“Wars are made to make debt.”

~Ezra Pound, a poet, October 30, 1885 - November 1, 1972.

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.”

~Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States of America, October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919.

“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”

~Upton Sinclair, an author, September 20, 1878 - November 25, 1968.

Thou Shalt Release The Damn Epstein Files! All of it, unredacted in full.

Thou Shalt Release The Damn Epstein Files!

“The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a writer, August 28, 1849 - March 22, 1832.

“World history is a court of judgment.”

~Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a philosopher, August 27, 1770 - November 14, 1831.

“Without humility there can be no humanity.”

~John Buchan, a politician, August 26, 1875 - February 11, 1940.

“Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.”

William Feather, an author, August 25, 1889 - January 7, 1981.

“The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.”

-Howard Zinn, a historian, August 24, 1922 - January 27, 2010.

If you find yourself repeating fascist threats and lies and bluster, you are only helping them.

“They’re going to deport Kilmar to Uganda on Monday.” Shut the fuck up. No they’re not.

They want you to think they’re invincible monsters. They’re not. They’re decaying pedophiles.

🚨Trump blasted the Smithsonian for showing “only how bad slavery was.” His administration’s review, timed to America 250, could turn museums into tools of political memory.
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Kilmar Finally Reunited With His Family After Being Wrongfully Deported Pam Bondi swore this would never happen.

Pam Bondi swore this would never happen.

“If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.”

~Nelson DeMille, an author, born on this day in 1943.

“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”

~H. P. Lovecraft, a novelist, August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937.

“The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.”

~Gene Roddenberry, a producer, August 19, 1921 - October 24, 1991.

“Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.”

~Winona LaDuke, an Indigenous activist, born on this day in 1959.

“The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.”

~Percy Bysshe Shelley, a poet, August 4, 1792 - July 8, 1822.

“We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.”

~Martin Sheen, an actor, born on the 3rd of August in 1940.

“Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.”

~James Baldwin, a novelist and Civil Rights activist, August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987.

“There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.”

~Herman Melville, an author of Moby Dick, August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891.

“Sweat equity is the best equity.”

~Mark Cuban, a businessman, born on July 31 in 1958.

“Life is a state of consciousness.”

Emmet Fox, an author, July 30, 1886 - August 13, 1951.

“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”

~ Alexis de Tocqueville, a French historian, July 29, 1805 - April 16, 1859.

“There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.”

~Karl Popper, a philosopher, July 28, 1902 - September 17, 1994.

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”

Elizabeth Hardwick, a critic, July 27, 1916 - December 2, 2007.

“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

~Aldous Huxley, an author, July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963.

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”

~George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950.

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”

~Carl Jung, a psychologist, July 26, 1875 - June 6, 1961.

“Nationalism has nothing to do with democratic values: Authoritarians can be nationalists; indeed, most are.”

~Anne Applebaum, a journalist, born on this day in 1964.

“Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.”

~Elias Canetti, a Swiss writer, July 25, 1905 - August 13, 1994.