| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| Empires fall when ordinary citizens no longer believe | 2022-12-31 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1609082160396521474 | 1609082160396521474 |
| There is such a thing as free will! And repentance - | 2022-12-24 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1606650411745968129 | 1606650411745968129 |
| A lesson for Putin. | 2022-12-18 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1604307514568253441 | 1604307514568253441 |
| Christian Nationalism is a political ideology, not a | 2022-12-15 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603237839365234689 | 1603237839365234689 |
| Why did Japan surrender? | 2022-12-15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1603235714061115393 | 1603235714061115393 |
| People who never admit error never learn anything new. | 2022-12-02 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598565488438972418 | 1598565488438972418 |
| You really need to pay attention to the recycling rules. | 2022-12-02 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598557742637408257 | 1598557742637408257 |
| Every high school graduate should expect to go to college. | 2022-12-02 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598537700088258560 | 1598537700088258560 |
| Who wants our billionaires to live forever? | 2022-12-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598135015497695233 | 1598135015497695233 |
| Politics - in the Nutcracker??? | 2022-12-01 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1598132239157841920 | 1598132239157841920 |
| Make final plans well ahead of final moments. | 2022-11-26 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596494193257435136 | 1596494193257435136 |
| You can make a living off political divisiveness! | 2022-11-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596381481760616449 | 1596381481760616449 |
| It's the same old same old from the same old guy. | 2022-11-26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596335809619075073 | 1596335809619075073 |
| The future of human space travel - | 2022-11-26 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1596311316725379072 | 1596311316725379072 |
| "you couldn’t be a know-it-all and run a company that | 2022-11-22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594935976144605185 | 1594935976144605185 |
| The pandemic was the icing on the cake. | 2022-11-20 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1594363542064738305 | 1594363542064738305 |
| The last time schools turned into politics. | 2022-11-18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593410970696572928 | 1593410970696572928 |
| How slavery, starting in 1619, perverted economics, | 2022-11-18 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593394464571023360 | 1593394464571023360 |
| 1619 - an eventful year for Virginia | 2022-11-17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593300289649405954 | 1593300289649405954 |
| 1619 - an eventful year for America | 2022-11-17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1593300107348148225 | 1593300107348148225 |
| America's founders counted on citizen virtue as well | 2022-11-08 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1590084782326951937 | 1590084782326951937 |
| The classic rural dilemma - you can't have suburban | 2022-11-08 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1589842658784333824 | 1589842658784333824 |
| Striving toward enlightenment language - when is it too | 2022-10-28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1586104628193636352 | 1586104628193636352 |
| Rising wealth inequality and income inequality, and now - | 2022-10-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585830584139382785 | 1585830584139382785 |
| The richest man in the world can firearms-2022.data firearms-2022.tbl firearms-2023.data firearms-2023.tbl fkwp6wNOSQ foreign-2022.data foreign-2022.tbl foreign-2023.data foreign-2023.tbl up any situation in | 2022-10-28 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585824709282697217 | 1585824709282697217 |
| 30 years of success for the KGB and failure for the CIA. | 2022-10-27 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585480477120471040 | 1585480477120471040 |
| You could have learned about 1619, 57 years ago. Hardly a | 2022-10-26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1585133652056641536 | 1585133652056641536 |
| Simpler user interface? Less privatization of public | 2022-10-24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584401084570664961 | 1584401084570664961 |
| A distant ancestor, told that he was unfit to preach the | 2022-10-24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584381406402138114 | 1584381406402138114 |
| Outlawing slavery is harder than you'd think. | 2022-10-23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1584069445823053824 | 1584069445823053824 |
| America has seen this movie before! | 2022-10-22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1583679659752857600 | 1583679659752857600 |
| When studying the Enlightenment and Freemasonry - | 2022-10-21 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1583304452840169472 | 1583304452840169472 |
| You'd think the world's richest man could pay his own way. | 2022-10-15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1581121998188470272 | 1581121998188470272 |
| Fortunately we can make some sense of the world at the | 2022-10-13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580419832335343617 | 1580419832335343617 |
| Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's | 2022-10-12 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1580209181868449792 | 1580209181868449792 |
| Will Sasse really protect the university from DeSantis? | 2022-10-11 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1579679080815136768 | 1579679080815136768 |
| Parody and democracy. | 2022-10-08 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578591961480503298 | 1578591961480503298 |
| How covid changed Canada - | 2022-10-07 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578200846117937152 | 1578200846117937152 |
| What a real leader sounds like - | 2022-10-07 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1578179909872066562 | 1578179909872066562 |
| Coal miner's politicians should have 1% of the personal | 2022-10-05 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1577528732889145344 | 1577528732889145344 |
| None of the little Pacific island nations can defend itself | 2022-09-30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575844058152415232 | 1575844058152415232 |
| Federal territories should be incorporated into states or | 2022-09-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1575014884030369792 | 1575014884030369792 |
| Woke "was used by Black people to describe the Black | 2022-09-27 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1574621582235820034 | 1574621582235820034 |
| There are a lot more Trumpist evangelicals than Trumpist | 2022-09-25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573832759570669569 | 1573832759570669569 |
| "Why do cities across the nation frequently offer wealthy | 2022-09-23 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573365714395742208 | 1573365714395742208 |
| What's the most important thing to remember about people | 2022-09-22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1573002313018769408 | 1573002313018769408 |
| Eventually children become too expensive and the population | 2022-09-15 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570264006291783688 | 1570264006291783688 |
| Good news and bad news about reverse migration. | 2022-09-15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570262520816103425 | 1570262520816103425 |
| Yvon Chouinard - from reinventing rock climbing | 2022-09-15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1570255768703897601 | 1570255768703897601 |
| The same struggle between medievalism and Enlightenment | 2022-09-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569890043342520327 | 1569890043342520327 |
| Ancient ideas discovered anew at Jena - | 2022-09-14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569886278350675968 | 1569886278350675968 |
| Humility is a safer path - | 2022-09-11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569100318864191488 | 1569100318864191488 |
| In the starting and ending of wars, the enemy has a vote. | 2022-09-11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1569094526517800961 | 1569094526517800961 |
| Security is a way of life! | 2022-09-11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568855913536323587 | 1568855913536323587 |
| When did Christianity reverse itself from its roots? | 2022-09-09 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1568112578379018241 | 1568112578379018241 |
| KKK at West Point? Why? | 2022-09-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565159798315708416 | 1565159798315708416 |
| Much of the world sees America in decline. Some cheer, | 2022-08-30 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564456041923747841 | 1564456041923747841 |
| Might as well make the best of it! | 2022-08-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1564034929771433984 | 1564034929771433984 |
| Lean In all you like - just don't expect magic. | 2022-08-17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559971319164203008 | 1559971319164203008 |
| What happens to old assassins? What should happen? | 2022-08-15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1559036477748551682 | 1559036477748551682 |
| Renaming places for heroes instead of rebellious | 2022-08-11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557586025274191873 | 1557586025274191873 |
| Like Trump, Musk might finally be running out of room to | 2022-08-11 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1557558437831053312 | 1557558437831053312 |
| Thanks to Vladimir Putin! | 2022-08-11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1557553415407800320 | 1557553415407800320 |
| Anybody want a job with lousy pay and endless hassle from | 2022-08-04 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1555018648368033792 | 1555018648368033792 |
| The throwaway society will eventually exact its due. | 2022-08-02 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1554600140144447488 | 1554600140144447488 |
| Creativity vs decadence - currently a losing battle. | 2022-07-31 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553785412308463616 | 1553785412308463616 |
| Creativity vs decadence - currently a losing battle. | 2022-07-31 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1553785412308463616 | 1553785412308463616 |
| "the means of change is not the triumph of ideology or | 2022-06-21 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1539248037494652929 | 1539248037494652929 |
| Self-serving opportunists at the top attract self-serving | 2022-06-06 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1533843236216635392 | 1533843236216635392 |
| Epistemology - how do we know what we think we know? | 2022-06-05 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533259586110599168 | 1533259586110599168 |
| "If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is | 2022-06-05 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533256826153598977 | 1533256826153598977 |
| One certain economic benefit of casinos - lots of dark | 2022-06-04 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533124107792883712 | 1533124107792883712 |
| Trumpism is the same everywhere! | 2022-06-02 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1532479689339461632 | 1532479689339461632 |
| How France enslaved Haiti, then after independence, ripped | 2022-05-28 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530387059906473984 | 1530387059906473984 |
| Think different didn't help Apple with homeless. | 2022-05-25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529506504729980928 | 1529506504729980928 |
| "The rich are different from you and me: They are usually | 2022-05-24 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528937568972156929 | 1528937568972156929 |
| Successful organizations tend to converge on | 2022-05-24 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1528913287106088960 | 1528913287106088960 |
| Laws don't apply if you're rich enough. | 2022-05-18 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526925270883573760 | 1526925270883573760 |
| So much for the mighty Trump wall. | 2022-05-18 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526924388561367040 | 1526924388561367040 |
| Most rich people own medium-sized businesses. That's why | 2022-05-17 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1526392496170754048 | 1526392496170754048 |
| Neural Networks are reaching their limits in Artificial | 2022-05-13 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1525111119278272513 | 1525111119278272513 |
| On this day remember the original idea of Mother's Day | 2022-05-08 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1523366856278437888 | 1523366856278437888 |
| Big Conn in West Virginia. | 2022-05-06 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522405762621870080 | 1522405762621870080 |
| Hypersonic missiles - a new saber to rattle. One for | 2022-05-06 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522403048093458432 | 1522403048093458432 |
| How many liberal arts ought to figure in an MBA? | 2022-05-06 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522374171761598464 | 1522374171761598464 |
| The British Virgin Islands is a global capital for | 2022-05-05 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1522003290350784512 | 1522003290350784512 |
| "The only winning move is not to play" | 2022-05-04 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1521723782305488896 | 1521723782305488896 |
| Another global cost of the Ukraine war - re-investing | 2022-04-29 | 61 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1519845896627757056 | 1519845896627757056 |
| New Boeing management hopes to avoid Trump-era mistakes. | 2022-04-28 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1519544658082160640 | 1519544658082160640 |
| The fast-cash criminal element has noticed that pot shops | 2022-04-22 | 508 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1517322686787055616 | 1517322686787055616 |
| Not all heroic defenses end in immediate victory. | 2022-04-11 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1513315211712684033 | 1513315211712684033 |
| Know about the San Patricios? | 2022-04-08 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512241815830732808 | 1512241815830732808 |
| Why bother with formalities - just pretend! Fake it | 2022-04-08 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1512221932908781569 | 1512221932908781569 |
| What happens when the unthinkable becomes thinkable? | 2022-04-03 | 58 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1510464005998985217 | 1510464005998985217 |
| The smarter you are, the easier it is to fool yourself. | 2022-04-02 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510074753586925568 | 1510074753586925568 |
| Life under the USSR. | 2022-04-02 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1510059437687394306 | 1510059437687394306 |
| 1619 was a foundational year for Virginia - | 2022-03-23 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1506703123057811458 | 1506703123057811458 |
| The Senate can act, if nobody's paying attention! | 2022-03-19 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1504981204545662976 | 1504981204545662976 |
| The important thing is to quit changing clocks. | 2022-03-17 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1504257195860381698 | 1504257195860381698 |
| Reactionaries boldly embrace an imaginary past. | 2022-03-16 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1504092188757528578 | 1504092188757528578 |
| A plausible theory about why more risky drivers - the | 2022-03-11 | 78 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1502131516310102021 | 1502131516310102021 |
| We don't need to worry about climate change after all? | 2022-03-08 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1501200454042066946 | 1501200454042066946 |
| Putin reminds us that America still needs a huge defense | 2022-03-06 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1500527872280186880 | 1500527872280186880 |
| Does anybody care about the Geneva conventions any more? | 2022-03-03 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1499391700451479556 | 1499391700451479556 |
| Life in Russia differs little from life in the USSR - the | 2022-03-03 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1499210459601248261 | 1499210459601248261 |
| Crypto is just hot air. A few people win big, paid for | 2022-02-17 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1494168377983528963 | 1494168377983528963 |
| Unpleasant demographic change coming if we don't do more | 2022-02-17 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1494166024479903744 | 1494166024479903744 |
| How pro sports rip off underlawyered public agencies. | 2022-02-17 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1494149021601988609 | 1494149021601988609 |
| What happens when nobody has even heard of the great books | 2022-02-16 | 63 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1493814397491286019 | 1493814397491286019 |
| How wealthy white GOP donors have subverted parental | 2022-02-16 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1493812757149351941 | 1493812757149351941 |
| An Irish diplomat appreciates Leopold Bloom on his | 2022-02-10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1491575096527372290 | 1491575096527372290 |
| The worse news is that Austin is the best place to be | 2022-02-08 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1491151275970695168 | 1491151275970695168 |
| "the lowest paying states -- offering an average salary | 2022-02-06 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1490227031165997057 | 1490227031165997057 |
| Overpaid executives keep running into roadblocks in Palo | 2022-02-06 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1490220101408210951 | 1490220101408210951 |
| "Trump is the embodiment of the wounds that already | 2022-02-05 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489821577411584004 | 1489821577411584004 |
| W.E.B. Du Bois saw it all coming in 1935. The foes of | 2022-02-05 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489816546172018696 | 1489816546172018696 |
| New names for old bases - honoring patriots rather than | 2022-02-05 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489803372278403075 | 1489803372278403075 |
| Excerpts from the official Virginia 7th-grade history book | 2022-02-05 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489772973783347201 | 1489772973783347201 |
| History of mass movements has at least two parts - the | 2022-01-30 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1487842897919569921 | 1487842897919569921 |
| Reproductive rights will likely be a major issue in 2022 | 2022-01-25 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1485849712217362432 | 1485849712217362432 |
| An unreliable census. | 2022-01-23 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1485151605833945089 | 1485151605833945089 |
| Ponzi died but Ponzi schemes never die. | 2022-01-23 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1485148461339013123 | 1485148461339013123 |
| Caste now a protected category at CSU. | 2022-01-21 | 96 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1484654266694258691 | 1484654266694258691 |
| The red (and sometimes blue) wave of inexperienced school | 2022-01-21 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1484401505952100353 | 1484401505952100353 |
| Texas GOP don't want to talk about the real reasons for | 2022-01-21 | 59 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1484397824473059330 | 1484397824473059330 |
| It takes a while to gain historical perspective to | 2022-01-17 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1483065629791834123 | 1483065629791834123 |
| No legislator has a problem with deficit spending on | 2022-01-17 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1482946185589444608 | 1482946185589444608 |
| "King earned this holiday not by being bland but by | 2022-01-17 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1482910948675375104 | 1482910948675375104 |
| Civility is possible if people exercise their free will | 2022-01-03 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1477795776965214208 | 1477795776965214208 |
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========== Empires fall when ordinary citizens no longer believe in them. https://apnews.com/article/putin-mikhail-gorbachev-politics-soviet-union-russia-government-4dd71e5923e46720a1abc768b3a5993c #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-12-31 07:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1609082160396521474 ========== There is such a thing as free will! And repentance - turning away from the devil's work - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/23/cassidy-hutchinson-trump-jan-6-perjury/ And for Passantino and the others who embraced the devil's tar baby of their own free will - FBI and disbarment? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1836181176726393 #PS1other ===== engage 2 engage-rate 29% impress 7 time 2022-12-24 13:58 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1606650411745968129 ========== A lesson for Putin. https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/17/asia/operation-linebacker-ii-50th-anniversary-intl-hnk-ml-dst/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 10 time 2022-12-18 02:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1604307514568253441 ========== Christian Nationalism is a political ideology, not a religious one. It was embraced by Hitler, Stalin, and Putin. https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/41716-ffrf-lauds-historic-congressional-testimony-on-christian-nationalism #PS1other ===== impress 21 time 2022-12-15 03:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603237839365234689 ========== Why did Japan surrender? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria In just days, the Soviets conquered an area the size of Western Europe. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-bomb-didn-t-beat-japan-stalin-did The Japanese endured incinerated cities, but an imminent Soviet invasion of the home islands forced the issue. #PS1other ===== impress 8 time 2022-12-15 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1603235714061115393 ========== People who never admit error never learn anything new. Progress depends on people who admit error rather than hiding it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/powell-admits-wrong-interest-rates-federal-reserve/ #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-12-02 06:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598565488438972418 ========== You really need to pay attention to the recycling rules. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/12/01/south-bay-recycling-company-fined-after-improper-lithium-battery-disposals-start-multiple-garbage-truck-fires/ Lithium is so eager to react, it can explode into flames. #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-02 06:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598557742637408257 ========== Every high school graduate should expect to go to college. But not everybody should go to the same kind of college. Demand for skills like automotive technology and dental hygiene will increase. Two years at community college should suffice. https://calmatters.org/commentary/2022/11/california-high-schools-need-a-mission-overhaul/ #PS1other ===== impress 23 time 2022-12-02 04:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598537700088258560 ========== Who wants our billionaires to live forever? https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/16/1063300/billion-dollar-mega-rich-live-forever There are certainly plenty of opportunists hoping to make money from billionaires wanting to live forever. But if everybody lived forever, why would children ever grow up? Why even have children? #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-12-01 02:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598135015497695233 ========== Politics - in the Nutcracker??? https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2022/11/25/nutcracker-history-russian-imperialism/ Alas yes - not much happens in imperial courts without political calculation. Just ask Salieri! #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2022-12-01 01:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1598132239157841920 ========== Make final plans well ahead of final moments. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2022/11/20/death-red-tape-bureaucracy-finances/ Financial institutions want you to do everything online. They drive out cost - for them - by disinvesting in in-person and telephone service. #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-26 13:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596494193257435136 ========== You can make a living off political divisiveness! https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/22/politics/political-tensions-wrestling/index.html But it can get dangerous. #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-26 05:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596381481760616449 ========== It's the same old same old from the same old guy. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/technology/elon-musk-twitter-management.html But not many people are gluttons for punishment enough to work for him twice. #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-26 02:51 +0000 views 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596335809619075073 ========== The future of human space travel - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/25/artemis-moon-mission-nasa-humans-robotics/ might be reserved for robots. No atmosphere or water or magnetic field? Human reproduction seems very unlikely. Just as there are no permanent human habitations above 17000'. https://www.insider.com/living-in-la-rinconada-the-highest-habitable-place-on-earth-2016-12 #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 13% impress 8 time 2022-11-26 01:14 +0000 urlclicks 1 views 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596311316725379072 ========== "you couldn’t be a know-it-all and run a company that size" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/opinion/jack-welch-ge-jeff-immelt.html You don't know anything unless you know what you don't know! #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-22 06:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594935976144605185 ========== The pandemic was the icing on the cake. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/20/doomsday-scenario-for-sinking-bay-area-transit-no-weekend-bart-bus-lines-cancelled-or-a-taxpayer-bailout/ But the main mass transit issue is older - it can break even during the morning and evening rush. But mid-day and weekend service has to be subsidized by taxpayers. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1808330879511423 #PS1other ===== impress 11 time 2022-11-20 16:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1594363542064738305 ========== The last time schools turned into politics. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/us/school-boards-historian-assignment-podcast/index.html Same issues as now. Same opportunities for fake populist politicians and violent extremists. #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-11-18 01:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593410970696572928 ========== How slavery, starting in 1619, perverted economics, religion, and politics - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/lomax.html #PS1other ===== engage 3 engage-rate 3 impress 1 media-engage 3 time 2022-11-18 00:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593394464571023360 ========== 1619 - an eventful year for Virginia https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/virginia.html #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-17 17:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593300289649405954 ========== 1619 - an eventful year for America https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/ #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2022-11-17 17:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1593300107348148225 ========== America's founders counted on citizen virtue as well as institutions. “To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea” - Madison https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/opinion/paul-pelosi-youngkin-lake.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1798899567121221 #PS1other ===== engage 3 engage-rate 43% expands 2 impress 7 time 2022-11-08 20:52 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1590084782326951937 ========== The classic rural dilemma - you can't have suburban money AND rural lifestyles. GOP is generally in favor of development, as are construction trades unions. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/11/07/voters-to-decide-hotly-contested-measure-to-limit-growth-on-silicon-valleys-rural-edges/ Bumper stickers from the 1970's - "Don't Californicate Oregon" "Don't Oregonize Idaho" #PS1other ===== impress 12 time 2022-11-08 04:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1589842658784333824 ========== Striving toward enlightenment language - when is it too much, and when not enough? https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/10/28/leonard-pitts-jr-we-strive-toward-enlightenment-and-language-follows-suit/ If you're trying to converse with another person with a different background, you'll get further speaking in terms he understands, than in terms he doesn't. #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-28 21:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1586104628193636352 ========== Rising wealth inequality and income inequality, and now - rising emotional inequality! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/opinion/global-sadness-rising.html How will this play out? #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-28 03:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585830584139382785 ========== The richest man in the world can f*** up any situation in the world, and let other people suffer the consequences. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/technology/elon-musk-geopolitics-china-ukraine.html #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-28 02:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585824709282697217 ========== 30 years of success for the KGB and failure for the CIA. https://www.keyreporter.org/book-reviews/2022/the-fourth-man-the-hunt-for-a-kgb-spy-at-the-top-of-the-cia-and-the-rise-of-putins-russia/ #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-27 03:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585480477120471040 ========== You could have learned about 1619, 57 years ago. Hardly a word needs to be changed. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/lomax.html #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-26 04:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585133652056641536 ========== Simpler user interface? Less privatization of public functions? Don't expect those from a GOP Congress - they WANT to make government assistance hard to get - except for megadonors. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/23/opinion/student-loan-debt-relief-application-process.html #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-24 04:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584401084570664961 ========== A distant ancestor, told that he was unfit to preach the gospel, replied - "There's damn good money in preaching!" Prosperity gospel, no doubt - https://www.gotquestions.org/prosperity-gospel.html His sons in spirit thrive today - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/23/right-wing-election-turnout/ Every speaker has something for sale! #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-24 03:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584381406402138114 ========== Outlawing slavery is harder than you'd think. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterms-13th-amendment-slavery-4a0341cf82fa33942bda6a5d17ac4348 It's hard to make legal language so clear that it can't be accidentally or willingly misinterpreted. #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-23 06:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1584069445823053824 ========== America has seen this movie before! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reform_Association_(chartered_1864) Christian Nationalists have tried to make the Constitution a Christian Nationalist document - for 150 years. They convinced the WCTU - and not many others. Now Trumpists aim to keep them voting GOP. #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-22 04:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583679659752857600 ========== When studying the Enlightenment and Freemasonry - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html a recurring theme is confusion between the essence of a tradition and its historical accidents. Modern American politics reflects a similar confusion. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1783912065286638 #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 18 likes 1 time 2022-10-21 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1583304452840169472 ========== You'd think the world's richest man could pay his own way. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/14/ukraine-elon-musk-starlink-ambassador-andrij-melnyk/ Maybe he thinks Russia is a bigger market. #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-15 03:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1581121998188470272 ========== Fortunately we can make some sense of the world at the human scale and planetary scale. At the quantum scale and the cosmological scale - which might end up being the same thing! - we're very much in the dark. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/science/black-holes-cosmology-hologram.html #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-10-13 04:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580419832335343617 ========== Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/11/ts-eliot-waste-land-100-years-old/ https://newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/03/the-shock-and-aftershocks-of-the-waste-land More read about than read or understood, The Waste Land is now 100 years old. Still Modern? #PS1other ===== impress 7 time 2022-10-12 14:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1580209181868449792 ========== Will Sasse really protect the university from DeSantis? Some people are skeptical. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/10/10/sasse-university-florida-protests/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 6% impress 16 time 2022-10-11 03:43 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1579679080815136768 ========== Parody and democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/07/onion-amicus-brief-supreme-court-satire-essential/ Who knew they were so closely related? #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-08 03:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578591961480503298 ========== How covid changed Canada - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/05/canada-covid-legacy-right-wing-populism/ What will the Canadian right do now that covid restrictions are lifted? #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2022-10-07 01:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578200846117937152 ========== What a real leader sounds like - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/06/moldova-president-interview-eu-integration/ Not in it for the money or the glory. #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-10-07 00:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1578179909872066562 ========== Coal miner's politicians should have 1% of the personal integrity of this coal miner's daughter. https://apnews.com/article/loretta-lynn-dies-5f1545e60e37e482faa42cbb25ae61e8 #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-10-05 05:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1577528732889145344 ========== None of the little Pacific island nations can defend itself from climate change, much less political change imposed by large countries. So they have to get the best deal for the countries. But sometimes it's just the best deal for the leaders. https://apnews.com/article/biden-business-china-antony-blinken-climate-and-environment-769e80b0ab96de6521ab52deae3cbca4 #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-30 13:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575844058152415232 ========== Federal territories should be incorporated into states or else given independence. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories They are all depopulating - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/23/american-territories-population-loss/ for the same reasons as the rest of rural America- Chinese manufacturing seems to be the biggest problem. #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-28 06:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1575014884030369792 ========== Woke "was used by Black people to describe the Black people so socially conscious that it bordered on parody. Unfortunately, one of us said it in mixed company, and it eventually entered the mainstream as a synonym for political correctness." https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/09/26/damon-young-woke-is-now-dog-whistle-black-whats-next/ #PS1other ===== impress 16 time 2022-09-27 04:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1574621582235820034 ========== There are a lot more Trumpist evangelicals than Trumpist Mormons. The GOP donors have done the math. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/21/oregon-football-obscene-chant-mormon-history/ #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2022-09-25 00:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573832759570669569 ========== "Why do cities across the nation frequently offer wealthy team owners handouts to create or enhance the palaces in which teams show off their skills?" https://www.ocregister.com/2022/07/16/california-is-pro-sports-no-1-money-making-machine/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% expands 1 impress 7 time 2022-09-23 17:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573365714395742208 ========== What's the most important thing to remember about people of the past? Isn't it the good things they did, not the bad things - the occasions when they rose above their times, not the times they did not? https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/opinions/the-woman-king-history-misogyny-burton/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-22 17:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1573002313018769408 ========== Eventually children become too expensive and the population ages. Is that a problem? It is for militarists who like lots of cannon fodder, but for anybody else? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/opinion/population-birthrate-decline.html #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 17% expands 1 impress 6 time 2022-09-15 04:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570264006291783688 ========== Good news and bad news about reverse migration. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/opinion/reverse-great-migration.html #PS1other ===== impress 8 time 2022-09-15 04:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570262520816103425 ========== Yvon Chouinard - from reinventing rock climbing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvon_Chouinard#Yosemite_rock_climber_to_leading_alpinist to reinventing capitalism https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2022/09/14/patagonia-yvon-chouinard-climate-change/ #PS1other ===== impress 8 time 2022-09-15 03:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1570255768703897601 ========== The same struggle between medievalism and Enlightenment that animated America's founders continues within organized religion, most visibly in Roman Catholicism - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/books/review/catholicism-history-john-mcgreevy.html #PS1other ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-14 03:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569890043342520327 ========== Ancient ideas discovered anew at Jena - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opinion/environment/climate-change-nature-friedrich-schelling.html #PS1other ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-14 03:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569886278350675968 ========== Humility is a safer path - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington's_Farewell_Address But hubris is the essential ingredient of Greek tragedy and grand opera. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/10/opinion/rudy-giuliani-9-11-trump.html #PS1other ===== impress 1 time 2022-09-11 23:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569100318864191488 ========== In the starting and ending of wars, the enemy has a vote. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/09/911-21st-anniversary-terrorism-endless-war/ #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-09-11 22:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1569094526517800961 ========== Security is a way of life! https://apnews.com/article/florida-donald-trump-mar-a-lago-congress-government-and-politics-6916af6f47be5ddbe0f30f428736daaf It's diametrically opposed to the way most politicians think and operate, and even more so to the ways of reality-TV stars. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1750610318616813 #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-11 06:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568855913536323587 ========== When did Christianity reverse itself from its roots? When it became a state religion under Constantine - "in hoc signo vinces" - devoted to serving the state rather than the people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/01/michael-gerson-evangelical-christian-maga-democracy/ #PS1other ===== impress 10 time 2022-09-09 05:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1568112578379018241 ========== KKK at West Point? Why? https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/politics/west-point-kkk-plaque/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-01 02:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565159798315708416 ========== Much of the world sees America in decline. Some cheer, some fret. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/29/bucerius-global-leadership-america-democratic-decline/ #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2022-08-30 03:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564456041923747841 ========== Might as well make the best of it! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html because "we are stuck with each other" - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/28/opinion/civil-war-america.html We just forget from time to time and need a reminder. #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-28 23:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1564034929771433984 ========== Lean In all you like - just don't expect magic. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/business/sheryl-sandberg-lean-in.html #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-17 18:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559971319164203008 ========== What happens to old assassins? What should happen? https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/13/john-hinckley-reagan-concert/ #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-15 04:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1559036477748551682 ========== Renaming places for heroes instead of rebellious slaveowners. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/opinion/military-bases-renaming-commission.html Expect the Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP to undo all these if they return to power. #PS1other ===== impress 4 time 2022-08-11 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557586025274191873 ========== Like Trump, Musk might finally be running out of room to hide, even with his billions. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/10/business/nightcap-elon-musk-spacex-cpi-dominos/index.html #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 7% impress 14 time 2022-08-11 02:44 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557558437831053312 ========== Thanks to Vladimir Putin! Every second-rate despot now understands that nuclear weapons capability is a regime insurance policy. https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-iran-dubai-nuclear-d96093efcf1e6b8581138b9db48cbedc #PS1other ===== impress 11 time 2022-08-11 02:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557553415407800320 ========== Anybody want a job with lousy pay and endless hassle from delusional parents? You might be more qualified than you know! https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/08/03/school-teacher-shortage/ The red states won't do anything about teacher pay or working conditions - that would raise taxes or anger voters! #PS1other ===== impress 7 time 2022-08-04 02:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555018648368033792 ========== The throwaway society will eventually exact its due. Because there is no "away" that is not somebody else's "here". https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/02/why-gadgets-die/ #PS1other ===== impress 2 time 2022-08-02 22:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1554600140144447488 ========== Creativity vs decadence - currently a losing battle. Decadence doesn't need a machine algorithm, though it helps. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/opinion/algorithm-innovation-decadence.html Civilizations have endured these dry spells before, until external surprises jolted them back to creative life. #PS1other #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-07-31 16:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553785412308463616 ========== Creativity vs decadence - currently a losing battle. Decadence doesn't need a machine algorithm, though it helps. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/30/opinion/algorithm-innovation-decadence.html Civilizations have endured these dry spells before, until external surprises jolted them back to creative life. #PS1other #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-07-31 16:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1553785412308463616 ========== "the means of change is not the triumph of ideology or the spread of dogma; it is to be close to people with the closeness Jesus had" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/20/mission-which-pope-francis-should-never-retire/ Of course it was easier for Jesus; the devil had not yet invented modern mass media. #PS1other ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-21 14:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539248037494652929 ========== Self-serving opportunists at the top attract self-serving opportunists all the way down. They don't have to be competent, just loyal. Sometimes they turn out to be neither. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/06/05/gaslit-martha-mitchell-baldwin-watergate/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 time 2022-06-06 16:08 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533843236216635392 ========== Epistemology - how do we know what we think we know? We have wikipedia on the side of fact over fantasy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/31/wikipedia-hitler-putin-lavrov/ #PS1other ===== impress 7 time 2022-06-05 01:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533259586110599168 ========== "If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone" That was from Eisenhower's speech if D-Day failed. You wouldn't hear that from any Trumpist today. Any failure is due to Democrats or RINOS. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/06/03/undelivered-speeches-historys-alternate-paths/ #PS1other ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-05 01:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533256826153598977 ========== One certain economic benefit of casinos - lots of dark campaign money for supportive politicians. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/04/nyregion/nyc-casinos-gambling.html #PS1other ===== impress 13 time 2022-06-04 16:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533124107792883712 ========== Trumpism is the same everywhere! https://thequint.com/us-nri-news/google-dalit-rights-activist-thenmozhi-soundararajan-presentation-lecture-anti-hindu-tanuja-gupta-senior-manager-resigns#read-more https://finance.yahoo.com/news/equality-labs-demands-accountability-google-144300506.html https://washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/02/google-caste-equality-labs-tanuja-gupta/ If you grow up saturated with racism, you can no longer see it in yourself or others. All you see is trouble stirred up by outside agitators. #PS1other ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 31 likes 1 retweets 1 time 2022-06-02 21:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532479689339461632 ========== How France enslaved Haiti, then after independence, ripped off the survivors - with plenty of help from America and not a few corrupt members of the Haitian elite. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/americas/haiti-history-colonized-france.html #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 20 time 2022-05-28 03:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530387059906473984 ========== Think different didn't help Apple with homeless. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/23/last-homeless-residents-of-apples-motel-program-move-out/ The only long-term solution for those who can't or won't conform to rules is institutionalization. Which is where many of them came from in the first place. #PS1other ===== impress 3 time 2022-05-25 16:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529506504729980928 ========== "The rich are different from you and me: They are usually surrounded by people who tell them what they want to hear." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/opinion/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-social-media.html As with the emperor's new clothes! #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 14% expands 1 impress 7 time 2022-05-24 03:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528937568972156929 ========== Successful organizations tend to converge on self-protection to protect their success, and thus forget their original motivations. Religious organizations are the worst. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/23/southern-baptist-sexual-abuse-culture-of-misogyny/ #PS1other ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-24 01:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1528913287106088960 ========== Laws don't apply if you're rich enough. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/17/business/elon-musk-rules/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 12 time 2022-05-18 13:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526925270883573760 ========== So much for the mighty Trump wall. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/17/us/california-border-tunnel-cocaine-arrests-intl/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-18 13:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526924388561367040 ========== Most rich people own medium-sized businesses. That's why the tax system rewards them - they are rich enough to afford major political donations. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/opinion/sunday/rich-happiness-big-data.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0CeJVzXqb4QYdcYPbyryAo9ks5Yh9wuRornF7ve2ZRaUTapE3ssWJs9TVXxL2FMrXl #PS1other ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-17 02:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526392496170754048 ========== Neural Networks are reaching their limits in Artificial Intelligence - practical - https://theconversation.com/it-takes-a-lot-of-energy-for-machines-to-learn-heres-why-ai-is-so-power-hungry-151825 theoretical - https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/proving-existence-is-not-enough-mathematical-paradoxes-unravel-the-limits-of-neural-networks-in-artificial-intelligence But for purposes of repression, low-accuracy surveillance might be a feature rather than a bug. #PS1other ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-13 13:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1525111119278272513 ========== On this day remember the original idea of Mother's Day "We, women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country, to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day_Proclamation More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02HG5bNfWhkjjBszuJA3FN9uW6rEPFPV3R8AiJhJ2bLReprhSkhmHi9uteKtZU1Fbnl #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 19 likes 1 time 2022-05-08 18:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1523366856278437888 ========== Big Conn in West Virginia. https://www.ocregister.com/2022/05/03/big-conn-has-a-memorable-villain-but-apple-tv-docuseries-tells-more-complex-story/ There's always money on the table if you can find the right angle to get it. #PS1other ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-06 02:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522405762621870080 ========== Hypersonic missiles - a new saber to rattle. One for which there is no defense yet. They don't even need a warhead. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/04/politics/us-hypersonic-missile-test/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 13 time 2022-05-06 02:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522403048093458432 ========== How many liberal arts ought to figure in an MBA? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/opinion/business-schools-capitalism-mba.html Certainly a law degree - even from Yale or Harvard - doesn't seem to be enough preparation for a career in politics. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02t4ibPqUWNqJcLagjCdEAhEfh9M6cZipf1grv7zJbDsDvXH3eGfYEFSrBXAYZqfXWl #PS1other ===== impress 23 time 2022-05-06 00:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522374171761598464 ========== The British Virgin Islands is a global capital for criminals and tax evaders. Why would their politicians be any different? https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-miami-florida-smuggling-79a95237d39760c9406eb2466d9c9842 #PS1other ===== impress 14 time 2022-05-05 00:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1522003290350784512 ========== "The only winning move is not to play" https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/opinions/nuclear-war-talk-russia-helfand-christ/index.html But that assumes rational leadership, not necessarily what one finds in a secure bunker of a threatened narcissist. #PS1other ===== impress 24 time 2022-05-04 05:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1521723782305488896 ========== Another global cost of the Ukraine war - re-investing in strategic weapons for deterrence against ambitious dictators. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/28/russia-ukraine-nuclear-pentagon-budget/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 61 time 2022-04-29 01:07 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519845896627757056 ========== New Boeing management hopes to avoid Trump-era mistakes. https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/27/politics/air-force-one-boeing-trump/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 54 time 2022-04-28 05:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1519544658082160640 ========== The fast-cash criminal element has noticed that pot shops are easier than liquor stores. https://apnews.com/article/business-marijuana-seattle-washington-patty-murray-b86b1105f64faea8a3d4a33736f91100 So far the US Senate has rejected all efforts to allow legal pot shops to use conventional banking - including credit cards. #PS1other ===== impress 508 time 2022-04-22 02:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1517322686787055616 ========== Not all heroic defenses end in immediate victory. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/10/horrific-bataan-death-march-commemorated-on-its-80th-anniversary/ But the Bataan defenders gave time for the Allies to regroup eventually go on the offensive. It seems likely that Ukraine's main trial is about to begin. #PS1other ===== impress 43 time 2022-04-11 00:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1513315211712684033 ========== Know about the San Patricios? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick's_Battalion Now you can read a historical novel - https://www.ocregister.com/2022/03/16/novelist-reyna-grande-was-never-going-to-write-about-war-until-she-did/ #PS1other ===== impress 29 time 2022-04-08 01:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512241815830732808 ========== Why bother with formalities - just pretend! Fake it til you make it! https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/07/politics/federal-officer-impersonation-case-weapons-seized/index.html What they were trying to make is not yet revealed. #PS1other ===== impress 27 time 2022-04-08 00:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512221932908781569 ========== What happens when the unthinkable becomes thinkable? https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-nato-europe-6d1e374e77504838ba9ca78dd8bce46c Putin's invasion of Ukraine has already convinced other leaders that they are safer with nukes than without. True - until somebody becomes desperate or makes a mistake. #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 58 likes 1 time 2022-04-03 03:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510464005998985217 ========== The smarter you are, the easier it is to fool yourself. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/28/ginni-thomas-republicans-psychology-conspiracy-theories/ #PS1other ===== impress 32 time 2022-04-02 02:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510074753586925568 ========== Life under the USSR. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/interactive/2022/soviet-photographs-arthur-grace/ No wonder Eastern Europeans are so supportive of Ukraine. #PS1other ===== impress 44 time 2022-04-02 01:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1510059437687394306 ========== 1619 was a foundational year for Virginia - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/virginia.html because the political, economic, and demographic foundations of Virginia's wealth were established - politicians, slaves, and women So 1619 was foundational for America. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/1619/ #PS1other ===== impress 22 time 2022-03-23 18:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1506703123057811458 ========== The Senate can act, if nobody's paying attention! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/18/senate-daylight-saving-time-vote-accident/ #PS1other ===== impress 32 time 2022-03-19 00:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504981204545662976 ========== The important thing is to quit changing clocks. The world runs on UT! It doesn't matter whether California chooses "standard" time - UT-8, or "daylight" time - UT-7. Any business that doesn't like the choice can change its operating hours seasonally. #PS1other ===== impress 31 time 2022-03-17 00:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504257195860381698 ========== Reactionaries boldly embrace an imaginary past. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/leonard-pitts-jr-conservatives-about-to-lose-the-21st-century/ar-AAUZDD1 #PS1other ===== impress 30 time 2022-03-16 13:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504092188757528578 ========== A plausible theory about why more risky drivers - the sensible drivers stay home, so the risky ones are more noticeable. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/10/pandemic-risky-driving-maybe-here-to-stay/ #PS1other ===== impress 78 time 2022-03-11 03:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1502131516310102021 ========== We don't need to worry about climate change after all? https://theamericanscholar.org/2022-a-space-emergency/ When anybody and everybody can put weapons of mass destruction in space, nobody is safe, including global civilization. Putin shows that nuclear delusional dictators are still in style. #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 32 likes 1 time 2022-03-08 14:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1501200454042066946 ========== Putin reminds us that America still needs a huge defense budget - spent on the right things to meet the challenges of the future. As the world shrinks, enemies draw closer. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/03/why-ukraine-should-force-a-total-overhaul-of-our-national-security-strategy/ #PS1other ===== impress 37 time 2022-03-06 17:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1500527872280186880 ========== Does anybody care about the Geneva conventions any more? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/03/telegram-russian-war-dead-ukraine-pows/ #PS1other ===== impress 20 time 2022-03-03 14:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1499391700451479556 ========== Life in Russia differs little from life in the USSR - the menace is always implicit - until it hits you explicitly, like a shot in the back or poison in your tea. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/opinion/russia-putin-nemtsov.html #PS1other ===== impress 22 time 2022-03-03 02:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1499210459601248261 ========== Crypto is just hot air. A few people win big, paid for by many who lose less. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/07/technology/cryptocurrency-luna-solana-polygon.html #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 33 time 2022-02-17 04:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1494168377983528963 ========== Unpleasant demographic change coming if we don't do more to reduce the cost of children. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/02/09/happy-valentines-day-no-go-make-babies-california/ #PS1other ===== impress 28 time 2022-02-17 04:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1494166024479903744 ========== How pro sports rip off underlawyered public agencies. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/02/13/how-the-raiders-made-189-million-in-taxpayer-money-vanish/ #PS1other ===== impress 25 time 2022-02-17 03:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1494149021601988609 ========== What happens when nobody has even heard of the great books of the western world, much less read any of them? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/11/super-bowl-olympics-common-culture-collapsing/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 63 likes 1 time 2022-02-16 05:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1493814397491286019 ========== How wealthy white GOP donors have subverted parental concern about school effectiveness during covid into restrictions on teaching about race and gender. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/15/politics/schools-covid-politics/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 38 time 2022-02-16 05:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1493812757149351941 ========== An Irish diplomat appreciates Leopold Bloom on his centennial. https://washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/02/01/ulysses-james-joyce-100th-irish-ambassador/ #PS1other ===== impress 22 time 2022-02-10 00:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1491575096527372290 ========== The worse news is that Austin is the best place to be in Texas. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/07/us/austin-boil-water.html But houses cost less! #PS1other ===== impress 60 time 2022-02-08 20:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1491151275970695168 ========== "the lowest paying states -- offering an average salary of less than $50,000 -- include Florida, Mississippi and South Dakota" GOP major donors have private schools so must not care much about public education - their legislators don't. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/05/us/teacher-prep-student-shortages-covid-crisis/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 62 time 2022-02-06 07:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1490227031165997057 ========== Overpaid executives keep running into roadblocks in Palo Alto. If they moved to Austin, they'd have no problem. Except Texas politicians. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/02/05/8931393/ #PS1other ===== impress 59 time 2022-02-06 07:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1490220101408210951 ========== "Trump is the embodiment of the wounds that already existed in the white evangelical world: misogyny, racism, celebrity worship, resentment and the willingness to sacrifice principle for power." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/opinion/evangelicalism-division-renewal.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1594810370863476 #PS1other ===== impress 52 time 2022-02-05 04:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489821577411584004 ========== W.E.B. Du Bois saw it all coming in 1935. The foes of CRT - and any accurate history - don't care about accuracy or history, only about preserving minority rule, by keeping the masses divided. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/opinion/crt-backlash-du-bois.html #PS1other ===== impress 44 time 2022-02-05 04:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489816546172018696 ========== New names for old bases - honoring patriots rather than traitors for the cause of slavery. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/18/what-rename-army-bases-that-honor-confederate-soldiers/ #PS1other ===== impress 48 time 2022-02-05 03:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489803372278403075 ========== Excerpts from the official Virginia 7th-grade history book from 1957. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/01/racist-virginia-textbooks-history-youngkin/ That text is now a rare book with copies in a few university libraries. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1594720597539120 #PS1other ===== impress 58 time 2022-02-05 01:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489772973783347201 ========== History of mass movements has at least two parts - the statistics of how many were involved and when and how, and the individual stories of how particular persons were affected. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/28/opinion/slavery-voyages-data-sets.html You can't get the whole picture without both. #PS1other ===== impress 27 time 2022-01-30 17:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1487842897919569921 ========== Reproductive rights will likely be a major issue in 2022 and 2024 elections, energizing both sides. https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-health-elections-presidential-elections-election-2020-4191f4c12620b035bcdc966b6e335cc7 Since rich people can always afford to travel wherever they need to go, it's mainly a question of reproductive rights for poor women. #PS1other ===== impress 44 time 2022-01-25 05:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1485849712217362432 ========== An unreliable census. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-business-georgia-census-2020-3fc3ef87b47cbe81cb15a19469841387 #PS1other ===== impress 54 time 2022-01-23 07:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1485151605833945089 ========== Ponzi died but Ponzi schemes never die. https://apnews.com/article/cryptocurrency-technology-business-brazil-bitcoin-2dc801e5e3aa477ce7983d84dc8a64bb If it sounds too good to be true, it is. Why would anybody offer such a good investment to a stranger? #PS1other ===== impress 53 time 2022-01-23 07:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1485148461339013123 ========== Caste now a protected category at CSU. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/cal-state-schools-add-caste-anti-discrimination-policy-rcna12602 Some new immigrants can't leave old prejudices behind in the old country. #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 96 time 2022-01-21 22:28 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484654266694258691 ========== The red (and sometimes blue) wave of inexperienced school board members - many accepted campaign funds from national reactionary donors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/01/19/parents-school-boards-recall-takeover/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1584718365206010 #PS1other ===== impress 51 time 2022-01-21 05:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484401505952100353 ========== Texas GOP don't want to talk about the real reasons for the Alamo - https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/146405 But Confederate Heroes Day only dates back to 1973. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/20/confederate-heroes-day-texas-should-not-celebrate/ Other slave states still observe Confederate Memorial Day. #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 59 likes 1 time 2022-01-21 05:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1484397824473059330 ========== It takes a while to gain historical perspective to understand whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/17/politics/mlk-polling-analysis/index.html #PS1other ===== impress 37 time 2022-01-17 13:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1483065629791834123 ========== No legislator has a problem with deficit spending on defense, as long as it goes to donors in his district! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/opinion/military-budget-build-back-better.html #PS1other ===== impress 32 time 2022-01-17 05:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1482946185589444608 ========== "King earned this holiday not by being bland but by being bold" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/16/dr-king-was-bold-dont-make-him-bland/ Every significant historical figure gets re-interpreted by the current establishment to fit their norms. #PS1other ===== impress 32 time 2022-01-17 03:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1482910948675375104 ========== Civility is possible if people exercise their free will to choose. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-united-states-f4969f8239eeb961bd513f42b6a7d590 But don't expect any help from the fantasy-and-fear-and-division media. There are no ratings and no money in civility. And no strategic advantage for foreign adversaries. #PS1other ===== impress 28 time 2022-01-03 00:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1477795776965214208