BREAKING: In a 220-208 vote, with four Democrats voting in favor, the House passes the SAVE Act, a bill that could strip voting rights from millions of Americans.
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Atmosphere is recharged and ready for more rotating storms this afternoon and tonight. We are stuck on the wrong side of a stalled front
✅ instability
✅ shear and rotation
✅ storm fuel
✅ lift
Hail, damaging straight line winds, tornado possible as approaching storms worsen ongoing flash flooding.
NYT: Six Dead as Storm Brings ‘Catastrophic’ Flood Risk to Central U.S.
Floodwaters were rising in Nashville after a harrowing night of damaging tornadoes and windstorms that killed at least five people in Tennessee and a fire chief in Missouri.
Selmer, TN - due east of Memphis - was obliterated. There are multiple deaths. That’s why we get up and stay up when the warnings sound 💔
#BannedBookSkyClub discussion of #BannedBookClub by Kim et al. #BookSky
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We didn't expect parallels when writing the book. We thought it was an obscure bit of history, since book banning was not a big problem when we started writing in 2017. The reason we got the book deal was our publisher's shock that Korea had banned books...
#BannedBookSkyClub discussion of #BannedBookClub by Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, & @ryanestrada.com #BookSky
As you read the graphic novel Banned Book Club, did you see any parallels between South Korea in the 1980s and the U.S. today? Explain.
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April 2025: Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, et al.
May 2025: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
June 2025: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
July 2025: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
At 4pm ET Trump plans to sign an executive order instructing the head of the Education Department, Linda McMahon, to begin dismantling the agency.
The department cannot be closed without Congress’s approval.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal judge rules USAID dismantling likely violated the Constitution, blocks Elon Musk's DOGE from further cuts.
Great news for OUTLANDER fans: The Complete Season 7 Blu-ray/DVD is finally available for pre-order! It will be released on May 27, 2025. Look here for more information, including pre-order links.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump invokes Alien Enemies Act of 1798, assuming wartime authority to speed up mass deportations.
The tornado watch, originally scheduled to expire at 9:00 pm has been canceled early for both Davidson and Williamson Counties. Woo hoo!
A tornado watch has been issued for W TN until 3am and carries the Particularly Dangerous Situation designation. Comes right up to the TN River and does not include us right now. But, it has our full attention. Latest radar images for free here: nashvillesevereweather.com/radar/
WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Department prepares to lay off over 1,300 employees as Trump vows to wind the agency down.
"The world is maintained by change- in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom.” - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Book 2, paragraph 3 "The world is nothing but change. Out life is only perception." - Marcus Aurelius Meditations Book 4, section 3 "Constant awareness that everything is born from change. The knowledge that there is nothing nature loves more than to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is a seed of what will emerge from it." - Marcus Aurelius Meditations Book 4, paragraph 36 "Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 6 paragraph 15
I was thinking that it reminded of some part of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius too. This isn't even all the quotes I've found about constant change in the universe (some are just partial quotes from longer paragraphs), but I think they are definitely similar to the concept of change in this novel.
#BannedBookSkyClub discussion of #ParableOfTheSower by Octavia E. Butler. #BookSky
Talk about Lauren's conclusion that God is change and what it means to you.
I probably fit in with the people she mentions who see 'God' as a metaphor for nature or the universe. I think her statement that God is change made me think of the essential concept of impermanence (Pali word 'Anicca') in Buddhism and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
#BannedBookSkyClub discussion of #ParableOfTheSower by Octavia E. Butler. #BookSky
Talk about Lauren's message of persistance and how "the weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist." Did you find strength in that or despair?
Verse 78 Nothing in the world is soft and weak as water. But when attacking the hard and strong Nothing can conquer so easily. Weak overcomes strong, Soft overcomes hard. Everyone knows this, No one attains it. Therefore the Sage says: Accept a country's filth And become master of its sacred soil. Accept a country's ill fortune And become king under heaven. True words resemble their opposites. Cheng yen jo fan Watson, Burton; Lao-Tzu; Stephen Addiss; Stanley Lombardo. Tao Te Ching (Hackett Classics) . Hackett Publishing - A. Kindle Edition.
This line made me think of this part of the Tao Te Ching. I like to think of water as a symbol of persistence.
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Photo of the first page of chapter 6 of the book Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler with the Earthseed proverb: Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
#BannedBookSkyClub discussion of #ParableOfTheSower by Octavia E. Butler. #BookSky
What did you think of the Earthseed proverbs at the beginning of the Parable of the Sower chapters? Were there any that particularly spoke to you?
The rescue techniques for reaching and throwing to a victim in water include: Reach: Use an object to pull someone to safety. Throw: Toss a floating object to a person in trouble. Row: Use a boat to save if available. Go: Swim to the victim as a last resort. Prevent the victim from latching onto you.
I'm only ~2/3 through the book, but I did like this quote. It's good advice (literal caution about water rescue*) and metaphorically about how people may resist or even reject help when it's offered.
*BSA rescue technique: Reach, Throw, Row, Go - prevent the victim from latching onto you.
It's hard to know for sure, but I suspect they will still cover some of book 8 in S8 based on how S7 ended. We probably won't know how much will be from MOHB and how much will be from BEES (or even ideas DG has shared from the unfinished book 10?) until it starts. MOBY = MOHB (My Own Hearts Blood)
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BREAKING: U.S. pauses all military aid to Ukraine, effective immediately - Fox
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dolly Parton says her husband of nearly 60 years, Carl Dean, has died at 82.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate confirms Linda McMahon to lead the Education Department, an agency Trump has vowed to dismantle.
