What's sad is that voters have a clear choice between a genuinely God-fearing president in Joe Biden and a challenger who has brazenly and repeatedly violated every single one of the 10 Commandments — Richard Stengel #quotes#quote#Biden#ClearChoice
"In my darkest hours, what has saved me again and again is some action of unselfing — some instinctive wakefulness to an aspect of the world other than myself: a helping hand extended to someone else’s struggle, the dazzling galaxy just discovered millions of lightyears away, the cardinal trembling in the tree outside my window."
If elected, Trump would throw into reverse our transition to a decarbonized future, one that’s creating untold numbers of manufacturing jobs—including in the very places that Trump has attacked Democratic elites for supposedly abandoning—all in exchange for mega-checks from chortling fat cats right out of the most garish of Gilded Age cartoons. For good measure, some of that loot could help Trump secure elite impunity for his own corruption and alleged crimes. We can’t say we weren’t warned. Trump has told us all this himself — Greg Sargent #quotes#quote#Decarbonization#Trump#BigOil
[Steve] Bannon is effectively out of appeals. He can delay a little bit longer, asking for the full court to review the decision en banc & asking SCOTUS to hear his case on cert, but neither one of those things will happen. Bannon is going to prison — Joyce White Vance #quotes#quote#SteveBannon#ConvictedCriminal#LockHimUp#MAGA#RuleOfLaw
Nothing fishy about the President of the United States having checks for him to sign sent to his bodyman's home address — Joyce White Vance #quotes#quote#TrumpTrial#Trump#HushMoney
O SON OF MAN! Upon the tree of effulgent glory I have hung for thee the choicest fruits, wherefore hast thou turned away and contented thyself with that which is less good? Return then unto that which is better for thee in the realm on high. #inspiration#quotes#bahai
"We need, as we always have, the “YES” of our practices:
constellations of care, where each and every one of our
still-beating hearts, in concert, rebelliously speaks louder
than words, forming unmistakable patterns of different cosmologies, different worlds, life against their death machine."
Today in Labor History April 21, 1910: Mark Twain died. William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature." He grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for “Tom Sawyer” and “Huckleberry Finn.” He apprenticed with a printer and worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later worked as a riverboat pilot before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. Twain was famous for his wit and brilliant writing. However, he also had extremely progressive politics for his era. Later in his life, he became an ardent anti-imperialist. “I have read carefully the treaty of Paris and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem… And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.” During the Boxer Rebellion, he said that "the Boxer is a patriot. He loves his country better than he does the countries of other people. I wish him success." From 1901, until his death in 1910, he was vice-president of the American Anti-Imperialist League, which opposed the annexation of the Philippines by the U.S. He was also critical of European imperialists such as Cecil Rhodes and King Leopold II of Belgium, who attempted to establish colonies in African. He also supported the Russian revolutionaries fighting against the Tsar.
Many people have criticized him for his racism. Indeed, schools have banned “Huckleberry Finn.” However, Twain was an adamant supporter of abolition and said that the Emancipation Proclamation “not only set the black slaves free, but set the white man free also." He also fought for the rights of immigrants, particularly the Chinese. "I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible... but I never saw a Chinaman righted in a court of justice for wrongs thus done to him." And though his early writings were racist against indigenous peoples, he later wrote that “in colonized lands all over the world, "savages" have always been wronged by "whites" in the most merciless ways, such as "robbery, humiliation, and slow, slow murder, through poverty and the white man's whiskey."
Twain was also an early feminist, who campaigned for women's suffrage. He also wrote in support of unions and the labor movement, especially the Knights of Labor, one of the most important unions of the era. “Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.”
@MikeDunnAuthor@bookstadon
*** RIP Mr Clemens, d. 4-21-1910
I encourage everyone to explore the writings that were suppressed by Twain's editor and his daughter, starting with 'Letters From the Earth', and many items hammering on the obscenity, genocide, mind-shattering horror in what is called the 'Bible'.
"All human beings are cowards, and I am not only marching in that procession, I am carrying a banner" #quotes
"If we do not learn to sacrifice small differences of opinion, we can never act together. Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his own opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at others. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society."
Is there a "I want #quotes in #Mastodon" button that I can hit somewhere?
Seriously, it's holding everything and everybody behind.
Context: I've decided to play with some tighter integration between my #Akkoma social feed and my #WriteFreely blog.
I can now write long posts in a more blog-friendly format on @fabio. Then leverage the Fediverse integration to quote them from my main handle.
My Akkoma post can add a TL;DR and a bunch of hashtags. And the quoted message has a nice "Read more" link that can expand the blog post for those who want to read it directly on their timeline.
Amazing, right?
Well, just look how nicely it's rendered on my Akkoma instance, and how Mastodon renders it instead.
A cryptic RE: https://my.write.freely/api/posts/post-id that doesn't even render a preview nor anything.
The cryptic version is the one that >75% of the people who use the Fediverse will see on their timelines.
No matter how much progress other implementations decide to do. No matter how sophisticated their UX. If the major implementation decides that quotes will never be a thing, we're kind of stuck in the state where JavaScript could do amazing things on Firefox, but most of the folks used IE, so the party was ruined for everybody else too.
First Worldism—“the loss of the prerogative, only and always, to be the one who transgresses the sovereign boundaries of other states, but never to be in the position of having one’s own boundaries transgressed.”
Give me your poor, your tired, your book quotes yearning to be free... February 29th edition 😁
I'd prefer quotes from your own work, but it can be from any author or book you'd like to share...
Here's my example:
“Philosophers can be both imaginative in their ignorance and ignorant of their ability to imagine.”
-Attercap Skvosip, survivor
From The Last Philosopher
“Mass #propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in #cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" #quotes#mediaStudies#commOdon#truth#agnotology#history
"We must confess that our adversaries have a marked advantage over us in the discussion. In very few words they can announce a half-truth; and in order to demonstrate that it is incomplete, we are obliged to have recourse to long and dry dissertations."
— Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Sophisms, First Series (1845)