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Bark Palette No1

 

Bark Palette No1

Continuing in my series of images from a rainy day hike earlier this month.

I’m halfway through “The Fate Of The Day” by Rick Atkinson, having read the first book in his trilogy on the history of the (US) Revolutionary War a few months ago, and found myself re-familiarizing myself with the documents that the founding fathers of this nation wrote and died for, and specifically the Declaration of Independence.

With that document in mind, I’d like to leave you with these thoughts from Jamelle Bouie, published in the New York Times, October 22, 2025:

“To borrow language from one of the nation’s founding documents, Trump has “erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance”; he has “kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures”; he has “affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power”; he has cut “off our Trade with all Parts of the World” and imposed “Taxes on us without our Consent.” He has transported us “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offences” and in deigning to spend tax dollars without congressional authorization — to pay soldiers in the midst of a shutdown, in a move reminiscent of Stuart absolutism — he has “invested” himself “with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever.”