Notices by Molly Cantrell-Kraig (mckra1g@mastodon.social), page 5

Thank you for this day. 🌇

“Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your first choice is to recognize an intersection. Your second choice is to be grateful for it.” — Ryan Lilly


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Witnessing the joy of the #HarrisWalz ticket invigorating the electorate reminds me of Monsters Inc. — the realization that laughter generated more power than fear.

#KamalaHarris #TimWalz #democracy

Pay attention to the people you allow into your orbit. Your friends, colleagues and everyone in your extended environment have an effect and impact on your mindset and development as a person.

Do a quick audit: …do the people you spend time with encourage you? …love you for who you are? …see your highest vision for yourself? …are they positive and optimistic? …Or do they tear you down? …make fun of you?

Choose wisely, because your friends are fuel.

#quote #happiness #MentalHealth #life

Here’s me shucking corn in the early 1970s. My grandma made sure that if you ate meals in our household, you contributed to the process. As a result, I’m a fairly skilled amateur prep cook.

I can still remember the squeak of the coarse, grippy leaves as they were pulled from the ear.

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#tbt #ThrowbackThursday

Thank you for this day. 🏛️

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety…This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson


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@WarnerCrocker

More bread!
More circuses!

Sleight of hand + kabuki theatre = driving clicks

It’s appalling, depressing and borders on criminal.

Updating you from the blood-soaked hellscape of Chicago.

@bruce @thomasfuchs @Shivviness @FantasticalEconomics

As a writer I’d like to point something out to those taking umbrage at the use of “weird.” You’re missing the point. You must be secure enough in your weirdness to understand that it has a disconcerting effect on those who are NOT okay w their weirdness. This effect weakens those who would dismantle democracies acx the globe. It’s not abt you. Words have power. Leveraging this power is a tool. #NotAllWeirdos

Updating you from the blood-soaked hellscape of Chicago.

Days like today are why Chicagoans endure February.

#summer #Chicago #architecture

Thank you for this day. 🌇

I really do love biking the lakefront.


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@Affekt @inthehands

I don’t understand why more people haven’t figured this out. The GOP’s standard operating procedure for the past 15-ish years is obstruction and steamrolling/bullying. I am 100% convinced that they’re giddy about the kerfluffle surrounding Biden, but yes: their plan is to take the election results to SCOTUS regardless. They think “the fix is in.”

@CultureDesk

If anyone ever finds themselves at the end of Navy Pier, they can talk to Bob while sitting on this bronze sofa.

#BobNewhart #RIP #tv

Kim Sherrell: “What’s the word for a guy who fears Trump is America’s Hitler but then a few short months later is working for America's Hitler?”

Steve Marmel: “Shillbilly.”

Holy shit; it’s perfect.

#ShillBilly #ShillbillyElegy #JDVance

“We gotta stop telling ‘both sides’ to tone down the political rhetoric.

Trump wasn’t attacked by a transgender member of MS-13 who snuck in w/the Mexican caravan to be radicalized by Black Lives Matter while majoring in CRT at Antifa University.

It was just another random, Dollar Store white boy with an unregistered, easily purchased semi-automatic light rifle BECAUSE IT ALWAYS IS.” — Michael Harriot

Thank you for this day. 🌇

“I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” — Hunter S. Thompson


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@shoq

TOTES JELLY.

@shoq I got to meet her at the Chicago Humanities Festival. She’s electric! Whip smart, kind, funny and indefatigable. She went over her allotted time to sign each and every one of the books/snap a picture with all of the people who had waited to see her.

@shoq

OMG 100% THIS.

Purity culture weakens from within. Everything is math. Everything. Building movements and societies is incumbent upon ratios of engagement, dispersion and representation. Purists nibble at the foundations of a structure and then wonder why it collapses. They’re the termites of democracy.

@ryanhoulihan it’s 100% sneetches on beaches.

@WarnerCrocker gma’s have the skillz, amirite? 😉