My neighbors and nice people packing it in. 😊 dailyprogress.com/life-enterta...

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Things you can do to understand life today: 1. Become an ontologist 2. Study origins of AI tech 3. Scrub brain with Brillo pad

San Diego, CA today. 🤔

Long after the tobacco companies knew they we selling an addictive product killing people, they continued doing so until government stopped their lying. Are social media programs an addictive product that government should regulate like tobacco use by younger people? 🤔

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This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.

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Trump doesn't believe the moral and ethetical standards of American society apply to him. Much of today's public is woefully ignorant of these standards. 🤔

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Trying Not to Try – finding freedom from striving in the ancient Chinese concept of wu-wei www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/04/t...

+1 🤔 "– now under the control of a twice-elected malignant narcissist —". open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Jill Lepore was awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution.” Read an excerpt in The Atlantic’s October 2025 issue:

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Imagine “The Communist Manifesto”—but as a coming-of-age story! Now that “Animal Farm” has been turned into an animated family adventure, @petridishes.bsky.social imagines what other dystopian classics could be adapted for children’s viewing pleasure:

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When a juvenile humpback whale washed ashore on the Oregon coast, a group of locals came together for a rescue. Robin Romm describes what happened when they tried to move a creature weighing 30,000 pounds:

Conservatives want to police how we talk about Donald Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/g8G5QxYP 📸: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

As each day goes by more people are realizing there is no human value fulfillment in this person, only predictable self-serving lies. He's building the proverbial house of cards around himself. 🤔

Breaking News: Charley gives Donnie the middle finger, heads to Virginia. 😊

Isn't this exciting? 🙄

Imagine that! 🙄 www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst...

President Trump has depicted himself as a figure for the ages, @ashleyrparker.bsky.social and @michaelscherer.bsky.social report. In “Radio Atlantic,” they discuss with @hannarosin.bsky.social what this evolution in Trump’s state of mind means and how it’s affecting world events:

Donald Trump’s broad economic and foreign-policy agenda is accelerating a “budgetary death spiral” for many child-care programs, leaving parents in desperate straits, @ehaspel.bsky.social writes:

81 years ago today (April 30, 1945) Adolf Hitler was living the last remaining hours of his miserable life in a bunker, before he shot himself. Tens of millions of people were dead around the world because of this one human. 🤔

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One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him. - Crito, 49c

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Conservatives want to police how we talk about Donald Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues:

Breaking News: Trump hires Homer Simpson as Treasury Secretary. 🤔🙄 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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And then... hell froze over. 😳 www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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Breaking News: ESPN has run out of things to report. 🤣

Fear and Loathing has moved from Las Vegas to Washington D.C. 🤓

No surprise here as Trump jettisons the tiny bit of humanity he had. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/24/d...

I keep returning to Bertrand Russell's Nobel speech about the four desires driving all human behavior – explains so much in our world today, from our politics to our personal relationships www.themarginalian.org/2015/09/21/b...

Attention 60's hippies, you're coming back in style. 😳😮 www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...

A shout-out to the folks in the Dept. of Product Cheapening, you've done an excellent job. -an X customer

Here in Virginia a new business has opened to remove Republicans to local landfills, thanks Abigail. 😊

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Life sinks to a new level of the absurb. 🙄

Breaking News: Trump cabinet gathers first time for group photo. 😳

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"According to Socrates, self-knowledge is a moral and dialectical process of self-examination." www.thecollector.com/socratic-sel...

Who remembers these ole geezers? 😊 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rol...

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Back in the day we would just say... "he copped-out." 😳

Breaking News : Donald McRonald takes after school job to help pay for his wars. 🤔

They must be bored silly these days! 🤪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...