This 2016 speech from George W Bush is quite poignant for today’s America.
We tend to judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves and those like us with only the best intentions. We tend to assume the worst in people that aren’t like us.
If we start every conversation with preconceived notions of who someone is, what they stand for it’s exponentially harder to hear them or find the common ideals & values we might actually share.
Satchel Paige, at 47, became the oldest player in major league history to pitch a complete game or a shutout when he beat Virgil Trucks and the Detroit Tigers, 1-0, in 12 innings, August 6, 1952
NEW -- For the past year, Trump has been snapping up our means of production.
Guess which political philosophy that's central to.
Exactly.
Maybe we should be calling him Comrade President.
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98-year-old Roger Angell in @NewYorker on how people who don't vote fit right in with GOP efforts at disenfranchisement: "If you don’t vote, they have won, and you are a captive, one of their prizes."
https://t.co/2ABGIXXQ7H
“Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer. The same is true of our human society—things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed, sometimes rather suddenly.
Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.”
~EB White
North Brooklin, Maine,
30 March 1973
BREAKING: Retired Republican County Judge Glen Whitley endorses James Talarico for US Senate:
“I’m ashamed that Ken Paxton is even on the ballot. He’s the most corrupt politician Texas has ever seen.”
Instead of meeting with Epstein survivors, what did Todd Blanche do? He rushed to Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison cell, and then she got transferred to a cushier prison camp. This is not justice. It is corruption of a system meant to protect the most vulnerable.
Turns out Taylor Farms uses prison labor also known as SLAVE LABOR to pick its lettuce paying inmates a $1.00 an hour while the Department of Corections gets $4.75 an hour.
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CEOs are raking in $17 million a year — roughly 300 times what their own workers make — and Jon Husted’s answer to people struggling to get by is, “learn to budget.” Because he’s never had to struggle.
That’s the difference. One side looks at working families falling behind and tells them to figure it out. The other side fights to make sure those same working families aren’t forgotten.
Sherrod Brown wrote the law that helped more than 100,000 Ohioans recover their stolen pensions. He fought for the people who spent decades building this state. John Husted basically says you’re incompetent.
Ohio doesn’t need more lectures from politicians who protect the powerful. It needs leaders who fight for the people who punch the clock every day.
Vote for who fights for you — not who tells you your struggles are your own fault.
#BlueWaveIn90Days
Right on cue. The President is telling us *exactly* what he’s thinking: If his side loses, he’ll claim the election is rigged. Our elections in Michigan are safe and secure. Period. That was true when you won Michigan in 2016, lost it in 2020, and won it again in 2024. Americans are simply not as stupid as you think they are.
@KamalaHarris, April 16, 2026: “There are a lot of feckless people in Congress right now who know what’s happening is bad, but won’t say anything because they want to keep those lapel pins on their jacket and run around like they’re important without doing the important work of standing up for our democracy.”