Posts by Joseph Klein
When cleaning out long-idle closets before a move, each box is a Pandora's box, full of old memories, regrets, and dreams.
Human rights belong to everyone, not just citizens or white men.
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt helped shape the post-World War II world and gave the world a vision of universal human rights and respect for a progressive world order.
The EU has embedded many human rights principles in the EU charter.
A post-Trump America should do the same.
It should be the law that any online subscription has a cancel/remove button visible in the consumer's account profile.
Clicking it should, by law, require the company to remove all data and history.
Digital serf. We digital serfs pay monthly fees to view and buy things on the internet. Like agricultural serfs we don't own what we work with, we don't own our games or movies, nor our phones or cars, but we pay tithes to our digital lords.
Star trek IDIC is anti-MAGA.
Fiona Hill: "The United States is on a path toward full-on state repression."
Under Trump, the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the writings of Thomas Paine became incendiary denunciations of his administration.
Education is the great social and economic equalizer, it is an investment in the future. No country can assume or maintain a world leadership role if it prioritizes corporate investment over investing in its people. The people are the most important asset any country has.
It took hundreds of years for Rome to fall, for America, thanks to Trump, years are becoming days.
Many do have buyer's remorse, it is possible things can be turned around in the mid term, if we have fair elections. That may be a very big if!
If you swear an oath to a written document, you should probably read it and understand it.
I will be the first to say we have far too much money flowing from special interests to politicians and political campaigns. America requires significant reforms to fix and preserve our democratic republic.
Trump's whataboutism is a ridiculous farce. His administration's corruption is outlandish.
Someone needs to have a running Traitor style wall with Trump's cabinet. One now x-ed.
Eighty years ago today, April 29, 1945, Dachau was liberated. My mother's father was one of the American soldiers who liberated that camp. For the rest of his life, the smell of burnt eggs or hair would cause him to get sick. So deeply seared into his memory were the smells and sights of that day.
Trump is a hateful man. As he shows contempt for Congress and the courts, he becomes an existential threat to immigrants, poor, disabled, and his opposition. He has become an unchecked dictator.
Perhaps Congress and the states will grow spines. Perhaps ...
This has him losing all women!
34 seconds for 34 Felony convictions! Lol