Cultivating collaboration; believer in God; disbeliever in labels; champion of the vocative comma, not of the tribes. Perpetual beta. Opinions are my own.
Wordle Spoiler Alert*
I am in Philadelphia for the @braverangels National Convention. After a good long day of conversations, debates and an opening plenary, the solution to Wordle is “Unity”
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Skill 94/99
Luck 52/99
Watch with no audio. Look at the facial expressions of both. The flashing eyes. The strained expressions.
This is the antithesis of @braverangels. This is why we exist. This is what we are changing.
In @braverangels we learn the skills of courageous citizenship not seen here.
The biggest story in America is a president who has completely lost touch with reality. Who thinks the FBI let all the January 6 rioters into the Capitol, that he really won the 2020 election, that the Iran War is going well. Who, when occasionally confronted w reality, panics.
“The main function of attributing reasons is to justify oneself and to evaluate the justification of others.”
The Enigma of Reason
Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber
“A spirit of faction, which is apt to mingle its poison in the deliberations of all bodies of men, will often hurry the persons of whom they are composed into improprieties and excesses, for which they would blush in a private capacity.”
Federalist No. 15
Alexander Hamilton
From Justice Gorsuch’s concurrance to today’s tariff decision:
“But the deliberative nature of the legislative process was the whole point of its design. Through that process, the Nation can tap the combined wisdom of the people’s elected representatives, not just that of one..
The question, even if you are a progressive or agree with Mellon's worldview, is whether a private nonprofit—created by the children of a robber baron—should have a near total monopoly on humanities funding and be able to bend American arts and letters to its political will. 12/
Today, Problem Solvers Caucus Co-Chairs @RepBrianFitz and @RepTomSuozzi sent a letter to President Trump requesting a meeting to discuss a bipartisan solution to our country's immigration and border security challenges.