highflight66.bsky.social
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This is not the Marines' role. Civilian protests on streets in LA ain't Iwo Jima.
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Right-wing stink tank
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Trump resents that the Federalist Society considers him just a useful idiot.
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Join, or Die (Benjamin Franklin). Grab some courage and fight like Hell (Sara Nelson). Fight the Filthy Rich.
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Workers must join in common cause to build power to fight the Corporate Billionaire Ruling Class for our fair share of the wealth that we produce and the resources we deserve, and our right to participate in self governance and thriving private lives as free people in our Constitutional republic.
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I hope you included Country Joe and the Fish, 1,2,3, What Are We Fight'n For? Give me an f ...
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The use of extraordinary powers falsely claimed by Trump under bogus declarations of national emergencies is flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional, and a classic fascist step to rule by tyranny.
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The classic objection by Fielding Melish in the film Bananas fits Trump's bogus declarations of national emergencies as pretexts to claim extraordinary powers. "It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham." www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP3u...
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Constitution, Declaration. others are in my pocket on my iphone as ebooks in Kindle app
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"General Quarters! General Quarters! All hands man your battle stations! This is not a drill." Our ship of state is under attack and in peril.
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WTF? Old Navy salts who fought off seasickness in many an ocean storm feel like puking at seeing this library purge at the Naval Academy. "Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write." John Adams, 1765. Proud motto of Proceedings, distinguished journal of US Naval Institute. Let us dare indeed.
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Don't divert your attention and resources to deceitful sideshows designed to distract and divide.
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Don't lose focus and priority. Focus on the common enemy - Big Money, Dark Money, the corporate billionaire ruling class, the oligarchs, autocracy, tyranny. Don't take the bait of psyop dirty tricks of deceit, division and distraction from the common cause.
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“Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. ” John Adams, 1765
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A wonderful image of the mission and the future. "...promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity... ."
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As a 51 yr member of the State Bar of Michigan, I join in your statement of pride. Thanks for this post, and for all of your great work.
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Workers are sick of human sacrifices on the altar of corporate billionaire enrichment.
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I'm reminded that empathy is human nature every time I see a happy child smile or laugh.
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Empathy is much more profound than enlightened self interest. It is human nature.
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This is the first sentence of Adam Smith's first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), published 17 years before his more familiar Wealth of Nations.
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"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it."
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Common enemy, common cause. Grad assistants, adjuncts, and other academic workers joining the UAW and other unions see the light and unite with each other and with all workers against the common enemy - the oligarchs.
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Yes. The traditional word for anti-constitutional is traitor.
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Thanks for showing the spirit and courage of FDR, 1933, Madison Square Garden. "Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred."
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Read the Preamble closely for its profound meaning - every word, every phrase, and in its entirety- including "promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity... ."
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Read the Preamble closely for its profound meaning - every word, every phrase, and in its entirety- including "promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity... ."
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Beginning with the three earthshaking words that proclaim the sovereignty of a unified people. "We the people" are sovereign- not a king, oligarchy, or tyrant.
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Revisit the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America. The Preamble is the foundational statement, in a single sentence, of the role and mission of our national government. Please go beyond reciting the words as a ritual.
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Trump and Musk play the Bandito v Bogie in the movie Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Bogie: "If you're the police, where are your badges?" Bandito: "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!" Bogie stood his ground. www.youtube.com/watch?
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Musk plays the Bandito v Bogie in the movie Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Bogie: "If you're the police, where are your badges?" Bandito: "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!" Bogie stood his ground. www.youtube.com/watch?
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How much inauguration fund money will this save and can Trump put it in his pocket?
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Yes. The appeasement daydream of even limited bipartisanship and compromise takes two, Charlie Brown. Forget it. Oppose and resist fearlessly with everything you got.
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The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society, Joseph E. Stiglitz. (Advocates "Progressive Capitalism.")
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"The Money Game" article by Luke Goldstein in the American Prospect Dec. 10, 2024 will serve as your compact textbook on the SuperPac and Dark Money consequences of the Citizens United case.
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Yes, old school wisdom.
"Tactics...The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals (1971)
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Start with Dean Baker and Paul Krugman. Robert Reich. AOC. Add Sara Nelson, Barb McQuade, Thom Hartmann.