@maxineruvinsky.bsky.social

Congrats and admiration to the millions of Americans who marched on No KIngs Day. May your tribe increase.

Credit where credit's due!

"Crazy talk" (as opposed to merely "stupid talk") ". . . requires that we be mystified, suspend critical judgment, accept premises without question, and (frequently) abandon entirely the idea that language ought to be connected with reality.” [Neil Postman, 1976]

YAY!

About Emperor Lego: JT is, as per usual, right on.

"Richard Nixon, on the basis of this sort of reasoning [that the worst of humans also deserve representatives] could have defended himself by arguing that since there are so many criminals in America they deserve to be represented by a President who is himself a criminal." [Neil Postman, 1976]

All true; what's strange is how American speechifiers keep saying stuff like "that's not who we are" when that clearly is who they are." Let's hope that's not all they are.

“From Putin to Modi to Xi to Trump, thugs dominate the globe, inciting tribal violence while they steal their nations blind. In its unchecked cruelty and unbearable pain, the destruction of Gaza is a symbol of our age.” – Peter Beinart

Yah, that was pretty funny. Consequences of RFK at the helm, not so funny.

Read this. Right on.

Thanks, I'll check it out. I'm incensed by people who want to argue about whether or not to call the Gaza abomination a genocide. Call it whatever you like. Only STOP it. Ending the massive suffering and death in Gaza is what matters (not arguments over what to call it).

Agree. A good start and good riddance.

That's disgusting, but take it as a compliment.

@tuka108.bsky.social

Happy birthday, Stretch!

I don't put anything past them now, and that's what scares me. I've never understood this kind of malignant ill will, and I'm not sure I want to. On the other hand, I think now, that I must (seek to understand it), if only for my own protection.

YES. It's beyond scary.

About so-called "collective right": Collective rights that abrogate, attenuate, or deny human rights are not rights--they're wrongs.

Beyond the Pale, yes. Exactly.

In that moment I understood . . . that this secret war was waged against something more than the Taskmasters of Virginia, that we sought not merely to improve the world, but to remake it.” – Ta Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

“Slavery was the root of all struggle. For it was said that the factories enslaved the hands of children, and that child-bearing enslaved the bodies of women, and that rum enslaved the souls of men.

Just read Jack Todd's sports article. I know nothing at all about sports (usually have to ask 'What game do they play?'), but I was running out of JT reading and re-reading material. Amazed again at the strength of voice in all kinds of writing. In JT's case: unmistakable, inimitable, compelling.

Along with the U.S. Constitution and the mega profits of the war mongers.

Exactly.

Tell it, Brother.

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." [Edgar Degas]

True that. You'd think people who can still think might have got this by now. (Maybe not . . . )

Mark Carney did OK in his meeting with The Mad King Donald Chump. Stephen Marche did even better in his interview following the WH meeting.

Exactly. Couldn't have said it better myself.

Really cannot imagine reading much less re-reading such "semiliterate trash" (or else it's that I'm reluctant to even try to understand, and thereby maybe risk some kind of foul contagion!).

Too true. But hate is self-consuming, so PP will end the way all tyrants end. The problem is the damage he'll do before he's done.