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Last Notes npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists It’s laughable that Hegseth and RFK, Jr. are contemplating running for president. Stupefying. An alcoholic who’s in charge of a failing war of choice and a conspiracy theorist and crank who downplays childhood vaccines and advocates for teen flavored vaping and beef tallow??? The intelligent, rational, ethical people with integrity who should be running are too smart to throw their hats into the ring. Therein lies the problem with the US electoral vetting process. #hegseth #rfkjr #uspresidency npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Important recall notice. Burn risk. Zwilling electric kettle. Stop using immediately. Manufacturer is providing refunds. It’s a shame, as I use mine daily and it works really well. #zwilling #electrickettle npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Uncanny. To be toppled. #saddamhussein #goldenstatue #goldenidols #cult #getittogetherfolks #topple npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Fyi. All the steaks and lobster tails and other foods that were left unserved from thus past weekend's WH Correspondants' Association dinner were flash frozen before being donated to several women's shelters in the Washington, DC. area. #foodinsecurity #whcadinner npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Your fluting of the edges is beautiful. Looks so pretty. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Just reminiscing about the magic I felt the first time I watched a movie on a "compact disc" aka "DVD" on a laptop back in the late '90's. It was the movie "Contact" with Jodi Foster. I'd only known VHS tapes up to that point. I was looking forward to watching movies on my laptop on planes during business trips. And to think now we all stream content. I feel ancient. #compactdiscs #dvds npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists I awoke this morning to see the azalea bushes blooming two weeks earlier than usual. Normally, they don’t start showing their flowers until the first week of May. While to see their beautiful pink and red and white petals pleases me, at the same time I feel uneasy about why this is happening so soon. I will enjoy their early beauty just this once, hoping that next year they’ll wait a bit more. #azaleas #climatechange npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists "How Cultured Are You?" This "Culture Quiz" is really hard and some of the questions are pretty obscure. It's worth testing yourself. After taking it, I realized that I'm less cultured than yogurt 😅 . #culture #quiz npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Old friends mean so much me. So, watching friends drifting away into the morasses that are early-onset Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s has been particularly painful. My friend of over 20 years has Alzheimer’s & no longer calls. She forgot to pay her phone bill. Her nephew put her on his cell phone plan & gave her a new mobile phone. But, she never answers it when I call. She no longer uses email. My friend with Parkinson’s doesn’t like to call, as his voice trembles. Their void & silence break me. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Bowling Green, Lower Manhattan. Tulips signifying the vestiges of Nieuw Amsterdam? Immigrant Heritage Plaza lies just beyond the green, referencing all of the other waves of immigrants who came after the Dutch and English to make NYC the vibrant city it is today. #tulips #bowlinggreen #manhattan #springtime #nieuwamsterdam #oldnewyork npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Prediction: Justice Alito retires this year. TFG gets YET another SCOTUS appointment. This is why you vote Blue and not 3rd party. And it's why sitting out any election is non-negotiable. #Alito #scotus npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Leaked photo of TFG's ripping out of historic walkway under West Wing colonnade connecting to Oval Office. He's putting in black granite pavers. I mean, this is where JFK, Carter, Reagan & Obama all strode. Needed: legislation that no president can demolish or renovate any aspect of the White House without simple majority Congressional approval. Geez. #decoratorinchief #whitehousedestruction npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Apparently, changing the infant vaccine schedule isn't polling well (duh!) politically. So, there's now a crisis of confidence inside DHS & at the CDC, which is currently leaderless. It's amazing that political polling is driving the DHS, which is now pushing hard that people need to get vaccinated for measles. I guess it isn't a good "look" politically to have babies, toddlers & young kids getting really sick & even dying from a scourge we defeated years ago with proven vaccines. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists I awoke knowing that today it would be in the 70’s F and that cherry blossoms are out in DC. 👍🏾 Life will get better if we just all keep pushing’ on. Have a good Thursday (only 2 days ‘til next No Kings on the 28th). 🌞 npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists "I think the only man ever to call me an American, and say it like I was as good as any American he was likely to find was a little Jewish man. We took our trucks to get them out of the concentration camps (Buchenwald, Dora-Mittelbau, Mauthausen and Birkenau). My eyes never saw a worse sight in my life than these people, dead and dying, and I may never understand how God could let any man do that kind of evil and ugliness to his fellow man." 1/2 #evil #ww2 #neverforget #blacksinww2 #holocaust npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists ICE agents are being paid to stand behind unpaid TSA officers who are showing up for work. Could the plan be to force unionized TSA officers to quit and then replace them temporarily with poorly trained ICE agents and then to "privatize" TSA to be outsourced to 3rd-party private cronies on the Right? Sounds like a plausible LT plan to me. #tsa #ice #privatization npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists I guess the illegal display of the Presidential Sal at his golf courses can't be legally challenged because no one can show they have standing for a lawsuit. The displays don't "harm" anyone; they just "help" him personally, which is the problem. I wish our country had better laws to keep wannabe dictators in check besides the impeachment clause and the emoluments clause, for instance. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists March 10th. Tomorrow. National Day of Rest for Black Women. Much needed. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Cool photo! npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Has anyone seen any news about what side China has been assisting? npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Oooooooh! Enjoy the onsen! Enjoyed that once up in the Kita Alps many moons ago. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Lobby decor may be swanky, but looks weird! npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists From worldvisualized.com #Iran #map #ignorance #geography npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists The "Seventh Seal" version of the boardgame, Risk. We're playing with Death. We're in an existential crisis. Where are Max Von Sydow and Ingmar Bergman when you need them? #existential #Iran #death #war #risk (by Paul Noth) npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Not so surprising.... npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Hey, I just wanted to post a photo of these two. Just because I felt like I wanted to share it as a sort of cleanse. #cleanse #barackobama #michelleobama npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists It’s something I’m hoping for. There is bi-partisan legislation ready to go on this. The bill’s sponsors are still trying to line up votes for it. I’m calling my reps to push hard. We just have to get this one done. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Just like it was such a relief when I no longer had to sit through cigarette TV commercials, I will be so relieved when prescription drug TV commercials are FINALLY banned. This can’t come soon enough. #prescriptiondrugads npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Just finished all 300+ pages (in a marathon reading session) of Virginia Giuffre's Nobody's Girl memoir. It was so harrowing & enraging, I just want every man who participated directly or who knew better be exposed & face justice for the horrific harms inflicted on these young women & girls. The reason victims don't name certain men's names is that they & their families are being threatened & harassed. The FBI reports do name names. Those redacted reports must be released in full NOW. #Epstein npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists I think we all are! npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Agree, the big, fat ones from New England are best, especially if eaten fried, preferably seaside, in the summertime. Mmmmm! npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Our junky go to fried food: fried clam strips & curly fries (both from frozen) with spicy seafood sauce & fresh lemon. We try to add in a small, green side salad to make us feel a bit more virtuous! npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists I just learned that Blacks in the Jim Crow South were forbidden to eat vanilla ice cream in public. So, Blacks invented butter pecan flavor using leftover pecans they had lying around and ate that in public instead. #icecream #workaround #creativity #jimcrow #blackhistory npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists #silentsunday #icicles npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists #reboot #earth npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Next NO KINGS DAY: MARCH 28TH npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists General Strike in the US on January 30, 2026. Buy nothing. #usgeneralstrike Hopefully this will be the first of many general strikes (as more of us get the hang of it). npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists MLK, Jr. Day, 2026, Northeast U.S. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Seen in Greenland on Saturday. #ice #greenland npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists A pattern. #historyrhymes npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists We need more people to do foreign exchanges, at all ages. It’s one tiny way to break down barriers of race, class, language, religion and culture. Because then we find out we all basically want the same things. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Update. I finally received a letter with a Swiss postmark on it! From my friend of over 40 years. Bless her! I’d written on #mastodon a while back that I hadn’t heard from any of my long-time Swiss friends, including the family that hosted me when I was a teen 40+ years ago. I’m quite close to them & they haven’t missed a “Noël” in over 4 decades. They typically send me chocolate. So, it’s heartening to finally receive this one letter. (The world would be a better place if more of us connected.) npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists What happens if the US takes Greenland by force: npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Some interesting "detritus" I just found out about yesterday. Mavis Staples of the Staples Singers confessed that her one & only true love was Bob Dylan. Dylan proposed to her in 1962 but she refused him, scared of being married to a white man back when it was still outlawed in many states. They both went on to marry others, but stayed in touch for years, even having an affair, which Staples broke off in 1969. She relates in hindsight that one of her biggest regrets was not having said "Yes". npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists If only the U.S. sent out baby boxes to all parents of newborns who request them the way the government in Finland does. Finland’s “baby boxes” program has existed since 1938. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists #reneenicolegood npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists One of the very first things the Democrats should do when they re-take control of Congress is install the plaque heralding the sacrifices made by Capitol police on Janurary 6th, 2021. There should be a huge, solemn installation service. Dignitaries from both parties should attend along with survivors and family members of survivors and victims of that bloody day. Right now the plaque is in storage and Speaker Johnson refuses to install it --even though Congress passed a law that it be installed. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Finally got to speak to my friend of over 20 years who has developed early Alzheimer's. It felt good. She'll always be one of my best friends, even if our conversations are no longer like those we used to have back when we were both single (she never married) professionals living in the NYC area who hiked, ate out, exolored Brooklyn and gallery-hopped. I worry about her. But, hearing her voice again after a couple of months' absence means everything to me. #Alzheimers #friendship npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Morning. (Source: LondonStreet) #coffee npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists #climatecrisis npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Silent interlude. Boston Public Library. #peace #quiet #library #Boston npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists WINTER SOLSTICE, by North Carolina poet, David Gate. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Just got this info from my 88-yr-old mom via email. Bursting with PRIDE: "I worked in the lab in the institute for Neurological Diseases and Blindness from 1961-1969 in a program that studied the effects of infections from viruses, bacteria, and other microbes on birth defects if the mother became infected during her pregnancy. We did a lot of basic research on developing the German measles vaccine...During my time at NIH, I learned a lot and was exposed to great scientists." #vaccines #STEM npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Fixed it. From D. Hughley. I don't agree with the last line about moving "forward together". There needs to be some future accountability for the catastrophe that's ensuing. #uspolitics #plaque #felon npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists New year's vibes meme right now. #2026 npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Best snowy, cold weather Sunday supper (for non-vegetarians)? npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists https://savingplaces.org/press-center/media-resources/national-trust-files-suit-to-stop-ballroom-construction npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists “We are nearer npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists What a travesty. Secretary of State Rubio should be ashamed of himself. No, the "worst" is yet to come. At least his name is in stick-on letters that can be taken down after he's gone. Thankfully, only the trademarked name of the institute, started by Pres. Reagan, is actually engraved into the facade. #diplomacy #usip #travesty npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists "The Circle of Life" (from The Lion King). #catsofmastodon npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Paxlovid’s not a bad idea, even if symptoms are mild. Paxlovid shortens the duration of the infection. At least that’s been my own experience. Hope he does well, regardless. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists I think it’s still always a shock to hear when one’s come down with it. Even now. We have friends, a couple who just told us they’d come down with the flu, that just found out they actually both have COVID after they took a test. They were stunned. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists It’s good that you got your booster. I got mine 3 weeks ago. I had COVID this past June when I had to accompany my husband when he went to the hospital for minor surgery. So, I had to wait about 4-5 months before getting the latest shot ahead of the holidays. It keeps us from having severe outcomes or hospitalization, for sure. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists hope he feels better soon, and that you didn’t catch it, too. 🙏🏾 npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists This is what resistance looks like: my local Indie bookseller held a Feed Our Neighbors community free meal last night for anyone who was hungry. Local neighbors and restaurants contributed food potluck-style. It was a huge success and indicative of how many people are struggling to afford the cost of food this holiday season. #foodnotbombs #resistance #freefood npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists #affordability #gilt #messaging npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists So TFG’s heading to Davos, Switzerland. But, because he’s so thin-skinned, he demanded that organizers adjust the program to de-emphasize subjects that he didn’t like. “Among the topics that U.S. officials asked to be played down or avoided: female empowerment, climate change and international development finance.” (NYT) We’re like a regressive, stingy place that hates women, doesn’t care about the planet & could care less about sick & starving people overseas. What an embarrassment. #davos npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Unmask the predators, pedophiles, enablers and anyone who knew but covered it all up. Their embarrassment, in the scheme of things, is minuscule compared to the heinous trauma inflicted on the victims. #epsteinfiles npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Wondering when the BLS will finally get around to releasing actual unemployment statistics. It’s not good that the Fed’s flying blind right now. Sure, there are private sources, like ADP. But, the BLS, which is needlessly rudderless & without a true leader right now, due our crazy prez, is having to scramble now that the government shutdown (precipitated by the Repubs) is finally over. #bls #unemployment npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Is that a powdered wig he's wearing??? npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists 😂 Funny running gag. I especially liked how he was worrying that no one was left in Cleveland! That little song he sang to Barkley was kawaiiiiii! npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists The Burger King and I npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists “Hello, Deli!” npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists I just don't like living in a bad country. I feel like I'm a good, caring empathetic person who right now lives in an objectively bad country. It does bad stuff on the world stage, likes other bad countries and badly treats its own people. How does one live inside a bad country? By never giving in, by pushing for good stuff, by calling out the bad behavior & by living a good life (donating, volunteering, cooking, reading, being in nature, doing sports, connecting with friends). #goodstuff npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists I want my very wealthy country to do better by its own people & for the rest of the world. It should stop backsliding on its democracy. It should take care of its most vulnerable people -- not its ultra-wealthy, who will be fine if they pay more in taxes. Healthcare & voting are rights, not privileges. It should preserve its natural resources-- not exploit them recklessly contributing to the climate crisis. Finally, there must be accountability for corruption & lawlessness at the highest levels. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Our US government is re-installing Confederate statues that were just taken down a few years ago. That would be akin to the German government installing statues of Rommel, Goring & Kesselring, which in that country is ILLEGAL. Think about it. Our government is trying to revive the myth of The Lost Cause by rewriting history. What’s next? A monument to the January 6th insurrectionists? I wouldn’t put it past him, given that TFG fired the entire commission that consults on the design of monuments. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists https://gothamist.com/news/ny-attorney-general-sues-trump-administration-to-resume-snap-payouts npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists I know I shouldn’t feel squeamish looking at this, because it looks really fresh, but I do! I will relax, take a deep breath and await a photo of the final results. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists A personal favorite of mine. Seen in Minnesota. #nokings #signs npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists George Santos, fraudster, has just had his prison sentence commuted by none other than TFG. I guess crime pays in TFG's world. A felon who should be in jail helping out a fellow felon. I'm as disgusted as I am not surprised. 🤬 #georgesantos #commutation #fraud npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive." ~ Thomas Jefferson npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Someone just chopped down all of the huge, gorgeous willow trees on the plaza of The Kennedy Center, the ones overlooking the Potomac River. I'm a native of DC and I suspect those trees had been there since the building first opened in the early 1970's. WHAT IS HAPPENING??? This must be the handiwork of the Inferior Decorator in Chief. #KennedyCenter #destruction #willowtrees npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Just saw this in one of the comments on NYT's digital site. I think I'll start using it: "the inferior decorator of the Oval Office" npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists That, too. npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists "Vance is proposing a hierarchy of citizenship. If you trace your ancestry back to Shiloh or Yorktown, you can ignore the Constitution, embrace the Justice Department as the president’s police, pal around with white nationalists, and still call yourself a patriot. But if you just got here, you’d better be grateful and keep to yourself any critical thoughts about America’s failure to live up to its own ideals." #decency #jdvance #citizenship #hierarchy npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Just made plans with my 2 protest buddies for Oct. 18. Stoked. Gotta get EVERYONE on board. #nokings npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists See, this is what happens when clever fascists latch onto a greedy, old moronic man who just wants to golf, redecorate, grandstand as a maker of "world peace" and seek vengeance against people who hurt his little feelings. They -- Miller, Vought & crew -- just keep making sure he gets piles of $$$ and builds his ballroom and gets a coin with his face on it while they run the real vicious show behind the scenes. #uspolitics #moron #Vought #stephenmiller npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists If you live in the NYC Metro region, this is pretty funny. #nycmap #humor npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Why can’t they just leave paradise alone? npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists What I want to know is why we're not hearing a peep from: npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Our federal government is actually being run by neo-Nazi Stephen Miller and Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought. The old man who lives in the White House is just the decorator who, detached from reality, mostly golfs on the weekends. This feels like the truth, and I don't get why none of the Republicans in the Cabinet or in Congress aren't alarmed. The 25th Amendment feels appropriate right about now. #stephenmiller #russellvought #25thamendment npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/? npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Last night. Turtle and the Wolf. Delectable. #princeedwardislandoysters #arancini #berkshireporkshoulder #tilefish #chocolatepeanuttart #tiramisu #dining npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists How much of that income is from federal government (i.e., from Blue states, on a net basis) subsidies, I wonder? npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists My hero, Jane Goodall has passed away in California while on a speaking tour in the US , of natural causes. We need to continue her legacy of empathy towards all creatures on this Earth and heed her warnings to protect our planet. May she rest in peace. I am so saddened by this news. #janegoodall npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists "We have a lot of stupid people in this country running things." -- The Former Guy npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Did you know that the film, "Roman Holiday' was blacklisted? npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists This meme is so on point. These were not "terrorists". The terrorists were the fascists -- i.e., the Nazis. #dday #antifa #ww2 npub16qxvw9097jxyaq3tsp2en5hdjt9v8kvhx0nnequd95dl0lzuwy3sdg7xsd Sharon 🤦🏾♀️ Persists Bravo! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
