This is exactly what MAGA voted for

I wouldn't call 60 percent purity "just below the 90 percent that is usually used in nuclear weapons," but the point about Trump's use of threats is, I believe, exactly right.

This is the source of the above quote: https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-military/2025/06/23/ice-detains-marine-corps-veterans-wife-at-green-card-meeting/

• Harold Ross received a letter from a writer who used very fancy stationery that included not only his name and address, but also quotations from critics. Before answering the letter, Mr. Ross had his own fancy stationery created which included this quotation by critic Franklin Pierce Adams: “Among those present was Harold Ross.” 

• R.L. Stine, author of the Goosebumps and Fear Street series, receives many letters from his young fans. One of his favorite letters says, “Dear R.L. Stine, I’ve read forty of your books — and I think they’re really boring!”

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Declining to Escape
African-American Ned Huddleston, a Wild West outlaw, had a good side. Deputy Sheriff Joseph Philbrick of Wyoming surprised and arrested him but ran into trouble while trying to take him into town. His horse bolted, throwing Mr. Philbrick to the ground, then his horse knocked down an incline the buckboard carriage on which Mr. Philbrick and Mr. Huddleston were riding. Rather than escaping, Mr. Huddleston calmed the horse, righted the buckboard carriage, and drove the unconscious Mr. Philbrick into Rock Springs, Wyoming, where he turned himself in at the jail. At the trial, Mr. Philbrick testified as a character witness about the care that Mr. Huddleston had taken of him, and the jury found Mr. Huddleston innocent. 

Running a Soup Kitchen
During the Great Depression, soup kitchens sprang up everywhere to feed hungry people. Not all the soup kitchens were run by organized charities; some were run by private individuals. In Chicago, gangster Al Capone ran one of the biggest soup kitchens. 

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The Shortest and Easiest Way to Serve God
A seeker after truth once asked a wise person how to seek God. The wise person replied, “The ways to God are as many as there are created beings. But the shortest and easiest is to serve others, not to bother others, and to make others happy.”

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• During World War II, Gertrude Babilinska helped save the life of a Jewish boy named Mickey in Poland during the Holocaust. His parents had died, and she had promised them that she would take care of him. During the war, Mickey became ill, and Ms. Babilinska was forced to take him to a German doctor. After the doctor had treated Mickey, she tried to pay him, but he refused payment, saying, “No, you have helped feel like a man.” Because of this, she realized that he knew that Mickey was Jewish. After the war, Ms. Babilinska took Michael to Israel so she could fulfill her promise to his parents to raise him as a Jew.
Source: Gay Block and Malka Drucker, Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust, pp. 166, 168.
Block, Gay, and Malka Drucker. Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust. New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, Inc., 1992.

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Democracy Docket: “Democrats Kill Anti-Democracy Part of GOP Budget Bill”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJYCEQMa5fo

Brian Tyler Cohen: “Trump issues UNHINGED announcement”
Marc Elias discusses Trump's investigation into Biden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThRAViJzmf4

LegalEagle: “Prosecution of Congresswoman Is A Joke”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeWHyGbx7Xc

Garrett Graff: ICE believes it will never face accountability again
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-believes-it-will-never-face-accountability-again?_bhlid=521d9058ec1fbbe42d08f6333997eeb331ce9146&utm_campaign=ice-believes-it-will-never-face-accountability-again

The Intellectualist: Dial 988, Get Silence: The Quiet Removal of LGBTQ Crisis Support (YouTube 2:03)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAlFQBNU9lc

THE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL (SPOILER: IT IS NOT BEAUTIFUL) (90 seconds)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJpg1I5yPca/?igsh=X2tvMU5rR29I

NON-VIOLENT PROTESTS WORK! (90 seconds)
It will take time and more effort, but we will prevail.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1273458134112664

CONTENT CONTROLS
“Content Controls will allow you to see fewer posts from certain topics or tags while you browse Imgur.”
https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/26509094934171-Content-Controls

HOW DO I MUTE OR BLOCK AN IMGUR USER?
https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/26508943104667-How-do-I-mute-or-block-a-user#

HOW TO TAG YOUR POSTS
Tags will help some people find your posts and other people avoid your posts.
https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/26511767487771-How-to-Tag

CHECK TO SEE IF A SITE IS SAFE
“Google’s Safe Browsing technology examines billions of URLs per day looking for unsafe websites. Every day, we discover thousands of new unsafe sites, many of which are legitimate websites that have been compromised. When we detect unsafe sites, we show warnings on Google Search and in web browsers. You can search to see whether a website is currently dangerous to visit.”
https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search
NOTE: Google keeps track of everything you search, including when you search on this site. Despite that, I use this site.

SNOPES (Fact Checker)
https://www.snopes.com

LIST OF FACT-CHECKING WEBSITES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fact-checking_websites

NON-LEGACY MEDIA

Brian Tyler Cohen

https://www.youtube.com/@briantylercohen

https://bsky.app/profile/briantylercohen.bsky.social

Glenn Kerschner

https://www.youtube.com/@GlennKirschner2

https://bsky.app/profile/glennkirschner.bsky.social

Marc Elias

https://www.youtube.com/c/DemocracyDocket

https://bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social

https://www.democracydocket.com

Paul Krugman Substack
https://paulkrugman.substack.com

Timothy Synder Substack
https://snyder.substack.com

Robert Reich Substack
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/where-the-hell-is-the-moderate-middle

Garrison Keillor Substack
https://garrisonkeillor.substack.com/p/a-few-last-words-about-the-maga-man

Andrew Tobias
https://andrewtobias.com

Letters from an American: Heather Cox Richardson Substack
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
https://joycevance.substack.com

Gov Brief Today
https://govbrief.today

PROGRESS ACTION FUND
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJy-6_Zq04smZ3iUbQntrPg

HARVARD GOVERNMENT COURSES
https://pll.harvard.edu/subject/government

LEGAL EAGLE
https://www.youtube.com/@LegalEagle

ABOVE THE LAW
https://abovethelaw.com/category/biglaw/

“Staying Safe While Protesting & Organizing” (PDF)
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6547d46ce0be13435001c0ad/t/68027264c50ab52ca94d5a89/1744990820280/Staying+Safe+While+Protesting.pdf

50 PROTESTS. 50 STATES. 1 MOVEMENT
https://www.fiftyfifty.one

INDIVISIBLE
https://indivisible.org

MOBILIZE
https://www.mobilize.us

RESISTBOT is a chatbot that turns your texts into faxes, postal mail, or emails to your representatives in minutes.
https://resist.bot

KICK OUT THE CLOWNS: Women’s March
https://action.womensmarch.com/calendars/kick-out-the-clowns?akid=22525.3568445.fS0dJz&filter%5Blocation%5D=10023&page=1&rd=1&t=2

MoveOn
https://front.moveon.org

In a MAGA society filled with acts of performative cruelty, which are often preceded/followed by prayers, it is a victory to be kind.

In a MAGA society filled with incompetent leaders, it is a victory to avoid despair and alcoholism and drug abuse.

In a MAGA society filled with acts of performative and/or other stupidity, it is a victory to be well-read and well-educated.

In a MAGA society filled with badly lived lives, it is a victory to live a well-lived life.

THE INTELLECTUALIST NEWS FEED
https://theintellectualist.com