The White House Press Secretary's annual salary is $180,000 USD. This salary is the maximum allowed for any White House aide. Is it enough for you to be the White House Press Secretary?

• When visiting Robert Graves, comedian Terry-Thomas felt that perhaps he had offended the famous poet with his sense of over-confidence because instead of having an intellectual discussion about Greek mythology, all Mr. Graves talked to him about was compost, frequently sticking a fork into various maturing piles and making Terry-Thomas smell them.

• Anne Beatts, a writer for Saturday Night Live, used to keep a hospital bed in her office at Rockefeller Center. She used it for writing (her typewriter sat where the food tray would normally sit), instead of a desk and chair.

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Saving a Housemaid from Embarrassment
The son of R. Hayyim of Zans, R. Baruch, was the Rabbi of Gorlitz. One day, a young housemaid came to his house and asked him what she should prepare for the evening meal of the people she worked for. Of course, this is the kind of question that a Rabbi is not usually asked to answer, but R. Baruch answered the question, telling the housemaid exactly what to prepare for the evening meal. The housemaid thanked him, left, and then prepared the evening meal that the Rabbi had told her to prepare. The companions of the Rabbi were surprised both at the question of the housemaid and at the Rabbi for answering the question, so R. Baruch explained what must have happened. The housemaid had asked the woman of the house what to prepare for the evening meal, and the woman of the house, annoyed at the question or the housemaid for some reason or other, had flippantly answered, “Go ask the Rabbi.” The housemaid, who was young and naïve, had done just that. Rather than laughing at the housemaid, which would have embarrassed her, R. Baruch had answered her question.

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• In October of 1943, the Nazis were preparing to deport all Jews from the country of Denmark. H. Fuglsand-Damgaard, the Lutheran bishop of Copenhagen, urged all Danes to resist the Nazi effort, saying, “We must obey God before we obey man.” Thousands of lay people agreed, and the Danes used their fishing boats to help 7,720 Jews escape to Sweden. A total of 464 Danish Jews did not escape and were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, but the Danish government kept up pressure on their behalf and only 51 died before the war ended—a small number and percentage in comparison with the deaths of other groups of Jews in the concentration camps.
Source: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Wisdom: Ethical, Spiritual, and Historical Lessons from the Great Works and Thinkers (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1994), p. 537.

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

“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

NO KINGS: ON JUNE 14TH, WE RISE UP
https://www.nokings.org

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 actual 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

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.

NON-LEGACY MEDIA

Brian Tyler Cohen

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

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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