Keith Flippen - Patsy Rodenburg Associate Teacher

Heather, I adore your daily emails and am eternally grateful to you for "holding the frame" of normalcy/reality by placing current events in historical context when we could so easily become untethered. Please forgive my language but this disgusting, old, racist, pedophile fuck can jump off. Sorry.

Oh, dear, yes! "Shrimp and Grits" definitely play differently if heard by a Cockney audience. VERY funny and good catch there! Hey, @garyjamesactor.bsky.social keep this in mind when we go to Dollywood ;-)

Whaaaat? This exists??

The difference between 🤍 Pride and Black Pride

over time the american oligarchy has so selected for grifters and charlatans that they are now incapable of producing a Business Plot 2

Ever since I was a child I’ve pondered botany as a record of history noting clear examples of landscaping where there were no longer structures. This is just lovely.

Beautiful! That’s a keeper.

I see what you’re saying but it’s authoritarian and textbook fascist, by definition. Or mafia. Communism would be a change of economics away from private ownership of the means of production instead of privatizing everything and funneling federal money to friends that own the companies.

White nationalists use tiki torches to light up Charlottesville march | CNN White nationalists descended Friday night on the University of Virginia campus with burning tiki torches – lending a distinctly but likely unintentional Polynesian aura to a white nationalist group’s ...

Which "conservatives" exactly, WSJ?

Because I think you're talking about these guys:

www.cnn.com/2017/08/12/u...

Pure Americana.

Not without the key… but I guess they could seize the digital wallet IF they could find it.

Blaming women and minorities for “these wings being so damned hot.”

YES!!

and 100X more worthless

Bingo... once Gingrich and Norquist got their hands on the GOP, the rot started to take hold cause the Birchers got a foothold.

When the American Nuremberg trials come for this administration, and they will, none of their assets will be able to be seized because they are all in crypto. This is why the GENIUS Act was a betrayal of law and justice.

Tell me I didn't nail it. I just wish people would stop telling me to shut up because I'm too negative and don't give people "hope".

I've done better at prognosticating the future than any of the pundits who get way more attention, and way more money. I can clearly see where we're going now as well

Trump fired a commissioner over bad jobs numbers. Nixon targeted a ‘Jewish cabal’ at the same agency Fifty years-plus after Nixon demanded a tally of Jewish staffers at the BLS, Trump fired Erika McEntarfer over numbers he didn’t like.

The last time a president didn’t like the numbers the Bureau of Labor Statistics was crunching, it took a dark antisemitic turn.

A look back at Nixon's targeting of a 'Jewish cabal' at the same agency. forward.com/fast-forward...

Assassinating this criminal is so much cheaper and the world would be better off.

Sounds about right!

Let’s be honest, Mamet’s misogyny has always been a problem and now he’s found a community that will love him for it.

I don’t know how to tell you this but unity has been business as usual for one side of the political spectrum but the other has chosen to take unilateral control. Don’t “both sides” the current division when democrats are just defending ourselves now against existential threat to democracy.

Days after $5 million donation to MAGA Inc., Trump freezes Medicare waste crackdown Trump pledged to root out "waste, fraud and abuse." Then a big contribution to his Super PAC came in.

1. On February 24, Extremity Care LLC, a company that sells very expensive bandages made from placentas, donated $5 MILLION TO TRUMP'S SUPER PAC

Days later, Trump froze a pending rule that would BAR MEDICARE FROM COVERING EXTREMITY CARE'S PRODUCTS, which are overpriced & not backed by science.

This is what is happening right now.

Overall I agree with this except for the support of AI which undermines the greatest value in the arts - the learning and practice of craft.

The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election The executive branch is interfering in U.S. elections in unprecedented ways.

I’m not a doomer, but seeing all of this stuff laid out in one place, combined with seeing continued reports of businesses and universities and law firms capitulating to threats, combined with SCOTUS seemingly rubber stamping everything, makes me really, really apprehensive.

Know Your Enemy I have repeatedly referred to this battle against Christian fascism and nationalistm in our country as a war. In war you have friends and foes. Its important to know who your foes are so that you n…

We know who they are recruiting too. #ProudBoys #3%ers #OathKeepers #RightWing #racists who have been salivating at the mouth waiting for this day for years, some for decades. These people want a whiter, more #Christian AmeriKKKa. brett-harper.com/2025/07/04/k...

Fight Everywhere or Lose Everything! (w/ David Pepper) John Avlon talks with David Pepper about how gerrymandering is undermining democracy, Trump’s push for new congressional maps in Texas, and how everyday citizens can fight back by running for local of...

Fight Everywhere or Lose Everything! (w/ David Pepper)
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

This enrages me.

This is how you fight back: with courage, strategy, and zero patience for authoritarian bullshit. Jasmine reminding everyone that breaking quorum wasn’t cowardice: it was resistance. Let’s match that energy all the way to November this year in key elections in Virginia and beyond