Larry Pixa

Some creative license with reality; a warning? www.complex.com/pop-culture/...

YouTube video by NowThis Impact How Stephen King Predicted Trump's Rise Decades Ago | Opinions | NowThis

Politics echo Stephen King’s "Dead Zone." Kirk’s killing parallels: inevitability & preemptive violence. The story, an unstable man acts to stop a monster; Kirk’s claim that gun killings are a “cost worth paying,” drove a violence as “justice,” darker than fiction.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXfk...

Simplistic ultimatums born of binary thinking overlook the complexities at play.

And don't forget to sign them up for the Imagination Library, which is Dolly Parton's free book delivery service.
They send 1 book per month until the child turns 5. 😊

YouTube video by Morrissey Unofficial Videos Morrissey - In Mexico (Unofficial video)

Released in 2004, still impactful, this part hits home... still:

In Mexico
I went for a walk to inhale
The tranquil, cool, lover's air
But I could sense the hate
From the Lone Star state
And a small voice said
"What can we do?"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vpK...

Love one of the review quotes: "Sick as F*ck!"

How Microsoft Lets Go of More Than Just Jobs Prompted by a piece recently published by a former Microsoft colleague, M3 Sweatt (A message to those impacted at Microsoft), I have been meaning to share my own perspective for years now, but waited ...

Layoffs cost more than roles, they erode culture, trust, & institutional memory. For those let go: your value runs deeper than job title. For leaders: talent walks out with every short-term cut. What are you really optimizing for? #Leadership #HumanCapital #Microsoft www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-mi...

Sen. Lee’s moral grandstanding is pure theater. Red states, especially Utah, rank high in per capita porn use. The hypocrisy runs deep. As my Nan from North Texas put it: “He’s just another teetotaler with a speakeasy in the basement.” blog.soulrefiner.com/which-u-s-st...

Which U.S. State Consumes The Most Porn? It may or may not surprise you to find out that the US’s Bible belt states have a higher porn consumption on average. According to two years of Google Trends data examined by Brock University research...

Sen. Lee’s moral grandstanding is pure theater. Red states, especially Utah, rank high in per capita porn use. The hypocrisy runs deep. As my Nan from North Texas put it: “He’s just another teetotaler with a speakeasy in the basement.” blog.soulrefiner.com/which-u-s-st...

U.S. Life Expectancy Study Shows Southerners Barely Living Any Longer Than Those Born In 1900 Researchers analyzing mortality data across America report that a baby girl born in Oklahoma today might live only a few months longer than one born in 1900 – a shocking contrast to places like New Yo...

Politics is shortening lives. In Trump-leaning counties, life expectancy lags as voters back leaders who cut healthcare and public services. This is not patriotism. It is policy-enabled decline. How do we lift up spiteful communities voting against their own survival?
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No notes. h/t @ianbremmer.com

Note to Dem leadership: In that #DemocracyReboot2029 Plan I hope you're drafting while the Trump regime lurches on, add “restore Veterans Day,” “Gulf of Mexico,” and whatever else got torched along the way. #FixWhatTrumpBroke

Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to more than 356,000 global deaths from heart disease in 2018 alone, a new analysis of population surveys shows...

The Romans had lead pipes, we have plastic everything. Rome collapsed; are we following a similar path with BPA, albeit a more complex/innovative one, the same self-inflicted demise, now in recyclable packaging?☠️ #ModernEmpire #Microplastics #HistoryRepeats
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RFK Jr suggests ripping away government health insurance from people Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. has suggested that Americans who eat doughnuts and sodas or smoke should not be provided with health care

He's just describing the average doughnut eating, soda slurping, cigarette smoking MAGA believer. www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

Aiming to limit damages, Catholic hospital argues a fetus isn't the same as a 'person' • Iowa Capital Dispatch A faith-based health care provider is arguing in court that the loss of an unborn child does not equate to the death of a “person.”

Wow. It's all about the money when it comes to human life after all. Hypocrites. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/09/a...

Oh, it's hardly begun: The Atlantic, "Here Are the Places Where the Recession Has Already Begun"
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Abigail Disney: ‘Every billionaire who can’t live on $999m is kind of a sociopath’ She is one of the heirs to the Walt Disney fortune – and has long argued for rich people like her to pay more tax. Now she is working out how best to meet the challenge of Trump, Musk and the politics...

"Every billionaire who can’t live on $999m is kind of a sociopath"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"While Rome burned, Nero fiddled — the empire smoldered to the tune of his indifference."

"While Rome burned, Nero fiddled — the empire smoldered to the tune of his indifference."

Participating in the protests today up in Buffalo NY today.

The Art of Deception: An Introduction to Critical Think… Can you tell when you're being deceived? This classic …

Surrounded by blender-brain thinkers? Here's something that might help. First studied it in an undergrad philosophy class—helped me cut thru BS, from tech to geopolitics. A timeless guide to spotting manipulation & BS. #CriticalThinking #ThinkForYourself #HoyaSaxa
www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...

So weird how this keeps happening.
www.axios.com/2025/04/02/t...

Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. archive.is/aH4jg#select...

US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione The 26-year-old is accused of shooting dead healthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel.

They will try to kill him to warn the others: not that killing is wrong, but that killing "up" is forbidden; this is what the oligarchs fear most. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Officials say texts sent by Waltz and Ratcliffe in Signal chat may have damaged US’ ongoing ability to gather intel on Houthis | CNN Politics Current and former US officials have told CNN they believe two texts sent by national security adviser Mike Waltz and CIA Director John Ratcliffe in the now-infamous group chat involving senior US off...

It’s worse than they told you. CIA Director John Ratcliffe and national security advisor Mike Waltz exposed intelligence gathering techniques in the SignalGate group chat, according to current and former intelligence officials.

'Heads are exploding': How security experts see the Signal war-plan breach The breach left military and intelligence experts asking the same questions as the public: Why would top U.S. officials use a free messaging app to discuss classified military plans?

Heads up, everyone: I was banned from TruthSocial for sharing posts like this one. It’s clear they’re working hard to keep their users in the dark:
🔗 www.npr.org/2025/03/25/n...
Silencing voices instead of addressing the facts isn’t the answer. Please read and share.

Wait guys, Pete Hegseth is typing ...

Truth Social account deleted, no explanation: I ventured into this world today, began posting fact-based info. My account was deleted a few minutes ago for no reason. Though many of my posts got "liked" and forwarded. Such for their "truth" & "freedom of speech." What a cesspool. Somebody no like.