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"There will always be one more thing." — Toni Morrison
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When is a day not a “calendar day”? A shame there aren’t enough spines to go around.

About 183 million people pay Social Security taxes on their earnings. Their right to collect what they’re entitled to is dependent on the system recording those payments and calculating their benefits accurately. Any incursion by DOGE puts all that at risk. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Well played, Madam Secretary.

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin

What shall we make of this MLK day?

Although it may be wise for Democrats to defy pro-immigrant demands like abolishing ICE or decriminalizing illegal border crossings, that’s very different, from completely capitulating to Republican demagogy with little evident concern for the long-term consequences. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guaranty of their loyalty.” - Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

James Baldwin: “This is not the land of the free, is only very unwillingly and sporadically the home of the brave, and all that can be said for the bulk of our politicians is that, if they are no worse than they were, they are certainly no better.” #MLK www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...