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Does this seem like a good idea to you? I've already added it to my Musk Boycott list.

The student president of NYU's College Republicans was forced to resign for remarking that Barron Trump was something of an "oddity on campus." And these are the people who incessantly attack higher ed for shutting down free speech.

Fun fact: Peter (Pyotr) Krasnov was a Russian General who collaborated with the Nazis. Maybe I should add "anti-Krasnovite" to my profile.

So this is a sport now?

It appears that Canada owned the U.S. last night.

“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” -Thomas Jefferson

In case you were wondering, there's a word for that: lal·o·che·zi·a (lal'ŏ-kē'zē-ă) The emotional release one experiences by uttering profane or vulgar language.

"You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice." -Bob Marley

From the New Yorker

Sound familiar? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Måke Califørnia Great Ægain www.nbcnews.com/news/world/d...

Where are the poets who can sing the truth of our time?

"When I hear someone sigh, 'life is so hard,' I’m always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'” – Søren Kierkegaard

“Hate is love that has failed.” – Søren Kierkegaard

Reading Recommendation #10: The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt: the classic 20th-century work on authoritarian regimes. If you read and enjoyed Snyder's essay, you might want to give this challenging book a try. archive.org/details/TheO...

Our so-called free market economy has always included government interventions, subsidies, and protections-mostly to benefit the wealthy. Adam Smith argued that a well-functioning market keeps profits low, and that wages should naturally rise with economic growth. Billionaires shouldn't exist.

Hope is more than just wishful thinking.

Once again, Denmark shows the way: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Check out the AMA Update on YouTube for reliable public health information: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...

"You gotta keep 'em separated." -The Offspring www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose finite hope.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly” – Francis Bacon

Hey, White Nationalists, thanks for doing your part to prevent the spread of viruses by wearing masks in public!

The Ohio Department of Health has denied reports of an outbreak of tuberculosis in that state. Please do some lateral reading before sharing news like that. www.dispatch.com/story/news/h...

www.meidasplus.com/p/jim-acosta...

Went to the Social Security website today and downloaded my account statement, just in case. Seems like a wise thing to do given that Elon's people are deleting digital records in government databases.

This country is too big, too diverse, and too committed to the ideal of liberty to be ruled by an authoritarian regime.

A very astute analysis by Robert Reich: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?

Congrats to Meidas Touch for beating Fox in audience ratings. Talk about a light in the darkness!

Why haven't Democrats been using Sen. Schatz's tactic to slow down the whole nomination process from the beginning? Are they fighting hard enough?

One more time: "Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it." -Hannah Arendt