@pkratt.bsky.social
Born in 1949, I am a liberal patriot who loves mankind and all life. I am doing all I can to protect us from a Climate Crisis and mean-spirited oligarchs in politics. I also bicycle, read, and search for life's best answers.
"When Republicans engage in blatant efforts to suppress the vote, as they are in Texas and they are preparing to do elsewhere ahead of 2026, Democrats must stand up for democracy."
15.08.2025 10:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"Hope is a not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced."
10.08.2025 10:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0“The path to peace can not be decided without Ukraine.”--UK, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Finland, and the president of the EU Commission
10.08.2025 10:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Trump is urging Texas to dilute the voting power of millions of people of colour and further skew an already deeply partisan map.
10.08.2025 10:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Trump and Republicans are) aware that their program is deeply unpopular and that they expect to lose control of the House of Representatives in 2026 unless they rig the system.”
“It is a truism that democracies die more often through the ballot box than at gunpoint.”
"Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is cancelling at least $500 million worth of awards and contracts to develop mRNA vaccines. These vaccines include those that addressed covid."
07.08.2025 12:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"The Department of Homeland Security continues to echo the language of Nazis, posting today, “Serve your country! Defend your culture.” It does not appear that people are rushing to sign up."
07.08.2025 11:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"On July 29, Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) led a number of his Democratic colleagues in reintroducing a measure to restore and expand the Voting Rights Act."
06.08.2025 11:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“The peril…isn’t a potential recession; it’s losing highly reliable, accurate and transparent data on the health of the world’s largest economy.”
05.08.2025 10:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"Trump and the Republicans would not be trying to rig the system (including gerrymandering) if they thought they could win a majority of voters."
04.08.2025 10:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"Columbia University (has a) new agreement with the Trump regime stipulat(ing) a mutually agreed-upon “monitor” who will, like CBS’s ombudsman, respond to complaints about “bias.”
31.07.2025 11:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"CBS has agreed to put in place an internal political “bias monitor” who will report to the president of Paramount to make sure the channel’s news coverage is favorable to Trump and the right wing."
31.07.2025 11:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1"(Is) the Trump administration gearing up to actively flout the authority of the Article III branch of government in a direct and unequivocal fashion?"
31.07.2025 10:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"Every person, as a human being, has absolute and inviolable value, "human dignity". Our supreme duty is to recognize and ensure it."
30.07.2025 11:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
