Dr. Phyllis Behrens
@henrietta225.bsky.social
I am a daughter, granddaughter, niece, cousin, sister, aunt, mother, great-aunt, divorcée, & grandmother. I have vocational, avocational, & community roles, e.g., Adjunct Instructor, Retired Poetess, Nonprofit Volunteer, Gig Worker.
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Write like no one will read it.
Edit like everyone will quote it.
You'll be unstoppable! 🚀
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #BookSky #WriteSky
Edit like everyone will quote it.
You'll be unstoppable! 🚀
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A good suggestion!
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🚨 Wholesale turkey prices to rise 44% this year
🚨 As of Nov. 17, a basket of 11 Thanksgiving staples — including a 10-pound frozen turkey, 10 Russet potatoes, a box of stuffing and cans of corn, green beans and cranberry sauce – cost $58.81, or 4.1% more than last year (1/2)
#EconSky
🚨 As of Nov. 17, a basket of 11 Thanksgiving staples — including a 10-pound frozen turkey, 10 Russet potatoes, a box of stuffing and cans of corn, green beans and cranberry sauce – cost $58.81, or 4.1% more than last year (1/2)
#EconSky
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
🚨 Wholesale turkey prices to rise 44% this year
🚨 As of Nov. 17, a basket of 11 Thanksgiving staples — including a 10-pound frozen turkey, 10 Russet potatoes, a box of stuffing and cans of corn, green beans and cranberry sauce – cost $58.81, or 4.1% more than last year (1/2)
#EconSky
🚨 As of Nov. 17, a basket of 11 Thanksgiving staples — including a 10-pound frozen turkey, 10 Russet potatoes, a box of stuffing and cans of corn, green beans and cranberry sauce – cost $58.81, or 4.1% more than last year (1/2)
#EconSky
Another positive response to a variety of people and groups speaking up and speaking out. Keep on making good noise!
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Coast Guard clarifies 'hate symbols' policy after widely panned change
The U.S. Coast Guard clarified its “hate symbols” policy after Jewish groups blasted a revision the service made to its anti-harassment regulations.
www.usatoday.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Another positive response to a variety of people and groups speaking up and speaking out. Keep on making good noise!
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
heads-up
White House crafting executive order to thwart state AI laws
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
heads-up
A good suggestion!
Write like no one will read it.
Edit like everyone will quote it.
You'll be unstoppable! 🚀
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #BookSky #WriteSky
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November 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
A good suggestion!
This was distressing but seems to have just upended itself.
www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...
This is the day-old article I had only just read when the "it has changed" news broke.
www.localsyr.com/news/local-n...
A person could get whiplash trying to keep up with things.
www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...
This is the day-old article I had only just read when the "it has changed" news broke.
www.localsyr.com/news/local-n...
A person could get whiplash trying to keep up with things.
USCIS reverses course, reinstates halted naturalization ceremonies across New York
The move comes days after the Times Union revealed abrupt cancellations in at least seven counties, sparking bipartisan criticism and demands for answers.
www.timesunion.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
This was distressing but seems to have just upended itself.
www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...
This is the day-old article I had only just read when the "it has changed" news broke.
www.localsyr.com/news/local-n...
A person could get whiplash trying to keep up with things.
www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...
This is the day-old article I had only just read when the "it has changed" news broke.
www.localsyr.com/news/local-n...
A person could get whiplash trying to keep up with things.
Absolutely deeply disturbing.
This is deeply disturbing.
The U.S. Coast Guard is apparently pro-Nazi: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Absolutely deeply disturbing.
"...a people who could defy kings" - I am looking forward to watching the new Ken Burns documentary, starting Sunday
youtu.be/vTlqT_FjL5k?...
youtu.be/vTlqT_FjL5k?...
The American Revolution: Telling Our Origin Story | PBS
YouTube video by PBS
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November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"...a people who could defy kings" - I am looking forward to watching the new Ken Burns documentary, starting Sunday
youtu.be/vTlqT_FjL5k?...
youtu.be/vTlqT_FjL5k?...
Reposted by Dr. Phyllis Behrens
“Nothing will be torn down.” — Karoline Leavitt
“It won’t interfere with the current building. It pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.” — Donald Trump
“It won’t interfere with the current building. It pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.” — Donald Trump
October 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“Nothing will be torn down.” — Karoline Leavitt
“It won’t interfere with the current building. It pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.” — Donald Trump
“It won’t interfere with the current building. It pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.” — Donald Trump
The East Wing of the White House (L) in a satellite photo captured by Planet Labs PBC on Sept. 26, 2025 along with a photo captured on Oct. 23, 2025. Thanks to @paleofuture.bsky.social for pointing to ABC sharing the satellite imagery. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
October 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The East Wing of the White House (L) in a satellite photo captured by Planet Labs PBC on Sept. 26, 2025 along with a photo captured on Oct. 23, 2025. Thanks to @paleofuture.bsky.social for pointing to ABC sharing the satellite imagery. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
Demolition derby
October 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Demolition derby
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes," from Act 4, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, is spoken by the Second Witch to foreshadow the arrival of the evil Macbeth. A pervasive sense of menace crept in... .
We asked Donald Trump to cut health care costs. Instead, he cut off a wing of the White House.
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes," from Act 4, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, is spoken by the Second Witch to foreshadow the arrival of the evil Macbeth. A pervasive sense of menace crept in... .
Reposted by Dr. Phyllis Behrens
What's left of the White House East Wing:
October 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
What's left of the White House East Wing:
Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster
Sept 1979, a Southern Rock release. a what?, asks you. a blend of blues, roots rock, soul, country, and "loud, often brash guitar romps" that emerged in the 1960s with the Allman Brothers Band.
youtu.be/qYAwdc1M068?...
Sept 1979, a Southern Rock release. a what?, asks you. a blend of blues, roots rock, soul, country, and "loud, often brash guitar romps" that emerged in the 1960s with the Allman Brothers Band.
youtu.be/qYAwdc1M068?...
Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster
YouTube video by Nothing Like Vinyl
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster
Sept 1979, a Southern Rock release. a what?, asks you. a blend of blues, roots rock, soul, country, and "loud, often brash guitar romps" that emerged in the 1960s with the Allman Brothers Band.
youtu.be/qYAwdc1M068?...
Sept 1979, a Southern Rock release. a what?, asks you. a blend of blues, roots rock, soul, country, and "loud, often brash guitar romps" that emerged in the 1960s with the Allman Brothers Band.
youtu.be/qYAwdc1M068?...
This is a picture of the East Wing of the White House today. NY Post says, "Windows facing the Treasury Department are smashed and half-off their hinges and the former White House calligraphy office bears a gaping hole."
October 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is a picture of the East Wing of the White House today. NY Post says, "Windows facing the Treasury Department are smashed and half-off their hinges and the former White House calligraphy office bears a gaping hole."
No time has been a known a long while
youtu.be/kLPZGmogE7k?...
youtu.be/kLPZGmogE7k?...
THE MONKEES No Time STEREO SOUND, original video
YouTube video by Brett Reece
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October 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
No time has been a known a long while
youtu.be/kLPZGmogE7k?...
youtu.be/kLPZGmogE7k?...
Jack Kornfield: “The trouble is, you think you have time.”
www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-pra...
www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-pra...
Jack Kornfield: “The trouble is, you think you have time.” - Wildmind
Jack Kornfield, in Buddha’s Little Instruction Book, says, “The trouble is, you think you have time.” In other words, we put off important things, assuming that we can do them later. But there may not...
www.wildmind.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Jack Kornfield: “The trouble is, you think you have time.”
www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-pra...
www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-pra...
Reposted by Dr. Phyllis Behrens
Here's what it looked like in front of the Hawaii State Capitol today. Crowds gathered here, as well as throughout Hawaii and across the country, to protest the Trump administration’s policies. https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/10/18/no-dictators-protests-take-place-across-islands-mainland/
October 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Here's what it looked like in front of the Hawaii State Capitol today. Crowds gathered here, as well as throughout Hawaii and across the country, to protest the Trump administration’s policies. https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/10/18/no-dictators-protests-take-place-across-islands-mainland/
lookitthis, it's just one of today's No Kings Day events
October 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM
lookitthis, it's just one of today's No Kings Day events
No Kings, called No Dictators or No Tyrants in some places, is centered around a love for American democracy.
After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
No Kings, called No Dictators or No Tyrants in some places, is centered around a love for American democracy.
Paper clips spoken of in wagingnonviolence.org/2013/04/wood...
"Norwegians were forbidden from wearing any symbol of the state or royalty, so students began wearing paper clips to demonstrate their support for resistance, and that symbol spread."
"Norwegians were forbidden from wearing any symbol of the state or royalty, so students began wearing paper clips to demonstrate their support for resistance, and that symbol spread."
October 16, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Paper clips spoken of in wagingnonviolence.org/2013/04/wood...
"Norwegians were forbidden from wearing any symbol of the state or royalty, so students began wearing paper clips to demonstrate their support for resistance, and that symbol spread."
"Norwegians were forbidden from wearing any symbol of the state or royalty, so students began wearing paper clips to demonstrate their support for resistance, and that symbol spread."
good one
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
good one
Reposted by Dr. Phyllis Behrens
PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵
October 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵
I resemble this remark.
I remember when I used to go DAYS—WEEKS EVEN—without thinking about the President of the United States because I wasn’t worried about him starting a civil or world war, making a gestapo police force, or ripping our constitution to shreds.
October 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I resemble this remark.
Reposted by Dr. Phyllis Behrens
Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
October 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.