Kathy Collett

Have you read Hogfather??

Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history act.indivisible.org/sign/smithso...

A bit of ecclesiastical nomenclature: oblation, lavabo, abjuration, anamnesis, antiphonal, antiphon, polyphony, apse, transept, asperges, chasuble

Opinion | This Is the Moment Democrats Have Been Talking About for Years

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Opinion | The Icelandic Landscape Is Changing, and It’s Changing Us

The Icelandic Landscape Is Changing, and It’s Changing Us www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...

Tell your senators to take a stand against the “No Contempt Clause” act.indivisible.org/sign/senator...

In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.

Utica Hands Off rally crowd.

One of two Utica, NY Hands Off rallies. Crowds of 600+ at each.
#indivisible

Massive #HandsOff rallies across the country 🔥🔥🔥

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies.

The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.

Maybe it's not the judges?

HAPPENING WEDNESDAY: Representative Mannion hosts Mobile Office Hours in Oneida County.

Please join my constituent service team on Wednesday April 2nd from 10a-2p at the Utica Public Library for assistance with veterans' issues, the IRS, Social Security, Medicare, and other federal programs.

Photo of the Indivisible Mohawk Valley meeting on March 2, 2025.

Thank you to everyone who attended our meeting this afternoon. The resistance is growing!

Register to get the zoom link!

Take local action to reduce plastic pollution and climate emissions! Join the Kirkland Democratic Committee on Zoom to learn about the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act and the Bigger Better Bottle Bill from Beyond Plastics National Organizing Director, Alexis Goldsmith. Wednesday, 2/26/2025, 6:30pm. Register at https://bennington.zoom.us/meeting/register/sisu6R3rSU6MLSb1S6wZEw

Everything is extremely chaotic but the best info we have so far suggests that Trump’s “stop funding” EO would cover:

Medicaid
ESSA funds
IDEA
Snap
School meals
WIC
Head start grants
Child care block grants
Pell grants
Student loans
Higher Ed grants
Housing vouchers
CTE

Devastating beyond words.

But as the copyright date is 1933, Murder Must Advertise will be in the public domain in 4 years, I think, so maybe it will become available as an audiobook then.

It exists -- Murder Must Advertise: Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 10, Unabridged, Jane McDowell (Narrator), Dorothy L. Sayers -- but is not available in the United States, for copyright reasons, I assume.

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

5 writers who have written 10+ books that I’ve read more than twice.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Diana Wynne Jones
Dorothy Sayers
Antonia Forest
C.S. Lewis

Aaaand ...
Terry Pratchett
Georgette Heyer
Okay, I'll stop before adding dozens more.

#Booksky

Pile of books by Connie Willis, Jo Walton, Ben Aaronovitch, Victoria Goddard, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lois McMaster Bujold, Garth Nix, and Caroline Stevermer

A few favorite books. #booksky

Fleabane, a daisy-like flower with delicate pink-edged petals

Fleabane (probably Philadelphia fleabane, Erigeron philadelphicus), June, 2023

A golden retriever sleeping on a sofa.

Goldberry, asleep

Sure!