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The Further Fracturing Of Democracy - Trump Warns of 'War From Within' in Speech to Top Generals
Via: Thomas • Broliver Stagnasty's Hat Stand • 16 Comments • 5 Likes • last year
“Pete Hegseth called a meeting of top generals on Tuesday, where Trump warned he would make greater use of the military in U.S. cities.”
The rapid authoritarian tentacular constriction around the failing United States of America’s governmental institutions and norms is quite obvious to anyone who is paying any kind of attention to the words and actions of Trump and his administration. Well, except the people actually in the United...
The dawn of the post-literate society - by James Marriott
Via: Thomas • Critical Thinkers • 73 Comments • 7 Likes • last year
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one...”
I ran across this article about the rise of screen time and the accompanying less time actually spent in cognitively digesting a book. As an extreme example think of somebody trying to simply speak a famous work of philosophy. Say, Kant's 900-page The Critique of Pure Reason or Ludwig...
The Further Fracturing Of Democracy - Trump Orders Broad Effort to Root Out Groups He Says Organize Political Violence - The New York Times
Via: Thomas • Broliver Stagnasty's Hat Stand • 29 Comments • 5 Likes • last year
“President Trump has long maintained that liberal activists and organizations secretly fund political violence. Law enforcement officials say...”
Peel away the layers of the onion... The President is not even trying to hide his anti-democratic intent and the backers of the President are finding it harder to deny that his intentions are ultimately autocratic as he presses for political persecution of his enemies and figureheads of the...
The Fracturing of Democracy - A Chronicle of Continuing Trauma. -- Why Young Men Don’t Like The Democrats
Via: Thomas • Broliver Stagnasty's Hat Stand • 3 Comments • 4 Likes • last year
“What they were talking about really was a sense of authenticity. There's a high degree of respect among men, I think, especially for young men, for...”
The conversation in this short video is about why young men are disillusioned with politics and, more specifically, the Democratic Party. Give it a watch and tell me what you think about the video.
Two Videos for Your Consideration
By: Thomas • Broliver Stagnasty's Hat Stand • 49 Comments • 8 Likes • last year
“We got nothing but fear itself, not pain, not failure, not fatal tragedy, not the faulty units in this mad machinery, not the broken contacts in...”
I have recently watched several videos and would like to bring two of them to the attention of the larger platform. The first is put out by Heather Cox Richardson and is excerpted from her daily show about history and how it relates to the present and vice versa. In it she lays out the argument...
Opinion | Totalitarian Science in the White House | Common Dreams
Via: Thomas • Broliver Stagnasty's Hat Stand • 20 Comments • 10 Likes • last year
“Trump follows in Stalin, Hitler, and Putin's footsteps by interfering in science. He promotes false theories, conducts mass firings, and censors work.”
Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to American Science remaining competitive in the future. He has gutted the scientific establishment because he doesn't like what the scientists are telling him. He has succeeded in removing the scientists from positions where they could tell him what the...
Full interview: Ken Burns on "Face the Nation"
Via: Thomas • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 4 Likes • last year
In order to form the government, they had to reach back through the middle ages, through the dark ages, back to antiquity to bring up these ideas like virtue and temperance and moderation and all of the things that all of them were looking for. I mean, the amazing thing is we're here at Thomas...
Indian Country Today Newscast for 6/27/2025
Via: Thomas • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 2 Likes • last year
“Ganabaj wii-mino-giizhigad noongom. --- Perhaps today will be a good day.”
It is good to look out and see what others are doing and thinking at all times. Please watch, listen and comment with that in mind. I wish you: Zoongide'ewin; "Strong heart" or "brave spirit". A common virtue in Ojibwe culture—peace through courage and balance within. If you feel I have...
