Beth Roth
@adagecat.bsky.social
Old lady who thinks about a lot of things, not in order of priority: faith, politics, resistance, knitting, crochet, baseball, cats, charity, and mutual aid. ~Winston Salem,NC
“Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done: on Earth as it is in Heaven.”
“Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done: on Earth as it is in Heaven.”
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I may have a stroke.
Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”
A PROTESTant.
I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”
A PROTESTant.
I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
January 30, 2026 at 5:15 PM
I may have a stroke.
Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”
A PROTESTant.
I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”
A PROTESTant.
I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
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Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
January 31, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
Generalize your skeets. What's your most typical, most average skeet?
My brain is too muddled to sound sensible. Here’s a repost from someone profound I agree with.
My brain is too muddled to sound sensible. Here’s a repost from someone profound I agree with.
Generalize your skeets. What's your most typical, most average skeet?
Hey look at my dogs. They’re perfect. I love them so much. They’re being such assholes.
Hey look at my dogs. They’re perfect. I love them so much. They’re being such assholes.
Generalize your skeets. What's your most typical, most average skeet?
Christ, these assholes (who might be human or canine) are keeping me from writing books/comics, which are for sale. Please buy them, we are so very broke and tired. Also, butter.
Christ, these assholes (who might be human or canine) are keeping me from writing books/comics, which are for sale. Please buy them, we are so very broke and tired. Also, butter.
January 26, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Generalize your skeets. What's your most typical, most average skeet?
My brain is too muddled to sound sensible. Here’s a repost from someone profound I agree with.
My brain is too muddled to sound sensible. Here’s a repost from someone profound I agree with.
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I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
January 24, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
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There's a lot to do, and none of it is your sole responsibility, and not everyone is in a position to do every task.
But as Gandalf said of Merry and Pippin -- the falling of small stones can start an avalanche. So look for small opportunities to love your neighbors.
But as Gandalf said of Merry and Pippin -- the falling of small stones can start an avalanche. So look for small opportunities to love your neighbors.
January 24, 2026 at 1:06 PM
There's a lot to do, and none of it is your sole responsibility, and not everyone is in a position to do every task.
But as Gandalf said of Merry and Pippin -- the falling of small stones can start an avalanche. So look for small opportunities to love your neighbors.
But as Gandalf said of Merry and Pippin -- the falling of small stones can start an avalanche. So look for small opportunities to love your neighbors.
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I have heard him in the whistles of the ones on watch for ICE
I have seen him in detention with the ones who pay the price
He calls us all to stand against injustice, hate and vice:
his truth is marching on!
I have seen him in detention with the ones who pay the price
He calls us all to stand against injustice, hate and vice:
his truth is marching on!
January 23, 2026 at 9:04 AM
I have heard him in the whistles of the ones on watch for ICE
I have seen him in detention with the ones who pay the price
He calls us all to stand against injustice, hate and vice:
his truth is marching on!
I have seen him in detention with the ones who pay the price
He calls us all to stand against injustice, hate and vice:
his truth is marching on!
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I think about this thread all the time.
"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.
The first is often true and necessary to acknowledge, the second is both false and demobilizing.
"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.
The first is often true and necessary to acknowledge, the second is both false and demobilizing.
There's a particular kind of doomer on here who's like "and then SCOTUS will install him as president for a third term, and the military will back him up" as if that's the end of history.
Friend, there's still an "and then" after that.
Friend, there's still an "and then" after that.
January 23, 2026 at 2:42 AM
I think about this thread all the time.
"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.
The first is often true and necessary to acknowledge, the second is both false and demobilizing.
"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.
The first is often true and necessary to acknowledge, the second is both false and demobilizing.
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Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
January 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
This is exactly why I no longer get happy when he speaks up about an issue. Too many times I’ve emailed that man thanking him for standing with for democracy, only to receive a reply reiterating his firm support for Trump. 😒
Tillis: "To be clear -- I'm not critical of the president. I'm critical of the bad advice he's getting on Greenland."
January 20, 2026 at 2:49 PM
This is exactly why I no longer get happy when he speaks up about an issue. Too many times I’ve emailed that man thanking him for standing with for democracy, only to receive a reply reiterating his firm support for Trump. 😒
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This thread is very helpful and calming! Good reminder that we have a system for elections and it can’t be disrupted as easily as Trump says.
There's a lot of talk about Trump "cancelling" elections.
Elections aren't something "coordinated" by the federal government. Elections are bottom up
Our whole government is bottom up: states conduct elections to field politicians that they send to the federal level to form a federal government.
Elections aren't something "coordinated" by the federal government. Elections are bottom up
Our whole government is bottom up: states conduct elections to field politicians that they send to the federal level to form a federal government.
January 15, 2026 at 9:38 PM
This thread is very helpful and calming! Good reminder that we have a system for elections and it can’t be disrupted as easily as Trump says.
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we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
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The only visible, tangible sign that a person loves God is how they treat the powerless (widow, orphan, foreigner, poor).
Biblically–you can wear a cross, pray the most beautiful prayers, write books on christian ethics, but if you won't love the Least, your faith is not in God.
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Biblically–you can wear a cross, pray the most beautiful prayers, write books on christian ethics, but if you won't love the Least, your faith is not in God.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
January 10, 2026 at 4:31 PM
The only visible, tangible sign that a person loves God is how they treat the powerless (widow, orphan, foreigner, poor).
Biblically–you can wear a cross, pray the most beautiful prayers, write books on christian ethics, but if you won't love the Least, your faith is not in God.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Biblically–you can wear a cross, pray the most beautiful prayers, write books on christian ethics, but if you won't love the Least, your faith is not in God.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Agreed! I may be going to Hell in a bucket,
Babe, but this daughter of an English professor still has spoons to care about grammar and usage.
Babe, but this daughter of an English professor still has spoons to care about grammar and usage.
Today in “grammatical things I will fight you about”: if you think __, you’ve got another THINK coming. THINK coming. You’re about to reTHINK your THINKing. Why would you have another “thing” coming when there hasn’t been a first thing yet?!
January 9, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Agreed! I may be going to Hell in a bucket,
Babe, but this daughter of an English professor still has spoons to care about grammar and usage.
Babe, but this daughter of an English professor still has spoons to care about grammar and usage.
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the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
Oh, goodie. My congressman all dressed up in his little Top Gun cosplay doin’ some racism and warmongering. This is what gerrymandering gets you and it stinks to high heaven.
GOP Rep. Pat Harrigan: "There are members of Congress that they just cannot trust. And I understand that. We have folks that are Somali first and not America first."
January 3, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Oh, goodie. My congressman all dressed up in his little Top Gun cosplay doin’ some racism and warmongering. This is what gerrymandering gets you and it stinks to high heaven.
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hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
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It's a good morning to read Spurgeon.
January 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
It's a good morning to read Spurgeon.
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Also we could have just believed 1000 women instead of going to war with Venezuela. That was an option.
January 3, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Also we could have just believed 1000 women instead of going to war with Venezuela. That was an option.
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We're the baddies.
January 3, 2026 at 8:22 AM
We're the baddies.
We watched Wake Up Dead Man tonight and…wow. I knew it was going to hit me hard, but I didn’t realize how hard. Such moving writing. So much grace.
January 1, 2026 at 5:11 AM
We watched Wake Up Dead Man tonight and…wow. I knew it was going to hit me hard, but I didn’t realize how hard. Such moving writing. So much grace.
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The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.
This year, statues of tall men clad in all black with masks drawn up to hide their faces are disrupting the serenity of a Charlotte church's Nativity scene.
The figures are depicted approaching the Holy Family and the Wise Men with handcuffs as if preparing to make an arrest.
The figures are depicted approaching the Holy Family and the Wise Men with handcuffs as if preparing to make an arrest.
As anti-ICE Nativity scenes spark outrage, faith leaders grapple with politics at the pulpit | CNN
As Nativity scenes depicting ICE draw attention and outrage, faith leaders are grappling with politics in religion and urging a closer reading of the Christmas story.
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December 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.