“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.” – Studs Terkel

Clips like this remind me of just how good the Beatles were.❤️

The Oldest Debt, by @magixarc open.substack.com/pub/maryge… Long, but important. I have also argued that we need a moral and legal framework that recognizes the rights of other species and of generations to come, that what we are doing to the planet is a form of looting from all who share this planet and all will follow.

Of all things that keep me up at night, this is especially troubling. 2d term Trump has removed everyone who would block crazy orders, or try to tell him no. Now imagine him growing increasingly unhinged with dementia, ordering even more insane things. With no one trying to stop him

If we are going to return to a decent society, respecting the views of adversaries, debating policy differences vigorously, but also restoring some sense of shame for outrageous and unacceptable actions and words, some boundaries for what is acceptable, we have to draw lines. 3

Whatever happens now, we absolutely cannot allow Trump's refusal to seek Congressional authorization for what appears to be a large scale military attack on another country vanish from the media discussion, which already appears to be happening.

It’s about the grift. It’s always about the grift.

So, in 2026, the United States can hold a foreign president responsible for breaking US law but not an American president. Interesting.

This argument means that any time a president wants to invade a country "legally," he just has to get his DOJ to indict the country's leader. It makes Congress' power to declare war totally meaningless.

Several contradictory things are simultaneously true: 1. Maduro was an oppressive, unpopular and illegitimate ruler, disastrous for his country and the region. 2. Using the US to remove him may have been equally illegitimate. 3. Venezuela would be better off with a new government under the opposition's Edmundo Gonzalez (who probably won the presidential election but is now exiled). 4. It's not clear that Maduro will be replaced by Gonzalez. Maduro's VP is still apparently in power, as are other regime figures and the Cubans who back them. 5. As we've seen in Iraq and Libya, it can be easier to topple a leader than to establish a new government; sometimes you get a worse leader, or Somalia-style chaos.

I had somehow missed this festivity. The Biden "sexual harassment" accuser bestowed Russian citizenship. Clearly nothing to see here.

Soon, Winter Solstice, darkness turning toward light, sending love to you yours. Here is “A Hollow Bone,” w/gratitudes to Regina Lopez Whiteskunk for permission to share her words of knowing; Christina Seely her evocative images; and @emergence_zine⁩ emergencemagazine.org/essay/…

He has a point. No person with a scintilla of decency and integrity would be capable of that speech

"Now the trumpet summons us again--not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need--not as a call to battle, though embattled we are-- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle... " JFK Inagural

“We deeply regret these errors. President Miller doesn’t care, however, so we’re stuck with them.”

On 10/28/16, with Election Day only 11 days off, an unspeakably reckless James Comey changed the course of history. But for Comey, Trump wasn't president. It is impossible to overstate the damage that act of hubris wrought on not only the US but the world.

if you think Joe Biden on his worst day was in the same galaxy of cognitive decay as his successor, you're as embarrassing as Trump is

The term fascist does come to mind NYT: Trump administration officials on Monday responded to the activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination by threatening to bring the weight of the federal government down on what they alleged was a left-wing network that funds and incites violence, seizing on the killing to make broad and unsubstantiated claims about their political opponents.

Why? Can we get an explanation?

I’ve watched 100s of congressional hearings over 55 years. Rarely if ever have I seen a witness so thoroughly destroyed as RFK Jr has been today.