Matthew Dowd

everything Republicans warned about the Democrats doing for year, the GOP and Trump are actually doing to our government and country. GOP screamed about govt overreach, they yelled about autocracy, and they moaned about loss of freedoms. The GOP is doing all this.

Perfect choice of Flannery 0’Connor quotes after last week’s jobs reports and Trump’s response.
Now consider one from Orwell:
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”

yours too.

Good morning, Matthew. Thank you for a lovely start to my Sunday. May yours be enjoyable. 🌞💙🦋

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
~Flannery O’Connor

Sadly true, as much as I wish recent events weren’t true.

All good messages 👆🏼👇🏼

happy bday South African artist Marlene Dumas, b.1953, she is based in the Netherlands.

"I know that neither images nor words,
can escape the drunkenness and
longing caused by the turning
of the world.
Words and images drink the same wine.
There is no purity to protect.”

...ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning.
And so you dare to be happy.
You do that thing.
You dare.”

happy bday writer Steven Millhauser, b.1943, NYC, won 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

“So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and...

RIP writer Flannery O’Connor, died this day 1964.

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”

“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”

thank you. you too.

...we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream."

happy bday English writer Ernest Dowson, b.1867

"They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream."

"Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees.... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn,...

...in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality."

happy bday writer Isabel Allende, b.1942, Lima, Peru.

"You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not."

"I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back,...

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

happy bday one of my favs writer James Baldwin, b.1924, NYC.

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.”

I always appreciate your smart, unflinching analysis.

We need to force everyone in the news to start doing the same. We don't have much time left.

thank you.

Pray 🙏 for goodness to win the day!!!

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Good morning, Matthew. May women continue to pursue their dreams and soar. 💙🦋

yes.

On this day 1911 Harriet Quimby, pioneering aviator, became the first woman in the U.S. to receive a pilot's license.

"I was annoyed from the start by the attitude of doubt by the spectators that I would never really make the flight. This attitude made me more determined than ever to succeed."

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happy bday writer Herman Melville, b.1819, NYC.

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”

You all should watch @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social 30 July episode
Please listen to what @matthewjdowd.bsky.social said at the end of the episode about a spider web catching something #MAGA hadn’t anticipated
It made me spit my drink🤣🤣🤣🤣

Good morning, Matthew. I'm superior to no one. My mind is open, and I still crave knowledge.🌞💙

@matthewjdowd.bsky.social keepin it real👊😄👊