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sharonecathcart

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Award-winning author of heart-warming romance and historical fiction with a twist! Liberal. Animal lover. Unabashed Disneyphile. She/Her.

#AmWriting #IndieAuthors #Bookstodon #SocialJustice #HashimotosDisease #T2D

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Quote from article: In today’s world, Sullivan said, trade policy is not just about the tariff deals that business leaders have criticized the administration for neglecting. It is about a larger economic strategy both at home and abroad to build economies that offer rising standards of living for working people.

The administration is now focusing on labor rights, climate change, and banking security in this larger picture. Through organizations like the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment the administration hopes to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars in financing in the next seven years to build infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries and to relieve debt there.

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-27-2023?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

sharonecathcart, to random
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Quote from article: In the wake of the multiple electoral failures Trump has led the GOP into, including the 2018 and 2022 midterms, as well as Trump’s own unsuccessful reelection campaign, the proposition that a majority of American voters desire a president whose goal is to destroy the nation’s democratic institutions simply does not hold water. Furthermore, as Greg Sargent has observed, there are numerous indications that the power of the GOP’s insurrectionist wing, while it remains a grave threat to the nation, is actually waning.

Yet the press seemed taken by DeSantis’s carefully staged events touting authoritarian initiatives, from which critical reporters were often excluded — and during which DeSantis’s supporters were filed in to cheer — apparently believing the hyped claims that these photo ops reflected a groundswell for his nascent candidacy.

https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronrupar/p/how-ron-densantis-presidential-campaign-failed?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

sharonecathcart, to random
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Quote from article: What does his notion of freedom mean? “To fight for our democracy…To protect our rights. To make sure that everyone in this country is treated equally—and that everyone is given a fair shot at making it.” And the opposition? “Around the country, MAGA extremists are lining up to take on those bedrock freedoms.”

The contrast in values was made visible in part on Wednesday when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans squeaked through a debt limit bill 217-215, even though Biden already insisted he would not negotiate over spending cuts to extend the debt ceiling. That didn’t stop passage of a bill that would cut energy tax credits and spending programs that seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support electric vehicles, clean electricity and fuel, while expanding mining and fossil fuel production.

https://open.substack.com/pub/america/p/joe-bidens-battle-for-freedom?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

sharonecathcart, to random
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https://getpocket.com/explore/item/disney-didn-t-invent-cinderella-her-story-is-at-least-2-000-years-old?utm_source=pocket-newtab

sharonecathcart, to random
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A friend asked this on her #author page, and I thought I’d steal the idea. Do you collect anything besides books?

For me, it’s Loungefly bags, Disney cats, Disney pins, and model horses.

How about you?

sharonecathcart, to random
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From my #blog :

https://sharonecathcart.wordpress.com/2023/04/27/blogging-from-a-to-z-whale-of-a-tale/

sharonecathcart, to random
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Quote from article: Republicans started using the so-called “debt ceiling” — based on a law passed back in 1917 — as a cudgel to beat up Democratic presidents in 1995 during the Clinton administration. It was one of Newt’s “bright ideas.”

Clinton and Obama went along with the GOP, but now their demands have become so extreme that President Biden is threatening a veto (if the bill even gets through the Senate, which it probably won’t).

My thoughts: I was still a Federal employee during the 1995 government shutdown that resulted from this brinksmanship. I was "mission-critical," so I had to show up every day. The people who paid me? They were furloughed. I was at work not knowing whether I'd ever see my paycheck for those days. This political posturing has real-world consequences that the uber-rich GOTeabircher reps couldn't care less about.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/kevin-mccarthy-wants-a-debt-ceiling?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

sharonecathcart, to random
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- Music

Diana Corbett’s childhood was plagued by unceasing dreams of smoke and flames. The nightmares went away, until the noted travel writer’s first night on assignment in Louisiana … when they returned with a vengeance. Could the handsome Cajun, Amos Boudreaux, be the key to unlocking the secret of Bayou Fire?

Bayou Fire has received the InD'Tale Magazine Crowned Heart, the AuthorsDB Silver Medal for Cover Design, the Chill With a Book Readers' Award, and was long-listed for the 2022 Historical Fiction Company Book of the Year.

https://books2read.com/b/br1kRA

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It’s amusing how some politician with micro endowment decided that his big flex was going to be to go against the largest entertainment conglomerate on the planet … well know for its ferociously vicious legal division.

Welcome to a new chapter of the Chronicles of the FAAFO Club.

sharonecathcart,
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@GayDeceiver

Yeah, the Mouse's lawyers don't play.

In the dark recesses of time, I was deputy public affairs officer for a military medical center. One of the nurses was an artist, and he painted some Disney characters on the wall in the Pediatric unit.

This was long before social media, and to this day I don't know how Disney found out -- but the hospital received a C&D and we had to paint over the mural or face legal action.

StardustRohrig, to bookstodon

I finished another book for the #DisabilityReadathon

"Otherbound" by Corinne Duyvis - I'll write a review at some point. Fits the prompt to read something from my library - I used the Libby Library app.

I need some ideas for the last book which is for the prompt to read a translation. So something that wasn't originally in English.

Anyone have any suggestions?

#Bookstodon #Disability
@bookstodon

sharonecathcart,
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@StardustRohrig @bookstodon

I'm not being flippant, I promise: Victor Hugo's "Hunchback of Notre Dame." It's about disability, and prejudice ... and it's an incredibly rich and satisfying read.

jamesckei, to random

Diana is always the Queen in my heart. The mistress is just like Wallis Simpson! Goodbye England’s Rose, you are being replaced by Britain’s Gross.

sharonecathcart,
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@jamesckei

I used to be an avid Royal watcher, staying up late for weddings, etc. The whole shebang.

I honestly find Charles and Camilla so imminently unlikable together that I can't muster up any enthusiasm for the coronation.

I admit that, in no small part, it's because of how Diana was treated. I'm greatly disturbed that Camilla is going to be queen. 😞

MicheleV_AK, to random
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😂 😜

sharonecathcart,
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@MicheleV_AK BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

sharonecathcart, (edited ) to random
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#Today I do not really want the lunch I brought from home. But I don't like what the cafeteria has on offer and don't feel like ordering out -- which can be complicated. This is life with #T2D ; sometimes you just have to eat what you brought and be done with it.

charlotteclymer, to random
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I’m no legal expert, but I imagine that going up against Disney’s legal team is probably like trying to compete against LeBron in a dunk contest.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/26/desantis-disney-lawsuit/

sharonecathcart,
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@charlotteclymer

Yeah, the Mouse's lawyers don't play.

sharonecathcart, to random
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Quote from article: If it seems to you like women in Red states are the subjects of witch hunts, you’re right. And it has nothing to do with “life”: it’s all about economic and political power.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/men-are-no-longer-burning-women-at?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

sharonecathcart, to random
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I'm an unabashed fan of POTO and Ramin Karimloo. What a fun article!

https://www.playbill.com/article/which-phantom-record-did-ramin-karimloo-set-out-to-break?fbclid=IwAR3nZdLrNvvNsLEKxcTAKDfN3jDkiQR_lXBk0afyjUYjjcL7yu3rExijGmM

tannat, to books

It seems like the new default price for newly released #ebooks is $16.99 (CAD), although sometimes it's higher, of course. Just a year ago it was usually more like $14.99, which I already found expensive, and I remember noping out on $17.99 offerings.

Publishers do know this just pushes more people to libraries, right? I guess this is why they try so hard to limit library lending.

Grr.
#books @bookstodon

sharonecathcart,
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@tannat @bookstodon

Indie authors tend to price lower ... but we also lack the promotion juggernaut that mainstream publishers have at their disposal.

I use the library quite often for just the reason you describe. Not being made of money, I borrow many new releases.

sharonecathcart,
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@tannat @bookstodon

I can't make a good argument; my own Mount Toberead threatens to topple, and yet I continue to obtain more reading material. ;-)

sharonecathcart,
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@Kinniska @tannat @bookstodon

That would also work. 😄

sharonecathcart,
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@tannat @knottedthreads @FlorriePuddlefoot @kimlockhartga @Kinniska @bookstodon

I honestly can't remember when I've had so much fun on a thread. And all because someone misread my post! Yay!

ButterflyLaChoi, to random
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Ron DeSantis’s Disney Oversight Board Set to Declare Company’s Contracts Null https://www.wsj.com/articles/ron-desantiss-disney-oversight-board-to-consider-nullifying-agreements-7909173f

sharonecathcart,
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@ButterflyLaChoi

Good luck with that. Reedy Creek did everything in strict accordance with Florida law. This is going to be an uphill battle for Gov. DeathSentence and his cronies ... and they are unlikely (at best) to emerge victorious.

QasimRashid, to random
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A quick history lesson. From 1940-1980:
•Wealthiest paid 70-94% marginal tax
•0 of them went broke from taxation
•0 of them left USA
•All remained exceedingly wealthy
•Manufacturing boomed
•The middle class was 62% of US economy (It's now 40% post 'trickle down scamenomics)
•We had the strongest middle class growth in US History

Let's do that again. Stop protecting billionaires. Start taxing them.

sharonecathcart,
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@QasimRashid

In Peter Guralnick's extensive biography of Elvis Presley, he recounted the story of a reporter who asked Elvis how he felt about having to pay 90% taxes on his income above whatever the threshold was at the time.

Elvis said, "I just write the check and send it off. Those taxes help people in need."

Too bad more people don't understand the concept of noblesse oblige the same way a rock star who grew up poor in Tupelo did.

parkermolloy, to random

I just wish things were better. And I wish that "the left" gave enough of a crap to try to help trans people. But as The American Prospects's pro-Tucker Carlson piece demonstrates, there are a whole lot of "leftists" and "progressives" who don't give a single shit about trans people's rights.

sharonecathcart,
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@parkermolloy

It pisses me off (and I'm a middle-aged cishet woman).

People tend to disregard things that are, for them personally, "minor inconveniences."

For example: "Well, it doesn't affect me that these right-wingers are trying to prevent trans kids from socially transitioning. Why don't we just let them wait until they're adults."

Then, they're conditioned to accept the bigger inconveniences ... which eventually lead to atrocities.

Then, they're shocked -- shocked, do you hear me -- when it's suddenly their rights in the crosshairs.

It's why I never give up fighting for the rights of people who aren't me. And I don't think I'm special for it; I just think I'm doing what any decent person should do. 😕

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Quote from article: I’m proposing Congress change the rules of how the Court operates around decisions in which they invoke the Constitution to change or strike down laws. Instead of operating along partisan majority lines, I’m suggesting they must have an absolute consensus — a unanimous decision — on any decisions involving the US Constitution.

The Supreme Courts of Belgium, France, and Italy work this way by law and those of Germany and Spain do so by tradition. It has served those nations well, stripping politics and partisanship out of their judicial systems.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/how-to-de-throne-the-self-appointed?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

sharonecathcart,
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@JKLund

Only nominally. IANAL ... but what that really was, was the SCOTUS making it legal to bribe politicians by framing money as speech. It's the same bullshit that led to corporate personhood.

sharonecathcart,
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@JKLund

First, it wasn't my suggestion. If you go back, you'll see that I quoted the article to which I linked.

Second, you'll see that the author was very specific that this had to do with changing laws or striking them down.

The idea would be that striking down a law should require unanimous support if the reasoning is based on the Constitution.

Thank you for the opportunity to clarify.

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