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‘The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.’ ~ Milan Kundera ‘Never think you've seen the last of anything.’ ~ Eudora Welty [top left, art by Anselm Kiefer . Met Museum]

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I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two- And see what worms are eating At the rind — Langston Hughes Langston Hughes on the beach in Carmel-by-the-Sea with Greta, furfamily of friend Noël Sullivan

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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.

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musk's private security deputized by u.s. marshals service -- potentially clearing the way for his personal bodyguards to be carrying weapons on federal grounds. um... www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

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People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

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How stupid and arbitrary are Trump's mass firings at federal agencies? A State Dept employee tells me some colleagues are racing to change their job descriptions so phrases like "transnational crime" don't get caught up in DOGE AI bots scanning for words like "trans" to fire people because "DEI."

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Goodnight, Bluesky

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Backatcha!

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In the dark times will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times. — Bertolt Brecht Azovstal, Mariupol, Ukraine photo by D. Kazatsky | May 2022

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Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. ~ W.S. Merwin Mural in Ukraine | by Sasha Korban

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‘Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.’ ~ George Orwell

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It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

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DOGE is now in CISA, the Top US Cybersecurity Agency. ‘Since 2018 CISA has helped state and local election offices around the country assess vulnerabilities in their networks and help secure them.’

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New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me.

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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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JB Pritzker in today's state of the state very explicitly compared what's happening with Trump to the rise of Nazis: "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."

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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”

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‘The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.’ ~ Milan Kundera ‘Never think you've seen the last of anything.’ ~ Eudora Welty [top left, art by Anselm Kiefer . Met Museum]

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Knew he’d referred to himself as King in his reprehensible ‘truth social’ post; could not believe this follow-up tweet—and *with added visual*—was really tweeted by, and on, the official twitter account of The White House. So I went over there (where I never go) and checked. And there it was.

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‘Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.’ ~ George Orwell

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Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. ~ W.S. Merwin Mural in Ukraine | by Sasha Korban

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In the dark times will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times. — Bertolt Brecht Azovstal, Mariupol, Ukraine photo by D. Kazatsky | May 2022

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