Aleta Botts

[Aleta Botts @ABRidgeTop]

@ShannonDowney Done. Really enjoy hearing about your stitching adventures! Yell if you come to Kentucky.

[Bob Wachter @Bob_Wachter]

1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 87

Local update: @UCSFHospitals, remains up @ 17 (double last wk), 3 vented (Fig). I still can’t explain it – no bump in posive test % (1.7%) & no new deaths (total=6). SF General's hospitalizations, higher than @UCSF’s last month, down to 8.

[Aleta Botts @ABRidgeTop]

@RevRobSchenck1 This is a reaction to fear, and fear is not represented by the cross. This reflects pride, and pride is not represented by the cross. How does one reconcile these things with the cross on the spine?

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

No disobedience is too small in a dictatorship. People often ask why Putin bothers harassing activist groups or jailing protesters & bloggers. Dictatorships are brittle and cracks lead to fractures. They don't want people to gain the slightest amount of courage.

[Christianity Today @CTmagazine]

From @markgalli:

To the many evangelicals who continue to support Mr. Trump in spite of his blackened moral record. Remember who you are and whom you serve.

Consider how your justification of Mr. Trump influences your witness to your Lord and Savior https://t.co/NVdQjg4odC

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Fox News’s Chris Wallace: "Let’s start with a basic fact. President Trump is engaged in the most direct, sustained assault on a free press in our history." https://t.co/aPIfSGmRAk

[Al Cross @ruralj]

Between #SmallBusinessSaturday and #CyberMonday is something new: #SubscribeSunday. Time to subscribe to your local newspaper or digital equivalent; they're the chief fact-finders and independent watchdogs who make democracy work, and need your support. https://t.co/Oh7VJVdEg9

[Bluegrass Politics @BGPolitics]

"Can someone tell me what this story says? I've used up all my free clicks for the month and I don't want to pay for it." ^JC

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Gospel: Today Jesus warns against any kind of pride, spiritual or otherwise, that would lead you to believe that you're better or holier than anyone else (Lk 18: 9-14). Rather than looking to someone else's faults, look to your own. We all have enough work to do in that arena.

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

the grass is lava

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

sir your wagon needs more hay

[The Museum of English Rural Life @TheMERL]

Petition to close down the internet except for r/happycowgifs

[Monterey Bay Aquarium @MontereyAq]

Facebook and Instagram are down, here's an EmergenSea Otter

[The Daily Yonder @dailyyonder]

For the umpteenth time, an urban commentator has suggested that small-town residents would be better off if they moved to a big city. But Athens, TN, a town of about 13,000 located between Chattanooga and Knoxville, has other ideas. And they live by them. https://t.co/EYp0jQ53lY

[The Daily Yonder @dailyyonder]

An urban “glut” of new lawyers hides fact that many rural communities lack legal expertise that could help them address personal and societal issues. One lawyer who returned to her rural roots from the big city is part of an effort to change that.https://t.co/1zWLN4uvOO #rural

[Aleta Botts @ABRidgeTop]

Opening session of Appalachian Regional Commission Summit — Kentuckian and ARC Federal CoChair Tim Thomas, #ARC2018

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Surely this should not be happening. https://t.co/Jvcd9aGvfX

[John McCain @SenJohnMcCain]

Respect for the God-given dignity of every human being, no matter their race, ethnicity or other circumstances of their birth, is the essence of American patriotism. To believe otherwise is to oppose the very idea of America.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

"Why are we having all these people from sh#*hole countries come here?"
1) They are our brothers and sisters in need.
2) They are often fleeing war, violence or famine.
3) There are children among them.
4) It's the right thing to do.
5) That's who we are.
https://t.co/vQKrB7vyYv