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Back in Style: My Best of 2025 — denisebrain vintage This year I kept the rhythm of selling and creating, but also looked to the deeper purpose behind what I do. Vintage is never just fabric and design. It’s care, it’s memory, it’s hope stitched into st...

This year reminded me that meaning is in the details — a well-sewn seam, a handwritten note, a perfectly timed dress for a September wedding in Southern California. That what we keep, what we pass along, and what we choose to protect — trees, manatees, and each other — matters.

North Carolina & Texas Letter Writing Party w/ VoteRiders! · VoteRiders Join VoteRiders on January 29 at 7:00PM ET for our first letter-writing party of 2025! North Carolina and Texas have some of the strictest voter ID laws in the nation. We need your help to ensure tha...

I'm attending VoteRiders's event, “North Carolina & Texas Letter Writing Party w/ VoteRiders!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/voteriders/e...

Be Kind to Manatees Help Margaret Wilds raise money to support Save The Manatee Club Inc

Time for your last and best donation for #givingTuesday:

YouTube video by Elton John - Topic Someone Saved My Life Tonight

@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social I opened your "Looking for Hope?" email in the middle of the night, and let's just say...

Letters on an overpass reading: Congress? Anyone? Helloo??

#Spokane
#VisibilityBrigade
Speaker Johnson refuses to call the House into session.

The Day Annie Hall Found Me — denisebrain vintage Diane Keaton (1946-2025)

Before Annie Hall, I was already wearing my father’s trousers. When I saw Diane Keaton on screen, I felt less alone. My new post is about love, loss, and how a movie character seemed to understand me. www.denisebrain.com/vintage-deni...

Wrapped in Home: Finding Comfort in Vintage Irish Knits — denisebrain vintage Do you have a piece of clothing that comforts you? For many years I got a sense of stability and warmth by reaching for my parents' old Irish knit sweaters.

In my blog.

I hope you have your own comfort.

Submit a Comment to Protect Voting Rights Conservative activists have found a backdoor way to implement the SAVE Act and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Submit a comment to the EAC and urge them to reject this petition to change voting ...

Trump & Republicans are quietly trying to disenfranchise millions of Americans. Submit a comment to the EAC to stop their scheme and protect voting rights: act.standupamerica.com/letters/eac-...

The Job Market Is Hell Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. @annielowrey.bsky.social reports:

How can we find joy and purpose in tough times? — denisebrain vintage It’s hard to reconcile In these turbulent times, it can feel difficult to reconcile our love for beautiful things with the urgent need for political, social and environmental justice. Like many of yo...

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The Joy List: 12 Vintage Things That Always Make Me Smile — denisebrain vintage There are days when I need to concentrate on something I can enjoy. Not necessarily something grand—perhaps just comforting in its familiarity or with a charming je ne sais quoi. That’s what this is:...

What's on your joy list? Here's mine: www.denisebrain.com/vintage-deni...

You're amazing! Thank you.

My fave sign at #spokane #nokings MY LIVER CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE TRUMP

Protester with colorful sign stands before colorful balloons

#NoKings #Spokane

More from #spokane #nokings

Protesters at the No Kings rally in downtown Spokane — flags, signs, movement.

Huge, peaceful turnout in Spokane.
#NoKings #Spokane

Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU

No Kings Day Protest Spokane: Lilac Bowl at 4:00 pm on June 14.

Your right to protest as outlined by the ACLU:

Former DOGE engineer on his experience working for the cost-cutting unit NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

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"There isn’t a great deal of investigative work necessary, to draw the line from this kind of prehistoric, morally-stunted male ideology ... The cause and the cure are staring MAGA in the mirror."

From @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
"The entire MAGA movement is rooted in the most toxic of masculinities; perpetuating knuckle-dragging, emotionally-fetal, alpha male posturing; a culture of relentless aggression that rewards the crass, coronates cruelty, and celebrates sexism."

Keep schools safe for children and families—and keep ICE out! The threat of ICE in schools creates unnecessary trauma, leads to damaged trust in educators, and causes students from undocumented and mixed-status families to miss school, leaving a lasting impact o...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ke...

A Jan. 6 rioter convicted of assaulting police scored a visit to the White House Two pardoned Jan. 6 rioters posted photos and videos of themselves visiting the White House. One of them was convicted of assaulting police and texted after the riot, "I have murder in my heart."

Of course we give props/status/bling/perks to people who assaulted police protecting our free and fair election process. Of course.

How many times have I sought to find these exact words?

Cringe

Fast Fashion: The New Vintage? A Question for Our Closets (and the Planet) — denisebrain vintage After a long pause due to Covid, I went to a Value Village and found myself going through the old motions: entering, getting the lay of the land (here are the dresses, there’s the coat aisle…), and gr...

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Oooo, full house!

Yup, we're there.