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Florida, do you want a senator with such callous disregard for human beings? No You Do Not. As usual, the GOP solution to every problem is to push the problem on to the little guy, and take a bribe (or “donation”) from the wealthy owner. newrepublic.com/article/2169...

This week, I was quenched in joy at a Paul Simon concert, finished reading ‘Time’s Second Arrow’ and absolutely fell in love with the song The Riddle by Five for Fighting on my first listen. These three things have a great deal in common. I love you free.

Stuck on the vicious cruelty of those “Americans” arbitrarily blocking visits by spouses and even little children of detained immigrants at Delaney Hall, using lame pretexts like Crocs or leggings on a 4-year old or not wearing a bra. Senseless, repulsive Nazis. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’m a glutton. Greedily I scroll and feed on photos by strangers: Art, birds, a street in Japan. Moss, sunset, water. Glossy NatGeo snacks of youth replaced by “More! More! More!” every hour. Sixty four years of real life, yet I still crave to suck the last drops of beauty from this gorgeous earth.

Just to recap: Russia is currently helping Iranian forces try to kill US troops. In response, Trump is… lifting sanctions on Russia and threatening to pull out of NATO, which are the #1 and #2 items on Putin’s wishlist

You don’t have to lie effectively the Republicans discovered. It’s enough to delay accusations until the next news cycle (which is increasingly shorter as MSM capitulates). Now after 24-48 hours, due to attention span deficit, most Americans are bored and on to the next story. A 3 min Ted talk gen.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

I was thinking that maybe, more than 20 years after the start of the Iraq war, media coverage would be more skeptical and less sycophantic No such luck

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

"Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy but by sophisticated networks relying on kleptocratic financial structures, a complex of security services—military, paramilitary, police—and technological experts who provide surveillance, propaganda, and disinformation." - Anne Applebaum

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