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The political divide will not be healed until we are able to govern without a president. A president is not a flagpole around which to rally, but the emblem for which one pledges allegiance to one side or the other of an equivocal ideology. The president is division personified.

#MusicChallenge #DavidsMonthOfMusic DAY 11 - With a ? or a ! in the title. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0YP...

There's a difference between a plan gone awry and no plan at all. Operation Barbarossa (Hitler's invasion of Russia) was delayed for 1 month because of unrest in Yugoslavia. Had it started as scheduled the war may have gone differently. Trump's invasion of Iran wasn't ill planned. It was no plan.

Rafael Trujillo was a murderous thug but the Dominican people respected him because he built highways, hospitals, and schools. Trump is universally despised because he took away our healthcare, snap benefits, our prestige on the world stage, and grifted the American taxpayer out of $billions.

Three's a crowd

Is There Life in Outer Space? Is there life in outer space? It’s a loaded question. What constitutes life? Organic? Carbon based? Silicon based? Oxygen breathing? Are the laws of physics universal?

The republic is suffering from foundational rot and the purulence is the republican party. It can't be nursed back to its former health. The entire edifice needs to be torn down and rebuilt anew.

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England’s darkest page from its colonial rule is found in the chapter on India. It came on April 13, 1919, at Jallianwala Bagh, also known as the, “Amritsar Massacre.”

After 250 years the flaws in the constitution are painfully evident, in fact, it is the flaws that have allowed one man to put a chokehold on the country. 86 SCOTUS 86 Senate 86 Electoral college 86 Party role in national politics 86 Presidential pardons 86 President

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 9: an instrumental The very first band I ever saw on stage was the Buddy Miles Express. Buddy opened with this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8kf...

The Evolutionary Logic of Consciousness Evolution is a scientifically established fact. The fossil record is unreputable. There may be stops and gaps, but paleontologists have been able to connect the dots. Natural selection, adaptation, and random mutation.

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Polarity Human beings are contrarians. Unanimity is a rare occurrence. It would be a very boring world if everyone agreed on everything, but humans are unable to agree on the most fundamental issues.

Hegseth said that we negotiate with missiles so here we are again.

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Whatever may be happening in the Strait of Hormuz there is only one thing that is certain. Nothing the Trump regime says can be taken as true.

I don't post a lot of music on my thread unless it's something that really moves me. I'm going to see James Blake on May 30 and I'm counting every minute. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7FM...

@antontreuer.bsky.social Some claim that fully 97% of the native population perished from European borne pestilence between 1527 and the late 17th century when the first trappers and pioneers penetrated the interior of the continent to find it virtually uninhabited save for a few scattered tribes.

Trump believes he can mitigate the economic disaster he created by claiming that he thought it would be much worse. In what world does that inspire confidence in your leader?

Trump refuses to concede that he will go down in history as making the biggest military blunder in US history so he's decided to take us all down with him.

DOJ is offering a $25,000 bonus for lawyers to fill the massive resignations. DHS is offering a $50,000 bonus for untrained thugs to join ICE. That pretty much says where we are headed.

The more Trump pretends that the war was a resounding success and that everything is moving swiftly to a negotiated agreement, the more the Iranians will demand that all their conditions are met.

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Mathematics has its own definition of its circular limit which reveals its inbred source: a circle is a line, each point of which is equal distance from a single point. It is only within that cold circumscription that our notion of harmony exists.

Mathematics has figured out how to make a round peg fit into a square hole. It simply cuts a round hole in the square like a perforation. The new circle is mathematics, self-enclosed and self-limited. The square area around the circle is all the knowledge that mathematics can never reach.

Mathematics Mathematics: Fact or Fiction? That is the inescapable allure of Mathematics. A fiction so pure and unassailable that fiction becomes fact. Mathematics induces the illusion that there is order and harmony. It establishes truths that remain valid beyond time and place.

@profgalloway.com "History is a set of lies agreed upon." -Napoleon The problem with that analysis is that the perspective of the defeated lies implicit behind every word. What is left unwritten has as much life as that which has been written.

Rousseau is best remembered for his Social Contract, but the general principles of the social contract had been formulated long before Rousseau’s brilliant political treatise published in the mid-18th century. From an American perspective, Rousseau’s most significant apparition is that of the

Sufficient reason boiled things down to the basics. God was good. God only wanted the good for his followers. Those who followed god’s good would be rewarded, those who didn’t, would be punished.

Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Adam Smith; all benefited from the best education Europe could offer. Scholasticism provided a heavy dose of Aristotle and a renewed interest in the classics. Hobbes translated works directly from the Latin and Greek originals.

I'll never understand how a billionaire can be so cold, heartless, and unappreciative of the country that allowed them to accumulate their wealth, that they are willing to see their fellow Americans starve to death or die from lack of healthcare just so they can add another billion to their wealth.

@briantylercohen.bsky.social 86 SCOTUS While you're at it 86 Senate 86 electoral college 86 Party role in national politics 86 Presidential pardons 86 Presidency

Republicans will give Trump everything he asks for because they are counting on him to overthrow the legitimate government. The alternative is they spend the rest of their lives in prison.

@thebulwark.com Anyone who believes that Trump is going to surrender peacefully needs to have their head examined. Trump will order an armed assault on the government. He's done it before only this time he'll have 30,000 armed goons funded by the US taxpayer.

Trump has taken away everything Americans need to make life better so he can build a ballroom, build an arch, fund his gestapo army, and start another endless war. Gas is creeping toward $5 a gallon Epstein elites are making billions on insider trading Trump and his family have grifted billions

The insatiable depravity and greed of one man have brought us to the brink of the abyss.

Originalism Antonin Scalia (1936-2016), the jovial reactionary, has passed on to greener pastures. It’s an event the devout justice must have eagerly anticipated. There he sits by Madison’s side, each clutching the sacred document. “What was the meaning of this clause

@adammockler.com When they mock you for your youth (no pun intended) remember that- Mozart wrote his first symphony when he was 8. Lafayette was 19 when he joined the American Revolution. Alexander the Great was 20 when he became King of Macedonia and went on to conquer most of the known world.

@adammockler.com My uncle was the producer of ABC news in New York for over 30 years including the time Geraldo was there. He told me Rivera was self-centered, arrogant, and only looked after himself. Nothing's changed.

When Elizabeth Warren grilled Hegseth about his stockbroker's investments on his behalf, his angry denial was a tell. He might as well just have said, "Guilty as charged."

When Trump ends his social media posts by saying, "Thank you for your attention to this matter," what he's really saying is, "No one believes a word I'm saying."

The more Trump refuses to acknowledge the fiasco he created by invading Iran the worse it will get.

History Lesson Historians prize primary source documents. Letters, diaries, journals, and more recently, emails, text messages, and voice mail. None of these are the actual event they describe; the event is irretrievable.