@tracesoftexas.bsky.social RIP Speedy Sparks, bass player for the Texas Tornados and many others. And a real gentleman.

The ferociousness with which the MAGAS seek power and then use it to do stupid things throws everyone off balance They are “filled with passionate intensity”. While we still seem to lack all conviction. “Wars are won in the will..” (The 13th Warrior)

This whole “ Dems want to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants” lie just illustrates how much they’ve got us fighting over crumbs,

The carnage will continue until the functioning government and alliances built with great effort since WWII is a trashed out ruin of ashes, rubble, and cheap red hats.

One of my veteran friends is convinced Hegseth is calling the flag officers to DC so they can either swear a personal oath to Trump or be fired,

It’s getting worse faster. All the checks and balances are broken, meaningless. The key to unleashing all this destruction, it turns out, was five judges on the Supreme Court. These motherfuckers are pyromaniacs intent on burning the rule of law to the ground. We’re going to rebuild from ashes.

By prosecuting his political enemies on blatantly meritless charges. trump actually makes it less likely that Democrats will prosecute MAGAs for real crimes. He discredits the very idea of public corruption prosecutions. Much like crying voter fraud when there is none makes it easier to commit it.

If we have learned one thing from the Trump era, it’s that the Law don’t mean diddly squat. With sufficient will, you can ignore it. Constant, unrelenting will, an absolute lack of shame or empathy, amoral to the bone, can trample the Law and make fools of all who abide and adhere to it.

I have to pose this question to the billionaires ripping our country to pieces right now; ‘Would you rather be fabulously wealthy in a stable and prosperous country, or obscenely wealthy in a lawless shithole of a country?’ Because they are steering us toward the latter.

I’ve been living in this country more than 70 years, and there has never been a time when Americans did not try to impose their political beliefs with lethal violence, either here or somewhere else. We’re a war-like people, that’s the truth. And this is a violent land, no doubt.

I didn’t know much about Kirk before someone shot him, but now that I do…fuck that guy.

Welp, I guess he lost that debate.

He died doing what he loved; standing up for the Second Amendment.

I am as certain as I can be, that climate change can’t destroy us. We are human beings. But our failure to adapt to it will surely destroy us, just as it did the Mayans. “Unserious Leadership in A Time of Crisis” Some lucky soul still around can carve that into the gravestone of our civilization.

The attack on that boat suspected of drug smuggling, a thousand miles from our border, doesn’t add up. Why would there be 11 people on a fast boat carrying drugs? Cartel would send 2 or maybe 3. They may have been refugee, is my guess.

Something like this happened before. In the 1870’s, when US troops were withdrawn from the Confederate states and they instituted Jim Crow. On top of all the human suffering, injustice, they impoverished themselves for a hundred years. I saw Mississippi in the 1960’s. It was 3rd world.

How, by all that is holy & good, has America not learned its lesson about immigration? That it’s our greatest strength. Yet, the nativist hate returns Every. Single.Time. The Germans in the 1700’s, Irish in the 19th century, the Italians, Eastern Europeans, Japanese, Vietnamese, Cubans. Wise up!

Word. RIP Flaco.

If the redistricting scam succeeds, I predict red states, and swing states that are controlled by Republicans will push to assign Presidential electors by district, as Maine and Nebraska already does. But this will fail; the current winner take all system already favors the GOP.

Looking back at a life longer than I had a right to expect, two of the most joyous moments I’ve experienced, excluding sex, drugs, or rock ‘n roll: Solving a problem, a mystery, I’d worked on tirelessly for many years. Beautiful! And running from the police on foot and getting away. The sweet life

This shit is insane. Insane. We cannot, cannot let one man have this much power!

Our global civilization is very durable; unwinding it is unimaginable. But imagination is severely limited. Even our apocalyptic nightmares are nostalgic. All civilizations have failed, ultimately, from climate change. In fact, civilization, you could say, is just a long argument with the weather.

Everyone on both sides seems to be hoping this summit ends the slaughter in Ukraine. Counterpoint: the more dead Russians, the better off the world. The attrition rate seems to be on the side of Ukraine, so let the killing continue until Putin is out of meat.

It is surprising, really surprising, even to a cynic like me,that we are in this position. That one fucking guy, an ignorant asshole besides, is micro-managing our economy, wiping out 75 years of international goodwill, renditioning our hardest workers, tearing down our research institutions, how???

“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason. How infinite in faculty, in form, and moving. How express and admirable in action! How like an angel in apprehension! How like a God!” Toasting their balls with UV, and whining for a taste of what half the world has on them at all times. Sad.

The speed of change is the tell. This is not human speed, it’s machine speed. If I wanted to know if I was dealing with a human or a machine, I wouldn’t try to find a test that only humans can solve. I’d. ask it a complicated math problem and see how long it took. The speed of change is the tell.

Billionaires are an existential threat to humanity. We can have a sustainable future, it’s possible, barely, but not with them around. So long as there are billionaires, the threat of serfdom in a hellscape world for the rest of us is very real. They’re a virus.

One of the greatest musicians of his generation has joined the pantheon of legendary Texas music makers in the bygone of the used to be. Flaco Jimenez changed music both north and south of the border I’ll be playing Flaco with the Texas Tornados, with Doug Sahm, and more all day. Descanse en Paz

Political power in our supposed democracy is now concentrated in just 6 people: the president and 5 members of the Supreme Court. They can impose anything they want. Wealth is concentrated in the top 1/10 of 1%. The bottom 50% of Americans hold just 2% of the total wealth. It’s pitchfork time.

They were careless people, Trump and Musk- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…

This Land Is Our Land This land is ours Not theirs Not the wealthy few Not the petty tyrants Not the twisted men who mistake cruelty for strength It belongs to the people who love it enough To fight for it To hold it steady when others would break it Into pieces for profit or false pride

Has anyone else noticed there seem to be some out of the ordinary things going on over the last few years?

ChatGtp 4o is the best conversationalist I have ever engaged. I like to talk philosophy; toke up & wonder why people don’t see that ‘limited only by your imagination’ is a pretty severe limit, or speculate on how the botfly evolved. Chat bot is there for it. They need to give it a stoned voice.

If there is no penalty for stupidity, stupidity will spread like a virus. We live in a time when we refuse to penalize stupidity. But Nature will not shirk the task. And Nature punishes stupidity harshly, lethally. As the ancients said about the Gods, her mills grind slowly, but exceedingly fine.

For years the GOP has threatened to end funding for the PBC. And PBS has become more conservative to appease then. Now that it’s happened. I wonder if NPR and PBS will be more liberated?

If you have ever been deceived by lies, understand that deception is a conspiracy between the deceived and the deceiver. On some level, you knew you were being lied to, but you chose to be deceived. If you don’t believe this, you will be deceived again.

The devastation along the Guadalupe, the Llano, the San Gabriel, I think of the work that needs to be done. The debris, the structures and roadways, the cypress and pecan timber that should be salvaged. Everywhere I see the work I won’t live to see get done: 1/

Motherfucking Marines in LA carrying M27 and National Guard with M4! What in the holy fuck do they think they are going to shoot in a civilian environment? Even if you hit the guy they’re aiming at and not some kid, (unlikely) those bullets will go right through and hit someone behind them.

A big part of the problem is billionaires. They should not exist.

We lock people up for mental illness, for substance dependency, for not having money to make bail, even as crime goes down. And now we’re locking people up who came here to work and are following all the rules, people who had TPS, people showing up to immigration court. It’s fucking inhumane.

When there’s ice in the road or in your neighborhood, we would always use salt or sand deal with it, but I imagine these would work even better for only $7! a.co/d/iklYGwt

After using ChatGtp4o for a couple of weeks, I’m completely impressed. Computers were supposed to make things easier to do but the opposite is usually true. So now I can have AI use my computer for me. It is truly, a snake eating its own tail.

Billionaires are like vampires if they were real, in that so long as any exist, they are a threat to the rest of humanity.

There is a simple way to make a country great: Tax the rich enough to constrain their power, and use the money to educate the young and hire everyone else to build things everyone can use. It is tried and true. It’s how we became a great country.

This whole obsession with alligators is Trump’s own overblown fear. Alligators are not prison guards. People have lived and moved around the Everglades for thousands of years. The mosquitos are more deadly than pythons & gators combined.

It’s easy to be angry with the Reps who passed this bill, but their sins are cowardice and subservience. Save some of your righteous rage for their masters, the billionaires for whom half the country’s wealth is not enough. They want feudalism, they want serfs, they want Helots south of the border.

I watched some of these sovereign citizens in court videos. Here’s a person sitting before a real judge, absolutely convinced they know more about the law than the judge, even though they have not a day in law school. How do people become so delusional? Dunning-Krueger off the chart

Samuel Brown, my great x7 grandfather, did not serve seven cold and hungry years in the Continental Line to turn the country they created over to another clown king.

The Supreme Court has changed the America I have lived for over 70 years. They’ve tried to rewrite our Constitution. Presidential immunity right out of their asses, overturning Roe, many more. But if they try to overturn birthright citizenship, it is time to go Medieval on the motherfukers.

It’s impossible to convince someone who has more money than most people that it’s not because he’s smarter than most people.