Cortney
@cmdouce.bsky.social
Doing my best, interested in others
One of my favorite things about visiting Detroit was learning that the Detroit Institute of Art is free to residents in three surrounding counties
December 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
One of my favorite things about visiting Detroit was learning that the Detroit Institute of Art is free to residents in three surrounding counties
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This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice.
📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
December 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice.
📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.
100% this! 👇🏽
I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.
December 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
100% this! 👇🏽
Strong local reporting on the USS Truman series of mishaps from their deployment. I appreciate the timelines, because I hadn’t connected those incidents with Signalgate.
www.whro.org/military-vet...
www.whro.org/military-vet...
Navy finds USS Truman’s stint in Red Sea was marred by preventable accidents that threatened lives
Lack of training, fatigue and poor communication contributed to a collision by the carrier, a friendly fire incident and two lost F/A 18s.
www.whro.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Strong local reporting on the USS Truman series of mishaps from their deployment. I appreciate the timelines, because I hadn’t connected those incidents with Signalgate.
www.whro.org/military-vet...
www.whro.org/military-vet...
I just got back from a work trip/first ever visit to Detroit. The people were friendly, the hockey was exciting, and the Detroit Art Institute was gorgeous and very well curated. Also the infrastructure was impressive with the snowplowed roads and driving flow post-NHL game. It’s a great town!
December 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I just got back from a work trip/first ever visit to Detroit. The people were friendly, the hockey was exciting, and the Detroit Art Institute was gorgeous and very well curated. Also the infrastructure was impressive with the snowplowed roads and driving flow post-NHL game. It’s a great town!
December 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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#FanvidRec for "Bicycle Race" by seekingferret, which is an outstanding multifandom vid to the Queen song of that name. Seriously, it's so great. So many sources. When the bell sequence hits, I laugh. Also love the split screen section and so many sequences.
archiveofourown.org/works/52153075
archiveofourown.org/works/52153075
Bicycle Race
YouTube video by saguaronine
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM
#FanvidRec for "Bicycle Race" by seekingferret, which is an outstanding multifandom vid to the Queen song of that name. Seriously, it's so great. So many sources. When the bell sequence hits, I laugh. Also love the split screen section and so many sequences.
archiveofourown.org/works/52153075
archiveofourown.org/works/52153075
My kid wanted beef stew for birthday dinner so I kicked it up a notch with Julia Child’s beef bourguignon recipe. I honestly feel like I’m a better cook for having done it! Layering in all those flavors, not hard just time consuming. It felt like a gift of love to share it.
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
My kid wanted beef stew for birthday dinner so I kicked it up a notch with Julia Child’s beef bourguignon recipe. I honestly feel like I’m a better cook for having done it! Layering in all those flavors, not hard just time consuming. It felt like a gift of love to share it.
Soundtrack as I walked the dog before work: muffled voice of a man up a long drive hollering into his truck, “Is everybody ready?” - whoosh of wings as a flock of blackbirds descended en masse from a tree - a voice calling out “Love you!” to some lucky somebody before slamming the car door.
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Soundtrack as I walked the dog before work: muffled voice of a man up a long drive hollering into his truck, “Is everybody ready?” - whoosh of wings as a flock of blackbirds descended en masse from a tree - a voice calling out “Love you!” to some lucky somebody before slamming the car door.
This is a thoughtful and interesting thread. I’m parenting teenagers so I think about this on some level quite a bit, but usually with more emotion and less rigor. 😄
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This is a thoughtful and interesting thread. I’m parenting teenagers so I think about this on some level quite a bit, but usually with more emotion and less rigor. 😄
Gosh, that interview of Patti Smith was profoundly moving to me. I haven’t listened to Ezra Klein for awhile, but I’m grateful I gave that a listen.
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Gosh, that interview of Patti Smith was profoundly moving to me. I haven’t listened to Ezra Klein for awhile, but I’m grateful I gave that a listen.
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HOLY SHIT ONE THOUSAND GIRLS
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 12:27 AM
HOLY SHIT ONE THOUSAND GIRLS
I just poured my pasta cooking water into my compost bin, but I had to be careful not to wash out the THREE daddy long leg spiders who were checking things out. It’s been a very daddy longlegs autumn this year.
November 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I just poured my pasta cooking water into my compost bin, but I had to be careful not to wash out the THREE daddy long leg spiders who were checking things out. It’s been a very daddy longlegs autumn this year.
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
This was a wild read. Everything is just bonkers.
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This was a wild read. Everything is just bonkers.
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
My 11yo frowns whenever I ask if she wants chicken strips for dinner. It just hasn’t been the same since she saw the “Eat around the tumors” Tyson’s ad in our print copy of The Onion.
As a parent, there are few things more bracing than watching the expressions on your middle schooler's face as they idly leaf through the print edition Onion that you mistakenly left on the kitchen table
I really recommend clicking through and reading more of the comic.
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
My 11yo frowns whenever I ask if she wants chicken strips for dinner. It just hasn’t been the same since she saw the “Eat around the tumors” Tyson’s ad in our print copy of The Onion.
Praying for Kyiv tonight and always 🇺🇦❤️
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Praying for Kyiv tonight and always 🇺🇦❤️
Friendly reminder as we move into shopping season that the best way to protest the oligarchy is to not give another penny to Jeff Bezos via Amazon. Shop early and local!
November 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Friendly reminder as we move into shopping season that the best way to protest the oligarchy is to not give another penny to Jeff Bezos via Amazon. Shop early and local!
Did everyone see Andy Harnick’s photo? Everyone should see that photo. It’s everything, all of it, in one bonkers and beautiful shot.
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Did everyone see Andy Harnick’s photo? Everyone should see that photo. It’s everything, all of it, in one bonkers and beautiful shot.
I think this is a great idea. Imperfect, but necessary.
Sens. Mark Warner and Josh Hawley introduce a bipartisan bill that would require companies and US agencies to submit quarterly reports on AI-related job impacts (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I think this is a great idea. Imperfect, but necessary.
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Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
n.pr
October 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM