In God we trust. All others must bring data.
- W. Edwards Deming

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Today in Geneva, Masih Alinejad will stand before the UN and ask a simple question:

Will the Islamic Republic now lecture the world on human rights?

A regime accused of killing protesters and blinding women wants a seat at the table.
History is watching.

Masih Alinejad not likely to be the subject of a #LegoNews propaganda video.

Masih Alinejad is food for thought after digestion of Lego news propaganda

Pretty ironic when the one thing Trump had going for him was his reputation as a media savant.

America's State Department used to have an office that counteracted enemy propaganda, but the Trump administration closed it last year. So the world's greatest military power is struggling to subdue a regional bully, and the world's cultural superpower is being out-trolled by a regime that whips women for showing their hair. For the man who let this happen, "loser" seems like an understatement.

The Economist is spot on RE Iranian Lego propaganda

economist.com/culture/2026...

The Sad, Sad Story of Laika, the Space Dog, and Her One-Way Trip Into Orbit A stray Moscow pup traveled into orbit in 1957 with one meal and only a seven-day oxygen supply

The Moscow mongrel who made good on Sputnik 2 - Laika the good space dog ... first living being to orbit Earth 68 years ago.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

No kings no oligarchs! #ClamBarons welcome!
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=DM52...

Running for Local Office Webinar · Contest Every Race Last year, thousands of MAGA Republicans won local office because no one ran against them. How do we fix that? Get Ready to Run! Join Contest Every Race to learn more about running for local office....

Contest Every Race's event, “Running for Local Office Webinar” - seems authentic but do your own diligence www.mobilize.us/contest-ever...

How to Build the Impossible $200B Canal to Bypass the Strait of Hormuz YouTube video by NextGen Manufacturing

An idea whose time has come #StraightOfHormuzBypass youtu.be/o1Qxnt9WRHA

#YourTaxDollarsAtWork
Michael Flynn edition
#IntolerableActs

"[C]olonists did not call it governance. They called it #IntolerableActs ... the act of a power that viewed them not as fellow citizens, but as subjects to be crushed.

Now, the Sons of Liberty are needed once more. Not with tar and feathers, perhaps, but with the same unshakable resolve."

That's right, the women are smarter

Smarter than the men in every way

#LevelingThePlayingField in the post truth era.

Paging Jerry Garcia ... m.youtube.com/watch?v=mqun...

Gullible, Cynical America The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time

"The more disoriented you are, the easier prey you become."

#Gullicism - Gullible cynicism has entered the chat. All of them.

Gift article that is truly a gift.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

How does the US defend international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz? | The Security Brief YouTube video by BBC News

Dire Straits of Hormuz: What's next for Destination #KhargIsland? youtu.be/lJeIosDnhQo

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

These are some nasty cartoon editorial op-eds! #ThomasNast-y, that is ...

Increasingly relevant #GameTheory

A Non-Partisan (and Bi-Partisan) Primer for Americans on the War Power Former United States Court of Appeals Judge (1991-2006

open.substack.com/pub/judgelut...

“In multiple dimensions, the Iran war goes far beyond these prior instances of the use of military force and even Trump’s June bombing of Iran. Those who look to prior presidential violations of law as valid precedents are at any rate missing the point.”

Read now:

Is Rubio or Hegseth Secretary of Proactive Defense

In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities: in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed…

Primo Levi, The Periodic Table, 1975
primolevicenter.org/about-page/

Levi spoke from experience: he saw how camp guards were not always sadists, but ordinary people trapped in a system, who had surrendered their humanity. #PrimoLevi #WWII

“A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.” - Primo Levi

#QuoteOfTheDay: #PrimoLevi

A sum up of the day’s events…
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
#PrimoLevi

Being a Centaur - Printed_Matter What follows is Alessandro Di Rocco's acceptance speech of the Centaur Award 2018.I want to thank all of you for being here tonight. I am honored and humbled by this tribute.

#PrimoLevi Centaur Award Speech:

"This is why the Nazis did not win. Their ultimate goal was that of dehumanizing, millions of people in the camps deprived of their name and their history, of their humanity. But they failed ... ." primolevicenter.org/printed-matt...

“This Flag Dips to No Earthly King”: The Legacy of the American Flag at the Olympics - Gettysburg Flag Works Blog The 1908 Opening Ceremony That Changed Everything At the 1908 London Olympics, the U.S. flag bearer was Ralph Rose, a powerful Irish‑American shot‑put champion. As Team USA paraded past King Edward VI...

See, also "this flag dips to no earthly king".

#NoKings 🇺🇸

www.gettysburgflag.com/blog/this-fl....

"Standing ovations" solicited by an authoritarian leader are better termed #BendingTheKnee

They're bending the knee repeatedly

#TheStateOfTheUnionIs
release the Epstein files