Politics

Gratitude List for Thanksgiving, 2024

Ready to read if I’m asked to share what I’m grateful for at the family gathering we’re headed to today. Notes in case I’m asked to cease talking, each increasing in polite firmness: Please allow me to finish - my gratitude, which you’ve just asked me to express, is just as valid as yours. Please …

Ohio House Bill 445: Release Time for Religious Instruction (RTRI)

🚨🚨House Bill 445 will force Ohio Schools to adopt an RTRI “Release Time for Religious Instruction” policy. 🚨🚨 This opens the door WIDE for predatory organizations like Lifewise Academy (See Parents Against Lifewise) to infiltrate our public schools with Evangelical Christian Nationalist Rhetoric. …

Looking for Services (LinkedIn post format option)

Looking for services Type: Pet Photography Location: Springfield, Ohio I’m looking for recommendations for professionals who can help me with Pet Photography in Springfield, Ohio and soon, before 15,000 Haitian immigrants eat all of the pets in Springfield, Ohio because Trump and Republicans …

U Got the Lewk: Policy Substance, Red Carpet Style.

Here are 5 of my favorites from the article.

Style-Spotting at the Democratic National Convention 2024 (vanityfair.com)

NY Times: Tell us why you’re deleting your account (optional)

NY Times: Tell us why you’re deleting your account (optional) Me: Because of the blatant bias in your support of the maniac convicted felon GOP candidate for president. You place impossibly high standards and expectations on Democrats but let the GOP slither and slide without any trace of …

Because of course they did.

Ohio Republicans approve misleading ballot language to favor gerrymandering

PSA: Beware of Fundraising Scams

Via The Hartmann Report by Thom Hartmann, 8/2/2024 — Beware of fundraising scams! If, like me, your phone has been inundated with fundraising pitches from organizations claiming to represent everything from Democrats to retired people to students to individual politicians, here’s a simple bit of …

The One Concerning Headline About Joe Biden That Nobody Talks About

Do I think Biden should’ve run again? Absolutely not. Nothing to do with the headlines about his age. Nothing to do with the headlines about the debate debacle. Everything to do with the headline, “Biden Campaign Brushes Off Idea of Reforming the Supreme Court.” Joe Biden has a record of historic …

I Couldn't Not Write This Reaction To Raise The Roof

Green Library Online Exhibit Supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement This is important. You should visit it. 65 Stories: Say Their Names (a Stanford Libraries exhibit) Raise the Roof by MeShell Ndegeocello (Read by Staceyann Chin) “Raise the Roof” is a song from her forthcoming …

(This post contains fucks.)

Today I Learned:

Gov. Noem is seen as a leading contender for the GOP vice presidential nomination alongside Trump. She also brags about shooting a puppy (not kidding this fucking sociopath fucking shot a puppy dead and boasts about it) and later, a goat.

Mortifying.

Best Newsletter on Substack

I have a new favorite newsletter. Don’t worry, though, I still love Heather Cox-Richardson, but her writing style is a little bit, how shall we say, more refined than this gentleman’s? I’ll say one thing, though - he sure knows how to write one helluva post title 😊 everyone is entitled to my own …

Filing under, “Funny ‘cause It’s True”.

This is a Chicken 🥚

Posted to LinkedIn: This is a Chicken. Despite what the liberal media would have you believe, this is a chicken. Immediately upon fertilization (and cryo-preservation) it is a chicken. All rights of chickenhood are bestowed upon it because it is a chicken. It can peck and eat insects and seeds, it …

An Undecided Voter’s Dilemma OR Miranda Needs Our Help, You Guys

NPR Watched Biden SOTU Speech with Undecided Voter Who ‘Wasn’t that Impressed’? | Snopes.com The funny thing about this (not funny “ha ha” but funny “omg we’re all doomed and if I don’t nervously laugh about it I WILL have a meltdown and I WILL take you there with me”) is that any …

SCOTUS 🙄

Also is Mitch McConnell rotting in hell (where he belongs) yet?

I heard he’s gonna “retire” soon.

I hope that’s just a funny way of saying gonna “rot in hell (where he belongs)” soon.