This is Kristi Noem's america. Pete Hegseth's america. Donald Trump's america.

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Today's Kirk quote: "I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."

Imagine... what our world would be like if all this energy combatting evil actors in politics could be go into art, science, fun, philosophy, ideas, literature. Wild disagreements over Joyce's Ulysses and comparisons of pop culture to classic musical works. "Agree to disagree" still retains ethics.

Today's Kirk quote, thanks to "Brainy Quote": "Democrats have long been the party of voter fraud."

Today's Charlie Kirk quote: “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified" Lest we forget...

This 'skill' will be obsolete by 2027. This is like going to school to learn cheat codes for Elder Scrolls IV. Might as well teach how to fax. The demand is going to be for people with critical thinking skills, ethics, who can research.

Please share any sightings! #KilroyWasHere #Kilroy #Resist

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Happy Constitution Day. To share the document with others, consider doing your own Voice the Constitution. Everything you need to do one is here: TheGreatCollaboration.org

Regressives are trying to make a hero of Kirk, and many journalists are letting them. Remind editors & writers to include an identifier when referring to this guy: he pushed an ideology that urged repression and punishment for anyone not white or cis-gendered.

I really thought that the UK cops would be better than this. What was I thinking?

So the tRump Regressives can say absolutely anything they want about anyone they want, no matter how violent or cruel the words. But let any of us say a single word about a neo-Nazi bullshit artist who got himself killed and we get fired and our lives threatened. Kind of an imbalance I'm thinking...

The best analysis I have read so far. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

They are goading us. The GOP thought fanatics are trying to turn us into the aggressors, in words and (they hope) in deeds. Don't let them. Choose compassion; choose hope; choose nonviolence. But most of all, duck.

Don't say what you think. Just don't. The bullies are in control. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just another leaf in the giant pile of lies coming from these Republicans: www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

I just finished Leonie Smith's latest book "Fair Wind to a Steel Breeze". Fast moving action, sexy, and set in a believable future world where corporations rule and treat people like kleenex. I recommend this novella to Sci-Fi fans & those who enjoy a cracking good story. Available on Amazon.

KEEP REMINDING people that every time they use AI they are having massive effects on the planet, both through water & electricity use. Make it count if you absolutely HAVE to use it...

Authoritarianism is fast and brutal; Democracy is slow and often painful. No wonder we are getting our asses handed to us.

Today's haul from the Rochester Book Crawl. 4 bookstores last Sunday, 5 today. A fun and successful challenge! 8 to go, but I'm not going to be a completist on this... #RochesterBookCrawl #SecondhandBookstores #IndependentBookstores

Strongly recommended! A wonderful blend of a family's history and a coming of age story, as well as a saga of early immigration. Hard to put down as the story sweeps you up. Available on Amazon.

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. – Benjamin Franklin

Just fabulous

Without question

My very first Lehrer was The Vatican Rag. What a fabulous life.

I find it interesting that young people assume that because I'm in my late 60s, I don't like swearing, naughty jokes and am politically conservative. Actually, the opposite is true. As I age I swear more, enjoy crude jokes and am more radically leftist than I've every been in my life.

Hulk Hogan. He's ripped off his last Trump shirt to reveal a smaller, tighter Trump shirt beneath.

Exactly!

A rainy, cloudy day in Rochester, NY means popcorn, Old-Fashioneds and 1950s Sci-Fi. At our house, at least.

People keep asking me: "why did you move to Rochester from Colorado?" Every week: original and innovative music, deep art in galleries, poetry from Writers & Books, makers at Flower City Arts. Tons of special restaurants & bars. Record Archive, House of Guitars. A freakin' Great Lake. 4 Seasons.

I am exhausted by requests for money from people in office. I'm done with them financially. They need to do their job and earn their salaries, not my old age pension money. My contributions are going to people helping people, doctors without borders, lawyers for immigrants, people on the ground.

Probably the best place to be right now, talking resistance, talking rebuilding.

Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

In what one can only say is the most ironic of names for things, we are facing the "Lone Star Tick" and it's giving us "Alpha Gal" which includes an allergy to red meat. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Time to call your Senators & Representative.

So why aren't Democratic congresspeople lining up to get inside these detention centers? They are the only people allowed by law to tour, and if DHS won't let them, bring in the lawyers! C'MON DEMOCRATS! What is stopping you?

Mamdani's win should finally help budge the Dems into Progressive directions. Too long have they allowed "cuddle up in the Center" to dominate their strategy.

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I saw this yesterday in a shop window on Monroe Avenue in Rochester, NY

"Our history matters. Juneteenth is the celebration of a new nation, one that would honor the equality of all Americans—and one that, 160 years after it was established, we are in danger of losing as those in power set about rewriting the record." – Heather Cox Richardson

I don't understand why the media has caved to tRump's "Rule by Tweet" (or whatever the stupid things are called). They should be saying "we have not yet heard officially from the White House..." and ignore the tweets, or at least say "rumored on social media is..."