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A movie poster for a film titled "The Cooler" starring William H. Macy. Having him near gamblers at a casino makes them lose.
Yellow dog with perky ears is inside a clothes dryer.
A red-white-and-blue garland is draped in front of a receptionist's desk. Little American flags hanging from it are upside down.
A yellow dog with perky ears looks up to the right.
A yellow dog with perky ears and a blue harness.
Siley emoji with tears of laughter
Photo on the left of Colin Powell, US Army General, Diplomat, and a Secretary of State. Photo on the right of his tombstone at Arlington National Cemetary. Text above the photo states that Sec of Defense Hegseth removed Colin Powell's name, and names of people of color and all women's names, from the list of those buried at Arlington. SOD is a POS.
Barack Obama is sitting on a rock overlooking the ocean. He says "We are the first generation to feel the effect of climate change, and the last generation who can do something about it."
Quote from K Leavitt: "It's hard for Pres. Trump to make key decisions on Iran when he doesn't have enough intelligence."
Haldeman, Colson, and Ehrlichman posing for their prison mug shots. Staff of President Nixon went to prison for aiding in his crimes.
Text of an X post from US Representativ Maxine Dexter. "DJT is clearly unfit for office. His truth social post is incomprehensibly dangerous and unhinged. The GOP is complicit and mst wake up from their stupor to save our nation." And from Sen. Christ Murphy "If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more."
In a passenger train. One older woman is reading. A second one is napping, while a rabbit dresses in blue sitting next to her has a basket of colored eggs.
A golden retriever service dog at the 3/28 No Kings protest in Missouri stood fast with his person.
A golden retriever service dog has a sign that says "Good Boy Against Tyranny."
A golden retriever service dig has a sign "Good Boy against tyranny."
Richard Nixon's henchmen got sent to prison. These photos show Haldeman, Colson, and Ehrlichman in their prison mug shots.
A 1985 Dodge light blue 15 passenger van. It has a lot of windows.
Picture on the left -- D Trump with the words "MAGA Christian Nationalism" above him. Picture on the right --Ayatollah with the words "Iranian Islamic Principlism" above him. Under the both, a list of their similarities: anti-science, anti-women, anti-LGBTQ, anti-democracy, anti free speech, control education, ban books, one religion pro gun, totally 8ncompetent, no sense of humor.
Catherine Howard, fifth wife of England's king Henry VIII, was beheaded after less than two years of marriage to the monarch.
A bird called a brown thresher is seeking pollen from the flowers on a cactus.
Richard Nixon's henchmen Haldeman, Colson, and Ehrlichman, in their prison id photographs. Mug shots.
Prison photos of Richard Nixon's staff members who served time for Dickie's crimes.
Mug shots of John Mitchell, attorney general to Richard Nixon, and other Nixon aides as they were processed at the start of their prison terms.
"Record-Breaking Warmth Spreads East This Week." The Weather Undergound site says over 200 million people in the US and Canada will experience much warmer than normal temps Feb 16-19.
Armadillo in brown grass with snow nearby, rooting around for food.
A woman responds to a person saying "protests don't belong in a church." The response: "You are literally a Protestant. A PROTESTant. Do you think Luthar was nailing Bed, Bath, and Beyond coupons to the door?"
Winter Olympics at Milano Cortina. The Jamaican 4 man bobsled colored yellow, green, and black, for the Jamaican flay. is going down a snowy hill. A black SUV with ICE painted on it is chasing the bobsled. An announcer in a booth says "Tell ICE that they cannot deport the Jamaican Bobsled Team. Watch the movie "Cool Runnings" for context.
These US Congress Democrats voted 1/22 to give DHS and ICE more money: Gluesenkamp Perez, Gonzalez, Gillen, Suozzi, Davis, Cuellar, Golden.
Bumper sticker on a Chevy truck says "The American Revolution was Liberal Activism."
A cut and past summary of activity on the 20 January Dow Industrial Average stock market. Down 870.74 points today. The US President's actions seem bent on tanking the US economy.
Text from Section 4 of the US Constitution, stating that the Vice President and a majority of heads of executive departments provide a written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
Text of Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution.
The Minneapolis Labor Union Delegation endorse a Day of Truth and Freedon. Friday, 23 January, 2026, No work, no school, no shopping.
Prison photos of Haldeman, Colson, and Ehrlichman, Republicans working for Richard Nixon.
An astro image. In a starry background, red hydrogen from a 10,000 Kelvin gas cloud encloses a clear transparent round "bubble" with a bright star inside.
A swirly gray galaxy in a black background with various size white dots that are stars. Fred Espenak photo.
Minnesota recognizes Castle Doctrine only through case law and only for the home, while requiring retreat when safe outside the dwelling.
An image with a US National Parks entrance pass. It has likenesses of George Washington and Donald Trump on it. Trump's face is covered by a round yellow smiley face sticker. This invalidates the park pass. The US Department of Justice "cracks down on stickers."
An older couple at a funeral home are talking near a casket with a deceased person in it. One says "He lived a wonderful life, which United Health Care deemed had gone on long enough."
Agent 86 Maxwell Smart, from the 60's sitcom Get Smart, talking into a shoe phone.
Yellow dog in a blue plaid coat looks out off a porch, into sunshine.
Pizza with red sauce, cheese, pepperoni, and spinach leaves.
A Christmas tree ornament of Tom Baker as the 4th Dr. Who, with his big hat and 17 foot striped knitted scarf.
A yellow dog wearing a Santa hat looks up, with one brown and one blue eye.
Groucho Marx in one of his movies sings a song with the refrain "Whatever it is, I'm against it!"
1962 photo of Nikita Kruschev saying "We will bury you" as a threat to the US.
A Simpsons episode with Bart on the witness stand of a courtroom, and a lawyer holds a doll toward him.
A mountain goat is laying in a patch of grass, enjoying the August sunshine at high elevation at US Glacier National Park.
A picture of an Arizona hillside with cacti pointing upward.
The Moon and Mars in the same photo. Magnified 250x.
A yellow dog with perky ears is wearing a blue plaid coat. He's standing on a front porch, looking out into sunshine.
Two astronauts are eating meals in front of a large flat screen that shows them images and text. This is from the 1968 movie "2001: A Space Odyssey." Film synopsis--AI takes over and kills everyone.
A magnified view of the Sun with a group of sunspots. The detail on the spots shows umbra (darker areas) surrounded by penumbra (fainter diffuse areas).
Night time picture of M33, a spiral Galaxy in the constellation Triangulum. A line across the lower half of the pic is a satellite trail.
A red emission nebula ngc 7635 and an open cluster M 52 in the constellation Cassiopeia. A SeeStar S50 image, 52 minutes exposure.