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Nature photographer:
People often ask me where I find the subjects for my photos.
The beauty of nature is never far away. Just look around.

[RunningSpirit @RunningSpiritTX]

This is enchanting!

https://t.co/HdNz0VYLSk

[🦋 🌷Love Music 🎶 & Dance 💃🏻🕺🏻 @Tiana_Celine_23]

The "Prima Ballerina" fountain is located in Kosciuszko Square in the town center of Poddębice, Poland. Unveiled on August 3, 2024, this public installation features three ballerinas standing 2m tall, crafted by Polish sculptor Małgorzata Chodakowska who currently lives in Dresden. Her work lies at the intersection of sculpture and water installations and her portfolio includes projects in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Chodakowska's work is undeniably wonderful!

[RunningSpirit @RunningSpiritTX]

That's so beautiful. It makes me want to see the other letters.

[Diana Cotter@linnaeaborealis @DianaCotter5]

I finished this watercolour, hand-painted Letter E yesterday. It's decorated with life-sized Common Blue butterflies, a Wild Strawberry plant and a Ladybird.🦋🐞😀

[RunningSpirit @RunningSpiritTX]

@DeepLeaksHQ It does! The worst part is being fleeced while the people that genuinely need help mostly do not receive it.

[Just Facts @realjustfacts]

Pete Buttigieg claims that the Electoral College “makes no sense” and should be abolished because it is a remnant of “some very arcane, parochial politics in the 1770s.”

IN FACT, the Electoral College is a safeguard against mobocracy, which the authors of the Constitution rejected because it allows the majority to easily violate the rights of the minority. Here are the specifics:

• Early during the convention at which the U.S. Constitution was written, James Madison, the father of the Constitution and primary author of the Bill of Rights, declared that the new government they were creating must provide “more effectually for the security of private rights and the steady dispensation of Justice.”

• He then stressed that violations of these ideals “had more perhaps than any thing else, produced this convention.”

• Madison then singled out “democracy” as the cause of those abuses and pointed out that all societies are “divided into different Sects, Factions, and interests,” and “where a majority are united by a common interest or passion, the rights of the minority are in danger.”

• Continuing, he stated that this is “verified by the histories of every country” and is the cause of slavery, “the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.”

• Thus, Madison emphasized that it was the duty of the Convention to “frame a republican system” of government that would better “guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.”

• Elaborating on that point, Madison stated that the “only defense against the inconveniencies of democracy consistent with the democratic form of government” is to “divide the community into so great a number of interests and parties, that in the first place a majority will not be likely at the same moment to have a common interest separate from that of the whole or of the minority; and in the second place, that in case they should have such an interest, they may not be apt to unite in the pursuit of it.”

• Other delegates to the Convention concurred, like Edmund Randolph of Virginia, who observed “that the general object was to provide a cure for the evils under which the U.S. labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy.”

• For the purpose of curbing such evils, Madison and the other framers of the Constitution developed a system of checks and balances on the powers of the government that they formed, such as the separation of powers between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, the Constitutional amendment process, the Bill of Rights, and the Electoral College.

• The Electoral College was designed to prevent heavily populated areas from dominating the election for president. As shown in the electoral precinct map from Washington State University professor Ryne Rohla, the vast majority of America’s communities voted for Donald Trump in 2016. Yet Hillary Clinton’s popular vote count was higher, mainly due to support in big cities.

• In essays explaining the Constitution’s protections against mob rule and government power, Madison wrote, “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”

• Those principles produced the U.S. Constitution, which is the world’s longest-standing written constitution and an exemplar for many other countries that have copied its provisions into their constitutions.

Hyperlinks to the sources of all the facts above are available at https://t.co/BrFCwQr6x5

[RunningSpirit @RunningSpiritTX]

The precision and patience required to make something so detailed and beautiful is incredible.

[Muse @xmuse_]

This pattern is 1,200 years old.

Celtic monks drew these endless knots as a symbol of eternity.

One line, no beginning, no end, everything connected.

rob_c_art still does it by hand. Pencil grid to ink to color to gold.

[RunningSpirit @RunningSpiritTX]

One of my favorite shorebirds, the Snowy egret. I managed to capture this shot in golden morning light and shadow.

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@Flowryyy_ 13

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@HaFsA_2050 DSLR camera?

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@MelGibsonlidz Yes! WE THE PEOPLE... It should mean something.

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@wa_cats

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Striking autumn colors!

[Andrew McCaren 📷 @AndrewMcCaren1]

Derwent Isle showing off its autumnal colours in Cumbria a few days back.

[RunningSpirit @RunningSpiritTX]

@MLB @astros @MGMRewards Congrats! Well deserved.

[RunningSpirit @RunningSpiritTX]

Stunning!

[Andrew McCaren 📷 @AndrewMcCaren1]

Autumn reflections at Buttermere in Cumbria a few days ago

[RunningSpirit @RunningSpiritTX]

🤔...and we are how close?

[Hollywood Resistance @ResistItAllTX]

The Communist Party Democrats playbook--->

[RunningSpirit @RunningSpiritTX]

Classic! He's one of my favorites too, along with Carol Burnett. They don't make them like this any more.

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

Tim Conway surprised Carol Burnett with her idol, Jimmy Stewart, on her show's final episode. Her reaction transforms her into a kid again. ❤️

[RunningSpirit @RunningSpiritTX]

@awkwardgoogle Kids...pure joy! 😊

[RunningSpirit @RunningSpiritTX]

True!

[Mary J. Ruwart Ph.D. @MaryRuwart]

He is striking the root of most of our problems.

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@GuntherEagleman "Shame?" That word is not in their vocabulary.

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@kedilerkedidir Baci Bella

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@oelma__ Gingersnap? If he was orange...

[RunningSpirit @RunningSpiritTX]

This is one of the first (and favorite) photos I got of a Yellow-crowned night heron with a crab in its beak. I can still remember that day like it was yesterday.

#naturephotography #birdphotography #shorebirds