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Rabbi, Mama, Granny, Teacher, Sweetheart, Stubborn, Fat, and Queer. Out since 1987. Jewish. Proud Californian, still rocking my Tennessee accent. 🌩️👀 Gq8MtzN0RhOW
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Watched _Flow_ tonight. A remarkable achievement, refreshing approach to animation and animals. No need for subtitles, since there are no words.

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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Beware romance scams, no matter where you live!

Yay AZ AG!

Dr. King was right:

Friday Poodle: Two good friends, my sweetie and her poodle, Princess (aka Principessa, aka Princess Butter Ninja)

I could never have imagined how difficult it was going to be. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/w...

share.newsbreak.com/bme4kx29 How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

Thursday Poodle: Gabi loved every new squeaky toy. She took great pleasure in pouncing on them and disemboweling them.

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

Bravery is needed these days.

Praying for the #Bibas family on this very difficult day.

Thank you, Josh Vega, for speaking out and telling your story. #MtPol www.kpax.com/news/missoul...

European Parliament member 👇🏽

Scott Weiner has accomplished some amazing things. I hope this one plays out. This is the kind of holding corporations to account we won't see out of the feds for years to come now.

This is a concentration camp. If that term makes you uncomfortable, it should. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

Just where does all that talk about "freedom" fit into this picture?

Let us not lose our capability for wonder. www.usatoday.com/picture-gall...

Very disappointing. www.usatoday.com/story/travel... #disability #wheelchair #ada

Over 50% of nonviolent movements to overthrow governments are successful within one year of their peak. The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership. We can do this. More:

Literally, THIS. Everyone that keeps asking where she is...nah. Too late. Leave her alone. Now our actual former Presidents...where are they at?

I wrote about Holocaust remembrance as Christian redemptive drama.

It's really this simple, folks.

"When Trump voters were simply reminded of Jewish identity, they became more inclined to think that events such as the COVID-19 outbreak were deliberately planned to control the public and that the war in Ukraine was orchestrated as part of a Zionist plot." www.psypost.org/neutral-info...

Learn your people's history, LGBTQ friends. There are people who want us to forget all about it.

Wednesday Poodle: He loves watching his people cook. Sometimes they drop stuff.

Now included with your Spotify subscription 1984 😁 I suggest you listen Or buy it to read Or both Before the Ministry of Truth edits it away in the Memory Holes It's ++Good!

Wow. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...?

Things like this, the little things you take for granted, are going to keep seeping in. You never know what you will miss until it’s gone — like, you know, a democracy.