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Scribe for HUMANITY. Writer of History. Curator of Context. The Gospel of Publius.
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Identity is a prison for helpers and problem solvers. Sometimes we create problems in order to solve them.

Am I Wandavisioning you?

If you’re a figment of my imagination, you’re the best I could come up with.

The girls want you to know that this was about a strawberry.

If it’s uncut, dip that big thang in your mouth.

At what point will most people realize that we’ve already been in a global information war and that autocratic oligarchs are winning?

How many white people have eaten their neighbors’ cats or dogs?

Why do we fetishize violence?

Our party needs to have standards. We can’t just keep trying to be whatever the other side isn’t.

Can Millennials rise to their challenge? Secular Cycles theory says that as Millennials reach peak age, we should be civic-minded enough to overcome a once-in-a-century challenge on the scale of the American Revolution or Civil War or WWII. Will we recognize the threat before it grows too big?

In the 2010s, we felt like we were pushing for social progress with incremental wins. In the 2020s, we’ve been defending progress from a cultural backlash. What changed?

Every honest gay man knows that toxic masculinities can cause problems in gay relationships. The problem isn’t men. The problem isn’t masculinities. The problem is when masculinities are used to justify toxic behavior.

An update on what we are doing agentsoflearning.com/blog/blusky_...

I tell myself the reason I’m single is because I won’t find anyone who will love me as much as my family.

Why have the @agentsoflearning.com historical figures accounts been suspended? 😢 They were good at giving advice when we needed it! Please #DontEraseHistory!

I asked Alexander Hamilton for advice on how to defend democracy in 2025, and he replied:

How would @johnlockesghost.bsky.social advise us on how to strengthen the social contract in 2025? How would our Founders apply John Locke’s social contract to America in 2025? @thomasjefferson.agentsoflearning.com @alexanderhamilton.agentsoflearning.com @jamesmadison.agentsoflearning.com

How would our Founding Fathers answer: What is “authenticity”? @georgewashington.agentsoflearning.com @johnadams.agentsoflearning.com @thomasjefferson.agentsoflearning.com @jamesmadison.agentsoflearning.com @alexanderhamilton.agentsoflearning.com @benjaminfranklin.agentsoflearning.com

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

Eastern Europeans seeing a hybrid regime emerge

AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.

“Am I still dripping? I’m a professional. I’m an executive. It’s important for you to, you know, keep your image up.” — Ben (of Ben and Jerry’s 🍦) in Walt Disney’s “America’s Heart and Soul” (2004)

Would you watch a show about a psychiatric hospital where all the patients act normal and don’t think they should be there?

We should make a video about a compelling election in a “foreign land” with four candidates who don’t hate each other, they just have radically different views about what their society should look like.

1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox General Mills Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

What is America’s greatest national embarrassment in the eyes of the civilized world? Our failure to provide basic health and security to our own citizens despite the absurd $ that oligarchs spend privatizing health and security?

Dear President Washington, If you had lived longer, at what point, if any, do you think you would have supported the abolition of slavery? @georgewashington.agentsoflearning.com

Who is the storyteller?

What’s the worst case scenario? That it could make a fun story someday?

God is that outside perspective we have on ourselves. However we perceive the storyteller of human myths. God mode.

Somos humanos Somos hermanos

Maybe I’m crazy. Or maybe we’re trapped in a system that makes us feel crazy if we challenge the suppression of creativity and freedom of expression?

“Aristocratic oligarchies may also develop traditions of public lists of virtues they believe appropriate in the governing class, but these virtues differ significantly from the general civic virtues; for example, ruling class virtues stress martial courage over commercial honesty.”

George Washington has good advice about how America could survive dark times. We must rekindle Americans’ civic virtue.

Our ancestors would be so disappointed in us.

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: The message I’m hearing from people across Canada is this: they’re not afraid of you. They know you’re a convicted felon. They know that the people you’re bringing in to run your, let’s call it an “organization” rather than a government, are grifters, thieves, and thugs.

I feel like one of those people who walks away from a group that looks at each other and says “He’s a bit… different?”

The Simpsons are a modern mythology of what it’s like to try to be a good person. Homer is the Everyman, but his family and neighbors are his equals. They made explicit in season 34 that the anthology is like a prophesy from human nature and that America is suffering by refusing to pay attention.

I felt like I had something important to say but then I forgot it

If men are expected to die for our country, why are they judged if they for cry for our country?