The world seems a bit like the Funhouse hall of mirrors where every social media outlet has a distorted picture of what's going on.

Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms; Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It's a small mercy that Rush Limbaugh is a rotting corpse, because otherwise he would certainly be given a position within the current administration.

Amid all the bad news, here's some good news. newatlas.com/energy/franc...

Write a one sentence tragedy... After a series of unfortunate events, the citizenry found their fate at the whims of a madman.

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I'd like to recommend a youtube channel called Esoterica with Dr. Justin Sledge. Esoterica: Where we explore the arcane in history, philosophy, and religion. I found this episode especially pertinent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0lv...

Do all the things you'll never regret...generally that means be kind, be generous, and be open to adventures.

I hear that Trump and friends plan to shrink the US sphere of influence down to North America and pull back troops from everywhere else…no more “policeman of the world.” Is that why he’s focused on Greenland and Canada and Mexico, because it’s “our” sphere?

There's so much mischief afoot, it's hard to keep abreast.

If I ask my Trump supporting family members to stop watching Fox News, there's no where I can suggest they tune in. They won't switch to CNN or MSNBC. I won't watch there either, so can't blame them. What to do?

'Somewhere, Something Incredible Is Waiting To Be Known' 💫💙💫💙💫💙💫

Every decision Trump makes will be to serve his own interests, not the good of the country. Assess every action and policy accordingly.

It would be helpful if people would educate themselves on the need for a breakthrough in nuclear fusion energy. Fusion offers a potential long-term energy source that uses abundant fuel supplies and does not produce greenhouse gases or long-lived radioactive waste.

Oh come ON now. This new JWST image is just ASTOUNDING. I feel like I’m falling looking into it, and that I would fall forever, and that I would enjoy it. NASA, ESA, CSA, K. McQuinn (STScI), J. DePasquale (STScI)

Anything beyond what we need is poison. It can be power, laziness, food, ego, ambition, vanity, fear, anger, or whatever. 💕

The facts are, the ACA saved millions with pre-existing conditions and set standards for care. But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix. The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.

Today would have been MLK Jr's 95th birthday. May his memory be an inspiration for us to keep fighting for equal rights for all and against the coming fascism that threatens to tear us apart.

Watching clips of the Hegseth confirmation hearing and this came to mind...Great green globs of greasy, grimy gopher guts, Mutilated monkey meat. Dirty little birdie feet. French fried eyeballs rolling down a dirty street, And me without my spoon.

Religion won't solve the world's ills. If you need religion to be a good person, then consider you may not, in fact, be a good person but rather a bad person on a leash. I've see religions destroy people's lives too frequently to believe in any of it. It is an artifice of control and greed.

Reality? You can't handle reality. I mean, as a whole our species is barely sentient.

Some might be skeptical of commercially available nuclear fusion by the 2030s, but Commonwealth Fusion Systems seems determined to make it happen. Here's a preview of my interview with CFS Chief Commercial Officer Rick Needham www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA5b... #cleanenergy #nuclearfusion

🚨🚨🚨URGENT! Anyone have a direct line to Merrick Garland who can tell him to do his fucking job and overrule MAGA JUDGE CANNON and release the damning Jack Smith report on Trump so we can all know what kind of slime is slithering into the oval office? Pls share far & wide!

January 20th is MLK Day. I've been thinking about him a lot lately, wishing he was here to organize with us.

Great news! Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has announced that it plans to build a fusion power plant, named ARC, at the James River Industrial Park in Chesterfield County, Va. —and that it expects to be the first company to make fusion power available at grid scale.

When Ronald Reagan wanted to appoint the first Republican woman to SCOTUS, he found Sandra Day O’Connor on a state intermediate appeals court. When Bill Clinton appointed the first Democratic woman to SCOTUS, he found Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the DC Circuit, because Jimmy Carter had put her there.

I am squeezing every drop of joy out of whatever crap comes my way!

Fusion for all and to all a good night!

So Trump was planning to use Gaetz’s prostitution and heavy drug use as kompromat so he could control him as Attorney General and ensure his total loyalty and obedience? Got it.

I ask as good as I have got for all men everywhere. Every man, woman, child, and every critter on four feet deserves a place to call their own and something good to eat. (With a nod to S. Omar Barker.)

Pretty much sums up how it feels....Cartoon by Edward Steed in The New Yorker

I follow everyone who says they are a blue dot in a red state. Connecting the dots is important.

This is amazing to see ! www.greenqueen.com.hk/big-food-ult...

For those struggling financially because of high prescription drug costs. Cost Plus Drugs might have lower prices. Check it out. www.costplusdrugs.com

The second big mistake was converting the US from a productive industrial economy into a service-information economy with imported goods made by cheap offshore labor. The third big mistake was the last election.

The first big mistake after WWII was to put the newly discovered nuclear power into the form of bombs instead of power plants to lift mankind out of the carbon age and into the nuclear age of limitless energy.

Bernie Sanders: "We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society. Never before in American history have so few people had so much wealth and so much power." "In Russia, Putin has an oligarchy. We have an oligarchy here, too.

Let’s do what we can, friends! I know times are hard, but it’s Sesame Street!

POWERFUL 👊🏽 “This painting stopped me in my tracks at an airport eight years ago.” —-Victor Blackwell, CNN

I updated this due to an astute follower pointing out that Alabama changed their laws to have off year local elections as well. That's a lot of races in 2025 in some 31 states! Local elections matter! Get involved! Send a message! This doesn't even include a bunch of special elections happening now!

Can we admit that the policies pursued for the last 50 years, by both parties, that shifted us from an industrial economy following the build-up to WWII into a post-industrial service economy has been a failure? Can we reverse that while regaining our forward progress on social issues?

Can someone reassure me that there is a progressive think tank out there somewhere working on Project 2029, a sane blueprint for recovery after the coming fiasco?

As someone who hasn't watched a news program since November 5th, I feel as though I'm putting my news channel together right here. I appreciate each and every one of you.

This is the sort of tangible benefit to people’s lives that Democrats need to get much better at claiming credit for.

The motto on my family crest is "Cookies, cakes, and pies."

You've heard of the Golden Age? We're about to enter the Tinfoil Age of Trump.