Stephanie Swofford Bolton
@stephbolton.bsky.social
powered by coffee and music... and sometimes snark, but that's probably because I need more coffee; music therapist living in north AL; love football (roll tide/who dat), New Orleans, snow in winter, gardening, being the "weird mom" to my amazing trans son
Good morning from frosty north Alabama! Jones Valley this morning. Just off camera are cows.
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Good morning from frosty north Alabama! Jones Valley this morning. Just off camera are cows.
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160 years ago today, the 13th Amendment was ratified to end slavery, with one major exception: punishment for a crime.
The legacy of slavery lives on as people behind bars are still coerced into working for mere pennies or nothing at all.
It's long overdue to abolish slavery in all its forms.
The legacy of slavery lives on as people behind bars are still coerced into working for mere pennies or nothing at all.
It's long overdue to abolish slavery in all its forms.
December 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
160 years ago today, the 13th Amendment was ratified to end slavery, with one major exception: punishment for a crime.
The legacy of slavery lives on as people behind bars are still coerced into working for mere pennies or nothing at all.
It's long overdue to abolish slavery in all its forms.
The legacy of slavery lives on as people behind bars are still coerced into working for mere pennies or nothing at all.
It's long overdue to abolish slavery in all its forms.
For those playing along... 9:24am #whamageddon 😂🫤
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
For those playing along... 9:24am #whamageddon 😂🫤
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The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
This sugar cookie dough was supposed to roll out for cut-out cookies for a networking party tomorrow. Clearly, not rolling out. 🫤.
December 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This sugar cookie dough was supposed to roll out for cut-out cookies for a networking party tomorrow. Clearly, not rolling out. 🫤.
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👏👏👏👏 Like, follow, and share if you love libraries and the right to read! 👏👏👏
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
👏👏👏👏 Like, follow, and share if you love libraries and the right to read! 👏👏👏
[walks into room where hubby is watching a YouTube video of a guy living in the woods in a tiny house]
Me: are you thinking of living in a tiny house in a forest?
Him: wouldn't you want to live there with me?
Me: our marriage vows didn't include tiny houses, so nope. 😂😂
Me: are you thinking of living in a tiny house in a forest?
Him: wouldn't you want to live there with me?
Me: our marriage vows didn't include tiny houses, so nope. 😂😂
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 AM
[walks into room where hubby is watching a YouTube video of a guy living in the woods in a tiny house]
Me: are you thinking of living in a tiny house in a forest?
Him: wouldn't you want to live there with me?
Me: our marriage vows didn't include tiny houses, so nope. 😂😂
Me: are you thinking of living in a tiny house in a forest?
Him: wouldn't you want to live there with me?
Me: our marriage vows didn't include tiny houses, so nope. 😂😂
One nice thing about being sick is I tend to drink more tea. Been enjoying a Lady Grey tea I grabbed on vacation in Charleston several months ago as well as an authentic Indian Chai tea from a shop in Seattle.
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
One nice thing about being sick is I tend to drink more tea. Been enjoying a Lady Grey tea I grabbed on vacation in Charleston several months ago as well as an authentic Indian Chai tea from a shop in Seattle.
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The answer is yes.
Was this even up for debate?
Was this even up for debate?
wait, everyone didn't already know?
(gift link)
(gift link)
Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The answer is yes.
Was this even up for debate?
Was this even up for debate?
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An anti-discrimination rule that forecloses magazines that write about James Baldwin and Prince but not magazines that write about William F Buckley and Taylor Swift. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
An anti-discrimination rule that forecloses magazines that write about James Baldwin and Prince but not magazines that write about William F Buckley and Taylor Swift. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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*stares in Adelita Grijalva*
December 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
*stares in Adelita Grijalva*
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This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Not joking: has one reporter responded to his preposterous Sgt Schultz “I know nothing” schtick by immediately asking:
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Not joking: has one reporter responded to his preposterous Sgt Schultz “I know nothing” schtick by immediately asking:
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
* Doesn’t this level of ignorance disqualify you as speaker?
* Do you really think we are so dumb to believe you?
* Do you think it is appropriate to insult the voters like this?
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Remember—Billionaire philanthropy is PR
$6.25B is a lot of money. It’s also only 4.1% of the $152B Michael Dell has hoarded. If Dell paid the 37% tax rate on the wealthy he'd pay $56.25B—and still have nearly $100B, more than he'd ever need
Taxation of billionaires > philanthropy from billionaires
$6.25B is a lot of money. It’s also only 4.1% of the $152B Michael Dell has hoarded. If Dell paid the 37% tax rate on the wealthy he'd pay $56.25B—and still have nearly $100B, more than he'd ever need
Taxation of billionaires > philanthropy from billionaires
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Remember—Billionaire philanthropy is PR
$6.25B is a lot of money. It’s also only 4.1% of the $152B Michael Dell has hoarded. If Dell paid the 37% tax rate on the wealthy he'd pay $56.25B—and still have nearly $100B, more than he'd ever need
Taxation of billionaires > philanthropy from billionaires
$6.25B is a lot of money. It’s also only 4.1% of the $152B Michael Dell has hoarded. If Dell paid the 37% tax rate on the wealthy he'd pay $56.25B—and still have nearly $100B, more than he'd ever need
Taxation of billionaires > philanthropy from billionaires
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I can't get over the fact that they scheduled a televised Cabinet meeting, hyped it as a major event, planned it all out to show how active and in control Trump is ... and then he dozed off in the middle of it. Repeatedly.
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I can't get over the fact that they scheduled a televised Cabinet meeting, hyped it as a major event, planned it all out to show how active and in control Trump is ... and then he dozed off in the middle of it. Repeatedly.
It's almost snowing here. I say 'almost' because whatever the precipitation is-- it's not rain, but it's not discernable snowflakes either. Icy mist? 🤷. I'm choosing to believe it's snow. Home sick and I love snow, so there. ❄️❄️❄️
December 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It's almost snowing here. I say 'almost' because whatever the precipitation is-- it's not rain, but it's not discernable snowflakes either. Icy mist? 🤷. I'm choosing to believe it's snow. Home sick and I love snow, so there. ❄️❄️❄️
Home sick with a cold. Therefore, it's perfectly acceptable to have pumpkin pie for breakfast.
December 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Home sick with a cold. Therefore, it's perfectly acceptable to have pumpkin pie for breakfast.
Thread.
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Thread.
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
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Together these moves amount to an unprecedented rollback of civil rights progress—the largest since Reconstruction.
The cuts + deletions are drawing MORE attention to Black history, says the National Urban League president.
To be clear: The record shows the Tr*mps have alwasy been racists. ALWAYS.
The cuts + deletions are drawing MORE attention to Black history, says the National Urban League president.
To be clear: The record shows the Tr*mps have alwasy been racists. ALWAYS.
America stares down erasure of Black history and progress
In the last year, federal, state and institutional decisions have gutted pillars of America's civil rights protections.
www.axios.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Together these moves amount to an unprecedented rollback of civil rights progress—the largest since Reconstruction.
The cuts + deletions are drawing MORE attention to Black history, says the National Urban League president.
To be clear: The record shows the Tr*mps have alwasy been racists. ALWAYS.
The cuts + deletions are drawing MORE attention to Black history, says the National Urban League president.
To be clear: The record shows the Tr*mps have alwasy been racists. ALWAYS.
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DON’T LET THEM FOOL YOU
Black Friday $ sales are higher this year because things are more expensive. So consumers aren’t buying more items, they’re just paying more them.
Black Friday $ sales are higher this year because things are more expensive. So consumers aren’t buying more items, they’re just paying more them.
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
DON’T LET THEM FOOL YOU
Black Friday $ sales are higher this year because things are more expensive. So consumers aren’t buying more items, they’re just paying more them.
Black Friday $ sales are higher this year because things are more expensive. So consumers aren’t buying more items, they’re just paying more them.
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One of the features of the Trump era is a formalization of the use of enemies lists to induce terror. It is one thing when MAGA influencers or organizations are naming you as an enemy of the state, but it takes on a different cast when its the White House. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...
The White House web site now includes a "media bias" tracker with a leaderboard and an offender hall of shame. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
November 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
One of the features of the Trump era is a formalization of the use of enemies lists to induce terror. It is one thing when MAGA influencers or organizations are naming you as an enemy of the state, but it takes on a different cast when its the White House. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...
Today's side dish (sweet potato casserole) is brought to you by Alton Brown's spiced pecans and Harry Connick Jr Xmas music.
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Today's side dish (sweet potato casserole) is brought to you by Alton Brown's spiced pecans and Harry Connick Jr Xmas music.
Happy Thanksgiving from the family left in town!
November 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Happy Thanksgiving from the family left in town!
The kid and I got fancy with the apple pie. Happy Thanksgiving y'all!
November 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The kid and I got fancy with the apple pie. Happy Thanksgiving y'all!