Sagan felt that the dumbing down of America was most evident in the rejection of science and the growing ignorance of history, art, literature, music and the humanities. If we're to reserve course, we need to revive mass education and literacy.

Sagan envisioned a future in which the public is uninformed and superstitious. “The dumbing down of America,” he writes, “is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content, the 30-second soundbites … but especially a kind of widespread celebration of ignorance.”

Carl Sagan, writing in 1995, warned that soon America would be ruled by illiterate elites wielding “awesome technological powers,” and that most people, their brains broken by screens, would be unable to resist. We are living in the nightmare that Sagan foresaw.

Senate Dems are not caving. Some people just have a compulsion to talk about Dems caving.

SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment. jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...

“If they are using tear gas, they better be able to back it up,” U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis said Oct. 28. “And if they can’t, then they will lose that as something they can use.”

William Wolfe—a friend of Kevin Roberts & co-editor of the explicit “Statement on Christian Nationalism” manifesto—wants his fellow right wingers to know that “If you’re attacking @JDVance” (whose deputy press secretary is Tucker Carlson’s son), then “you’re not on the team.” Replies are brutal. 1/

"Outsourcing our flagship state university’s future to drop-in budget consultants is not the way forward" -- Jeffrey Dudas, President of UConn AAUP @uconnaaup.bsky.social

137 followers, raging imbecile who thinks every leftist who doesn't tow the line perfectly is a nazi. Thinks a yellow ribbon referring to the return of the hostages is akin to hitleresque behavior. This is the part of the left that needs to be lobotomized. The ones who are mindf**ked beyond help.

This proves a point I’ve been trying to get across. Corp media is being paid to write, record and broadcast only that which elon, thiel, sacks, putin, koch, rupert, singer, leo, crow, zuckerberg, bezos, musk, et al want us to read, hear and or watch.

We will not let Minnesotans go hungry.

Trump's tariffs are hurting us in two ways: First, the obvious: Higher costs → either lower profits or higher prices. Second, more subtle (perhaps bigger): We’ve signaled we’re an unreliable partner, so allies are reorganizing supply chains to avoid us. That's hard to unwind.

Going to where the people are ... "The cottage industry quietly manipulating chatbots’ replies. Superpowers are exploiting a new front in the world’s propaganda wars" www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

"Russian propaganda is present in one in five artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot answers about Ukraine, according to a new report." www.euronews.com/next/2025/11...

👏🏻👏🏻 So important to understand that KBJ is playing Trump like a fiddle. She kept her power over the situation so he couldn't run crying to one of his pet Justices. All anger should be directed at a president who's angry at the thought of NOT being able to starve people so beneath his notice.

I miss when social media was fun. Before the Nazi takeover.

saw this. had to share.

Leftists: "Why do so many Black and Jewish voters reject DSA!" Because we have millennia of experience with extremists. We can't afford "progressives" luxury of falling for lofty promises or ignoring candidates' track records of hateful rhetoric or acts. That's way, geniuses.

This feels like 1789 and 1929 again all at once.

Mar-a-Lago members cheering for Trump as he heads to his patio table to meet with undisclosed people who paid for access

Donald makes decisions For existing problems Based on which Billionaire Gets to steal the most money And what his cut will be

This was GenX’s entire childhood 😂

In 2001, terrorists tried to destroy the White House with a hijacked plane. 24 years later, the president of the United States accepted a plane from people funding terrorists and destroyed the White House himself.🔄

Sure but it's the Gwen Shamblin effect. At a certain point in cult development there's just no one around who dares tell you how you actually look. And you're getting so much flattery about your appearance and everything else that you start to believe it

Yes, they will. #WorldBollardAssociation

Heads up #StayReadyCrew❗️ If you’re shipping stuff this will probably effect your shipping times.

Every age of everyone of fthem. I want it!!!

I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.

Upon reflection, electing a president who has nothing to lose because he’s been granted immunity and is at death’s door seems like not a great idea

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Huh. Moisturizer actually works.

What’s happening with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is a really important lesson. It is so dangerous when all we do is read a headline or, if you’re an influencer, all you do is post a headline. There is no way a headline can capture the nuance of how to outwit her fellow justices. 1/2

🧵 I was 19 working part time at a shoe store when my supervisor kept having me and the other teenage girls try on shoes (of course he was the one putting them on us). I complained to the manager, nothing was done.

Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski were going to buy 10 jets without engines from Spririt Airlines that Spirit didn't own. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

They have had 15 years to think about an alternative to Obamacare and the alternative is

A viral online video, which claims to show "Ukrainian soldiers" threaten to kill Charlie Kirk's wife Erika Kirk, is fake. Not only do the "soldiers" in the clip speak Ukrainian with a notably strong Russian accent, but it has hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign known as Storm-1516.

I spent my entire life observing and learning “whiteness” and white American history (the coddle and lie to them revisionist history) to stay safe. That is what “woke” actually means. Staying aware of the dangerous patterns white people bring into Black lives. Woke = be aware of white danger

Listen to THIS before you do this:🤬 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

to be clear, this is not just a problem with ChatGPT or AI in general, but a corporate and regulatory climate so bent on inflating value and so immune from consequence that the human cost is just a rounding error. Monstrousness is not just inevitable; it’s required.

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

the dodos just look like awful B movie villains. They basically said if we can’t starve people and take away their healthcare we’re just gonna punish Americans in other ways. He backed them into a corner and you might think it’s caving but it’s damn good politics. 🤷🏾‍♀️

a clean CR they’ve been claiming to want (that’s a damn lie and Schumer proved that) but they would have had to extend ACA credits for a year separately. On top of that…if they agree to 1 year that makes it a midterm issue that favors Dems. All of that would have helped the middle class but now

I know folks love to shit on Schumer because he doesn‘t scream and wag his finger but what he did today was pretty smart. Between the orange demon throwing a fit because he can’t starve Americans and the GQP even refusing to do this…Republicans look like huge a-holes. They would have gotten

Schumer has decades of experience doing this. I suspect a lot of the people dismissing and belittling him just hate Jews.

COUNTER POINT: OR HE MADE REPUBLICANS WILLINGLY VOLUNTEER TO ADMIT THEY'RE TO BLAME FOR THE SHUTDOWN AND EVERYTHING THAT GOES ALONG WITH IT IN JUST A HALF HOUR. AND MANAGED TO EXPOSE WHINY BITCHES WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT POLITICS SIMULTANEOUSLY! INCREDIBLY EFFICIENT! DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE WORD MEANS?

The last Presidential election’s results, will be the costliest lesson in American history. Nothing was more important than keeping Donald Trump out of office. Nothing.

pretty simple, a bunch of billionaires got together and decided they wanted a legit private country, and chose OURS