Carol Matheny

Virginians are ready to vote — and ready to win. 🇺🇲

Yellow fabric with a ❌ red X and black outline of a crown 👑.

US flag 🇺🇸 on the front porch in the foreground and one of our NO KINGS flags on the garden fence in the background.

Turf Valley 5th floor with a mini balcony with our 2nd NO KINGS banner hung off the safety railing in Ellicott City, MD.

#NoKings weekend banners at home and on the road at a wonderful Convocation of the Archdiocese of Baltimore Deacons!

rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed. They poison human society, but they do more harm to those who practice them than those who suffer from the injury. Moreover, they are supreme dishonor to the Creator.”

attempts to coerce the will itself; whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit,

Gaudium et Spes
Pope Paul VI
12/07/1965

27: “Furthermore, whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia or wilful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, torments inflicted on body or mind,

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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Common Eastern Bumblebee on tall goldenrod—waking up

Common Eastern Bumblebee 🐝 sharing a squash flower with some Spotted Cucumber Beatles

Drowsy Common Eastern Bumblebee 🐝 in a squash flower

Common Eastern Bumblebee in a squash flower

Checking the garden on a cool morning reveals that I am running a hostel for bumblebees 🐝 🐝🐝🐝.

White contrail streak on blue sky background and tree top in foreground. The streak is being made by a helicopter 🚁 at 2600 ft. elevation.

A helicopter contrail is not something you see everyday. Concern: this is about the height of fixed wing aircraft lining up for the nearest airport.

You can lead people to data, but you can't make them think Comment from Auckland University: Scientific evidence for human-induced climate change is beyond dispute, so why is disinformation still so rife?

You can lead people to data, but you can’t make them think

Scientific evidence for human-induced climate change is beyond dispute, so why is disinformation still so rife?

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Annual Carbon Dioxide Peak Passes Another Milestone For the first time, the seasonal peak of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere exceeded 430 parts per million (ppm) at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory on Hawaii, scientists from NOAA and Scripp...

In May 1958 the Carbon Dioxide was measured at 317.5 ppm. This May the average for the month was 430.2 ppm. If you are doing the math, that is an increase of 112.7 ppm.

The % increase from 317.5 to 430.2 is approximately 35.51%.

In 1958, Charles Keeling, began monitoring Carbon dioxide.

Goldenrod in foreground. Blue house with white trim and a red door in the background. Commonwealth of Virginia flag flying.

I voted Loudoun County sticker with a blue background, dogwood flowers and a cardinal on a branch.

Just early voted 🗳️ in the 2025 elections! 💙💙💙

Saying goodbye to summer. #SunDay Our Smooth Blue Aster (Symphyotrichum laeve) is welcoming the Autumnal Equinox!

Clouds from 9/11

Tuesdays Bluesky.

Isn’t this what it means to be in a party? When a party holds a primary, the party supports the voters nominee. Ignore your voters at your own peril.

Hoary Mountain Mint with Zebra Swallowtail and Tiger Swallowtail.

❤️ Swallowtails on Hoary Mountain Mint (year two perennial winter sown).

“The U.S. is rapidly losing state-of-the-art hurricane forecasting, just in time for hurricane season’s busiest months.”

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

A table with a statue of Mary and baby Jesus, a white hobnail glass bud vase with red, white & blue bachelor buttons and mountain mint, an old horse recently found in the yard, a little US flag 🇺🇸 in a glass toothpick holder, and a box of Resist Trial Bags (Hand-mixed from: Black pepper, salt, paprika, cayenne red pepper, white pepper, chipotle pepper) that Penzeys sent me to give away to people. Penzeys gave me this RESIST because my “backyard is where America’s fate is to be determined.” I have a mission to share the RESIST “with people in need of a tasty seasoning to brighten their day.”

A glass jar that contains Holland Whole Blue Poppy Seed from Penzeys sitting on a kitchen countertop. When I fell in love with the “Lemon-Poppy Seed Waffles” recipe that came with a Cuisinart Waffle Maker, I had to find a place that I could get a bulk supply of poppy seeds at a reasonable price.

Two Lemon-Poppy Seed waffles on plates with a 2c liquid measuring cup filled with warmed maple syrup on a glass top stove.

Observing Flag Day #nokingsday in my living room.

Bearicuda “bear proof” trashcan cover with mud and new scratches the morning after a bear encounter.

We had a bear visit last night at about 10:30 pm. (Video timestamp is incorrect). He played with our Bearicuda Bin but couldn’t access the trash.

YouTube video by Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe What happens in the Arctic doesn't really matter, right?

Melting Arctic ice isn’t just bad for polar bears; it’s bad for us, too.

A warmer Arctic and changing circulation patterns affect coastlines, crops, and climate patterns around the world.

I joined the Catholic Church the year that Dorothy died. I was married the next year and we moved to Staten Island to work with the mission that abuts the cemetery where Dorothy was buried. I am so grateful for this broadcast. ❤️

Last words from Judgment at Nuremberg: a convicted German jurist tells his American judge: “Those millions.. you must believe I never thought it would come to this.” The reply: “It came to this the first time you condemned a man to death you knew to be innocent.”

O Lord of justice, we also ask that you send constant graces of repentance and conversion to those corrupt officials who through greed or fear fail to protect those under their care.
We ask this through your most holy name.

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Inspire them with a renewed hope in the love that people of good will have towards them, that with our spiritual and material support they may triumph over their exploitation and their trauma.

Come to the aid of the victims of human trafficking who were betrayed by those in responsibility and by those who were supposed to love and protect them. Let them cry out like the psalmist “Even if my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will take me in.” (Psalm 27:10).

Justice Dept. says it’s not required to bring back wrongly deported man Kilmar Abrego García, 29, a Salvadoran immigrant married to a U.S. citizen, was mistakenly sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The First Station: For corrupt officials and those who, by betrayal, condemn victims to slavery

O Lord Jesus Christ,
You were betrayed and condemned by those who muffled the voice of their conscience and relinquished their responsibility to you and to humanity…
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Even if you care nothing for your neighbor, the destruction of the pubic health infrastructure will reach us all. “…no wall is high enough to keep viruses and other disease threats out.” Uganda is just over 22 hours from IAD.

The loss of USAID doesn’t only affect folks overseas. It affects US farmers and agricultural research. Our own food security depends on the development of sustainable agriculture into the future with changing climate conditions.