T Watson

@ttquiltworks.bsky.social

Quilter, weaver, spinner of yarn. Baker, reader, napper Ancora imparo - Yet, I am learning. https://www.facebook.com/Simplyhandwoven1/

Yesterday I learned that Atlanta has an NBA basketball team named the Hawks. And the University of Iowa has a women's basketball team named the Hawkeyes. It may be a small thing to learn, but it's very important to some people.

These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.

The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals

A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.

theatlantic.com

A friend asked me how my retirement was going when we talked yesterday. I told her, "Physically, fine. Mentally...well, I washed the trash and garbage cans today. And I have been eyeing the oven for tomorrow."

Extraordinary reporting: "Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family."

Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

propublica.org

🧵 1. Listen to history on labor day. The Gilded Age (1870s to 1900) laid the groundwork for the triggers of The Great Depression in 1929. Wealth inequality. Weak regulations of banking and markets. Trusts and monopolies. Agricultural overextension. Busts in 1873, 1893. Then... #ProudBlue #Blue #GTS

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.

(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...