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I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgements. - Carl Sagan

happy bday Canadian-born American writer Saul Bellow, b.1915. “Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.” “A man is only as good as what he loves.” “Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.”

If they want people who need assistance to have a work requirement, shouldn’t those at the top who get a tax break have a community service requirement?

EXCLUSIVE: We dug up a video of Donald Trump trashing Qatar in 2017 calling them “funders of terrorism.” I’m sure he would hate if this clip changed their mind to give him a $400 million plane - so definitely don’t repost it.

The Truth Of The Matter And They Are Not Bringing Jobs Back….

Frontiers in Psychiatry! Are they coming up with ideas how to handle a malignant narcissist on the world stage? Quite a lot riding on it.

at this point 2025 feels like being awake during surgery

If you want to win a trade war, you gotta have something to trade that other side wants. And we're in a trade war with the very people who make all the things WE want. You're not going to win that.

We need to account for the PSYCHOLOGY here. Donald is a sadist. He is enjoying all of this chaos. He’s not gonna “negotiate” or any of the other overly complex (for him) theories. GOP needs to stop his tariffs. NOW.

Sending anyone from this country to a foreign gulag, particularly without a court hearing, should rightfully end a presidency. Full stop.