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TeamProg's JournalMitch McConnell chases cats on a skateboard!
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Yosemite Falls - Upper Fall with 'Snow Cone'
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The Snow Cone is what is known as that base of ice on the pool at the bottom of the upper fall. From that pool, the Lower Fall flows.
Taken from 'Swinging Bridge" on 3.18.24
Nikon Z7II w/ 24-120 4.0 S lens
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I found these pretty stones
Okay, technically this is a screenshot of photographing my hand out over my back deck with the real time lay-over of the Sky View app 10 or so, minutes ago.
Sky View shows several planets nearly aligned. In this case, Mars is eclipsing Saturn with Neptune and Venus above.
Fun Fun Fun!
Historic Gold Rush town of Hornitos, CA - Ghiradelli General Store. Taken yesterday, April 8th
Hornitos, CA was apparently a wild Gold Rush town of money and debauchery. Also the place of the first Wells Fargo Express transferring $40k in gold daily.
In 1849, Ghirardelli received news of the gold strike at Sutter's Mill and sailed to California. After doing some prospecting, Ghirardelli opened a general store in Stockton, California, offering supplies and confections to fellow miners. Ghirardelli's tent-based store was one of the first shops set up in the area.
Several months later, Ghirardelli opened a second store on the corner of Broadway and Battery in San Francisco, which became, in 1850, his first establishment in that city.
Ghirardelli had a general store in Hornitos, California, between 1856 and 1859, during a gold rush,[4] where he perfected his chocolate recipes. The remains of the store can still be seen in town.
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Joaquin Murrieta
Born c. 1829
Álamos, Sonora, Mexico
Died July 25, 1853 (aged 23–24)
Mariposa County, California
Cause of death Gun fight in Mariposa
Resting place Hornitos, California
Other names The Robin Hood of El Dorado, The Mexican Robin Hood
Occupation(s) Vaquero, gold miner, outlaw
Known for Outlaw leader during time period of California Gold Rush
Spouse Rosa Feliz or Rosita Carmela or Rosita Carmel Feliz
Behind the Picture: Picasso Draws With Light
Through the 80's to 2000''s off and on, I experimented with flashes covered in colored gels to paint with light with an open shutter (on print film). Farther down are some open shutter pics of sand mermaids at night lit up by both my vehicle headlights and colored flashes, about yr 2000.
In looking into the history of it I read that Picasso was one of the early pioneers of light drawing. I just found this article online this morning to share here.
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https://www.life.com/arts-entertainment/behind-the-picture-picasso-draws-with-light/
When LIFE magazine’s Gjon Mili, a technical prodigy and lighting innovator, visited Pablo Picasso in the South of France in 1949, the meeting of these two artists and craftsmen resulted in something extraordinary. Mili showed Picasso some of his photographs of ice skaters with tiny lights affixed to their skates, jumping in the dark, and the Spanish genius’s ever-stirring mind began to race.
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This series of photographs, known ever since as Picasso’s “light drawings,” were made with a small electric light in a darkened room; in effect, the images vanished as soon as they were created and yet they still live, six decades later, in Mili’s playful, hypnotic images. Many of them were also put on display in early 1950 in a show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
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Red Bud blooming on river walk today.
On Merced River about 20 miles downstream from Yosemite Valley.
Walked down a dirt road that goes to some campgrounds.
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Eastern Sierra Nevada. "Heart Lake" located above Rock Creek Lake Rd off Hwy 395. Taken last summer, posted since there
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haven't been a lot of new photos posted this weekend!
AIPAC Email from Bernie Sanders. WTF ?? I mean, seriously, What The Fuck??!!
The email I just rec'd from Sen. Bernie Sanders:
You know it. I know it. The current American political system is corrupt.
You get to cast one vote. Billionaires get to spend hundreds of millions supporting or defeating candidates of their choice. That’s not democracy. That’s Oligarchy. And that’s why we must overturn the disastrous Supreme Court decision on Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.
But, in the mean time, living within this corrupt campaign finance system, we have to fight back and support progressive candidates under attack from right-wing billionaires.
One example.
As you may have heard, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and their billionaire-backed Super PAC are planning a $100 million campaign targeting progressive members of Congress this election.
If we do not support those members, I fear that no one will.
So today, I am reaching out asking you to split a donation between Reps. Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee and my campaign. If that's all you need to hear, use this link.
https://act.berniesanders.com/go/defend-progressives
Otherwise, let me be as blunt as I can about what is happening here:
AIPAC and other groups rely on right-wing billionaires in order to influence primary races and defeat progressives. They spend unlimited amounts of money to undermine our democracy, mislead voters, and maintain the status quo. When we talk about billionaires buying candidates and elections, this is exactly what we are talking about.
During the 2022 campaign, they spent $33 million largely attacking progressive candidates and supporting their right-wing opponents.
They spent more than $3 million attacking Summer Lee in Pennsylvania. They spent more than $1 million defeating Jessica Cisneros in her primary, and they spent significant sums of money to defeat Nina Turner in her primary.
They do it through a Super PAC ironically named the United Democracy Project. Yet, despite their “democracy” project, AIPAC endorsed over 100 election-denying Republicans who refused to certify Biden’s election and are funded by billionaires who want a "two-party" system that is united in support of large corporations and the rich. And, quite cynically, for an organization whose mission is to support "Pro-Israel” candidates, their ads attacking progressives often have nothing to do with that issue at all. They don't even have the courage to talk about the issue they ostensibly support in their ads.
Cowards and hypocrites!
In this election, AIPAC is expected to spend $100 million just to try and unseat progressive members of Congress who dare to speak out about what's going on in Gaza. Yes. As a candidate, all you have to do is speak out against the horrific and destructive war that Israel is waging against the Palestinian people and you will find yourself on the AIPAC Hitlist - and be the recipient of large amounts of money trying to defeat you.
It is also no coincidence that most of the candidates AIPAC targets are women and people of color, and they are almost all progressives who center their campaigns and their work in Congress on protecting the needs of the working people of this country.
So it will surprise no one to hear that the top donors to AIPAC's super PAC are a who's who of financial service industries: Highfields Capital Management, JLL Partners, Saban Capital Group, the right-wing founder of Home Depot, and more. They spend unlimited amounts of money to undermine our democracy, mislead voters, and maintain the status quo.
Billionaire participation in elections is nothing new but, every election cycle, they become bolder and more influential. And the elections of 2024 are shaping up to be the most dangerous yet — with progressives often the target.
So what can we do about it?
First, the progressive members of Congress being attacked by AIPAC deserve the full financial and organizational support of the Democratic Party establishment in their races. When progressives run against sitting members of Congress, the entire Democratic Party leadership contributes to the more conservative Democrat and floods their district with events and fundraisers. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, the progressive members of Congress deserve no less support from their House colleagues and leadership.
But these candidates need our help as well, because it would be a tragedy if Jamaal Bowman and Summer Lee were replaced in Congress by some conservative Democrat at a time when progressive voices are needed more and more.
So I am once again asking for your financial support:
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And btw, the Prog in Team Prog is for the "Progressive" Rock genre of music - not about politics.
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