Democracy is damaged by ignorance and instilled divisiveness. If we want a well-working democracy, we must educate effectively lessons of history, processes of legislation and decision-making, practical critical thinking, interactive discussion, social psychology, project creation and management …

maybe we all should run for something
https://runforsomething.net/

@br00t4c

yes, world domination

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what happened to Gen Y -- which would be the group here referenced
according to that old generation grouping, the oldest Gen Zers are high schoolers

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9oZlM43s44

@br00t4c

Lindsey, Lindsey, Lindsey
do they keep re-electing you as a joke?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIbsweglLjg

Willie Chambers › Date of birth
March 3, 1938

GZERO WORLD with Ian Bremmer

Who Gets to Decide #Ukraine’s Fate?
2/28/2025 #video

As Ukrainians mark three years of all out war with #Russia, two very different voices weigh in on the country’s future. First, Latvia’s Foreign Minister, Baiba Braže, joins Ian in New York to advocate for Ukraine's autonomy. Then to Moscow with former Russian colonel and former Carnegie Moscow Center director, Dmitri Trenin, who provides the Russian perspective.

https://www.pbs.org/video/who-gets-to-decide-ukraines-fate-afe1vx/

#audio John Simpson, in discussion with the #BBC's unparalleled range of experts across the world, analyses whether #Russia’s war in #Ukraine is nearing an endgame, examines the implications of the surge in support for the right in the #German #elections and looks at the huge increase in government #surveillance under the #Taliban in #Afghanistan. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0kv1jkp

https://hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-report-3125

The plan to “demolish” #SocialSecurity is underway: Who will stop them?
#ThomHartmann

..."Their scheme — which they’ve been advancing in small increments for 44 years — is brilliantly simple: break the agency’s ability to respond to taxpayers, causing people to have to wait on the phone or travel for hours to stand in line for hours. As complaints mount, Republicans will then point to the “broken Social Security Administration” an...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NTVdRAHyyQ

https://grassrootsconnector.substack.com/p/updated-trusted-sources-for-fact

Updated: Trusted Sources: For Fact-Based #Journalism

..."Downtown Nasty Women Social Group (DNWSG) has created “Trusted Sources,” a fact-based news source because we believe legacy media has failed the pro-democracy movement. We live in a time where misinformation spreads faster than the truth, so reliable new sources are more critical than ever.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oVeL62BzEnw4pAeUkveY-AcqNg8n4hX3cMoUcNeVYYw/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0#heading=h.aq134cnsz7o6
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“Trusted Sources” is a live document, and we will continue adding sources and media categ"...

@br00t4c

he does keep showing strong bipolar tendencies

@RamenCatholic

Ursula K. LeGuin

https://danielpinchbeck.substack.com/p/we-are-all-precariat-now

We Are All Precariat Now
Understanding the current situation, plus what we can do about it
Daniel #Pinchbeck

..."Bolsen proposes that Trump is the appointed salesman for the decline of American global power, overseeing an intentionally engineered collapse of our economy and government.
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Trump’s role is to mask this systemic unraveling with populist rhetoric while enabling the true power holders — the transnational fi”...

@br00t4c

because Megyn was hired for her Blue-eyed Blonde "oh my" profile

@br00t4c

I think you mean Florida

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https://lauriecorzett.substack.com/p/not-fallen

@lonerfanatic @hannu_ikonen

neither clueless nor conniving, just human
we tend to ignore the amazing fallibility of people

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-2-2025

..."yesterday two top security officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) tried to stop people associated with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing classified information they did not have security clearance to see. The Trump administration put the officials on leave, and the DOGE team gained access to the information.

Vittoria Elliott of Wired has identified those associated with Musk’s takeover as six.”...

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1-2025

..."federal prosecutors were withdrawn from a criminal investigation of Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) for election fraud; Ogles recently filed a House resolution to enable Trump to run for a third term and another supporting Trump’s designs on Greenland. On Wednesday, federal prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss an election fraud case against former representative Jeffrey Fortenberry (R-NE). Trump called Fortenberry’s case an illustration o.”...