In my area (not DC), varsity basketball games start at 7 pm, as well as football and some soccer games.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

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Pennsylvania, we only have to Monday, Oct 20 to register to vote & stop billionaires from buying our courts!

It’s time to #ProtectPACourts
Vote YES To RETAIN Justices
Donohue, Dougherty & Wecht on Nov 4
👉 vote.pa/register

#ProudBlue
#Voices4Victory
#PACourtsMatter

FCC moves to end discounts for Wi-Fi hotspot lending and school bus connectivity The Federal Communications Commission voted to end discounts for library and school Wi-Fi hotspot lending programs on Tuesday, drawing criticism from lawmakers and librarians who say the move will mak...

Trump's FCC yesterday voted to kill a program that provided free Wi-Fi to rural school kids at no cost to taxpayers, falsely claiming the program was "illegal" and was being used to "censor Conservative ideology."

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this:

“These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview

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Man detained in Cato ICE raid wrongfully deported, separated from his family Body camera footage released from the raid shows agents referring to immigrants as 'animals.'

“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

End of week 4. Dinner came from the concession stand at the football game. Our athletic boosters do serve yummy burgers and fries!

I've got a new friend... 🦗😺😻

we predict cleveland’s browns will have great movement, be well managed, and finish much better than they started.

as for the football team we are less certain.

Democrat Alexandria Braswell

Alabama House District 11

🚨SPECIAL ELECTION - ALABAMA STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 11🚨

Democrat: Alexandria Braswell

Election Date: 🗓️THIS TUESDAY, AUGUST 26TH🗓️

Area: East of Gadsen

Note: Blood red district, but a Dem threw their hat into the ring nonetheless to give voters an option. Let's reward her by spreading the word.

Tom Llamas

“What Will Climate Feel Like In 60 Years?” Is A VERY Useful Interactive The University of Maryland has created a very useful interactive titled What Will Climate Feel Like In 60 Years? Type in any location around the world, and then it will show you what the&#82…

“What Will Climate Feel Like In 60 Years?” Is A VERY Useful Interactive larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/08/19/w...

We have goats, & they truly are the best!

I was doing some research today about careers. One I looked at was law enforcement, & I was seeing 21 as a minimum age.

Shaw has a valid work visa and is employed in Washington State at a maximum security juvenile detention facility. Yet, after she drove her two older kids to get a direct flight to visit grandparents in New Zealand, she was treated like a criminal herself when driving home with her youngest son.

I think I need to add a few of these guys to my herd.

Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.

Sen. Mark Kelly speaks with 2 mothers detained by ICE, CBP Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly visited the Eloy Detention Center on Thursday to speak with two mothers detained by immigration authorities.

Thank you @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @repgregstanton.bsky.social & @repyassansari.bsky.social for visiting and pushing for actual reforms that make sense.

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one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

The People Being Arrested By ICE That No One’s Talking About The Trump administration’s deportation machine is detaining immigrant women at record numbers — and they've become invisible targets.

Brutal treatment of women detained by ICE. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-de...

Sounds like an interesting book. Just added it to my Audible wish list!

Death Spiral: Republicans' Medicaid cuts threaten the health care of all Americans-even people on private insurance. 1) Medicaid cuts cause millions to lose health care 2) People without coverage can't pay for the care they need 3) Rural hospitals lose significant revenue 4) Health care workers are laid off, rural hospitals close 5) Entire communities lose health care services

What a great video! Thank you!

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

Me too!

No. We’ve had up to 4 at once (3 were outdoor only). A friend rescues cats in her home & they probably have 8 or 9 right now.

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

This is a great resource

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Trump Administration Deports 82-Year-Old Pennsylvania Grandfather to Guatemala On June 20, 82-year-old Luis Leon, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, went to a Philadelphia immigration office with his wife to replace his lost green card.

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