Folk faith sorceries often deploy like to thwart like. A system of sympathetic magic to defeat hostilities believed to be walking abroad. The placement of Wicker Queens on agricultural land as field wards is an example of imitative practice and many a farmer will tell you it works. – Dr. M. Benn
As I read all the posts on what the incoming regime is doing/about to do, I keep asking myself if we're that naïve to believe that the laws will prevail. These people don't give a crap about law. Or anything that doesn't serve their interests.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-1...
Thoughts for today: Dic-in-Chief isn't going to run for a third term, he's just going to declare himself president/king. "But the law!" is getting us nowhere; this admin has proven that the laws just keep honest people honest. It's going to get worse before it gets worse.
A reminder that 77ish million people voted for him.
I'm so tired of the in-fighting. This is not the time to be looking for the unicorn leader(s), the ones who tick all the boxes and support exactly every thing you want/need them to support. We need to unify against the common enemy and if we can't agree on that being our singular purpose we've lost.
Sounds like a tawdry version of South of The Border
In the office with everyone else at my company for an "optional" on-site day. And of course all meetings are back-to-back with no breaks. They just don't get it.
If your city is destroyed in a hurricane this year, the United States will be too poor to help you rebuild.
But if your city is trying to rebuild a democracy with peaceful protests, we have MILLIONS to deploy men with weapons to destroy you.
Had a couple of good cries today. First, rediscovering photos of mom and grandma from before I was born, second, putting the three little boxes holding the remains of my cats into a larger box to keep them together. When someone comes across the remnants of my life someday, what will they do?
Close up photo of a dark pink almost red Dahlia
More often than not there are dahlias waiting for me when I visit my love. These were so perfect and delightful. He is delightful and I'm still ridiculously in love.
Drizzly morning morphed into sunny afternoon, so martinis on the back porch it is. I'll take it. Weekends doing not very much will be few and far between this summer. Which unofficially starts next weekend. 😬
Are we great yet?
Our open letter response to the #USCommerceDept and #POTUS
Meals on Wheels saved my house-bound mother from starvation. This is despicable.
It's not Left or Right, it's Right or Wrong - thank you Senator Booker!!!
Teen Vogue FTW. They’ve been killing it lately. @schumer.senate.gov if you really truly cared about the country over the party, you’d step down as minority leader.
We cannot capitulate. We must continue to press on, more boldly, more aggressively, shout louder and make a nuisance of ourselves if we are going to survive the next unknown number of years under tyranny. We must not normalize any of this! We must continue to point out the Emperor Has No Clothes!
Everything will be spun into a positive and/or used as yet another attack on Democracy. Signal will retroactively become THE method of communication if not otherwise blessed. And the administration will continue to point at honest journalism as the enemy of the people. That all said 2/?
It's great The Atlantic published the strike plans the administration claims were not shared via text. But if anyone believes for a second that there will be consequences/repercussions, I have news for you: there won't be. This admin is flaunting their control over the narrative. 1/?
Target’s stock plummeted by ~ $27.27 per share by the end of February, erasing about $12.4 billion in market value.
The drop came on Feb. 28, the designated economic blackout day, and coincided with mounting backlash over the retailer’s decision to abandon its DEI commitments.
The fact that Mapquest created a feature that you could name the Gulf of Mexico anything you want is malicious compliance. And we love to see it.
Malicious compliance is just playing by the rules too well.
TIL that holidays such as MLK Day and Juneteenth are "discriminatory" per this administration. Don't be surprised if these holidays go away in the next year.
Kinda feels like this right now
Mundus Sine Caesaribus 🦋
We are living in very dangerous, unusual times.
Today, the White House ignored a ruling by a Federal District Court because we have President who is an ignorant buffoon with no respect for the law or the Constitution.
THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!
The Trump Democrats bsky.app/profile/pale...
I think almost every day about how the scientific data suggests that before leaded gasoline was banned in the US in 1996, the latent levels of lead in every person in the US had burdens high enough to cause cognitive effects and long term cognitive decline.
Every single person 30 years or older.
Shameful that any Democrat would vote with Republicans. Stop trying to show the school bully you can be buds by preemptively handing over your lunch money! He's still going to beat your sorry ass after school! Again!
