Let's redefine it for whatever's left of the thinking people on our planet.

Yes, I had a college professor who tried to hammer that fact home. Later, Howard Zinn made it widely known. “The National Guard was repeatedly called out not to protect workers, but to protect property and break strikes.” — Howard Zinn (c. 1980) https://t.co/Y6pYpXm4pA

Fareed Zakaria Trump’s doctrine is ‘Make America Small Again’ A hemispheric focus makes little sense for a global economic and military giant. https://t.co/EaW0sJNMOb

deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go? https://t.co/7C4t63Gmu6 2/2

Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State | The New Republic ▶ He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he 1/2

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I loved this so much, I just feel like posting it again. https://t.co/5bwkHH4sO0

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💯 that's the part I find most disappointing. That much of the misunderstanding and ill will is due to their own unforced errors and missteps in an industry that has much more money than smarts. https://t.co/Ew3ecButbL

Yes, yes it is. Just exactly that disgusting. Every real American (fuck you and fuck off MAGAts), feels completely humiliated by this grotesque ejaculation of unfettered narcissism run amok. https://t.co/dMyVwWxajD

for. https://t.co/BpJXvLdQyB 2/2

She's cashing out before all the carnage rolls over her in her fucking fake party of incompetents, grifters, gangsters, and charlatans. Good riddance, you worthless, bottom-feeding witch. You were everything that America should be—and is being—humiliated 1/2

life. I will never forgive him for that. Or anyone that ever enabled him. Rest easy Mom. I always took the trash out on time. I'll do what I can to help haul that monster away, too. 5/5

she'd lived through America's lowest and highest moments, from the Great Depression and WWII, to the moon landing and gay marriage, nothing felt lower, nor more evil to her than the era of Donald John Trump. It saddened and sickened her every remaining day of her long 4/5

and every one of his enablers. She was fond of saying "I'd give the rest of my life if it would deny the damage he's going to do to everyone else." She was also fond of saying that she was born in 1927, one of the more consequential years in modern history. And while 3/5

when she was at her weakest, and not nearly enough of those when she was at her strongest. But of all the memories I have of her each day, the one that gets triggered every morning before coffee was her visceral, palpable contempt (and even hatred) for Donald J. Trump 2/5

Today is the one year anniversary of my mother's untimely death at 97 years young. I was her sole caregiver for eight of those years. It's more the recency of those years, than the number of them that have had the most impact on me today. I remember too many things of 1/5

away. So the sooner we learn to harness them for good, the sooner we can erect better firewalls to contain all the evil that PEOPLE will eagerly use them to produce. 14/14

for no other reason than to provide a force leveler so some of us can design and build projects that might insulate future generations from all the downsides and excesses of these tools. They are truly the proverbial blessing and curse. But they are not likely to go 13/14

most easily seen. Much like the early days of computing, I find myself warning people to stop ignoring or disparaging these new tools, and start learning how to use them. We'll all be using them soon enough (for better or worse). Best to know something about them. If 12/14