I want to know how many bags of potato chips or popcorn the legislators eat in a month. How many boughten cookies, or cans of soda or candy bars.

Fred Noonan MAY have miscalculated Earhart’s flight path, but he’d still know why we need to see the Epstein files.

Seen on Argyll’s & my morning walk. Beauty brightens the day #beautyasresistance

Fred Noonan MAY have miscalculated Earhart’s flight path, but he’d still know why we need to see the Epstein files.

Mittens for a project to benefit homeless LGBTQ youth. Community = resistance

It is abundantly clear (and has been for a while) that many people of faith do not know the difference between Christianity and white Christian nationalism. They practice the latter but mistake it for the former.

They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

If you’re an incompetent foreign leader who sucks up to Trump, you can get $20 billion from U.S. taxpayers while Trump is cutting Americans’ health care.

OPINION: "The media can play a crucial role in perpetuating the lone gunman myth. Consider how swiftly the media and politicians labeled the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, perpetrated by Omar Mateen, as an act of Islamist terrorism," Art Jipson writes. buff.ly/MMVKZXD

A photo from our walk a few days ago. The bees weren’t around. #BeautyIsResistance

Gov. Shapiro: "The Supreme Court over centuries of jurisprudence has made clear that hate speech, like it or not, is legal...I think it is a long way to go to say that a comedian on late night TV who tells a joke about POTUS that the president doesn't like...incites violence."

How comfortable do you have to be with taking bribes that you don't suspect someone handing you a literal bag full of cash might be a federal agent?

Yep, Soviets built it. He effectively signed it away in 2020, with his peace deal that gave Afghanistan back to the Taliban with nothing in exchange. Guess he wants it back to give to Vlad.

Relevant to our current crisis. Plus fun and interesting.

Seen on our morning walk. Gorgeous color. #BeautyAsResistance

Keeping sane & pushing back by knitting for a project that serves homeless LGBTQ youth. Color isn’t showing well—the yarn is the color of interior of an avocado. Started last night.

“ITS FULL TOOLBOX”??? The ultimate normalization of something profoundly abnormal. For crying out loud. It’s dictatorial stomping of fundamental rights. I suppose that have shown great “efficacy” in stomping on those rights.

Honestly folks. The bluster & bullying & “how dare they say that?,” & silencing, & censoring? It’s weakness x 10. If you’re really strong, jokes don’t matter. Only if you’re banking on fear to give you power do jokes matter. That’s why authoritarians HATE being poked fun at. No fear=no power.

Happy Constitution Day! We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[note 1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain

Seeing so many white Christians defend Charlie Kirk while ignoring, minimizing, and dismissing the concerns of so many Black Christians is exactly what compromise and complicity look like today. #ColorofCompromise

I want to be clear about what I'm saying here. I'm not denying the danger. I'm not denying the threat. I AM saying that we live in a geographically huge country where the vast majority oppose this administration. They don't have the power to work on that scale. Tho they want us to believe they do

It happens every year. Pumpkin spice vampires. Don’t let this happen to YOUR fall pumpkins.

We need to think differently about policing. "for every $100 increase in per-capita police expenditures there were 35 years of life lost to suicide and seven years of life lost to police perpetrated killing per 100,000 Black residents a year later." www.rutgers.edu/news/police-...

If the right *truly* believed Charlie Kirk was a defender of free speech and someone who was fine with dissenting opinions, they wouldn't be engaged in a massive campaign to punish anyone who didn't "mourn him properly." They clearly know all of that is bullshit. Only the media was conned.

I'm finding refuge this week in the music of Arvo Pärt. Today, De Profundis. It's always been a favorite psalm. Especially the doubling in "My soul waits for the LORD, more than watchmen for the morning, * more than watchmen for the morning." www.youtube.com/watch?v=twzm...

History says, don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme. So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here... - Seamus Heaney

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

This lovely landed on the sidewalk beside my feet on my morning walk with Argyll.

From Argyll’s and my walk Wednesday. I love watching late summer bee activity.

Today is Arvo Pärt's 90th bday. My favorite living composer. I'm over the moon that my church choir is scheduled to sing The Deer's Cry in the spring. His De Profundis blows me away every time I listen. I am grateful for the life & music of Arvo Pärt! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQtW...

This is troubling. Is it legal? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Great poem to begin the week!

Okay now this is impressive! Sound on!

I last saw a military helicopter in the skies over my suburban Phila. county in late 2001. Till today.

My county has had only 40% of its normal rainfall in the last 30 days (and none at all for 7-10 days). Tonight we've had several waves of t'storms. Hooray!

This offer still stands. Mainstream media should use my suggested headline and lead paragraph.

I hear lots of people say that Vance is less dangerous than Trump. I disagree. And I’m not alone.

"I'm looking at kids as I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street & I see these kids that are just overburdened..." What if it's worry about whether they'll still be alive and unharmed at the end of their next school day? transphobia//mass shootings/attacks on history/misogyny

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I had my first experience at having to deal with police for exercising my 1st Amendment rights today. All is ok, but some PA Turnpike official took it upon himself to complain about our "Workers over Billionaires" sign. Presumably he didn't object to the flag waving.

Trump has indeed found a "solution" to the immigration issue: Make this country such a dumpster fire that no one wants to come here. It's like fixing a restaurant's overcrowding problem by poisoning all the diners.

The pro-birth, pro-death movement marches on.

Trump wanting harsher punishment for burning a flag is absurd. Soldiers fight for our freedoms, not fabric. Free speech includes flag burning, whether you like it or not—yet politicians ignore gun violence while cracking down on burning fabrics.

I often wonder what America would be like if the Catholic Church had spent as much time, money, and theological effort to support gun control as it did to defeat abortion.

🤷‍♂️ Oh well

I hear that T says he wants to be appreciated. Gov Newsom's social media team is appreciating him every single day, but T is oddly not appreciating the appreciation.

Ironically, pretrial release of one criminal defendant in particular is substantially responsible for where we are today.