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Last night, I started thinking about themes in the films I was watching and from some books that have been influential for me such as Bladerunner, Constantine, Dune, Stranger in a Strange Land, and Star Wars. The quotes I posted are from these works of fiction.

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“We fight for justice because justice is the fundamental bedrock of civilization: An unjust civilization is built upon sand. It does not long survive a storm.”

“Life is not without pain, but life concerns itself with how we handle that pain, or joy, or confusion, or triumph. Life is more than time passing before death; it is the sum and total of all we make of it.”

“Reality doesn’t care if you believe it.”

“Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.”

"Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.”

“Secrecy begets tyranny.”

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way.Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster.They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”

“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.”

"The things I do for love."

"Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."

"The influence peddlers. They can only whisper in our ears. But a single word can give you courage, or turn your favorite pleasure into your worst nightmare. Those with the demon's touch like those part angel, living alongside us. They call it the balance. I call it hypocritical bullshit."

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off (the) shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

"Supporting regenerative agriculture was also a key promise embedded in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” campaign". So many people in this country consistently duped by ignoring the difference between what snake oil salesmen say and what they (invariably) do. Gotta wonder why.

I’m going back to bed, but first… 👇🏼

lol nope…

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Is Vladimir Putin calling the shots?

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

If you have a Republican elected, it would be terrible, just terrible, if you turned up the heat by calling them every day. www.5calls.org

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

It would be far less time-consuming to just document when he tells the truth. shorturl.at/tohgb

"My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations."

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

A lot of locals were very surprised to get the notice from the senior center that they just lost a huge chunk of their meals on wheels funding. As this shit starts hitting people closer to home it’s going to be pretty radicalizing! I had a lot of raging grannies (complimentary) blowing up my phone.

Good! 👇

He didn't say that. And if he did, he didn’t mean it. And if he did mean it, you didn’t understand. And if you did, it’s not a big deal. And if it is, others have said worse.

Fire Elon Musk. #fireelonmusk

Now we come to the part of the day where I yell at Congressional Dems, because they’re still treating a Constitutional and national security crisis as a messaging opportunity, rather than an emergency that needs to be addressed. (stretches) (hydrates) All right, let’s go yell at folks.

Musk wants to inspect our IRS data to catch everyday Americans committing tax fraud—an overreach of DOGE’s power. Personal tax data has nothing to do with government efficiency.

Truth? Musk is so inhuman, he can't imagine other people might care for our citizens. Only citizens can receive social security, medicaid/medicare, SNAP, etc. Or perhaps he ignored that? Musk, if you can, give us a complete accounting of the alleged fraud-- before continuing the destruction.

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump have fired over 9500 Federal employees. Here's what some of those people were doing: open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Trump thinking he and Putin will just decide Ukraine's fate without Ukraine even being in the room is totally on brand for Republicans who repeatedly hold congressional committee meetings on women's rights without a single woman being present.