Perhaps it's time to grab my umberella and channel my inner Lobelia Sackville-Baggins 🌂

Ow

Uh oh 😯

Unfinished Tales, J.R.R. Tolkien.

Appalling. That's one word. To start with.

I made the mistake of looking through the WH website. I have no words.

I got chickenpox from my cousins at age 5 (long before the vaccine was available), and I still remember how painful and itchy it was. I also got a pox in my ear that was infected and ended up in the hospital with the infection and a fever. I have some hearing loss in that ear as a result.

I noticed he isn't showing up in my feed as often, although he is posting fairly frequently. Are people blocking him?

Crazy how long this conversation has been going on

A picture of a pocket-sized copy of The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence.

Got each member of my family one of these today. I'll be carrying mine with me everywhere.

The Silmarillian...it has a lot of answers 😄

😆

The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.

The State Department is changing its mind about human rights www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...

What about women who have been married more than once? I would assume marriage certificates and certificate/s of dissolution for each event. Even more costs.

FCC chair opens investigation into Disney and ABC over DEI practices FCC chair Brendan Carr said he wants a review all of Disney's DEI practices — both past and present — to determine whether the company has ever violated any FCC regulations.

FCC chair opens investigation into Disney and ABC over DEI practices www.npr.org/2025/03/29/n...

Former Washington Secretary of State Ralph Munro dies at 81

Ralph Munro, Washington’s longest-serving secretary of state and a moderate Republican who achieved unusually broad popularity across the political spectrum, died early Thursday at his convalescent home in Lacey. He was 81.
www.cascadepbs.org/briefs/2025/...

Demanding Oligarchs Getting Everything
(The "O" screams Oligarchs 🙄)
(I pronounce it "Dodgy")

Atmospheric river lol

It's pronounced "dodgy".