If you could choose just one problem suffered by your country to have the government (or even a magic wand) solve (or at least significantly mitigate) what would it be?

Nick Alimonos: Nobody can give a rational explanation for anti-nudity laws.

Agree. I am reminded of this quote by Stephen Fry …

Black Saturday: The Day the United States Ceased to Be a Constitutional Democracy Black Saturday, March 15, 2025, will be remembered as the day the U.S. ceased to function as a constitutional democracy. A sitting president defied a federal court order, proving that judicial authori...

And so, constitutional democracy ends not with a bang but a whimper. 😒

All hail King Donald!
(or perhaps he would prefer ‘Emperor’?)
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#maga #fdt #tariffs #dumb #redhat #trump #viral #usa #canada #mexico TikTok video by mytwocents_Einer

Even non-tariffed American goods will go up in price in parallel to newly tariffed foreign competitor products. Buy American then the corporates get the difference. If you buy the import the government gets the difference.
So it’s a win-win,
But not for you 😒

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2VCJcMu

Naysayers just can’t understand how *important* it is that we become a multi-planetary species for some brief instant 😒

“ I want to die on Mars,  just not on impact.”
— Elon Musk in March, 2013

There’s some good stuff here, but I don’t think that ‘mature’ is the right word. Anyway, why would I need signs that I’m an ‘xyz’ person?

In other news, while we struggle with who rules what small fraction of this pale blue dot.

Accurate with very few exceptions.

Except for family and true friends.
Except, very sporadically, for “Karen’s” who are irritated when we don’t conform to their world view.

So Sir Kier has made the trip to the White House to pay homage and to kiss the ring. Apparently it went rather well.

Putin offers Russian and Ukrainian rare minerals to US - BBC News The proposal to give the US access to minerals would also include those from territories taken from Ukraine.

When two pathological liars, one a full-on highly experienced dictator, the other a patrimonial wannabe dictator, negotiate to divide up the spoils, one wonders how either one can possibly trust the other.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

A painting of a nude young man standing on a rock surrounded by water by a beach in a wooded landscape. He is bent over with his hands on his knees gazing at the water. Circular ripples can be seen where he is looking; perhaps he had just thrown an object in the water to cause them.

"Mirror Rock at Purple Lake," Robert Kalthoff, 1968, oil on canvas, 24 x 30", private collection.

American artist Robert Kalthoff (1936 - ) excelled at painting Classicalist-inspired Impressionist scenes of casually posed fit young men.

#NudeArt #Naturism

When Elon told us that this vehicle would prepare us for dystopia I did not know he’d also be preparing dystopia for us.

“They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will”
— from ‘Vincent’ by Don McLean
www.npr.org/2019/09/23/7...

The new leader of the free world.

Everyone benefited (including us). Perhaps we did not benefit as much as we thought that we should have. So now we are kicking over the monopoly board. Game over. 
I really hope the new game (when it stabilizes) will be better. In the meantime there will be much turmoil . 4/

A major shift in world geopolitics is underway. With a large part of our prosperity built on safe world trade, we will be seeing and feeling some very painful differences. America has enabled nearly 80 years of safe shipping lanes and free trade. 3/

Every Putin talking point is being repeated almost verbatim. The U.S. may as well exit NATO and call it quits. The Russians want troops to be pulled out of the Baltic states too. If that happens, we will see Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania re-absorbed into Russia in due course. 2/

Well, today this administration essentially threw Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people under the bus and is in the process of driving it backwards and forwards. They also made it clear that they consider our European allies to be irrelevant. 1/ 🧵

The Plot Against America How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America

A long but very interesting read.
If this techno-feudalism really does take hold, it will not care about the people as a whole. And that will be the downfall of such technocrats. They will all end up on pitchforks.
So it goes.

www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...

They look like the Nazi SS 😮

🤯

"Literature is essentially solitude. It is written in solitude, read in solitude, and yet the act of reading enables communication between two human beings."
Paul Auster

www.ieer.org/latest/oct2q...

Am American heroine 🦋💙🦋

Climate scientist: "There's no place that's safe" YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning

Must watch!

This fantastic CBS Sunday Morning story on the LA fires, featuring Peter Kalmus, John Valliant and Edgar McGregor was just broadcast here. Great work, CBS!

@edgarmcgregor.bsky.social
@climatehuman.bsky.social

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