Christy Delafield

Aid work right now is like high schoolers comparing who’s applying to which college. Except instead of “omg yes let’s both go there” it’s “omg no we’re not both competing for that job are we?”

Protestor carries a sign “I can see Russia from the White House”

Harrisburg, PA

Protestors in front of the Harrisburg capital building hold a sign “I can see Russia from the White House”

Harrisburg PA today

5 y o nephew: i am going to practice mixing
Me: What would you like to make?
5: I am going to make something new (picks up cake mix) I need water and (grabs can of peaches) this!
Me: 😳
5: I need water
Me: Um will it be ok if your new thing doesn’t taste good?
5: yes. It is ok to make mistakes

Changed my sheets this afternoon and I am ready to receive my trophy

Transferring files from the old, dying computer to the new computer and I’m convinced the veteran is whispering “RUN”

Would happily live through COVID or junior high again to get back to the main timeline

“It’s hard to think about what extensive system access would look like for these guys that wouldn’t violate the law”

“Henry Ford didn’t institute the 8-hour workday because he was kind. He did it because people start making MISTAKES after 8 hours”

My cousin who once worked in the labor movement called me and scolded me “good men and women have DIED for evenings and weekends are you going to spit on their sacrifices?”

So yeah maybe it’s time to take a break

I’m watching some old episode of West Wing and Tobey is arguing with someone trying to abolish the NEA.

“I don’t know where you got the idea that taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for anything of which they disapprove.

“Lots of them don’t like tanks.

“Even more don’t like Congress”

sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!

EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

I don’t want to alarm anyone but we may need someone in this generation to stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness

Apple News editors pick: Why does the world’s largest rodent suddenly have a cult like following? The New Yorker investigates the rise of the capybara

Look I love capybaras as much as the next person but this is your editors pick? Today?

Sure, just clean out a particular ethnic group. If only there was a term for that…

Worth reading on the complex challenges of Syria’s disappeared and accountability for perpetrators, emphasizing the imperative of Syrian ownership of investigations and justice processes.

www.arab-reform.net/publication/...

Thanks for sharing - this is a daunting challenge and it’s interesting to hear some of the learnings from other contexts

I’m doing a 2025 intention setting workshop this afternoon but all I can think of as my intentions are rest, reading, ease and comfort.

Coffee and a blanket are my intentions.

California Fire Map: Active Wildfires A map of wildfires currently burning in California

Here's a link to our wildfire map that's regularly updated with information from officials. www.latimes.com/wildfires-map/

Clothing company: Based on your history, you might like our new collection, eccentric grandpa!

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Me: OK yes that is correct

More interviews with witnesses to the Douma chemical attack in 2018 providing more details of how they were forced to lie about the chemical attack in public by Syrian and Russian officials. Those lies were lapped up and regurgitated by the usual useful idiots in the West.

The Harrisburg Telegraph on August 5, 1910 reports "Wedding, Delayed by Pursuit of Ostriches, Is Solemnized"

One of the great gifts of my mom getting into genealogy was her discovery that a cousin's 1910 wedding was delayed as her husband-to-be went off to make his fortune in Big Ostrich

No joke: it should ALWAYS be like this. No party should have the authority to stop journalists from recording whatever they want on the House floor.

@conductress.bsky.social well hello! Fancy meeting you here!

Inside the secret 'Friends Ward' of Damascus Hospital where doctors treated Iran-sponsored fighters | The National The National toured the hidden section of Damascus Public Hospital, where medics say they were ordered to treat foreign militants and even high-profile detainees

Inside the secret 'Friends Ward' of Damascus Hospital where doctors treated Iran-sponsored fighters – Nada Homsi, The National. www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...

Big P henceforth almost always drowns grantees in paperwork. Huge grant applications. Massive reporting requirements. And often significant restrictions on how the money can be used. All of it adds up to big cost, big hassle and inflexible funding

To disrupt this system, Carter, in his first year, signed an executive order establishing selection commissions staffed with lawyers and non-lawyers from diverse backgrounds and professional experiences to recommend nominees for circuit court vacancies.

In transforming the federal judiciary to make it more representative of the people it serves, Carter set an example—and an imperative—that endures to this day.

By 1980, when his presidency ended, Carter had completely transformed the federal bench, appointing 41 women and 57 racial minorities as federal judges—a 500% increase in the number of women serving on the federal bench and a nearly 200% increase in the number of nonwhite federal judges.