Susan Beck

They like being comfortable with their prejudices. Barack’s successful presidency shook them up — as well as many other social changes.

Guess they haven't heard of Google Translate

What's been weird to learn is that other leaders of institutions act the same way. Some of them hoard and protect their influence like it's money because they, too, are rich. You don't get rich by giving your money away and (they seem to believe) you don't get powerful by exercising your power. But, in fact, that is often how power works: using power can help build power. At the very least, power holds no value unless it is exercised, which alone is a valid reason to exercise it. If you are powerful but never use your power, you are not powerful. I'm talking here primarily about the huge, obvious loci of power — the centers of power that exist in part to serve as checks on other centers of power. Congress vis-a-vis the presidency. The media relative to the government. Higher education in contrast to misinformation. But they often aren't serving as checks on what's unfolding, or are obviously and bizarrely using their power only sparingly, garden hoses aimed at protecting their own homes from the wildfire. So it's left to individuals, who have stepped up where institutions have not.

I wrote about Minnesota and ICE and how average Americans are reclaiming the power that the administration is abusing.
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Roy Cohn. You’re right. Just as sleazy.

WTF?

Thank you for the huge guffaw as I read your post

Preach!

If her lips are moving, she is lying

Only 315 Re-truths and 925 Likes? He is slipping.

Such as…?

Crooks and liars

I agree but he is from Shreveport and that’s not bayou country.

Why? To my way of thinking, SCOTUS doesn’t want to get anywhere near the Epstein files. They want to be tainted. Unless, of course, some of them already are

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That happened to me in Seattle, late 80s, riding my bike along Puget Sound, Shilshole Blvd. Fearing traffic, I walked the beaver across the street, singing “walking my beaver (baby) back home” (Nat King Cole classic)

He said with a casual smirk

> @captmarkkelly.bsky.social

What an excellent dog chew toy for my two rescue pups. Where I can find one of these?

Me too and I look for his death notice every morning

Or break a needle or rethread b/c maybe you threaded it wrong…the list is endless

Look at the schnoz. That’s a raven. They are just as smart, if not smarter, than crows.

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The banality of evil

It’s the equivalent of Trump’s mob boss declaration “I don’t know that guy”

It happened near Hayden Lake, a white supremacist stronghold. You know, Richard Butler, Arayan Nations….

The optics from the Padilla cock up as well as Stephen Miller screaming at her and the media’s questions about disappearing people were getting a bit too hot for her. Time to cop a fake medical emergency and hide out in the hospital

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” — E.M. Forster

Not true. It’s eastern New Mexico that is red.

New Mexico is a blue state, not purple. Both senators, all three representatives, governor are all Democrats. The state legislature has a Democratic majority

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