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Living peacefully but sociably while enjoying reading, conversing, genealogy and choral singing.
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“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

'Stop playing nice!' AOC mad at Dem colleagues refusing to 'block everything' in Congress www.rawstory.com/stop-playing...

Let us keep on trying to do better in this broken world. We need to believe that what is good and just will prevail.

The Guardian view on the Washington DC plane crash: Trump’s warped priorities | Editorial

January 22, 2025

Gotta love the British press.

Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde is being celebrated as “fearless” and “bold” after pleading with Donald Trump to show Christian mercy to immigrants and members of the LGBT+ community. Meanwhile, in an unhinged rant on TruthSocial, Trump wrote that Budde owes “the public” an apology.

Where did this perpetual feeling of unease come from? I haven’t felt it in four years. Oh wait…

Have you ever wondered why Germans didn’t do anything about Hitler? Well, the rest of the world is wondering exactly that about Americans and Trump.

Currently reading this, with interest.

Happy to follow Heather Cox Richardson here.

I do feel a bit lost here but I like that every other post is in German and that I mostly understand them.

The hardest part of making bread machine bread is getting the bread out of the bread machine bread pan.

I dreamt of two departed friends, and a red and black Tesla. One friend looked different, the other the same. We were all at the wrong place yet happy to be there.

What’s up indeed.