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Newsletter 1-2025 Looking back on 2024

Hike-lights 2024 from Frits, including the fractured ankle on one of my hikes 🙂

Newsletter 1-2025 Looking back on 2024

January 6th — Never Forget | Filosofa’s Word

I am appalled by the attempt to re-write the history of that day by some, such as Republican Representative in Congress, Mike Collins, who claims that …

“On in 2021, thousands of peaceful grandmothers gathered in Washington, D.C., to take a self-guided, albeit unauthorized, tour of the U.S. Capitol building. Earlier that day, President Trump held a rally, where supporters walked to the Capitol to peacefully protest the certification of the 2020 election. During this time, some individuals entered the Capitol, took photos, and explored the building before leaving.”

BULLSHIT!!!

I share with you today Robert Reich’s view … one that is wise far beyond that of many of those who currently serve in our Congress — a view that bears repeating.


A day that shall live in infamy, as should Donald J. Trump

The last time a presidential vote was certified, the losing incumbent attempted a coup against the United States. We must never forget his treachery.

By Robert Reich

05 January 2025

The man who instigated a riot at the U.S. Capitol four years ago tomorrow to stop the certification of Joe Biden as president will be certified president.

The peaceful transfer of power lies at the heart of American democracy, but Trump sought to overturn the result of the 2020 election and has not been held accountable.

We must never forget his treachery.

When Vice President Mike Pence walked into the Capitol four years ago tomorrow, on January 6, 2021, he faced a withering pressure campaign by Trump, who had already twisted the arms of governors and election officials around the country to change the result of the election in his favor…

Source: January 6th — Never Forget | Filosofa’s Word

Krippe im Kölner Dom – Senioren um die Welt

Die Krippe im Kölner Dom widmet sich dem biblischen Geschehen aus heutiger Perspektive. Neben historisch gekleideten Figuren enthält sie auch Gestalten aus der Gegenwart und zieht so Parallelen der Geschichte von der Verkündigung bis zur Flucht nach Ägypten. Am 24. Dezember wird das Vollbild mit dem Jesuskind in der Krippe gezeigt, bis zum Fest der Erscheinung des Herrn am 6. Januar kommen die Heiligen Drei Könige hinzu. Die Krippe bleibt bis zum Ende der Weihnachtszeit stehen.

Weihnachtsbäume im Kölner Dom

Source: Krippe im Kölner Dom – Senioren um die Welt

Open Thread | Abortion Update | 3CHICSPOLITICO

As I have written before, Jessica Valenti is my go-to person whenever I want to know how bad it is out there for women in America, in terms of abortion. I follow her on TikTok and on Twitter.

These Anti-Abortion Lies Defined 2024
An end-of-year reality check
Jessica Valenti
Dec 30

“Gaslighting” may feel like an overused term, but there’s no better word to describe how Republicans handled abortion rights this year. Unwilling to admit that they’re passing wildly unpopular laws, Republicans spent 2024 insisting loudly and often that the horror unfolding in front of our eyes wasn’t really happening: That their bans were perfectly safe, that our lives hadn’t been fundamentally changed for the worse, and that they would never, ever hurt women—even as they openly fought for the right to deny us life-saving care.

Even as women died.

True to form, Republicans declared that the real problem wasn’t the suffering their policies inflicted—but the people pointing it out. If they can’t hide post-Roe horrors, they figure shirking blame and sowing confusion might do the trick.

Cutting through this manipulation doesn’t have to be difficult. Because for as much time, energy and money as the GOP has put into hiding what abortion bans have done to this country, even a brief look at the past year lays the truth bare.

Republicans’ claim that they gave abortion ‘back to the states’, for example—a deception that won them the presidency—came alongside unprecedented attempts to silence voters on the issue…

Source: Open Thread | Abortion Update | 3CHICSPOLITICO