I take comfort in thinking about how beautiful the Earth will be again once we’re gone.
Those apocalyptic movies about the planet after man don’t appreciate how resourceful Earth can be when not being harassed.
I’m very concerned that we’re entering a reality in which we will no longer know what’s real and what isn’t.
I’ve worked with mis- and disinformation. This time we’re doing it to ourselves.
The vast majority of Ai and deep fake falsities and regime fantasies are destroying trust and reality.
We live in a world where competition is more important than cooperation.
To be a good competitor you need to beat the other team, you need to express your superiority.
Competition pits us against each other. Cooperation teaches us to rely on and support each other.
Edict on homelessness
Josh lays it out. bsky.app/profile/j… Trump is criminalizing homelessness to make sure that he doesn’t run out bodies to fill those private prisons his buddies run. Then all prisoners will become slave labor. He’s already raising prices to where, eventually, more and more people will go broke and wind up on the streets, then prison. Read it and get pissed off. www.whitehouse.gov/president…
I guess there haven’t been any caravans of drug-dealing, gun-running, gang members at the border in 6 months.
Good thing, too, because the Border Patrol is busy assisting ICE in rounding up U.S. citizens in Los Angeles.
Isn’t kidnapping and disappearing people, then refusing to disclose their locations, all without any charges or trials, a violation of international law?
Aren’t those things the U.N. should condemn as human rights violations.
If they won’t then what purpose does it serve?
The oligarchs are no doubt disappointed by the ineptitude of their front man. But I believe their long term focus is still on owning the world.
It sucks for humanity that in striving for that goal they’re going to destroy the planet.
Homan wants to get more “people” off the street.
Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said there are about 60,000 beds currently available for detained immigrants and the goal is to expand to 100,000. “We’re looking for any available bed space we can get that meets the detention standards we’re accustomed to,” Homan said Friday. “The faster we get the beds, the more people we can take off the street.” That last sentence should concern us. He says “people”, not criminal illegal gang members.
I know damn good and well that we defeated racism and Islamaphobia, too many people in America would find some other group of people to hate. Americans, with a lot of help from Christianity, have been raised to think we’re better than anyone else. Everyone else is inferior to us, hating them is OK.
There are some atrocities being committed by the regime to exact revenge for Trump’s perceived insults, then there are those enacted to further to goals of Project 2025 and the oligarchs. The first will end with the end of the fuhrer’s reign. The others will continue and increase.
As much as I’d love for something like the Epstein files to bring down and disgrace Trump, I’m more concerned about the ideology he’s introduced. This fascist regime is more than just one man.
I remember when we looked forward to having more free time to be creative once robots, now Ai, took over some of the most labor intensive and mind numbing jobs. Now I worry that as automation replaces humans in vital jobs, humans will become slaves to the oligarchy.
There are billion dollar infrastructure projects in other countries, connecting islands with underground tunnels or using architecture to modernize cities, and then look at how we’re misusing the same amount of money while our cities are falling apart, and I wonder why we think we’re great.
This 4th of July will not be a day for celebrations but for protests, organized and loud. Get media coverage.
This 250th year of our nation will either be the last as a democracy or the first as a nation rededicated to equality, justice, and the rule of law.
The Perils of Technology
The cell phone wasn’t developed to spy on its users. But eventually nefarious characters, once they understood the capabilities of cell phones, noticed what a good spying and tracking device it was. It’s the same with the WWW and Internet. Good intentions at the start, now corrupted into near uselessness. I’m beginning to distrust every new technology. Especially those who watch and listen constantly. Amazon Echo, Google Hub, and soon a similar offering from Apple.
Single, liberal veterans can be denied care
“Language requiring healthcare professionals to care for veterans regardless of their politics and marital status has been explicitly eliminated…Doctors and other medical staff can also be barred from working at VA hospitals based on their marital status, political party affiliation or union activity… As a single, liberal veteran who receives all my medical care at a VA hospital, this deeply concerns me. Trump has already called liberals enemies of the state.
Military birthdays
Army - June 14 Navy - October 13 Marine Corps - November 10 Coast Guard - August 4 Air Force - September 18 Space Force - December 20 If Trump does not hold a national parade on every one of these days then he cannot deny that the farce planned for June 14th has nothing to do with the Army. It’s all about him.
Resistance is not futile
Trump is not the 47th president of the United States. He is the 1st dictator of America, a country composed of 50 fiefdoms under his direct control. Every American who makes less than $100,000 a year has more in common with immigrants than with oligarchs. With all the important problems facing the country right now, the dictator is only concerned with putting down dissent and harassing anyone who disagrees with him.
The State of the Union
It’s definitely Spring.
