It’s a great counted cross stitch pattern!

Unfortunately electricity is much more expensive in some places. NYT had a great article with a lookup table for how much the electricity to drive a couple hundred miles costs v gas in every state. I live where it is cheapest to drive a non plug in hybrid, but that advantage is shrinking.

Bibi Bomber and Donnie Two Dolls made a war pact with this specific goal in mind - an excuse to stay in power for life.

Or a birthday cake for their 5 year old.

Ditto, didn’t buy it for my son, he didn’t ask for it. He had better taste in fantasy / sci-fi even in elementary school. I never censored his reading material, he was reading high school level in fourth grade.

Geo W Bush committed what could be called combat avoidance by serving in the Texas Air National Guard. It sheltered many nepo babies from active service in Vietnam. He was sleeping at home; enlisted men were being used as pilots in Vietnam because pilot life expectancy was 6 months max.

I must be having a stroke, am I dreaming? Thank you so very much!! For everything. Seriously. I’ve been your Dear Reader since Carrie was published, instantly making Tales From the Crypt obsolete childhood rubbish, Lovecraft and Poe too ancient and detached from my 1970s tween life.

O’Brien, it’s spelled with an e. And please don’t presume to speak for authors, or anyone else, dead or alive.

One would hope that leaders would have read more and watched less of most everything than the current clueless administration. Master & Commander is excellent but reading the entire “Aubrey-Maturin” series by Patrick O’Brien is even better.

Go Ask Alice was not at all realistic, that was the consensus of my teen friends in 1974/5. The Beans of Egypt, Maine was too late to be a childhood read, but it’s some real 💩 about growing up poor & female in rural Maine. I have stories…

Kids don’t need a censor, they need someone who clearly, regularly, from their child’s birth, voices and teaches by example the simple values of the Golden Rule.

No one person should have pardon powers. It should always be a committee with clear guidelines for what is allowed.

#MEpolitics

It ain’t all boomers, kid. Kegbreath, Kushner, Rubio are not boomers just to name 3 with their fingerprints all over this mess.

Good news is that takes out all the white suprematist claims about “Western Civilization” being the pinnacle of human achievement 🤣

FAFO the only good part about the president being an idiot is that it feels good when he fails.

Too bad Mills played coy so long & then was anointed by Schumer, thus taking out any other viable options. Because this is not the moment for a high mileage corporate Dem weighed down by heavy baggage. I don’t want to have to vote for her, I don’t trust her any more or less than I trust Platner.

It’s too late to consider literacy when the child arrives in Pre-K. The cuts to Head Start are criminal. Parents & caretakers are the first and most important teachers. Most Americans 0-4 are neglected & “taken care of” by plopping them in front of a screen to watch - they all need Head Start.

I don’t click on .com articles about literacy stats. I have a degree in secondary education, worked in secondary education. I am painfully aware of the literacy rate in Maine. The biggest problem we face is the failure of support systems for low SES families. NCLB does nothing for them.

MRFF Guest Op-Ed: NYU Student Delves into Ongoing Christian Indoctrination at Air Force Academy, Uncovers Outrageous Proselytizing Incident “Last month - I interviewed an Air Force Academy cadet, who spoke on condition of anonymity, about her experience with a Christian professor who is an active duty military officer. The professor’s Chr...

www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/2024/03/mrff...

MRFF Guest Op-Ed: NYU Student Delves into Ongoing Christian Indoctrination at Air Force Academy, Uncovers Outrageous Proselytizing Incident “Last month - I interviewed an Air Force Academy cadet, who spoke on condition of anonymity, about her experience with a Christian professor who is an active duty military officer. The professor’s Chr...

Anyone surprised by that hasn’t been paying attention to what has been happening in our military for the past few decades. The friggin AF Academy has been indoctrinating future officers in Christianity for decades.

www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/2024/03/mrff...

It’s natural to be sad and angry when you are living in a fascist regime and nothing you do seems to have much effect. But meek acceptance will never stop an authoritarian. Those who have no care in the world got us into this by not voting. Stay strong!

Sorry, they’re planning to put AI data centers under the sea where they aren’t mining it. Either way the garden will be destroyed.

He and his father lied in the past, saying Fred Sr was born in Sweden. It’s because his first language was German & accent was so thick. Two world wars with Germany ya know…

We should be more concerned about the effect of illiteracy on democracy and the world at large than whether people can write a post that others don’t take as intended. Illiterate people can’t maintain our current tech & medical system, let alone advance science.

He’s voluntarily retiring. I don’t think he would be so honest otherwise. That’s the problem with most politicians, including Mills. Afraid of the opinion of the most wishy washy uniformed in the electorate rather than standing on their convictions. The haters gonna hate anyway so go for it.

“This is just evangelical christian nationalist American fanatics vs. evangelical fanatical Shia Iran. A bunch of ultra religious apocalyptic loving assholes who have no business running a food truck let alone countries and wars.”

Though I agree there are too many with this opinion, same people feel free to say it about brown immigrants & trans people, liberals etc. Hate is the primary motive - saving “Western civilization” “our heritage” is the story they tell themselves. They want everyone in dead or in concentration camps.

a group of women in costume are holding fans and one of them is saying " ugh peasants " ALT: a group of women in costume are holding fans and one of them is saying " ugh peasants "

E Pluribus Unum is reduced by MAGA to “fuck you unless you’re wealthy enough to own a luxury jet and an island”.

Feels like it’s on brand for Christian Nationalists like Huckabibi.