Hear, Hear!

I spent the last few months talking to people across the political spectrum, and to people who want nothing to do with politics at all. Here is what I learned. We are not a divided country. We are a country being divided, on purpose, by an American oligarchy that profits from the fight. They’ve captured our government, denied our healthcare, looted our treasury, and saddled us with crippling debt. I believe in a New New Deal. Healthcare as a human right. The right of every family to a decent home, and an end to endless wars. And a dividend paid to every American from the AI economy, because these machines were built on the whole of human inheritance. That inheritance belongs to all of us, and not just to the handful of men playing God with our very existence. And none of it happens if we just move on. Donald Trump, his family, and his administration are robbing us blind, not just of our money, but of our faith in one another, and they have to answer for it. Truth and reconciliation, not revenge. Then we break the system that let them do it. The question is not whether we will lose our democracy. The question is whether we will fight to take back what has already been stolen. I learned in recovery that you can’t heal what you won’t name. Neither can a country.

– Hunter Biden

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The Best Quotes

An Old Post About Running

Just Keep Running

I no longer use Runtastic. It went completely mobile. So I switched to Strava some years ago. And I’ve fluctuated in weight since 2020, when COVID started. Thankfully, I never went over 250, but I’ve come close lately. I’ve had long stretches of time when I didn’t run. A combination of physical problems and work schedule interfered. Recently, I have managed to resume a semi-stable running regime and am losing weight again. I also received a compliment the other day. While doing CPR training, as I was getting up off the floor without needing to use any support, I mentioned being 64 years old. One of my co-workers was shocked I was that old; they said I was pretty spry. Personally, I thought I was decrepidly out of shape. But then, I still have an internal image of a young man.

Oh well. Progress, not perfection.

Sharing Far and Wide

Celebrate a good man and president today!’

– Paula De Manuel

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Fratures

The Orbit is Fracturing by Mike Brock

Watch the hands, not the face.

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The end is nigh. And it will make Watergate look like child’s play.

Not The First Step

The next step is the most important.

A Future Snopes Article in the Works?

A Secret Service Agent Explains What Trump Is Like Behind The Scenes by The Halfway Cafe

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SHE is Still Ape Shit Crazy.

Blast From the Past

It turns out we didn’t realize he was a she. Thankfully, she did learn boundaries.

This

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