Category: Big thoughts
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Thoughts about political action in 2025
Here are some thoughts about responding the MAGA assault to come this year. Your thoughts? Please post in comments. Respond to specific injustices as they arise. Of course. Remember how people shut down airports when the Muslim travel ban was announced last time? A rapid, forceful response that could not…
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Manufactured fascism
I’ve been reading too many post-election analyses that point fingers in all the wrong directions and completely miss the elephant in the room. The problem is not what Harris did or didn’t do in her campaign or whether some different choices could have moved the vote a point or two…
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Pacific states are not like the others
A lot of us are struggling with the reality that a voting majority just voted for a fascist to run the country. This time everyone knew exactly what and who they were voting for and did it anyway. It boggles the mind and torments the soul. Raises the question: How…
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New page of maxims
Just added a new page to this blog. Already had a page of “quotable quotes” (check it out), of quotes from other people that inspire me. New page is basically quoting myself (narcissistic, I know), trying to be wise or clever or some such in a pithy kind of way.…
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Declaring our independence
JULY 4, 2024 A declaration of Americans against a return to imperial rule When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for people to dissolve the political bands that have connected them with a corrupt national government, and to assume among the powers of the Earth the autonomy…
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