Hoa Ruby🌸

Quiet mind, wild soul. ✨

[Hoa Ruby🌸 @sonmesalwy]

Standing still while the world glows below. A moment of calm above the noise🌆
Soft city lights, quiet heart...
#QuietMoments #CityLights #SeattleNights

[Hoa Ruby🌸 @sonmesalwy]

Soft lace, softer vibes
#PinkSkirt #SoftGirlEra

[soli @solisolsoli]

Photography — Daniel Hsu

[soli @solisolsoli]

Recreating Henri Matisse's "The Dance"

[Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics]

SYSTEM FAILURE: A Tajik national found not guilty by reason of insanity in his landlord's killing was given escorted day-passes from a Virginia mental health facility — one to visit his country's embassy, another to a taxpayer-funded apartment where he grabbed an airline ticket and fled to Tajikistan.

Now Northern Virginia Democrats are facing tough questions. Rep. Donald Beyer admitted there was "a failure in the system somewhere along the way" but couldn't pinpoint where it broke down. He said deportation alone wouldn't have been enough for someone who committed a major felony — yet the man is now beyond the reach of U.S. law entirely.

The Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney's office says it did not oppose the 2024 escorted embassy visit but has argued multiple times in court against the suspect's outright release.

[✶ @echoesofworld]

Scotland

[gal౨ৎ @prtygal777]

what if we were two little turtles holding hands on the beach

[Hoa Ruby🌸 @sonmesalwy]

😂

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

❤️ 😂😂

[Boo @333too3]

Very sick people around.....

[Art Gallery @X_ArtGallery]

Hermes

[Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics]

DEFIANT: Tim Walz issued an executive order blocking copper mining permits near Minnesota's Boundary Waters — directly defying Trump, who signed legislation in April reversing Biden-era restrictions on new mining leases in the area.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, the highest-ranking Minnesotan in Congress, ripped the move as "stupid" and "dangerous," saying the lame duck governor is making the U.S. more dependent on adversaries like China for critical minerals.

Northeastern Minnesota is home to the largest known untapped source of nickel and copper in North America. Emmer argues blocking access to those resources hands China a strategic advantage in the global minerals race.

[Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics]

MAP MADE IN HEAVEN: A Missouri judge ruled the state's GOP-backed congressional map remains in full force for the 2026 midterms, blocking opponents from using a referendum to challenge boundaries Trump personally urged Republican legislatures to redraw.

The map targets Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's Kansas City seat by splitting the city between Republican-held districts and stretching the remainder into deep-red rural areas. About 59% of voters in the reshaped district are new to it.

The plaintiff appealed Wednesday evening, but the Trump-backed boundaries — already used in Missouri's August primaries — stay in place while the case moves through the courts.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Van Gogh painted this in one of the darkest years of his life, and it might be the most hopeful thing he ever made...

The painting is Almond Blossoms, made by Vincent in 1890. Branches of white blossom open against a clear blue sky, and there is nothing sad in it anywhere, which is remarkable, because of when he painted it.

His brother Theo, the person who had loved and supported him his whole life, had just had a son, and named the boy Vincent, after his struggling uncle. When the news reached Van Gogh, he started painting right away.

He chose almond blossom on purpose. In the south of France the almond is the first tree to flower, sometimes as early as February, breaking into blossom while winter is barely over. It is the tree that announces that life is starting again. For a new baby carrying his own name, Van Gogh painted the most beautiful symbol he knew for new life.

He was, at that very moment, seriously ill. This was the period of his breakdowns in the asylum at Saint-Rémy, and not long after finishing the picture he suffered one of his worst attacks and could not paint for weeks. And yet what he made for his nephew has no shadow in it at all. He gathered whatever strength he had and poured all of it into something joyful, a gift for a child he wanted to welcome into the world.

Theo and his wife hung it above the piano in their home, and it stayed one of the most treasured paintings the family owned. The baby it was painted for, Vincent Willem van Gogh, grew up, kept it safe, and went on to found the museum in Amsterdam that holds most of his uncle's work to this day.

This, to me, is what makes the painting extraordinary: a man at the limits of his strength, who would be gone within months, looked at a new life just beginning and painted hope. He reached past everything that was breaking in him and made, for a baby, a picture that says the same thing the almond tree says every year: winter does not get the last word. Something is starting again…

[Unearthed 🏺 @UnearthedHQ]

A village in Italy that has remained unspoiled since the Middle Ages, dating from the 1300s. Lets Appreciate ancient Engineers and Architects.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Restored WWII German Messerschmitt Bf-109 which was lost near Rorvik Norway in 1943. The plane was recovered in 2010 and fully restored and now resides at the The National Norwegian Aviation Museum.

The aircraft is a Messerschmitt Bf 109, Germany's principal single engine fighter during WWII. More than 33,000 Bf 109s were produced between the 1930s and 1945, making it one of the most extensively manufactured fighter aircraft in history.

This particular aircraft was lost near Rørvik, Norway, in 1943 and remained underwater for nearly seven decades. Cold northern waters helped preserve substantial portions of the airframe. It was recovered in 2010 and underwent years of conservation and restoration before being placed on museum display.

The Bf 109 entered service with the Luftwaffe before World War II and fought in virtually every major German air campaign, including the invasion of Poland, the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain, North Africa, the Eastern Front, and the defense of Germany. Numerous versions were developed as aircraft technology and combat requirements changed.

Norway contains many surviving wartime aircraft wrecks because Germany occupied the country from April 1940 until May 1945. Its long coastline, mountainous terrain, and strategically important airfields resulted in hundreds of Allied and German aircraft being lost there.

The Bf 109 was flown by Erich Hartmann, the highest scoring fighter ace in aviation history. German records credited him with 352 aerial victories during WWII.

National Norwegian Aviation Museum, Bodø

#archaeohistories

[soli @solisolsoli]

Satan talks to Sin and Death, 1866 — Gustave Doré

[The SCIF @TheSCIF]

Anyone committing ELECTION FRAUD needs to be prosecuted and sent to prison.

Examples must be made.

No more games. No more negotiations. Just actions with results.

[A Man Of Memes @RickyDoggin]

It's amazing what Congress gets away with!

[Boo @333too3]

Love and longing to roam free.......

[Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist]

A 2,000-year-old Roman pugio (military dagger) and its highly decorated scabbard, displayed before and after a meticulous nine-month restoration.

[Daily Dutch Masters 🎨 @Goudriaan2]

A fortune teller and other figures by a lighthouse
Jan van Goyen, 1621