She always tried her best... but...

I  have thought long and hard about this post, but I really feel I need to make it, directing it to the Trump voters I am connected with in this Facebook forum. The resident of the White House and his enablers have realized that courts require evidence to enable cases to go forward. They have failed repeatedly before judges, losing 33 suits so far, and winning only one small verdict that changes no vote counts. Ethical law firms and     lawyers have abandoned their cases. The occupant of the White House has decided he can no longer overturn the election by bringing ridiculous lawsuits. He and his Republican representatives continue to participate in the judicial system theatre of the absurd only to create havoc and instability.   Since his judicial scam has not worked, now the occupant of the White House is    trying to subvert the electoral process itself- attempting to take Michigan's electoral votes, Pennysylvania's electoral votes, electoral votes from ...

My mother was the next to youngest child of Polish immigrants. In 1924 when she was 4, her young father died, leaving her mother to support the family, children ranging in age from 14 to 1.5.  Speaking only Polish, my grandmother was functionally illiterate in English and she had no skills, other than cleaning, cooking, and growing a garden and chickens.  When the children were young and ate less, she was more or less able to keep her family fed with her industry, but as they grew, it became more and more difficult, especially in the winter when the garden produce was not available. Finally my grandmother was able to obtain a job in the kitchen of the YMCA a few blocks from her home. At that time, with far fewer restaurants, many single men ate their meals at the Y, and some even lived there. Meal prices were cheap; portions were large. So as my grandmother scraped leftovers from their plates when they came back to the kitchen to be washed, she saved pieces of meat; she saved ...

Facebook, for better or for worse, is the primary source of news for many people.    Years ago, after the 2016 election, I vowed to be someone who would fact check all the lies posted by the White House and report the accurate information, so my FB connections who didn’t have time to do it themselves knew the truth. As I explained in early 2019, I had to somewhat restrict my efforts because I watched in horror as the firehose of lies and malfeasance from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue become ever more pervasive, and I became overwhelmed. But I have continued to do what I could since that time, and I’ve maintained my stance of searching for and posting pertinent factual information. People need to know the truth, even if it's difficult to hear.    For the record, I have had scores of people contact me, some in person, some behind the scenes in Facebook, and some in public, to thank me for my work.    They know if I post something, it has been fact checked and it i...