Sherry Harper-McCombs

Join me on June 14

I'm taking action on June 14 to remind Trump and his enablers that America has No Kings. Join me in Princeton, WV to reject authoritarianism and show the world what democracy really looks like. app.sosha.ai/s/ZOn1LYor

The ones that get me are the ‘Fuck Biden’ signs still sprouting from the homes of the “family values” crowd so threatened by drag shows. I’m really glad I no longer have small children I have to explain THAT to….

Yeah. That cut in income tax most likely means an increase in sales tax which ALWAYS helps grocery prices. And folks with polio eat less anyway, I hear…….

New year, same climate disasters and enemies of the environment

COMMENTARY: The West Coast is experiencing horrific wildfires, and the mid-Atlantic is recovering from back-to-back winter storms. These “natural” disasters put our communities at extreme risk and are a result of climate change, writes Morgan King.

Driving through a work zone today, I was pondering the “Be Prepared to Stop” signs that line work zones. Shouldn’t we ALWAYS be prepared to stop? Isn’t that kind of our job when driving??

Commentary: Jimmy Carter’s Place | The Daily Yonder Many memorials to former President Jimmy Carter, who died at 100 years old on December 29, 2024 in Plains, Georgia, have bordered on hagiography.

What has our cynicism gotten us?

Elon Musk Is Creating His Own Texas Town. Hundreds Already Live There. Employees of SpaceX have filed a formal petition to create the city of Starbase. Its first mayor would be a security manager for the company.

Hmm. A company town. What a great idea — I’m sure nothing can possibly go wrong there……🙄

Or donate to The Carter Center. But try everyday to be a Jimmy Carter because we have way too many DJTs.

I kept changing my mind which Carter cartoon i should go with. Here's all three.

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We posted this just an hour before it was announced that Jimmy Carter passed. 🕊️

In his memory, we share one of his most profound messages:

“The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.”

The Villain Who Plans to Demolish the Toy Shop in a Hallmark Christmas Movie Sets the Record Straight Holiday greetings. It is I, Winston George Higgensbooth Sr., real estate tycoon and hater of children and Christmas cookies… or at least that’s wha...

"I intend to build a five-story mixed-use complex, thereby making the town more prosperous and accessible while relieving our strained housing market. But these NIMBY cocoa-snorters would rather that space be used for their favorite Christmas tree lot."

Interested to hear how the GOP is planning to spin not voting for funding for extending disaster relief right before Christmas at the behest of an ultra-rich megalomaniac. Scrooge is so proud of all the good work they are managing already.

Scrooge and Marley CEO: The Counting House Business Is Flawed. Let’s Fix It OPINION GUEST ESSAY by EBENEEZER SCROOGE Mr. Scrooge is the chief executive officer of Scrooge and Marley. - - -I know the headline suggests you ar...

"Let me try to demystify what we do at Scrooge & Marley. We make our mission to make making more money make more sense. We are always striving to find ways to get more money from you, all at a lower cost to us."

Cats love early morning yoga.

Nikki Giovanni, Poet Who Wrote of Black Joy, Dies at 81 (Gift Article) As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.

A fellow Appalachian I had always hoped to meet some day. Traveling mercies on the next great adventure, Ms Giovanni.

Opinion | What Doctors Like Myself Know About Americans’ Health Care Anger As a doctor, I’ve been on both sides of frustrating health care debacles.

Although I do not condone violence, I understand the impulse and we REALLY need to fix this system. People die WITH HEALTH INSURANCE in the richest nation on the planet simply because we have folks who profit when they deny care even when it should be covered.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/o...

I see what you did there!🤣

GVT has produced a musical about this story.

Thanks so much!!

I am from WV, teach at a college in PA, am the summer costume designer for Greenbrier Valley Theatre in Lewisburg, and have been back seasonally my entire career to my family home-place in Summers County where I will be moving permanently and stopping the back and forth after teaching this spring.

Any way to get on your starter pack?

If I were a for-profit health insurer announcing a shockingly ghoulish cost-cutting measure I would simply not do it on a day when the CEO of another for-profit health insurer was gunned down in broad daylight and people went “lol nice”

At the holidays, it good to remember the immortal words of Linus — “There are three things you should never discuss — politics, religion, and the Great Pumpkin.”

Glorious sunrise this morning.

Tell me the climate is changing without saying the climate is changing:

Laundry load of clothes from the week and a half prior to today contains both Carhartt shorts and Carhartt flannel lined jeans.

A note to celebrate good news:

Dear Matt Gaetz—

Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.

Sincerely,
Us

Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky

I agree but also grow increasingly concerned about how higher ed is complicit in this control of educational access as well. The number of first generation college students in our world remains distressing low. I feel we are also gatekeepers, just at a different level.

First post on Bluesky and I want to be totally positive so here is the big ole bears head / lion’s mane mushroom I found this weekend. Did not take all of her so she could continue her life cycle and spread some spore but less than half of her was 2 pounds of mushroom!
#westvirginiamushroomforaging