Debbi Brody
@debbibrody.bsky.social
Poet, putterer, professionally retired.
Whale songs are among the few animal vocalizations passed down culturally rather than genetically, with new songs spreading across ocean populations. Could humans one day communicate with whales? From 1440 Answer: not if they don’t want us to😀🐳🐋
Has congressional experience become another term for entrenchment? Is it time to limit terms for Congress people? 
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
How an 1876 massacre of Black men in South Carolina turned racial terror into political power Jacob Ware, Georgetown University The men responsible for the bloodshed 150 years ago were never prosecuted; instead, they rose to South Carolina’s highest offices. theconversation.com/how-an-1876-...
How an 1876 massacre of Black men in South Carolina turned racial terror into political power
The men responsible for the bloodshed 150 years ago were never prosecuted; instead, they rose to South Carolina’s highest offices.
theconversation.com
Pleading the 5th to avoid alleged perjury entrapment. “Hiltzik: Senate Republicans try to smear Fauci over COVID, but he refuses to play their game” Michael Hiltzik Thu, July 30, 2026
Remind yourself that you are a mirror through which others will see the world and remember—this place is still so beautiful. Worth loving. Worth fighting for. Worth singing about. -Jenn Givhan One of my top 10 favorite living authors  #booksky
“I am waiting / for the meek to be blessed / and inherit the earth / without taxes / and I am waiting / for forests and animals / to reclaim the earth as theirs,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Democrats hold an 11-point lead over Republicans in the general congressional ballot, according to a new Emerson College poll. Everythingbriefing@substack.com
Tell all the truth / but tell it slant - / Success in Circuit / lies / Too bright [good] for our infirm Delight / The Truth’s superb / surprise / As Lightning to / the Children eased With explanation kind / The Truth must / dazzle [moderately] gradually / Or every man be / blind - Emily Dickensen
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. - Khalil Gibran
substack.com/redirect/1f1... The pot calling the kettle black again.
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Secretary of State Rubio on Cuban economy and regime change: "The biggest problem Cuba has is that their regime is a disaster, their economic model doesn't work and the people who run the country don'...
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein
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BREAKING: Trump Just Approved Saudi Uranium Enrichment While His Family Sits on $2 Billion in Saudi Money
Don't forget about the Trump Tower in Jeddah, a Trump resort in Oman, and the Saudi-backed LIV Golf paying Trump's clubs. This is not a coincidence, folks.
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“DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE BIG BOYS! Give YOURSELF a Break! STAND BY VOTE FOR ROOSEVELT AND WALLACE They Stand for YOU First! SOCIAL SECURITY ACT - WAGNER ACT - HOUSING ACT OF 1936 BANK DEPOSIT INSURANCE - UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE NATIONAL DEFENSE FOR PEACE” 1940 campaign poster words. Things made sense.
On this date in 1918, Nelson Mandela was born. Ironically, seven years later, Adolf Hitler published mein kampf
If you judge people you have no time to love them - Mother Teresa
No new information, just more undermining of secure elections in order to become consolidated dictator.
Pale Morning Light With Violet Swan was coincidentally the book I was reading (about an 93 year old artist leading to her death in the end) as I waited for and received news of my 95 year old artist mother’s death. I highly recommend the book for anyone who loves literary fiction . #booksky
The American population votes more on gas costs than human ones.🤔
red tail hawk flew behind my neighbor as we spoke Monday 2 hours before my mother died. Tuesday morning two birds hit my picture windows, shook it off and flew away. After the funeral last night, Tuesday evening, when speaking with the same neighbor, a falcon flew right behind her.
Columnist Heather Delaney Reese: “Over the course of a single Monday … the president of the United States constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed reality so many times that by the end of the day, no one, ……could say with confidence what was real and what was fabrication.,”
"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too." Van Gogh