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cherijoy.bsky.social

UU Religious Educator • Mom of LGTBIA+ kiddos and polydactyl cats • handbell aficionado and vocalist• quilter • crocheter • curiosity seeker • lover of books and nature • middle-aged badass

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submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

Terry Pratchett Douglas Adams Scott Adams Hillary Clinton Elizabeth Warren

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If I wanted to destroy what is good about the the US, diminish its prestige and import in the world, and increase the suffering of all people, these are the types of things I would do.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I’m going to tell an Ambassador Bridge story on this thread later when I’m not at work.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The reason for the season:

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

On this 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s ride, I keep thinking of a few lines from the last stanza of Longfellow’s poem: “And so through the night went his cry of alarm… A cry of defiance and not of fear…” “In the hour of darkness and peril and need, The people will waken and listen to hear…”

submitted 10 days ago • 48 comments

Blue states should pass laws requiring that tariffs are itemized and clearly shown in purchase receipts, by the way. Let people know how much they’re paying extra thanks to Donald Trump and the Republican Congress.

submitted 17 days ago • 58 comments

My favorite #DoctorWho quote, and very important, as these fascists close in on us:

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Seriously. It took until 2008 for our 401k to recover from 2001. It took 5+ years to recover from 2008. I’m not positive it had recovered all the way from 2020 yet. Theoretically we can retire in 12 years. Theoretically.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Burn it all to the ground and buy up the land and water and minerals at rock bottom prices. This a fire sale for the oligarchy. How do I know? They’ve already done it to rural America…

submitted 27 days ago • 604 comments

And probably several Palestinian university students. (Alt text for image: Somewhere in the USA there is a Latina Anne Frank hiding from ICE in an attic. )

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The first person that I personally knew got DOGEed yesterday. She wrote training protocols for training air traffic controllers. Expect more incidents like this.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Clearly, Canada and Mexico can wreck the tourist industry double-handedly. (Alt text for image—Canada supplies 30.86% of our annual tourists and Mexico 21.81%. UK is in third place with 5.86%. No other country contributes more than 2.8%)

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

"O my God...Give me the courage to resist, the patience to endure, and the constancy to persevere." #ThomasKempis #ImitationOfChrist #PrayForAmerica

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Your job today is to come up with a plan for what you will personally do if ICE shows up at your workplace, school, or place of worship, and tries to disappear someone. Talk about it with friends and coworkers. Write down phone numbers you’ll need. Role-play scenarios. Practice what you will say.

submitted 34 days ago • 37 comments

"It is incumbent upon Catholics to raise our voices to keep families together from the threat of unlawful deportation and to support free expression, the right to nonviolent protest, and due process." #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/opinion/gues...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Being a Democrat means always being concerned someone somewhere does not have access to all the rights and benefits of being an American. Being a Republican is being afraid someone somewhere is getting something they don't deserve.