Imagine you’ve $86,400. Someone steals $10. Will you be so mad that you throw away the remaining $86,390 to get revenge on that person, or will you move on and live?

Remember you have 86,400 seconds every day. Never let 10 bad seconds ruin the remaining 86,390 seconds. Move on and live.

New Year’s resolution: We stop saying history will judge them. We judge them now. With judges.

When people travel to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small.

Few people think that they can radically change the future by doing something small in the present.

This is the only real time travel paradox.

JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” ~ Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), writer and Auschwitz survivor

Did you know? When Bill Clinton banned assault weapons in 1994, mass shootings dropped by 43%. After George W. Bush and the GOP let the assault weapons ban expire in 2004, mass shootings increased by 245%. — These numbers tell a story.

Republicans are shocked that the kids they gleefully tortured with active shooter drills for decades grew up to vote against them.

Have you ever wondered why Germans didn’t do anything about Hitler? Well, the rest of the world is wondering exactly that about Americans and Trump.

Teach your child to be a good friend, because some people don’t go home to love.

On Tuesday, earth, sun, and moon will align to create a “Blood Moon”. It will be the last total lunar eclipse until 2025. Mark your calendars: 5:17-6:42 a.m. EST, November 8, 2022 (peak totality at 5:59 a.m. EST).

Did you know? By replacing your coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 92% of what little joy you still have left in your life.

The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept cheering and voting for the axe. Because its handle was made of wood, and they thought it was one of them.

1. History is not there for you to like or dislike.
2. History is there for you to learn from it.
3. History offends you? Even better. Then you are less likely to repeat it.

Read this out loud, then read it again. Then teach it to your children and grandchildren.

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it a thousand times: Encouraging kids to be who they are is suicide prevention.

Fun fact I did not know until today: Bluetooth is named after Harald Bluetooth, former king of Denmark, father of Sweyn Forkbeard, grandfather to King Cnut. The Bluetooth logo is a combination of runes for H and B, for Harald Bluetooth (he had a dead tooth which was blue/grey).

Birds flying high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel
Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel
It’s a new dawn
It’s a new day
It’s a new life for me.

“Feeling Good”, by Nina Simone.

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The fact that far too many people cannot recognize fascism unless it looks exactly like Nazi Germany is very dangerous.

When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech.

It’s a win for oligarchy.