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Katie Bark
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Learning Support Teacher K-8 posting favorite lines of verse, song, prose, + occasional hope or prayer. 📚. Marvel at #astronomy #cats #birds #textile #crochet posts. Everything is a gift.🕯️ Lakeland + Jacksonville, FL USA 📎
ACA covers a slew of friends and neighbors, supported overall by majority of Americans. I cannot wrap my head around the notion that only wealthy, employed, or elderly with Medicare should have access to healthcare.
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Voters across this nation will send a message for sure.
No.
One.
Asked.
For.
This.
#NoMandate #NoKings #Resist
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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November 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“Tender glance” - a phrase #Jesuit Fr Greg Boyle mentions often - is an image, hopefully a Practice, of a language of love in the world. For critics and fault-finders like me, it is an approach that kindles joy. #faith #love #charity #imagine
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Morning Worship: Boyle: God gives tender glances, loves the sound of our voices - The Chautauquan Daily
Meister Eckhart said, ‘It is a lie, any talk of God that doesn’t comfort you,’” said Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J. at the 9:15 a.m. Monday morning worship service on July 16 in the Amphitheater. “‘You are my b...
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November 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
So cool to see honorees and the audience sing along to a classic medley of songs from The Eagles, July 2024. #music James Taylor Vince Gill Ringo Starr Bonnie Raitt
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The Eagles | Kennedy Center Honors
YouTube video by JUKEBOX HEROES
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November 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Everything’s fine.
May be the same firm that posted losses of >$1B in 2008.
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
www.reuters.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
So if you had any doubts about our President’s compassion, sympathy, feeling, willingness, givingness, let this picture put it right out of your mind.
This picture is worth 1,000 words.
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
If you are thinking caving in is the path of least resistance…. watch this.
🚨The SPLC's 2024 #YearInHate & Extremism report tracked 1,371 U.S. hate and antigovernment extremist groups 🔗: www.splcenter.org/yihe2024

Some used tactics like violence and propaganda to manipulate our political system — causing division, demoralizing people and dismantling democracy. 🧵#YIHE24
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Reposted by Katie Bark
Nearly 40% of all SNAP participants are children. SNAP helps nourish bright futures, strong communities and local economies. 🧡

📞 Call your lawmakers at 1-888-598-7257 and tell them: Work together to reopen the government and fully fund SNAP!

More ways to help: FeedingAmericaAction.org/Join
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
For Christian Nationalists out there, take a look at today’s reading from St Paul’s letter to the Romans

Love your neighbor.
All the commandments are summed up in this.
No where does it say starve your neighbor or
deport your neighbor.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
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Wednesday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time
Daily Bible Readings, Podcast Audio and Videos and Prayers brought to you by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
bible.usccb.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Here’s a link to the Oral Arguments before SCOTUS today. Friends, thank Heaven for Neal Katyal who opened with 3 words: Tariffs are taxes.

www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
www.supremecourt.gov
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Reposted by Katie Bark
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome today to honor the memory of Pope Francis. "I came to him because I cannot forget what he did for Palestine and its people," he said. Tomorrow morning he will be in a private audience with Pope Leo.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The Pedophile Protection Program is not a winning strategy.
Full disclosure #Epstein now!
November 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The results last night reinforce the idea that we can have different reasons and still stand united.
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Perhaps never before have we so urgently needed a “compass,” tossed as we are on these high seas of political, moral, social, and spiritual turmoil. -Margaret Silf

Inner Compass, Loyola Press #booksky Ignatian #Spirituality
November 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Republican elected representatives are really really failing their voters.
November 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Reposted by Katie Bark
What he said: 💯 🎯
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Hurricane Melissa leaves tens of thousands scrambling for basic necessities. Food for children and families needed.
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Desperation in Black River, Jamaica, after Hurricane Melissa
People in Black River have not seen any aid, telling the BBC that they are fighting to survive.
www.bbc.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
JD Vance or #immigrant family as a neighbor? 🤔

#Welcome all.
#Community, not Kings.
#Kinship, not otherizing.
Whole fabric not remnants.

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Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'
Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."
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October 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Reposted by Katie Bark
Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"

I've saved her some time.
October 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I love ictgames for math fundamentals, especially their arrow cards with abacus or blocks!

#elemedu #math #teachers
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Arrow Cards - Place value demonstration tool
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October 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
It was an MRI.
A perfect MRI.
An MRI like no one had ever seen.
Q: What was the image of?
A: What does it matter? It was perfect...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/27/p...
Trump says he received an MRI during trip to Walter Reed medical center | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said that he received an MRI scan during a recent trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center – marking the first time he has provided a reason for his second medical e...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If the law is different for me and my neighbor, or me and my boss, or me and my postal worker, we should call it something else.

@americanbar.org @aclu.org @innocenceproject.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @houserepublicans.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The @60minutes.bsky.social story about Erez Reuveni opened my eyes to whistleblowers.org. Repost, contribute, tell your friends about the work of The Government Accountability Project. Thanks. #Resist

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October 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM