Peyton Gresham

My #SundaySentence is from #JamesBaldwin's essay collection #NobodyKnowsMyName: "The time has come, God knows, for us to examine ourselves, but we can only do this if we are willing to free ourselves of the myth of America and try to find out what is really happening here."

@CBSEveningNews Simply put, #collaborators, with all the implication that the historical usage of that word implies.

"On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you." That changes now. The new CBS Evening News starts Monday at 6:30 p.m. ET on CBS.

Just lost all respect for @JimCantore and @weatherchannel, as I heard Cantore reference the Gulf of America. #Newspeak #1984

@jamestaranto Also, the business world hates Chevron because Chevron allowed Agencies to tell businesses to stop doing business in a way that hurts or kills people. And businesses wanted the right to do business in a way that hurts or kills people, so they fought it.

Many of President Trump's early second-term actions serve an elevated purpose: restoring constitutional integrity and democratic accountability to the U.S. government. In this effort Mr. Trump is working in resonance, although not in concert, with Chief Justice John Roberts.

@jamestaranto The idea that Trump is "restoring constitutional integrity" is 2 + 2 = 5 territory. You are basically saying "don't believe what you see right in front of your eyes."

trump is a rapist trump is a traitor donald j trump is a russian asset

Seniors voted to gut Social Security. Men voted for their wives and daughters to die from miscarriages. Immigrants voted for deportation raids. Poor people voted for tax cuts for billionaires. Women voted to have fewer rights than men. Police voted for a convicted felon.

@queen_meghan14 At some point, we just have to recognize that my country, the US, is filled with lots of human beings who are either ignorant beyond words or terrible beyond words. It will be impossible to walk down the street and not look at the people around me in a new, depressing way.

So when Trump fires all non-partisan career professionals in government, replaces them with radical loyalists within every nook and cranny of the US government, and adds radical judges everywhere. And every one of you that voted for him finally wake up from your fucked up fantasy just like the folks that woke up after 4 years of the last shit show, only to realize it’s much much worse, and much more permanent, this time. When the cancer you caused has infected every bit of the American system and it can’t be unwound for a lifetime. What then? Do you beg this country for forgiveness for choosing fascism because you were conned into believing your eggs are too expensive because of Joe Biden? You just put Steve Bannon in charge of American policy. You just put Michael Flynn in charge of our military. You just put Alex Jones in charge of media and propaganda. You just put Stephen Miller in charge of immigration policy. You just put batshit crazy RFK Jr. in charge of health policy. You just killed free public education and privatized schools, which you will have to pay for. You just sealed the deal on a national abortion ban, because you’re demented if you think it’s not coming. You just radicalized the Supreme Court for a generation. You just made women less safe and less free. You just made this country an oligarchy with the billionaires quite literally in charge now. You just put in office the one person that believes a president is a king, with the fucking Supreme Court ruling to prove it in his back pocket! You just ushered in Fascism. Because your cereal costs more. Congratulations.

Last thought before attempting to go to bed: if Americans are willing to reelect Trump after everything he’s said in the past three months, there’s nothing Harris could’ve done.

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

sorry to be a total broken record on this but PRIVATE EQUITY IS RUINING EVERYTHING PART 17302928

Tardy #QOTD for June 3, 2023, is from #OpenWater by #CalebAzumahNelson "Seeing people is no small task."

Tardy #QOTD for June 2, 2023, is from #Humankind by #RutgerBregman

📕In 1995, American astronomer Carl Sagan predicted what a future American society could look like. His forecast has proven prescient. Read below.

Tardy #QOTD for June 1, 2023, is from #ASandCountyAlmanac by #AldoLeopold “No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal change in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions." #Ethics

Tardy #QOTD for May 31, 2023, is from #VesperFlights by #HelenMacdonald #Nature

Albert Camus, keep your head up

My greatest skill has been to want little. ~ Thoreau

There should be at least one Friday a month that is a “read in bed all day” day, where you don’t have to go to work, and you get to just eat snacks in bed with a good book.