Steve K
Technology writer and part-time bonsai artist and gardener
- It’s the swimming pool thing.
- Imagine being so racist that hearing or seeing the word “equity” sends you into a blind rage and you start wrecking your own house. newrepublic.com/article/1950...
- "A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity." ~ Honore de Balzac Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C...
- Soon after firing the Librarian of Congress, Trump has fired the nation’s top copyright official as well. Rep. Joe Morelle says Trump acted after the copyright official “refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.”
- "Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another." ~ Charles Caleb Colton Colton was an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...
- Literally what does this even mean
- "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." ~ Albert Einstein
- We know this is (barely) coded eugenics for a simple reason: he's not arguing for vaccine mandates. Getting vaccinated is a bare minimum for an individual's health maintanence duty to the larger community. It matters way more than your weight or your exercise routine.
- "True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else." ~ Clarence Darrow Darrow was an American lawyer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarenc...
- The opening anecdote here: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte Bonaparte was a French general and statesman. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon
- ABC reports Trump to take “flying palace” from Qatar and use it as temporary Air Force 1 before converting it to a personal possession.
- "It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly." ~ David Eddings Eddings was an American fantasy writer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E... This could have been said by a certain Orange Guy if he had any self-awareness.
*Open bribery *Masked armed officials arresting residents without warrants, citizens who try to intervene *Arrests for engaging in non-violent speech *Destruction of government capacities *Massive economic uncertainty and damage *Unprecedented targeting of government power against political enemies- Where we are headed. "The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism." ~ Vladimir Putin
