Funny the government wants to shift through visa applicants social media feeds but not release the Epstein files

Struck me kinda funny Funny yeah, indeed How at the end of every hard-earned day People find some reason to believe

Fallacies and arguments. Its good to have language and framework to navigate our world . yea to philosophy! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informa...

It’s really hard to be an oppressed minority

They’ve come for the shire

Like “waiting for the man” music.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-m...

Saw the Venezuelan boat destroyed on tv today. Hard to shake the death caused by government action. It feels like an opening shot into a new age. But also part of violent history. Trying to build peace within my community.

Gonna start calling everything I don’t like a scam. Kinda like Holden Caufield!

Pardons all around!

“Well, he got no allies to really speak of What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side He's the neighborhood bully” Bob Dylan

Using the phrase ”double tap” to describe the extrajudicial executions off the coast of Venezuela is a sad use of language. Right next to collateral damage and friendly fire. The poets shake.

So good youtu.be/GOjbj1q5ia0?...

These stories

Other Gen X or Millennial parents watching Stranger Things? feel like the cast has grown up alongside my kids. Great to see Gen Z kids being heroes and supporting each other

Saw Stoppard’s Travesties in London when I was 22. It blew my mind in the way art can do for a young man. sorry to hear of his passing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travest...

“People come, people go Some grow young, some grow cold I woke up in between A memory and a dream” Tom Petty

Songs to listen to while walking in your parents neighborhood on a holiday while traveling in time

Watching Thanksgiving day parade with family. America is so weird!

“Well I've been to Broker, and I've been to Mi canopy I've been to St. Louis too, I've been all around the world I've been over to your house And you've been over sometimes to my house I've slept in your tree house My middle name is Earl“ tom petty

Wearing trousers and a button down shirt With a belt. Hope it improves my experience today www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/s...

Listening to Full Moon Fever in the car then Wildflowers playing in the grocery store. Tom petty kind of day! music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Librarians rock! Great planning meeting today

“Down in the shadow of the penitentiary Out by the gas fires of the refinery I'm ten years burning down the road Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go” Springsteen

My friend Chris has written an important book. So glad I got to read it with him in a small group setting. It’s reconciliation and healing and breathing Creator life into the indigenous and Christian stories prairielights.com/event/2025-1...

Read this book. I just finished it. They synthesize their podcast into a coherent and hopeful story www.lifeaftercars.com

We are hope despite the times music.youtube.com/watch?v=7vgE...

Forgot what a well-paced movie this is. Watched with my son on our Monday movie night. Reminded how many years of reporting it took to take down the whole scheme. That teletype ending “Nixon resigns” is pretty sweet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the...

David French had compassionate thoughts about next steps for the USA www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...

Are there a few cracks in the Unified executive theory? Or growing pains?

This section packs a punch the photo intro is haunting humanity is dark and questioned war when we dont see each other is living human bodies whitmanweb.iwp.uiowa.edu/song-myself/...

All the president’s men in motion!

“Bloom how you must i say” Lucille Clifton

Sigh

Feels a bit like Feb 2020 before everything shut down

Will flights to and from blue states be targeted for reductions?

Who supports communism and who supports common sense? I’m confused

I feel like the term polarizing has lost its meaning. I’m going to replace it with antagonizing. I think it better reflects what we’re seeing about political differences

For no particular reason, reminding y'all that Brown U scholars estimate that U.S. led post-9/11 war & violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, & Pakistan from 2001-2023 resulted in a total death toll of at least 4.5-4.7 million people & counting, mostly Muslim civilians. Still no WMDs though.🤔

I voted early today. I travelled by bike to my county auditors office. Democracy.

Spending Sunday night with Wilco music.youtube.com/watch?v=qS0d...

A great evening with Yo-Yo Ma dailyiowan.com/2025/10/30/r...

Will the US seek a UN resolution to intervene in Venezuela, Colombia, and Nigeria? What’s status of international law?

A reminder of how poorly the lead up to the 2003 Iraq invasion was conducted.

Crypto sports betting AI legal weed fentanyl drones. Tech just gets better and better

Talked to a group about my work with Amnesty International in the 1980s and 1990s. Human rights was a growing and popular concern in part bc of concerts with stars like these