Mike Spark Thornton

patriot, fighter, writer, multimedia, instructional design, distance ed. Free Will lives in literal gap btw our 60-240 trillion synapses; so we each have mega!

[Mike Spark Thornton @megasynapse]

@RepSwalwell One can be pro-life start to finish but ALSO be pro-Earth via pro-choice. Humanity has sex for pleasure #1; we’re too successful, a planetary liability. Roe motherhood: “Our numbers are excessive. It’s our turn to be realistic, control procreation better, & slow down our growth.”

[Ari Berman @AriBerman]

Breaking: Senate Republicans block debate on Freedom to Vote Act

It’s completely undemocratic that 41 GOP senators representing just 21% of country can filibuster legislation supported by 70% of Americans that would expand voting access for tens of millions

[Mike Spark Thornton @megasynapse]

@jasonintrator Forced brain drain never ends well.

[Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner2]

Can you imagine if we lose our republic with Congress NEVER having used its lawful power of inherent contempt to enforce its subpoenas? There’s no shame in fighting for what’s right & losing. There’s nothing but shame in refusing to fight for what’s right for fear of losing.

[Reuters @Reuters]

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has repeatedly sentenced people who stormed the Capitol to more prison time than prosecutors sought, saying that even people who were not violent should face consequences for joining the unprecedented assault https://t.co/GAOrgfdEE7

[Mike Spark Thornton @megasynapse]

@RevDrBarber * Very little in life is mutually exclusive. Think Venn.
* Give to Rome what is Rome’s.
* Nothing hypocritical about Shatner becoming a turbocharged ambassador for Mother Earth & all. He’s transformative.
* Much good will come from it. Where’s your hope?

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[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself in now & then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.🚀

[Ari Berman @AriBerman]

Texas House passed extreme gerrymandered GOP state House map at 3:30 am last night. Democracy quite literally dying in dark

Whites 40% population but control 59% districts

Hispanics 39% of population but control 20% districts

Blacks 12% of population but control 2.7% districts

[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself in now & then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.🚀

[Mike Spark Thornton @megasynapse]

@RudyCerda Sambos restaurant, Coral Gables, Fl. As a 3-6 year old in early/mid 60s, I’d go there 2-3x/week with my mom, a public high school teacher, & sit in the “colored section” with her AA colleagues. Those were some of my most profound lessons in respect & seeing “the whole person.”

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Parents of masked children who caught COVID in school from unmasked classmates file HUGE lawsuit against the districts that ended mask mandates for violating their kids’ 14th Amendment right to be protected from “state-created danger.” RT IF YOU SUPPORT THEIR LAWSUITS!

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

Our republic was never a democracy — but it was the most democratic non-democracy on earth at the time of the founding and kept becoming more so — until now. To avoid democracy’s demise, we must study the original compromise that planted its seeds.
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[Mike Spark Thornton @megasynapse]

@Reuters BREAKING: victims & family & friends of victims of Boston Marathon bomber to host marathon in which they run over the bomber’s live body to determine death penalty or not.

[Mike Spark Thornton @megasynapse]

@ATT AT&T funds 90% of OANN & other propaganda vitriol.

1) let the market choose
2) drop @ATT & @DIRECTTV
3) hi, @TMobile & @Verizon
4) #boycottAT&T #defundAT&T
5) explain losses to your investors… for decades
6) done

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[Mike Spark Thornton @megasynapse]

@JonesForAR Motown will always be my fave niche of wonder.
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[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

”The production and burning of coal, oil and gas was subsidised by $5.9tn in 2020.”

People in power are spending $11 million every minute on practices that destroy our living conditions and life supporting systems.

Ignorance and stupidity defined. https://t.co/0Dk4epGL8H

[Arne Storrønningen @arnestor]

"The irony, says @MichaelEMann
...is that climate scientists were dismissed as alarmists for the predictions that we made, but the predictions, if anything, turned out to be overly conservative and we’re seeing even greater impacts than we expected to see”
https://t.co/c5iPujyOyk

[Mike Spark Thornton @megasynapse]

@JoyAnnReid @robertpjones @thereidout The only original ethic of Jesus of Nazareth was to “turn the other cheek,” often used historically to elicit shame & behavioral change in oppressors. Those days are gone, replaced with “run ‘em over twice.”

One of the best inside critiques ever:
https://t.co/uwU8UWzfWp

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

📺 NEW VIDEO

These aren’t leaders of a political movement, they’re leaders of a cult.

And they kill.

#TrumpCultKills

[The Associated Press @AP]

After years of fruitless searches, U.S. wildlife officials say the celebrated ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 other species have gone extinct. https://t.co/vLkCJprgiJ

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

In November 1923, Hitler’s attempted coup failed. But no one was held accountable. Ten years later, he took over Germany.

Trump’s January 2021 coup failed. But 9 months later, Trump still faces no consequences, and his co-conspirators are still in Congress.