Nancy

Nancy

@ethersmith.bsky.social

Retired state administrator, married, mom to triplets. Enjoying animal posts, beautiful landscapes, nature, black coffee, red wine, dark beer, and no drama. Disabilities and child advocate. Appreciating and living in my present moment. 💙 🏳️‍🌈 ☮️ 🫶 🇺🇦

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This book, from a friend 35 years ago, recently surfaced. I kept it in the desk in every office throughout my state employment. Today: When nothing is sure, everything is possible (Margaret Drabble).

Margaret Drabble, 35 years later (10/09/2026, The Independent): We’re ricocheting along these paths of self-destruction, knowing too well what we’re doing. I sometimes feel a bit Jonathan Swift about it. I wouldn’t be surprised if we blew ourselves up, and you know what, we’d deserve it.

My heart hurts. 💔 💙 🇺🇦 💛

24Hours Ukraine@24hoursukraine.bsky.social

Today is Putin’s birthday. And today, four Ukrainian children were taken from this world. 🕯️ 1-year-old Oleksandr 🕯️ 1-year-old Kyrylo 🕯️ 1-year-old Serhii 🕯️ 8-year-old Maksym You know every Ukrainian’s birthday wish. I hope the day comes soon when Ukraine is finally free and our children are safe.

Thank you, @katiephang.bsky.social, for your strength and dedication to the truth and to the survivors.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”

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Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

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'I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.' — Anne Frank

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As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍

nytimes.comGloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.

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It is SO blatantly obvious everything that’s happening is because both parties are owned almost entirely by AIPAC. They don’t actually believe in anything. They’re just in it for the money. They will fritter and fetterman away your whole country.

A "titan of children's literacy," indeed.

Library of Congress@librarycongress.bsky.social

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Sometimes, I miss washers and dryers that pause with a slight pull on the knob, and dishwashers with three or four button choices (similar to old car radios). They weren't "smart," but they did their job, and for a long time.

This!👇

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

What he👇🏾said “The reason the majority of racists in this country are white males from low-income brackets with low educations, simply put, is that they're pissed off because they couldn't win a race that was literally rigged in their fucking favor all because they were born straight white males.”

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Don’t know who wrote this — it was posted on Instagram by “Warpaint Journal” in April 2025 — but it’s making the rounds today and is pretty great. I dream of this too ❤️

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Forests are more than just wood and are important for the water balance. The groundwater beneath a forest is clean, oxygen-rich and excellent for producing drinking water. That is why forests are particularly often also water protection areas. 💚🌿☘️🌱🌲🌳🍀💚

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Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.

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My sister Maya and I were profoundly shaped by the influence of our mom, Ann Dunham. Giving Maya a preview of the Obama Presidential Center, including a new sculpture by Maya Lin dedicated to our mom’s memory, was truly special.

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The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Pete Buttigieg to CNN just now.. about Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's controversial road trip reality show "I love road trips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded road trip lasting about seven months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different"

This reflection of the Washington Monument and beautiful trees on each side is how my heart will always remember this reflecting pool. #savethereflectingpools

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"To be rain on a stranger's roof."

Andromeda@ulveheksa.bsky.social

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté "I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved."

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The founders believed that if a madman became president, members of Congress would serve the country’s interest and remove him from office. That seemed a reliable system to safeguard the republic. Boy, did they screw up.

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Still can’t get over the House GOP rejecting a 100-0 bill from the Senate to fund TSA, Coast Guard, and FEMA and… just going on vacation. Complete abdication of duty.

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Please repost. Thanks, @rayluhrs.bsky.social 🩵

Ray Ray - Bluecrew@rayluhrs.bsky.social

I don’t know how many of you have heard of Amanda Litman and the company that she co-founded Runforsomething(RFS). They help democrats that are running for state and local office. Please repost! @bluthrunthru.bsky.social @jaybird54.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @raykwong.bsky.social

So true!

Boze Herrington, Library Owl@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.