Mtn.Becca

This is one of those that makes me mad I didn't think of it.

This 👇 is the way to do it!

No bootlicker

Small southern very red town protest

Repost ad infinitum.

Photo of the year. So far.

Black, tan and white puppy with orange ball

New addition to the family 💙

“Empathy is to feel somebody else’s pain,” Arthur C. Brooks says. There is nothing naive or stupid about it, but it is “an incomplete virtue.”

In his conversation with Adrienne LaFrance, Brooks details the difference between empathy and compassion: https://theatln.tc/HEuZ6Nro

DHS is delaying millions in already approved North Carolina recovery funds, documents show Communities across the region still need to be reimbursed for about a hundred projects including debris removal, waste water treatment repairs, roads and bridges, damaged buildings and parks, as well ...

The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.

"Gerrymandering is wrong when Democrats do it and when Republicans do it. It is wrong in in red states and in blue states." That said, what Texas is doing is uniquely wrong and undemocratic.

Texas State Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social joins @johnavlon.bsky.social:

A single yellow dahlia with pink edging

Channeling the meemaws and grannies with my dahlias.

BBC World tonight

Two Israeli human rights groups say their country is committing genocide in Gaza It is the first time that Jewish-led organizations in Israel have made such accusations against the country during nearly 22 months of war.

It is the first time that Jewish-led organizations in Israel have made such accusations against the country during nearly 22 months of war.

Fixed headline… let’s be clear about who is really asking for a pardon here…

Probe underway after reports of nude women on Oklahoma state superintendent’s office TV • Oklahoma Voice Oklahoma’s House Speaker urged State Superintendent Ryan Walters on Friday to “turn over all relevant devices” and cooperate with an investigation after two board members reported that they saw naked ...

Well, well, well. Ryan-Bible-Thumpin'-Walters. I'm not surprised. Not one iota. And there are one helluva lot more skeletons were these came from.

What's it like to have Frank Lloyd Wright design your house? This 101-year-old knows Roland Reisley is the last original client of Frank Lloyd Wright, still living in the Usonian home designed by the famed architect. Even after 73 years, he told NPR, he still marvels at the beauty of the home.

Roland Reisley is the last original client of Frank Lloyd Wright, still living in the Usonian home designed by the famed architect. Even after 73 years, he told NPR, he still marvels at the beauty of the home.

Stewart stands up for Colbert 👇🏽🔥

He tells CBS Trump will never be satisfied no matter what they do, as evidenced by him suing Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News… which “spends 24 hours a day blowing Trump”

Things I hated as a kid, but love now: exhibit 1, gardening and preserving.

“The Chinese can’t believe their luck.”

Another aspect of Trump’s bill is it cedes solar, wind, and EV’s to them — including bailing on clean energy projects in Tennessee. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...

There were 29 law enforcement officers who were arrested, pled guilty and/or were sentenced to prison for child sex crimes in the month of June.

Farm to table, thanks to my gardening husband.

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

Here are the nonfiction books NPR staffers have loved so far this year A deep dive on gossip. Revolutionary history. A meditation on muscle. A closer look at the color blue. And memoirs galore. There's something for everyone on this nonfiction summer reading list.

A deep dive on gossip. Revolutionary history. A meditation on muscle. A closer look at the color blue. And memoirs galore. There's something for everyone on this nonfiction summer reading list.

Why are Republicans trying to rush through their Big Beautiful Betrayal this week? Could it be they don’t want you to know what’s in it?

Takes health care from 16 million people

Raises grocery costs for millions

Increases debt by $3.4 trillion

Gives the wealthiest $400K tax break

WATCH: “Like we saw with the Iraq War, You can’t declare this successful now. You have to see what happens next.”

The Holler’s Justin Kanew says it’s important to remember what happened in Iraq — and remain skeptical of the reasons Trump attacked Iran.

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DLNYncZ...

What children in poverty could lose from the 'Big Beautiful Bill' Republicans want to change or reduce key social safety net programs that provide health care, food benefits and financial assistance for millions of children.

Republicans want to change or reduce key social safety net programs that provide health care, food benefits and financial assistance for millions of children.

At this point, I am waiting for a velvet painting of 47 to show up in the White House. Tacky, tacky, tacky.

There is science and then there is quackadoodlery. MAHA is the latter. 🐛🧠