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Retired school librarian, gardener, bicycling advocate. Special focus on Myanmar/Burma. Our bike trips in SE Asia can be found on CycleBlaze, here's one: https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/unchained/
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I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell." [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]

oh my god take my money

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

This is one of the most touching kindest messages I’ve ever heard at a time where Americans are really hurting. The person in this video is on Bluesky @whumpitup.bsky.social and give him a follow. Thank you so much for your beautiful message. If you haven’t seen this video it’s a must watch 👇👇👇👇👇

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

Yup. It’s absurd to think lots of foreign firms are going to sink millions into building manufacturing plants in the U.S., which will take years, just to avoid tariffs that will be gone as soon as someone sane is in the White House.

CPI is a superb organization with a long history of working with local partners in Burma. They are a superb choice for channeling donations to where they will be most effective. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar #earthquake

From Miemie Winn Byrd... "Min Aung Hlaing is not a head of state. He is a mass murderer." #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

Just a reminder:

Yes exactly.

These are the tariffs of the Republican Party-not just Trump. Congress voted to give Trump the authority to do this, & can vote to repeal them at any time. But they won’t, even though many know this will be a disaster, because they are afraid of Trump. So now they own this mess.

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

“The situation in Myanmar is so dire, and both the willingness and capacity of the junta to assist so lacking, that action from the international…” Read Sean Turnell in The Interpreter. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/might-myanmar-s-earthquake-be-catalyst-political-change

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I don’t believe in omens. But I do believe that if people there do, it can become so. Especially if those people are in the military. #Burma #Myanmar #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar #earthquake

Was speaking with a USAID person yesterday explaining how at any other time countless phone lines wld be buzzing, working groups stood up, go-teams and aid being dispatched to after the Myanmar quake. Now ... nothing.

www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/deli... #myanmarearthquake #burma

Excellent explanation of today's large earthquake in Burma/Myanmar. As emphasized here it is extremely concerning we haven't gotten much information out of the area immediately around where the mainshock occurred.

Initial reports are devastating. Junta assistance will be non-existent. Time for the opposition to step in. Photo: Mai Nu Monastery in Inwa #Burma #Myanmar #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar #earthquake

This is painful, and saddening, and embarrassing. I feel like we're losing a member of the family - and for no good reason other than that some Americans wanted another season of the worst reality TV show in history.

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

We are this way because our institutions worked. We assumed that professionals would take care of things. We don’t have terrible diseases because scientists could do their work. People forgot. Sad they have to learn the hard way.

Mahmoud Khalil being arrested by men in teeshirts as his pregnant wife watches helplessly

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

Could someone make us a tariff emoji?

It’s been a long day, but in short, bullies ain’t shit! I don’t care what title you hold! This isn’t some long gone reality tv show or failed casino; it is war! How dare a draft dodging dumb dupe humiliate an ally & berate a brave man who has actually been on a battlefield for his people?!

And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.