This is a huge victory against arbitrary, unchecked power -- and a key step toward restoring at least some of USAID's vital work to save lives and to advance freedom and American security.

Is this when Dems get to start yelling, 'STOP THE STEAL'?

I’m feeling like I need a beaver to peek out behind a tree and tell me that Aslan is on the move.

Agatha Award nominations are out: @fs2024.bsky.social On the Santa Fe Trail we meet the Kaw of the First Nation Peoples. Schoonmaker had her book read and vetted by members of the Kaw Nation. It was important in being truthful to history. #agathaaward #goodreads #historicalfiction #sidjohnsonbook2

In book news the Agatha Award nominees by Malice Domestic (annual fan convention celebrating books best typified by Agatha Christie) are in...go @fs2024.bsky.social in the MG/YA category! #agathaawards #mgyabooks #booksofbluesky #blueskybooks #books #awardwinningauthors #goodreads #sidjohnsonbooks

do people really believe that having a DEI policy in place means that companies hire incompetent people over highly qualified ones? 'We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.' ~Angelou

One last #peoplesmarchdc illustration. Finishing this last moment means an end to the mini-project with which I've (barely) coped with the last week and a half. #illustration #dcpeoplesmarch #2025peoplesmarch #editorial

More moments from January 18's DC #PeoplesMarch *All faces in these illustrations have been changed from their original sketches if I sketched facial features at all, for anonymity.* #illustration #dcpeoplesmarch #2025peoplesmarch #editorial

💙📚a trilogy spanning centuries 1850s - 1940s. fantasy meets historical fiction. good vs. evil. and children finding out they can do hard things when the time comes. not just for middle grade or ya readers. #Booksky #Bookrecommendations #historicalfantasyfiction #booksiveloved

My first go at a mock up of a tunnel book. Tolkien’s Letter from Father Christmas is the inspiration. #tolkien #tunnelbook #booksky #artinspiration #workinprogress

Sometimes we’re called to do hard things. This Agatha Award nominee book hits hard right now as some of us decide what hard thing we are being asked to do or choosing to take on. #booksky

“…Sam saw a bright star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart,.. and hope returned to him. …the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.” Tolkien #Tolkien #hope #bookquotes #ROTK

since people are randomly deciding to rename bodies of water and mountains, Kerry Co Co is making changes too. all in jest, but it has a ring to it: photo credit Kerry's Voice on Facebook. #renamingtheglobe #dingleocean #southkerrysea

Of course he does. Tell me again how this man embodies God's work? Thank you, again, to The Right Rev'd Budde for speaking truth to power, even if they fell of ears tightly shut. Others heard you loud & clear and are grateful to you. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... #truthtopower #RevBudde

Speaking truth to power is important. Speaking it in the face of the lairs is powerful and very brave. youtu.be/xwwaEuDeqM8?... #truthtopower #nationalcathedral

'By any civilised standard, it was how luxury ought to be measured—wealth meant nothing if it didn't create suffering. Because the standard liberal whine that the rich were cushioned from life's harsh realities was laughable ignorance: the rich created those realities...' Herron, Real Tigers