The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

Relevant.

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education. “Doctor” Oz, Medicare and Medicaid. And of course the bloviating star of The Apprentice, president.

Looks like we’re a Reality TV nation.

Carl Sagan called it thirty years ago.

Isaac Asimov called it longer ago than that.

When I say this is the “safe place” I don’t mean safe from discourse, difference in opinions, occasional fat jokes, and tom foolery..

I mean it’s safe from propaganda programmed bots, harmful rage bait, reckless unchecked racist rhetoric and unsolicited temu ads

11/13/2024- Grief www.timesfreepress.com/news/2024/no...

“The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

—Howard Zinn

Never gave a damn for twitter but I’m grateful for BlueSky if for no other reason than it lets me know you people are out there. Been feeling like a stranger in a strange land after lots of folks where I live were thrilled with the election. We’re going to need each other a lot, that’s why I’m here.

Just absorbing the fact that the first order of business in the new QAnon-inflected MAGA Republican era is to demand that Congress bury its report on sex trafficking and drug allegations against a Republican member of Congress who they're trying to promote to higher office.

Quite so.

I’ve seen other “alternative social media” sites come and go, never signed up for any because it was obvious they wouldn’t last. This? I think this is legitimate, I think it’s going to last, and I’m glad to be part of it.