Robin VanderRoest βŒπŸ‘‘
rlbv.bsky.social
Robin VanderRoest βŒπŸ‘‘
@rlbv.bsky.social
Live with a curmudgeonly (& sweet) hubby, a vocal (& dear) beagle, & foster beagles. Retired computer programmer. Like to read, knit, walk, watch British mysteries. Enjoy fall leaves, winter snow, spring green. Fan of LGBTQ rights & democracy. LDS.
February 8, 2026 at 5:01 PM
We would have sung these today, but our meetings were canceled.
January 25, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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January 23, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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BREAKING: It’s -14 degrees outside and thousands of protesters are outside the Minneapolis St Paul airport protesting against ICE and Trump.

This is America!
January 23, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Question. If Joe Biden called Greenland, β€œIceland” four times…. What would the right be saying?
January 21, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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AOC: The president has been acting in increasingly erratic ways. It is really damning when we think about the degree to which media outlets reported on Joe Biden, yet we are seeing behavior from Trump that is alarming and everyone is pretending this is normal.
January 21, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Pretty well! I don’t think we’d sung it before, but it sounded pretty good
January 20, 2026 at 9:34 PM
January 18, 2026 at 5:02 PM
We’re at noon church now 😊
January 11, 2026 at 9:31 PM
This is a great photo - terrific colors!
January 10, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Renee Good. The mother of a 6 yr old. Murdered by ICE. Say her name…
January 8, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long timeβ€”that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
January 8, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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This is blatantly illegal. A president can’t go into the oil business and then decide where to spend the money. We are completely untethered from our founding document with a lawless president and a Republican Congress which has abdicated all Constitutional authority.
January 7, 2026 at 12:44 AM
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Trump just issued threats to attack Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Iran, Venezuela (again), and Greenland (which would be an attack on all of NATO).
January 5, 2026 at 2:49 AM
January 5, 2026 at 3:06 AM
What is written on the papers hanging from the branches?
January 3, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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Systematically destroying knowledge, and with it, competitive advantage … over other nations *and* over private industry.
January 1, 2026 at 6:52 PM
I didn’t know that about 172; I’ll have to look that up.
December 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to useβ€”and have students useβ€”a wide range of AI tools. (The term β€œAI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
docs.google.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
December 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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β€œThese men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her β€œ60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Merry Christmas!

For the closing number, our organist played a longer introduction, and an interlude between verses 3 & 4 - fun to sing, and a fine finish to our program.

The Primary sang Away in a Manger.
December 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
December 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Pete Hegseth has been proudly posting videos of deadly boat strikes for months.

If he's so confident that the killing of two shipwrecked survivors on September 2 was legal, then he should stop stalling and release the full video. thehill.com/policy/defen...
thehill.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM