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YouTube video by Simon Sinek It Means "I Need You": The Power of 8 Minutes

Oct 10th is World Mental Health Day. Please watch and share this powerful video. It could save someone's life.

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Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

“We’re operationalizing our old corridors—taking ancient trade routes our elders told us about and articulating them in a modern context,” said Solomon Cyr, spokesperson for Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation.” — Love it when people take advantage of political opportunities.

It's only crap until after all the edits and rewrites. 😁

Trump administration threatens no back pay for federal workers in shutdown President Donald Trump’s administration is warning of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a shutdown.

This is your reminder that your senators & representatives are still getting paid. This is TRUMP'S Shutdown and he and his band of thugs are content to watch people suffer without pay OR healthcare.

#shutdown
#holdtheline
#resist
#democracy

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I feel this in my bones. My MC is of Native American descent and so is the editor I hired. It was fated!

We must all stand together against book banning and protect free speech. Banning doesn't stop at one thing - it continues to grow until there is silence.

#bannedbookweek
#books

Just launched my author website and am now getting set-up in Bluesky. It's been a long journey, but well worth it. Book one of the Nerissa Morgen series launches in the spring and book two is already in the works. I hope you'll join me for the journey.

#books #writing #writingcommunity

Standing together for the freedom to read. All students, all people, deserve and require access to information. Access to books is essential for the free exchange of ideas and for the protection of a healthy democracy. Books hold a pivotal role in our culture—a role that must be projected. During Banned Books Week, we recommit ourselves to fighting censorship and authoritarianism all year round. Today, a well-coordinated network of politically motivated public officials, groups are attacking our fundamental freedoms—including our freedom to read. Thousands of books that predominantly depict people of color and LBGTQ+ people and that discuss sex, gender, sexuality, race, and racism are banned in public schools and libraries across the country. These attacks on school districts and public libraries, educators and librarians, authors and illustrators, and the publishers and booksellers that support them are stripping students, families, and all library patrons of their freedom to read and learn. These efforts upend the lives of students, families, authors, illustrators, educators, and librarians. It leads to erasure from the shelves, harassment from would be censors, denial of access to books, job loss, and financial and emotional distress.

AABB is proud to join this coalition of groups fighting for the freedom to read. Nothing gives us more hope than the understanding that while the fight may be daunting, we are not in it alone. 1/3

Book banning and the erosion of free speech should could concern everyone. It is the action of small minded individuals trying to exert control over things they fear. Words are mightier than the sword in the right hands.

#Economy #Jobs

NO KINGS Ft Walton Beach · Mobilize **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

Let's make this one bigger than the first!!!

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Ft Walton Beach” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

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#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous & Cabinet vote to hand over $83M to one of his campaign donors in exchange for 4, count 'em, FOUR acres of waterfront property that the donor bought for $8 million. I watched -- the vote took just 2 minutes to ram through. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

You'll be in good company. I am involved with Indivisible also. Stand tall. You are not alone.

Are you a sheep, a wolf, or a sheepdog.?

In times like these, it may be helpful to find your place on the field.

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

The best way that we can protect the First Amendment rights under attack by this administration is to exercise the First Amendment rights under attack by this administration. That is why we must make the upcoming No Kings Day the single largest day of peaceful protest in modern American history.

(next to a map of the nearly 2,000 events planned for October 18) NO THRONES. NO CROWNS. NO KINGS. SATURDAY, OCT. 18

The threats from this weak and unhinged regime are growing.

But We the People are meeting the challenge — undaunted, unafraid, unwilling to be silenced by this petty, pathetic, wannabe-king.

Let’s make 10/18 the largest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Wait - what? Gale is perfect!

We keep fighting until we win.

😂

Dove in and started writing chapter one of book two today, and I can already tell how much my #writing style has improved. Looking forward to the journey for this series.

While the #FCC is censoring news media, let's censor this bitch and Brian Kilmeade. Why do they still have jobs? Why do they get to spread lies and hate?

FREE SPEECH IS NONNEGOTIABLE. You don't get to pick and choose who gets to have a voice.

#resist
#revolution
#freedomofspeech

Long-haired Rough Collie nudging green alligator toy while lying on the floor. Brown, tan and white.

Riley Lucifer Morningstar in FL.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS NONNEGOTIABLE!!!

#indivisible
#resist

Just sold all of my Disney stock and cancelled my subscriptions.

Free speech is for everyone, not just the few.

#Disney
#Resist

Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension Thinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone—after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, so many people rushed to quit that the cancellation page itself started crashing.

Disney faces a wave of cancellations after pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live!, with subscribers reporting that the Disney+ cancellation page keeps crashing.

You know what to do . . .

So much for freedom of speech in this country. #JimmyKimmel

"IF WE HAVE A SMART PRESIDENT, YOU WILL NEVER LET THE DOLLAR SLIDE. IF YOU HAVE A DUMMY, THAT COULD HAPPEN!" DONALD TRUMP SINCE DONALD TRUMP TOOK OFFICE THE VALUE OF THE U.S. DOLLAR HAS DROPPED OVER 10%. IT'S THE WORST YEAR FOR THE DOLLAR SINCE 1973! LOOKS LIKE WE DON'T HAVE A VERY SMART PRESIDENT.

Voter education for Okaloosa County.

I finally finished editing book one before I send it off to my editor. Now I can focus on book two. It should only get easier from here, right?

Right?

LOL

#writing
#writingcommunity