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charles-f2021.bsky.social
Novelist, editor, freelance writer, retired Sr. Talent Acquisition / Employee Relations Mgr., married grandfather, pet owner, spiritually centered, proudly gay and unapologetically progressive. (N.B. Cash farming trolls will be blocked.)
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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! Here’s a little food for thought and thought for food… Did you realize that most GLTBQ+ folk have to deal with this potential reality every time they are out in public?

On Election Day in the U.S., our economy was the envy of the world. Ten weeks after assuming office post-election, The Economist magazine is calling our economy Ruination Day. Great! 🙄

“The power of the people is greater than the people in power!” —U.S. Rep. John Lewis (RIP) Senator Cory Booker, thank you for standing in the well of the U.S. Senate for over 25 hours to fight for We the People! 🔥 🔥 🔥

The barbarians are no longer at the gate; they are sitting in the seats of power. We cannot become a nation content to watch our neighbors “disappeared”without due process. Freedom was never free, and it will not be reaffirmed without a demand from We the People!

@gustavmeyrink.bsky.social Thank you for taking the time to provide me with four articles that offer a more complex, nuanced picture of some of Chomsky’s contradictory views on democracy. 😵‍💫

Opposition to oppression and cultural erasure is both an individual and group activity.

From the march across the Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama to the floor of the U.S. Congress…

GOOD TROUBLE I support Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), who earlier this week repeatedly shouted to POTUS, “You have no mandate to cut Medicaid!” The 10 Democrats who joined Republicans in recommending Green’s censure for this breach in decorum need to get a clue: unwarranted cuts will hurt everyone.