@kirbyjr.bsky.social
Liberal Democrat. Husband, father and grandfather. 34 years experience building and managing complex eLearning systems. 12 years consulting in East Africa. Founder & former VP at Michigan Virtual, and former Distinguished Professor at LCC.
Looks like he parked it to me.
He was never very good with numbers. Cancer staging stops at four not five.
Ramblings of a mad man.
Just going to repost my essay "Decapitation Strike" essay from November. We are living through it now.
snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
Do it as soon as possible
'My plan is to blow the whistle': Fired FTC official puts Trump on notice www.rawstory.com/trump-bedoya...
It’s like the malign and the stupid are in a race every day.
I'm hoping she logged into her account directly to look at messages and status.
As I told @TheGuardian, DOJ’s halt of corruption enforcement efforts harms consumers and other members of the public.
And so here it is all laid out. The intention to overturn the Civil
Rights Act,to dismantle the Dept of Education, to bankrupt leading universities, to replace liberal arts education w/something that conservatives haven’t created & don’t have the educators to create. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...
"My hope now is that we see more Democrats embrace independent media. My hope is that we see them let their guard down and go into uncomfortable spaces and take risks and forget about the polls and be a lot more real so that we know who they are and what they’re doing and how they’re fighting back."
“We are watching the authoritarian playbook unfold at an intense pace, often making it hard to grasp how interconnected the antagonistic acts are…If they succeed at blocking free speech & silencing dissent, the ability to know what’s true & false will grow dimmer.”
open.substack.com/pub/america/...
Saguaro National Monument, Tucson AZ.
Mike Myers Makes Surprise “SNL” Cameo as Elon Musk in Cold-Open Spoof of Zelenskyy’s Disastrous Meeting with Trump: Watch people.com/mike-myers-m...
“Let’s not underestimate the seismic shift away from Trump’s America that Friday’s Oval Office assault is causing and will accelerate around the world. Every democratic nation that assumed America was its ally must now reassess its relationship.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/as-trump-w...
FULL PAGE AD in today’s NYT by Cuban American businessman Mike Fernandez savaging the Trump Administration and calling for 5 GOP senators: McConnell, Murkowski, Collins, Tillis, & Curtis to band together to stop him.
New in PN: @marceldirsus.bsky.social on the rise and fall of tyrants
"Democracies can survive a lot, but they collapse when soldiers, police officers, and intelligence agents no longer serve the state ... that's sort of the absolute worst-case scenario."
Seems like why the meeting imploded was more like "Trump is senile and has lost all impulse control and JD Vance is pickled in online fash propaganda" www.semafor.com/article/02/2...
I’m pretty sure the number of Nazi salutes at an event that makes it a Nazi rally is one but I guess it’s nice all these CPAC speakers are offering confirmation
Well done sir.
#emails2DOGE
@carolleonnig.bsky.social
For Trump it was a joke by Obama.
“The Trump administration understands that it does not have absolute power and that it must rely on creating a false illusion of power to create a chilling effect to get everyday people to respond to fear, comply in advance, and censor their own free speech.”
www.publicnotice.co/p/aoc-homan-...
Trump is a Russian
Maybe he'd be happier there.
Folks are asking, “what should I do in this moment?” One of the most passionate, progressive voices in Congress for 30 years, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden answers that question. Here’s our conversation, inside a replica of the Senate chamber at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute: youtu.be/n_nQ-Moa9fI?...
