Penny1rdh
@penny1rdh.bsky.social
Fond of Jack Russells, 80's nostalgia, funny animals, creative writing, and making my own cold brew coffee. Advocate for public libraries and public education, not to mention public radio. Viva Democracy!
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The perfect lunch or light dinner, this comforting meal reheats beautifully, too.
Brothy Tomato Rice Soup Recipe
This quick and nourishing soup captures the concentrated umami, acidic-sweet brightness and floral aroma of fresh tomatoes If you can buy the ones on the vine, you’ll end up with an even more intense scent Fragrant jasmine rice lends body and thickens the broth just enough
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October 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The perfect lunch or light dinner, this comforting meal reheats beautifully, too.
My wife got to walk the field at the Diamondbacks Teacher Appreciation Night!!
September 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
My wife got to walk the field at the Diamondbacks Teacher Appreciation Night!!
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My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote:
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
August 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote:
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
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Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America — which we don’t currently have.
August 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America — which we don’t currently have.
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NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.
Please take care when watching.
Please take care when watching.
August 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
NEW: Video shared with me from a bystander in DC shows multiple masked federal agents (at least one of whom appears to have an ICE badge) violently attacking and handcuffing a delivery worker in the street outside Bluestone Lane cafe near Logan Circle this morning.
Please take care when watching.
Please take care when watching.
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Texas Republicans passed their extremely partisan gerrymandered map in the dead of night.
Why?
That’s when spineless thieves operate.
Why?
That’s when spineless thieves operate.
August 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Texas Republicans passed their extremely partisan gerrymandered map in the dead of night.
Why?
That’s when spineless thieves operate.
Why?
That’s when spineless thieves operate.
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Imagine getting fired because math hurt a man’s feelings. We’re being governed by a walking Yelp review.
August 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Imagine getting fired because math hurt a man’s feelings. We’re being governed by a walking Yelp review.
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I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
SDCC ‘25: What to do if ICE crashes the con
If you see ICE or Border Patrol agents while attending San Diego Comic-Con, know your rights and exercise them.
www.comicsbeat.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom: “80% of Californians pay about average taxes. 40% of Californians pay lower taxes than they do in Texas and Florida. Texas and Florida tax their lowest wage earners more than we do our highest wage earners. So who’s the high tax state? Is it California or is it Texas?”
July 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Gov. Gavin Newsom: “80% of Californians pay about average taxes. 40% of Californians pay lower taxes than they do in Texas and Florida. Texas and Florida tax their lowest wage earners more than we do our highest wage earners. So who’s the high tax state? Is it California or is it Texas?”
What a beautiful way to be greeted at the Reno Airport!! Several fluffy volunteers bringing sweetness and joy to travelers!!
July 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
What a beautiful way to be greeted at the Reno Airport!! Several fluffy volunteers bringing sweetness and joy to travelers!!
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"The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women."
—FDR, 1932
—FDR, 1932
July 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"The issue of government has always been whether individual men and women will have to serve some system of government and economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women."
—FDR, 1932
—FDR, 1932
Love Changing Hands Bookstore in Central Phoenix. As the bag proclaims, “Bookstores Save Democracy.”
July 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Love Changing Hands Bookstore in Central Phoenix. As the bag proclaims, “Bookstores Save Democracy.”
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What Frederick Douglass said of slaveholders applies to today’s authoritarians.
“For this cause they hate free society, free schools, free states, free speech, the freedom asserted in the declaration of independence, and guaranteed in the constitution.”
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...
“For this cause they hate free society, free schools, free states, free speech, the freedom asserted in the declaration of independence, and guaranteed in the constitution.”
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...
The Slaveholders’ Rebellion
teachingamericanhistory.org
July 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
What Frederick Douglass said of slaveholders applies to today’s authoritarians.
“For this cause they hate free society, free schools, free states, free speech, the freedom asserted in the declaration of independence, and guaranteed in the constitution.”
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...
“For this cause they hate free society, free schools, free states, free speech, the freedom asserted in the declaration of independence, and guaranteed in the constitution.”
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...
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July 4, 2025. I REAFFIRM:
“A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may DEFINE A TYRANT, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people"
- The Declaration of Independence
“A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may DEFINE A TYRANT, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people"
- The Declaration of Independence
July 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
July 4, 2025. I REAFFIRM:
“A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may DEFINE A TYRANT, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people"
- The Declaration of Independence
“A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may DEFINE A TYRANT, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people"
- The Declaration of Independence
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Spot on. It’s happening right now…this is how it starts.
July 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Spot on. It’s happening right now…this is how it starts.
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BREAKING: Hakeem Jeffries has been speaking on the House floor for the last 4 hours straight:
“I feel the obligation Mr. Speaker to stand on this House floor and take my sweet time.”
“I feel the obligation Mr. Speaker to stand on this House floor and take my sweet time.”
July 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
BREAKING: Hakeem Jeffries has been speaking on the House floor for the last 4 hours straight:
“I feel the obligation Mr. Speaker to stand on this House floor and take my sweet time.”
“I feel the obligation Mr. Speaker to stand on this House floor and take my sweet time.”
Blessed to work with a kind and compassionate dental team!
July 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Blessed to work with a kind and compassionate dental team!
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Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
June 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban
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Look at this amazing sign. #NoKings #butterfly
June 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Look at this amazing sign. #NoKings #butterfly
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A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual
PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
June 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual
PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
I relate to the owl who is just trying to stay afloat on the lower right!!
June 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I relate to the owl who is just trying to stay afloat on the lower right!!
Good times at the Diamondbacks Pride Night. Phoenix was the last stop for the MLB’s beautifully stitched rainbow pride baseball.
June 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Good times at the Diamondbacks Pride Night. Phoenix was the last stop for the MLB’s beautifully stitched rainbow pride baseball.
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“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
As U.S. Dismantles Voice of America, Rival Powers Hope to Fill the Void
www.nytimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
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Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance
June 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance