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One of my favorite Havel quotes: “The attempt to devote oneself to a cause that has no end in sight is the essence of hope."

May God (or whoever you trust in the spirit world) bless us and help us harness our better angels.

He tried to bring us to the US but we were rejected.
Canada offered us visas and help getting on our feet.

I am forever grateful to Canada for that.

So please persevere and never forget this world needs you and leaders like you.

I am particularly grateful for your invocation of Vaclav Havel, my president. I was born in Czechoslovakia in 1957.
By the time Havel led the breakaway from Communist rule, I was in the US. We escaped in 1966. My father always sought free enterprise and capitalism.

Yes. I just sent him this note:

Dear Prime Minister Carney:
My wife and I want to thank you for your leadership.

It is a skill and wisdom that is sorely needed today. Your speech at Davos helped people like me regain some hope.

And they I saw it: the curse is on the listener, not the teller.

It is the people of Troy who suffered the most.
Just so, it is we, who do not heed the warmings of all you science truth tellers, who will face the consequences.

@drkatemarvel.bsky.social
You got me really curious about the myth of Cassandra. Your description on the last page of Wonder got me thinking about telling the truth, seeing what is coming, but not being believed.

@petrkonecny.bsky.social
Ahoj. Thank you for the vote of confidence.
Did you listen to Mark Carney's speech in Davos?

Washington Wants Data Centers to Bring Their Own Clean Energy

Washington Wants Data Centers to Bring Their Own Clean Energy #Climate

"The West's real genius is institutional: law that binds all, both the strong and the weak; a civil society robust enough to oppose the state without fearing that opposition will be treated as a criminal act."
We must hold onto that. We much prevent this president from becoming another Stalin.

Ja jsem to cetl. Smutne a spravne. Musime ho zastavit.

YouTube video by CNN Fareed's Take: The real threat to Western civilization

Another excellent review by Fareed Zakaria how Trump pursues its war against freedom in the US.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks7m...

@drkatemarvel.bsky.social
Just got it. Looking forward to reading and sharing.

Freedom Album Cover Neil Young

Rockin' in the Free World
-Neil Young🇨🇦🎸🎶
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Mayor Mamdani stands with delivery workers in the City Hall Blue Room.

Our administration doesn’t just stand with workers — we deliver for them.

We’ve already secured more than $5 million for delivery workers who were wrongfully deactivated, and we will keep fighting for the fair pay and dignity they deserve.

‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
AGENT KRASNOV ☝️👿

Don't despair. Act.

As one great person recently pointed out (slight expansion on my part) despair won't reduce one molecule of CO2.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

The path teaches if you let it.

#SlowDown #NatureAsTeacher #FindYourRhythm

I am outraged by the despicable, cowardly attacks against Muslim New Yorkers in Bay Ridge last week—one of which was on a 12-year-old girl. This violence is unacceptable, and we know that all too often visibly Muslim, hijab-wearing women and girls bear the brunt of it.    Muslim New Yorkers deserve to live with safety and dignity, and to be able to walk our streets free from harassment, threats, or harm. Islamophobia has no place in our city, and violence or intimidation against Muslim New Yorkers is unacceptable.

Just don't get it. Why is it always the Dems supporting biking and multi-modal transport?
Don't the Republicans feel left out?

HB4699: BIKE Act of 2025 Biking Instruction, Knowledge, and Education Act of 2025
Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. 2025-07-24
Sponsors:
- Democrat: 10
- Republican: 1

This is Milo. He has the reflexes of a sloth and the composure of a statue. Learning catch is going to take a minute. 12/10 (TT: milocrazy8)

URGENT: Keep LGBTQ Foster Youth Safe

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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Actually, I do know how to do this In retrospect, paying attention to polluters may be one of the best ways to understand what’s currently happening in the United States.

"The fossil fuel industry was one of the largest corporate backers of Donald Trump’s return to power, giving $75 million to his campaign and affiliated PACs, and nearly $20 million to Trump’s inaugural fund."--Emily Atkin, Heated.
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So, divesting fossil fuels stops ICE.

Why we should be demanding ‘sustainable palm oil’, not ‘palm oil-free’ by Dr Jennifer Lucey, Knowledge Exchange Fellow from the Department of Zoology

#FoodForThought from @ox.ac.uk:
Why we should be demanding ‘sustainable palm oil’, not ‘palm oil-free’

Choose #SUSTAINABLE #PalmOil and Save #Orangutans!

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Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...

🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Union of Concerned Scientists The Union of Concerned Scientists puts rigorous, independent science to work to solve our planet's most pressing problems. Joining with people across the country, we combine technical analysis and eff...

Just donated to www.ucs.org
A really good group to slow global warming.

YouTube video by AFP News Agency IN FULL: Canadian PM Carney delivers speech at Davos | AFP

Just listened to Canadian PM Mark Carney's speech. Being Czech born and familiar with Communism, it had special meaning for me.
More importantly, so reassuring that there are statesmen out there who understand how to get along and where lines need drawing.
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Anyone out there in a swing or Republican state, please talk to your Congressional representatives and Senators.

We need Congress to step up and save this Republic.