NancyTea&Toast

Keep the reunions coming!

Coup! That rhymes only visually. Oop! (singular form of oops.)

Front page, above the fold, of the newspaper The New Haven Register, 29Oct2025 (NHRegister.com). The headline reads, "Ways to help those about to lose SNAP benefits." Inclusdea a photo of the Connecticut Foodshare distribution center in Wallingford.

Saddened, angered, hard to discern the feelings brought on by this headline and the relentless cruelty.
But reminded that this is also who we are. Neighbor helping neighbor even more, when the govt would let children go hungry to spite the other party (among their other inhumane reasons.)

Teary at all kinds of teary reunions, whether defenders and families or little friends. Hopeful for many more.

What is that fabulous music?!

Thank you for the boggy balm and clouds.

Thank you! I SO needed this excuse...um...reasoning. Never parting with another book but where to store the collection. Can it qualify for an accessory dwelling unit under the new MA law if "rented" to family & friends? Sunshine, comfy chairs, tea kettle, & compost toilet just to make it legal.

Treasury Secretary Bessent and Vice Preawident Vance smiling and laughing in the Oval Office.

This photo perfectly illustrates the headline. Yuking it up while giving away our hard-earned money rather than providing healthcare for all or reducing the debt.

Photo of a small standing girl facing forwardsl in a purple dress with colourful embroidered details and an embroidered cap

In 2021 Afghan women started an online campaign to protest the Taliban's female dress code by posting photos of what traditional Afghan clothes look like #AfghanWomen
#WomensArt

A screenshot from the Fooddata Central website overlaid with this message: "Due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown, this website will not be updated during the funding lapse. President Trump has made clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, clothe, and fuel the American people."

A friend asked about how much protein pumpkin seeds compared to tofu so I went to the reliable source, USDA Food DATA Central. But before finding the DATA i'm assaulted with propaganda. Because he cares so damn much.

Opinion | These 6 Charts Explain Why Democrats Shut Down the Government

The frightening impact to the ACA under the Big Blunder Bill. Driven by cruelty it would cause people to exit due to overwhelming costs. Label this the 44th attempt of ReTrumplicans to do away with the ACA.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Sad Company

Plus, this absolutely lit up my brain last night:

Subtly downgrade a band:
Earth, Wind & Fireflies
: No
: Moody Blueberries
: Stone Dimple Pilots
: Stone Temple Pilates
: Marshmallow Temple Pilots
: B. Altman Brothers
: J. Giggles
: Rash
: Gorillas
: Marshall Tickler Band

Subtly downgrade a band:
Earth, Wind & Fireflies

: No
: Moody Blueberries
: Stone Dimple Pilots
: Stone Temple Pilates
: Marshmallow Temple Pilots
: B. Altman Brothers
: J. Giggles
: Rash
: Gorillas
: Marshall Tickler Band

Keep Portland Weird

Led Zipline

"Ya sure ya wanna cross this line?"

Bear Cam - live from Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park | Explore.org Watch LIVE as hundreds of Alaskan Brown Bears descend on a mile-long stretch of the Brooks River to feast on the largest Sockeye Salmon run in the world.

Fat Bear Week! 23 September!
But why wait...watch them live.
explore.org/livecams
#fatbearweek
@fatbearweek.bsky.social

"Tepid legality"

"I want to go to church, light a candle for the health of the warriors who are now in the trenches, so they stay strong."

#Ukrainian Defenders, who were in Russian captivity, waited for years to return home. Finally, days of captivity are no more, and now they are back in their homeland.

"Feels So Good" is forever linked in my emotional memory to a late night working alone in the studio at the Maine Photo Workshop, prepping my work for the final class show at ICP. When it hit the airwaves the sound was refreshing, so upbeat. For many it connected jazz to popular music in a new way.

I watched the greatest Superman, Christopher Reeve, deliver this speech about what "family values" really means at the 1996 DNC in Chicago.

Sounds totally reasonable. She's a beauty! (baker in my previous life)

One of my fave artists. She takes this simple concept and eternally expands on it.

Flower Power!

Can't get enough of these homecoming. #Ukraine

The Reagan-Appointed Judge Fast-Tracking Trump to Trial

The federal judiciary maintaining the checks and balance. Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...

New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory Results are consistent with two earlier studies dating the footprints to between 22,000 and 24,000 years ago.

New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory. Results are consistent with two earlier studies dating the footprints to between 22,000 and 24,000 years ago. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

He looks so proud and elated on the treadmill. That precious smile! ❤️