Don’t mind me…just over here panic-buying tools, supplies, etc.
This is cool! Wikenigma, an encyclopedia of “Known Unknowns”: wikenigma.org.uk/start
“Almighty and everlasting God, you govern all things both in heaven and on earth: Mercifully hear the supplications of your people, and in our time grant us your peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.”
If you collect rainwater from your gutters into barrels, where did you buy said barrels from?
I didn’t hear a single thing in church this morning about the chaos unfolding here in the USA. Did you?
Has anyone out there purchased a solar generator recently due to (gestures broadly) world events? I’d like to get started, but am having a hard time landing on a good starting point.
Finished Rings of Power season 2. Only made it through 1.5 episodes of season 1 and lost interest. But I really enjoyed this season!
I just… is this real life? I feel like I’m going insane.
Thought experiment: Every time the administration blames something increasingly ridiculous (a plane crash, say) on “DEI”, “wokeness”, or “illegals”, switch it out for “the Jews” in your head and see how it sounds.
Could someone with academic database access get me the entry on Fascism from the Wiley Encyclopedia of Political Thought (2014)? Pretty please? #academia #research #fascism #pdf
I still regularly wonder if Trump is God’s judgment on the USA for becoming the kind of country that would elect him.
We need some more class consciousness in the USA.
Fuck this concentration camp for immigrants shit.
Lonely and on the lookout for at least one good Signal group chat to join. Anyone know of any openings??
Ok, deleting Facebook and Insta (again). Just gotta stay strong for 30 days until they really delete my account.
Do you have any scripts you’ve found helpful when calling your elected officials?
What reference work(s) would have helpful articles on Fascism, Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism, Socialism, Communism, etc.? Is there a gold standard sociopolitical dictionary, encyclopedia, handbook, etc. out there?
So I guess it just takes evangelicals, emails, and eggs to bring a country down?
Turns out, in order for checks and balances to work, you need people with at least a minimum amount of virtue to check and balance! It doesn’t matter if something is against the law if there is no one willing to enforce the law.
So, how screwed are we?