Danny from Wisconsin
@bigdwi.bsky.social
66 year old IT (MIS) professional who enjoys guitar, classical guitar music, the Grateful Dead and cooking. Currently exploring Moroccan Recipes. Successful raised three kids. Who make me proud daily. Im here to discover, learn, interact, and enjoy.
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NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press.” He spoke in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff.
Pope Leo XIV urges release of imprisoned journalists, affirms gift of free speech and press
Pope Leo XIV has called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press.”
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May 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Pope Leo XIV expressed solidarity with imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press.” He spoke in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff.
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Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger on how the parallels between quantum physics and Hindu philosophy illuminate the mystery of consciousness and what makes us who we are in an interconnected universe www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/03/e...
What Makes You You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are
“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole.”
www.themarginalian.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger on how the parallels between quantum physics and Hindu philosophy illuminate the mystery of consciousness and what makes us who we are in an interconnected universe www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/03/e...
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The word 'orange' was the word for the fruit before it was the word for the color.
April 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The word 'orange' was the word for the fruit before it was the word for the color.
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Myths, facts, and poetic truth – Amy Lowell (one of the most underestimated geniuses of the past century) on legends as a lens on our limitations and our powers www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/30/a...
Myths, Facts, and Poetic Truth: Amy Lowell on Legends as a Lens on Our Elemental Limitations and Powers
“Legends… are bits of fact, or guesses at fact, pressed into the form of a story and flung out into the world as markers of how much ground has been travelled.”
www.themarginalian.org
April 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Myths, facts, and poetic truth – Amy Lowell (one of the most underestimated geniuses of the past century) on legends as a lens on our limitations and our powers www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/30/a...
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A split Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that Gov. Tony Evers’ partial veto in the last state budget extending school funding increases for an additional 400 years was within his constitutional powers. @bspears.bsky.social reports. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/04/18/w...
WI Supreme Court upholds Gov. Evers partial veto extending school funding increases for 400 years • Wisconsin Examiner
Justice Jill Karofsky wrote in a majority opinion that the partial veto was within the power given to Evers in the state constitution.
wisconsinexaminer.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
A split Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that Gov. Tony Evers’ partial veto in the last state budget extending school funding increases for an additional 400 years was within his constitutional powers. @bspears.bsky.social reports. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/04/18/w...
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This is great news for our kids and schools, who deserve dependable state support, but our work is not done.
We cannot afford for Republican lawmakers to once again fail our kids and schools in our next budget. In the Year of the Kid, we must invest in K-12 education.
www.nbc26.com/news/state/g...
www.nbc26.com/news/state/g...
www.nbc26.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is great news for our kids and schools, who deserve dependable state support, but our work is not done.
We cannot afford for Republican lawmakers to once again fail our kids and schools in our next budget. In the Year of the Kid, we must invest in K-12 education.
www.nbc26.com/news/state/g...
www.nbc26.com/news/state/g...
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Democratic Governor Tony Evers has successfully increased school funding for the next 400 YEARS in Wisconsin by crossing out a few numbers in a bill to change it from “2024–25” to “2425.”
The state Supreme Court just upheld his right to do so.
The state Supreme Court just upheld his right to do so.
Wisconsin's adventures with line-item vetoes
Laws are like sausages...
www.axios.com
April 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Democratic Governor Tony Evers has successfully increased school funding for the next 400 YEARS in Wisconsin by crossing out a few numbers in a bill to change it from “2024–25” to “2425.”
The state Supreme Court just upheld his right to do so.
The state Supreme Court just upheld his right to do so.
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A century ago, a forgotten Scottish writer and mystic offered the simplest, deepest definition of creativity and what makes a great work of art www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/08/a...
What Makes Great Art: The Single Most Important Element in Creative Work
“Art is a miracle, superior to the laws.”
www.themarginalian.org
April 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A century ago, a forgotten Scottish writer and mystic offered the simplest, deepest definition of creativity and what makes a great work of art www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/08/a...
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This is fascinating: Improvisation and the quantum of consciousness www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/06/i...
April 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This is fascinating: Improvisation and the quantum of consciousness www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/06/i...
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What birds dream about – the surprising science of how evolution designed REM in the bird brain so that we too may have our double lives at night www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/02/b...
What Birds Dream About: The Evolution of REM and How We Practice the Possible in Our Sleep
“It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real… It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality…
www.themarginalian.org
April 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
What birds dream about – the surprising science of how evolution designed REM in the bird brain so that we too may have our double lives at night www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/02/b...
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Schopenhauer's "porcupine dilemma" is the simplest, most profound thing I've encountered on the eternal problem of negotiating intimacy and independence:
The Porcupine Dilemma: Schopenhauer’s Parable about Negotiating the Optimal Distance in Love
This is the supreme challenge of intimacy — how to reconcile the aching yearning for closeness with the painful pressures of actually being close, how to forge a bond tight enough to feel the…
www.themarginalian.org
April 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Schopenhauer's "porcupine dilemma" is the simplest, most profound thing I've encountered on the eternal problem of negotiating intimacy and independence:
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Here is an interesting adjective quirk that you probably aren’t even aware you are doing.
In English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order:
opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun
In English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order:
opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun
April 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Here is an interesting adjective quirk that you probably aren’t even aware you are doing.
In English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order:
opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun
In English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order:
opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun
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When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: www.themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/t...
April 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: www.themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/t...
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Escher on creativity, with a side of Bach and Rachel Carson www.themarginalian.org/2022/10/04/e...
April 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Escher on creativity, with a side of Bach and Rachel Carson www.themarginalian.org/2022/10/04/e...
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"No amount of effort can save you from oblivion."
A bittersweet look at the letters and journals of Kurt Cobain, who left us on this day in 1994
A bittersweet look at the letters and journals of Kurt Cobain, who left us on this day in 1994
Inside Kurt Cobain’s Letters and Journals
“No amount of effort can save you from oblivion.”
www.themarginalian.org
April 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"No amount of effort can save you from oblivion."
A bittersweet look at the letters and journals of Kurt Cobain, who left us on this day in 1994
A bittersweet look at the letters and journals of Kurt Cobain, who left us on this day in 1994
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China today branded US Vice President JD Vance ignorant and disrespectful after he claimed that America was borrowing money from “Chinese peasants.”
China condemns JD Vance’s ‘peasants’ jibe
Beijing hammers US vice president as lacking “knowledge and respect” in escalating feud.
www.politico.eu
April 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
China today branded US Vice President JD Vance ignorant and disrespectful after he claimed that America was borrowing money from “Chinese peasants.”
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Citing incidents of Israeli forces firing on and killing Palestinian medics and beating detainees, US Senator Peter Welch has urged the US government to apply what is known as the 'Leahy Law' to end offensive weapons sales to Israel.
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April 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Citing incidents of Israeli forces firing on and killing Palestinian medics and beating detainees, US Senator Peter Welch has urged the US government to apply what is known as the 'Leahy Law' to end offensive weapons sales to Israel.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lc3cdo
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If you could use an oasis of tenderness in your day, here is Nathaniel Hawthorne's touching, philosophy-laced account of caring for his young son and their pet bunny
Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Almost Unbearably Sweet Account of Sole-Parenting His Small Son
“Mercy on me, was ever man before so be-pelted with a child’s talk as I am! It is his desire of sympathy that lies at the bottom of the great heap of his babblement.”
www.themarginalian.org
April 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
If you could use an oasis of tenderness in your day, here is Nathaniel Hawthorne's touching, philosophy-laced account of caring for his young son and their pet bunny
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“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’”
Superb read:
Superb read:
Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels, no one swears by it, no one cites it… It appears wherever we t…
www.themarginalian.org
April 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’”
Superb read:
Superb read:
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Dear, Elon
Best wishes from Wisconsin
Best wishes from Wisconsin
April 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Dear, Elon
Best wishes from Wisconsin
Best wishes from Wisconsin
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I don’t know who this guy is but I liked his sign! (NYC)
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April 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I don’t know who this guy is but I liked his sign! (NYC)
HandsOff
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Imagine being an hideous person who is so stupid he has to pretend the only way people would dislike him is if they were paid to *pretend* to dislike him. What an idiot.
April 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Imagine being an hideous person who is so stupid he has to pretend the only way people would dislike him is if they were paid to *pretend* to dislike him. What an idiot.