#RicksCafeAmerica #Casablanca ​Rick: "Don't you sometimes wonder if it's worth all this? I mean, what you're fighting for." ​Laszlo: "You might as well question why we breathe. If we stop breathing, we'll die. If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die."

Salutes to Sean on his testimony ... It matters. With around 120 days to the midterms. Congressional members are listening deeper to union and IP concerns. Time of essence today, forward, sets the tone.

Veteran Teams packing suitcases, from all around the nation to Detroit, the National Veterans Wheelchair Games '26.

Her point - the absence of given meaning doesn't leave a void, it leaves a task. Ambiguity is the condition where you're simultaneously a free subject and a determined object, Nihilism, to her, is actually a failure of nerve ... it's mistaking "no given answer" for "no possible answer."

Oliver Laxe, Jade Oukid, Sergi López, Stefania Gadda, Tonin Janvier, Richard Bellamy Cannes 2025. Jury Prize winner - the IMAX film & Soundtrack SIRAT. HORIZONS, in epic film making.

Countdown Comic Con 26 SDCa. Friends checking in, dialogues in whose coming list is getting longer. 😊 I'm currently checking the panel list; seeing two so far I must attend. The Mergers & Acquisition of the industries, the forecasts. sdccblog.com/2026/06/san-...

Yep, as Marcus Aurelius, Meditations reminded us. "To bear in mind constantly that all of this has happened before. And will happen again ... the same plot from beginning to end, the identical staging."

For those of us who have witnessed the scale and scope of Morocco, the Atlas Mountain range. This IMAX film #SIRAT and soundtrack is a journey to behold - on the Horizons of epic. Jury Prize Winner youtu.be/DEWvMz7B6nE?...

The Vessel; Rising away, One Shopping Cart Of abundance, hovers, Out of my reach. Just out of reach, I dare not stretch. I dare not add staples to my grocery list. 2026 J_W Era of the Poetry Slams Collection.

"To encourage literature and the arts, is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country." - George Washington, 1st President of the United States.

Wahoo!

What a budding poet hears, feels, when scuba-diving ... Jim_ Writes.

Mr. Rod Serling ( Military Tested Veteran) has now been absent from this earth longer than he existed on it. His legacy will live on forever ... www.rodserling.com

A large Christmas peace message from John Lennon and Yoko Ono on a billboard in Times Square in 1971. ( Esquire Publishing)

Xenos carries a fascinating duality: it means both the outsider/stranger and the guest who receives hospitality. That tension gave us the concept of xenia (ξενία), the ancient Greek sacred duty of hospitality toward strangers, essentially, the moral obligation to treat the foreigner as a guest.

The Greek word ξένος (xenos) meaning stranger, foreigner, guest. From xenos we get a raft of English words: xenophobia, xenolith, xenobiotic, and even the element xenon (the "strange" noble gas, because it was unexpected when discovered). From my short story,"Dialogues" J_W.

The time has come! We've launched our annual list of Announced #SDCC panels, which we'll update continuously until the schedule is out. 60+ panels right now, including #Marvel, #Aliens, #Grimm, #TheLibrarians, and more: sdccblog.com/2026/06/san-...

Film Quote Thursdays. Tombstone,1993. "There's no normal life, Wyatt. There's just life." Doc Holliday.

@11thhourmsnow.bsky.social Christopher O'Leary natsec SME @msnowreports.bsky.social summed it up. "Commanders don't negotiate, and negotiators don't command." The best rule of thumb for long term solutions.

Short-Story adapted to film treatment registered by Writers Guild Association West. Genre; Historical Literary Fiction. The first oil tanker ever built was designed by the Nobel Brothers. jpwwrites.com/blog/devils-... FYI Cc: @steverattner.bsky.social the Quiet Arts of Oil.

Brecht and Weill. 1928. The Threepenny Opera. "Mack the Knife" a song about a criminal who operates in plain sight, whose crimes are so normalized they become invisible. The ultimate shipping toll-and-fees, time capsule ... @moneypowerpolitics.bsky.social what your SME guests doesn't get.

Hey Edgar! Comic Con 26, I got my email alert, Badges being mailed soon! Hello, Beautiful San Diego, CA. Time to meet old friends, the artist(s). Then a little night surfing, beautiful beaches.

"197 Common Bonds." J_W Poetry '26 Collection

The Obama Presidential Center is finally opening! Tune in today on Obama.org starting at 11am CT as Michelle and I share what this moment means to us and celebrate with friends, family, and members of the community in Chicago.

Comic Con 26, I got my email alert today, Badges being mailed soon! Hello Beautiful San Diego, CA. I hope, I get time to meet the artist(s). Then a little night surfing!

Carl Longboard, Pilot registrated storyboard WGA Surfing Champ now SFPD Homicide Detective. Dealing with deep grief, CARL couldn't save a drowning surfer bud in Australia. Now Longboards to crime scenes. One friend. One wave. One moment he couldn't read in time-Sand, Riptides, and Chalk Outlines

Senator @slotkin.senate.gov General @markhertling.bsky.social, Pal @craignewmark.bsky.social July 9-14 - Detroit, National Veterans Wheelchair Games. Where Veterans who wrote the book on transition resilience gives its energy away If you're in the Motor City area. Stop by. Bill's drill coach J_W

@markhertling.bsky.social General what's wrong with your left eye? I'm watching on @moneypowerpolitics.bsky.social NCOES vet suggest that you pay a visit to your medic teams.

Gotta start planning my French Quarter trip, February writers workshop, then March TW LITFEST. To discuss my new unpublished novel with lit local establish Lit agents, set in New Orleans. A neo-noir thriller, taps into Diamonds, Jazz & Mélange. Oh my, gonna need to pack smarter. J_W. Xtra Pens

Beautiful Art Reflecting Style & Grace.

@litagentsofchange.bsky.social Salutes & Thank you Ms Sarah Khalil, LAC, for hosting the agents perspectives on today's @authorsguild.org foundation. Great seeing Johnny pop in too. Best to all who took time out to guide us emerging authors forward. Cheers, jw. authorsguild.org/human-author...

Author's Guild @authorsguild.org Raising the Bar. Membership has perks. authorsguild.org/human-author...

The war in Ukraine, which has reached 1,569 days, or more than four years and three months, has now outlasted World War I. With peace talks stalled, it shows no sign of ending soon.

@mmfa.bsky.social In your best Captain Picard voice order ... "Engage"

@anacabrera.bsky.social Just watched your sign-off presentation. Friday 6/12/26. As always you speak from the heart, provide truths into the light. As you said you'll keep us informed of what's next. Please do. Salutes & Hat-tips to you, your staff, crew & family.

CBS mic kills radio news. "Douglas Edwards" belongs in my stageplay script. He was the first. Before Cronkite sat in that chair, Edwards held it, the original CBS Evening News anchor, 1948. The man who built the room that Murrow and Cronkite inherited (drafts, more research WIP. )

She's far more qualified to be the secretary of defense than he, "Hesack" She's moving into a runoff in S. Carolina.

Jennifer @jensiebelnewsom.bsky.social Super Salutes & Congratulations on your deep dive film "Rise Up," opening Tribeca Film Festival. A must engage topic.

FYI @bellagarcia1986.bsky.social . Great site to follow as you continue to build your writing!

@mmfa.bsky.social In your best Captain Picard voice order ... "Engage"

It was 1947 when the Committee for the First Amendment took on Sen. Joe McCarthy. Their back, stronger than ever. The Committee, is a large collective of artists, storytellers, and cultural leaders standing together to defend free expression against government repression. riseupsingout.com

“Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy; it is democracy.”Walter Cronkite Deadline ... U.S.A. (1952) is a film noir starring Humphrey Bogart as a crusading newspaper editor, Ed Hutcheson, who races against time to expose .. @mmfa.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @status.news

@theweekendprime.bsky.social Kindly upload Sunday's Primetime Ron Insana interview.

"No legacy is so rich as honesty." - Wm Shakespeare, (All's Well That Ends Well (Act III, Scene 5)

Hemingway - "The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth and the capacity for sacrifice."

Rita honors, John & Paul "It's Been Hard Days Night." Lennon/McCartney rhythm as in romantic French would add; "C'était une dure nuit après une longue journée." youtu.be/BJnqMPPBW34?...