Daffodils

Hello Friends,

This is my 800th image-of-the-week email. Hey, it gives me something to do.

These are daffodils I found at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We were there in March, and being a place that was fairly cold and dry then we didn't find much else in bloom, so these had to do. I shot them with my Panasonic Lumix GX7 with 3D lens, using frame sides for phantogram processing.

I should probably stop here, but I won't. I'm disgusted. Are you disgusted by a world leader who represents himself as Jesus and threatens to annihilate an entire culture overnight, who you can be fairly certain that anything he says isn't true?

As he negotiates with Iran's leadership to end a war he chose to start, the American team was built around personal and political proximity to Trump rather than actual expertise, and the results reflect it. It's amateur hour absent any negotiator familiar with the history of U.S.-Iranian relations, leaving us to watch an impulsive, ignorant president drag us into a war with disastrous results for the entire world. Trump was a failed businessman who played a canny real estate mogul on TV, but operating in the real world there are real consequences.

In other news this past week a Trumpian swipe at Minnesota, congress passed a bill to overturn a mining ban upstream from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) in Minnesota. I've canoed and fished in these waters. It will allow a Chilean mining giant to engage in copper-sulfide mining, which produces sulfuric acid, above the pristine BWCA. 165,000 people visit the BWCA annually, generating $1.1 billion in economic activity and supporting 17,000 jobs.

On a relatively happy note, I never would've thought I'd be quoting Tommy Tuberville, a successful ex-football coach, current republican senator, and candidate for governor of Alabama. In an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, Tuberville stated “Everything that goes on up in here, Benny, is about, ‘Oh, we got to get reelected. We got to keep the majority. Well, hell, we ain’t done anything in the majority. Why should we keep majority?”

Tuberville conceded that the party has only passed one major bill that was pushed ahead by Trump in reference the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill,” signed into law last July. “It’s embarrassing that we’re up here, raising money to continue with the same people being up here. It’s just nonsense. It’s really nonsense.”

Wishing for better,

Barry Rothstein

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