(I opt out of AI) love gd, life & the planet

@BuffyBusyBuzzBu @RepRaskin Hillary is righteous, just, forgiving, compassionate, composed, beautiful, kind, lawful, humane, humble, gracious, classy, wise, ethical brilliant, leader, empathic, caring, intelligent loving, generous, bold, assertive, admired, witty, a gentle guiding light to the world & USA

I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. Carl Sandburg

@SenMarkKelly Sheesh

We had this conversation in a public hearing a week ago and you said it would take “years” to replenish some of these stockpiles. That’s not classified, it’s a quote from you. This war is coming at a serious cost and you and the president still haven’t explained to the American people what the goal is.

A Phoenix neighborhood just got a dust storm courtesy of Amazon’s drone. Remember: Amazon drones aren’t just delivering packages, they're mapping your neighborhood and syncing it to the same AWS cloud contracted by the NSA & CIA.

The DOJ's attempts to take over maintenance of voter rolls from the states sure looks like a plot to surveil and purge voters. That's not constitutional. So we're suing. citizensforethics.org/legal-action/l…

The beautiful Obama ladies shine together 🥰⬇️ Michelle Obama with Malia Obama, Sasha Obama and Kamala Harris A true picture of grace, strength, and timeless beauty. Let's show some love for the four Queen.

Not only has Russia violated the US-brokered 72-hour ceasefire, Russia is trying weasel out of the 1000 PoW exchange now that Putin's parade is over. This is always the result of any agreements with Russia. The Russian fascists must be defeated militarily

Do you have an elderly or disabled neighbor in NYC? Be a good neighbor and let them know about the free air conditioner program. If they earn $3473 or less a month, NYC will cover the costs of an A/C. Remember…last summer we had 95 degree weather. Look out for them

Mesmerizing slow-motion footage of what happens when a droplet falls into a pool of water, a phenomenon known as a coalescence cascade. 📽: Steven Trainoff

What has me worried — what we all need to focus on — is that something important in our democracy broke last week, and we are only beginning to see the fallout. democracydocket.com/opinion/the-go…

Last year, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and DOGE fired CDC inspectors and port health workers whose entire job was to track global viruses.    We must rehire the CDC cruise ship inspectors, port health workers, and disease detectives Trump fired.    We must restore the infectious disease, vaccine, and preparedness funding that Trump and RFK Jr. gutted across HHS and the CDC.   And we must rejoin the WHO.    All three steps are common sense.

Florida just passed a law that allows its citizens to fight back against AI data centers. It is now illegal for power companies to shift the cost of data centers onto consumers, and small towns now have more power to prevent data centers from being built.

They don’t steal, they survive. Every morning, the butcher leaves a box of bones outside his shop. Not for profit, not for attention, but for the ones with no home, no bowl, no guarantee of a next meal. One by one, they come. Each takes just a piece, carefully, almost politely, like they understand it’s a gift. It’s not much, but to them, it’s everything. And to the man who leaves it there, it’s a quiet act of kindness the world could use a little more of.

How dare six Justices try to erase the progress that was made 60 years ago when the Voting Rights Act ended Jim Crow.

Happy #MothersDay to all moms and mother figures.

I was waiting at a crosswalk in Tokyo. The traffic light was red but no cars were coming. A bunch of people were waiting anyway. The tourist next to me said to his friend "why is everyone waiting? There's no cars." He started to cross. An old woman said something to him in Japanese. He didn't understand and ignored her. She stepped in front of him, blocking his path. Said more firmly in Japanese, pointing at the light. A Japanese guy nearby translated for the tourist: "She says you must wait for the green light. Even if there are no cars. That is the rule." Tourists got annoyed. "That's a stupid rule. There's literally no cars." The translator told the old woman what he said. She responded in Japanese. The translator said: "She says rules are not about cars. Rules are about respect for order. If everyone follows rules only when convenient, society breaks down. You wait for the green light because that is what civilized people do. Not because of cars. Because of civilization." The tourist kind of scoffed but stopped trying to cross. The light turned green. The old woman smiled at him, gestured for him to go ahead of her. As we all crossed, the translator said to me quietly "she is right, you know. We follow small rules so we can trust each other with big rules." That stuck with me. The idea that waiting at an empty crosswalk isn't about traffic. It's about proving to each other that we're all willing to follow rules even when no one would know if we didn't.

If you care at all about the environment, do not allow A.I. Data Centers to be built near you. They are poison.

BREAKING: An Islamist reportedly attempted to ram his car into a rally standing with the people of Iran in Canada. He then took out an Islamic Republic flag. Get these people out of the West.

The Hollow Men American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider. By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants. These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition. In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken. Today, we have severed that link. We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses. If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived. This looting starts in the boardroom. We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year. Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor. And for what? Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love. They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders. And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk? We get the Delegation Economy. When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know. This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering. They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake. While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us. If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag. The time for polite governance is over. If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

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