The historically dominant Western culture seems to, as a bloc, lack moral imagination, and so interprets moral imagination exercises as contextless condemnations and/or navel gazing. They then react accordingly.

This reminds me of a piece of excellence from @pattonoswalt.bsky.social a few specials ago. I’ll take Archie Bunker over the Citizens Council any day.

The White Civility Council As the nation reckons with the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, there has been a notable trend from mainstream pundits and press outlets. They have tended to downplay or outright i...

All right, I wrote about it:

Naked, articulated, plastic doll that resembles comedian Paul F. Thompkins.

I can’t believe I found a @pftompkins.bsky.social action figure!

Paolo Freire, everyone.

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The real change, the real progress, if we care to earnestly attempt to make it, happens exactly like this piece. Conversationally, moment by moment. See also the work of Daryl Davis. It is challenging, sometimes even scary, but it is the way.

Looks like a tagline to me.

He’s gone full Osteen.

I guess not all Blue Lives matter after all.

The “ per woman” is unnecessary and frankly very icky.

A sickening (pun intended) reality of the US health care system is that insurers and employers grouse about utilization (using the services we paid for) and actively work to dissuade it. Then they grouse about the costs of multimorbid, complex care. It’s almost like $$ is the sickness.

** reads in Coke Zero, nodding**

Me, sees post: oh, are we just declaring emergencies now? Because I have a few to mention-
Me, sees poster is Governor: ah, good. Serious stuff. Good work.

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Trump said it himself - he wants generals like Hitler had. They’re constructing their version of a lockstep regime. When(if) there is comeuppance, none can be allowed harbor. None.

This and the vote grabs are SO IMPORTANT.

What is the actual action that can be taken to stop the march toward the Unitarian Executive?

Commodus gets his gladiator fight. Some real end of the empire shit.

This. All day this. To those of us who are melanin deficient and shocked - glad you’re finally awake.

This is the whole “condemned to repeat it” part. The US, with its ridiculous incarceration rates and policies, has long had centers where certain demographics had been concentrated. We looked the other way because those people did illegal stuff. Expand the definition of illegal, and here we are.

Senator, those who oppose this type of tax (the poor) and spend (on the rich) must own the counter-narrative. There are still people who think this is trickle down. I heard it today on Tapper - tax cuts “for businesses” will “increase jobs.” Lies, yes, but believable. And the believable counter is?

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There’s always a tweet.

Then they’ll blame healthcare for a rise in cancer rates.

When nothing happened after Newtown, I knew nothing would ever happen about gun violence. Utterly unsurprised.

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