yesterday's special election wins by Dems and over-performance in heavily GOP areas continues a trend over last 16 months. GOP candidates are no longer safe in 16 or 17% Trump areas. Dems doing significantly better going into 2026 election than 2018.
happy bday writer Margaret Ayer Barnes, b.1886, Chicago.
"All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel."
THIS SUMS IT UP AS WELL AS ANYONE CAN:
...in which even being inactive is deadly."
happy bday Croatian philosopher/physicist Ivan Supek, b.1915.
"We cannot change the genetic basis, which would be very risky, but we could develop the culture of peace. This is the hope for the ultimate resolution of a global nuclear, ecological and ideological-religious powderkeg,...
happy bday writer John Fante, b.1909, Denver.
“I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living”
“Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the steamy side of life.”
let's start with democratic primary.
this made me laugh. is that what i called for "the perfect candidate"??? lordy moses
thanks for telling me what i should do.
Good Morning; On this day in 1940, US Post Office issues first postage stamp of African American Educator Booker T. Washington.
Who knew?
89% of Americans HAVEN'T been raising hell with their legislators about it.
Make the calls.
202 224 3121 call Congress
202 456 1414 call WH
Text SIGN PDRWIM to 50409
resist.bot/petitions/PD...
for me impeachment isn't what we should be after. this president and most of his cabinet and staff should be prosecuted for corruption, fraud, war crimes, obstruction, and all the various crimes they have committed. i will only vote for a presidential candidate in 2028 who commits to this.
happy bday French writer/feminist Flora Tristan, b.1803.
"As long as she is subject to man's yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!"
...and I feel my life fleeing
hushed and gentle like the gazelle.”
happy bday Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral, b.1889, first Latin American to win Nobel Prize in Lit.
“You shall create beauty not to excite the senses
but to give sustenance to the soul. ”
"I feel my heart melting
in the mildness like candles:
my veins are slow oil
and not wine,...
i have read it. very good.
ummm, keep going...those democrats are now republicans.
i want to remind folks that while a third of Americans still support Trump, our history shows that 1/3 of citizens opposed leaving the monarchy in 1780s, 1/3 were good with slavery in 1860s, 1/3 opposed womens right to vote in 1900s, 1/3 opposed civil rights in 1960s.
...nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it".
happy bday Jewish scholar Maimonides, b.1135.
"You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes".
"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress".
"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it,...
happy bday Swedish writer Dan Andersson, b.1888.
"Oh, murmur thou birches, oh whisper amen – And sing me to eternal rest."
"I'm waiting by my log-fire while the hours gently wander, while the stars all are roaming and nights come and go."
thank you.
Happy Easter to you and your family Matthew.
And thank you for the light and opportunities for renewal that you offer each day through your posts and the shares of your heart!
Good morning & Happy Easter!
What a person to share a birthday with~
"Living is the art of loving.
Loving is the art of caring.
Caring is the art of sharing.
Sharing is the art of living.
If you want to lift yourself up,
lift up someone else."
- Booker T. Washington
May love pour today❤️
If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment.
This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.
happy easter to all. a time of rebirth, renewal, spring, and new growth. pagans celebrated this time long before christians tied this holiday to a celebration of their belief in the resurrection of Jesus. i look at this holiday as one for all humanity bringing in renewal.
I'm cringing with embarrassment that an American president wrote this. Absolutely cringing.
happy bday poet Richard Eberhart, b.1904, Austin, MN.
"I felt the ruthlessness and senselessness of war so acutlely that I wrote the first three stanzas of which, are in effect a prayer."
happy bday Booker T. Washington, b.1856, Hales Ford, VA.
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else".
"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company".
"I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man".
happy bday English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, b.1588.
“A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”
"Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money."