Posts by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
(DIR) Post #AVFat99PdISCsuQ3nc by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2023-05-02T16:47:43Z
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@MOyster @dibi58 @georgetakei Right there with you; I'm not an atheist (I'm kind of eclectic), but I believe in what Jesus taught. I refuse to call myself a Christian, though; the word has been co-opted by the Evangelicals to become something Jesus wouldn't recognize.
(DIR) Post #AVI6WRlNqs4cnbJsjg by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2023-05-03T21:55:43Z
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@tek Thank you for pointing this out (I promise I'll go look up the context later). The confusingly similar names are a deliberate attempt to confer legitimacy to their bullshit opinions.
(DIR) Post #AViQDLPSmg7tLpTyoC by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2023-05-16T13:39:19Z
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Just ... read the whole thing.https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/trump-couldnt-possibly-be-a-russian?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
(DIR) Post #AVrfdfKaSproeFILx2 by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2023-04-24T13:03:18Z
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We need to #uniteagainstbookbansGrab this link to find ways you can help.https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-read-day/#indieauthor #righttoread #supportyourlibrary #writingcommunity #readingcommunity
(DIR) Post #AX9UsPE4EpSemwOpge by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2023-06-28T13:59:47Z
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Quote from article: Turns out that yesterday’s rant about how Red states are financing their bigotry, hate, misogyny, and low taxes on their oligarchs by essentially stealing tax dollars from Blue states is just the beginning, the foundational funding of their power.While those policies also make the morbidly rich — from oil barons to trust fund babies to televangelists — vastly richer, and those rich people and their businesses and churches return the favor by recycling part of their profits back into the pockets of Republican politicians, they also cause the whole litany of social ills listed above.https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/do-republicans-worship-poverty-death?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
(DIR) Post #AXJx61Tw3TxvUzhbrU by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2023-07-03T14:52:22Z
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Quote from article: Every nation’s single biggest long-term asset is a well-educated populace, and student debt diminishes that.Every other advanced democracy on the planet understands this.That’s why student debt at the scale we have in America literally does not exist anywhere else in the rest of the developed world.American students, in fact, are going to college for free right now in Germany, Iceland, France, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic, because pretty much anybody can go to college for free in those countries and dozens of others.“Student debt?” The rest of the developed world doesn’t know what you’re talking about.https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/is-student-debt-a-crime-against-americas?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
(DIR) Post #AXQ1bguRdyfBj6DYG0 by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2023-07-06T13:21:25Z
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@textfiles Wow ... I guess it's too bad for the young people who begin menstruating before that, as some of my friends did ... and whose parents may not be as forthcoming with information as one might like.I'd say it's unbelievable, but here we are.
(DIR) Post #AXfiH69eS2k6wPEqBc by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2023-07-03T13:49:04Z
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Long overdue intro post, now pinned:I'm an award-winning author, primarily writing historical fiction but dabbling in other genres. I'm happily married, an empty-nester, and we are owned by several rescue cats. We also look after a feral cat colony and do TNR (when it's open, which is a complicated thing due to the pandemic). I still have a day job, which I like most of the time (and I know what a blessing that is). I vote blue, support my LGBTQ+ friends and family, and am a proud SJW.I also love Disney, all animals, reading, films, travel, and good food. I live with two autoimmune diseases that sometimes affect my ability to do these things.Howdy!
(DIR) Post #AXgfPV9jH9aY5qYAJk by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2023-07-14T14:02:46Z
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Quote from article: A study by Doug Bock Clark today in ProPublica showed that about 89,000 of close to 100,000 challenges to voter registrations in Georgia were filed by just six right-wing activists. Most of the rest of the challenges came from just twelve more people. Those making the challenges were helped by right-wing organizations, and they appeared to target those believed to vote for Democrats. House Republicans traveled to Georgia on Monday to reveal what they call the “most conservative election integrity bill to be seriously considered in the House in over 20 years.” Four of the five Republicans on the House Administration Committee pushing the bill voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Committee markup on the bill began today. https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-13-2023?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
(DIR) Post #AXrzgnP7kZmRX8T3BI by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2023-07-20T01:11:32Z
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Quote from article: These Republicans will tell you, on behalf of their billionaire owners, that they believe our government should only have a few simple mandates: maintain a strong military, tough cops, and a court system to protect their economic empires. That’s why they’ll support massive prison expansions and nosebleed levels of Pentagon spending but (metaphorically) fight to the death to prevent an expansion of Social Security or Medicaid.If almost a thousand Americans die every week for lack of Medicaid-type insurance, Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis will tell you, that’s the price of “freedom.” The kids, spouses, siblings, and parents of these dead Americans just need to get over it: there’s a principle at stake here!https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/are-gop-governors-killing-their-citizens-6c2?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
(DIR) Post #AYcxxhbZoc9eCHaHBY by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2023-08-11T14:23:21Z
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Quote from article: If you live in a Blue area of a Red state, get ready: the GOP plans to pull out all the stops for the 2024 election.Double-check your voter registration every month or two, and be sure to double-check it in the weeks just before the deadline for registration, as Republican Secretaries of State prefer to purge people in this window so by the time people discovered they’re purged it’s too late to re-register.Forewarned is forearmed. Pass it on to your friends in Red states.https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/the-shocking-voter-purge-crisis-of-c66?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
(DIR) Post #AbP0wiiKWv30HlYDEe by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2023-11-02T15:12:31Z
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Quote from article: In the eleven months since Republicans have taken control of the US House of Representatives, child poverty in America has doubled. This is because Republicans in the House refused to renew programs Democrats put in place providing health care, food assistance, housing support, the child tax credit, and subsidized child care: all have now expired.In the past 40 days, 3.2 million children lost access to healthcare, 70,000 childcare and preschool programs have closed, and the child tax credit has expired. So have the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s emergency allotments. As of yesterday, 10,046,000 Americans have been kicked off Medicaid, nearly all in Red states.https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/will-we-hold-the-gop-responsible-70d?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
(DIR) Post #AbZl85tVE2scpqjmYC by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2023-11-07T17:28:09Z
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https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/can-we-stop-the-republican-war-on?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
(DIR) Post #AbZl87udimyh5xHibI by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2023-11-07T21:15:34Z
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@starbreaker Neither is vouchering for piss-poor parochial education that fails to teach science and/or critical thinking ...And do not get me started on homeschooling, almost always done by parents nearly as ignorant as their children.And I say this as someone else who was bullied all through school.
(DIR) Post #AbnVngarWDJBg97i40 by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2023-11-13T16:55:31Z
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Quote from article: For those whose parents, grandparents, and family members suffered and died under Hitler and Mussolini, Trump's deliberate effort to model his language on theirs is unsettling, even traumatizing. Every American should be alarmed and concerned by this dark turn in the hate speech of a man known for his hate speech. Trump must not be normalized. He is not merely a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination—as he is frequently portrayed by major media. His plans are anti-democratic, unconstitutional, and despotic. https://open.substack.com/pub/roberthubbell/p/an-eventful-coming-week?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
(DIR) Post #Ac8oSjUO4v6HSYZkIa by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2023-11-24T16:29:00Z
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Quote from article: And now House Speaker Mike Johnson wants to gut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid because “we’re drowning in debt.” What he fails to mention is that 100% of our nation’s $34 trillion debt was caused by Reagan, Bush, and Trump tax cuts along with the $10 billion in illegal wars Bush and Cheney lied us into.https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/if-democrats-ran-red-states-fewer?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
(DIR) Post #Ai3BILqgwYSrssF1hg by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2024-05-19T13:25:54Z
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@Radical_EgoCom @cferdinandi @tadbithuman @aral I think the problem here is that Biden's hands are tied by our treaty with Israel -- which has the force of law unless and until rescinded. It's pretty clear (at least to me) that Biden sees Netanyahu for the despot that he is ... so he has to walk a careful line.
(DIR) Post #Ai3xxCuBtb85opQR0q by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2024-05-19T13:54:13Z
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@maggiejk @Radical_EgoCom @cferdinandi @tadbithuman @aral I am sorry that you don't appear to care that the Dems actually ::gasp:: follow the law (unlike the Repubs).Look. I am no fan of what's going on with Israel's behavior and wish Biden could do/say more -- but at least I understand the history of *why.*If you're going to vote for Trump out of protest, or go for third party (which, in first past the post systems like ours is a throwaway), I truly hope you understand that yours is a vote for literal fascism. He's already let us know his plans, FFS. Wake the hell up!https://www.project2025.org/
(DIR) Post #AiDxG2SwmCZiZPhIDw by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2024-05-24T17:53:54Z
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https://www.salon.com/2024/05/23/david-bowie-diamond-dogs-50-glam-halloween-jack/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3fCsidzBaUGX6gurQbHjOtDqFrIKX-e_YJVV21LD08qB5iRPpx1qlfqiY_aem_AYRCnflzMDNdOgI5VQ7mfBCTCEHgnnIguKYz6wkKqX5ZX7Kv4U6Hiw3_qLNkk-usF3A9JMgstnsvy066M-pH9QfL#music #bowie
(DIR) Post #Anr2W9JiyKuf1nm6Pg by sharonecathcart@sfba.social
2024-11-08T16:23:27Z
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Welp. https://theimmigrationhub.org/press/gop-plans-to-turbocharge-trumps-denaturalization-project-threaten-the-nations-core-values/