Poor Old Zuck: The Loneliest Boy in the World What Meta's announcement last week tells us about its founder, the male loneliness epidemic, and the future of social media.

New Post on Loneliness and what it means that the loneliest people in the world are in charge of the world's largest social media websites.

#deleteFacebook #The13Stripes

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The Value of Courage In times of fear, bravery is everything.

New Post on the Value of Courage and what Senator Van Hollen's trip to El Salvador means.

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Move Fast and Break . . . People What the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case means . . . so far

New post! On the Kilmar Abrego Garcia saga and the White House's embrace of the Silicon Valley ethos to "move fast and break stuff."

#The13Stripes #NewPatriotism #Kilmar

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What DOGE is Really Building A surveillance state with no escape is coming, if we don't stop it.

New post on the scifi nightmare DOGE is building: an automated, AI-supported surveillance program to crush dissent. #The13Stripes #NewPatriotism #NewElectionsNow

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The Enemy is Surrounded . . . . . . by landmines they placed themselves. Below, a story for when you lack motivation to keep fighting for America's future.

New post on The Value of Character.

The Trump-Musk Administration clowns cannot be trusted, they can only be fought. #NewPatriotism #The13Stripes

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The Necessity of Nonviolence Anyone who's read a history book knows a violent confrontation with Trump-Musk is coming. How do we stand for our values when our lives are on the line?

New Post! As the Trump-Musk rhetoric becomes more aggressive and dangerous, a recommitment to nonviolent resistance is necessary for what could be a long struggle to restore American democracy.

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The Value of Loyalty Loyalty is important, but not in the twisted way the President and his cronies think.

New post up on the value, and Value, of Loyalty.

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Bring Back the Poor You know you have a serious problem when it becomes unacceptable to honestly name the problem.

New Post! If Democrats are serious about solving America's economic problems, they need to start with those suffering the most.

#The13Stripes #NewPatriotism

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Are We the Bad Guys Now? Where in the world do we go from here?

New Post - We need a foreign policy based on shared values. What does that mean? How do we get there after Trump's drastic turn toward Russia?

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AI Should Work for Us AI offers the possibilities of endless abundance and freedom for all, but only if we wrestle it away from the selfish billionaires controlling it now

New Post - AI should "work" for all of us. We need to nationalize the technology and make sure it's working to benefit all of us, not just the select few using it to make chatbots and memes and ads.

#The13Stripes #NewPatriotism

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Everyone Leaving is Good, Everyone Staying is Bad DOGE is destroying the government by ridding it of experienced, knowledgeable professionals. How do we make sure this doesn't happen again?

New Post: What do we do about the civil service once the destoyers are gone and we are tasked with rebuilding? Our idea to get the ball rolling.

#The13Stripes #NewPatriotism

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Good morning! New post up on the need for Algorithmic Transparency because the internet has become a place that sucks, run by people and machines that suck - substack.com/home/post/p-...

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