My favorite daylily bloom of the season (so far).
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Into good books, good music, finding moments of joy, and making the world a better place.
Spent the evening with a whole bunch of people from the community listening to two great guys talk about why policy matters more than party. Highlight of the year was meeting Pete. He so graciously signed both of the books I brought along. Rooting for Jamie in NC-11. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social
Just finished... now to re-read The Hunger Games trilogy.
Nothing about this moment is normal. Not the cruelty, not the chaos, not the way we’re expected to just swallow it and move on. We deserve better, and we know it. So take a breath, square your shoulders, and keep resisting.
When the world is chaos it's the simple things that bring comfort.
under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime
I have great admiration for Rep. Raskin
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoRaskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me."
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
As I listened to this warning, I remembered reading In the Garden of Beasts back in early 2020 and telling friends that this was coming for us. Most dismissed my concerns; many still do. I still continue to voice them.
A Letter to America
YouTube video by Emotional Support European
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"What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn." ~Terry Pratchett's Lords and Ladies Words of wisdom from the last book of 2025 / first book of 2026.
Donald Trump will gladly get our Military members killed just to distract from his sexual assaults and pedophilia. Are we great, yet, America?
Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?
Beautifully textured cloudy blue gray sky on my way home today.
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." ~G. K. Chesterton, 1917
"Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can." ~Terry Pratchett's Reaper Man
Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone. Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work. Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
Women are watching abusive dynamics play out on the national stage and for many it feels very, very familiar to what they’ve experienced regularly— I hope midterms are a referendum
A reminder of the before times and a warning we should have taken more seriously 🤦
NCDHHS can’t put health care costs on a credit card. The longer the General Assembly refuses to fund our Medicaid program, the more they erode our health care system. They need to do their jobs.
Because we also need some moments of joy.. here's a picture of my daughter's slightly spoiled dog. She just got tucked in, given a good night kiss, and told to go to sleep. 😆
BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...
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