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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
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
The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller
(12:54 PM ET ยท Nov 8, 2024):
"WATCH: Rep. Shaundelle Brooks (D) arrives at the legislature ๐ช๐พ
After losing her son Akilah in the Waffle House shooting, @Natrixdreammom
ran for state house - and won.
If youโre looking for a little hope today, hopefully this can provide some. #FightLikeAMom"
45 years since the release of Monty Python's Life of Brian (8 November 1979 in the United Kingdom)
"What have the Romans ever done for us?
@Museek I just hope we do smart, compassionate, sensible things.
What happened to a different republic that slid into autocracy:
Essentially, Octavian obtained multiple roles of the Roman Republic (consul, tribune of the plebs, censor, pontifex maximus, etc.). The Roman Senate became a rubber-stamping body.
"[Octavian worked] through established Republican forms to consolidate his power."
#Politics #Autocracy #Resist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principate#History
Volodymyr Zelenskyy / ะะพะปะพะดะธะผะธั ะะตะปะตะฝััะบะธะน @ZelenskyyUa
(3:06 AM ET ยท Nov 8, 2024):
"Each time Russia attempts to destroy our lives, it is crucial to respond collectively and decisively at the international level to reduce and block the potential for terror. Ukraine needs strength to achieve this.
...
Air defense, long-range capabilities, weapons packages, and sanctions against the aggressorโthese are the actions required, not just words."
https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1854797562307395585
An old teacher of mine from high school just shared this. Resonated with me.
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