I can’t tell you how much I appreciate The Bulwark community. They single-handedly (many-handedly?) made my book *How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time* a best-seller before it’s even hit shelves. I might have to let @jvl.bsky.social moderate a focus group…
Appreciate it man; it's ordered and looking forward to it!
One of the reasons i generally dislike disapproving quote posts is that they have a much higher rate of motivated illiteracy than replies
Man it’s just been ten years and by now it’s like we all know the Republicans aren’t going to do good government no matter what anyone says.
It’s honestly so good
I think what’s happening is he’s sucking up to staff and being a jerk to patients. Because he’s focused on getting the reference.
Really this is not something I feel people talk enough about. They’ve given up so much of what makes life enjoyable, meaningful, and fresh. They’ve really created living hella for themselves and push that onto all of us too.
Nonviolence is moral - and it also puts into stark relief who the bad guys really are.
The audiobook is phenomenal
Old Path White Clouds
Tim, I believe she used what's known as a rhetorical question.
I had seen the "hold me in contempt so I can sleep" line, but the whole transcript is striking. Julie Le she tried to quit but then stayed so she could get more people OUT of detention; and expressed concern that her own family might get picked up.
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southpaw assignment desk: Who is the redacted third amigo whose JPM accounts got subpoenaed alongside Epstein’s and Maxwell’s? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Absolutely! Brian is a great author and worth the follow.
And if you still don’t want to call it fascism, but you’re putting your body or your wellbeing on the line, turning what heart and skills toward stopping it, whatever it’s called, I think you’re great & I’m glad we’re on the same side. 2/3
If you’re just figuring out now that yes, it really is fascism, that’s fantastic & I think you’re great & I’m glad we’re on the same side. I don’t need to scold you. My desire for “told-ya-so” is as useless as your denial was. Let’s move on together to the fight at hand, each as we feel called. 1/2
Yes, the GOP controls Congress. That's why it's key to show Congress COULD stop the madness. And it's not just the DHS bill. Congress could repeal the prior multi-year $75b for DHS; set up a special investigative committee (cf. Watergate); amend the Insurrection Act; etc.
I really think there comes a point where weve made people wear the hair shirt long enough. Tim, Bill, Adam, Sarah, all the NeverTrumpers have recanted and reassessed a lot. Comes a point where it’s gratuitous. Let’s accept their repentance and work together.
"That's fine, dude. I'm not mad." Renee Good's last words to the ICE officer who killed her as she followed contradictory orders. The administration immediately painted this mom as a domestic terrorist. An outrageous lie and one more reason Congress must be remove them.
For me it would be the Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh’s book Old Path White Clouds
"Humanity's basest of instincts wage war for supremacy, and those loftiest of values are shuddered away, invisible; suppressed by a fire hose of low-effort, attention-seeking, algorithmically controlled bites of information that all sum up to burnout, cynicism, and hopelessness."
“If you resort to violence, all of us who believe in our legal and political system—Democrats and Republicans—will stand together. We will condemn you, and we will prosecute you.”
My message after last year's shooting of Trump: Zero tolerance for political violence. I'm sorry it has to be repeated.
