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I'm a Jack-of-all-Crafts, Master-of-None knitting junkie, recovering work-aholic, cat-mom who blogs randomly.

[Virginia @kiniacat]

@gop @SenateGOP @HouseGOP @RepCiscomani
@FoxNews
Here you go, kids. This is what #ANTIFA means & its historical significance.
The #NoKingsOct18 peaceful gatherings are to STOP Fascists from being accepted & revered in our country.
You can help to stop fascism!
@RpsAgainstTrump

[Matthew Cooke @thematthewcooke]

NEW VIDEO: Is ANTIFAscism a terror movement? History answers clearly.

Identify a fascist by their 5 masks:
1. Statist
2. Militarist
3. Theocrat
4. Corporatist
5. Ethnonationalist

[Virginia @kiniacat]

#ThisIsWhyWeCantHaveNiceThings
#Corruption

@GOP @HouseGOP @SenateGOP @RepCiscomani
@TheDemocrats @HouseDemocrats @SenateDems
@SenMarkKelly

[BMcArthur @bmcarthur20]

ICYMI. "This is why we can't have nice things. Corruption."

Rachel Maddow explains.

WATCH:

#DemsUnited

[BMcArthur @bmcarthur20]

ICYMI. "This is why we can't have nice things. Corruption."

Rachel Maddow explains.

WATCH:

#DemsUnited

[Dangerous Thoughts @DangerousThinkg]

Dolly Parton is a national treasure

Talent, honesty & charm in one package

[Virginia @kiniacat]

Everything about this tragically & stupidly represents Trump’s “presidency” & Congress’ abandonment of our country.
#RemoveTrump & his cronies from our Government.
Stop the “improvements” (vandalism) we can’t afford.
@GOP @SenateGOP @HouseGOP @RepCiscomani

@RpsAgainstTrump

[Mikey Smith @mikeysmith]

This must be the second most heavily defended waterway in the world…after the Strait of Hormuz. I’m back with some sad news from the Lincoln Reflecting Pool…

[Melissa Crytzer Fry @CrytzerFry]

Double the #roadrunner fun as they eat mealworms ... and a surprise visitor at the end!

(How I've missed these lovely birds).

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

In June 1996, Keshia Thomas was 18 years old when the Ku Klux Klan held a rally in her hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Hundreds of protesters turned out on June 22 in 1996 to tell the white supremacist organization that they were not welcome in the progressive college town. At one point during the event, a man with an SS tattoo and wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with a Confederate flag ended up on the protesters' side of the fence and a small group began to chase him. He was quickly knocked to the ground and kicked and hit with placard sticks.

As people began to shout, "Kill the Nazi," the high school student, fearing that mob mentality had taken over, decided to act. Keshia threw herself on top of one of the men she had come to protest, protecting him from the blows, and told the crowd that you "can't beat goodness into a person." In discussing her motivation for this courageous act after the event, she asserted, "Someone had to step out of the pack and say, 'this isn't right'... I knew what it was like to be hurt. The many times that that happened, I wish someone would have stood up for me... violence is violence -- nobody deserves to be hurt, especially not for an idea."

Keshia never heard from the man after that day but months later, a young man came up to her to say thanks, telling her that the man she had protected was his father. For Keshia, learning that he had a son brought even greater significance to her heroic act. As she observed, "For the most part, people who hurt... they come from hurt. It is a cycle. Let's say they had killed him or hurt him really bad. How does the son feel? Does he carry on the violence?"

To Keshia, breaking that cycle was what truly mattered. As she observed in a 2016 interview, "The real accomplishment of all this to me is to know that his son and daughter don't share the same views. History didn't repeat itself. That's what gives me hope that the world can get better from generation to generation."

Mark Brunner, the student photographer who took this now famous photograph, added that what was so remarkable was who Thomas saved: "She put herself at physical risk to protect someone who, in my opinion, would not have done the same for her. Who does that in this world?"

In response to those who argued that the man deserved a beating or more, Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator Leonard Pitts Jr. offered this short reflection in The Miami Herald: "That some in Ann Arbor have been heard grumbling that she should have left the man to his fate, only speaks of how far they have drifted from their own humanity. And of the crying need to get it back.

Keshia's choice was to affirm what they have lost.
Keshia's choice was human.
Keshia's choice was hope."

© A Mighty Girl

#archaeohistories

[Virginia @kiniacat]

Neatly said! #TrumpEpsteinFiles

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

They’ve arrested more people for touching the peeling paint at the Reflecting Pool than they’ve arrested from the Epstein files.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Because I posted this, Musk is really throttling my account. He doesn’t want the Epstein files trending. Let’s see if we can keep this trending and get it up to a million likes and RT’s! Do not stop talking about the Epstein files. Keep the flame burning! 🔥 #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

WOW!! Yesterday (longest day of 2026) Wind, Water, and Solar power supply in California exceeded demand for nearly 10.5 hours and supplied more than 80% of the 24-hour demand!!

Clean energy is powering one of the world’s largest and fastest growing economies, and it’s not slowing down!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Keith went to church yesterday. Inside the church, during the service.

The churchyard he has done many times, on his usual east-to-west grid, a standing Sunday booking the Reverend makes and Steve objects to on principle. Yesterday he did the churchyard, and then, with the east section tidy and the morning still young, he found the south porch propped open for the early service and went in.

The ten o'clock was, by the time Keith arrived in the nave, approximately at the second hymn.

Accounts vary on the exact moment the congregation noticed. Most agree it was during "All Things Bright and Beautiful," which several present later judged poorly timed. By the third verse there was an Anglo-Nubian goat standing in the centre aisle, assessing the building with the calm professional eye of a surveyor who has been called in about damp.

He did not panic. A church is, to Keith, simply a large stone field with excellent acoustics and an unusual quantity of flowers. He worked it methodically. He sampled the arrangement on the south windowsill, found it acceptable, and moved on. He considered the green altar frontal at length and, to the visible relief of the churchwardens, declined it. He ate precisely one rose, thorns and all, from a pedestal near the font, the way a man tries a single olive at a party to confirm a suspicion about the host.

The Reverend, to his enormous credit, did not stop the service. When the hymn reached "all creatures great and small," he gave the smallest nod toward the goat in the aisle, and the congregation, being rural and unsurprised by very much, sang on. Mrs Pelham, eighty-one, in the second pew, reached out and scratched Keith behind the ears as he passed. Keith permitted it. Keith permits very little. Mrs Pelham has dined out on it all weekend.

Steve was in the fourth pew. Steve and Keith made eye contact. Nothing was said, because nothing is ever said, but a great deal was understood. Steve did not sing the rest of the hymn.

Keith left during the notices, which is when most of the congregation would have left if they could, and was found by Dave in the lane outside, eating cow parsley, with the unhurried air of an animal who has done a thorough job and is ready for his lift.

Dave's log, Sunday: "He got into the church. I do not want to discuss how. The Reverend says he is welcome any time, which I am fairly sure was a joke. I have written it in the Ecclesiastical column regardless, in case it was not."

The flowers are tidy.

The roses are down one.

The Reverend has Dave's number, and now, apparently, an open invitation.

Keith is thinking about Harvest.

[F. @fawnellaa]

Can men just not mansplain things to women? 🙄

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

It's never too early to start thinking about your Halloween costume.

This year, I am predicting the Reflecting Pool costume will be very popular.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

There are cameras that monitor the Reflecting Pool 24/7 - it's Washington DC ffs. There is no footage of anyone damaging or trying to cause damage or sprinkling algae spores or doing anything of the sort. These people live in a world of lies and only morons believe them.

[Virginia @kiniacat]

Yep, that’s what it feels like…
@GOP @HouseGOP @SenateGOP @RepCiscomani

@RpsAgainstTrump

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Imagine being forced to give someone 6.2% of your paycheck, every single check, every month, for 30 to 50 years of your life.

And that person said, "Don't worry, I'm holding this for you and will pay it back to you on a monthly basis, when you retire at 65."

And then they said, "Nah, just kidding. I meant when you retire at 67. And at that time, I'll only give you 70% of what you paid me."

And then they said, "Oops, I spent all your money. You're out of luck."

That's the U.S. government.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Imagine being forced to give someone 6.2% of your paycheck, every single check, every month, for 30 to 50 years of your life.

And that person said, "Don't worry, I'm holding this for you and will pay it back to you on a monthly basis, when you retire at 65."

And then they said, "Nah, just kidding. I meant when you retire at 67. And at that time, I'll only give you 70% of what you paid me."

And then they said, "Oops, I spent all your money. You're out of luck."

That's the U.S. government.

[Virginia @kiniacat]

K…so you could insist on performing your jobs…
@GOP @HouseGOP @SenateGOP @RepCiscomani

@RpsAgainstTrump

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

OOF: The plaintiffs who unsuccessfully sued trying to stop Trump from renovating the Reflecting Pool have just uncorked a scathing update to the judge

"This is the foreseeable result of defendants’ decision to bypass the consultative process required by law and which must occur before the government can alter our nation’s most sacred spaces"

"It should go without saying, Congress required agencies to consult with experts and public before making changes to historic properties for a reason. The public is now witnessing what happens when, instead, agencies barrel ahead with ill-conceived plans in a hasty manner to meet an arbitrary deadline imposed by the White House"

[Zwartbles Ireland • Suzanna Crampton @ZwartblesIE]

As daylight fades to dusk, I stroll through long grasses when plume moths start to emerge from their daytime slumber.
They’re a favourite of mine,with wings of miniature ostrich plumage&spiky legs not dissimilar to sun bleached dried twigs.
A curiosity of evolutionary invention

[Melissa Crytzer Fry @CrytzerFry]

Y'all. We made it on the front page of the Arizona Republic today -- ABOVE the fold -- fighting for the lower San Pedro River, Galiuro Mountains, and Sky Islands! So proud of our little nonprofit and our partners.