Long live the Sting

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

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First woman appointed to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury The Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, has been announced as the next Primate of All England

BREAKING: The next Archbishop of Canterbury is to be the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London since 2018, Downing Street has announced. She is to be the first woman to hold the post

#archbishopofcanterbury #nextABC #Archbishop106

www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

It Only Tuesday

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

This woman turned ‘death sentence’ animal shelter into a place of hope “The old shelter, when you would walk in and surrender a dog, it was pretty much a death sentence,” said shelter volunteer Lisa Krasnow.

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Growing up, my dad’s parents lived with his sister’s family next door to his brother’s family. A home place, and the resulting closeness, literally and figuratively, is something that makes so much sense to me now

Mustard been a relief…

Opinion | Bad Bunny Just Wants to Stay Home. So Do I.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

Opinion | What to Do When the President Acts Like a Five-Year-Old?

There’s so much in this piece, including: And most of all, we need leaders who understand that losing the game fairly is far more honorable than winning by force.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

Auditioning for Wizard of Oz?

*sights

Once the church of presidents, the Episcopal Church must now be an engine of resistance (RNS) — The reckoning, if we are honest, is long overdue.

In a new op-ed Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe writes: Churches like ours, protected by the First Amendment and practiced in galvanizing people of goodwill, may be some of the last institutions capable of resisting this administration’s overreach and recklessness. #Episcopal #tec
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Baby bison zoomies alert! 💨 Meet Samson, the newest (and speediest) member of our Free-Roaming Area herd. Born over Memorial Day Weekend, this fluffy little calf has already mastered the art of sprinting joyfully across 435 acres of forested fields like he owns the place. 🦬

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That song is high art

My two are good at sleeping and helping in the kitchen…

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937

Congratulations! Still appreciate the online classes you two gave during the pandemic. Truly made it bearable!

Congratulations!

A French Cathedral Turned to Hams to Restore Its Organ (Gift Article) A dispute over a project to cure hams in a bell tower underscored the difficulties that churches in France face trying to pay for restorations.

Holy ham!

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/w...

Must be a playbook somewhere. My cat does the same

Sad ending to a remarkable place. Loved the Weathervane. Loved the Shop and the feeling of experiencing the world before I ever went abroad.

Maybe check for DK Eyewitness books about history? They make great travel and other books that have lots of illustrations and learning aids like timelines.

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Hit us up @hallmarkchannel.bsky.social @netflix.com 🙏

The ‘Wicked’ Practice of Taking Pictures of the Movie Screen (Gift Article) Why are so many people snapping photos and taking videos at the movies? Will this trend ever go away?

We miss being in the bigger moments when we record them. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/m...

I like Advent as much as the next girl, but in the words of the great Angela Lansbury, we need a little Christmas, right this very minute…so the Christmas tree is up now in ordinary time.

Such an interesting story