Becky Byers

Keep dreaming and keep dreaming big.

I would always feel horrible when I ran out of candy. Either I bought too much or not enough. This year we didn't buy any because our son had a home football game and we would have only been home until around 6.

Substack Live with Garry Kasparov: Friday Morning at 9:30 a.m. ET Please join me and Garry Kasparov, the World Chess Champion who has become a democracy advocate, for an important Substack Live Friday morning at 9:30 a.m.

Friday morning, join world chess champion and democracy advocate Garry Kasparov and me for a Substack Live at 9:30am.

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Hiding the truth.

John Fugelsang: a Christian who has actually read the Bible!

You can condemn murder and political violence without whitewashing Charlie Kirk's shameful history of hate, racism, white nationalism and promotion of dangerous conspiracies that radicalized Trump supporters to violence.

You can do both.

According to the New Testament, both Mary and Jesus were refugees, people Donald hates and undermines. They sought safety in Egypt when Herod threatened the lives of children. Trump would have turned them away, allowing Jesus to die, and Christianity along with him. Let that sink in, Evangelicals.

it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine

It’s ok for books to say so.

And here I was thinking the way to solve hunger was food.

I got a library card today and I feel like a God. 💪 📚 🙏 😇

Hero Gisele Pelicot
#GiselePelicot

‘When the Hell Did Empathy Become a Flaw, America?’

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Coast Guard Swimmer Who Rescued 165 from Camp Mystic amid Texas Floods Speaks Out: 'Real Heroes Were the Kids on the Ground' Scott Ruskan, a rescue swimmer for the U.S. Coast Guard, is being hailed as a hero for his response to the devastating flooding at Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas. He is credited with saving 165 lives and ...

Trump said no one joined the military under Biden. This hero did. people.com/coast-guard-...

Tyrannies have commonalities.

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Are Libraries the New ‘Third Places’ We’re Looking For? They just might be. They’re doing a lot of things that don’t have much to do with books but do have a lot to do with community. And you don’t hear “Shhh” much anymore.

They just might be.

They’re doing a lot of things that don’t have much to do with books but do have a lot to do with community.

And you don’t hear “Shhh” much anymore.

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YouTube video by The Intellectualist The Rise of Hitler: A History of How Democracy Fell in Germany and Its Parallels to Today

Hitler, a convicted felon accused of sedition, gained popularity during an era of high inflation. Elites thought they could control him—until they couldn't. (video)
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In Germany they are protesting the far right, in the US 🤷🏻‍♀️.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

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#RESIST 🇺🇸

Flashback post.

This. 👇👇👇

Just so we’re clear -
Any party telling you who you can love, what gender you are, which medicine you can take, which books you can read, which history you can learn, what prayers you should pray and what you can and cannot do with your own body, doesn’t give a fuck about freedom.

If you're a Veteran and you get your healthcare from the VA, please make appointments with your PCP and specialists before January 20th, and make sure to update all your vaccines and order your meds.

No matter what Pete Hegseth says, his tattoos are anything but typical symbols of Christianity In the months leading up to the presidential election, Trump frequently used the phrase “the enemy within” to describe those in opposition to his political ideologies.

I wrote a little something that y’all might find helpful in discussions about the #petehegseth tattoo issue

The #ACLU of Oklahoma and other organizations are uniting to challenge Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters’ latest attempt to impose religion on students in the state’s public school system. #OklahomaBlueDot 🔵