Mary Beth Donnelly

YouTube video by Good999Music Graham Nash - Military Madness

Going through my head today on a loop.

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Analysis | The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning. Longtime Fact Checker Glenn Kessler takes stock as he departs The Washington Post.

“All I want is the truth. Just gimme some truth.” -John Lennon

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Undoubtedly one of the biggest influences of my Gen X life. Taught real skills as well as empathy and understanding. Cannot overstate its importance to so many of us. Those furry creatures and their human neighbors are like family to me, still.

It’s no joke.

And in a similar spirit, I feel obligated to repost!

Gutting.

Supreme Court Clears the Way for Trump’s Cuts to the Education Department

I would say it’s hard to be a teacher on this era, but that’s too specific. Rather, it’s just damn hard to be a concerned human in this era.

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Ah, but in the end, the nerds are the winners! (At least I used to think so.)

Happy 4th. Lest we forget why we celebrate it…

If we ever make it through this era, which seems ever more doubtful by the day, I look forward to reading the psychological, political, and ethical studies that emerge about the people who have sold their souls—& those of their children!—to find a cozy spot in this administration.

Wow. Beautiful.

How many laps does it take to swim away one’s world weariness?! Asking for a friend…

Trump trumps Trump.

Well, that certainly is saying something.

True patriotism isn’t red-tie deep.

Seems history teachers are not not renowned for their ability to make pithy posters, but we do know something about the dangers of tyranny. #NoKingsDay

I think that’s the really heartbreaking part. You can’t say they didn’t learn their history; they did learn and they decided to weaponize the lessons learned.

It’s more than a little humbling for those who want to believe that cruelty is born from ignorance. Not always, clearly.

FDR and the D-Day Prayer | The Roosevelts | PBS LearningMedia In 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a prayer and read it over the radio to 100 million Americans as the World War II invasion of Normandy unfolded. This was likely the largest moment of mass prayer i...

Worth remembering the moments of valor and sacrifice as we try to survive this space of noise and nonsense.

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Posted in honor of Memorial Day. From President Abraham Lincoln to Fanny McCullough, daughter of Lincoln’s old friend, William McCullough, who was killed in the war in 1862. I’m not sure more beautiful, heartfelt words were ever written.

(Source: abrahamlincolnonline.org)

How do you get through college - no, life - without realizing that not all doctors are MDs?! I can’t fathom he doesn’t know better.

I just want to be cool! I want the cool kids to like me!

Rephrasing for those moving too fast:

Raising profound ethical issues, Trump plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane as a donation from the Qatari royal family that will be upgraded to serve as Air Force One and then plans to continue using it as a private citizen after office.

I’m so glad the leader who is telling our kids to accept fewer dolls this Christmas—or to accept just a handful of pencils (!!!)—is practicing self-abnegation himself by not accepting rich dude toys from foreign governments.

You keep telling those kids, Sir, about the value of doing without.

Sloppy!

“Considering”… In what universe of our constitutional democracy does an unelected appointee have any right to “consider” an abrogation of our civil liberties?!

The GOP talks about limited government, but this sure as he** is not it! This unconstitutional overreach should alarm everyone.

And what about the 11-year olds who barely have five pencils now and no dolls? What about them?!

Trump says 'I don't know' when asked if he must uphold the Constitution President Donald Trump said, "I don't know," when asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" whether he must uphold the Constitution to execute his deportation strategy.

You don’t know? That’s literally what you MUST do.

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What a good example he’s setting, showing us the importance of limits and sacrifice.