Christel

He's doing it again

Happy birthday from a real person!

Can one of you look into this, @caseynewton.bsky.social, @karissabe.bsky.social, @cwarzel.bsky.social, @karaswisher.bsky.social?

Politics Chat, April 1, 2025 YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

How is this ok? @hcrichardson.bsky.social casually mentions that she's being shadow-banned on Facebook. www.youtube.com/live/fUR3qFT...

Just added @barackobama.bsky.social to this list. Welcome to Bluesky, Mr. President.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

I predicted he would walk back the tariffs. It's a way to manipulate the stock market, which he did last time around. Day traders can make money in a volatile market & capitalize on price fluctuations, especially when they know what's driving the market. I wonder who is buying low this week.

Lesotho is a tiny landlocked kingdom; an enclave, surrounded by South Africa. Unlike you, Trump pronounced it correctly (luh-SOO-too.) It's a tell? It makes me wonder about Musk's involvement with the first part of his speech. Did they brainstorm together? And what might be Musk's beef with Lesotho?

I so appreciate your analysis, looking at underlying principles and consequences of Trump's strategies. Here are two things to consider...

Sir Winston Churchill wore his air-raid suit during his 1942 White House visit, deviating from the formal dress code.

The air-raid suit, also known as the siren suit, is a one-piece outfit that was designed to be quickly put on and taken off on the way to air-raid shelters.

The German word “Ruchlosigkeit” translates to “ruthlessness,” “wickedness,” or “villainy” in English, depending on the context. It refers to a lack of moral scruples, a disregard for ethical considerations, or extreme unscrupulousness.

If Kathy Hochul, Gavin Newsom & J. B. Pritzker were the leaders of the biggest EU countries would they always speak as one? And would they be able to keep all the other Dem governors aligned, with a couple of Rep governors thrown in the mix too? All while keeping the support of their voters...?

“Just leave us alone. You’re making our lives absolutely unbearable.”

Carla Antonelli (@carlaantonelli.bsky.social) is the first openly trans person elected to the Cortes Generales in Spain. Hear her voice!

I, for one, don’t think Governor Pritzker is overreacting or sounding the alarm too soon.

Thank you for your courageous leadership.

Are you saying there is hope?

Cory Doctorow wrote an insightful reflection on this in 2022. pluralistic.net/2022/10/29/h...

At a presser, Trump says about Ukraine:

“I’ve been watching these people being killed at levels you’ve rarely seen, not even close since WII.”

“Their cities are being knocked down.”

No member of the press asks him to clarify who is doing the killing and knocking down. It is painful to watch.

I started a list to help me gain perspective on the fast-moving changes in our world. So far, it has 34 accounts, incl. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social @noupside.bsky.social, @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @marcelias.bsky.social, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Who else should I add?

There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America

Did Musk fire hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees to increase "efficiency"? I don't think so. There is a better explanation:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

While Europe grapples with cognitive dissonance about the potential loss of US support, I wonder if the leaders gathered in Paris are considering the possibility of not just losing an ally but gaining an enemy. After all, Greenland is Danish and Canada's head of state is the British king.

Now do Germany!

Leadership is often conflated with managing people. True leadership is the willingness to take a stand, even alone. It requires integrity, courage & holding onto principles under pressure.

Danielle Sassoon demonstrated moral leadership by refusing to comply with a directive she believed was unjust.

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, July 16th “And, again, sir, I’m so sorry that I called you America’s Hitler, and so relieved that you took it as a compliment.”

@newyorker.com’s cartoonist
@paulnoth.bsky.social called it last summer. www.newyorker.com/cartoons/dai...

"May you be happy, may you be peaceful, may you feel the love inside you and share it well." —James Baraz

My dear friend and mentor Joan Judson shared these words, which are based on Metta phrases (expressions of lovingkindness for ourselves and others.)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Your conversations with the AI language model are stored on OpenAI’s servers.

Imagine Elon Musk getting access to everything you’ve ever confided in ChatGPT.

I’m grateful for the Internet Archive, and their Wayback Machine. For decades they’ve been saving older versions of websites. And now that several government websites have been taken down, the information that was on them is still available on the site! Thank you, @brewster.kahle.org and team. 🙏🏻

Listening to Joni Mitchell singing Both Sides Now at last night’s Fire Aid is much better than having the news on.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Wishing friends around the world a Happy Lunar New Year!
Chúc Mừng Năm Mới!
새해 복 많이 받으세요!
新年快樂!
新年快乐!

“This Week with George Stephanopoulos” with Martha Raddatz on the first Sunday of the new administration.