Amy Laura Hall

Texas bills increasing youth camp safety face long odds, even after Hill Country floods Competing legislative priorities and an industry that has pushed against certain regulations could challenge a suite of camp safety bills this special legislative session.

Competing legislative priorities and an industry that has pushed against certain regulations could challenge a suite of camp safety bills this special legislative session.

Grim.

Denying seriously ill children access to medicine and food is worse. How do they not realize that.

Putin Widens Effort to Control Russia’s Internet

The Kremlin is building a domestic ecosystem of easily monitored and censored Russian alternatives to Western tech products, including a new state-approved messaging and surveillance service, MAX, which will come preinstalled by law on all new smartphones sold in Russia.

What could go wrong?

Yep.

I mean a key concept in my book on “Muscular Christianity.”

By “keep going” I don’t mean rowing.

The photo:

So, how do I convince a photographer represented by this whole shebang that, truly, his photo inspired me to keep going?

www.dsreps.com/artist/bryce...

Warnings Epstein may have sold Andrew's most intimate secrets to Putin In yesterday's first extract of a new biography of Prince Andrew, the Daily Mail revealed his astonishing sense of entitlement. Today we chart his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Look: Prince Andrew is back in prime space in the London tabloids. It's the Thai orgies.... and it involves Epstein, of course. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/...

Buffalo Rage Against the Regime
For A Better Union

UNC-Chapel Hill Unveils Plan to Cut $70 Million in Response to Funding Pressure UNC-Chapel Hill will cut 2 percent of its operating budget ahead of anticipated federal and state funding reductions.

Austerity rules.

UNC-Chapel Hill Unveils Plan to Cut $70 Million in Response to Funding Pressure  www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

View from train shows scale of Sydney Harbour Bridge protest – video Police estimate the pro-Palestine march was attended by more than 90,000 people

Great work, Sydney
Peaceful, vast protest
#MarchforHumanity
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Also, decent people WANT equal rights for everyone, they should be full-throatedly campaigning FOR trans rights

Tragedy happens.

Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released…

“The country with the Statue of Liberty deprived us of our liberty without any kind of evidence,” Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan who was held in CECOT for months, said two days after he was returned to his family.

Gay men don’t have a loneliness epidemic because we don’t orient our entire social lives around trying to convince and assure other people we’re not gay like straight men do

My progressive Protestant youth director told me to have slimmer thighs and a snappier pedicure.

Will ask for these at my local library and keep in mind for gifts!

5 mystery novels introduce 5 delightful new sleuths Amateur detectives test their skills in new suspense novels by Sally Smith, E.C. Nevin, Elise Bryant, Liza Tully and Katarina Bivald.

A CASE OF MICE AND MURDER is on the list of the @washingtonpost.com's new mystery novels with delightful new sleuths!

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Witch Cat With illustrations by the award-winning Laura Hughes, this charming, delightfully rhyming story about finding where you belong is perfect for Halloween!Pippin h…

Happy #pubday to WITCH CAT by Lucy Rowland and illustrated by Laura Hughes!

Pippin has always been a witch’s cat. But he can't stop thinking of all the alternatives. There are so many possibilities! If he could be any kind of cat, WHICH kind of cat would he be?

www.bloomsbury.com/us/witch-cat...

A reminder that Pulitzer winning journalist Lawrence Wright attributes his focus on religious cults to growing up with Young Life at First Methodist Dallas.

The “4/14 Window.”

Mad Max movies, Fallout, etc, imagined a desert apocalypse as a result of nuclear war, grand hubris. Turns out we'll get to Fury Road by asking AI to write our emails for us and chatting with imaginary girlfriends.

Germany’s new willingness to lead Europe’s anti-immigration front removes one key obstacle preventing European countries from enacting policy proposals that were until recently deemed beyond the pale. Those include plans to deport migrants to third countries and to process asylum claims outside the EU, copying the U.K.’s failed Rwanda scheme, which Merz previously praised as “something we could emulate.”

Absolutely revolting that this is becoming normalized as a policy
www.politico.eu/article/germ...

I think about these stories as I read about the various “deals” universities are signing with Trump. These deals do a lot of things but one is precisely try to ensure that these atrocities are allowed to continue by casting all discussion of them as antisemitism. It’s abhorrent.

Off the Beaten Path at Wildacres Retreat | Our State From N.C. Highway 226A, turn onto a gravel road. Follow it for a mile. It’ll lead you to Wildacres Retreat, a special place you likely never knew about.

The chipmunk on my profile is from WildAcres Retreat Center in Little Switzerland. Read more here:
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Oops, different WildAcres! This is from WildAcres retreat center in Little Switzerland, NC.