Watching with helpful subtitle, which says: (horse growling)

Get some sleep. You may not feel like going to bed, but you will appreciate being rested later.

If you subscribe to a newspaper you may not read every day, how do you avoid getting a giant pile of unread newspapers? What is your newspaper reading and/or management strategy? #news #procrastination #WillRecycleEventually

Why Would a County Evict Its Public Library Over $1?: Behind The Push to Decimate A Josephine County (OR) Library How a small group of far-right ideologues have tried to decimate Josephine County Library over the course of the last several years–and $1.

Long, ongoing ordeal around having a library despite political opposition. bookriot.com/josephine-co...

How do children's book authors meet children's book illustrators? Or did you just learn to write or learn to art? #writing

What are your favorite aspects of a convention? #comiccon

Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry Friends and family of Moises Sotelo ‘disappointed and disgusted’ after respected fixture detained outside church

A couple of days after Trump said ICE wouldn't do this sort of thing anymore:

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Booker: "We have a president who did nothing as people stormed our Capitol, & then when those people who viciously beat police & led to some of their deaths - therefore cop killers - were convicted, he pardoned them. So for him to be talking about responsive law enforcement is hypocritical at best"

LeVar Burton is in Cameo....'s Word Up! Return your book over there like you want to share, check another out or 10 if you dare. Read those books, read those books, read those books quick, patron. Come on, new lease, tell me, where's the lease? Oh, speed up! (Up!) Library...

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil.

How do you surrender, surrender, without giving yourself away?

Unfortunately, the design calls for scratching off the silver covering to reveal the pope, and that very act damages the image it conceals.

I had plans this afternoon,
But a poem dropped by,
So I kept it company.
Then its friend joined us,
I was not rude.
Another crashed our party.
Nobody called the task police
Despite growing noise.
Before I knew it, evening arrived.
Chores were undone,
But my spirit felt cleaner. #poetry

Started playing Arydia yesterday and played for hours, until we were all tired and cranky. #MiddleAgedBoardgaming #Arydia

If patriotic Americans of good humanity and intent cannot discuss and progress toward agreement, then how can the country as a whole hope to thrive in times of coalesced malevolence?

I oppose terrorism AND I love my country AND I believe in the principles of liberty and justice for all. I believe in the justice concept of "due process," not just "do process," where you do whatever process you want. I remember claims that #AllLivesMatter #LibertyAndJusticeForAll

Medicine for thoughts bouncing around in your head is to let them out, even if you are only writing for yourself. You can decide later if you want to share them, or if you want to share some version of them. #write

This is wild…

Who is that? Where is that?

Look it up!

Idea: Nonpartisan aged advisory council. Wisdom of decades of lived experience, no one under 70, no official power. Decision makers request advice and must periodically join them and listen to guidance. Maybe with chocolate chip cookies or other culturally appropriate grandparent-level accessories.

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

a man in a top hat says " you don t really think you 'll win do you ? " ALT: a man in a top hat says " you don t really think you 'll win do you ? "

Wrong penguins.

Boost the economy!

Libraries are essential.

More people should sing, hum, or chat loudly for several minutes a day to increase their health by stimulating the vagus nerve.

If there would have been "no exit ramp" if the funding bill failed, then what is the exit ramp now? Because I would like my country to get off of the current highway to hell. What I see on the road ahead is people and ideals I care about being run over.

Hold the line, however you are able.

'I Don't Think That Was The Question I Asked': Merkley Has Tense Questioning Of NATO Rep Nominee YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

From Oregon's senator: What would a Russian asset do? This feels like a movie plot, not reality.

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