Norm Clark
@normsmusic.bsky.social
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Bay Area CA. Politics Political Satire Science Cosmology Physics Philosophy
Art History Psychology Paleoanthropology Genealogy Linguistics Ethics Music https://normsmusic.substack.com
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The Enemy Abroad. How Media's Laser Focus on Maduro Blinds Us to Trump's Homegrown Autocracy
Media’s obsession with foreign dictators lets domestic authoritarianism slip past the front page—until it’s too late.
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Western media spotlights Maduro’s repression as proof of foreign villainy—while downplaying a parallel autocratic drift at home. This essay argues selective outrage isn’t just bias; it’s a structural blind spot that protects power, and lets hypocrisy do the governing.
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Western media spotlights Maduro’s repression as proof of foreign villainy—while downplaying a parallel autocratic drift at home. This essay argues selective outrage isn’t just bias; it’s a structural blind spot that protects power, and lets hypocrisy do the governing.
substack.com/@normsmusic/...
substack.com/@normsmusic/...
The Enemy Abroad. How Media's Laser Focus on Maduro Blinds Us to Trump's Homegrown Autocracy
Media’s obsession with foreign dictators lets domestic authoritarianism slip past the front page—until it’s too late.
substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Western media spotlights Maduro’s repression as proof of foreign villainy—while downplaying a parallel autocratic drift at home. This essay argues selective outrage isn’t just bias; it’s a structural blind spot that protects power, and lets hypocrisy do the governing.
substack.com/@normsmusic/...
substack.com/@normsmusic/...
What do you mean, "the zoo has come to town," and I don't know my hole from a donut on the wall?
December 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
What do you mean, "the zoo has come to town," and I don't know my hole from a donut on the wall?
I'll Follow The Sun (The Beatles) // cover by Zarcon Trio youtu.be/1cLA3hONtT0?... via @YouTube
I'll Follow The Sun (The Beatles) // cover by Zarcon Trio
YouTube video by J.P. Feldmeyer
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December 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I'll Follow The Sun (The Beatles) // cover by Zarcon Trio youtu.be/1cLA3hONtT0?... via @YouTube
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December 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Just snorted my coffee.
December 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Just snorted my coffee.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
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December 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
"The accident is just a door I haven't walked inside before."
Besides her stunning graphics, her lyrics and songs are maturing. Kelly Eldridge Boesch
I made the first set of these images almost by accident. I was trying for something completely different
Besides her stunning graphics, her lyrics and songs are maturing. Kelly Eldridge Boesch
I made the first set of these images almost by accident. I was trying for something completely different
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"The accident is just a door I haven't walked inside before."
Besides her stunning graphics, her lyrics and songs are maturing. Kelly Eldridge Boesch
I made the first set of these images almost by accident. I was trying for something completely different
Besides her stunning graphics, her lyrics and songs are maturing. Kelly Eldridge Boesch
I made the first set of these images almost by accident. I was trying for something completely different
5 captivating images from National Geographic’s Pictures of the Year
‘Individually, these photographs speak to beauty, fragility, and wonder.’
www.popsci.com/environment/...
‘Individually, these photographs speak to beauty, fragility, and wonder.’
www.popsci.com/environment/...
5 captivating images from National Geographic’s Pictures of the Year
‘Individually, these photographs speak to beauty, fragility, and wonder.’
www.popsci.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:26 PM
5 captivating images from National Geographic’s Pictures of the Year
‘Individually, these photographs speak to beauty, fragility, and wonder.’
www.popsci.com/environment/...
‘Individually, these photographs speak to beauty, fragility, and wonder.’
www.popsci.com/environment/...
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As the rich get increasingly more wealthy, conversely, they enthusiastically become less empathetic and less humane. In fact, Elon Musk, who sits at the top of this cash-bloated scourge of ultra-wealthy, has bragged that he thinks empathy is a weakness.
December 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
As the rich get increasingly more wealthy, conversely, they enthusiastically become less empathetic and less humane. In fact, Elon Musk, who sits at the top of this cash-bloated scourge of ultra-wealthy, has bragged that he thinks empathy is a weakness.
I guess the solace for some of us who are not super rich is that, in the end, wealth does not rob us of being more fully actualized in our humanity. Not for any afterlife belief, but for the innate desire to do what’s right with the gift of this life.
If only his diminishing faculties were no more than a series of harmless gaffs. However, the extra time granted by Leqembi could be time that Trump will use to further his chaotic agenda.
“What gaineth a man to take Leqembí, if the extra months it grants merely give him time to make a bigger fool of himself on the world stage?” He is still going to die with Alzheimer's, like Fred
December 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I guess the solace for some of us who are not super rich is that, in the end, wealth does not rob us of being more fully actualized in our humanity. Not for any afterlife belief, but for the innate desire to do what’s right with the gift of this life.
I enjoy your balanced responses
If only his diminishing faculties were no more than a series of harmless gaffs. However, the extra time granted by Leqembi could be time that Trump will use to further his chaotic agenda.
“What gaineth a man to take Leqembí, if the extra months it grants merely give him time to make a bigger fool of himself on the world stage?” He is still going to die with Alzheimer's, like Fred
December 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I enjoy your balanced responses
“What gaineth a man to take Leqembí, if the extra months it grants merely give him time to make a bigger fool of himself on the world stage?” He is still going to die with Alzheimer's, like Fred
December 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“What gaineth a man to take Leqembí, if the extra months it grants merely give him time to make a bigger fool of himself on the world stage?” He is still going to die with Alzheimer's, like Fred
Morning Joe was the best it’s been in a year—because Joe wasn’t there. Mika carried the show alone. Troubling that the country-lawyer bumpkin of a former congressman seems there only to make his wife look like the bumpkin.
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Morning Joe was the best it’s been in a year—because Joe wasn’t there. Mika carried the show alone. Troubling that the country-lawyer bumpkin of a former congressman seems there only to make his wife look like the bumpkin.
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And I'm still awake so let me get this in before I nod off.
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
And I'm still awake so let me get this in before I nod off.
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A conscientious Grand Jury agrees: charges for her were bogus all the way.
December 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
A conscientious Grand Jury agrees: charges for her were bogus all the way.
Billy Angelo Stella
Trust me, when you’re 70-80 years old, you’re going to either regret that you didn’t or be grateful that you did do everything in your power to nourish your brain when you were in your younger years of life.
Trust me, when you’re 70-80 years old, you’re going to either regret that you didn’t or be grateful that you did do everything in your power to nourish your brain when you were in your younger years of life.
December 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Billy Angelo Stella
Trust me, when you’re 70-80 years old, you’re going to either regret that you didn’t or be grateful that you did do everything in your power to nourish your brain when you were in your younger years of life.
Trust me, when you’re 70-80 years old, you’re going to either regret that you didn’t or be grateful that you did do everything in your power to nourish your brain when you were in your younger years of life.
As every app bolts on its own half-baked AI, I look at why only a few tools still earn my trust—and how truth, uncertainty, and honest intellectual combat shape my exchanges with Grok. A dialogue about noise, psychological sovereignty, and staying sharp.”
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When Every App Wants to Be an AI: A Conversation About Noise, Truth, & the Tools That Still Matter
Why I trust Grok and ChatGPT more than a swarm of bolt-on “AI assistants,” and what it means to pursue truth—70% at a time.
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
As every app bolts on its own half-baked AI, I look at why only a few tools still earn my trust—and how truth, uncertainty, and honest intellectual combat shape my exchanges with Grok. A dialogue about noise, psychological sovereignty, and staying sharp.”
open.substack.com/pub/normsmus...
open.substack.com/pub/normsmus...
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I bet trump won’t give him a pardon.
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I bet trump won’t give him a pardon.
the best
Kelly Boesch is amazing. Please credit the artist: kelly_boesch_ai_art.
December 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
the best