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Exactly. I get rageful about the sheriffs and preachers and them, who can shrug and wave their clean hands around... Hey, charges got dropped, no foul! The damage just cascades, in ways that don't even make the local paper. We've just gotta do whatever we can to help roll this shit back.

(The condoms at the truck stop were in the men's room, of course. If there was a place in the county an unmarried woman could buy contraceptives, I never heard of it. I counted the girls in my 7th grade yearbook, and in the HS grads - about 1/3 were gone. Not ALL pregnant - but lots were.)

Glad you got out! I'm old - graduated high school before Roe, in a midwest county where the only birth control was condoms from a vending machine at the truck stop. (The drugstore belonged to a good Catholic.) And I still get shocked by shit that I just never thought about.

By the time they're out of detention, some of them need treatment for PTSD, a new job, and maybe help getting their living children back out of the foster care system. Sometimes, help dealing with the people who still harass them because they feel disgusted that "she got off without punishment."

It's relentless. Local sheriffs can do a lot, even if the county prosecutor eventually drops the case. Living in a blood-red state, a person sees more local stories.

Flushing the toilet when you don't know what else to do can get you arrested in this fair nation.

www.theguardian.com/society/2024... www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

I'm guessing that 22 is a lowball figure. "Local Authorities" do stuff. Even when charges are ultimately dropped, a woman can sit in jail for a good while. Lots of those women are not white.

Aunt Ruth @auntruth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every 4H and county fair alumna who has a box full of ribbons is amazed by this.

We keep forgetting what generous and reliable neighbors the Canadians have been.

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The title and motifs reference the state song and the symbol on the state flag. And, consider: given the wonderful symmetry of the finished work, there have to be MORE RIBBONS somewhere at home that didn't fit this composition!

This quilt incorporates more than six hundred of the gold-printed satin ribbons that she has earned at the NM State Fair since 1981 -for her entries in needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants.

In happier news: bsky.app/profile/jrho... An "absolutely massive flex" indeed! Nice use of the ribbon rosettes in the center, too. "O Fair New Mexico: 41 Fair Years" is the work of Carol St. Clair Johnson. This quilt earned Best in Category (Miscellaneous Quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

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Gosh, anybody who hates his stuff is OFF my design team. If I ever get a design team.

Created circa 1898-1900, this René Lalique Art Nouveau pendant brooch/necklace is composed of enamel, fire opal and 18K gold. Centering a fire opal cabochon with vivid green and blue pinpoint phenomen...

Rabbit Hole, thy name is Lalique: c. 1898 Lalique pendant/brooch with fire opal, & 18K gold. A swirl of stylized pale bluish-green poplar leaves and indigo berries, both in plique-à-jour enamel, on a deep green and black enamel vine... www.macklowegallery.com/products/ren...

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René Lalique | ‘Palmettes Emeraudes et Perles’ Necklace & Earrings, c1905, gold/ diamonds/ green plique-à-jour & black enamels/ emeralds/ natural pearls & glass panels each decorated w/a woman in profile. Sold at Sotheby’s for CHF 375,000 all-in on Nov 15, 2018 In different lighting:

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I've seen some polymer claywork in that genre that was amazing!

Aunt Ruth @auntruth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

But when I clicked the button to submit my answers, I got a dead website message. Any alternatives?

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Aunt Ruth @auntruth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Not in the running to be sainted: JDV is flogging his "How I Got Catholic" book by sharing thoughts that didn't come from CCD. (Evan's not even RC-adjacent, but he knows Left Behind talk when he hears it.) evanhurst.substack.com/p/will-jd-va...

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Will JD Vance Make The Apocalypse Great Again? Does He Know The Antichrist? Aw Shucks, Who Knows!

Found the religious extremism, it was right here all along.

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And as a lot of LYS owners retire, the realistic choice is often sell to Those Guys, or close the shop.

Wankers. Wankers with zero social value. Every damn one of them.

That sounds like he may be a good'un...

Came here to ask where the heck the caffeine is.

Hegseth's religious rhetoric and Pentagon prayers rile some Americans

But a DEEPLY WEIRD thing is that *most* of the Americans who are deep into this "crusader" mentality barely know what Catholics *are.* Hegseth, eg, adheres militantly to preacher Doug wilson - a white-nationalist, women-shouldn't-vote Protestant sect. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

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The ABC visits US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's church, whose leaders challenge the legitimacy of democracy and key principles in the US constitution.

When we get to rabid capybaras, just stick a fork in me.

Health insurers reject millions of claims for treatment every year in America. Corporate insiders, recordings and internal emails expose the system and its harm.

(Your oncologist's demand to know the IDENTITY of the PEER PHYSICIAN - "peer" as in, being credentialed in a RELEVANT area of medicine - is one of the first-line responses that a lot of patients don't know to insist on.) www.propublica.org/series/uncov...

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Denials are so central to their business now that they consider multimillion-dollar fines an ordinary expense. ICYMI, ProPublica has been running a great string of investigative pieces about the business of denying care (in the US), including links to a variety of "how to fight back" resources...

...And go far, far away, preferably for several years.

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Groypers (followers of white-nationalist agitator Nick Fuentes) are blessed with a variety of images and merch featuring their avatar, Pepe the Frog, in crusader garb: noai.duckduckgo.com?t=noaiext&q=...

On the other side of the Atlantic, Emma Cieslik did a fair job last year: archive.is/202512190211...

Screenshot of the opening of an article in HYPERALLERGIC by Emma Cieslik: "Why We Should All Be Worried about "Crusadercore"" Subhead: "This online trend equips young, White men with a hisorically bastardized visual lexicon - one that gives new credence and religious authority to far-right bigotry."

If you're dying to make a Comment, that only costs £1.

I suspect a fair number of knight-warrior fanguys in the American South would be scandalized to hear the Crusaders accused of being CATHOLICS.

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Ah, but the best part is the required donation if you wish to discuss the matter further.

When a person has acquired a large vocabulary, they can often keep saying many words as they sink deeper into dementia (from whatever cause). Skills for social chit-chat interaction can persist alongside vocabulary for a considerable time after logic and orientation have faded out. Just saying.

ICYMI, from The Tiny Pricks Project. (Several other DP tribute pieces at www.facebook.com/tinyprickspr...)

Color photo of an embroidered piece via the collaborative Tiny Pricks Project. The centered text,which dominates the piece, is clearly embroidered in all caps: "FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE AND DO IT ON PURPOSE" "-Dolly Parton" The square textile is a lady's handkerchief from the mid-20th century. It's white, with a printed border of red and pink roses, interspersed with green rose leaves and white lilies of the valley, drawn in a style one might see on an American Greetings card of that era.