Sarah Bailey

Anybody else watching the takeover and meltdown of the US Dept. of Education? Now being run by elitists who want to funnel educational funding into private schools. I'm very grateful for local control in Maine, and to be living in a sane state - at least for now.

“You can certainly disagree with me…but could we, as Americans, and fellow children of God, speak to one another with respect? …We don’t have to go to the highest extremes of contempt when we are in a position of disagreement.”
-Mariann Budde

A Look Back at Week One of Trump 2.0 It Was a Lot...and Less Than Meets the Eye

davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/a-look-bac...

I'm the children's chorus master for a production opening tonight! Congrats, choir Dad!

LA BOHEME - Opera Maine

Very excited for opening night! 🤩
#operamaine
#portlandsymponyorchestra
#laboheme
www.operamaine.org/season/la-bo...

One of the Jan. 6 defendants has turned down Trump's pardon Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and spent 60 days behind bars for her role in the Capitol riots, says she no longer believes the lies President Trump promoted.

If only more of them would start to use critical thinking skills! Brava to Pamela 🇺🇸

www.npr.org/2025/01/23/g...

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Lest you forget - Boris Johnson

Elon Musk: A German Eye On Elon Musk's Hitler Salute Elon Musk's stretches his right arm out at a Trump political rally. Could it mean something else? The Neo-Nazis don't think so.

From the Greman Press:
"By January 2025 the farthest-right edge of said Overton window has expanded enough to include, unambiguously, a Nazi salute."
(note the cover-up of his right arm because it is illegal to publish a Nazi salute in Germany)
#deportelon
www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

YouTube video by The Boston Globe Bishop pleads with Trump to ‘have mercy’ on immigrants and LGBTQ people

Be bold. Speak the truth in love.
#boldlikebudde
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXQ...

Yes. Have you heard about the idiotic responses? Including that the bishop should be added to the deportation list.

Call out the #FOTUS. So much damage already on Day 1 😥

Family crisis, existential dread over national events, professional exhaustion, and yet:
HOPE
God, be in our hearts. Be in our heads. Be in our hands and feet. Pour your blessings on this nation in spite of ourselves. We need you. ❤️‍🩹