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The Orality Theory of Everything The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.

"The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.'
A gifted article from The Atlantic...
What say all of you who are readers??
#ReadingIsfundemental #Books #Reading
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

International Security and Estonia 2026 – Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service The Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service has published a report covering the security situation in the Baltic Sea region.

The Estonian Intelligence Service publishes an annual unclassified report that is valued by other services..including those in the US. Estonia shares a border with Russia. Worth your time to read it. #Estonia #Perspective #Russia

raport.valisluureamet.ee/2026/en/

I am not a Shakespearean scholar, this is more the gist of it.. #ianmckellen #immigration #ice YouTube video by Nic Delcambre

Sir Ian McKellen performs a monologue from Shakespeare's play Sir Thomas Moore to remind us regarding immigration. What goes around..comes around and some things just don't change... even 400yrs later. #Immigrant #Immigration #Shakespeare
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Democrat wins special election for red Texas Senate seat With ballots tallied from all but a handful of voting centers, Rehmet had 57% of the vote, besting the 43% for his GOP opponent, Leigh Wambsganss, who had a massive spending advantage.

There are rays of hope out there. In a special election Democrats flip a TX state senate seat in a district Trump carried by double digits in 2024. GOP poured millions into the race and Trump made three appeals... still lost. #Texas #Resist #Elections

www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/t...

Minneapolis Is a Second Amendment Wake-Up Call The federal killing of a Minnesota ICU nurse should worry every American.

With the GOP there seems to be no bottom anymore. But perhaps the murder of a lawful gun owner by ICE may put some "cracks in the ICE". Even the NRA said something.. which astonished me. A gifted article from The Atlantic.. written by a gun owner in Maine.

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

ICE targeted off duty police officers of color in MN. Done on purpose to terrorize their fellow citizens. #StopICE

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60 Minutes Australia 60 Minutes Australia was first broadcast in February 1979. Founding reporters Ray Martin, George Negus and Ian Leslie quickly established the show as the destination for the finest television journali...

Why does the US need a close relationship with Greenland. Go outside of the US propaganda echo chambers (both right and left) and seek out foreign media that report the facts.
60 minutes Australia give an explainer...
#Greenland #NationalSecurity
www.youtube.com/channel/UC0L...

Jack Smith Deposition YouTube video by House Judiciary GOP

The GOP-CONTROLLED House Judiciary Committee released Jack Smith's closed door deposition video taken on December 17, 2025. Eight hours of Jack Smith telling why he would have charged Trump with election interference and also stealing classified documents. #Truth

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Albert Einstein’s Brilliant Politics The physicist fought for the promise of a diverse, meritocratic America. We need his optimism today.

Happy New Year to all. This gifted article from The Atlantic reminds us what smart, principled people can teach us. Einstein was more than a physicist. He believed in people..

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Susie Wiles Talks About the First Year of Trump’s Second Term (Part 1 of 2) In the first half of Vanity Fair’s interview with Susie Wiles, the chief of staff discusses Elon Musk’s DOGE disaster, the FBI’s “incredible job” investigating January 6, and how Trump once berated he...

Suzy Wiles interview with Vanity Fair.. Part 1. Cleanup on aisle 47... continued from aisle 45.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping the nation’s data Government agencies are contracting with Palantir to correlate disparate pieces of data, promising efficiency but raising civil liberties concerns.

Important article about Palantir Technologies and how it is collecting your data and helping the US government use it..long but well worth reading. ICE uses this data to find people. #Palantir #PeterThiele #Datamining #Privacy

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Is France's groundbreaking food-waste law working? A third of the world's food goes to waste, but France is attempting to do something about it. Since 2016, large grocery stores in the country have been banned from throwing away unsold food that could...

As long as the food is not past the "sell by" date or expiration date, I'd support something like this in the US. Give it to the local food bank. what say you folks? #Hunger #FoodBank #Fooddesserts #Food #Endhunger

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The Conservative Movement’s Intellectual Collapse Trump is both a product and a cause of the decline in intellectual standards on the right.

Gifted article from The Atlantic about the intellectual collapse of the conservative movement in the US. Long but worth your time to read it. #Liberal #Intellectual #Thinking #ConservativeCollapse

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The Anti-Social Century Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

A gifted article from The Atlantic about all of us spending more time alone these days. Understanding the effects on our lifestyles and even our politics. #Alone #Introverts #Politics
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Cornell University has made their online library archives available for free. About 76,000 books in all. If your local libraries are underfunded, closed, or under outright attack.. Send students and curious minds there. #Library #Books #ReadingisFundemental

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How Big Tech uses NDAs to hide AI data center details from Americans Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their backyards.

Construction of AI data centers kept hidden from local communities until it is too late for them to do anything about it. Done through the use or NDA (non-disclosure-agreements) Energy prices soar and scarce local water reserves are endangered..

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Great advice if you are going to a #NoKings rally today...

A Message From The Frog Resistance YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Bravo Stephen Colbert and stay strong Portland. This is how you stand up to wanna be dictators. Mock them and keep on mocking them to show everyone how ridiculous they are..#Portland #ICE #Kermitknowsbest

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5z...

ICE agents raid South Shore apartment building: 'They just treated us like we were nothing' YouTube video by ABC 7 Chicago

ICE detains men, women, and children from an entire apartment complex in Chicago, IL. Children in zip-ties separated from their parents into separate vans. US Citizens treated like criminals.. arrest first.. ask questions later. Gestapo tactics in the US..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFh5...

Data centers are thirsty for Texas’ water, but state planners don’t know how much they will need A wave of massive data centers is expanding across Texas, prompting warnings from experts who say the new water demands could push the state’s already strained supply to the brink.

Many areas of TX are already short on water due to droughts and and the oil industry. AI data center construction will not help that situation. Massive amounts of water must be used to cool the centers from the heat generated by the data centers.
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/25/t...

Trump’s use of the National Guard during Los Angeles immigration protests is illegal, a judge says A judge has ruled the Trump administration’s use of National Guard troops during Southern California immigration enforcement protests is illegal.

Finally some sanity. Let's hope other federal judges rule in the same way to keep National Guard troops out of our cities....

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AJC to move to fully digital publication, phase out print Dec. 31 The AJC will continue to publish distinctive journalism every day and with urgency on its website, mobile app, as well as through video, podcasts and other digital platforms.

Perusing the Sunday newspaper with a cup of coffee.. only on a screen. Coming soon to a major daily newspaper near you.
www.ajc.com/business/202...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97 Lovell was also the first astronaut to go to space four times and part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to orbit the moon.

Astronaut Jim Lovell has left us at 97. We remember his calm during Apollo 13's troubled mission. From Houston.. we salute you sir. Godspeed Jim Lovell. #Apollo13 #JimLovell #NASA

www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

Project 2025's

Many GOP voters who had no clue what the GOP platform was in 2024. They didn't publish one. It was Project 2025. Make no mistake this is the agenda they are implementing now. Read it for yourself to understand what they are doing. #Project2025 #GOPtakeover
www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath Hardly anyone is paying attention.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and its implications for future jobs.. and present ones. Well worth your time to read this article. #AI #jobs #artificialintelligence #future
www.axios.com/2025/05/28/a...

We could ship 535 copies to Congress and the US Senate?? Might help them get together. I wonder how many would pass any of those 6 practice tests??

7 ways to cultivate a healthy news diet Media literacy and mental health experts from the University of Washington offer their suggestions to fight brain rot, headline anxiety and misinformation.

Wise words about how we consume "news"
www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/03...

"Don't Be a Sucker" (1947) Reel America Preview YouTube video by C-SPAN

It was clear what fascism was at the end of WWII. We had just fought a war against it. History perhaps does not repeat but it rhymes. This two minutes of film is as relevant today as it was in 1947. #antifascism #unitedwestand #freedom #remember #neveragain
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