“You can touch the holy when you reach out to others — the poor, the rejected, immigrants and strangers, the unwanted, the fearful. If you want to know God, give a cup of water to a child. Or to an asylum seeker.” @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social #TheOther open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

10 years since Brexit, and the results are in www.axios.com/2026/06/23/b... #BREXIT #SteveHilton #Trump #Economics #Conmen

“The Frontline for Voting Rights Is the Rural South” @dailyyonder.bsky.social #VotingRights #VoterSubversion dailyyonder.com/the-frontlin...

Another thing that bothers me about the World Cup are the ads for Qatar Air and the reminder that Qatar bribed Trump with a big plane. @2026worldcup.bsky.social #Qatar #Trump #Corruption

A recap of all the right wing pundits whose praise of Trump’s war on Iran who will now lie their way through this disastrous and costly surrender. @jvl.bsky.social @timmiller.bsky.social @thebulwark.com #Trump #Iran podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Great discussion with Ta-Nehisi Coates. He always makes me think - and isn’t that the point? @timmiller.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

“Trump achieved a historic victory in Iran. His deal risks squandering it.” @thiessenmark.bsky.social This guy…. And they call those of us who know that Trump is a corrupt fraud “delusional” or “deranged.” #Trump #Iran www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Four Va. counties will pump almost 20 million gallons of water a day to Amazon. Cause for concern? virginiamercury.com/2026/06/19/f...

“Former DOGE members and Elon Musk allies are backing a startup aimed at using AI to apply ‘learnings’ from DOGE to the private sector.” #DOGE #Musk #Trump #Theft www.wired.com/story/the-do...

“Donald Trump’s promised ‘golden age’ of American manufacturing is collapsing under the weight of its own numbers as factory spending sinks and jobs disappear, according to humiliating new official government data.” @thedailybeast.bsky.social #TrumpLies www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-maga-...

Catherine Rampell is THE BEST! So smart. @crampell.bsky.social @11thhourmsnow.bsky.social @ms.now

The new oil order that could emerge from an Iran deal www.axios.com/2026/05/26/n... @axios.com #Trump

MD Senate Leader still believes in fairy tale politics. @senbillferg.bsky.social @thehill.com thehill.com/homenews/cam...

“Our public lands – whether a national park or monument, wildlife refuge, forest or prairie – make each one of us land-rich. It is our inheritance as citizens of a country called America.” — Terry Tempest Williams #publiclands #nationalparks #values

This is a great conversation with comedian Jason Salmon that I needed today. Thanks, Pete Dominick! @petedominick.bsky.social #politics #values #comedy #culture podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

“A Utility Mega-Merger Is All About Data Centers” @insideclimatenews.org #DataCenters insideclimatenews.org/news/1805202...

”All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.” — Black Elk #sacredplaces #love #serve #community

Interesting read about space junk as Elon Musk wants to put more junk like data centers and more of his satellites into space. Heads up! Literally. @nautil.us #SpaceJunk nautil.us/i-track-spac...

Trump promised to release the Epstein files and not start foreign wars. Thomas Massie agreed and was trying to fulfill Trump’s promises. So why did Trump and his corrupt partners spend millions to defeat him? #EpsteinFiles #TrumpWars #ThomasMassie #Iran

Thanks to Hal, who reminded me of the wisdom embedded in ACIM…. “Fear is not of the present, but only the past and future, which do not exist.” – A Course In Miracles #mindfulness #mentalhealth #love #fear

Let’s join Popular Democracy's event, “March & Rally: Fund Care, Not ICE” - sign up now! #POPULARDEMOCRACY www.mobilize.us/cpda/event/9...

Shell Games 🐚

“Roger Wicker has spent his career preparing to be Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Now that he’s accomplished that goal, he’s on track to be the most disastrous Chairman in modern history.” @stuartpstevens.bsky.social @lincolnproject.us open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...

The tackiest and most corrupt man in America is redesigning Washington, DC, including public golf courses, as his Iran War blunders on…. www.axios.com/local/washin...

Trump kicks Pope again. @thedailybeast.bsky.social @uscatholic.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reigni...

“SEEDS AND GARDENS” If words are seeds, let flowers grow from your mouth, not weeds. If heart are gardens, plant those flowers in the chest of the ones who exist around you. — R.H. Swaney #compassion #mindfulness #serve #love

“President Trump…has used the nation’s highest office to promote businesses that he and his family own 110 times in the last 16 months, a Popular Information investigation reveals.” @juddlegum.bsky.social @popular.info popular.info?utm_campaign...

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

Here are the questions Raskin wants Patel to answer: tinyurl.com/528pdfs3

Sandy O. Marks Wins Alexandria City Council Seat alexandrialivingmagazine.com/news/sandy-o... #VoteBlue

“RAWtools South Turns Guns Into Garden Tools in the Mountain South” @dailyyonder.bsky.social #Values #Guns #Innovation dailyyonder.com/rawtools-sou...

“Vance’s rise…was engineered…by Peter Thiel…the German-born, South African-raised founder of PayPal, [who] has spent years building an…ecosystem of right-wing political influence stretching across campaigns, institutions, and media.” @julieroginsky.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

Love this: “Looking to Jesus and Buddha, a Kentucky Passionist Priest Finds Hope Amid an Enveloping Global Environmental Crisis” @insideclimatenews.org #climateaction #oneness insideclimatenews.org/news/3103202...

“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.” — Margaret J. Wheatley #womenshistorymonth #community #values

“…we need a new type of community – based in values and justice, bringing together people… “Today’s crucial question is how we live together in purpose-driven ways…serve and rebuild the public good. Community is a must for the individual and for democracy….” — Rebecca Chopp #community

“Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.” — Barbara Brown Taylor #sacredplaces #awakening #mindfulness #WomensHistoryMonth #gratitude

Happy Spring.

Lawmakers, Health Groups Resist Their States’ Rural Health Fund Plans dailyyonder.com/lawmakers-he... @dailyyonder.bsky.social #GOPWarOnHealthcare

The Latest Front in the Battle Over Climate Lawsuits: Bills Wiping Out Liability Republican lawmakers are advancing legislation that would shield major polluters from legal accountability for climate change harms. - Dana Drugmand @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/1403202...

“China’s Clean Energy Push Has Made It Less Vulnerable to Energy Shocks, Including the Iran War” @insideclimatenews.org #CleanEnergy insideclimatenews.org/news/1303202...

“But along with those tax cuts and deregulation, those who supported Trump gave the country an erratic president who has destabilized the world economy through tariffs and now has led us into war in the Middle East.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social #BillionairePrez open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

“UN diplomats revel in US setback at women’s rights forum” @devex.com #UnitedNations #WomensRights #HumanRights www.devex.com/news/un-dipl...

“Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.” ~ May Sarton #awakening #mindfulness #resilience #WomensHistoryMonth

MAGA!