Month: March 2025

International Women’s Day – 2

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Book Recs

  • Something Lost, Something Gained: reflections on life, love, and liberty by Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
  • susan, linda, nina, & cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR by Lisa Napoli
  • Song in a Weary Heart by Pauli Murray
  • Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick
  • Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir by Marie Yovanovitch
  • Set the world on Fire: A 4- Week Personal Retreat with the Female Doctors of the Church by Vinita Hampton Wright
  • The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore
  • Reflections from Both Sides of the Glass Ceiling: Finding My True Self in Corporate America by Stephanie Battaglino
  • Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back by Jackie Speier

World Book Day

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5 Book Recs for World Book Day

  1. The Armand Gamache Series by Louise Penny
  2. How We Learn to Be Brave by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
  3. A Lily Among Thorns: A Mohawk Repatriation of St. Kateri Tekakwi:tha by Darren Bonaparte
  4. Lovely One by Ketanji Brown Jackson
  5. Patriot by Alexi Navalny

Plus a Bonus Book

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez

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(c)2025

Election Connection – Trump Fiddles While Democracy Burns

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Up to about four minutes is excellent commentary on what is going on in the US. The rest is also worth watching, although its focus is more on where France should be heading.

There are English subtitles.

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

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(with apologies to Al Franken.)

Does anyone remember Joe Wilson? He called President Obama a liar in the middle of a speech he was giving to a Joint Session of Congress. He wasn’t escorted out. The Sergeant at Arms didn’t go to his seat and remove him.

Vice President Biden didn’t gesture with his thumb, cartoonishly directing, “Get him out of here.”

That’s because Democrats value free speech, even if it’s rude. Even if it’s wrong. Even if Joe Wilson, was himself lying about what President Obama was saying.

Democrats, we, believe in free speech. No matter who is speaking.

However, we also believe in truth telling. In calling out lies. In calling out hypocrisy. Real hypocrisy. Real lies. Not the fake news crowd’s misinterpretations, misleading, and misinformation.

I can almost guarantee that anyone reading this will NOT be receiving a tax cut. In fact, your services will be cut even if you do not receive social services. I mean, they fired the folks who watch over and take care of our nuclear arsenal, why wouldn’t they take away the things that we need. They fired the air traffic controllers and then wonder why planes are falling out of the sky.

They’re canceling contracts (great business decision, amirite?) left and right, which in turn has people who will lose their jobs and benefits. It’s called the domino effect.

This morning, the fake agency DOGE cancelled the contract for the land that President Obama’s Presidential Library is going to be built.

And in case you missed it, the classified documents that Trump stole in his last term and stored on stage and in a bathroom at his Florida resort were just stolen back by him and flown on Air Force One because they’re “his.” Kind of like when my son cried out that the Batman his sister took was his. Except they’re not his. They belong to the American people. They belong to us. They’re classified for a reason.

From Alt National Parks Services on Facebook:

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