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Retired lawyer, Philhellene, wannabe philosopher but still just a philotheamon. SF Bay Area, Greece (Μεσσηνία), Michigan. Interested in the Rule of Justice, FoE, disestablishment, Mediterranean cultures & history, and defeating fascism and the Confederacy.

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And the GOP says that a national health plan “would require people to change doctors.” That phenomenon has been the norm of employee-provided health care for decades as (a) people change jobs, (b) employers change plans, and (c) doctors change networks.

09.10.2025 21:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Content is what is inside a container, like Niblets or Cheerios, or maybe furniture inside a house. When it gets consumed, the residue is waste, like ash or poop. Those terms are “inventory” framing, inappropriate for creative expression. Expression and information get experienced, shared, learned.

09.10.2025 18:03 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Are Democrats working on a Project 2026 and Project 2028? They had better be doing those. Failure would be dereliction of duty.

26.09.2025 15:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I offer this teaching video to Ron De Santis and his Florida teachers for their “classical” curriculum gender lessons. Watch to the end. This is a second century CE Roman copy of a second century BCE Greek original.

23.09.2025 09:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Interesting idea actually

18.09.2025 04:16 — 👍 1621    🔁 302    💬 46    📌 10

I have never heard of anyone getting offended because someone shared MLK’s or Lincoln’s or FDR’s words online. Weird to be offended when your hero is simply being quoted.

16.09.2025 16:18 — 👍 304    🔁 71    💬 2    📌 3

Predictable for a long time.

16.09.2025 05:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I've followed the F-35 story for almost two decades.

This is a humiliating setback that would have been impossible to imagine—back before an ignorant prez and a vengeful MAGA began humiliating what had been the closest and most reliable (previous) US allies.

14.09.2025 18:13 — 👍 1366    🔁 374    💬 50    📌 15

This video is 100% worth watching.

Could be straight out of Red Guards at nadir of China's nihilist Cultural Revolution.

"What you are saying is illegal, because it goes against the views of Our President."

Remember when today's MAGA fans professed to bleed and die for cause of "free speech"?

09.09.2025 16:38 — 👍 661    🔁 138    💬 24    📌 5

It’s almost cartoonish how villainy Mamdani’s opposition turns out to be—and how much they seem set on helping him win.

“Joker, Penguin, and Riddler Weigh In Against Mamdani as Gotham Leader, Say ‘We Will Have To Abandon Life of Evil Criming If He’s Elected’”

09.09.2025 17:08 — 👍 116    🔁 31    💬 5    📌 1

I am so sorry for your loss.

01.09.2025 19:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Does the New York Times Keep Ignoring Polls Showing Mamdani Leading with Jewish Voters? Polling shows mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in a commanding lead with Jewish New Yorkers, but you won’t read about it in the paper of record.

A great question. #nyc #nyclife #newyorkcity

30.08.2025 23:22 — 👍 633    🔁 173    💬 31    📌 13

If only his two former bosses had not been totally invisible in fall 2024, when loudly & publicly telling people that reluctantly voting for the Democrat was the only democratic option left for lifelong, pro-democracy Republican voters might have made a difference.

31.08.2025 03:24 — 👍 166    🔁 17    💬 4    📌 0

I pray that Trump gets the best health care that RFK can provide.

31.08.2025 16:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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CHICAGO…

30.08.2025 17:50 — 👍 40129    🔁 9822    💬 1015    📌 801

His granddaughter looks about the right age for his taste.

30.08.2025 14:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Yup.

27.08.2025 21:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day.

Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

26.08.2025 21:31 — 👍 14750    🔁 5556    💬 285    📌 236
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Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion

26.08.2025 01:08 — 👍 35084    🔁 11066    💬 712    📌 463

I am inclined to believe that the all-black-and-white versions of the American flag are the fascist flag. Why would I be wrong?

26.08.2025 01:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think instead of “words and phrases” you really meant “topics.” Be honest. Maybe Democrats should be debating the best fishing lures or shotguns instead?

25.08.2025 16:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A major obstacle for folks attempting to defend democracy is that a perfectly accurate description of what Trump is attempting sounds like hysterical conspiracy theorizing to a lot of people. We default to “c’mon, that can’t happen here”—which is exactly why it can.

25.08.2025 14:08 — 👍 1377    🔁 351    💬 11    📌 26

Does “foreign authoritarianism” include Peter Thiel?

25.08.2025 16:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Then provide the clearer terms you think should replace them.

24.08.2025 23:22 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Stand your ground! No identification, no warrant? Legitimate to assume it is a criminal assault.

24.08.2025 16:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As a DC resident I'm firmly in favor of a jury strike during this occupation. If you're on grand jury duty, refuse to indict. If you're on trial jury, refuse to convict.

15.08.2025 00:36 — 👍 1748    🔁 261    💬 21    📌 15

Why did the chicken cross the road? RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

14.08.2025 15:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Texas DA who charged abortion patient with murder accused of once paying for one Three years after Texas prosecutors charged a woman with murder for inducing her own abortion, the local district attorney is accused of paying for an abortion while having an affair decades ago.

Of course: Texas DA once paid for abortion — then charged a woman who had one with murder, court filing claims

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

12.08.2025 19:36 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

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