Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 ...need a diversion? War is the ultimate tool of politics. ~R. Buckminster Fuller

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. ~Lyndon B. Johnson

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. ~Thomas Sowell

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege. ~Leon Trotsky

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Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along. ~Walter Cronkite

#NoKings Ft. Worth Texas

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

TOMORROW: Be a part of history! Show the world that the majority of Americans oppose the most corrupt, inept, criminal, orange "president" in U.S. History. NO KINGS. Also: NO SERIAL LIARS/CONVICTED FELONS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS & NO ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAN Be there. Make your voices heard! 🇺🇸 ✊ #NO_KINGS

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 Getting out to protest, this is something real and, I would say, something patriotic. Part of the new authoritarianism is to get people to prefer fiction and inaction to reality and action. ~Timothy D. Snyder

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself. ~George Lincoln Rockwell

Good Morning Bluesky Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill. ~Gail Collins

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m proud of it. ~Paul Krugman

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️ 💙 Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective. ~Pratibha Patil

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams. ~Steve Winwood

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. ~Howard Zinn

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 Every war is a war against children.” ~Eglantyne Jebb

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right. ~Joseph Sobran

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time. ~Ron Hall

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we? ~Rick Danko

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. ~Thomas Merton

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. ~George Washington

He spoke these words in 1963.....and our Nation still operates with no regard as to what is in the best interests of We the People!

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

The real parasites on Earth are the greedy! It is never "enough" for them.

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

I'm so Blessed to have grown up during a time of some really good story telling. Story telling on what's happening in that time and the dreams for the future! Definitely going on my r3sistanc3 playlist😉 #musiclovers #storytelling youtu.be/PkYKOr-cAJk?...

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. ~Ernest Hemingway

Since when is Israel a U.S. Territory? Trump said if WE had not attacked Iran they would be attacking us within a week! The truth, he got played by Netanyahu. Devil whispered in his ear and he followed orders!

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it. ~Thomas Frank

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 His V.P., Secretary of Defense or WH protocol officers should have advised him about Dignified Transfers...maybe the truth is: he doesn't care... Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. ~Laurence Sterne

Perfect example of how MAGA is being lied to. This one is a lie of omission, conveniently leaving part of the full quote out!

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~Omar N. Bradley

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. ~Jean-Paul Sartre

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. ~Ellen Key

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. ~Paul Valery

Good Morning Bluesky 💙 🕊️ 💙 We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters ~Francesca Lia Block

I'm old enough to remember when we were sold the lies of WMDs. Who wins in war? Follow the money....

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers. ~Van Jones

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 Wars are poor chisels for carving out Peaceful tomorrows. ~Martin Luther King Jr.

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 When the people who are supposed to protect you from the Monsters are the Monsters, then you have a whole new level of sadness that hurts you to the very core of your Soul! ~unknown

Good Morning Bluesky 💙 🕊️ 💙 It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm. ~Jeffrey Kluger

Good Morning Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Good Morning Bluesky 💙 🕊️ 💙 The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. ~Carl Jung

Good Morning Bluesky 💙 🕊️ 💙 The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. ~Pam Brown

GM Bluesky 💙🕊️💙 The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence... It is not truth that matters, but victory... Strength lies not in defence but in attack... The day of individual happiness has passed... ~Adolf Hitler