You know, by deploying the military on American soil, it kind of causes the military parade to send the message, “step out of line and we’ll use these weapons on you.”
“A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.” -Sam Brownback
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You know, by deploying the military on American soil, it kind of causes the military parade to send the message, “step out of line and we’ll use these weapons on you.”
Trump is planning a military parade in DC on June 14, but the biggest story of that day will be the actions we take everywhere else. I'm rallying on No Kings Day to reject strongman politics and corruption. app.sosha.ai/s/5qDM0OJi
What are we losing by offloading our thinking to A.I.?
Maybe this is dated <1947?
“Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.” —Pamela Meyer
I need to channel my anger, sadness, and frustration with the chaotic news that inundates us ever day, now. I’m not sure what the best writing outlet is. Suggestions?
Pope Francis’s strength of will, his unerring faith, and his commitment to his duty as leaderr of the Church allowed for an Easter that was not without a Pope. May God bless and keep him.
“This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.” —Philip K. Dick
Posting this on X under the official White House account takes a special kind of monstrous disrespect for the Office as well as human life.
Only partially related: The other night a salesperson came to the door at 6. I told her I was making dinner and had pasta boiling on the stove. “Ok, this will only take 20 min. Of your time.” Um. No.
Boasberg finds ‘probable cause exists’ to hold Trump administration in contempt for violating orders on deportation flights flip.it/Cf8WaI
Elite Pentagon Unit Resigns En Masse After Clashing With DOGE Source: TheDailyBeast share.newsbreak.com/cn5ae4c2
I am taking the most important step toward starting a new writing project. I am cleaning out my office so it is actually possible to walk to my desk. Baby steps. #amwriting
@jc-stegmaier.bsky.social Interested? cupresents.org/performance/...
I’ve known you long enough to know that doesn’t make you an inconsiderate petty shit of a person. As a rule, that is. 😜
“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.” -Robert Anton Wilson
I fell over a week ago.I’m only 5’2. It’s not like I fell off a building.You know how it hurts when you jamb your thumb?Think whole body jam.Horrible pain.Opiate crisis has left drs scared to Rx anything.There has to be a balance. Acute/chronic www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Moffitt Study Finds Vaccine May Improve Breast Cancer Treatment Outcomes www.newswise.com/articles/mof...
@bennet.senate.gov I will be attending Colorado Springs town hall, if only virtually. Is it possible to submit questions in advance? Open question.
Over a week ago, I fell on concrete.The pain is intensifying. ER Doc Rx’d BenGay.I’m afraid to ask for pain meds despite the severe pain.The backlash from the #opiodcrisis has.(rightly) caused fear in drs to prescribe.There has to be a compromise. #HHS #AMA scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcont...
First town hall attendees MUST be paid agents and now the courts are agents “We believe these judges are acting as judicial activists rather than honest arbiters of the law.” www.democracydocket.com/analysis/wha...
But with the ILMS under fire, walk quickly. To see a small snippet of what the IMLS does www.imls.gov/newsroom/our...
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
Would love to read it. Any chance of this?
Everyone okay?
Not to be completely nonanalytical, but give me a f*cking break.
Literally LoL’d
Going to enter a 100 word micro flash fiction contest. Struggling to not just write pretty phrases, but rather to encapsulate a meaningful narrative.
@marwilliamson.bsky.social I know this is a big throwback in your career, but _A Return to Love_ reshaped my entire outlook on life at a time when I believed I would always be trapped in the dark of depression. Thank you.
LGBTQ+ prisoners kept in concentration camps were forced to wear an upside down pink triangle on their uniforms to mark them as queer. www.advocate.com/news/pink-tr...
Update via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: The National Weather Service said Sunday afternoon the tornado that touched down in Plantersville in Dallas County, killing at least one person, was an EF3 with winds between 135 mph and 165 mph.
Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: “The federal funding they get, all flows through us, the Department of Agriculture to us, and us out there too,” Alabama State Schools Superintendent Eric Mackey said.
Someone give me $5 to attend a town hall so I can, literally, be the only attendee paid to be there.
When Vance asked Zelenky if he'd even said thank you my first thought was, Who raised you?!?!” followed immediately by, “Oh…right.”
There's a surprisingly helpful page on IMLS' website with PDFs of their statutory authorization: www.imls.gov/about/learn-...
There needs to be a 101 class for Congress on the difference between inflation and price rises slowing and inflation and prices coming down.
So when it comes to a government shutdown (due to a harmful CR) suddenly Republicans are concerned about federal employees?
This is a clear violation of free speech www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Laying off 50% of the Department of Education. It's a sad day.
I also fell on my face. It was kind of you to omit that part.
They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.
Alabama /Auburn game is giving me heart palpitations
Perhaps sex was not what I should have been shielded from reading as a young child. It was the Romanticism of being an orphan at boarding school that really distorted my reality.
My ultimate goal is being capable of writing a messy first draft.
I can look or up, but if you write “cozy mysteries” explain the essence of the concept, please.
Run.
I love my husband. It is in no way because of him that the movie “The Other Woman” is just ridiculously satisfying. Its just a whole general, “You go girl.”
I wrote one, but it wasn’t any Gouda.
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I just threw up in my mouth a little.
The cherry picking of news outlets allowed access to the White House press affairs is something I never thought I would see in this country. Creating a “safe space” with only the friendlies in attendance is cowardly. But then again, Trump has always been a coward (see: bone spurs)
Currently trying to write a scene including the symptoms of tuberculosis in a fantasy but kind of medieval world. Write what you know, right?🙄
“Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.” —Pavel Durov
This has been a stressful and difficult week. I can take the tension, it’s the post stress pain and weakness that suck. Does anyone else suffer from severe Let Down Effect? (Yes. It’s a real thing)
Perfection
I’m Catholic so I feel so bad about laughing at this 🤣
Truth.
I have regrets that knock me on my *ss. My saving grace is that I keep getting back up. Insert Chumbawamba song here.
You are lucky. My best friend would have sprayed you with Windex and then trapped you under a bowl until I came home to dispose of you.
I don’t think I’ve tried to write one since college. I’m having to relearn the structure and “rules”. 🥹
I’ve finally started writing fiction again. This time it’s a short story.I’ve started too many novels I’ll never finish.
You know that stereotypical Miss America answer to, “if you could wish for anything, what would it be?” The joke answer is always “World Peace.” It’s not a joke anymore. I think that is what we are all wishing for these days.
The horror of a little girl reading this and deciding to aspire to become a world class tennis champion.
Via @dennispillion.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: About 2,000 low-income households in Alabama are poised to lose federal assistance to help them pay high energy bills, under an executive order issued by President Donald Trump.
flip.it/F0Y.bN
Kash Patel reportedly orders 500 FBI employees to transfer from Washington to Huntsville
I was just about to come post this article to you.
The only rhyme or reason to everything going on these days is the elimination of “stuff we don’t like”. It’s shameful.
Taiwan holds its breath as Trump turns on Ukraine and upends US foreign policy
I moved to CO from AL. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your transparency and your willingness to fight for what is right and good.
Ghastly
As the world becomes more accepting of diverse identities and lifestyles, an obvious problem remains in higher education systems: Unique challenges face LGBTQ+ university students
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This is just another path to wielding personal retribution. The government isn't a Grand Theft Auto with the objective of taking out personal enemies.
Pancreatic cancer claimed my mother’s life.She couldn't be saved but so many others could be.
Asshat
youtu.be/2UCB7F96Y5k
Yup. Colorado resident here.
about.usps.com/newsroom/nat... Can not wait!
Julianne Moore’s ‘Freckleface Strawberry’ and JD Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ among books caught in Defense Department Review
First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's - BBC News I can remember seeing the Tut exhibit in DC when it first came to the US. I I must have been 7 or 8 and I was overwhelmed.
Omg. I ordered my book last night and it is already here!!!
I am way too invested in Alabama basketball
Good article about the topic - plus, of course - tons of quotes from you and @joshmensch.bsky.social apple.news/A_ZgjuDJNTQi...
Fingers crossed!😎
“Trump Ally Elon Musk Is Not Actually In Charge Of DOGE, White House Says” Of course We all know it is 19 year old Edward “Big Balls” Coristine. apple.news/AiwsXgtNTRC6...
Sad face
Despite this, he's an awesome husband. If he could roller skate up behind me in the dark, he absolutely would, however. 🤣🤣🤣🚇🛼
It would also expose how the USSR bluffed when it came to the size of their nuclear stockpile during the Cold War.
When my husband wants to practice being creepy, he will randomly sing-song, “Warriors. . .Come out and play-aaay”
But there are always chatbots that have been taught NOTHING to make your customer service experience a joy😜
