Greatness... 🤦‍♂️

"Private for profit insurance is a scam. We need our taxes to pay for universal healthcare. It's more affordable & a human right."

The Ultimate Sweater Yarn, 100% polypay, 3 ply worsted and Cheviot Worsted are now available at the Grafton Yarn Store in Grafton, Wisconsin. Buying locally produced yarn supports local small farmers. 🧶

If you missed seeing Purveyor of Fine Yarns at Rhinebeck, stroll over to the Orange Kitten on the Square in Monroe, Wisconsin for a chance to pet our locally sourced yarns

Excellent conversation

Tax the rich.

What the Heck Just Happened? YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

For our #democracy, I enjoy these Saturday morning livestream chats on Facebook & YouTube with American historians @hcrichardson.bsky.social and Joanne Freeman about what happened the previous week. #DemocracyInAction #DemocracyMatters #DemocracyNow

Do the math: $130,000,000 divided by 1.3 million service members comes to $100 each.

What is even the point?

I have friends everywhere.

#NoKings, Madison WI

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care.

The system is broken.

(around an image of the No Kings logo) IT’S OFFICIAL Nearly 7 million people have attended today's peaceful protests, which makes No Kings Day the biggest single-day protest against tyranny in American history! With more than 2,700 lawful and peaceful protests across all 50 states, No Kings Day was 14 times larger than both of Trump's presidential inaugurations (combined).

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.

Hand drawn sign reads ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY

One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends.

#NoKings #Manhattan

If Tom Homan did nothing wrong, the Department of Justice should have no issue releasing the Homan files and the video of the alleged bribery to clear this up.

And while they’re at it, go ahead and release the Epstein files and clear Trump’s name.

Shouldn’t be hard!

Tell Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "You're fired!" Since becoming U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken dangerous steps to sow vaccine mistrust and also to take away people’s access to lif...

Quick signature: Tell Trump and U.S. Senators RFK Jr. should be fired! #FireRFK action.momsrising.org/sign/fireRFK...

Threatens to shoot a black man in the head.

“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.”

— Lydia, 16, Minneapolis

August 27, 2025 The image of National Guard troops, some of them from as far away as Louisiana and Mississippi, in Washington, D.C., spreading mulch around the cherry trees at the Tidal Basin and picking up trash, il...

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Close up shot of black and magenta colored yarn in dyepot.

I had a vision of this yarn and worked with High Prairie Fibers to make it a real thing! It is 100% Lincoln, a long wool, and consists of three plies, a white, grey and black. It is a heavy yarn that will keep you warm this winter!
🧶 #breedspecificyarn

Truth! Release the Epstein Files!

August 13, 2025 On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.

August 13, 2025
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Yarn sits in large container, water visible, colors are a very pale lilac to a pale magenta

New color, still hot and steamy.🧶

Sure seems like the President of the United States is going to pardon a convicted sex trafficker and serial abuser who ran a pedophilia ring with his best friend in the whole wide world.

Today would be a good day to release the Epstein Files.

Unredacted.

In their entirety.

Amy Klobuchar is one of the 26 Democratic senators who just voted to stop arming Israel. Two weeks ago, she was in a bipartisan photo with war criminal Netanyahu.

Pressure works, folks.

Who Says Israel Is Committing a Genocide in Gaza? Everyone on This List After almost two years, more and more politicians, experts, and human rights groups are finally using the G-word to describe Israel's violence in Gaza, but the list is still relatively short.

NEW — 10 members of Congress are now calling it “genocide.”

Here is a list of the politicians, nations, human rights organizations, and experts calling Israel’s genocide a “genocide.”

You’ll want to bookmark this one, as we will keep updating it.

Reposting this and a few other things for no particular reason today. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow and the next day, too.