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• 17-Nov-2024
  QOTD: Popehat From Ken White, Popehat: Refuge in Kakistocracy: Trump’s laziness, poor attention span, tendency to be distracted by petty grievances and threats to his ego, and total lack of loyalty to anyone will be impediments to his agenda. The people he picks tend to be a grab bag of personality disorders who squabble and fight for...

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• 06-Nov-2024
  Revisiting neveragain.tech 8 years later. If history is going to rhyme, then I’m going to remember the prior verses. One of them was http://neveragain.tech which I signed as a matter of conscience 8 years ago. I am still in strong agreement with the aims of that pledge I signed. And it is my duty to spread the word to my...

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• 06-Nov-2024

  
  Peace, love, resistance. In 2016 the morning after the election I went to work early. Looking back at my camera roll from that day, here’s Batman, with a reminder. DON’T BELIEVE THOSE CRACKPOT LIES ABOUT PEOPLE WHO WORSHIP DIFFERENTLY, OR WHOSE SKIN IS OF A DIFFERENT COLOR, OR WHOSE PARENTS COME FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY. REMEMBER OUR AMERICAN HERITAGE...

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• 29-Oct-2024

  
  The Election Looms I do believe we’re all exhausted about the impending election in a week. And there’s so much to read. I find myself wanting to encase this moment in amber so I can remember it because it all has the feeling of intense emotion that I will suppress, later. That the election is in 7 days....

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• 27-Sep-2024

  
  A person with a website is powerful. Yesterday I learned Ken Klippenstein posted a document on the web. On X, he posted a link to his commentary on his own website. That page also included a link to that document, a dossier on JD Vance. Not soon after, he was suspended from the service X for it. As of this morning, he remains...

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• 02-Aug-2024
  Quote of the Day, on Kamala Harris From Yes, Kamala Harris is both: Or, Donald Trump discovers biracial people by Anand Giridharadas And so here we have Kamala Harris, who is descended, in one branch of her family, from high-caste people who rejected caste; who was conceived because two people of different backgrounds came together to fight racial caste in America; whose...

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• 18-Jul-2024
  Timothy Snyder on Political Violence and History Elucidating. Political Violence: We learn that violence that starts on one corner of the far right often ricochets. We find that the important threshold is the enabling of the violence. And we realize is what we do afterwards that counts the most. None of this makes the outcome of a horrid act completely predictable. But...

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• 01-Jul-2024
  Quote of the Day “In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby...

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• 15-Jun-2024

  
  My Political Compass 2003, 2024 It seems rare that an internet quizzes would stick around for decades. In March 2003 I linked to politicalcompass.org and took their quiz, and the results were included in my post Just More Misc, Nothing Personal Today: My political compass is apparently: Economic Left/Right: -3.25 Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.87 — what’s yours? I took it again today....

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• 25-Apr-2024

  
  Hey, Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone The Case for Leaving Protesters Be: We practice forbearance for a greater good. Just like a member of Congress should ask whether they are elected only to pass legislation that will help with their reelection or whether they serve a higher purpose for the good of their country, a university leader must ask whether their...

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