Sweet Rhubarb

The sacred container is a clown car.

"Governments never announce that they have become fascist. They announce that the antifascists are now the enemy of the state"

Damn, all those high fantasy novels were right: evil must be defeated in *every* generation and we must be ever watchful for its return

Golden statue of Trump holding Bitcoin

Golden statue of Mooby

Are we GOING to hell, or are we IN hell?

Sign on a telephone pole. It reads “whatever you allow your government to do to others, they will eventually do to you.”

#Pinks #ProudBlue
Protect everyone, protect yourself. That’s how it works.

The Jester plays a role, speaking truth to power through humour.

I think we're in the "all bets are off" phase.

HARTFORD #VISIBILITYBRIGADE this am!! Our regular dozen waving and lots of honking in support. We refuse to be enemies!

@hcrichardson.bsky.social @rbhubbell.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @nicollewallace.bsky.social @ctmirror.org @repjahanahayes.bsky.social

Colbert gone. Kimmel silenced. Not for lying, but for speaking the truth trump doesn't want you to hear.

Mocking the regime is now a punishable offense. All to keep critics quiet. Laugh too loud, think too clearly & you vanish. This is how authoritarianism sterilizes a culture & numbs dissent.

Yesss, gurl.

a woman in a striped shirt is dancing with her arms in the air . Alt: Kelly Clarkson in a striped shirt is dancing with her arms in the air .

I got my Covid vaccine 💉 today AND my flu shot.

Suck it RFKJr.

Elul isn’t just about “going deep".

Some of us live there every day - our whole existence feels like one long Elul.

Teshuvah isn’t about fixing yourself.

It’s about returning to yourself.

TLL

repairman who has brought the wrong tools.

And beware of false flags and planted evidence with this FBI in charge. Skepticism is in order.

Doug Ford tells young job seekers “try inheriting your daddy’s sticker factory” QUEEN'S PARK - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is telling unemployed young job seekers to "Look harder" for label manufacturing companies that they can inherit, or failing that, a lifetime's worth of backroom conservative political connections.

Doug Ford tells young job seekers “try inheriting your daddy’s sticker factory”

Here for it.
For those of us eating oatmeal, a book club/reading group is starting Radical Mindfulness this Sunday. Free to attend, free PDF, 30% discount on the physical copy.

Let's change the world.
rowecenter.org/radical-mind...

if we can’t get MAHA to agree that it’s wrong to kill public health workers if they don’t have control over policy, i’m not sure what common ground we can develop because that is categorically the same ideology as fascism, which you can’t work with. i’m glad folks are trying (we need them to) but

The one episode I think of ALL the time.
And I may or may not have a book problem...

Let's go, Team Human!! We can do this!!

White people are fumbling their way through this moment because it’s really hard for them to accept that this is always what this country was about.

And they’re mad at Black people for still finding joy because “THE COUNTRY IS BURNING HOW ARE YOU WATCHING FOOTBALL.”

Interesting dynamic.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

👏Neurodivergence 👏isn't 👏a 👏disease!!

Can't hurt.

Rethinking my recent, "I need to get rid of some of these books," stance.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are inherent to all people and cannot be taken away, surrendered, or sold by any person or government. Thomas Jefferson integrated these principles into the Declaration of Independence, making them a cornerstone of American governmental philosophy.

RFK Jr. says anyone who wants a covid shot can get one. Not these Americans. Pharmacies and doctors are struggling to adjust to a new regulatory environment for updated coronavirus vaccines that are no longer broadly recommended.

RFK Jr. told senators they were wrong and making stuff up about Americans struggling to access coronavirus vaccines.

The challenges are real. We heard from more than 3,200 readers about this, and these are some of their stories. Gift link: wapo.st/4nbXgO6

Wait, what??
Rand Paul is someone I agree with??
We are living in the Upside Down.

This is surely a Freudian slip.
Yes, PLEASE!

Yes pleas.

#booksky #letsread #RoweCenter

Stop wishing death to Drumpf. This is what follows.