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Hope needs compassionate action. Best to be compassionate anyway.
Many self-avowed 'critical thinkers', especially on Twitter, seem to not think critically.
Joined Nov 2022
Here's hoping a trifecta will be avoided. With 435 seats, 218 is needed for a majority.
Current House numbers (Bloomberg):
Dem 202, Rep 212
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-us-election-results/house/
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
โ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
This is what it's like to live in an ultra-religious, male-dominated society where no one is permitted to see your face or hear your voice.
The New Yorker @NewYorker
(8:30 AM ET ยท Nov 9, 2024):
Fascism is now in the algorithms, the neural pathways, the social interactions. How did we fail to see all this? โWe wanted to see Trump in terms of his absences, so that our way of seeing the world would go unchallenged,โ @TimothyDSnyder
writes.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/dispatches/what-does-it-mean-that-donald-trump-is-a-fascist
This is one of the ways they'll work.
Maddow on JDโs plan to target Universities and professors (Oct. 1, 2024)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/watch-rachel-maddow-lays-out-why-you-should-care-about-jd-vance-s-real-agenda-220521029601
The road to Gilead. Alas, some people will just go along for the sake of their own security, greed and/or need for power. The rest of us need to resist as best we can.
Elon Musk suggests support for replacing democracy with government of โhigh-status malesโ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-trump-harris-high-status-males-4chan-b2606617.html
Relations between Ukraine and UK are worse under Labour, say Kyiv officials
(The Guardian, Fri 8 Nov 2024 17.57 GMT)
Exclusive: Zelenskyy administration expresses frustration with Starmer over lack of missiles
We need to fight to prevent a similar thing from happening again. Remember.
86 years ago:
"Kristallnacht (German pronunciation: [kสษชsหtalnaฯt]) or the Night of Broken Glass, ... , was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung (SA) paramilitary and Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9โ10 November 1938."
Susan Tedeschi (/tษหdษski/), American singer and guitarist, solo artist and member of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, was born on Nov. 9th. #SusanTedeschi
Tedeschi Trucks Band - "Midnight in Harlem" (Mike Mattison, Derek Trucks) (2011, Live on eTown)
#Music #CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GkdCiqsFUI
Susan Tedeschi (/tษหdษski/), American singer and guitarist, solo artist and member of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, was born on Nov. 9th. #SusanTedeschi
Susan Tedeschi - "Just Won't Burn" (Susan Tedeschi) (1999, Live at Farm Aid 1999)
#Music #CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_96KMJEhy0
Tom Fogerty, American musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist for Creedence Clearwater Revival, was born on Nov. 9, 1941 (d. 1990). #TomFogerty
Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Fortunate Son" (John Fogerty) (1969, The Ed Sullivan Show)
#Music #CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RUGJAWIslE
Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter and member of the folk music group Peter, Paul and Mary, was born on Nov. 9, 1936 (d. 2009). #MaryTravers
Peter, Paul and Mary - "Blowing in the Wind" (Bob Dylan) (1960s)
#Music #CoSoMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6fAO4idaI
neal ๐ป๐บ๐ฆ๐ณโ๏ธโฎ๐๐ต
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Hope needs compassionate action. Best to be compassionate anyway.
Many self-avowed 'critical thinkers', especially on Twitter, seem to not think critically.
Joined Nov 2022