"""Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching-- even when doing the wrong thing is legal."
- Aldo Leopold"
- Nick Offerman"
- Peter Metzger

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

Watching it live because I wanted to hear it straight from the horse's mouth, even if the horse is a jackass.

So as far as I can tell, we're* trying to give Ukraine to Russia, Brazil to Bolsonaro, Americans to Musk, and America to Trump. I know this isn't a complete list, what did I miss?

*"we" in the sense of the US Federal Gov't. I'm certainly not trying to do any of these things, myself.

#geopolitics

Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

Naming himself head of a cultural institution?

apnews.com/article/trum...

I've read about the political trials Dmitri Shostakovich endured as a composer in Stalin's Russia, but I never thought we'd start to see it happening here.

And when do we all start being excellent to each other?

One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment.

I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face.

And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.

To what extent is the "deferred resignation" offer potentially setting up a batch of martyrs for when funding to pay out the remainder of the promise (remember, the federal government is only funded through mid-march at the moment) gets tied to whatever maga tomfoolery they come up with next? #usgov

Why not democracy, if democracy-shaped?