A Modest Proposal for Resistance:

For the foreseeable future, do not stand, say, or sing the pledge of allegiance or national anthem.

The MAGA crowd who attacked the capital on January 6 now rule America. To pledge allegiance to it is to pledge allegiance to them. There is no alternative.

How do you read comments on bluesky? All I get is my own possibility of replying.

lol. So true.

Musk and Ramaswamy's anarcho-techno-capitalist fantasy in their DOGE plan:

AI meets austerity through executive actions with the help of SCOTUS

No one elected Musk and Ramaswamy to implement their anarcho-techno-capitalist fantasy, but they will try.

Bread & Circuses One is obliged to hope for wise and prudent governance from the next administration, but that’s not why people voted for Trump.

Bill Cavanaugh, brilliant as always

www.commonwealmagazine.org/bread-circus...

Nope. I’m in LA now visiting my son. Hope you are well

Making random posts to see how bluesky works.

America:

Markets are self-regulating. The government has no power over them.

Why didn't the government fix the economy; eggs cost too much.

Trump's Competence:

Create a new bureaucracy "Government Efficiency" to eliminate bureaucarcies.

Maybe, just maybe, incompetence will save us.

Truth Telling in a Post-Truth World - General Board of Higher Education and Ministry In recent years, truth has become a relative term. How can we recognize the truth when everyone does “what is right in their own eyes”? When we accept and expect lies, how is civil society possible? I...

Still relevant, unfortunately:

www.gbhem.org/publishing/p...