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Dorothee Edmonde
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Writer, Teacher, Reader, Truth seeker and spreader...and now more than ever, democracy defender...
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Sometimes sex is not about procreation....(article)
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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If you haven't watched it, now is the time....

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White house at night....party going on inside....crowd watching with red hats on...
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Sign: in blue in corner-this is our America. Alternating red and white stripes of flag-all people have value...love always wins...kindness is free...beliefs and personal rights are universal...freedom only exists if it applies to everyone...choose to be curious not judgemental...the world is full of friends we have yet to meet...our differences make us beautiful...we can all strive to be good humans
October 19, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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I saw that too.....creep...
Man with big flag...face covered....hat...possible MAGA
October 19, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Perhaps this is what we need....ugh...so difficult to love your enemy...I've not been doing a good job of it at all, but MLK surely knew what he was talking about.

kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/...
must do it. That is the meaning of love. In he final analysis, love is not this sentimental ;omething that we talk about. It's not merely C emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.
September 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I thought some might enjoy the larger context....
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his /acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both baserand servile. TO announce that therer must be nO criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right Or Nrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth. should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant about him than about any one else. -Theodore Roosevelt, 26thiUSy
September 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else. -Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President (1858-1919)
September 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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What did Benjamin Franklin George Washington Cassius Marcellus Clay James Gillespie Birney John Newton have in common? They were able to self reflect, break away from the herd, evolve, and change their hearts from cruelty to love despite what others continued to condone. It took courage, revelation, self introspection, a loss of money, ridicule but once a person recognizes right from wrong on an issue they can not unregonize it. I am hoping the people who are caught up on the wrong side of today's issues can do the hard task of looking inside their heart and listening to their own voice...it will speak to you of love if you will bow your head and listen...
September 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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We are in crisis. The distance between what is said & what S known to be true is an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss Of objective eality S perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory for evil. When truth leaves us--when we let it slip away--when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite whatever monster screams the loudest...
September 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Read the short story Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury....prophetic...
Before: TIME SAFARI, INC. SAFARIS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST. YOU NAME THE ANIMAL. WE TAKE YOU THERE. YOU SHOOT IT. After: TYME SEFARI INC. SEFARIS TU ANY YEER EN THE PAST. YU NAIM THE ANIMALL. WEE TAEK YU THAIR. YU SHOOT ITT. The change in the president from the moderate Keith to the authoritarian Deutscher symbolizes a fundamental shift in the world's values, from democracy to a more brutal, oppressive society.
September 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Bumper sticker...I've heard enough from old white men....apologies to those old white men who are cool lol.
September 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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War Pigs by Black Sabbath seems appropriate today...
Especially this part...

Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing, spreads his wings
Oh, Lord, yeah
Banksy picture from book in library....with lyrics from War Pig by Black Sabbath
July 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. Arundhati Roy, War Talk
July 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Picture of dragon fly
July 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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July 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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My dearest Bedelia, If I do not make it back from ____ (war?), please know that i wear your braided hair in a ring on my pinky finger. I will not forget licking the fry sauce from it on my last night home. Rations are few now that the taco stand man has been disappeared by our side. His tacos were the best (I'm really not sure he was the enemy, but I digress.) I took a diet coke to the face at eventide, but I am staying strong in the face of the opposition...of which I am, as of yet, uncertain who it is actually....someone brown or with pronouns, I've been told. Stay strong darling until my return (around midnight). Please wash my back-up face covering, due to the traumatic assault I endured earlier. All my love from the front (of the park). Remington
July 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Visual representation of 1 million vs 1 billion
July 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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I think the results of the age group showing up to vote for a Democratic Socialist fot NY mayor is writing on the wall...
July 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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I think the results of the age group showing up to vote for a Democratic Socialist fot NY mayor is writing on the wall...
July 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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No different than these low lifes....
June 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Hmmm...I'm a crafter....what could one do with this product?
June 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Exactly...they probably should just make another alteration for his clothing....an add on to the stilts....the urine bag...the long draped suits to cover God knows what....just add on a little tunnel on the back of his sleeves where Vought &/or Miller can slide their arms right into and move him like a puppet....he could put his feet on their feet and they could wobble that weevil right on out....then their mouth would be right in his ear while they tell him what to say.....he wouldn't even need an ear piece, and he wouldn't have to attend any briefings....oh and if he's saying the wrong stuff...like admitting to cheating on the election....just move his hand right up over his own mouth.....
June 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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That Which Evil Wrought....by Jube Carlyle
June 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Butterfly in grass
June 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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May 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM