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“If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, battle them with bull.”

—W.C. Fields (or was it D.J. Thump)

“As lawless gangs of ICE agents terrorize city neighborhoods, it’s getting harder to maintain that the United States is a democracy.”

—-the edits of Christian Century

“We are living through the greatest era of revisionist history since the Lost Cause. And the similarities ought to alarm us.”

—Mark Wingfield, Editor
Baptist News Global

Just came across this Annie Dillard quote again and I love it!

“The mind longs for eternal truth but the body will settle for two over easy with bacon.”

Sorry, Secretary Hegseth, ‘Jesus don’t like killing’ – Baptist News Global Prine’s words came back this week as I listened the speech given by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to 800 top-ranking military personnel.

Sorry, Secretary Hegseth, ‘Jesus don’t like killing’ baptistnews.com/article/sorr...

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

———Winston Churchill

Fyodor Dostoyevsky said in Letters,

To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart—that’s what life is about, that’s the task.

How is it that the right is blaming everything on the left after Kirk’s death, when the shooter’s family is all Republican, and the guy shot him because he didn’t speak up against blacks enough! Go figure.

“I want to die peacefully in my sleep—like my grandfather—not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.”

—-Garrison Keiler

Not soon enough for this guy!😣

Knowing that Democrats are statistically higher educated than Republicans, the masterminds, like Reagan, aligned themselves with the people they found easiest to dupe: The Grand Ol’ Party.

—Baptist News Global

One of Thump’s losses is that he obviously never studied Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Just upped by pledge to NPR & PBS. Hope you will too!

I find it interesting that the House always votes on unpopular items in the middle of the night, hoping that no one will notice.

“This is what democracy looks like: it's honest, it's pure, it's sincere," Jones said. "And there's nothing better than standing out here and protesting with people who actually have the same sort of frame of mind."

——one of thousands of demonstrators in Richmond, VA yesterday

The forgotten horror of feeding Black babies to alligators Beneath this controversial policy of Alligator Alcatraz lies an even more chilling historical echo, Edmond Davis warns.

Swamp people

baptistnews.com/article/swam...

As the Supreme Court strengthens the office of the presidency without explaining the constitutional basis for its decisions, who is actually running the government is a very real question.
—Heather Cox Richardson

Netanyahu and Thump are cut from the same cloth. Disgusting!

From The New Republic

“Trump Border Czar Confirms Racial Profiling Is Now Law of the Land
Tom Homan said ICE has the right to detain any individual for any reason—and that agents deliberately target people based on their “physical appearance.”

YouTube video by Kyiv Independent What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv

Want to know what it’s like to live in Kyiv? Watch this…

m.youtube.com/watch?v=8g9k...

“If you look at the end of the Civil War—the 1800s, it was a very turbulent time. If you take the end day—was it 1869? Or whatever.”
——Donald J. Thump

France has ordered Tesla to stop “deceptive practices” in its marketing of self-driving features, specifically related to the “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) software. If Tesla fails to comply, the company faces potential daily fines of over $58,000 (or 50,000 euros).

Couldn’t happen to a better guy.

“June 21, 2025 may go down in history not as the day the Iranian nuclear program was destroyed, but as the day a nuclear Iran was irreversibly born.”

—Laura Rosen, The Deplomat

Wonder what they will give us in return…..

Sorry, but Netty asked for it.

Let’s be clear: Thump’s Attack on Iran is intended as a distraction (something he’s really good at). Now we have to wonder: when and where will the first terrorist attack be in this country?

Get rid of ICE!

Stephan Miller is evil personified!

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