Tina Hoggatt

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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

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I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis.

I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO.

Full statement:

Democrats successfully backed Trump into a corner where he was on-the-record advocating to starve Americans and let their healthcare costs go up.

And now 10 cowards in the Senate are about to bail him out in exchange for NOTHING.

Just sent this fax to Chuck Schumer, and Kristen Gillibrand is up next. Free and easy, link below, and feel free to steal this script!

Here's sandhill crane dancing at sunset. Quick cell phone edit, so they'll be a better version someday.

Great way to clear my head after an unfathomably stressful week.

Winning is hard, especially given the constant losses in our communities.

The only way out is through ❤️

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At Thursday's meeting, they told their caucus colleagues that they now had ten votes to re-open the government in exchange for no real Republican concessions. At that, much of the rest of the caucus went ballistic, and some of the supposed ten said that, in fact, they were not willing to vote for any such deal. More from Robert Kuttner The leaders of the proposed Democratic cave-in, Sens. Maggie Hassan and Jeanne Shaheen, both of New Hampshire, and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, then backed down. Only after that did Schumer go public with his proposal to reopen the government in exchange for a one-year extension of the ACA subsidies, along with a bipartisan commission to figure out a long-term solution.

However bad you think Schumer is, he is worse

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We have as much leverage as we’ve ever had — and Chuck Schumer is on the brink of taking a deal that gives Democrats NOTHING.

I’m glad Hakeem Jeffries will fight this in the House, but it should not get that far. Senate Dems must not cave.

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

ICYMI - I have a new portfolio website for my illustration work, comic books projects and links to all the stuff I'm associated with. It's a lot like my old site, just faster and clearer.
ryand.art

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

"A Haaaandbaag?"

There's 10k of you now! Leave your questions about Palestinian folklore, folktales, etc... in the comments and I'll answer them in a thread later. 🎉

Why we love you.

I would very much like to see a centipede dancing!

It's something healing about being in the kitchen cooking sipping and playing music loudly. I learned it from my momma

This is good, and should actually make us feel better.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily blocked a ruling that required Trump to fully fund SNAP because she’s playing chess, not checkers. She sent it back to the lower courts for a reason. 👀

It's so sad.

A U-Haul container set up as a food pantry.

You can see a decent variety in the pantry, sacks for convenient shopping and an invitation in English and Spanish to take what you need.

Not just food but there are sanitary supplies visible in this pantry.

I passed these two U-Haul box containers in someone's yard and wondered what the heck was going on, and then I realized that someone had set up a pantry. #neighborhoodpantry #feedthehungry #SNAP

That lion face.

My fave.

Outside shot of The Briar Patch, a brick building with brick sidewalk and a Maine flag.

Two copies of Wishing Season by Anica Mrose Rissi, one signed by the author with the message "Hold on to the magic inside you."

Anica Mrose Rissi holding three copies of her novel Wishing Season, standing next to the Maine-ly Middle Grade sign in the bookstore.

Stopped by The Briar Patch in Bangor & signed copies of WISHING SEASON—look for it in their Maine-ly Middle Grade section. While there, I grabbed Calvino’s SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM from their Books About Books table. We love a well-curated bookstore stocked to the gills with great choices!

Naturalists recommend you don’t tidy your garden in autumn too much for the sake of the wildlife. Here’s why. Goldfinches feeding on rudbeckia seed heads next to our patio this lunchtime. Beautiful birds. Photo taken through the patio door hence the slight blurriness

#Birdsseenin2025

At the AD 3rd C Baths of Caracalla scraps of floor mosaics lean casually against the ancient walls.
#AncientRome #MosaicMonday #Archaeology
📸 my own, Rome.

Smells bad.

remarkable.

Writer pals, I saw a re-post on here earlier today about a yearlong online memoir-writing course/group. Now I can't find it. Any leads?