Always great to hear from you my friend! I hope you're doing well in the new year! 😊⚡

Godspeed simians (and goat)! You're the heroes we need right now.

P.S. - it's a bit surreal to write the alt image tag, "4 monkeys and a goat taking a selfie at the St. Louis arch." 🤣😂

3/The last thing anyone needed was a guy who knew where the bodies were buried - metaphorically and literally - spilling his guts and potentially derailing their democracy-wrecking party b4 it got going. Who'd guess sex trafficking was cover for the REAL story, lurking in plain site.

2/Epstein was deeply embedded into the government and big tech right up until his arrest in 2019 - sfstandard.com/2025/11/23/e.... Dollars to donuts, it was THIS that got him killed. Child sex trafficking is table stakes to these guys, but Epstein could have messed with their money.

6/And finally, this week we had the Trump administration trying to call Renee Good's murder a domestic terror event. It most definitely WAS that, but we all know it wasn't Renee Good who was doing the terrorizing. The time to stand up and speak out is here folks.

5/Antiwar org Code Pink (www.codepink.org) was called a terrorist org by Palantir's Mike Gallagher - www.reddit.com/r/Global_New.... Say what you want about Code Pink, but domestic terrorists? C'mon. If you're my age you remember the surveilled libraries and religious groups of the Iraq era.

4/So what can we do about it? We go old school on their asses. Meet in person, create newspapers and books on printing presses, write letters. Think I'm kidding? The Soviet Union b4 it collapsed produced spy info on typewriters so it couldn't be intercepted. Which brings me to my last point.

3/AI enables government and private enterprise to analyze and extract meaning and relationships from huge unconnected datasets. Guys, they've been storing every call, text, and email for *25 years* in preparation for this tech. Their systems have capabilities to watch us that we can barely imagine.

2/If you haven't heard of Palantir, don't worry - they've heard of you. They power the most insidious, evil intersections of technology and government power. Every evil thing you can imagine using AI for? On the drawing board. Meanwhile, Flock Safety builds drones for your local police department.

2/I can't afford the string section, of course. Hell, I'd be lucky enough to find a couple other old guys interested enough to show up for practice. Boy, wouldn't it be fun to make people dance again though... 🤔

That is fscking awesome 😎

No argument from me!

3/A close friend introduced me to them in high school - when this album was still new - and they've been part of my acoustic sets (and sense of humor) ever since. Since we in the US have such an issue with REMEMBERING, make 2026 the year we rediscover, well, everything. The answers are all there...

2/They're still around, and the new stuff is ok, but imho 1991's "Lizard Vision" album is their best. My favorite tune? "Just a Friend", followed closely by "Coors Beer", which could EASILY be about 2026: "...if only what I read in my paper were true, I know that it's bullshit but what can I do..."

2/It's a Catch-22. I'd love to see BlueSky be a dominant platform, but I do NOT want it to turn into Xitter. Granted, you can never see all the corners of an app with millions of users, but my little corner and the folks I interact with is the coolest place on the net.

1/Yeah, Ted kinda gave up on BlueSky. He's written articles about the potential of the platform, but he's not wrong in concluding that things have stagnated a bit here. I love BlueSky and the folks here and I don't know how to push it further into the consciousness - or even if we *want* to.

5/The candidates are out there (Lucas Kunce in MO in '24) and there will be more this time. We the people have the power in our hands. If Congress won't pass term limits, let's just force them out after a couple of terms.
"We gotta take the power back" - Chuck D., Public Enemy