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lorenfogel.bsky.social
@lorenfogel.bsky.social
Learning. Interests incl: Disarmament, Peace, Art, Culture, News, History, Psychology, Healing, Human Rights, Nonviolence, World Affairs, Defense & Mil Policy
Trump ordered these strikes, announced them on Social with the video and a warning: “Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the USA. BEWARE!”

“Hegseth vs Bradley” ignores the bigger picture: Trump is killing ppl for audiences/reputation/“credibility.”
December 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Jonathan Schell in The Time of Illusion, on “Credibility”(1975): www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
December 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I think it's far worse than this.

“At the direction of President Trump,” they murdered these people to send the message that the President has the license and will to kill.

Trump not only ordered these murders, but wanted the message/imagery to be amplified by DoD and global media.

Hegseth: 👇
November 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I think Trump wants to keep “the enemy” vague and amorphous - “terrorist,” “illegal alien,” “war zone,” “antifa,” “poisoning our people,” etc. - b/c this is about expansion & exhibition of power, and not any person, group, boat, or contents.

He’s picking boats and cities for flex & cruelty theater.
October 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As I see it, “lore” is the key term of not only this event, but of his presidency.

All of his political and cultural powers, claims of Article II authority/“emergencies,” are based on myths, illusions, narratives, branding.

“Us” and “Them.”

Trump: I’m a very aesthetic person.
September 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
“Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" by Bob Dylan (Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY - October 1963): youtu.be/U5Xn9YOKPcQ?...
September 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Robert Jay Lifton on the “grand illusion” of Star Wars: “Images of Nuclear War and Human Destruction: Psychological Perspectives” (1987):

mje.mcgill.ca/article/view... .
September 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Robert Jay Lifton on the “grand illusion” of Star Wars: “Images of Nuclear War and Human Destruction: Psychological Perspectives” (1987): mje.mcgill.ca/article/view...
August 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Albert Einstein debunking “missile defense” in The New York Times, June 23, 1946: “The Real Problem Is in the Hearts of Men” www.nytimes.com/1946/06/23/a... .
May 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM