@jeff-wade.bsky.social
Earthling. Husband, father, friend. Retired aerospace engineer.
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“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
— Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism
— Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism
August 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
— Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism
— Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism
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My God, people, protect your children from this trash propaganda, and fight your school districts if they try to force it on you.
Raise one holy hell of a ruckus and demand your child be protected from this.
Raise one holy hell of a ruckus and demand your child be protected from this.
The White House has a preferred alternative to PBS: PragerU, a nonprofit organization that specializes in creating right-leaning educational short videos for adults and children. . It may already be in countless classrooms. www.vox.com/today-explai...
The White House has a preferred alternative to PBS. It may already be in countless classrooms.
How the right-wing network PragerU could fill the void left by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s defunding.
www.vox.com
August 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
My God, people, protect your children from this trash propaganda, and fight your school districts if they try to force it on you.
Raise one holy hell of a ruckus and demand your child be protected from this.
Raise one holy hell of a ruckus and demand your child be protected from this.
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NEW: The extraordinary journalist/historian @tim-weiner.bsky.social has a magnificent new book out today on the CIA: "The Mission." It reveals agency scandals & covers a few of its successes. To get a taste, see my interview w/ Weiner in my OUR LAND newsletter.
link.motherjones.com/public/40681...
link.motherjones.com/public/40681...
July 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
NEW: The extraordinary journalist/historian @tim-weiner.bsky.social has a magnificent new book out today on the CIA: "The Mission." It reveals agency scandals & covers a few of its successes. To get a taste, see my interview w/ Weiner in my OUR LAND newsletter.
link.motherjones.com/public/40681...
link.motherjones.com/public/40681...
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NEW: Historically presidents confronting crises have sought to explain, to reassure and above all, to calm the situation.
Not Trump.
When faced with flames, he comes running with gasoline.
The escalation of events in LA is just the latest example.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Not Trump.
When faced with flames, he comes running with gasoline.
The escalation of events in LA is just the latest example.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Commentary: Putting the bully in bully pulpit, Trump escalates in L.A. rather than seeking calm
Instead of calming things, President Trump's dispatch of National Guard troops to L.A. has escalated tensions. It may serve his interests by distracting and deflecting but abdicating presidential resp...
www.latimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NEW: Historically presidents confronting crises have sought to explain, to reassure and above all, to calm the situation.
Not Trump.
When faced with flames, he comes running with gasoline.
The escalation of events in LA is just the latest example.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Not Trump.
When faced with flames, he comes running with gasoline.
The escalation of events in LA is just the latest example.
www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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NO KINGS Santa Cruz · Progressive Democrats of America
## Santa Cruz March Details
- Join us at 10am for a short rally at Upper San Lorenzo Park (Duck Pond Stage).
We will then march from the park on the sidewalk on Dakota Ave. to Soquel Ave. and then up...
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June 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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January 14, 2025 at 5:59 AM