Thomas Squires

I watched on CSPAN as the US Religious Liberty Commission hearing discussed some noble principles of American democracy. It certainly agrees with me to hear freedom of religion espoused. But it got side-tracked by some strange ideas. Attacks were made on separation of church and state. Attacks were made on Democrats for applying this principle to religious faiths. A Democrat, a Catholic, I feel that all religions guide visitors to new and helpful understandings, and that we miss out on all the ingredients of healthy meals if we don't in our lives visit and study other religious stories and principles. They are each part of a healthy meal of trade with other cultures. You give to me, and I give to you, true love, true love. And belief in God is NOT necessary to live a good and meaningful life. I could be wrong, I am just one man, I have made mistakes before. But right now, this is how I feel. Nations clinging to one religion were responsible for the Thirty Years' War, a horrible fight of Catholics and Protestants that murdered millions of people. Learn from his story so that we don't repeat the wrongs.

.@HelenAguirreFer at the Religious Liberty Commission Hearing: “A country that fears faith is a country that fears freedom. When a government seeks total control, it does not begin with the economy or even with the ballot box — it begins with the individual. It seeks to replace conscience with compliance, truth with ideology, and ultimately God with the state.”

Dear Dr. Mohamad, I think you are not giving the full context of the US and Israel attack on Iran. When the context isn't part of the court case, the justice is not clear and true. You support Iran's injustice to Israel/Zion, to the US/democracy, to women/creators, to their own women, and to protestors/doctors trying to end the cruel oppressive regime of the Islamic Revolution. Good grief, man! Won't you straighten up and fly right? Shape up or ship out! The ability to adapt is the foundation of good mental health. My patience is wearing thin.

𝗪𝗛𝗢 𝗜𝗦 𝗖𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗘𝗗 1.For the first time in the history of humankind we hear of a threat to destroy completely a three-thousand-year civilisation. 2.The threat is made by a modern civilisation that is hardly 300 years old. If anything, it reveals the quality of the people who made the threat. 3.They are the truly uncivilised. In human civilisation there has always been a culture that respects the old civilisation. What is old should be preserved. Destruction of the relics reveals the poor quality of the civilisation. To propose to destroy completely a 3000 years old civilisation displays the poor civilisation of the people making the proposal. 4.Clearly the threat by Trump to destroy totally a very old civilisation exposes the level of civilisation of the people making the threat. 5.They are in fact the truly uncivilised people. DR. MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD 13 April 2026

Statistics can be spun to lie, if the full context is not clearly offered in the statistics. For example, you say the richest 1% are set to receive $117 billion in tax cuts next year. Some, to my ability to understand, context, is that the tax cuts are given by our government representatives for guiding all businesses to do more helpful things for our people, and to build their companies of people to long-term profits that they would not do without the tax cuts. What YOU are doing by not giving the context, the real reasons, in your posts, is, that you are short-changing the US voters.

As part of Trump’s $1 trillion giveaway over the next decade, the richest 1% are set to receive $117 billion in tax cuts next year That’s more than the entire budget of @usda and the @usedgov. Meanwhile, middle-class Americans are looking at $900 more in taxes – and in many red states, families are on the hook for over $1,000 more. Trump never cared about you. This was always about protecting the people who were already winning and making the rest of us pay for it.

I would like to know if over the last year you have read scores of posts on X by hurting, sad, wronged women from Iran, who object to being forced to wear black coverings and stay inside their house forever, have babies, and change their diapers, but nothing more. They can't even get a doctor's care. How dare you call the US and Israel thieves? Are you aware that any women who show a strand of their hair outside their black coverings are taken to a stadium, where hundreds of people watch them being stripped naked, caned, raped, and murdered for such crimes? They are not even given decent burials. Their children are orphans. Good grief!

In everyday life, we can all agree that no thief has any right to say that they're protecting their "interests" by coming to my house to rob me. Whatever "interests" that thief has, they evaporate the second he crosses the square perimeters of my compound. If we’re ever going to drag humanity out of the dark ages, we need to slap this exact same logic onto geopolitics. No empire should ever get a free pass to deploy an armada of warships across the Atlantic, park their fighter jets in the Persian Gulf, point a gun at another sovereign nation’s oil, uranium, and gold, and call it "securing their interests in the region." If your only "interest" is subjugating your fellow human beings to exploit and steal from them, then you have lost all Rights to be called a nation. You're effectively a cartel with a National Anthem.

I saw a Hindu god walking beside a woman the other day. The man was supporting his Mother as she went her way, to the Bingo game at the Senior Center, as she ate a free meal, as she went to the toilet, as she got into her city van to take her home. He was not perfect. Sometimes he got angry with her. But inside, and outside, there was kindness. It was the kindness of Krishna.

Every generation believes the revolution it needs is political, economical, social, technological. And every generation discovers, after enormous effort & enormous cost, that the external revolution without the internal one simply rearranges human suffering. The Chandogya Upanishad made this observation thousands of years before modern politics existed. Tat tvam asi. That thou art. You are not separate from what you are trying to fix. The violence outside is the violence inside. The division outside is the division inside. The greed outside is the greed inside. The only revolution that has ever produced lasting change in the external world began with one human being changing something fundamental about the way they saw themselves and their relationship to everyone else. That revolution is available to every human being. Right now. In this moment- without any conflict.🙏

Representative Dexter, You say that Americans deserves better food and health care. I am puzzled. You want to pay less for lower quality, less efficient, more wasteful food and health care. Right? You think if Americans pay LESS for things, that is the goal. Right? What if the money we pay for things is not sufficient to assure good quality, efficiency, and use of the goods we need? What if goods were all free? What kind of goods would you expect to get for free? The goal is not lower prices, it is to buy goods wisely, carefully, and to use them for good purposes.

Trump is co-opting America's 250th birthday to build a monument to himself—funded by YOU, the taxpayers. This 250-foot arch is a literal symbol of how Trump is using the presidency to enrich himself and his billionaire buddies, all while working families pay more for everyday essentials like groceries and healthcare. YOU DESERVE BETTER. nytimes.com/2026/04/10/us/…

@AstronomyVibes The Universal consciousness might also be pictured as Santa Claus, a jolly old man with a twinkle in his eye, a sack on his back, and a hearty laugh as he is delivering goods to good children everywhere at once. In Asia they call him the happy Buddha.

A bold new scientific proposal suggests that consciousness may not just emerge from the brain—it could be a fundamental feature woven into the fabric of the entire universe. This idea challenges traditional views, hinting that awareness might be a core aspect of reality itself. Researchers argue that instead of arising solely from neurons and complex brains, consciousness could exist at a basic level in matter and energy, influencing how the universe behaves. This perspective opens fascinating possibilities for understanding perception, intelligence, and even the nature of existence. While still theoretical, this groundbreaking concept pushes the boundaries of science and philosophy, encouraging us to rethink what it means to be conscious. If consciousness is universal, every particle, star, and galaxy could, in some sense, be aware, a discovery that could transform science, spirituality, and our place in the cosmos.

Senator Schumer, You post that the Iranian regime is still standing. Yes. We did not intend to destroy the Iranian Muslim men leading Persia. We intended to teach them to properly respect other religions, women, and Israel and the US. We stand there not as executioners, but as educators, as parents, hoping that our wayward children will learn better behavior.

Update on Trump’s Operation Epic Fail: Strait of Hormuz: complete chaos Iranian regime: still standing Gas prices: Highest in years Iran's nuclear ambitions: exactly the same America's international credibility: worse We must end this war immediately before Donald Trump makes things even worse.

I would suggest to you that instead of US going to THEM, THEY could be coming to US soon. AI is bringing an enormous radio to us that, if we are good people, wise, understanding, prudent, common sense, kind, and helpful, we might get our names put on the galaxy's nice list, and marked for some kind of nice Christmas present.

Elon Musk: "The reason I'm doing SpaceX is not due to some childhood epiphany or because I think this is the highest return on investment way to spend money. I think starting a rocket company is an unusual thing to do and pretty risky. But I'm a big believer in us becoming a space-faring civilization and ultimately extending life beyond Earth. When I was in college, I tried to think: what are the really big problems that face the world, that which will most affect the future of humanity? And the three that I thought were the most important were; the internet, transition to a sustainable energy economy, and the third was space exploration, in particular making life multi-planetary."

Mr. Musk, you talk about interplanetary space travel. You look at the Enterprise ship, on Star Trek. Open up your eyes, your mind. The crew didn't have problems with disrespect for the other crew members. They weren't hungry. They weren't dressed in rags. They weren't sick or injured. They didn't have problems learning things they wanted to learn, or things about doing their jobs, or skills to rotate to new projects on the ship. They didn't have problems with child care. Now, you know what I mean. I don't have to spell everything out for you.

@cb_doge You might not be exactly right about that, Mr. Musk.

"The goal of the left is to destroy my influence. So they relentlessly push negative propaganda about me and ignore anything positive. They are evil." 一 Elon Musk

Also, Mr. Musk, you are thinking a test or some kind of measure of good in all individuals would reveal their true value to humanity, and allow you to place them properly, fairly, justly, on the ladder of success. You know there are people who couldn't have passed a literacy test, who couldn't read or write, who became champions for all humanity, people like Jesus, who taught people like Gandhi how to achieve justice. There is not necessarily a good test that measures the value of all people. Blacks may have some hidden talents, you just don't ever know. That's what diversity is all about.

You Mr. Musk are the richest person in the world now, so I feel your post, which expresses your long-time views of integration efforts, is worth discussing. Wokism and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, IS reverse discrimination, as you understand it. There is merit in your asserting that meritocracy is the only real solution to the poverty of blacks in a fair way. No one wants to discriminate against whites. I am white. You are white. The ladder of success is a long one, with rungs at the bottom, hopefully. The problem is that it is clear that whites are at the top and blacks are at the bottom, and our ecosystem needs diversity to survive perturbations in the state of things that may come. The conclusion I have is that somehow, we need diversity in all the steps of the ladder of success, to maximize our chances as a society of surviving. It is clear that slavery and discrimination based on skin color was a serious mistake to our potential to survive. It was a scam that made a few people, slavers, very rich. There is no way that the slavers can repay the damages that they did. They never could have paid to repair the damages. Most of the slavers have died living lovely lives. The blacks want reparations for damages. Now you, Mr. Musk, like a meritocracy that leaves trained and successful whites at the top of the ladder. OK. Somehow, we need to get the untrained and unevolved blacks up on the ladder of success, in a diverse company of people at each level. The city of God, when it comes down from heaven, is going to have gyms of all kinds for all people, black and white. Education is the tool of this city, that provides us with fair justice for all skin colors, for all races. It is going to have puzzles for people with people in different costumes, different work clothes, and its going to have microscopes, mikes, speakers, STEM kits, calculators, musical instruments, dance shoes, costumes, garbage cans for different types of materials for recycling, and so on. You see, just like Nelson Mandela said, Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Make your own decisions, yes. I have tried to persuade you about what I would do, if I had your money, profit from hard work. I agree that reverse discrimination is not the good answer.

Elon Musk: "We should really accept no racism or sexism in any form, no matter what it’s called" If 'wokism' means judging people by race, gender, or identity - that's racism If DEI means giving advantages based on skin color - that's racism rebranded Racism against white people is still racism Racism against black people is still racism There are no exceptions We need a meritocracy - where people rise based on talent and hard work, not identity politics And free speech only means something when people you disagree with are allowed to speak

Billionaires pay for ad campaigns that are allowed to lie without punishment, they are allowed to buy signs and post them all over the country saying just, Vote for So and So, they are allowed to collect infinite amounts of money from anonymous donors. What all this comes down to is that US voters are being darned stupid about who they vote for.

You cannot have a real democracy when a handful of billionaires control the economy and flood our elections with unlimited money. The future of this country must belong to workers — not oligarchs. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

You say that the US President is firing immigration judges, I guess who show too much mercy to undocumented workers. I agree that this doesn't look too good. I am not sure what the Supreme Court will do to stop the practice. The President has Presidential Immunity now, so even if it were illegal, he could never be stopped by other branches of our government.

Donald Trump is purging immigration judges who aren’t rubber stamps for his cruel, inhumane mass deportation agenda. In just over a year in office, he has fired more than 100 judges and threatened others who refused to comply with his wishes. This violated every basic element of due process. I introduced the Real Courts, Rule of Law Act to stop him. This bill would transition the immigration court system into an independent judiciary, protect it from the sitting administration, and stop Trump’s weaponization of our immigration system.

It might possibly be that the President needs to get an adequate range of hours of sleep each day, like seven to nine hours, to stay mentally healthy. I read that in a book titled Why We Sleep, that explained that workers were making some serious, sometimes fatal, mistakes when they didn't allow themselves enough sleep each night.

This man works until 2AM every single day, gets less than 4 hours of sleep, doesn't take a dime of his salary, instead giving it back to the people, & has done more to end child trafficking than any other President by far. His name is President Donald J. Trump. God bless him.🙏

In WWI and in WWII the Germans controlled shipping in all seas, and if they didn't want you moving things or passengers across the seas, the German submarines would use torpedoes, depth charges, and mines to sink your ship and drown your passengers. It is NOT alright for the IGRC to require its permission to go past their country, or else.

The Iranians have ALWAYS used the Strait of Hormuz as economic terrorism against the West to protect their Theocratic regime. President Trump is doing what's necessary to accomplish the main objectives: - Make sure Iran does not have a nuclear weapon - Significantly degrade their ballistic missile capabilities

During WWII, when we were fighting colossally intelligent people in Germany and Japan, and we understood that it was a fight for survival, our prices not only increased, but many things were rationed with ration stamps. I don't remember ration stamps, and most people who knew them, have died. But it is part of our history. From Valley Forge, to ration stamps, we have never been afraid to fight for right.

Gas prices up 21% in one month – the biggest jump in 60 years. Inflation at a four-year high. Consumer confidence at its lowest point since 1952. Donald Trump promised to lower your costs. Instead he started an illegal war and sent your bills through the roof. There’s nothing "America First” about any of this.

In the Iraq-Iran War, after the IRGC was established, the two opponents were using chemical weapons, not pepper spray, but more lethal gases. There is no reason to believe that Iran is limiting its WMD to nuclear weapons, though it clearly is struggling to possess them, like Pakistan, India, and Israel. If we think there is a high probability that Iran would use WMD, it is our business to disarm them now. If it looks like a skunk, smells like a skunk, it probably IS a skunk.

If the world were truly sane, every country would back the action against Iran. But they don’t, and 60 percent of Americans don’t either, according to polling. Therefore, the evil-doers in Tehran gain a big advantage. Many folks don’t care what they do. There is heavy evidence that the Mullahs continue to work on a nuclear weapon. If they succeed, the entire planet could be in peril. billoreilly.com/b/Disruption/-…

You are stating things that you aren't proving. You need to explain exactly what the ballroom is supposed to be doing, and what bad things the equipment there might do, because we don't assume that America's President is doing bad things. If he is, tell us why. Don't just assert that some other person is planning to do bad things. That we call slinging mud. It always leaves a stain. As Melania told us last week, We should be careful what we believe.

There will come a day when people will tear down that ballroom, the way people in Germany tore down that wall. And we will take sledgehammers to the secret surveillance state apparatus lurking in the bunker beneath. None of this, none of this, none of this will ultimately stand…