Welcome back to hashtag sisters-in-law with Barb McQuaid, Joyce fans, and me, Jill Wine Banks.

Kim will be back next week, and of course we miss her right now, but we're looking forward to her return.

The new resistance minotote is ready for pre-order, and I should say that resistence, because it is the sisters resisting.

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They have been on back order, but they're ready for you now.

Let's get on with the show, because today we have a lot of good topics and one that's sort of positive.

The first, not so much, was an argument at the Supreme Court about the establishment clause

and whether St.

Isidore Catholic Charter School could be a public school in Oklahoma.

We're going to talk about a lot that's rotten at the Department of Justice, and also

ending on a more positive note, a Texas federal judge appointed by Trump, who ruled against Trump's

use of the Alien Enemies Act. Before we get on to those topics, though, I wanted to ask you

all about how you have celebrated special occasions, whether it's anniversaries or birthdays,

and whether your parents, when your children, did special things to make

those occasions really stand out.

You know, I've been working on a children's book, and so it caused me to be thinking about my

childhood, and my parents did so much on birthdays.

They would decorate our apartment with crepe paper they, crepe paper. Does that's even

something that still exists? Is there crepe paper anymore? I don't know if it still exists. My mom used to do

that too, though. She would twist it and pin it up to the ceiling with, I guess, scotch tape and

put garlands of that and then put blown up balloons that she would somehow get

staticky so they would float and stick to the ceiling. And then I once had a birthday cake that

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