Someone's kindness made me cry today.
My son's been attending a kids sewing class at a local fabric store.
The owner saw how much he loves it, and had offered to sell us a machine at a discount for him to use at home, but it was still out of reach for us financially. I told her we'd save up for it for Christmas.
Today she gave us that sewing machine free. She said she wanted him to be able to continue to sew at home.
Enabling his passion is such a priceless gift and I'm incredibly thankful.
BREAKING: IRS announces exemption to 1954 ban on 501(c)3 orgs engaging in political activity—now allows churches & houses of worship to endorse political candidates.
The wall separating religion & state is collapsed. It is not hyperbole to state that we are on the footsteps of full blown Christian theocracy. Nothing good can come of this.
“With Putin I said, ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the sh*t out of Moscow. I’m telling you I have no choice,’” Trump said during one 2024 fundraiser, according to the audio. “And then [Putin] goes, like, ‘I don’t believe you.’ But he believed me 10%.”
“Trump later claimed he relayed a similar warning to Chinese President Xi Jinping over a potential invasion of Taiwan, telling him that the US would bomb Beijing in response” https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/trump-tape-putin-bomb-fundraiser?cid=ios_app
Donald Trump told a private gathering of donors last year that he once sought to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from attacking Ukraine by threatening to “bomb the sh*t out of Moscow” in retaliation, according to audio provided to CNN.
“Climate change is turning ordinary weather into these disasters.”
New from Arcelia Martin at Inside Climate News: Over 100 are dead in Kerr County, including 28 children. As the world continues to burn fossil fuels, scientists say disasters like this are becoming the new normal. https://www.texasobserver.org/climate-change-kerr-county-flood/
#ClimateChange #KerrCounty #flooding #weather #environment #politics #USpol #Texas #CentralTexas #news
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department, writes Caroline de Gruyter.
Volts nails it!
"Elite journalists wriggle & wriggle & try & try but they can not escape the fundamental dilemma: journalism is, by its nature, supposed to be on the side of accuracy, against lies & liars, but the GOP is lies & liars top to bottom. And for reasons of power & access, journalism can not say so." - Dave Roberts
They've sold their souls and they know it.
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