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· Dec 7
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
The most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.
“I don’t know what’s more insane – that the ‘President of Peace’ is starting an illegal war or that he’s giving a get out of jail free card to the U.S. military."
Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Killings By Claiming the Target Is Drugs, Not People
In a memo promising legal immunity for those who kill alleged drug traffickers, the Trump administration floated an unusual legal theory.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.
For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.
June 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.
There are two kinds of corruption: one, when the people do not observe the laws, the other when they are corrupted by the laws; the latter is an incurable ill because it lies in the remedy itself.
A sheriff in Mississippi, the highest paid and most powerful public figure in his county, staffed his mother’s commercial chicken farm with inmates from the local jail and used taxpayer-purchased equipment to improve it, an investigation by The New York Times and Mississippi Today found.
Mississippi Sheriff Used Inmate Labor for Family Farm
In Mississippi, incarcerated trusties cleaned chicken houses, fixed cars and installed flooring for the benefit of a local sheriff and his associates, a new investigation found.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
There are two kinds of corruption: one, when the people do not observe the laws, the other when they are corrupted by the laws; the latter is an incurable ill because it lies in the remedy itself.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
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Murphy Breaks Down Trump And Musk's 'Rampage Of Open Corruption', Likens Them To Russian Oligarchs
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
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March 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
At least three people in three states have recently been charged with pretending to be immigration agents, the authorities said, amid mounting efforts by the Trump Administration to increase deportations.
Several Accused of Impersonating Agents Amid Trump Push on Deportations
At least three people in three states have recently been charged with pretending to be immigration agents, the authorities said.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
This, from @jamellebouie.net, is the best summary I've seen of where we are right now.
"To describe the current situation in the executive branch as merely a constitutional crisis is to understate the significance of what we’re experiencing."
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
"To describe the current situation in the executive branch as merely a constitutional crisis is to understate the significance of what we’re experiencing."
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | There Is No Going Back (Gift Article)
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
President Trump in just two weeks back in office has left virtually no corner of the nation’s capital untouched in a wide-ranging effort to tear down the federal government and refashion it to his liking.
How Trump Is Reshaping U.S. Government, Just 2 Weeks Into His Presidency
The new president has left virtually no corner of the nation’s capital untouched in a wide-ranging effort to tear down the federal government and refashion it to his liking.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
February 4, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
December 28, 2024 at 3:30 PM
You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. Bidden or unbidden, God is present.
After Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, Israel severely rolled back protections for civilians in Gaza, putting more lives at risk in its bombing campaign with an order that had no precedent in Israeli military history. Here are key takeaways from our investigation.
Eight Takeaways: How Israel Weakened Civilian Protections When Bombing Gaza
A New York Times investigation found that Israel severely undermined its system of safeguards when striking Gaza, and used flawed methods to find targets and assess the risk to civilians.
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2024 at 12:59 PM
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. Bidden or unbidden, God is present.
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
December 24, 2024 at 5:18 PM
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
This Christmas Eve, a vehicle will travel at incomprehensible speed around a celestial object to bring wonder to the people of Earth — and it’s not Santa’s sleigh. The Parker Solar Probe, a NASA spacecraft, is attempting the closest ever pass of the sun’s surface.
The Fastest Spacecraft Ever Heads for Its Close-Up With the Sun
The Parker Solar Probe is attempting the closest ever pass of the sun’s surface on Christmas Eve.
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2024 at 12:04 PM
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
December 24, 2024 at 3:47 AM
It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.
December 23, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.
I know that I exist; the question is, what is this 'I' that 'I' know.
December 23, 2024 at 2:54 AM
I know that I exist; the question is, what is this 'I' that 'I' know.
I understand by the word "god" an infinite and independent substance, intelligent and powerful to the highest degree, who created me along with everything else-- if there is anything else.
December 21, 2024 at 4:52 PM
I understand by the word "god" an infinite and independent substance, intelligent and powerful to the highest degree, who created me along with everything else-- if there is anything else.
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
Joe Mazzulla's explanation for this is perfect, feed me every Mazzulla presser
December 21, 2024 at 1:09 PM
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune.
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
December 21, 2024 at 12:48 PM
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
December 21, 2024 at 3:52 AM
He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.
December 21, 2024 at 3:51 AM
I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.
In my own country I am in a far off land.
I am strong but have no power.
I win all yet remain a loser.
At break of day I say goodnight.
When I lie down I have great fear of falling.
I am strong but have no power.
I win all yet remain a loser.
At break of day I say goodnight.
When I lie down I have great fear of falling.
December 20, 2024 at 12:29 PM
In my own country I am in a far off land.
I am strong but have no power.
I win all yet remain a loser.
At break of day I say goodnight.
When I lie down I have great fear of falling.
I am strong but have no power.
I win all yet remain a loser.
At break of day I say goodnight.
When I lie down I have great fear of falling.
Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
December 19, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
December 19, 2024 at 3:30 AM
The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.
I do not believe in God, and I am not an atheist.
December 18, 2024 at 12:59 PM
I do not believe in God, and I am not an atheist.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
December 17, 2024 at 10:52 PM
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.