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Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again...

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They comprehend neither beauty nor sorrow; understand neither empathy nor compassion, reject complexity and nuance. To create in any medium, to test hypotheses in the lab, to report the empirical reality, to challenge one's own assumptions, to teach others...is to rebel against them.

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They comprehend neither beauty nor sorrow; understand neither empathy nor compassion, reject complexity and nuance. To create in any medium, to test hypotheses in the lab, to report the empirical reality, to challenge one's own assumptions, to teach others...is to rebel against them.

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And please, Can you tell me The difference Between epiphany And apocalypse?

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"The earth rids itself of the cold slowly and totally while you are overgrown with white petals of pain in springtime..." - Yaryna Chornohuz [from 'about the truth' trans. Ostap Kin and Kate Tsurkan] Chornohuz, Ukrainian poet & corporal in Ukraine military. www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/a...

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'Nice people' supported Mussolini, supported Hitler, supported Mosley, etc. Baked birthday cakes for their children, offered friends a loan, walked their dogs. What do you think evil looks like, if not the mirror?

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“There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as before an ancient friend.” ~ James Baldwin, No Name in the Street Saturna/Apr 2024

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Every fucking passing day underscores this.

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NASA is canceling the lease of its NYC climate center, made famous when its first-floor diner, Tom's, appeared o̶n̶ ̶"̶S̶e̶i̶n̶f̶e̶l̶d̶"̶ in a Suzanne Vega song. Staff are expected to work remotely until a new space is found. 🎁🔗 with @lorengrush.bsky.social : www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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A democracy cannot long survive when a fundamentalist religious sect controls one of the major political parties.

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Mismanagement and grief We must suffer them all again... - W.H. Auden

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Question: Any UK Bskiers have stories from grandparents or great grandparents who cut off friendships or relations with relatives due to others support of Oswald Mosley? Trying to dial down from AH comparisons. This second Magaist US admin Is bridge too far for me. Numerous I no longer talk to.

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The contingencies of history. 2016: HC loses election in part do FBI director's press conference concerning use of insecure email servers. Magaists shout lock her up. 2025: Pentagon chief leaks more than 960-year old Methuselah's cock. Magaists cheer.

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Who could've possibly foreseen that Christo-fascists, tech-bro wannabe philospher-kings, gang-tattooed white nationalists and carnival barking reality television stars are a dangerous mix?

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A tryptich. Two social posts over the 2025 Easter weekend and a quote from Pope Francis' final public homily. The outer posts are from leaders who do not worship the same deity as the late pope. I do not mean Protestant versus Catholic. The final image was posted after the Pope's death.

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Unbelievable. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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“...THE EXTREME CASE OF GERMANY IS INSTRUCTIVE OF THE GENERAL MECHANISM... “THE IMPLAUSIBILITY OF THEIR [NAZI] ACTIONS MADE IT EASY TO DISBELIEVE WHAT NOBODY, FOR THE SAKE OF PRECIOUS PEACE, WANTED TO BELIEVE, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME CAPITULATING TO IT." - THEODORE ADORNO, MINIMAL MORALIA, 1951

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Sign of the day…

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Just woke from a dream; Glengarry Glen Ross, the film version, but it was DOGE as a real estate office: Musk was Blake, Rubio was Roma, RFK Jr. was Dave Moss, Steven Miller was John Williamson, Giuliani was Aaronow, my dad (deceased) was James Lingk...

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The legend of the unicorn and the owl...

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On occasion I get this existential vertigo, a sort of reverse epiphany that hits like a simultaneous visceral punch in the gut and a boxer's upper cut to the jaw with the recognition that a felonious hospitality industry executive is overseeing the destruction of the US democracy. Pompeii, 79 CE.

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Watched at double speed a YouTube discussion with an author I consider unbearable but nevertheless wanted to hear their arguments...when it finished, watched a piano concerto with which I was unfamiliar, and was stunned at the ferocity of the piece and playing...it was only when I then began...

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While the US pluralistic democracy collapses, at least we still have the daily weather report.

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Found in the wild today in otherwise non-descript terrain on Colorado's front range: Greig's Tulip, native to Central Asia, w/brilliant red petals framed by variegated green leaves that struck me at first as weeds. Bloom where you're planted seems trite. More of a rebellion against the mundane.

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If you had told Ben Franklin it would last until a felonious hospitality industry executive regained the presidency for a revenge tour, Franklin likely would have laughed and said, right, okay kid, have another beer.

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Do you realize the degree to which white American evangelical Christians facilitated this regime's rise to power? Neither poor, nor oppressed, unlike the early followers of Jesus from Nazareth, nor even following the moral codes of their 20th century predecessors - Sabbath observance, etc....

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Yes, substance matters. But I will say this again and again: the elected opposition to this regime needs to stop dressing like this is business as usual, because it is not. A Zelensky sweater and fatigue pants would be a start. Image: Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (1724-77), J Reynolds, 1760s.

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Found in the wild today in otherwise non-descript terrain on Colorado's front range: Greig's Tulip, native to Central Asia, w/brilliant red petals framed by variegated green leaves that struck me at first as weeds. Bloom where you're planted seems trite. More of a rebellion against the mundane.

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"I say you can be trusted with the power you been given But you're making a liar out of me..." - Bob Dylan www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh5F...

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The US refused to endorse a G7 statement condemning Russia’s deadliest attack on Ukraine this year, a strike on Palm Sunday hitting residential buildings that killed at least 35 and injured 119 including children. - Bloomberg The US is endorsing both Israel's and Russia's massacres.

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NEW: The Trump administration proposes nearly $1.7 billion in cuts to NOAA that, if passed, could decimate weather and climate research, including funding to nine California institutions. The @sfchronicle.com has obtained a White House document detailing the proposed budget cuts. Read it here:

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Adorno, 1946

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This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.

submitted 13 days ago • 64 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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What do you think evil looks like, if not the mirror?

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I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

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Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again...

They comprehend neither beauty nor sorrow; understand neither empathy nor compassion, reject complexity and nuance. To create in any medium, to test hypotheses in the lab, to report the empirical reality, to challenge one's own assumptions, to teach others...is to rebel against them.

They comprehend neither beauty nor sorrow; understand neither empathy nor compassion, reject complexity and nuance. To create in any medium, to test hypotheses in the lab, to report the empirical reality, to challenge one's own assumptions, to teach others...is to rebel against them.

And please, Can you tell me The difference Between epiphany And apocalypse?

"The earth rids itself of the cold slowly and totally while you are overgrown with white petals of pain in springtime..." - Yaryna Chornohuz [from 'about the truth' trans. Ostap Kin and Kate Tsurkan] Chornohuz, Ukrainian poet & corporal in Ukraine military. www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/a...

'Nice people' supported Mussolini, supported Hitler, supported Mosley, etc. Baked birthday cakes for their children, offered friends a loan, walked their dogs. What do you think evil looks like, if not the mirror?

“There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as before an ancient friend.” ~ James Baldwin, No Name in the Street Saturna/Apr 2024

Every fucking passing day underscores this.

A democracy cannot long survive when a fundamentalist religious sect controls one of the major political parties.

Mismanagement and grief We must suffer them all again... - W.H. Auden

Question: Any UK Bskiers have stories from grandparents or great grandparents who cut off friendships or relations with relatives due to others support of Oswald Mosley? Trying to dial down from AH comparisons. This second Magaist US admin Is bridge too far for me. Numerous I no longer talk to.

The contingencies of history. 2016: HC loses election in part do FBI director's press conference concerning use of insecure email servers. Magaists shout lock her up. 2025: Pentagon chief leaks more than 960-year old Methuselah's cock. Magaists cheer.

Who could've possibly foreseen that Christo-fascists, tech-bro wannabe philospher-kings, gang-tattooed white nationalists and carnival barking reality television stars are a dangerous mix?

A tryptich. Two social posts over the 2025 Easter weekend and a quote from Pope Francis' final public homily. The outer posts are from leaders who do not worship the same deity as the late pope. I do not mean Protestant versus Catholic. The final image was posted after the Pope's death.

Unbelievable. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“...THE EXTREME CASE OF GERMANY IS INSTRUCTIVE OF THE GENERAL MECHANISM... “THE IMPLAUSIBILITY OF THEIR [NAZI] ACTIONS MADE IT EASY TO DISBELIEVE WHAT NOBODY, FOR THE SAKE OF PRECIOUS PEACE, WANTED TO BELIEVE, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME CAPITULATING TO IT." - THEODORE ADORNO, MINIMAL MORALIA, 1951

Sign of the day…

Just woke from a dream; Glengarry Glen Ross, the film version, but it was DOGE as a real estate office: Musk was Blake, Rubio was Roma, RFK Jr. was Dave Moss, Steven Miller was John Williamson, Giuliani was Aaronow, my dad (deceased) was James Lingk...

The legend of the unicorn and the owl...

On occasion I get this existential vertigo, a sort of reverse epiphany that hits like a simultaneous visceral punch in the gut and a boxer's upper cut to the jaw with the recognition that a felonious hospitality industry executive is overseeing the destruction of the US democracy. Pompeii, 79 CE.

Watched at double speed a YouTube discussion with an author I consider unbearable but nevertheless wanted to hear their arguments...when it finished, watched a piano concerto with which I was unfamiliar, and was stunned at the ferocity of the piece and playing...it was only when I then began...

While the US pluralistic democracy collapses, at least we still have the daily weather report.

Found in the wild today in otherwise non-descript terrain on Colorado's front range: Greig's Tulip, native to Central Asia, w/brilliant red petals framed by variegated green leaves that struck me at first as weeds. Bloom where you're planted seems trite. More of a rebellion against the mundane.

If you had told Ben Franklin it would last until a felonious hospitality industry executive regained the presidency for a revenge tour, Franklin likely would have laughed and said, right, okay kid, have another beer.

Do you realize the degree to which white American evangelical Christians facilitated this regime's rise to power? Neither poor, nor oppressed, unlike the early followers of Jesus from Nazareth, nor even following the moral codes of their 20th century predecessors - Sabbath observance, etc....

Yes, substance matters. But I will say this again and again: the elected opposition to this regime needs to stop dressing like this is business as usual, because it is not. A Zelensky sweater and fatigue pants would be a start. Image: Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (1724-77), J Reynolds, 1760s.

Found in the wild today in otherwise non-descript terrain on Colorado's front range: Greig's Tulip, native to Central Asia, w/brilliant red petals framed by variegated green leaves that struck me at first as weeds. Bloom where you're planted seems trite. More of a rebellion against the mundane.

"I say you can be trusted with the power you been given But you're making a liar out of me..." - Bob Dylan www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh5F...

The US refused to endorse a G7 statement condemning Russia’s deadliest attack on Ukraine this year, a strike on Palm Sunday hitting residential buildings that killed at least 35 and injured 119 including children. - Bloomberg The US is endorsing both Israel's and Russia's massacres.

NEW: The Trump administration proposes nearly $1.7 billion in cuts to NOAA that, if passed, could decimate weather and climate research, including funding to nine California institutions. The @sfchronicle.com has obtained a White House document detailing the proposed budget cuts. Read it here:

Adorno, 1946

This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

What do you think evil looks like, if not the mirror?

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

So the conspiracy theory idiots thought there was a deep state? That's what DOGE is creating.

And we could use a quantum leap about now...

So much shit has gone down since the first day...