Here’s what we talked about today:

Outdoor projects we are enjoying in this good weather.
Efforts to improve the Tillcodems Facebook presence and to involve more people in managing it.
Welcome news that CNN’s leadership is changing.
Republicans hiring a social media manager in Tillamook?
News that 7.1% of the general population identifies as LGBTQ+, and that LGBTQ+ married couples vote at higher rates after marriage, but straight couples vote at lower rates after marriage.
The disturbing trend toward obstruction as the predominant mode of conducting politics now.
The vehemence of anti-trans feeling among many of our conservative friends, and evidence that these feelings are being driven primarily by the return of QAnon believers to Twitter, spreading hateful lies there that they call “red pills for normies.”
The dismay that several of us feel over Jeff Merkeley’s and Suzanne Bonamici both deciding to vote against the compromise that lifted the debt ceiling and preventing global financial collapse. Disturbing trend toward “performative politics.”
A suggestion that Biden focus more in his second term on fiscal responsibility, connected with the pride we feel in remembering Clinton’s success in balancing the budget and the general history of Democrats in being much more the party of fiscal responsibility than Republicans have been.