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• 18-Jan-2025
  Get your own website. on Tik Tok I’ve been studying film in one way or another since I was a kid. My first career was respiratory therapy. My second career was to be “something in film.” I have taken classes in tv production, broadcasting, film, screenwriting, visual effects. On my way out from medicine to film, I went to The Web. But...

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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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• 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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• 30-May-2024
  Questions of the Day From Benjamin Wittes: Does a criminal conviction of a past president, in fact, serve any significant democracy protective function in a prospective sense as that person seeks the presidency anew or is it just so much noise? Does Trump’s being convicted of 34 felonies make it any less likely that he will be elected president...

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• 07-Feb-2024
  Quote of the Day From United States Court of Appeals for The District of Columbia Circuit: No. 1:23-cr-00257-1: We cannot accept former President Trump’s claim that a President has unbounded authority to commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on executive power — the recognition and implementation of election results. Nor can we sanction his apparent contention...

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• 01-May-2017

  
  tl;dr: it was slavery. Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America: March 21, 1861: But not to be tedious in enumerating the numerous changes for the better, allow me to allude to one other — though last, not least. The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution...

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