#### Literature & Ladle Society Sorting Soup’s (Book Club’s) Sunday: Burnout @9am & This is the Plan @4pm -ZOOM #### _This fall, The Ladle & Literature Society—also known as the Sorting Soup Book Clu...

The genie grants you a wish. What is it? —Questioner The Wish: Count Florida Correctly Dear Questioner, We would all be back in 2000 — and Al Gore would be president because Florida would have been counted correctly the first time. Not counted until somebody with a butterfly ballot, a loose understanding of democracy, and a Supreme Court majority decided they had seen enough.

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2.Oct.26 | The morning began with hard truths, sharp legal receipts, voter-registration work, and a reminder that no one has to carry the whole democracy alone. Eastern Illinois Indivisible Coffee & Conversation — Friday, 2 October 2026 Where the facts got checked, the care kits got packed, and nobody let democracy go cold. PRIVACY NOTE: This community recap uses the requested pseudonyms wherever a verified match appears in the public transcript or public chat.

2.Oct.26 | The morning began with hard truths, sharp legal receipts, voter-registration work, and a reminder that no one has to carry the whole democracy alone. Eastern Illinois Indivisible Coffee & Conversation — Friday, 2 October 2026 Where the facts got checked, the care kits got packed, and nobody let democracy go cold. PRIVACY NOTE: This community recap uses the requested pseudonyms wherever a verified match appears in the public transcript or public chat.

2.Oct.26 | The morning began with hard truths, sharp legal receipts, voter-registration work, and a reminder that no one has to carry the whole democracy alone. Eastern Illinois Indivisible Coffee & Conversation — Friday, 2 October 2026 Where the facts got checked, the care kits got packed, and nobody let democracy go cold. PRIVACY NOTE: This community recap uses the requested pseudonyms wherever a verified match appears in the public transcript or public chat.

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If you could start a new business right now, what would it be? —Questioner The Cards Are on the Table (Mostly) Dear Questioner, Funny you should ask. You do have the darnedest timing, because I’ve been thinking about starting a business for a hot minute. Not the sort of thinking that has produced a logo, a five-year plan, or even a respectable folder of notes.

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A Coffee & Conversation dispatch on expensive gas, accountable AI, reachable voters, courtroom alarms, and why democracy still needs all hands on the mug. Monday, 28 September 2026 Privacy note: Civilian names have been replaced with requested pseudonyms or privacy-safe terms. Private messages and all contributions from Debbie R have been omitted. ☕ THE FIRST SIP Monday’s Coffee & Conversation began exactly where a proper civic coffee klatch ought to begin: with the Chicago Bears, the unnerving price of petrol, and the knowledge that the national news had once again arrived wearing muddy boots.

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Do you believe in karma? —Questioner Dear Questioner, Do I believe in karma? Ohhhh, absolutely I do. Not necessarily in the “someone cut me off in traffic and immediately drove into a hedge” sense—though I do enjoy a well-timed cosmic consequence as much as the next person—but in the deeper sense. Karma is not simply, “What you put out comes back to you.” That is the bumper-sticker version.

25.Sep.2026 | A ‘9-2-5’ Coffee & Conversation dispatch on keeping the press free, the voters protected, the boundaries firm, and the Calypso Coffee responsibly layered. EASTERN ILLINOIS INDIVISIBLE 16 MINUTES AGO Friday, 25 September 2026 — where the coffee was hot, the legal updates were hotter, and the room reminded itself that urgency is real, but panic is not a strategy.