“To the crowd, Walz was encouraging, saying their anger is justified.

‘The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting,’ he said. ‘You’re not.’” www.yahoo.com/news/somethi...

These are the members of the Senate Democratic caucus who just voted to pass the GOP's Trump-backed budget bill, along with the year that they next go before voters—including primary voters.

It's hard to stand up to power, but institutions choosing to ignore the people they serve in favor of a despot is criminally unprofessional. I understand the desire, as risk-averse institutions, to hide and hope they don't come for you next, but they already have and will continue to do so.

My first physical (non-instructional) book in Norwegian!

Next read will be a bit of a long one, but it’s a first hand account of the conflict that set up the society that would eventually have to fight on the western and set up Stalin as a power player in the Russian communist party.

Now for a book on the Persian empire, who took the reins after the crumbling of the Assyrian empire, so to speak.

Next up in the tales of ancient near East

En ting på NRK som jeg har begynt å nyte

Rereading this audio book. Given the brutality the Assyrians employed in their later years makes me ponder if humanity hasn’t changed and if it’s just the tools that have evolved.