| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| Watch Night - there's more to New Year's Eve than you | 2021-12-31 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1476760356273811461 | 1476760356273811461 |
| The year in review - 41 interesting essays. The last | 2021-12-27 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1475335877400223744 | 1475335877400223744 |
| Good News year in review | 2021-12-26 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475124367809863687 | 1475124367809863687 |
| Fact Checker year in review | 2021-12-26 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475123458900037632 | 1475123458900037632 |
| The moment we've all been waiting for! | 2021-12-26 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475112617844764673 | 1475112617844764673 |
| You're never too old to learn. | 2021-12-25 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474884507979304965 | 1474884507979304965 |
| Greed - it's biblical! | 2021-12-25 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1474774894260850692 | 1474774894260850692 |
| When Christmas really meant something - | 2021-12-25 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474751525217980417 | 1474751525217980417 |
| Real American masculinity - acknowledging a msitake and | 2021-12-24 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474492809365180416 | 1474492809365180416 |
| Pope speaks to cardinals - the same speech would work | 2021-12-24 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1474187413182320653 | 1474187413182320653 |
| Public transit - another victim of covid and (likely) | 2021-12-21 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1473376306398068736 | 1473376306398068736 |
| In hoc signo vinces! | 2021-12-19 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1472668668014174208 | 1472668668014174208 |
| Hitler, Stalin, Krushchev, and Ayatollah Kohmeini were | 2021-12-15 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470974023915880451 | 1470974023915880451 |
| Reading comprehension - readers need a foundation on which | 2021-12-15 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1470970276779155462 | 1470970276779155462 |
| The art of losing | 2021-12-14 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470783671170912270 | 1470783671170912270 |
| Notable quotes | 2021-12-14 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470770014210994189 | 1470770014210994189 |
| "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most | 2021-12-12 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470128303105183744 | 1470128303105183744 |
| GenZ's need to watch Life of Brian again. | 2021-12-11 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1469647462637793281 | 1469647462637793281 |
| Most school districts have a long list of critical issues | 2021-12-03 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466631937905213443 | 1466631937905213443 |
| Hertz customers still seem to be recovering from Hertz | 2021-12-03 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466617968410783750 | 1466617968410783750 |
| Wonder what he did? Wonder who's been paying for it, | 2021-12-03 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466610104829022210 | 1466610104829022210 |
| They are still here. | 2021-11-29 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1465163482295259139 | 1465163482295259139 |
| Josephine Baker to the Pantheon. | 2021-11-29 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1465124020328697859 | 1465124020328697859 |
| The conductivity of your bedrock has something to do with | 2021-11-27 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464450404746285059 | 1464450404746285059 |
| If natural beauty, low humidity, politics, and being in | 2021-11-27 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464397359601750016 | 1464397359601750016 |
| It's an old story - | 2021-11-27 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464389792691470341 | 1464389792691470341 |
| It's hard to think of another composer so inventive in | 2021-11-26 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464376569552523267 | 1464376569552523267 |
| "A large segment of Americans is not particularly | 2021-11-26 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464127615610941443 | 1464127615610941443 |
| When Norman Rockwell grew up. | 2021-11-25 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463970071957565440 | 1463970071957565440 |
| Who are the new Texans? | 2021-11-21 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462556271668723714 | 1462556271668723714 |
| Forget oil and Arabs. The future is cobalt and Congo | 2021-11-21 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462527512622157826 | 1462527512622157826 |
| Veterans and active-duty military are highly susceptible | 2021-11-21 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1462517988309880834 | 1462517988309880834 |
| Nothing in history is guaranteed. Small changes can | 2021-11-20 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461933717102813190 | 1461933717102813190 |
| Elon Musk has the salesman morals and showmanship of Trump | 2021-11-18 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461199036623437825 | 1461199036623437825 |
| Time slips - our next mass psychosis? | 2021-11-17 | 57 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1460872359649308674 | 1460872359649308674 |
| Stop making ammunition for Trumpists! | 2021-11-16 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460461106191761422 | 1460461106191761422 |
| Trump has forced us to re-evaluate Warren Harding who was | 2021-11-15 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1460063175353589766 | 1460063175353589766 |
| True crime story of a murderer - Eddie Gallagher. | 2021-11-14 | 119 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1459997070870286337 | 1459997070870286337 |
| Let's see which legislators REALLY support a strong | 2021-11-14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459955850739470338 | 1459955850739470338 |
| Cancelled by Trump, restored by Biden. | 2021-11-14 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459954591756210176 | 1459954591756210176 |
| The definition of a cult | 2021-11-13 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459384913010909185 | 1459384913010909185 |
| GOP loves to complain, then do nothing, then attack | 2021-11-12 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459032030012870662 | 1459032030012870662 |
| Billionaires don't have to obey rules. | 2021-11-12 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1459029247352205313 | 1459029247352205313 |
| Book burning coming back into fashion. All the Nazis | 2021-11-11 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458845531657019408 | 1458845531657019408 |
| 1619 was a pivotal year - and America is still pivoting. | 2021-11-10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458253694772731905 | 1458253694772731905 |
| Implications of wardrobe. | 2021-11-06 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456841009908764672 | 1456841009908764672 |
| University of Florida reverses due to bad publicity. | 2021-11-06 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456820870450614272 | 1456820870450614272 |
| A contrarian point of view on urbanization and social | 2021-11-05 | 114 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456439817043001347 | 1456439817043001347 |
| Guantanamo | 2021-11-01 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455004169656410124 | 1455004169656410124 |
| Humane wars forever? | 2021-10-29 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453939482722385920 | 1453939482722385920 |
| He must feel right at home in Texas. | 2021-10-28 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453726793479847944 | 1453726793479847944 |
| Confronting the past - this is what the GOP means by | 2021-10-28 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453538053557927937 | 1453538053557927937 |
| Announcement from Bank of America - | 2021-10-26 | 62 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1452849873137532935 | 1452849873137532935 |
| "Silicon Valley is for followers. Ohio is for leaders." | 2021-10-26 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452846648036454407 | 1452846648036454407 |
| Honor great men and women for the extraordinary good they | 2021-10-24 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452378515488206848 | 1452378515488206848 |
| The tragedy of Colin Powell. | 2021-10-24 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452288459553521683 | 1452288459553521683 |
| A magnitude 7 on the Hayward Fault would make much of the | 2021-10-23 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1451763978196029443 | 1451763978196029443 |
| He might have been the first black president. Then the | 2021-10-18 | 96 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1450216340388663301 | 1450216340388663301 |
| Nobody who was qualified to be president would want it. | 2021-10-18 | 108 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1450214996273602561 | 1450214996273602561 |
| There's always two sides - fact and fantasy. The | 2021-10-15 | 97 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1449052617422753803 | 1449052617422753803 |
| Humiliation as a dynamic of American history - | 2021-10-15 | 92 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448863523862286336 | 1448863523862286336 |
| The preferred transition path is - retire, say what you | 2021-10-13 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1448291509720084482 | 1448291509720084482 |
| Hillary's novel about Eric the Dumb. | 2021-10-13 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1448166623844528128 | 1448166623844528128 |
| American officials should not accept foreign gifts ever. | 2021-10-11 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447623485677654018 | 1447623485677654018 |
| An excellent way to reduce taxes! | 2021-10-11 | 79 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447608770373185541 | 1447608770373185541 |
| There are plenty of Italian-Americans who came to America | 2021-10-11 | 185 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1447558967513665546 | 1447558967513665546 |
| Who's the entitled class? | 2021-10-09 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446818891716382725 | 1446818891716382725 |
| The Secret Service is not a place you'd like to work. | 2021-10-09 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446698817420611585 | 1446698817420611585 |
| We build theories about the world to help us get through | 2021-10-08 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1446307093540007941 | 1446307093540007941 |
| Which way is the future? | 2021-10-06 | 177 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445885134423527432 | 1445885134423527432 |
| In Wyoming, librarians can be prosecuted for placing books | 2021-10-04 | 145 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445039975041409025 | 1445039975041409025 |
| Modern America took shape under which president? | 2021-10-04 | 142 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1445033826602795014 | 1445033826602795014 |
| Change MIGHT be coming to the LDS - very slowly. | 2021-09-29 | 82 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1443058187628728320 | 1443058187628728320 |
| Easy targets for criticism from sidewalk superintendents | 2021-09-28 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1442867539957018634 | 1442867539957018634 |
| Two sides of racism in America. | 2021-09-27 | 391 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1442636522960744457 | 1442636522960744457 |
| Hungary - a beacon of hope for budding reactionary | 2021-09-24 | 154 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441524099071631360 | 1441524099071631360 |
| Where does your calamari come from? | 2021-09-24 | 139 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441406886939541511 | 1441406886939541511 |
| Pseudo-religiosity - a handy tool for dictators everywhere. | 2021-09-21 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1440108162464378885 | 1440108162464378885 |
| Vindman on what Milley should have done. | 2021-09-18 | 50 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1439065319562117120 | 1439065319562117120 |
| Stolen election? It's not a statement of fact. It's a | 2021-09-17 | 85 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1438944193519312898 | 1438944193519312898 |
| Lee wasn't the worst. | 2021-09-16 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1438348281289924613 | 1438348281289924613 |
| Trump has helped fade bad memories of W. But we | 2021-09-16 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1438335592928989184 | 1438335592928989184 |
| Trump is remarkably ignorant about the reality of the | 2021-09-11 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1436544254965284865 | 1436544254965284865 |
| the most important thing we lost was ourselves | 2021-09-10 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1436336819394646018 | 1436336819394646018 |
| Breaking new ground in DC! | 2021-09-05 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1434404421601955845 | 1434404421601955845 |
| When push comes to shove - you find out what people | 2021-09-01 | 59 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1432952553826762752 | 1432952553826762752 |
| Real leaders make hard choices that are often unpopular. | 2021-08-30 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1432230009293340677 | 1432230009293340677 |
| Jimmy Carter accomplished a lot that Republicans have gone | 2021-08-19 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1428350360855277574 | 1428350360855277574 |
| What kind of Catholic writes for the National Review? | 2021-08-12 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1425948761272905736 | 1425948761272905736 |
| The war didn't end in Hiroshima. It ended in Manchuria. | 2021-08-12 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1425707882574540805 | 1425707882574540805 |
| We are wearing out the National Guard. | 2021-08-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1421842699406110720 | 1421842699406110720 |
| Though they shouldn't get complacent, | 2021-07-21 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1417646816623939585 | 1417646816623939585 |
| Fringe cults thrive by capturing the lonely and aimless | 2021-07-20 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1417361127944556544 | 1417361127944556544 |
| Time to close Guantanamo. | 2021-07-19 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1417100935483072514 | 1417100935483072514 |
| There are reactionaries everywhere who think the modern | 2021-07-17 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1416254565771485187 | 1416254565771485187 |
| How much do you know about obscure presidents? | 2021-07-13 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1414836092000374807 | 1414836092000374807 |
| The problem is not in the cities now - it's in the boonies. | 2021-07-13 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1414831886103318533 | 1414831886103318533 |
| No more separation of church and state! | 2021-07-12 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1414438373092073473 | 1414438373092073473 |
| How would Trump behave if he were more intelligent? | 2021-07-11 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1414369628508155904 | 1414369628508155904 |
| The decline of Trumpist Christianity. | 2021-07-09 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1413509040139735047 | 1413509040139735047 |
| Democratization of mass destruction goes forward. | 2021-07-08 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1412992481004646403 | 1412992481004646403 |
| "The cicadas got louder before they died" | 2021-07-06 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1412406411624071177 | 1412406411624071177 |
| a nation dedicated to a proposition | 2021-07-06 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1412216022870855681 | 1412216022870855681 |
| Sovereign Citizenship - a myth that appeals to all sorts | 2021-07-06 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1412204174553452555 | 1412204174553452555 |
| Frederick Douglass' greatest speech. Sweet and sour, | 2021-07-05 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1412189284946219027 | 1412189284946219027 |
| Worst presidents? Still Pierce, Buchanan, and Andrew | 2021-07-01 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1410444837065617408 | 1410444837065617408 |
| Facts - | 2021-06-30 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1410230959081889792 | 1410230959081889792 |
| Around 1960 a TV show, John Gunther's High Road, made his | 2021-06-28 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1409356579229470722 | 1409356579229470722 |
| After your 15 minutes of fame comes? | 2021-06-27 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1409171084318892034 | 1409171084318892034 |
| Some people cultivate the skills to change minds and | 2021-06-27 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1409043541238501376 | 1409043541238501376 |
| Who voted against Juneteenth? The usual suspects, plus | 2021-06-18 | 47 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1405706033838792714 | 1405706033838792714 |
| Armed forces don't like to admit loose inventory | 2021-06-15 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1404929899370999808 | 1404929899370999808 |
| The Baptists split over slavery before the Civil War. | 2021-06-13 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403972919412150281 | 1403972919412150281 |
| Trumpism in the air! | 2021-06-11 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403476618656423938 | 1403476618656423938 |
| Ever hear of male privilege? They never have to think | 2021-06-11 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403202671582978049 | 1403202671582978049 |
| Florida Board of Education say they intend to "serve | 2021-06-11 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403200644173897730 | 1403200644173897730 |
| Alabama legalizes yoga in schools! | 2021-06-11 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403171966421331971 | 1403171966421331971 |
| How much social science belongs in the Journal of | 2021-06-10 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1403049575246483458 | 1403049575246483458 |
| Prostitution diminishes both parties, especially when they | 2021-06-09 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1402520268644384770 | 1402520268644384770 |
| Birthrates decline and populations age wherever women | 2021-06-07 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1402047807347847169 | 1402047807347847169 |
| Is the ACLU getting off track on free speech? | 2021-06-07 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401779430087856131 | 1401779430087856131 |
| The GOP pretends to be FOR families, but they are really | 2021-06-06 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401567761076084737 | 1401567761076084737 |
| The reincarnation of Father Coughlin! | 2021-06-06 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401426276284391427 | 1401426276284391427 |
| The oldest story in the Bible might be that of Job. | 2021-06-05 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1401034418609803266 | 1401034418609803266 |
| None so deaf as those that don't want to hear! | 2021-06-03 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1400463208343695360 | 1400463208343695360 |
| Anybody will see things that aren't there if they are | 2021-06-02 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1400217839462584321 | 1400217839462584321 |
| Too many Americans are no longer willing to act for the | 2021-05-31 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1399446720841322497 | 1399446720841322497 |
| Neutralizing language - | 2021-05-10 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1391747825608785923 | 1391747825608785923 |
| Utah is growing through large Mormon families, and Idaho | 2021-05-02 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1388749388424519683 | 1388749388424519683 |
| Did slaves sold to Indian tribes become members of those | 2021-05-02 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1388747659175895041 | 1388747659175895041 |
| By their fruits shall ye know them! They knew he was a | 2021-04-28 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1387286489810104325 | 1387286489810104325 |
| Sounds just like a Trump rally! | 2021-04-26 | 84 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386541005558587395 | 1386541005558587395 |
| Do you really want to be famous? | 2021-04-26 | 82 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386478851564310528 | 1386478851564310528 |
| Maybe the end of the world is NOT in our lifetime! | 2021-04-04 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1378773532566413314 | 1378773532566413314 |
| Nobody knows you when you're down and out! | 2021-04-04 | 59 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1378765345461129218 | 1378765345461129218 |
| Florida - Best. State. Ever! Reads like one of Duke's | 2021-04-03 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1378161291819249667 | 1378161291819249667 |
| "obsessed with self-promotion" | 2021-04-02 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1378112779148648448 | 1378112779148648448 |
| Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the | 2021-03-29 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1376640399876362240 | 1376640399876362240 |
| Historical figures did good things and bad things. | 2021-03-29 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1376572934161002497 | 1376572934161002497 |
| Children don't vote or donate to politicians. | 2021-03-25 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1375216727630307334 | 1375216727630307334 |
| Did Jesus really teach patriarchy? Not any more than he | 2021-03-25 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1374884831973101570 | 1374884831973101570 |
| How much Federal leakage are you entitled to? | 2021-03-24 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1374717970061037572 | 1374717970061037572 |
| Florida - Best. State. Ever. | 2021-03-20 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1373265427019624450 | 1373265427019624450 |
| Christian social justice - fully understood, a good model. | 2021-03-19 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1372969374299033600 | 1372969374299033600 |
| An inspiring glimmer of hope in a dark world. | 2021-03-15 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1371597748797988865 | 1371597748797988865 |
| No wonder Elon Musk moved to Texas! | 2021-03-15 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1371591437318418433 | 1371591437318418433 |
| "There's just something about the order of creation that | 2021-03-10 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1369719169692758017 | 1369719169692758017 |
| The main reason for paying for children is to slow the | 2021-03-10 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1369469698006388737 | 1369469698006388737 |
| Even the anti-Trump turned out to be a lot like Trump! | 2021-03-09 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1369179492082585600 | 1369179492082585600 |
| Most of us didn't miss the live audience until it was gone. | 2021-03-09 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1369172562538754048 | 1369172562538754048 |
| Old men and little kids agree - here's some infrastructure | 2021-03-07 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1368705586259398658 | 1368705586259398658 |
| More on how the swamp works | 2021-03-07 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1368700662880509959 | 1368700662880509959 |
| Nordic gods for you? Some Nazis had that idea. Now - | 2021-03-07 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1368461911445045256 | 1368461911445045256 |
| Native Americans influence policy! | 2021-03-05 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1367634210559729668 | 1367634210559729668 |
| Where blacks and Jews made supreme sacrifices for | 2021-03-01 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1366246546342252547 | 1366246546342252547 |
| Dan's Bake Sale - a preview of how Trump would treat | 2021-02-27 | 49 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1365686647585562628 | 1365686647585562628 |
| NASA will never get a man to Mars. | 2021-02-25 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1364999535617974273 | 1364999535617974273 |
| What happens when you spend too much time on the internet. | 2021-02-24 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1364571280482070529 | 1364571280482070529 |
| What Trump would be like if he were smarter - but had the | 2021-02-24 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1364371013702537219 | 1364371013702537219 |
| The toughest job in government? | 2021-02-23 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1364354528204652545 | 1364354528204652545 |
| "We should mourn when closet racists and neo-Confederates | 2021-02-23 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1364351663293702148 | 1364351663293702148 |
| If the SBC has Trumpists, they don't need members like | 2021-02-20 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1363141561941254151 | 1363141561941254151 |
| Indians want government to be more of a solution and less | 2021-02-19 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1362774444721143812 | 1362774444721143812 |
| A violent legacy of racism hidden no more - | 2021-02-18 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1362389397761445894 | 1362389397761445894 |
| What Lincoln did in his spare time. | 2021-02-15 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1361408557824962560 | 1361408557824962560 |
| Planting seeds for heartland revival, and perhaps his | 2021-02-09 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1359171583709908992 | 1359171583709908992 |
| What does it mean to be French? It's not the same as | 2021-02-09 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1359154903189454852 | 1359154903189454852 |
| America's first coup attempt! | 2021-02-08 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1358833634304614403 | 1358833634304614403 |
| Why your mail is late | 2021-02-07 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1358232049400774656 | 1358232049400774656 |
| Being nominated for president by a minor political party | 2021-02-06 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1358129500198899713 | 1358129500198899713 |
| Christian nationalism | 2021-01-29 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1354945143049121798 | 1354945143049121798 |
| The Roman Catholic Church is subject to the same stresses | 2021-01-28 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1354630771881873411 | 1354630771881873411 |
| The age of cringe. | 2021-01-27 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1354545335226437635 | 1354545335226437635 |
| Why not take their money? QAnons probably believe in | 2021-01-23 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1352863601648779265 | 1352863601648779265 |
| We could benefit from politicians inspired by poetry other | 2021-01-23 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1352768041222737921 | 1352768041222737921 |
| "Atlanta Hammers" sounds good! | 2021-01-22 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1352762949081812992 | 1352762949081812992 |
| There were giants in the earth in those days! | 2021-01-22 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1352689675933151232 | 1352689675933151232 |
| How the first globalization spawned a new center of the | 2021-01-17 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1350947525109407746 | 1350947525109407746 |
| Belichick earns a medal - just not the Trumpist medal of | 2021-01-12 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1348828300794187777 | 1348828300794187777 |
| Poor Melania - like Trump, she is having to navigate | 2021-01-12 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1348801217959395330 | 1348801217959395330 |
| Many jobs can be done remotely from anywhere. New people | 2021-01-11 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1348652426031558658 | 1348652426031558658 |
| Who cares how smart Cruz and Hawley are? They are | 2021-01-11 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1348642057582112768 | 1348642057582112768 |
| Alabama politics! | 2021-01-09 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1347696015130861570 | 1347696015130861570 |
| Who can blame Melania for checking out? She has a | 2021-01-08 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1347693109937721344 | 1347693109937721344 |
| Reverse migration. | 2021-01-08 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1347615302062723073 | 1347615302062723073 |
| So how good are you at predicting the future? | 2021-01-04 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1345895643911393284 | 1345895643911393284 |
| The case for optimism! | 2021-01-04 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1345890138165891073 | 1345890138165891073 |
| Read any scripture lately? ALL the prophets made the | 2021-01-03 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1345759021110677505 | 1345759021110677505 |
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========== Watch Night - there's more to New Year's Eve than you might think. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/opinion/watch-night-new-years-eve.html #PS1other ===== impress 25 time 2021-12-31 03:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1476760356273811461 ========== The year in review - 41 interesting essays. The last one is best. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/21/opinion/2021-essays-opinion.html #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 48 time 2021-12-27 05:20 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475335877400223744 ========== Good News year in review https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/22/good-news-2021-vaccines-environment-juneteenth/ #PS1other ===== impress 29 time 2021-12-26 15:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475124367809863687 ========== Fact Checker year in review https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/20/most-popular-fact-checks-2021/ #PS1other ===== impress 33 time 2021-12-26 15:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475123458900037632 ========== The moment we've all been waiting for! https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/12/26/dave-barrys-year-review-2021/ #PS1other ===== impress 31 time 2021-12-26 14:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475112617844764673 ========== You're never too old to learn. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/23/northam-trump-youngkin-virginia-blackface/ But it's your free will choice to learn either fact or fantasy. And be responsible for your choice. #PS1other ===== impress 40 time 2021-12-25 23:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474884507979304965 ========== Greed - it's biblical! https://washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/06/04/wealthy-televangelist-explains-his-fleet-private-jets-its-biblical-thing/ Other people's money! How Trumpist can you get? #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 34 likes 1 time 2021-12-25 16:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474774894260850692 ========== When Christmas really meant something - https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/12/24/christmas-slavery-escape/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 40 time 2021-12-25 14:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474751525217980417 ========== Real American masculinity - acknowledging a msitake and fixing it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/23/navy-seals-christmas-story/ #PS1other ===== impress 28 time 2021-12-24 21:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474492809365180416 ========== Pope speaks to cardinals - the same speech would work for senators. https://apnews.com/article/pope-francis-lifestyle-religion-christmas-a04d3c12674a14127f8efbdaafd3ae97 #PS1other ===== impress 34 time 2021-12-24 01:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1474187413182320653 ========== Public transit - another victim of covid and (likely) GOP+Manchin. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/20/bay-area-transit-faces-fiscal-cliff-as-ridership-collapse-endures/ Federal funds bailed out transit agencies. But the Senate says no more inflationary bailouts for Biden. Traffic on streets and freeways is getting worse than before covid. #PS1other ===== impress 81 time 2021-12-21 19:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1473376306398068736 ========== In hoc signo vinces! Constantine dreamed of Christianity as leading to military and political victory and so established the church for those ends. Now look how far it went! https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/14/guns-christmas-thomas-massie-lauren-boebert/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1563186640692516 #PS1other ===== impress 31 time 2021-12-19 20:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1472668668014174208 ========== Hitler, Stalin, Krushchev, and Ayatollah Kohmeini were Time Men of the Year. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-time-person-of-the-year-cdc9f0865ff860942f16213a34de42e7 A narcissist like Trump, but smarter and bolder, and hence more dangerous. #PS1other ===== impress 43 time 2021-12-15 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470974023915880451 ========== Reading comprehension - readers need a foundation on which to build comprehension. https://theamericanscholar.org/why-so-many-kids-struggle-to-learn/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 28 likes 1 time 2021-12-15 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470970276779155462 ========== The art of losing https://theamericanscholar.org/the-art-of-losing/ Losing is something they don't talk about at West Point, but maybe they should. Korea, Vietnam, Balkans, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan - some were not outright defeats, but none were outright victories. #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 46 time 2021-12-14 15:52 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470783671170912270 ========== Notable quotes https://apnews.com/article/britney-spears-joe-biden-mitch-mcconnell-congress-yale-university-b46513a7bfb24db19e4e15f1909e2297 #PS1other ===== impress 36 time 2021-12-14 14:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470770014210994189 ========== "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived" Time to change the way VP's are chosen. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#insignificant As it is, they get no respect. https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2021/dec/10/harris-has-it-easy-compared-with-quayle/ #PS1other ===== impress 20 time 2021-12-12 20:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470128303105183744 ========== GenZ's need to watch Life of Brian again. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/technology/birds-arent-real-gen-z-misinformation.html They should be careful about satire. As a British army veteran recalled once, "Officers were instructed never to joke with enlisted men. They invariably take you seriously." #PS1other ===== impress 35 time 2021-12-11 12:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1469647462637793281 ========== Most school districts have a long list of critical issues not being addressed. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/us/central-bucks-school-board-politics-pennsylvania.html Trumpists try to insure that they don't have time or energy or money to address any of them. #PS1other ===== impress 19 time 2021-12-03 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466631937905213443 ========== Hertz customers still seem to be recovering from Hertz bankruptcy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/12/01/hertz-customer-kate-klonick-rental-car/ There are other rental car companies that didn't go bankrupt. #PS1other ===== impress 23 time 2021-12-03 03:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466617968410783750 ========== Wonder what he did? Wonder who's been paying for it, aside from Kochs? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/01/tim-phillips-americans-for-prosperity/ #PS1other ===== impress 40 time 2021-12-03 03:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466610104829022210 ========== They are still here. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/native-american-heritage-month-were-still-here/ Proud to have survived against all the odds, and hoping for better futures. #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 25 time 2021-11-29 03:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465163482295259139 ========== Josephine Baker to the Pantheon. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-france-paris-race-and-ethnicity-europe-b1933ec947e872553166ce9ef418bad6 Did you know she spied against the Nazis? #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 30 likes 1 time 2021-11-29 01:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1465124020328697859 ========== The conductivity of your bedrock has something to do with EMP survivability. https://spectrum.ieee.org/one-atmospheric-nuclear-explosion-could-take-out-the-power-grid Your ability to survive without any electronic devices is also important. #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 23 time 2021-11-27 04:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464450404746285059 ========== If natural beauty, low humidity, politics, and being in the center of technology weren't important to you, maybe you'd prefer Texas. It has its points. But the more outsiders move there, the more outside it will get. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/opinion/move-to-texas.html #PS1other ===== impress 24 time 2021-11-27 00:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464397359601750016 ========== It's an old story - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#defined%20benefit Underfunded defined-benefit pensions - https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/26/borenstein-calpers-gambles-with-taxpayers-money-once-again/ Bad timing for that decision! The market was down 2-3% today. #PS1other ===== impress 19 time 2021-11-27 00:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464389792691470341 ========== It's hard to think of another composer so inventive in musical theatre. The work particularly relevant to Political Scrapbook, of course, is - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins_(musical) It's the end of an era! https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-music-arts-and-entertainment-theater-frank-sinatra-a4ef685dd49259648991ebfbcef8bbbd More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1547942158883631 #PS1other ===== impress 26 time 2021-11-26 23:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464376569552523267 ========== "A large segment of Americans is not particularly interested in the future" Trump sets the example - why worry about precedents set in the past or precedents set for the future? Après moi, le déluge! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/25/fertility-rates-keep-falling-there-are-no-easy-solutions-fix-it/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1547447262266454 #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 33 time 2021-11-26 07:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464127615610941443 ========== When Norman Rockwell grew up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/24/why-norman-rockwell-left-thanksgiving-americana-behind/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 23 time 2021-11-25 20:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463970071957565440 ========== Who are the new Texans? https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/newest-texans-who-are-they/ And Arkansas is already recruiting Austin folks tired of rising real estate prices, and Illinois is recruiting those alarmed by the politics of Greg Abbott and his pals. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1544625345881979 #PS1other ===== impress 34 time 2021-11-21 22:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462556271668723714 ========== Forget oil and Arabs. The future is cobalt and Congo and China. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/world/china-congo-cobalt.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/world/us-china-energy.html Everybody's getting into the act https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/world/hunter-biden-china-cobalt.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/world/china-congo-cobalt-explained.html #PS1other ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-21 21:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462527512622157826 ========== Veterans and active-duty military are highly susceptible to scams. https://www.aarp.org/home-family/voices/veterans/info-2021/scams-report.html #PS1other ===== impress 22 time 2021-11-21 20:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462517988309880834 ========== Nothing in history is guaranteed. Small changes can have enormous unforeseen consequences. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/books/review/hitlers-american-gamble-brendan-simms-charlie-laderman.html #PS1other ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-20 05:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461933717102813190 ========== Elon Musk has the salesman morals and showmanship of Trump but he's smarter. That makes him more dangerous. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/16/elon-musk-stock-tesla-taxes-twitter/ #PS1other ===== impress 34 time 2021-11-18 05:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461199036623437825 ========== Time slips - our next mass psychosis? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/magazine/time-slips-time-travel.html You can't travel back in time. You can imagine doing so, as long as you don't take yourself too seriously, and nobody else does either. But what if this idea spreads in the QAnon world? #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 57 time 2021-11-17 07:28 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460872359649308674 ========== Stop making ammunition for Trumpists! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/opinion/diversity-equity-inclusion.html #PS1other ===== impress 23 time 2021-11-16 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460461106191761422 ========== Trump has forced us to re-evaluate Warren Harding who was not the worst president after all, who initiated the first global disarmament treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty stunned white supremacists in Birmingham https://getpocket.com/explore/item/this-presidential-speech-on-race-shocked-the-nation-in-1921 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1539917956352718 #PS1other ===== impress 18 time 2021-11-15 01:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1460063175353589766 ========== True crime story of a murderer - Eddie Gallagher. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/books/eddie-gallagher-alpha-excerpt.html #PS1other ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 119 likes 1 time 2021-11-14 21:30 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459997070870286337 ========== Let's see which legislators REALLY support a strong military - and a willing to pay for it. https://apnews.com/article/hunger-in-america-military-food-insecurity-142728bcb5479fd2de73750e11dbd458 It's MUCH cheaper to retain a trained experienced soldier than to recruit a train a new one. #PS1other ===== impress 14 time 2021-11-14 18:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459955850739470338 ========== Cancelled by Trump, restored by Biden. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-joe-biden-jill-biden-united-states-native-americans-75917706baecf776b7f2412845819d85 Natives must not donate much to Trump or GOP. #PS1other ===== impress 19 time 2021-11-14 18:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459954591756210176 ========== The definition of a cult https://apnews.com/article/business-paraguay-europe-argentina-uruguay-43b48ed43c2f7ddebf05ec6203b12d8d #PS1other ===== impress 75 time 2021-11-13 04:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459384913010909185 ========== GOP loves to complain, then do nothing, then attack Democrats for trying to do something. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/11/josh-hawley-broken-american-manhood/ It's all part of the culture wars to keep men - and women - from focusing on the real roots of their problems. #PS1other ===== impress 81 time 2021-11-12 05:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459032030012870662 ========== Billionaires don't have to obey rules. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/08/musk-grimes-baby-name/ They can afford more lawyers. #PS1other ===== impress 77 time 2021-11-12 05:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1459029247352205313 ========== Book burning coming back into fashion. All the Nazis are pleased. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/10/i-think-we-should-throw-those-books-fire-movement-builds-right-target-books/ #PS1other ===== impress 73 time 2021-11-11 17:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458845531657019408 ========== 1619 was a pivotal year - and America is still pivoting. "a republic founded on an irresolvable contradiction — freedom and slavery — was always going to wind up in an irresolvable argument over how to tell its story" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/magazine/1619-project-us-history.html Now in a book. #PS1other ===== impress 23 time 2021-11-10 02:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458253694772731905 ========== Implications of wardrobe. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/opinion/the-politics-of-a-sleeveless-silhouette.html #PS1other ===== impress 45 time 2021-11-06 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456841009908764672 ========== University of Florida reverses due to bad publicity. But would they do it again? https://apnews.com/article/elections-education-florida-voting-voting-rights-cc0aa16e9a5b3fb78e979b81db4c9a6b #PS1other ===== impress 48 time 2021-11-06 03:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456820870450614272 ========== A contrarian point of view on urbanization and social inequality. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/opinion/graeber-wengrow-dawn-of-everything-history.html #PS1other ===== impress 114 time 2021-11-05 01:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456439817043001347 ========== Guantanamo https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#guantanamo "a stain on the moral fiber of America" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/31/us/politics/guantanamo-torture-letter.html #PS1other ===== impress 31 time 2021-11-01 02:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455004169656410124 ========== Humane wars forever? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/books/review/humane-samuel-moyn.html Not likely - sooner or later a small war will escalate into a major one that might end civilization. #PS1other ===== impress 46 time 2021-10-29 04:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453939482722385920 ========== He must feel right at home in Texas. https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_feba83422667e5ea897f85e92cff5fcf Especially if he's rich enough he wouldn't need a working wife and could afford a nanny. His advice seems irrelevant to most people in Silicon Valley. #PS1other ===== impress 28 time 2021-10-28 14:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453726793479847944 ========== Confronting the past - this is what the GOP means by "critical race theory". The GOP wants to keep it buried. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/us/hastings-college-law-native-massacre.html #PS1other ===== impress 24 time 2021-10-28 01:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453538053557927937 ========== Announcement from Bank of America - "Postal Service began changing first-class mail delivery time frames in October. This change may result in mailed statements and payments you mail taking longer to arrive." Thank DeJoy! More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1526121104399070 #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 62 retweets 1 time 2021-10-26 04:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452849873137532935 ========== "Silicon Valley is for followers. Ohio is for leaders." It's propaganda from https://www.jobsohio.com/ohio-for-leaders/ It's hard to think of a single technology area in which Ohio is a leader or attracts leaders. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1526113957733118 #PS1other ===== impress 72 time 2021-10-26 03:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452846648036454407 ========== Honor great men and women for the extraordinary good they did, while acknowledging the evil, even if it was not considered noteworthy at the time. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/556364348041422 Jefferson, for instance. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/opinion/thomas-jefferson-statue-new-york.html #PS1other ===== impress 40 time 2021-10-24 20:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452378515488206848 ========== The tragedy of Colin Powell. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/opinion/colin-powell-legacy.html And the futility of being the only adult in the room - a lesson reinforced by the Trump experience. #PS1other ===== impress 33 time 2021-10-24 14:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452288459553521683 ========== A magnitude 7 on the Hayward Fault would make much of the East Bay unlivable for months to years. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-21/california-earthquake-could-cut-off-communications-for-weeks Don't let your gas tank get less than half full, and have a go bag packed. #PS1other ===== impress 68 time 2021-10-23 04:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1451763978196029443 ========== He might have been the first black president. Then the Tea Party and Trumpism would have started 12 years earlier, laying to rest any mistaken notions that racism was in the past. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/18/colin-powell-first-black-responsibility-eugene-robinson/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 96 time 2021-10-18 21:44 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450216340388663301 ========== Nobody who was qualified to be president would want it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/10/18/president-run-colin-powell-1996/ #PS1other ===== impress 108 time 2021-10-18 21:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450214996273602561 ========== There's always two sides - fact and fantasy. The fantasy belongs in the fiction section - it's not historically equivalent to fact. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/10/15/holocaust-texas-school-books-opposing/ But confusing fact and fantasy is a pillar of minority rule - just ask Greg Abbott. #PS1other ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 97 likes 1 time 2021-10-15 16:40 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449052617422753803 ========== Humiliation as a dynamic of American history - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/opinion/america-immigration-history.html "the recurring tale of people conquering humiliation through creative action" #PS1other ===== impress 92 time 2021-10-15 04:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448863523862286336 ========== The preferred transition path is - retire, say what you really think, get into politics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/marine-scheller-to-plead-guilty/2021/10/12/ccf1be18-2b74-11ec-92bd-d2ffe8570c7d_story.html Do things in the wrong order and you can expect big trouble. But maybe some people will help you if you're politically convenient for them. #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 47 time 2021-10-13 14:16 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448291509720084482 ========== Hillary's novel about Eric the Dumb. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/hillary-clinton-louise-penny-state-of-terror/2021/10/08/9d585a9e-2841-11ec-8d53-67cfb452aa60_story.html #PS1other ===== impress 45 time 2021-10-13 06:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1448166623844528128 ========== American officials should not accept foreign gifts ever. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/us/politics/trump-gifts.html #PS1other ===== impress 75 time 2021-10-11 18:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447623485677654018 ========== An excellent way to reduce taxes! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/11/florida-teachers-covid-quitting-desantis/ Get all the teachers to quit! DeSantis is on it! Major GOP donors send their kids to private schools, so they don't care. #PS1other ===== impress 79 time 2021-10-11 17:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447608770373185541 ========== There are plenty of Italian-Americans who came to America and contributed to America. Honor one of them instead of Columbus. And why not have a rotating holiday that honors a different immigrant-American every year? https://apnews.com/article/columbus-indigenous-peoples-day-b00777738e9d0ae411e9b6acad223371 #PS1other ===== engage 3 engage-rate 2% impress 185 likes 2 time 2021-10-11 13:45 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447558967513665546 ========== Who's the entitled class? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/opinion/joe-manchin-biden.html The Pandora Papers show it's the ultrarich, not the masses. What do Manchin and Sinema want to do about those entitlements? And the other entitled class is legislators supported by unlimited dark campaign money. #PS1other ===== impress 34 time 2021-10-09 12:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446818891716382725 ========== The Secret Service is not a place you'd like to work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/08/secret-service-overwork-morale-underfunded-report/ #PS1other ===== impress 29 time 2021-10-09 04:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446698817420611585 ========== We build theories about the world to help us get through the day. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/opinion/essentialism-stereotypes-bias.html Unfortunately it's easy to mistake our theories for the objective reality, which is much too complicated to comprehend, which is why we had to theorize it. #PS1other ===== impress 55 time 2021-10-08 02:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1446307093540007941 ========== Which way is the future? The Texas GOP and the new arrivals have diametrically opposed ideas. Who's going to win? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/opinion/texas-census-united-states.html #PS1other ===== impress 177 time 2021-10-06 22:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445885134423527432 ========== In Wyoming, librarians can be prosecuted for placing books in the wrong section. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-lifestyle-business-wyoming-nonfiction-22b0a682cb5ba95de8eb3975d101228c The prosecution can call the Taliban as expert witnesses. They don't need libraries either. #PS1other ===== impress 145 time 2021-10-04 14:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445039975041409025 ========== Modern America took shape under which president? https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/02/opinion-1619-or-1776-nope-we-need-an-1848-project/ James K Polk! #PS1other ===== impress 142 time 2021-10-04 14:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445033826602795014 ========== Change MIGHT be coming to the LDS - very slowly. https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/09/27/rise-liberal-latter-day-saints/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 82 time 2021-09-29 03:40 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1443058187628728320 ========== Easy targets for criticism from sidewalk superintendents that would never qualify for such difficult jobs and never have to say exactly what they would have done instead. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-business-china-arts-and-entertainment-army-74ad214fdfbf0f8422a762e8f6657862 https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-bombings-kabul-taliban-terrorism-d1c939fc224a988dc6117ae4a70840e6 But that's who gets elected to Congress. #PS1other ===== impress 83 time 2021-09-28 15:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1442867539957018634 ========== Two sides of racism in America. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/opinion/how-racist-is-america.html #PS1other ===== impress 391 time 2021-09-27 23:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1442636522960744457 ========== Hungary - a beacon of hope for budding reactionary dictators everywhere. https://apnews.com/article/immigration-united-nations-general-assembly-coronavirus-pandemic-business-health-d19fb1eb2772478da1206fb5d982b6c7 #PS1other ===== impress 154 time 2021-09-24 22:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441524099071631360 ========== Where does your calamari come from? https://apnews.com/article/china-oceans-overfishing-squid-294ff1e489589b2510cc806ec898c78f #PS1other ===== impress 139 time 2021-09-24 14:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441406886939541511 ========== Pseudo-religiosity - a handy tool for dictators everywhere. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/opinion/autocracy-religion-liberalism.html There are plenty of religiosity leaders who want to get political power and will collaborate. #PS1other ===== impress 54 time 2021-09-21 00:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1440108162464378885 ========== Vindman on what Milley should have done. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/alexander-vindman-general-milley-resign/2021/09/17/79fe52d8-17b1-11ec-a5e5-ceecb895922f_story.html #PS1other ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% impress 50 likes 1 time 2021-09-18 03:14 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1439065319562117120 ========== Stolen election? It's not a statement of fact. It's a statement of belief. After all, Trump always tells the truth about what he feels and what he believes. What else matters? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/opinion/trump-voter-fraud-claims.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1499812140363300 #PS1other ===== impress 85 time 2021-09-17 19:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1438944193519312898 ========== Lee wasn't the worst. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/09/10/robert-e-lee-slavery/ But he hardly merits any statues. #PS1other ===== impress 30 time 2021-09-16 03:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1438348281289924613 ========== Trump has helped fade bad memories of W. But we shouldn't forget what he did - his was the high-CARB diet: Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Bush. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/opinion/george-w-bush-911-speech.html #PS1other ===== impress 33 time 2021-09-16 02:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1438335592928989184 ========== Trump is remarkably ignorant about the reality of the Civil War - knowledgeable only about the myth. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/10/robert-e-lee-statue-richmond-trump-history/ The South had no chance in a war of attrition as an agrarian economy dependent on foreign trade. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1495330284144819 #PS1other ===== impress 42 time 2021-09-11 04:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1436544254965284865 ========== the most important thing we lost was ourselves https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article254058668.html #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 37 time 2021-09-10 14:32 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1436336819394646018 ========== Breaking new ground in DC! https://apnews.com/article/biden-cabinet-election-2020-f98d8490d71e02f53200ca8ce6adc0fd #PS1other ===== impress 26 time 2021-09-05 06:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1434404421601955845 ========== When push comes to shove - you find out what people REALLY believe. https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-health-religion-coronavirus-pandemic-f42772097cf7557086f12b549e03b18a More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1488458171498697 #PS1other ===== engage 3 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 59 time 2021-09-01 06:24 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1432952553826762752 ========== Real leaders make hard choices that are often unpopular. That's why democratic leaders so often defer hard choices in case something miraculously changes. But their job is to tell voters what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/29/whos-blame-deaths-13-service-members-kabul-we-all-are/ #PS1other ===== impress 48 time 2021-08-30 06:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1432230009293340677 ========== Jimmy Carter accomplished a lot that Republicans have gone to great lengths to undo. https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-middle-east-jimmy-carter-18eab7024282910f6aab29026a1e04e2 But he was undone by the Iranians who wanted to punish him for letting the Shah die in peace, and so waited for Reagan to release the hostages. #PS1other ===== impress 77 time 2021-08-19 13:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1428350360855277574 ========== What kind of Catholic writes for the National Review? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/opinion/pope-francis-latin-mass.html Reactionary! #PS1other ===== impress 45 time 2021-08-12 22:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1425948761272905736 ========== The war didn't end in Hiroshima. It ended in Manchuria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria Stalin promised to invade 90 days after Germany surrendered - a promise he kept. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-bomb-didn-t-beat-japan-stalin-did Everybody had their reasons for crediting nuclear weapons for the victory. #PS1other ===== impress 50 time 2021-08-12 06:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1425707882574540805 ========== We are wearing out the National Guard. https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-health-coronavirus-pandemic-d830cbc807797e4b3450965c586b253c Foreign deployments used to be uncommon. Not anymore - accompanied by traditional domestic duties as well. #PS1other ===== impress 35 time 2021-08-01 14:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1421842699406110720 ========== Though they shouldn't get complacent, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811%E2%80%931812_New_Madrid_earthquakes tsunamis are far down on the list of existential threats in South Dakota. The West Coast is not so lucky - https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/07/20/if-massive-tsunami-comes-to-bay-area-walk-to-safety-experts-say/ Silicon Valley is safer than the Oregon coast. #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 45 time 2021-07-21 00:45 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1417646816623939585 ========== Fringe cults thrive by capturing the lonely and aimless and giving them a place and a purpose. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/opinion/trump-covid-extremism-loneliness.html #PS1other ===== impress 30 time 2021-07-20 05:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1417361127944556544 ========== Time to close Guantanamo. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#guantanamo Never tried - never convicted - he got 20 years anyway. https://apnews.com/article/guantanamo-detainee-transfer-biden-826566e2787963ad499ccdd016efb2da #PS1other ===== impress 21 time 2021-07-19 12:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1417100935483072514 ========== There are reactionaries everywhere who think the modern world of the Enlightenment will just go away if they fight it hard enough. Maybe they'd like to bring back the Syllabus of Errors, too. https://apnews.com/article/latin-mass-pope-francis-restrictions-benedict-6f50b9bc219d423f99267fddcdf23cf6 #PS1other ===== impress 22 time 2021-07-17 04:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1416254565771485187 ========== How much do you know about obscure presidents? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/opinion/presidents-presidency-history.html #PS1other ===== impress 29 time 2021-07-13 06:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1414836092000374807 ========== The problem is not in the cities now - it's in the boonies. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/upshot/covid-cities-predictions-wrong.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/12/opinion/covid-big-cities.html #PS1other ===== impress 32 time 2021-07-13 06:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1414831886103318533 ========== No more separation of church and state! https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/11/mercy-culture-church/ America's founders knew what happens next - they'd seen established religions in Europe for centuries. Once churches get political power, they attract the wrong kinds of people - attracted to power. #PS1other ===== impress 26 time 2021-07-12 04:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1414438373092073473 ========== How would Trump behave if he were more intelligent? https://apnews.com/article/business-3cf631c55b15ec9f83b2306c7fb2e89d #PS1other ===== impress 46 time 2021-07-11 23:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1414369628508155904 ========== The decline of Trumpist Christianity. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/09/opinion/religious-right-america.html Does the SBC think that the biggest threat to America today is the truth about why the SBC was formed in 1845? #PS1other ===== impress 39 time 2021-07-09 14:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1413509040139735047 ========== Democratization of mass destruction goes forward. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ Just wait until criminals get their hands on this technology! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/07/ai-weapons-us-military/ Your money or your life! #PS1other ===== impress 24 time 2021-07-08 04:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1412992481004646403 ========== "The cicadas got louder before they died" We can only hope. Maybe the cicadas were just trying to get on Fox. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/loudoun-critical-race-theory-transgender-rights/2021/07/05/3dab01b8-d4eb-11eb-ae54-515e2f63d37d_story.html #PS1other ===== impress 19 time 2021-07-06 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1412406411624071177 ========== a nation dedicated to a proposition https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/01/american-history-debates/ #PS1other ===== impress 18 time 2021-07-06 01:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1412216022870855681 ========== Sovereign Citizenship - a myth that appeals to all sorts of people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/04/moorish-sovereignty-rise-of-the-moors/ If these Sovereign Citizens renounce their American citizenship, then they have no right to live in America. But that's the essence of Trumpism - you don't have to obey laws. #PS1other ===== impress 21 time 2021-07-06 00:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1412204174553452555 ========== Frederick Douglass' greatest speech. Sweet and sour, respectful of the past, outraged at the present unworthy of that past, yet hopeful for a better future. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-best-fourth-of-july-speech-in-american-history He'd only have to change a few details to deliver it today. #PS1other ===== impress 16 time 2021-07-05 23:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1412189284946219027 ========== Worst presidents? Still Pierce, Buchanan, and Andrew Johnson. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/06/30/presidential-rankings-2021-cspan-historians/ #PS1other ===== impress 26 time 2021-07-01 03:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1410444837065617408 ========== Facts - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9981 "Royall, Secretary of the Army, was forced into retirement for refusing to desegregate the army after President Truman's Order" Trumpist fantasy - "a colorblind culture in the U.S. military for 200 years" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/29/what-us-military-can-teach-us-about-critical-race-facts/ #PS1other ===== impress 32 time 2021-06-30 13:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1410230959081889792 ========== Around 1960 a TV show, John Gunther's High Road, made his name familiar to some boomers. But he had a remarkable career before, and many of his insights still stand. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/books/review/inside-usa-john-gunther.html #PS1other ===== impress 20 time 2021-06-28 03:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1409356579229470722 ========== After your 15 minutes of fame comes? https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/mike-gravel-dead/2021/06/27/a496d870-13b4-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html "I realized that a lot of people I’d regarded as friends were only people who’d wanted to be around me when I had power" Z is for Zero, that's how it all ends, No office, no power, no money, no friends. #PS1other ===== impress 20 time 2021-06-27 15:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1409171084318892034 ========== Some people cultivate the skills to change minds and change lives. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/opinion/racism-politics-daryl-davis.html #PS1other ===== impress 21 time 2021-06-27 06:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1409043541238501376 ========== Who voted against Juneteenth? The usual suspects, plus a few you haven't heard of. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/us/republicans-against-juneteenth.html But apparently Greene and Gaetz decided to hold their fire for once. #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 47 time 2021-06-18 01:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1405706033838792714 ========== Armed forces don't like to admit loose inventory procedures. https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-business-gun-politics-crime-6caba27108d05a8b7c1860959d1ae130 #PS1other ===== impress 34 time 2021-06-15 22:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1404929899370999808 ========== The Baptists split over slavery before the Civil War. Now the descendants of the pro-slavery Baptists might split into Trumpist and non-Trumpist branches. They don't call it that, but that's what they mean. Splitting's what Protestants do. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/12/us/southern-baptists-conservatives.html #PS1other ===== impress 45 time 2021-06-13 07:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403972919412150281 ========== Trumpism in the air! https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/06/11/flights-mask-incidents-faa-fines/ What You Feel is the only truth that matters! Only suckers follow somebody else's rules! #PS1other ===== impress 63 time 2021-06-11 22:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403476618656423938 ========== Ever hear of male privilege? They never have to think about this. At least if they are white. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/10/im-woman-who-runs-rural-roads-fear-is-always-there/ #PS1other ===== impress 71 time 2021-06-11 04:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403202671582978049 ========== Florida Board of Education say they intend to "serve students with facts rather than trying to indoctrinate them with ideology" and so in the traditional minority-rule way, they actually intend to serve students with ideology rather than facts. https://apnews.com/article/florida-race-and-ethnicity-government-and-politics-education-74d0af6c52c0009ec3fa3ee9955b0a8d #PS1other ===== impress 75 time 2021-06-11 04:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403200644173897730 ========== Alabama legalizes yoga in schools! https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/os-ne-yoga-no-longer-banned-in-alabama-public-schools-20210521-jnp5pievajdt7f2u2h3u3oucfm-story.html #PS1other ===== impress 71 time 2021-06-11 02:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403171966421331971 ========== How much social science belongs in the Journal of Irreproducible Results? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Irreproducible_Results Complex problems are rarely completely solved by simple solutions, though sometimes they help. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/opinion/psychology-ted-talk.html #PS1other ===== impress 49 time 2021-06-10 18:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1403049575246483458 ========== Prostitution diminishes both parties, especially when they are Church and State. Political power attracts the wrong kind of people to religious leadership. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/08/decline-fall-southern-baptist-convention/ #PS1other ===== impress 42 time 2021-06-09 06:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1402520268644384770 ========== Birthrates decline and populations age wherever women get the knowledge and means to control family size. That's infuriated ambitious dictators for decades. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/07/please-hold-panic-about-world-population-decline-its-non-problem/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1430453193965862 #PS1other ===== impress 40 time 2021-06-07 23:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1402047807347847169 ========== Is the ACLU getting off track on free speech? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html #PS1other ===== impress 44 time 2021-06-07 05:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401779430087856131 ========== The GOP pretends to be FOR families, but they are really FOR lower taxes on the rich and FOR more workers desperate enough to take any job at any wage. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/opinion/sunday/child-care-pre-K-republicans.html But SAYING you are for something and DOING the opposite is a pillar of minority rule. #PS1other ===== impress 46 time 2021-06-06 15:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401567761076084737 ========== The reincarnation of Father Coughlin! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin https://apnews.com/article/wi-state-wire-wisconsin-health-coronavirus-pandemic-religion-dfe5a2f33612e1f527143d8c5008bb06 #PS1other ===== impress 45 time 2021-06-06 06:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401426276284391427 ========== The oldest story in the Bible might be that of Job. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job And the oldest religion is that of Job's friends - from which the rich and powerful conclude that there's no point in their helping the poor and powerless. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1428694354141746 #PS1other ===== impress 43 time 2021-06-05 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1401034418609803266 ========== None so deaf as those that don't want to hear! https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/03/ohio-barnard-kempter-mic-memorial-day/ #PS1other ===== impress 33 time 2021-06-03 14:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1400463208343695360 ========== Anybody will see things that aren't there if they are tired enough. That probably explains most "UFO's". But not all - there are likely lots of rare earthly phenomena that we don't understand. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ufos-bipartisan/2021/05/31/096df812-be69-11eb-9c90-731aff7d9a0d_story.html No need to invent extra-terrestrials. #PS1other ===== impress 40 time 2021-06-02 22:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1400217839462584321 ========== Too many Americans are no longer willing to act for the larger good. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/opinion/memorial-day-covid-national-service.html And why should they? Their leader says they'd be losers and suckers. He certainly never wasted any time on behalf of anybody else. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/ #PS1other ===== impress 34 time 2021-05-31 19:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1399446720841322497 ========== Neutralizing language - is this a step toward real progress or a diversion in lieu of real progress? https://apnews.com/article/europe-language-government-and-politics-education-f2c74258ab6c474334d84f0d7b0fc207 #PS1other ===== impress 53 time 2021-05-10 13:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1391747825608785923 ========== Utah is growing through large Mormon families, and Idaho by migration from more liberal climes, but both face rising house prices and cost of living. https://apnews.com/article/idaho-utah-business-health-coronavirus-c4a69fef0fa80e83eaf302bae9298e3b Create a desirable place to live, and people will move there - bringing new ideas. #PS1other ===== impress 40 time 2021-05-02 06:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1388749388424519683 ========== Did slaves sold to Indian tribes become members of those tribes? https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-health-coronavirus-82d8c7b62bb548055263487c9cab5cb1 Is this a case of racism or native self-determination? #PS1other ===== impress 37 time 2021-05-02 06:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1388747659175895041 ========== By their fruits shall ye know them! They knew he was a Trumpist when they picked him up, so why be surprised if the commandments he lived by turned out to include lie deny it all hit back twice as hard https://apnews.com/article/jerry-falwell-lawsuits-virginia-lynchburg-3b9c8e0c3bf525c79fbd54dc95889c86 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1402731263404722 #PS1other ===== impress 37 time 2021-04-28 06:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1387286489810104325 ========== Sounds just like a Trump rally! https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/12/09/night-thousands-nazis-packed-madison-square-garden-rally-violence-erupted/ #PS1other ===== impress 84 time 2021-04-26 04:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386541005558587395 ========== Do you really want to be famous? https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/04/19/girl-kent-state-photo-lifelong-burden-being-national-symbol/ #PS1other ===== impress 82 time 2021-04-26 00:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386478851564310528 ========== Maybe the end of the world is NOT in our lifetime! https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/04/01/civilization-collapse-rome-angkor-harappa/ But evolution of societies is often apocalyptic for the ruling class. And there is the Fermi paradox. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ #PS1other ===== impress 54 time 2021-04-04 18:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1378773532566413314 ========== Nobody knows you when you're down and out! https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-politics-trump-investigations-florida-coronavirus-pandemic-1219266dd4547d7cd094d11c9114cfb0 Especially down and dirty and out. But Greene is still OK with Gaetz. #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 59 likes 1 time 2021-04-04 17:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1378765345461129218 ========== Florida - Best. State. Ever! Reads like one of Duke's story lines in Doonesbury. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/matt-gaetz-investigation-robert-levinson/2021/03/31/ebe2a9ba-923e-11eb-9668-89be11273c09_story.html Like Duke, Gaetz always has a plan B - in this case, a gig at Newsmax. #PS1other ===== impress 53 time 2021-04-03 01:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1378161291819249667 ========== "obsessed with self-promotion" https://apnews.com/article/prosecutors-possible-payments-for-sex-gaetz-investigation-b43b8340f9e81f6c6eebf95e956be962 A Trumpist through and through. #PS1other ===== impress 48 time 2021-04-02 22:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1378112779148648448 ========== Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/opinion/sunday/evangelical-rick-joyner-family.html #PS1other ===== impress 46 time 2021-03-29 21:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1376640399876362240 ========== Historical figures did good things and bad things. The bad does not cancel the good any more than the good cancels the bad. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/philip-johnson-moma-flexner-vollmer-racist/2021/03/26/a179e242-8cdc-11eb-a730-1b4ed9656258_story.html Are we better off now for their lives, overall? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/556364348041422 #PS1other ===== impress 38 time 2021-03-29 16:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1376572934161002497 ========== Children don't vote or donate to politicians. Politicians' children are usually pretty well cared for. Why would they care about anybody else's? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/opinion/biden-child-poverty.html #PS1other ===== impress 35 time 2021-03-25 22:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1375216727630307334 ========== Did Jesus really teach patriarchy? Not any more than he taught slavery. https://apnews.com/article/beth-moore-baptist-southern-baptist-convention-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-sexual-abuse-3e665b36cb35f471598f3491ab10701a #PS1other ===== impress 41 time 2021-03-25 00:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1374884831973101570 ========== How much Federal leakage are you entitled to? https://apnews.com/article/truckee-lawsuits-nevada-deserts-reno-69704fa63bf1fcae913091fc1a598f95 Water politics is the once and future king of arid-West politics. #PS1other ===== impress 36 time 2021-03-24 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1374717970061037572 ========== Florida - Best. State. Ever. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/a-reptilian-nightmare-florida-bans-nonnative-species-despite-industry-outcry/2021/03/19/bdc0db4a-8769-11eb-bfdf-4d36dab83a6d_story.html DeSantis isn't all bad! #PS1other ===== impress 57 time 2021-03-20 13:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1373265427019624450 ========== Christian social justice - fully understood, a good model. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/opinion/social-justice-christianity.html Misunderstanding is fostered by persons "updating" the gospel to serve personal wealth and power. #PS1other ===== impress 43 time 2021-03-19 17:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1372969374299033600 ========== An inspiring glimmer of hope in a dark world. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/pope-francis-ayatollah-sistani-christians-archbishop-warda-najaf-iraq-trump-20210311.html #PS1other ===== impress 39 time 2021-03-15 23:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1371597748797988865 ========== No wonder Elon Musk moved to Texas! https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/366488 His leadership in action. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/03/13/hundreds-of-covid-cases-reported-at-teslas-fremont-factory-since-last-may/ #PS1other ===== impress 41 time 2021-03-15 22:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1371591437318418433 ========== "There's just something about the order of creation that means that God intends for the preaching voice to be a male voice" https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/03/09/beth-moore-lifeway-southern-baptist-split/ What else from a denomination founded to support slavery, then segregation, now minority rule by cult of personality? #PS1other ===== impress 47 time 2021-03-10 18:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1369719169692758017 ========== The main reason for paying for children is to slow the aging of the population. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/goodbye-clinton-welfare-reform-hello-child-tax-credit/2021/03/09/22628de2-80ed-11eb-81db-b02f0398f49a_story.html Children are too expensive and immigration politically unpopular. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ #PS1other ===== impress 52 time 2021-03-10 02:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1369469698006388737 ========== Even the anti-Trump turned out to be a lot like Trump! Cover up the problems as long as possible, then take the money and run. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/us/politics/lincoln-project-weaver.html #PS1other ===== impress 28 time 2021-03-09 06:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1369179492082585600 ========== Most of us didn't miss the live audience until it was gone. Even if it's someone in a tree. https://genius.com/Stephen-sondheim-someone-in-a-tree-lyrics The live audience is part of the show too. https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-knew-id-miss-theater-when-broadway-shuttered-i-didnt-know-id-miss-the-audiences/2021/03/08/2b57e980-803c-11eb-ac37-4383f7709abe_story.html #PS1other ===== impress 24 time 2021-03-09 06:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1369172562538754048 ========== Old men and little kids agree - here's some infrastructure we need! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/opinion/sunday/public-toilets-united-states.html #PS1other ===== impress 30 time 2021-03-07 23:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1368705586259398658 ========== More on how the swamp works https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/06/us/emergent-biosolutions-revolving-door.html #PS1other ===== impress 30 time 2021-03-07 23:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1368700662880509959 ========== Nordic gods for you? Some Nazis had that idea. Now - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/a-small-town-congregation-sold-its-church-a-whites-only-group-moved-in/2021/03/06/ac5b65de-7e02-11eb-85cd-9b7fa90c8873_story.html #PS1other ===== impress 23 time 2021-03-07 07:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1368461911445045256 ========== Native Americans influence policy! https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/03/04/haaland-interior-secretary-committee/ They supported Murkowski at the last election, and she supported them now. #PS1other ===== impress 41 time 2021-03-05 00:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1367634210559729668 ========== Where blacks and Jews made supreme sacrifices for ungrateful countries. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/28/world/europe/france-world-war-1.html #PS1other ===== impress 38 time 2021-03-01 04:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1366246546342252547 ========== Dan's Bake Sale - a preview of how Trump would treat his fans. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/02/27/rush-limbaugh-dans-bake-sale-colorado/ #PS1other ===== engage 2 engage-rate 4% impress 49 time 2021-02-27 15:34 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1365686647585562628 ========== NASA will never get a man to Mars. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-put-a-man-on-the-moon-but-it-might-be-harder-to-do-the-same-on-mars/2021/02/25/5d85caba-76e3-11eb-9537-496158cc5fd9_story.html If anybody makes the round trip, will it be on a private Western vehicle or a Chinese government one? The lack of a magnetosphere makes Mars a good place to leave quickly. https://phys.org/news/2016-11-bad-mars.html #PS1other ===== impress 63 time 2021-02-25 18:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1364999535617974273 ========== What happens when you spend too much time on the internet. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/anthony-warner-nashville-bombing.html #PS1other ===== impress 45 time 2021-02-24 13:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1364571280482070529 ========== What Trump would be like if he were smarter - but had the same personality defects. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/23/musk-tesla-texas/ Lack of focus and self-restraint on a grander scale! #PS1other ===== impress 44 time 2021-02-24 00:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1364371013702537219 ========== The toughest job in government? https://apnews.com/article/bills-impeachments-bernie-sanders-electoral-college-minimum-wage-8893a3f95038cac51ba66066554bcd20 #PS1other ===== impress 41 time 2021-02-23 23:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1364354528204652545 ========== "We should mourn when closet racists and neo-Confederates feel more at home in our churches than do many of our people of color. Which is the important part of our name - Southern or Baptist?" https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-baptist-southern-baptist-convention-kentucky-louisville-3d117834c18621f0af125f192d4a194c The stresses in the GOP show up in church, too. #PS1other ===== impress 46 time 2021-02-23 23:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1364351663293702148 ========== If the SBC has Trumpists, they don't need members like Carter or Clinton any more! https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-donald-trump-baptist-southern-baptist-convention-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-1b4bce88b58067f341e6e8eef259307f Can't allow "jeopardizing contributions to the SBC"! "Come to church, bring money, we'll take care of it" - how churches supported slavery, per Louis Lomax. #PS1other ===== impress 42 time 2021-02-20 15:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1363141561941254151 ========== Indians want government to be more of a solution and less of a mirage or a threat. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/politics/native-americans-biden.html #PS1other ===== impress 32 time 2021-02-19 14:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1362774444721143812 ========== A violent legacy of racism hidden no more - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/opinion/23andme-ancestry-race.html #PS1other ===== impress 28 time 2021-02-18 13:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1362389397761445894 ========== What Lincoln did in his spare time. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/02/15/presidents-day-lincoln-science/ He didn't waste much time on golf. #PS1other ===== impress 43 time 2021-02-15 20:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1361408557824962560 ========== Planting seeds for heartland revival, and perhaps his political future. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/08/can-california-democat-connect-coasts-with-heartland/ #PS1other ===== impress 44 time 2021-02-09 16:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1359171583709908992 ========== What does it mean to be French? It's not the same as what does it mean to be American, but some of the issues are similar. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threat-american-universities.html #PS1other ===== impress 45 time 2021-02-09 14:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1359154903189454852 ========== America's first coup attempt! https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/07/americas-first-attempted-coup-also-tracks-to-jan-6/ Hamilton was a conspirator! The coup never got off the ground but he got what he wanted at the Constitutional Convention four years later. #PS1other ===== impress 30 time 2021-02-08 17:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1358833634304614403 ========== Why your mail is late https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/business/usps-performance-whats-next-biden/ #PS1other ===== impress 31 time 2021-02-07 01:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1358232049400774656 ========== Being nominated for president by a minor political party is no big deal. Neither is being nominated for a Nobel prize by a minor politician. https://www.nytimes.com/article/nobel-peace-prize-nominations.html #PS1other ===== impress 32 time 2021-02-06 19:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1358129500198899713 ========== Christian nationalism https://apnews.com/article/christianity-capitol-riot-6f13ef0030ad7b5a6f37a1e3b7b4c898 leads to tribal paganism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nazi_Germany and idolatry of the leader. No man can serve two masters. #PS1other ===== impress 56 time 2021-01-29 00:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1354945143049121798 ========== The Roman Catholic Church is subject to the same stresses as secular society. https://catholicoutlook.org/pope-francis-the-dreamer/ Francis' book, Let us Dream, is a very timely treatise on the spiritual ills underlying modern partisanship. Biden can't be neutral. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/joe-biden-and-the-struggle-for-american-catholicism/2021/01/27/2ea5c278-60df-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html #PS1other ===== impress 50 time 2021-01-28 03:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1354630771881873411 ========== The age of cringe. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/27/we-live-golden-age-cringe/ #PS1other ===== impress 38 time 2021-01-27 21:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1354545335226437635 ========== Why not take their money? QAnons probably believe in Bigfoot too. https://apnews.com/article/wildlife-oklahoma-5433bc22df3a87efa08c2b52838a2dd7 #PS1other ===== impress 41 time 2021-01-23 06:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1352863601648779265 ========== We could benefit from politicians inspired by poetry other than their donors' demands. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/opinion/biden-poetry-amanda-gorman-seamus-heaney-inauguration.html #PS1other ===== impress 38 time 2021-01-23 00:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1352768041222737921 ========== "Atlanta Hammers" sounds good! https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/01/22/braves-name-change-hammers/ #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 44 time 2021-01-22 23:39 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1352762949081812992 ========== There were giants in the earth in those days! https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/hank-aaron-dead/2021/01/22/2d11719a-5cc6-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html https://apnews.com/article/mlb-baseball-atlanta-braves-hank-aaron-coronavirus-pandemic-0fa32aff826d18bbeb9efedd42cd81a2 #PS1other ===== impress 44 time 2021-01-22 18:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1352689675933151232 ========== How the first globalization spawned a new center of the universe. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/16/opinion/walk-across-world-america.html And how it lost it all in bitter tribal sectarian partisanship. #PS1other ===== impress 48 time 2021-01-17 23:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1350947525109407746 ========== Belichick earns a medal - just not the Trumpist medal of conspiracy and pardon. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-nfl-super-bowl-new-england-patriots-football-499f31a9f5497a9ce6a5f5bfb095ca27 #PS1other ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 35 time 2021-01-12 03:05 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1348828300794187777 ========== Poor Melania - like Trump, she is having to navigate treacherous waters alone. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/melania-trump-capitol-riot-response/2021/01/11/fd465044-5436-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html But what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. #PS1other ===== impress 40 time 2021-01-12 01:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1348801217959395330 ========== Many jobs can be done remotely from anywhere. New people bring new money and new ideas. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/opinion/georgia-senate-democrats-south.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/opinion/georgia-black-political-power.html Natives might be restless - wanting more money as long as nothing changes. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1333405510337298 #PS1other ===== impress 38 time 2021-01-11 15:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1348652426031558658 ========== Who cares how smart Cruz and Hawley are? They are just evil. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/01/11/ted-cruz-know-better/ #PS1other ===== impress 33 time 2021-01-11 14:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1348642057582112768 ========== Alabama politics! https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/mike-lee-tommy-tuberville-trump-misdialed-capitol-riot/index.html Note that Giuliani first addressed Tuberville as "Senator" but quickly changed to "Coach". In Alabama any idiot can run for Senate - look at Roy Moore - but being football coach at a major university, that's SOMETHING! #PS1other ===== impress 31 time 2021-01-09 00:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1347696015130861570 ========== Who can blame Melania for checking out? She has a whole new life to plan. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/08/melania-trump-was-reportedly-overseeing-a-photo-shoot-during-capitol-attack/ #PS1other ===== impress 72 time 2021-01-08 23:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1347693109937721344 ========== Reverse migration. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/opinion/georgia-black-political-power.html Poor black share croppers went north for better lives. Now black professionals can go south for the same reason - just as Californians move to Idaho or Texas - bigger houses, lower taxes, more political power. #PS1other ===== impress 56 time 2021-01-08 18:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1347615302062723073 ========== So how good are you at predicting the future? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-year-end-office-pool-quiz-place-your-bets-for-2021/2020/12/31/f91b1510-4bab-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html #PS1other ===== impress 53 time 2021-01-04 00:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1345895643911393284 ========== The case for optimism! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/31/after-catastrophic-2020-big-story-2021-could-be-hopeful-one/ Remembering the tumultuous 1960's, the worst never came to pass, and things eventually got better - just not in the way anybody expected. #PS1other ===== impress 55 time 2021-01-04 00:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1345890138165891073 ========== Read any scripture lately? ALL the prophets made the rich and powerful uncomfortable - and suffered for it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/12/30/warnock-georgia-senate-runoff-black-church/ #PS1other ===== impress 42 time 2021-01-03 15:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1345759021110677505