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I am a grandmother, dog lover, and blue dot in a red state.
Rex, I promise I will continue to dream of a better world and work to improve it.
Rex, I promise I will continue to dream of a better world and work to improve it.
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Vote-by-Mail - Division of Elections - Florida Department of State
dos.fl.gov
Floridians: do not forget to update your vote by mail request. The state "expired" all of them at the end of 2024 and if you do not update, you will not receive the ballot in the mail for the very important upcoming mid-term elections!
dos.fl.gov/elections/fo...
dos.fl.gov/elections/fo...
Years ago, I had a supervisor who would greet me and then ask "what have you done in service to your nation today?" Clearly, he was reminding me that as citizens we have a duty to defend our nation in whatever way it needs us.
So, I ask you, what have you done?
So, I ask you, what have you done?
January 13, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Years ago, I had a supervisor who would greet me and then ask "what have you done in service to your nation today?" Clearly, he was reminding me that as citizens we have a duty to defend our nation in whatever way it needs us.
So, I ask you, what have you done?
So, I ask you, what have you done?
"The strength of power and despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance." Thomas Paine
Why don't we require reading Common Sense in high school, college, and, well, for every American?
Why don't we require reading Common Sense in high school, college, and, well, for every American?
January 11, 2026 at 3:13 PM
"The strength of power and despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance." Thomas Paine
Why don't we require reading Common Sense in high school, college, and, well, for every American?
Why don't we require reading Common Sense in high school, college, and, well, for every American?
I keep seeing a Thomas Paine quote about these trying times. It is not the quote that ought to inspire us, but the sentiment behind it. Keep on livin' your life, impervious (or so you think) to what is happening around you. You will suffer, as others already are, in the end. Or, stand up and fight.
December 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I keep seeing a Thomas Paine quote about these trying times. It is not the quote that ought to inspire us, but the sentiment behind it. Keep on livin' your life, impervious (or so you think) to what is happening around you. You will suffer, as others already are, in the end. Or, stand up and fight.
If we focus on faux attempts to destroy six Democrats who spoke truth to power, we may forget about Epstein. No...it's too salacious, and we know that the truth will out. It always does.
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
If we focus on faux attempts to destroy six Democrats who spoke truth to power, we may forget about Epstein. No...it's too salacious, and we know that the truth will out. It always does.
At 16, I demonstrated for the passage of the ERA. I understood, experienced, and fought against the misogynistic, patriarchy that continues to exist in the US. At 16.
"Quiet Piggy" and NOT ONE PERSON CALLED HIM OUT? The main stream press is as complicit as the men who continue to abuse women.
"Quiet Piggy" and NOT ONE PERSON CALLED HIM OUT? The main stream press is as complicit as the men who continue to abuse women.
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
At 16, I demonstrated for the passage of the ERA. I understood, experienced, and fought against the misogynistic, patriarchy that continues to exist in the US. At 16.
"Quiet Piggy" and NOT ONE PERSON CALLED HIM OUT? The main stream press is as complicit as the men who continue to abuse women.
"Quiet Piggy" and NOT ONE PERSON CALLED HIM OUT? The main stream press is as complicit as the men who continue to abuse women.
The world has no room for cowards.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
- Also Robert Louis Stevenson
They know who they are. They know what they've done.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
- Also Robert Louis Stevenson
They know who they are. They know what they've done.
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The world has no room for cowards.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
- Also Robert Louis Stevenson
They know who they are. They know what they've done.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
- Also Robert Louis Stevenson
They know who they are. They know what they've done.
While I'm posting on the latest news, Novo Nordisk is not an American company and there's no need or actual reason to give the president and his sons any interest in that company.
(I am not a fan of big pharma but this assertion that they owe the president is beyond the pale. Just saying...)
(I am not a fan of big pharma but this assertion that they owe the president is beyond the pale. Just saying...)
November 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
While I'm posting on the latest news, Novo Nordisk is not an American company and there's no need or actual reason to give the president and his sons any interest in that company.
(I am not a fan of big pharma but this assertion that they owe the president is beyond the pale. Just saying...)
(I am not a fan of big pharma but this assertion that they owe the president is beyond the pale. Just saying...)
I'm tutoring a HS student who is taking American Government. Our deep dive into the US Constitution (and Declaration of Independence) has been quite enlightening.
I recommend reacquainting yourselves with both documents and then contacting your representatives asking them to do their job.
I recommend reacquainting yourselves with both documents and then contacting your representatives asking them to do their job.
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I'm tutoring a HS student who is taking American Government. Our deep dive into the US Constitution (and Declaration of Independence) has been quite enlightening.
I recommend reacquainting yourselves with both documents and then contacting your representatives asking them to do their job.
I recommend reacquainting yourselves with both documents and then contacting your representatives asking them to do their job.
An impending disaster unfolding in this country will negate the need for fat-busting drugs from any pharma company. Let's focus on eliminating the abrogation of human rights by reinstating SNAP. Letting children die of starvation will not be a good look for anyone.
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
An impending disaster unfolding in this country will negate the need for fat-busting drugs from any pharma company. Let's focus on eliminating the abrogation of human rights by reinstating SNAP. Letting children die of starvation will not be a good look for anyone.
What if it isn't about a big, garish, ballroom but the bunker underneath it? It would be quite handy when one loses an election but does not want to vacate the People's House...
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What if it isn't about a big, garish, ballroom but the bunker underneath it? It would be quite handy when one loses an election but does not want to vacate the People's House...
Floridians: do not forget to update your vote by mail request. The state "expired" all of them at the end of 2024 and if you do not update, you will not receive the ballot in the mail for the very important upcoming mid-term elections!
dos.fl.gov/elections/fo...
dos.fl.gov/elections/fo...
Vote-by-Mail - Division of Elections - Florida Department of State
dos.fl.gov
October 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Floridians: do not forget to update your vote by mail request. The state "expired" all of them at the end of 2024 and if you do not update, you will not receive the ballot in the mail for the very important upcoming mid-term elections!
dos.fl.gov/elections/fo...
dos.fl.gov/elections/fo...
Re: Publix (and Florida) Open Carry
My boycott list now includes their pharmacy. I'm saddened by this - their pharmacists do such a great job at educating and prescribing. I refuse to enter a store that accepts open carry. Florida: the "free" state that care more about guns than people.
My boycott list now includes their pharmacy. I'm saddened by this - their pharmacists do such a great job at educating and prescribing. I refuse to enter a store that accepts open carry. Florida: the "free" state that care more about guns than people.
October 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Re: Publix (and Florida) Open Carry
My boycott list now includes their pharmacy. I'm saddened by this - their pharmacists do such a great job at educating and prescribing. I refuse to enter a store that accepts open carry. Florida: the "free" state that care more about guns than people.
My boycott list now includes their pharmacy. I'm saddened by this - their pharmacists do such a great job at educating and prescribing. I refuse to enter a store that accepts open carry. Florida: the "free" state that care more about guns than people.
My mom insisted her phone was spying on her. Nothing we did could convince her otherwise. She pulled it off the wall and demanded I "shoot the hell out of it". I quietly replaced it when she took a nap. She had dementia...This is a post about The Rose City.
September 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
My mom insisted her phone was spying on her. Nothing we did could convince her otherwise. She pulled it off the wall and demanded I "shoot the hell out of it". I quietly replaced it when she took a nap. She had dementia...This is a post about The Rose City.
I can disagree with what you say but I will defend your right to say it.
September 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I can disagree with what you say but I will defend your right to say it.
Dear northern friends, I am no longer taking "WTF FLORIDA" questions. I just cannot. There's no defense for the indefensible.
Florida - where the litmus test for leadership is the lack of a conscience.
Florida - where the litmus test for leadership is the lack of a conscience.
September 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Dear northern friends, I am no longer taking "WTF FLORIDA" questions. I just cannot. There's no defense for the indefensible.
Florida - where the litmus test for leadership is the lack of a conscience.
Florida - where the litmus test for leadership is the lack of a conscience.
Instead of worrying about 2028, we need to face the fact that we are on the cliff's edge of losing (if we have not already lost) our democracy. If Dem governors are beating the wannabe dictator with their pushback, support it. We can sort out the dem nominee after we win back our democracy.
August 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Instead of worrying about 2028, we need to face the fact that we are on the cliff's edge of losing (if we have not already lost) our democracy. If Dem governors are beating the wannabe dictator with their pushback, support it. We can sort out the dem nominee after we win back our democracy.
A new law in Florida removed all vote by mail requests from voter rolls 12/31/2024. If you voted by mail in the past, you must reregister to vote by mail in the future. There's a quick, easy online reregistration process available through your supervisor of elections website.
August 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A new law in Florida removed all vote by mail requests from voter rolls 12/31/2024. If you voted by mail in the past, you must reregister to vote by mail in the future. There's a quick, easy online reregistration process available through your supervisor of elections website.
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Turns out studying philosophy is actually valuable. Philosophy majors don’t just argue well, they actually become better thinkers and do better on tests.
Data from 600k students shows they outscore every other major on reasoning, curiosity and open-mindedness.
theconversation.com/studying-phi...
Data from 600k students shows they outscore every other major on reasoning, curiosity and open-mindedness.
theconversation.com/studying-phi...
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.
theconversation.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Turns out studying philosophy is actually valuable. Philosophy majors don’t just argue well, they actually become better thinkers and do better on tests.
Data from 600k students shows they outscore every other major on reasoning, curiosity and open-mindedness.
theconversation.com/studying-phi...
Data from 600k students shows they outscore every other major on reasoning, curiosity and open-mindedness.
theconversation.com/studying-phi...
A student in one of my online classes died in the Pulse Nightclub massacre. Removing rainbows from intersections and memorials will not ever erase the fact that it happened and will not make anything great again.
I see rainbows everywhere.
I see rainbows everywhere.
August 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A student in one of my online classes died in the Pulse Nightclub massacre. Removing rainbows from intersections and memorials will not ever erase the fact that it happened and will not make anything great again.
I see rainbows everywhere.
I see rainbows everywhere.
Housing is a human right. Willfully destroying whatever was being used as housing for the unhoused, in DC or anywhere in the US, is a violation of that right. There's a remedy for that violation. Who is willing to stand up and defend those who, for whatever reason, are unhoused?
August 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Housing is a human right. Willfully destroying whatever was being used as housing for the unhoused, in DC or anywhere in the US, is a violation of that right. There's a remedy for that violation. Who is willing to stand up and defend those who, for whatever reason, are unhoused?
"There's somethin' happenin' here
what it is is (EXACTLY) clear...
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound? Everybody look what's goin' down..." Buffalo Springfield
the silence is complicitous
what it is is (EXACTLY) clear...
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound? Everybody look what's goin' down..." Buffalo Springfield
the silence is complicitous
August 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"There's somethin' happenin' here
what it is is (EXACTLY) clear...
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound? Everybody look what's goin' down..." Buffalo Springfield
the silence is complicitous
what it is is (EXACTLY) clear...
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound? Everybody look what's goin' down..." Buffalo Springfield
the silence is complicitous
"having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts"
Walt Kelly (Pogo)
If only there was unity about the objectives and efforts
Walt Kelly (Pogo)
If only there was unity about the objectives and efforts
August 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
"having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts"
Walt Kelly (Pogo)
If only there was unity about the objectives and efforts
Walt Kelly (Pogo)
If only there was unity about the objectives and efforts
UNHOUSED DOES NOT EQUAL MENTAL INSTABILITY.
A safe roof over one's head is a human right. Stop blaming everyone but CONGRESS and the FPOTUS.
A safe roof over one's head is a human right. Stop blaming everyone but CONGRESS and the FPOTUS.
July 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
UNHOUSED DOES NOT EQUAL MENTAL INSTABILITY.
A safe roof over one's head is a human right. Stop blaming everyone but CONGRESS and the FPOTUS.
A safe roof over one's head is a human right. Stop blaming everyone but CONGRESS and the FPOTUS.
Are we seeing reports about staging a coup to deflect from the releasing the files story?
July 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Are we seeing reports about staging a coup to deflect from the releasing the files story?
Epstein. Epstein. Epstein.
and don't forget that a political assassination happened in Minnesota and it's dropped out of the news cycle
and don't forget that a political assassination happened in Minnesota and it's dropped out of the news cycle
July 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Epstein. Epstein. Epstein.
and don't forget that a political assassination happened in Minnesota and it's dropped out of the news cycle
and don't forget that a political assassination happened in Minnesota and it's dropped out of the news cycle