pan 200
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Cat