Cindy B.
@cjbplus3.bsky.social
Always a mom & wife, retired nonprofit consultant, living a full life in enchanting New Mexico. Believe in Jesus, facts, sanity, vaccines, and generally all things to make communities thrive in grace and love.
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I know some are worried about ageism when people like Chuck Schumer are criticized. But it's not that he's old, it's that he's playing by a rulebook that doesn't exist anymore. When he chides a host on The View saying "not all Republicans" he's in a world the rest of us don't recognize as reality.
April 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I know some are worried about ageism when people like Chuck Schumer are criticized. But it's not that he's old, it's that he's playing by a rulebook that doesn't exist anymore. When he chides a host on The View saying "not all Republicans" he's in a world the rest of us don't recognize as reality.
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This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.
April 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.
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Interesting isn't it that people like Cody Balmer, who sets fire to the governor's mansion in Pennsylvania gets their legitimate due process under the law but Albergo Garcia, who committed no crime gets none. This is America now.
April 14, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Interesting isn't it that people like Cody Balmer, who sets fire to the governor's mansion in Pennsylvania gets their legitimate due process under the law but Albergo Garcia, who committed no crime gets none. This is America now.
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Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.
April 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.
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Doge not saving you money
April 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Doge not saving you money
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Chasten and I are relieved that Governor Shapiro and his family are safe. While we wait to learn more, this much is clear: the targeting of a public official and his family - especially a prominent Jewish official on a major Jewish holiday - is unconscionable and has no place in our country.
April 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Chasten and I are relieved that Governor Shapiro and his family are safe. While we wait to learn more, this much is clear: the targeting of a public official and his family - especially a prominent Jewish official on a major Jewish holiday - is unconscionable and has no place in our country.
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April 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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weird, what could explain this
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
weird, what could explain this
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Protesters by the hundreds took to the streets of Wyoming towns on April 5 during “Hands Off!” protests. Among those protesting President Trump’s recent actions were veterans and young mothers, adolescents and grandparents.
And dogs.
via @wyofile.com
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/dogs...
And dogs.
via @wyofile.com
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/dogs...
Dogs against DOGE: Wyoming canines join protest crowds
Protesters by the hundreds took to the streets of Wyoming towns on April 5 during “Hands Off!” protests. Among those protesting President Donald Trump’s recent actions were veterans and young mothers,...
www.newsfromthestates.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Protesters by the hundreds took to the streets of Wyoming towns on April 5 during “Hands Off!” protests. Among those protesting President Trump’s recent actions were veterans and young mothers, adolescents and grandparents.
And dogs.
via @wyofile.com
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/dogs...
And dogs.
via @wyofile.com
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/dogs...
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This, all of it👇
Here's a real "national emergency": College kids won't, and often can't, read a book from cover to cover. The rise of what one prof calls "functional illiteracy" in the iPhone Age is happening right when our imploding democracy needs critical thinkers
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/stud...
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/stud...
Young people won’t, or can’t, read a book. Now democracy is dying. Coincidence? | Will Bunch
A viral conversation about the near-death of reading by U.S. college students in the iPhone era reveals a threat to democracy.
www.inquirer.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
This, all of it👇
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I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”
April 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”
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April 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...
AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists
A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.
apnews.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Wherein we reflect on finding goodness in the world, the power of curiosity, and the enduring strength of love... w/ @totalvibration.bsky.social, on this wk's All Songs Considered from @npr.org
Even more songs to calm the nerves : All Songs Considered
Our third installment of calming songs includes Max Richter's tribute to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ambient sounds from Ryuichi Sakamoto, Brazilian jazz from Wayne Shorter and more.Fea...
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April 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Wherein we reflect on finding goodness in the world, the power of curiosity, and the enduring strength of love... w/ @totalvibration.bsky.social, on this wk's All Songs Considered from @npr.org
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from head of Knight Center for First Amendment - which has filed a supporting brief to AP
I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...
AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists
A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.
apnews.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
from head of Knight Center for First Amendment - which has filed a supporting brief to AP
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Quail with chrysanthemums...
April 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Quail with chrysanthemums...
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As we barrel into this week, I wrote on Sunday at Law Dork about how last week showed the ways Trump is speed-running authoritarianism — most notably in immigration, but in many ways across the government. The story contains a lot of new reporting on what's going on at DOJ — and much more.
What happened this week in Trump's authoritarianism speed-run
Aggressive and often unconstitutional immigration policies are testing the law and the courts. At the same time, the Trump administration is testing — and breaking — the government.
www.lawdork.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
As we barrel into this week, I wrote on Sunday at Law Dork about how last week showed the ways Trump is speed-running authoritarianism — most notably in immigration, but in many ways across the government. The story contains a lot of new reporting on what's going on at DOJ — and much more.
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By the way, both women who ran for president were right. They predicted this moment would happen. Says something very disturbing about our country that many still think they’re unrealistic or dramatic, when they were and are, in fact, correct.
April 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
By the way, both women who ran for president were right. They predicted this moment would happen. Says something very disturbing about our country that many still think they’re unrealistic or dramatic, when they were and are, in fact, correct.
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David Brooks, who holds no advance degrees but has nevertheless served as a visiting professor at both Duke and Yale -- solely on the basis of his conservative ideas -- thinks that universities are deeply unfair to conservative thinkers.
April 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
David Brooks, who holds no advance degrees but has nevertheless served as a visiting professor at both Duke and Yale -- solely on the basis of his conservative ideas -- thinks that universities are deeply unfair to conservative thinkers.
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Trump refuses to introduce Senators Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla.
No man has ever been this small.
No man has ever been this small.
Trump: "We have a couple senators here. I just don't particularly like them, so I won't introduce."
April 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Trump refuses to introduce Senators Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla.
No man has ever been this small.
No man has ever been this small.
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Peter Hegseth just got rid of a book on Holocaust memorialization from the Naval Academy’s library but apparent it’s the Democrats and the left who have an antisemitism problem 🤷🏽♂️
April 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Peter Hegseth just got rid of a book on Holocaust memorialization from the Naval Academy’s library but apparent it’s the Democrats and the left who have an antisemitism problem 🤷🏽♂️
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Kohoutek 4-55, a dying star’s final breath in Cygnus, glows in surreal layers of ionised gas—red for nitrogen, green for hydrogen, blue for oxygen. Captured by Hubble’s WFPC2 just days before retirement. A cosmic farewell. ❤️
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll
April 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Kohoutek 4-55, a dying star’s final breath in Cygnus, glows in surreal layers of ionised gas—red for nitrogen, green for hydrogen, blue for oxygen. Captured by Hubble’s WFPC2 just days before retirement. A cosmic farewell. ❤️
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll
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Welcome !
Fear has a way of being contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
April 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Welcome !
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I tried to imagine what life without my library would be like…and the list is way too long #nationallibraryweek
April 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I tried to imagine what life without my library would be like…and the list is way too long #nationallibraryweek