Claire
@claire46.bsky.social
“be softer with you.
you are a breathing thing.
a memory to someone.
a home to a life.”
~ Nayyirah Waheed
you are a breathing thing.
a memory to someone.
a home to a life.”
~ Nayyirah Waheed
The Many Desks of Reporter Dan Lamothe
Great piece from #CharlotteClymer
Great piece from #CharlotteClymer
The Many Desks of Reporter Dan Lamothe
The clowns have taken over.
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The Many Desks of Reporter Dan Lamothe
Great piece from #CharlotteClymer
Great piece from #CharlotteClymer
OTD, 25 years ago, four young women died for standing witnesses by the poor and victimized.
The four martyred churchwomen of El Salvador dare us to be saints
More than four decades after their murders, the four churchwomen of El Salvador remain powerful examples of faith and commitment to the Gospel.
www.americamagazine.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
OTD, 25 years ago, four young women died for standing witnesses by the poor and victimized.
I want to live
my life like
a night made
bright by
moonlight
and snow—
there is
nothing I can
hold onto,
nothing I can
even touch, but
there is no
doubt how real
the light is,
no denying how
that faraway
light reflects
to hold me.
ahundredfallingveils.com/2025/12/01/w...
my life like
a night made
bright by
moonlight
and snow—
there is
nothing I can
hold onto,
nothing I can
even touch, but
there is no
doubt how real
the light is,
no denying how
that faraway
light reflects
to hold me.
ahundredfallingveils.com/2025/12/01/w...
Walking at Night after the First Big Snow
I want to livemy life likea night madebright bymoonlightand snow—there isnothing I canhold onto,nothing I caneven touch, butthere is nodoubt how realthe light is,no denying howthat farawaylight r…
ahundredfallingveils.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I want to live
my life like
a night made
bright by
moonlight
and snow—
there is
nothing I can
hold onto,
nothing I can
even touch, but
there is no
doubt how real
the light is,
no denying how
that faraway
light reflects
to hold me.
ahundredfallingveils.com/2025/12/01/w...
my life like
a night made
bright by
moonlight
and snow—
there is
nothing I can
hold onto,
nothing I can
even touch, but
there is no
doubt how real
the light is,
no denying how
that faraway
light reflects
to hold me.
ahundredfallingveils.com/2025/12/01/w...
BCH #041: Defining neoliberalism
A tool of corporate colonialism...
A tool of corporate colonialism...
BCH #041: Defining neoliberalism
Neoliberalism is not just an economic policy. It's how multinational corporations fought back against progress made by the political left and it's a tool of corporate colonisation.
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 AM
BCH #041: Defining neoliberalism
A tool of corporate colonialism...
A tool of corporate colonialism...
#RabidranathTagore
... Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
... Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Where the Mind Is Without Fear
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held highWhere knowledge is freeWhere the world has not been broken up into fragmentsBy narrow domestic wallsWhere words come out from the depth of truth...
grateful.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
#RabidranathTagore
... Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
... Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Winner of this week’s Joseph Welch Award
Former Federal Judge Mark L. Wolf
Former Federal Judge Mark L. Wolf
Winner of this week’s Joseph Welch Award
For standing up to tyranny. In honor of attorney Joseph Welch, who represented the U.S. Army in the Army-McCarthy Hearings of June 1954.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Winner of this week’s Joseph Welch Award
Former Federal Judge Mark L. Wolf
Former Federal Judge Mark L. Wolf
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The four weeks will have a different themes: Hope, Peace, followed by Joy, and ending with Love in the week of #Christmas.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Shoot first, ask questions later
Shoot first, ask questions later
Petey Hegseth, Secretary of War
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Shoot first, ask questions later
The Season of the Secret
The Season of the Secret
Welcome Advent with the Wisdom of Caryll Houselander
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Season of the Secret
Reposted by Claire
Blessed Advent everyone. There is a journey you must take.
This is from 'Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart'.
This is from 'Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart'.
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Blessed Advent everyone. There is a journey you must take.
This is from 'Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart'.
This is from 'Meister Eckhart's Book of the Heart'.
20 days in jail and Sarkozy writes a book. It’s as if I wrote a feminist essay after emptying the dishwasher 😵💫
« Vingt jours de prison et Nicolas Sarkozy en fait un livre. C’est comme si je sortais un essai féministe parce que j’ai vidé le lave-vaisselle »
CHRONIQUE. Dans sa chronique, Guillemette Faure met en lumière les transformations invisibles de notre époque. Cette semaine, l’essor des livres express, à l’instar de celui écrit par l’ancien préside...
www.lemonde.fr
November 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
20 days in jail and Sarkozy writes a book. It’s as if I wrote a feminist essay after emptying the dishwasher 😵💫
Reposted by Claire
There was no "Emergency" situation with crime in DC. This stunt got a 20 year old young woman killed.
It. Got. A. Woman. Killed.
It. Got. A. Woman. Killed.
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 AM
There was no "Emergency" situation with crime in DC. This stunt got a 20 year old young woman killed.
It. Got. A. Woman. Killed.
It. Got. A. Woman. Killed.
Reposted by Claire
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
Reposted by Claire
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.
As nice as swords into ploughshares...
The Nationwide Movement Turning Guns into Garden Tools
A process that heals trauma while taking guns out of circulation is producing beautiful tools that cultivate life rather than destroy it.
reasonstobecheerful.world
November 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
As nice as swords into ploughshares...
Reposted by Claire
392,000 followers on X.
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
392,000 followers on X.
Reposted by Claire
She doesn’t even try to hide that she’s a spokesperson for Putin serving in the US Congress. Post after post, day after day, echoing Russian propaganda. Truly sad that people in Pinellas County have chosen this as their representation.
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
She doesn’t even try to hide that she’s a spokesperson for Putin serving in the US Congress. Post after post, day after day, echoing Russian propaganda. Truly sad that people in Pinellas County have chosen this as their representation.
Brilliant
Russian Unreality and American Weakness
Russian Unreality and American Weakness
Russian Unreality and American Weakness
Notes from a bizarre moment of diplomatic history
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November 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Brilliant
Russian Unreality and American Weakness
Russian Unreality and American Weakness
Pope Leo: “Dorothy Day Took a Stand”
Pope Leo: “Dorothy Day Took a Stand”
Pope Leo recommends Dorothy Day as a model of the "good fire" Jesus wanted to unleash. Also: How the CW influenced inequality scholar Chuck Collins, and the passing of several notable Workers.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Pope Leo: “Dorothy Day Took a Stand”
Reposted by Claire
This forecasting system could predict exactly which streets will flood -- In Puerto Rico -- Bad Bunny country 🇵🇷
This forecasting system could predict exactly which streets will flood » Yale Climate Connections
Researchers in Puerto Rico are building a system designed to warn people down to the block in San Juan.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This forecasting system could predict exactly which streets will flood -- In Puerto Rico -- Bad Bunny country 🇵🇷
So so cool and green too 💚
A guerrilla gardener installed a pop-up wetland in the LA River. Here's how — and why
Well-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, artist Doug Rosenberg is trying to push the grassroots movement forward.
www.npr.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
So so cool and green too 💚
Oh...
Powerful.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Oh...