Michael the Blue Dot in the Big Red Sea

Watercolour drawing of Green Street, Cambridge with the figure of a young woman in a green dress striding along and a few lightly-sketched bicycles.

I have produced quite a few paintings and drawings of Green Street in Cambridge over the years. Here's a watercolour and ink sketch showing the western end as it goes into Trinity Street. Not sure if I still have this one.
#Cambridge #watercolour #streetscene

Say it plain: This is a terrible jobs report.

The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, nearly double the expected loss of 50,000. It’s the third payroll decline in the past five months.

📌Note: This is one of the worst monthly payroll drops since Covid.

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

Oil up by $12 a barrel in less than 12 hours.

Gas prices skyrocketing.

Almost 100,000 jobs lost last month.

Another war in the Middle East.

Are we great again yet?

"Wow. A big drop" -- CNBC highlights that labor force participation is now the lowest it has been since in late 2021, before the covid vaccine was widely available

thanks so much my friend!

Irene Cara had a feeling. But she didn't start a war over it.

GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee votes to subpoena Bondi over Epstein Files “The American people want answers on the Epstein files, and so do we,” Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, who introduced the motion to subpoena Bondi, said.

🚨BREAKING: The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about her role in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) incomplete release of its files on convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

We updated our record of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die since Trump took office in January 2025.

As of today, agents have killed at least 28 people in the field and 48 people in custody.

Reminder that the US military budget is larger than the military spending of the next nine largest countries combined.

Over half goes to private defense contractors.

This is the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned of — on steroids.

Then you get a transfer case that feels significantly lighter, and you know why instinctively.

I wish every lawmaker could experience that feeling before they vote to send our troops to war.

Russian military deaths are at an all time high in 4 years of war.

Ukraine has cards it seems

NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities

McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.

US election: Full transcript of Donald Trump's obscene videotape The full transcript of the conversation between Donald Trump and a TV host in 2005 in which the US presidential candidate made obscene comments about women.

If only this had been enough to end his political career.

Full transcript of Donald Trump's obscene videotape
Published

9 October 2016

www.bbc.com/news/electio...

AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do

Worse than a nightmare, a person can wake up from that, I don’t know how we wake up from what’s happening now

Our country is a nightmare

They always have trillions of dollars for illegal wars in the Mideast, but SCOFF in your face and clutch their pearls when you ask for universal healthcare. You are all being played.

Chris Murphy: "We need to stand up for the American citizens that ICE is murdering, the kids they're terrorizing. They should stop this illegal war and they should stop ICE from terrorizing our communities. We should demand they do both things."

Ten years and counting. Just thinking about him, dealing with the news about him, knowing about the stupid, evil stuff he is doing, every day I can feel him sucking the life out of us.

We have lost a decade of our life to an evil idiot…a dolt. A moron. One of the most racist and dumbest humans on the planet.

10 years.

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

Joker is President 🤡
Releasing all the Bad Guys

Changpeng Zhao
Joe Lewis
Julio M. Herrera Velutini
Terren Scott Peizer
Adriana & Andres Camberos
Todd & Julie Chrisley
Lawrence S. Duran
David Gentile
Arthur Hayes
Trevor Milton
Rudy Giuliani
Juan Orlando Hernández
Ross Ulbricht

...100s more!

Why do they so blatantly lie? Because they can. Because no one is stopping them. Trump's DoJ now considers anyone who is anti-Trump to be a domestic terrorist. Folks, those warehouses are not just for migrants he's deporting. They are for Americans who RESIST Trump's fascism

I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my friends into iron lungs.

We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives.

RFK Jr. is a disgrace.

New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.

A MOTHER JONES SCOOP! New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had a years-long business tie with the sex offender. This challenges his claim he had minimal contact with Epstein. The two were involved in a deal for six years, and an email shows they discussed it. @nlanard.bsky.social