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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 9h

“The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse.
Colson Whitehead, “The Underground Railroad”

Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 9h

The elections Tuesday gave us a dawning. It’s up to us to make sure the sun rises on better days.

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Guy Clark - "Better Days" [Live from Austin, TX]

YouTube video by Live From Austin TX

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 9h

Good morning!

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 1d

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning, Silvia!

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, America, for showing we haven’t destroyed ourselves within. Hold on.

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Nellie Clay Oh America

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 1d

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.”
Will Durant, “The Story of Philosophy”

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning!

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 2d

It’s heartbreaking how far they have fallen in their kowtowing to the felon in chief. They were journalists you could trust - Murrow, Cronkite, Rather, the old 60 minutes crew - but no more. So sad.
Good morning, Kimm!

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 2d

And it's only gotten worse with time...

"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."
Walter Cronkite, interview with Ron Powers, Chucago Sun-Times, 1973

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 2d

Happy birthday, Silvia!

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning, Silvia!

Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 2d

“If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.”
Will Rogers, “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning!

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 2d

Evenin’, Kimm!

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 3d

“The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.”
Andre Malraux, “Anti-Memoirs”

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning!

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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 4d

So long as there are Confederate flags and Nazi flags and Nazi salutes and Jew haters and white supremacists walk proudly among us, we are a fallen country. We need to save ourselves from this horror before it’s too late.
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MAGA extremism has shown its Nazi colors

Enough is never enough.

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 4d

“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.”
Jsmes Thurber, “The Owl who was God", The New Yorker, April 29, 1939, “Fables for Our Time”

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning, Silvia!

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning!

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Lucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 6d

They’re shooting boats out of the waters off the coast of South and Central America. How long before someone walking down an American street carrying a sign with an “almost treasonous” criticism of Donald Trump is shot without warning?
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No defendants, no evidence, no lawyers, no courts, no judges, just dead people in the water

Trump’s rocket strikes on alleged drug boats in the Western Caribbean and Eastern Pacific are his dream of what law enforcement should be.

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 5d

“Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.”
Kinky Friedman, “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”

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Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 5d

Good afternoon, Kimm. Thank you, we’re about as well as could be expected. I hope you and David are too. Kris is the obsessed holiday decorator here. As far as the consumer aspect goes, I like giving, especially little things that bring a smile. The rest doesn’t matter.

Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 5d

Good morning!

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