Persephone’s Orphan

Pure poetry.

July 1, 2025 Just after noon today, the Senate passed its version of the budget reconciliation bill.

July 1, 2025

To all my Therapist friends out there and anyone that is working with others and trying to be helpful.

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I want

to think again of dangerous and noble things.

I want to be light and frolicsome.

I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,

as though I had wings.

-Mary Oliver

Always a good reminder. Self-care is also a form of resistance.

Well said!

Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.

Opinion | Three Former E.P.A. Leaders: You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?

"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

I'm old enough to remember when trump tried to say people in the Biden Administration were incompetent, but none of them accidentally fired the Ebola team. Or the nuclear weapons folks.

Just sayin'.

I’m ready!

The artists job is to say no in thunder. - Herman Melville

My client is dying
She asks me to choose
Which color to view the world in

I choose baby blue, the color of soft love
I choose sunshine yellow, the color of hope

She can no longer clutch her crayons
So we draw together
Heads bowed
As if in prayer

-LAR

For us healers,
the work is endless…
but little by little
we all learn to sew.

-LAR
(insomnia poet)

Twenty Lessons on Fighting Tyranny from the Twentieth Century Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. From acr...

The book by Professor @timothysnyder.bsky.social outlines how we can fight tyranny, published in 2017 during the first Trump administration.
Read the list here with short explanations, or just read the short book itself: scholars.org/contribution...

The SAVE Act Could Stop Millions of Women From Voting. Here’s What You Need to Know The bill would make it harder for women, people of color, young voters, and other marginalized groups to register to vote.

This is how it starts…

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

We all need our Mabel’s. Sending love your way Mark.

American Medical Association (AMA) The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest and only national association that convenes 190+ state and specialty medical societies and other critical stakeholders. Our mission is to promote ...

The American medical association has a YouTube page where there are posting health and safety updates. Please follow.

Imagine saying this about an agency that has helped millions of people around the world avoid malaria, obtain clean water, and gain access to food & health care. Especially when you’re the world’s richest man & your net worth is something like 20 times this agency’s annual budget. What a foul soul.