Sentient Stone

I'm tired of being told that, to be a progressive, I now must swear allegiance to crazy ideas. I'm a strong Democrat, with a winning bipartisan track record. I'm rooted in progressive ideals and policies: criminal justice reform, Green New Deal, Medicare for All, free education, clean air and water. These are ideas I have fought for my entire adult life. But some people in groups like the DSA are pushing an agenda FAR outside those ideals. Supporting Hamas is not progressive. "No police, no prisons, no borders" is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE. If there were no police or prisons, if anyone in your neighborhood could do whatever they wanted, while politicians cheered on terror groups — would that represent PROGRESS to you? No, that would be a step back. Those are REGRESSIVE ideas. On the other hand, if everybody could see a doctor when they got sick, get a good, free education and breathe clean air — would that represent progress? Yes. Those are PROGRESSIVE ideas. They are NOT the same thing. And the difference matters. Some defend the far left by claiming they only want Nordic-style social democracy. If that were true, I might applaud them. I want those policies, too! But what does universal healthcare have to do with Hamas? With abolishing all law enforcement? With erasing all borders? With treating every wealthy person as a villain? Ideas matter. And these are terrible ideas. Right now, extremists are trying to sneak backwards proposals into our party, hoping mainstream Democrats are too frustrated with MAGA and the Democratic Party establishment to notice. But we see you. Yes, we want our Democratic Party to be a big tent. But we don’t need "party poopers. So STOP pooping in the punch bowl — and telling us the turds are ice cubes. They aren't. And we are smart enough to know the difference. 💩

The dolphins that were in ‘THE ODYSSEY’ just happened to appear on accident & were filmed anyway.

MrBeast says he was shocked to learn there was no way to pay extra for child labor free cocoa in West Africa “I asked everyone involved in sourcing cocoa, ‘Is there any way I can pay a premium and not have little kids work on my farm?’ And it literally didn’t exist.” “I was just so mind blown. It was frustrating because not only did it not exist, no one really seemed to even think it needed to exist.” “I was like, ‘These are kids. You have no issue making billions of dollars in profit while little kids are working on the farms?’ It was a very weird thing.”

Happy National Hot Dog Day 🌭

Godspeed, heroes. Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve.

Africa without white people.

Godspeed, heroes. Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve.

Godspeed, heroes. Their sacrifice only stiffens our resolve.

The dolphins that appeared in ‘The Odyssey’ were real and filmed by accident 🐬 ⚔️