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❤️ 📚, 👨‍🍳, gardens, & Mara.

Not in that order. Pic is me @ 2; Header is my backyard. Retired librarian & book/paper conservator. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈ally but as hetero as they come.
Seeing photos of the #NoKings protests around the country, I’m heartened: We are Stronger than MAGA hate.
Here’s a pic from the #NoKings protest in Evansville, IN:
October 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I’m hopping mad, & will be marching this Saturday!
October 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Rest in peace, Jane Goodall, my first scientist-hero, who clearly saw other primates as our sisters & brothers. I’m deeply saddened by your passing, & grateful for your life & work.
October 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
If you feel the need to wear a hat claiming you were “right about everything,” there’s a really good chance that you are wrong.
September 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
September 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Now that Kirk’s murderer has been identified as MAGA, how do folks feel about our president’s “leadership” on this event?
September 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
We’re all complicit. This, from Tom Joad:
September 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
An American is what I am; that other part?
Nah!
August 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Yeah, *those* files.
August 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Hard agree!!
August 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This, from Public Notice this morning:

www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-coup...
July 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
July 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
June 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This one.
June 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
June 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
No Kings protest Federal Building, Evansville, Indiana
June 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Obama!!
June 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
What we *could have* had:
June 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Time to place calls to your elected representatives, if they’re not already brazenly lining their pockets.
May 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It’s fascism.
April 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
April 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Here’s a short bit from Richardson’s “Letters from an American” for April 3rd.

I don’t recall anyone campaigning for *any* of this to happen, & I certainly didn’t vote for this.
April 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
For future reference:
April 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
March 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
End of a long & important piece by Thomas Zimmer on “What Authoritarianism Means.”
March 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM