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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

cartoon: zombie Beeker eats Dr Bunsen Honeydew

From my Larchives

A win! Trump administration ordered to pay SNAP benefits during shutdown. Thank you Judge John J. McConnell!

Bravo! A Christian behaving like a true Christian 💙💙💙

Pastor turns down $1M in church donations, urges congregation to give to SNAP recipients instead Pastor Jamal Harrison Bryant denied funds for New Birth Missionary Baptist Church and instead wants to serve members of the community who are losing their SNAP benefits.

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Every church should be doing this, and if your church isn’t, you’re at the wrong church.

These contiguous posts in my timeline show how companies, both big and small, can either devote themselves to the trivial and evil or the substantive and good.

From MSNBC: Half of the states in this country plus DC sued the Regime over the suspension of SNAP Benefits for 40 million people which includes 17 million children, elderly & disabled people, also military personnel & veterans for the month of Nov. A federal judge is supposed to make a ruling soon.

Photo of two goats peeking between the wooden board of a fence. The one on the left is black with white ears, the one on the right is white and grey.

Best friends Shadow and Jar Jar are ALWAYS together! They could not have come from more different circumstances. Jar Jar (on the right) came from a loving home that could no longer care for him. Shadow barely survived a terrible neglect case.

Most Americans oppose East Wing demolition for Trump ballroom, poll finds Fifty-six percent say they oppose President Donald Trump’s decision to tear down part of the White House to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom building.

Who would've thought building a $300 million gold-plated ballroom as kids go hungry and health care costs soar would be unpopular?

As #SNAP expires, I keep thinking of this:
"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me."

Thank you to everyone who’s supported us.

And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration:

Yikes…

complex to see, and especially right now, a young man rejecting nationalism concepts is good.

I wonder if he knows yet that Brigham Young thought Quakers lived on the moon?

Many others did not, in my religion and throughout the US. We are paying for that, now.

I'm so proud of my son for looking at racism and seeing it, mocking the internal concepts of it, and working to reject it completely. Not because it's a big work (no ally cookies) but because hidden things are

of this administration, and that changed their view of not just my childhood religion of Mormonism, but all religion. And they are much better away from it.

Youngest comes back into my room: "MA. DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE MARK OF CAIN?"

I thankfully had parents that rejected that racism early.

In comparison, my generation was taught barely anything about polygamy except that it was not something to worry about and was by agency (both not true in the early church). But my daughter in seminary had her teacher explain that they'd have to do it to get into heaven. My asexual daughter.

I grew up in a pretty well educated and military ward where people shifted in and out all the time, and where they made a bunch of mistakes, sure, but it was GENERALLY not as fundamentalist, though still deeply damaging to me.

My children's childhood ward was a deep SC ward during the rise

Youngest just burst out laughing in his room, ran to mine saying, "MA!" and then burst into, "MA! Do you know how Joseph Smith died?!?!" "Yes? Leaning out of a window, and was shot and fell."

I had forgotten we left church when he was 9ish, and in a ridiculously fundamentalist ward.

West: Mom, what is poetry? Me: Brief, 7 y.o. explanation. West: Do we have the poetry? Yes we do, baby boy. We had a poetry reading on the couch, just the two of us. W: I don't know what some of that means, but I like hydrangeas. They're beautiful. Me: I know. It takes time and experience to figure out how a poem works sometimes. The part he got: Hydrangeas go dormant but don't die and come back blooming--bright, colorful, bigger.

Best part of my day:

#LawlessWomen #poetry #PoetryofBluesky

I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

“It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side"

-Donald Trump on Epstein, New York Magazine, 2002.

Losing SNAP could mean more pregnancy complications as food insecurity grows • Kentucky Lantern Without action from Congress before Saturday, millions will be cut off from government food assistance, raising the risk of pregnancy complications.

Losing SNAP could mean more pregnancy complications as food insecurity grows
@kelciemmorris.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/30/r...

This is A RIDICULOUS LIE.

DHS is actively targeting one of my friend's children because of the color of his olive skin and straight black hair. His grandparents immigrated. His father and mother, who is my friend of over 40 years, are both veterans and he is a citizen.

Kristi Noem is lying.

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

Want to make sure this letter arrives at the right place.

At the beginning of November, an insider at ABC News leaked a hot mic interview with Amy Robach, Good Morning America's co-host and Breaking News anchor at ABC, recorded three months earlier. The segment, passed to the investigative website Project Veritas, showed Robach venting her frustration to an off-camera producer about an interview she and a colleague Jim Hill had conducted with Virginia Giuffre in 2015, which was then squashed by the network. I've had this interview with Virginia Roberts [now Virginia Giuffre] [alleged Epstein victim]. We would not put it on the air. Um, first of all, I was told, Who's Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story. [Virginia] told me everything. She had pictures, she had everything. She was in hiding for 12 years, we convinced her to come out. We convinced her to talk to us. It was unbelievable what we had. Clinton. We had everything. I tried for three years to get it on to no avail. The Palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways.

One pressure point was to deny the channel any future inter. views with the present Prince and Princess of Wales. As a result of the story being suppressed, Epstein and his associates had been able to groom, traffic and abuse young girls for another three years.

It's not over for the Royal Family until they give a full account of when senior royals became aware Andrew was a sexual predator and what resources - financial and PR - were provided over the years to assist his efforts to avoid accountability.

Two penguins stand on a rock. Their necks are bent in opposite directions as each grooms itself.

These penguins at the @newenglandaquarium.bsky.social are my entry for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme, #OddAngles
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BREAKING: Furloughed employees at CDC just received an email about the shutdown, but has REMOVED language about backpay that appeared in a similar email sent out a month ago. On the left is the Oct 1st email with the backpay language, on the right is the email they received today.

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