April 21, 2024

Tonight's moon . . .

April 19, 2024

From the Palmer Report, today: Alvin Bragg may have just found his "in" for locking up Donald Trump.

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/alvin-bragg-may-have-just-found-his-in-for-locking-up-donald-trump/55574/

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Bragg and his team have made a new filing detailing Trump’s additional gag order violations. They’re now pointing out that based on the timeframe, some of Trump’s offending posts may have been posted from “within this courthouse.” There are a couple reasons why this is a big deal.

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... by all accounts Trump doesn’t type. Instead he reportedly dictates his posts to a guy named Dan Scavino. Trump even recently admitted that Scavino is the only person with full access to Trump’s Truth Social account. So if Trump’s gag order-violating posts are being made while Trump is at the courthouse, how is that even happening? Are he and Scavino scheduling them the night before?

If so, it sets the stage for the courts to potentially drag Scavino in as a material witness in Trump’s gag order violations. Scavino would have to be truthful about how he and Trump have crafted these offending posts, or else Scavino would go down for obstruction.

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So it’s worth watching where Alvin Bragg and his team are going with this. If they can drag in Scavino on this and firmly establish that Trump’s offending posts were a strategic decision to try to intimidate the targets, and not merely spontaneous outbursts in frustration, it would go a long way to convincing the judge to indeed lock Trump up during next week’s gag order violation hearing.

Bill Palmer is the publisher of the political news outlet Palmer Report
www.palmerreport.com

April 19, 2024

This is a pretty ordinary photo, but I've got a good reason to post it tonight . . .

Somehow my Olympus camera had gotten into RAW mode, where I didn't want it. I'm used to jpegs and I wanted to stay with them. But I couldn't figure out how to get back there.

My attempts let to more confusion and strange settings that totally flummoxed me. I thought maybe Gato could help, so I messaged him on Facebook. We tried all kinds of stuff but got nowhere.

Finally I decided to just put the camera settings back to the factory numbers. And then I took a photo to show Gato!

This was that photo. And that's why I wanted to post it tonight--as a thank you to Gato, for his support and cheerful mood. He is a great friend!



for Gato!

April 16, 2024

Manhattan Beach Farmer's Market Photos:

April 15, 2024

Today's random photos . . .

Clivia



Papyrus



Don't know what flower this is!



The forest in a tree



The forest in a tree, horizontally

April 15, 2024

Tonight's rainbow . . .

April 14, 2024

This photo is dedicated to justaprogressive, who has a real love for dark shadows!

April 11, 2024

The moon, on the second night from new . . .

With a little earthshine, even . . .

April 9, 2024

A few new photos from today's Farmer's Market . . .

I think I was still pretty tired from yesterday's partial solar eclipse.









Enjoy!

April 8, 2024

Three photos from today's partial eclipse in Los Angeles:

Note the sunspot:



Another sunspot:



The artifact wants some eclipse love too!