Thankful Thinker
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Optimistic realist. Humanity gets twisted into evil shapes by trauma, but we can recover, be better, & extend our recovery to others & the planet.
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From Daniel Deronda by George Eliot - a very apt quote for today's political landscape!:
"It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down."
"It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down."
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This is so embarrassing.
The cartel drones Pam Bondi was sounding the alarm about during the hearing turned out to be… party balloons.
This administration is so incompetent.
The cartel drones Pam Bondi was sounding the alarm about during the hearing turned out to be… party balloons.
This administration is so incompetent.
February 13, 2026 at 2:59 AM
This is so embarrassing.
The cartel drones Pam Bondi was sounding the alarm about during the hearing turned out to be… party balloons.
This administration is so incompetent.
The cartel drones Pam Bondi was sounding the alarm about during the hearing turned out to be… party balloons.
This administration is so incompetent.
Intetesting history about gerrymandering. Love Heather Cox!
@heathercoxrichardson.substack.com.web.brid.gy
youtu.be/xRfODgmbcL0?...
@heathercoxrichardson.substack.com.web.brid.gy
youtu.be/xRfODgmbcL0?...
How Gerrymandering Quietly Reshapes Democracy, Explained by Heather Cox Richardson
YouTube video by Civic Lens
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February 13, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Intetesting history about gerrymandering. Love Heather Cox!
@heathercoxrichardson.substack.com.web.brid.gy
youtu.be/xRfODgmbcL0?...
@heathercoxrichardson.substack.com.web.brid.gy
youtu.be/xRfODgmbcL0?...
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READ
"1984"
"Animal Farm"
And esp
Thom Hartmann
@Hartmannreport.com
This is it, folks...seriously
If Dems don't win the.midterms, there is no doubt in my.mind, we.will become a full blown dictatorship
We will be OWNED by our government
"1984"
"Animal Farm"
And esp
Thom Hartmann
@Hartmannreport.com
This is it, folks...seriously
If Dems don't win the.midterms, there is no doubt in my.mind, we.will become a full blown dictatorship
We will be OWNED by our government
February 13, 2026 at 7:34 PM
READ
"1984"
"Animal Farm"
And esp
Thom Hartmann
@Hartmannreport.com
This is it, folks...seriously
If Dems don't win the.midterms, there is no doubt in my.mind, we.will become a full blown dictatorship
We will be OWNED by our government
"1984"
"Animal Farm"
And esp
Thom Hartmann
@Hartmannreport.com
This is it, folks...seriously
If Dems don't win the.midterms, there is no doubt in my.mind, we.will become a full blown dictatorship
We will be OWNED by our government
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Yep, that’s me. Yep, that’s my public library. Maybe they’ll ban dancing next and Kevin Bacon will show up. (And I mean the actor and not the pig that escapes from down Clinton Allen Road with that name. 🤣)
www.livingstonparishnews.com/stories/burn...
@la-cac.org @everylibrary.bsky.social
www.livingstonparishnews.com/stories/burn...
@la-cac.org @everylibrary.bsky.social
"Burn the book and get rid of it forever": Library board votes to restrict award-winning graphic novel for teens despite legal warnings and disrupted meeting - Livingston Parish News
LIVINGSTON, La. — A contentious Livingston Parish Library Board of Control special meeting on February 10th, 2026, ended with the board voting 6-3 to relocate the award-winning graphic novel "This …
www.livingstonparishnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Yep, that’s me. Yep, that’s my public library. Maybe they’ll ban dancing next and Kevin Bacon will show up. (And I mean the actor and not the pig that escapes from down Clinton Allen Road with that name. 🤣)
www.livingstonparishnews.com/stories/burn...
@la-cac.org @everylibrary.bsky.social
www.livingstonparishnews.com/stories/burn...
@la-cac.org @everylibrary.bsky.social
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I always have the warning of German poet Heinrich Heine in my mind: "Where they burn books, in the end they will burn people."
February 13, 2026 at 8:48 AM
I always have the warning of German poet Heinrich Heine in my mind: "Where they burn books, in the end they will burn people."
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Please remember that the famine in Sudan is a manufactured crisis. Sudan's agricultural land is being used to grow food & farm livestock - it's just being taken to feed people elsewhere. Foreign proxies steal our land & resources while they let our people starve.
February 12, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Please remember that the famine in Sudan is a manufactured crisis. Sudan's agricultural land is being used to grow food & farm livestock - it's just being taken to feed people elsewhere. Foreign proxies steal our land & resources while they let our people starve.
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First off, he's illiterate. Then, evangelicals are on his side because they are all like him
February 13, 2026 at 7:27 PM
First off, he's illiterate. Then, evangelicals are on his side because they are all like him
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States should not.
Do not comply.
Do not comply.
February 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
States should not.
Do not comply.
Do not comply.
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More than 99.9% of all illegal voting recorded in the past decades is By Republicans For Republicans.
Same as sexual predatory arrests.
Leavitt is a product of sexual grooming.
Same as sexual predatory arrests.
Leavitt is a product of sexual grooming.
February 12, 2026 at 9:56 PM
More than 99.9% of all illegal voting recorded in the past decades is By Republicans For Republicans.
Same as sexual predatory arrests.
Leavitt is a product of sexual grooming.
Same as sexual predatory arrests.
Leavitt is a product of sexual grooming.
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Fascism is inventing problems and enforcing "solutions"
February 13, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Fascism is inventing problems and enforcing "solutions"
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More than 140 million American citizens do not possess a passport.
As many as 69 million women who have taken their spouse’s name do not have a birth certificate matching their legal name.
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
As many as 69 million women who have taken their spouse’s name do not have a birth certificate matching their legal name.
www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens
The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.
www.americanprogress.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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2/burdening the voting process for 20,000,000 people or more.
February 12, 2026 at 8:39 PM
2/burdening the voting process for 20,000,000 people or more.
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While I agree w all the practical and political objections to the SAVE Act, I actually believe those are secondary and miss the primary objection:
There is NO EVIDENCE of non-citizens voting in federal elections: 77-85 cases between 1999-2023.
There is NEITHER NEED nor JUSTIFICATION for a law
There is NO EVIDENCE of non-citizens voting in federal elections: 77-85 cases between 1999-2023.
There is NEITHER NEED nor JUSTIFICATION for a law
February 12, 2026 at 8:39 PM
While I agree w all the practical and political objections to the SAVE Act, I actually believe those are secondary and miss the primary objection:
There is NO EVIDENCE of non-citizens voting in federal elections: 77-85 cases between 1999-2023.
There is NEITHER NEED nor JUSTIFICATION for a law
There is NO EVIDENCE of non-citizens voting in federal elections: 77-85 cases between 1999-2023.
There is NEITHER NEED nor JUSTIFICATION for a law
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MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter
Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes
Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes
February 13, 2026 at 6:18 PM
MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter
Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes
Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes
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Cartoon by Nick Anderson
February 13, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Cartoon by Nick Anderson
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The SAVE act is inherently unconstitutional because the bill would require voters to prove citizenship via birth certificate or passport.
Both a passport and a birth certificate cost money to procure.
This constitutes a poll tax which is explicitly prohibited by the 24th amendment.
Both a passport and a birth certificate cost money to procure.
This constitutes a poll tax which is explicitly prohibited by the 24th amendment.
February 12, 2026 at 9:09 PM
The SAVE act is inherently unconstitutional because the bill would require voters to prove citizenship via birth certificate or passport.
Both a passport and a birth certificate cost money to procure.
This constitutes a poll tax which is explicitly prohibited by the 24th amendment.
Both a passport and a birth certificate cost money to procure.
This constitutes a poll tax which is explicitly prohibited by the 24th amendment.
"...disenfranchise Americans of all ages & races, but younger voters & voters of color would suffer disproportionately. Likewise, millions of women whose married names aren’t on their birth certificates or passports would face extra steps..." to vote!
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
February 13, 2026 at 6:45 PM
"...disenfranchise Americans of all ages & races, but younger voters & voters of color would suffer disproportionately. Likewise, millions of women whose married names aren’t on their birth certificates or passports would face extra steps..." to vote!
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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I don't understand why any loyal Democrat would vote in favor of the SAVE act, which is a blatant attempt to undermine the mid-term elections.
Explanations are in order.
Explanations are in order.
February 12, 2026 at 6:07 PM
I don't understand why any loyal Democrat would vote in favor of the SAVE act, which is a blatant attempt to undermine the mid-term elections.
Explanations are in order.
Explanations are in order.
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The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.
February 13, 2026 at 4:58 PM
The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.
BOO! How can we let the Olympic committee know that we support this Ukrainian athlete? This is an unfair ruling. Can we reverse it?
Ukrainian Athlete Disqualified From Olympics Over Helmet Depicting War Dead: ‘The Price of Our Dignity’
time.com/7377960/vlad...
time.com/7377960/vlad...
Ukrainian Athlete Disqualified From Olympics Over Helmet
“This is the price of our dignity,” Heraskevych said, in response to the International Olympic Committee's decision.
time.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:26 PM
BOO! How can we let the Olympic committee know that we support this Ukrainian athlete? This is an unfair ruling. Can we reverse it?
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AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
February 13, 2026 at 5:50 PM
AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
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More popular than current President by a mile of supporters behind her.
Her choice to run for president to fix flawed governance currently deteriorating nation.
Her choice to run for president to fix flawed governance currently deteriorating nation.
February 13, 2026 at 2:36 PM
More popular than current President by a mile of supporters behind her.
Her choice to run for president to fix flawed governance currently deteriorating nation.
Her choice to run for president to fix flawed governance currently deteriorating nation.
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I'm an old white guy and I'd vote for Kamala again, in a heartbeat!
February 13, 2026 at 3:34 PM
I'm an old white guy and I'd vote for Kamala again, in a heartbeat!
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Former U.S. Vice President and 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris pulled up to Alabama State on Thursday.
Video c/o:@brothamyles1
Video c/o:@brothamyles1
February 13, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Former U.S. Vice President and 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris pulled up to Alabama State on Thursday.
Video c/o:@brothamyles1
Video c/o:@brothamyles1
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How utterly embarrassing.
It’s not the pilot’s job to remember cosplay Barbie’s blankie.
It’s not the pilot’s job to remember cosplay Barbie’s blankie.
February 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
How utterly embarrassing.
It’s not the pilot’s job to remember cosplay Barbie’s blankie.
It’s not the pilot’s job to remember cosplay Barbie’s blankie.