another-john.bsky.social
@another-john.bsky.social
Free thinker, former prof w/ grad degrees, hobby forester, truck gardener, DIY'er, VN Vet, V.A. patient
Musks to make a SpaceX company town in TX, where workers live in his houses and get paid in his crypto script"

America has seen this shit before in the coal fields of Appalachia, we deplored it. Labor worked to free workers from its tyranny.

Go back to So. Africa and do this to people there Elon.
December 19, 2024 at 9:38 PM
News flash? Trump says get on with the shutdown because fiendly media will make the base believe it's Biden's fault.

Donny, you are saying the part meant to be quiet and unnoticed out in the open where even a near illiterate flunking 5th grader can see what you're doing.
December 19, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Things do change, I've seen it happen

I remember Christian Evangelists, like Billy Graham sr., endorsing working in poverty knowing the nobility of work in the struggle was against the evils of Mammon.

Today evangelists are billionaires viewed as specially blessed leaders by a Mammonite god.
December 19, 2024 at 8:39 PM
A dictator MUST 1st show he can impact your life. Killing the bilateral CR agreement is THAT.

Elon is doing our RE-EDUCATION, washing away our belief that we inhabit a Republic and have guaranteed Rights, such as choice of elected leaders that can't be stolen or bought.

Media is still catching up.
December 19, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Earning a PHD in pop bio, was a long path changing my life.

Yet here, I wish to thank all those who filled the gaps in my ed around that specialty. I'm grateful for lessons, from now nonagenarians, from Jr Hi to Uni Gen Studies that provided a basis to consider our current crisis.

Thanx To All
December 19, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Musk and Trump want to destroy the MAGNA CARTA

First written to benefit rebel Barons by limiting Monarchical power, the slow expansion of the principals of the MAGNA CARTA to the general population are the basis of government of and by the law and the starting point of PROGRESSIVE GOVERNANCE...
December 19, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Sitting here sort of pining for the old days... back when Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the Presidency was the greatest threat anyone across living memory had seen to democracy.
December 19, 2024 at 4:00 PM
I thought last evenings nightmare seemed to be a History Channel remake on the rise of nazism, with Trump playing the role of the aged Bismark and Musk as Adolph...

Either that vision didn't go away after I woke up or I am still sleeping.
December 19, 2024 at 2:40 PM
I expected Trump 2.0 to be troubling with Trump pushing for expansion of authoritarian executive power.

I really wasn't expecting that it would feature dictatorial rule of the House by an unelected immigrant from South Africa intent on jumping his starting date.
December 19, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Powerless to MAKE IT HAPPEN, Dicky Durban says the dems should deep 6 the electoral college.

Ya, Dicky, your doing it again!!!!

Pushing a populist position that Dems CANNOT MAKE HAPPEN
December 17, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Should I be concerned???? YES!!!!!!!!!!

Elon is touring the nation selling HIS policies. He's unelected, and widely unwanted

WTF is WRONG WITH MEDIA?????????????????????????
December 17, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Some details in the Madison school shooting that say be careful about early application of stereotypes

The weapon was a 9mm pistol
The shooter was a female

It's all terrible but 2 kids are still in critical condition with life-threatening injuries.
December 16, 2024 at 9:43 PM
First came the It's Not REALLY Part of Medicare, that privatized part C. Now with have the It's Not REALLY a Department of Government Efficiency

IMO, there should be truth in advertising if not copyright restrictions placed on lying Republicans intent of infringing upon brand value.
December 15, 2024 at 9:10 PM
No, no, Aaron Rogers will not be on Trump's WH staff. Stop that rumor.

Making passes, at female staffers, is already fully covered by Trump and Hegseth.
December 15, 2024 at 8:25 PM
bullet pt for Ruko drone w/ith 2 mile rc range and 79 min duration:

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IMO America is being played. Imagine the possibilities for peeping Toms.
December 15, 2024 at 8:04 PM
If you haven't seen this, I recommend reading it for professional insight into what stimulates conservative thinking:

Political conservatism as motivated social cognition.
Psychol Bull. 2003 May;129(3):339-75.
December 15, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Remember _Animal Farm_?

I have a creepy feeling that among the dictatorial class of the "more equal" pigs, Trump is fulfilling the role of "Squealer" to Musk's role as "Napolean"
December 15, 2024 at 3:50 PM
The Magna Carta established foundational rules to constrain monarchy.

History may see Musk's _MAGA Carta_ as the thing that destroyed those protections. Giving tax and regulatory freedom to billionaires and formal creation of an _en banc_ governing body by unelected, wealthy corporate Lords.
December 15, 2024 at 3:30 PM
GOP politicians seem to have become little more than petty functionaries of a self-serving Capitalist Caliphate led by an unelected immigrant.

DOGE is identity politics for billionaires, the long-desired formal work-around to responsive governance of the people, by the people, and for the people.
December 15, 2024 at 2:32 PM
True land doesn't vote, but the votes required to win the electoral college are distributed geographically.

Winning states across US geography is how presidential campaigns collect those all-important electoral votes. All the more so when Dems don't carry 3 out of 4 big ones CA, TX, NY and Fla.
December 15, 2024 at 2:48 AM
Wondering what marvelous insurance give Pelosi emergency operation in a foreign country?

Suppose this has anything to do with Congressional ambivalence to the insurance plight of MILLIONS of US citizens?
December 14, 2024 at 7:07 PM
10.5 million vets live in the US, the V.A. cares for approximately 9 million of them.

9 million voting vets from both major political parties, 9 million vets with voting siblings and voting parents.

Which means at least 30 million Americans who understand the importance and care for the V.A.
December 13, 2024 at 7:44 PM
V.A.s MILLION VETERAN PROGRAM by comparing vet health records to vet's volunteering DNA, have discovered a new gene based prostate cancer, a genetic breast cancer risk assessment, genetic links for PTSD and developed genetic risk assessments fir glaucoma, in Black and Hispanic populations,
December 13, 2024 at 6:55 PM
The impact of D.O.G.E. will likely upend American social order, and create a tsunami of mental health problems (suicides, homicidal ideations) as was seen in east Germany following unification and the collapse of its social system.

The APA isn't ready to deal with Post Traumatic Embitterment.
December 10, 2024 at 10:54 AM
common freshman student complaint was "Multiple choice doesn't let me express what I know..."

Me: "Because this class has 400 students; The test ended at 2 PM and 99% want their course grade tomorrow at 8 AM. The Dean of Science doesn't want to read evals about -takes too long to return papers-"
December 9, 2024 at 6:38 PM