Beth Sutton-Ramspeck

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Retired English Prof. (Victorian lit) 💙📚 Pissed off Feminist; 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally Chair, Black Mountain, NC, Democratic Party precincts cluster Author of Harry Potter and Resistance (https://routledge.pub/Harry-Potter-and-Resistance) fan of black bears #resistance2.0

In a cardboard box, packed in white paper, are copies of the book Dancing in their Dead Mother's Dresses: Stories, by Doug Ramspeck. The book cover is white, and the title's font resembles a cut-out from the white, with images visible behind, but mostly obscured. The image is two girls, one blond, on the left, the other brunette, holding hands and apparently twirling around one another.
On a gray background, the book We the People: a History of the U.S. Constitution by Jill Lepore. The main title is in red print; the author's name is in blue. The subtitle, in smaller typeface, is at the top. Very small, on the left, are the words New York Times best-selling author of These Truths. to the right of those words, to the left of the author's name, is a picutre of a woman in classical looking (or perhaps Revolutionary War era) garb. Her skirt is red and white vertical stripes. She wears a blue cape with white stars over a sort of peasant-style blouse. Her loose brown hair is visible over her left shoulder. In her raised right hand, she is holding the scales of justice, on the horizontal top holding the pans are the words "Constitutional Amendment." Her left had rests on the "J" in "Jill. Horizontally across most of the page, across the top of the word Jill and behind the pans of the scales of justice, is a silver sword with a gold hilt. On the blade are the words "DIVIDED GOVERNMENT."
Thread from Simonlistermusic: The UK is a kingdom because it is ruled by a king. Luxembourg is a Duchy because it is ruled by a Duke Monaco is a principality because it is ruled by a prince America is a country
A pair of protesters dressed in inflatable bald eagle costumes--brown bodies, yellow feet, black talons, white heads, yellow beaks. The one on the right carries a sign on brown cardboard that reads, in white print, "If Kamala was president, we'd be a BRUNCH"
Black cat looks into the camera Caption in red: Reggie says, “ it’s Friday the 13th. Wanna make something of it?”
Black cat on the left side of the page stares at the camera. All we see his head. It is resting on a book – the Good Lord Bird, by James McBride. The book cover is light beige with a red border around the title, and the book itself visible beneath the dust jacket. is red.
Meme by Sima Keema Kazi: Black type on a white background, "'The officer feared for his life.' Is so funny to me, because as a woman, if I shot a man in the face eery time I've felt afraid, the streets would be lined with bodies."
The famous portait of a seated Jane Austen in a blue, highwaisted dress and lace cap. She holds what appears to be a folder containing writing paper; at her elbow are an inkpot and quill.
Headline: "Trump administration appeals order to pay full November SNAP food benefits" Beneath the headline is the byline, Aysha Bagshi, USA Today. Updated Nov. 7, 2025, 10:56 a.m. ET
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Group picture, left to right, Angela Levine, Beth Franklin, Senator Mark Kelly, and Beth Sutton-Ramspeck. The two Beths are wearing shirts that say "Black Mountain Dems." The Senator is wearing a Navy baseball cap. Photo taken inside Lookout Brewing Company, Black Mountain, NC.
Political cartoon. On the right is a drawing of the head and torso of a substantial looking man, wearing a ball cap and a shortsleeved button-down shirt. His substantial arms are crossed at his chest. He has a pleasant, friendly face and a friendly closed-mouth smile. Beneath him are wavy vertical lines and what look like three flies buzzing around (suggesting manure is below that). The caption on the left reads, "I'm Jamie Ager. I'm a farmer. Cattle, pigs, chickens. I'm around this stuf pretty much all day. I deal with it here, and I'll deal with it in Washington." At the lower right is the signature: Cohen 2025
American black bear, walking left to right, on gravel driveway, with low limestone wall in the background. The bear's head is faced somewhat towards the camera.
Little brown bear cub with one front paw in a small tub of water and the other paw playing in the water. Cub and tub are next to a small stone wall, with stone steps behind.
Rainbow rising from the ground through fog that had taken a yellowish tinge, probably because of the refraction. In the background are the Blue Ridge mountains (not looking terribly blue); in the foreground the tree-covered lower slopes of a closer mountain. Framing the image on the left is the trunk of an oak tree. Its leafy branches overhang the top of the image.
Large black bear paws at a stone at the top of a small stone wall. Beneath its right front leg--the same one pawing at the rock--is a "Proven Winners" nursery pot for a plant.
Large American black bear drinking from a metal bucket at the base of stone steps that lead down to a a gravel driveway
American black bear cub walking, left to right on gravel, with foliage behind it
New York Times headline: one thing helping Trump’s approval rating: some people are not paying attention. Voters were more likely to approve of President Trump’s job performance if they had not been following some of the major news stories of his first 100 days in office, a recent New York Times/Siena College poll found. By Ruth Igielnik May 18, 2025 President Trump’s strategy to “flood the zone” may be working to keep his approval rating from sinking even lower. Voters who have not heard much about some of the many major news events from the first 100 days of Mr. Trump’s second term have a higher opinion of the job he is doing, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll. A little under half of the 42 percent of voters who approved of the job Mr. Trump is doing as president said they had not heard much about at least some of the ups and downs of his administration’s decisions.
American black bears viewed from above. On the left a cub, standing on hind legs just inside a wooden raised garden bed, playfully pawing mamma, on right, whose mouth is open, also playfully pawing mamma.
American black bears playing. Mama is lying on her back, while her little brown cub, standing on hind legs, cavorts near her large teeth.
American black bears: Mama on left and small brown-furred cub on right
Rear view of American black bear and her little brown cub, standing next to a stone wall.
Baby American black bear, with brownish fur, walking left to right across gravel driveway. A stone wall is in the background.
White-haired lady in black jacket with fake fur trim, sitting in a wheel chair. Her left hand is raised in a conversational gesture and her right hand holds a handmade sign that say, "First protest at age 93 [the number is extra large and enclosed in a big circle, highlighted in yellow]. This shit is too serious to sit at home and ignore! I march for [in smaller letters] * my lte veteran husband * my 4 grandchildren * my 4 great grandchildren
Slogan on protest sign: “I didn’t think i’d have to spend my 70s fighting fascism.
meme: “no government – regardless of which party is in power – should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.“ Attributed to Harvard President, Alan Garber
Closeup of a black cat, lying on his back on a gray herringbone upholstered couch. One paw is covering his eyes.
Young Blackbeard (yearling?) stands on a flagstone porch area, facing right.
New York Times headline: Rubio says US to decide in days if end to Ukraine war is “doable“ “If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” the American Secretary of State said as he departed meetings in Paris
Image of Oval Office meeting of Trump, Vance, and Zelenskyy, but wit a penguin in Zelenskyy’s chair.
Post (on X?) by Philip Lewis @Phil_Lewis_ NEW: The University of Michigan will end its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives campus wide, the president said in an email Response by Michelle_BYoung @michelle_byoung Black Athletes should refuse to play for ANY school who does this and watch how quickly it gets resolved
hand-written text in brown ink on yellowed paper: "I'm convinced that if the world survives these dangerous times it will be tens of millions of small things that do it. Keep on! Old Pete After the signatre is a drawingof a banjo. Beneath that is the name Pete Seeger
Cover of the Oxford World's Classics edition of The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope. It's a picture of a whole bunch of old-fashioned timepieces.
Political cartoon by Ed Stein, Rocky Mtn. News (signature at upper left). In black and white. Official-looking structure (somewhat resembling Lincoln Memorial)with the name "Democracy" on its front, formerly held up by five columns, except two of the columns have fallen, the one to the far left and the one in the center. The one just right of center is tipping. The center column, which is resting on the steps leading up to the structure, is labeled "Newspapers" and looks like a rolled up newspaper, as do the other that have fallen or are tipping. The cartoon is labeled at the bottom, "Infrastructure."
Mural in shades of gray and black on the side of a brick building. On the left is the name "Roberta," letters running verically. Parallel to that, starting halfway up the building, is a metal stovepipe. Most of the image is of a young Roberta Flack, with a large afro hairdo. The image starts at just below her shoulders and cuts off the top of the afro. Two windows from the building are visible on either side of her face, within the afro. Her hands are clasped in front of her. On the right side is a logo for Black Mountain Brewing, owner of the building featuring the mural. It says "Black Mountain Brewing, Fine Craft Beer. Beneath that, in smaller script, are the words Roberta Flack, Black Mountain, Born 1937. In front of the mural can be glimpsed a parking lot, with a bike rack at lower right and a leafy tree, sidewalk and a bit of street to the right of the buliding. The sky is blue above the building. The edge of a wooden balcony is barely visible on the left
Inside a cardboard box are seen four copies (with, more beneath) of a book with the title Smoke Memories. Beneath the title is the author's name, Doug Ramspeck; at the bottom of the cover are the words "Winner Lena Shull Poetry Prize." The cover photo is silhouetted deciduous trees with a smoky backdrop of sky.
Pileated woodpecker on right side of a tree.
Orange streak along the horizon behind the blue ridge mountains. Gray clouds above. Silhouettes of trees in the foreground.
Political cartoon, showing three figures, as gardeners, in green grass. All wear orange aprons, the kind that cover one's entire front. The apron on figure on the left says, "Stein's $1.1B Helene Aid Request. He's holding a green wheelbarrow, completely empty, with a shovel in it. To his left is a small wooden sign pointing off screen to the further left. The sign say, "Western N.C." Running the opposite direction to where the sign is pointing, their route indicated by dotted lines detouring around the Josh Stein figure, are: 1) a figure whose orange apron is labeled "Hall." In his green wheelbarrow contains to light brown money bags, one labeled "$ private school" and the other labeled "$vouchers"; 2) a figure whose orange apron is labeled "Berger." He tosses over his shoulder a bag labeled $500M Helene Aid. In his wheelbarrow are bags labeled "$private school" and "$vouchers." A speech bubble coming from the Berger figure says "Make way! Make way!" At the lower left is a signature, in rather hard-to-read writing, something like "Draughon," and the words "Capitol Broadcasting."
Book cover for Smoke Memories by Doug Ramspeck, Winner Lena Shull Poetry Prize. Cover image is dark silhouettes of trees in the foreground, surrounded by smokelike haze. the color palette changes from grays at the bottom of the image to pink, to peach, to light yellow towards the top.
At the upper left is a blue logo that says "More Perfect Union." The post is also by More Perfect Union, @MorePerfectUS. The post itself reads: BREAKING: Republican Congressman Andy Biggs has introduced a bill to abolish OSHA. The entire text of the bill reads "The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is repeals. The Occupational Safety and Heath Administration is abolished." Biggs: why abolish OSHA? 10:07 AM . O# Feb 23 . 25.1M views 6,279 Reposts 7,775 Quotes 29.1K Likes 5,354 Bookmarks.
Picture of comedian John Oliver, dressed in a grey suit and dark striped tie, hold up his right hand with pointer finger pointed upwards. Beneath are the words, "The founding fathers created a system of checks and balances to limit the power of the President, but it only works if someone fucking checks or balances. And if you don't, it's no longer on Trump, it's on you. Because when you've got the presidential equivalent of a five-year-old shitting on the salad bar of a Ruby Tuesday's, at some point, you stop blaming the five-year-old, and you start blaming the people who are not stopping him. Stop that boy, that's what I'm saying. Stop that boy, now." John Oliver
Senate Finance Committee: 202-224-4515 Re: Elon Musk’s takeover of the Treasury Department
Screenshot of a Tweet by Governor Tim Walz. On the top left is his smiling profile picture, then his Name, Tim Walz, and a blue check mark. Beneath that is his Twitter handle, @Tim_Walz. The post itself, surrounded by a lot of white space, is simply, as Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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Posting (tweet?) from the Senate Budget Committee, @SenateBudget, next to a round logo containing the words "U.S. Senate Budget Committee." The announcement reads, "Budget Committee Democrats are boycotting today's committee vote on Russell Vought's nomination to OMB. We will not vote for someone so clearly unfit for office. This announcement is black letters on a white background. It is placed on a field of green shading into blue, at the bottom of which, in white letters, is the logo and name for INDIVISIBLE (in all caps, white lettering).
Intense sunrise colors: vivid yellow and orange at the horizon, with grayish purple higher up. The sun is rising over the Western North Carolina mountains, still very much in shadow and discernable only as dark silhouettes. In the foreground are the bare trunks and branches of trees. Closer than that, at extreme lower left, are deck railings.
Sunrise over the mountains. Streaks of yellow, pink, orange and blue in the sky over the Blue Ridge Mountains, which do look dark blue in the lingering darkness. In the foreground are bare branches of trees.
Image of a Twitter thread. First Tweet, from M@sadly a wizardfan: "I'm Mexican and voted for trump. Nobody told me this dude hated Mexicans. All he's talking about is deporting Mexicans bruh wtf" Reply from Protagonist @DPHANTYY: "Surely you're joking" Reply by M: No I don't keep up with politics much so I wasn't aware of a mass Mexican deportation"