Frankly, fickle . . .
Friday, June 27, 2025. It's Frigg's day (Freya) . . the heat dome over TulseyTown is easing. The weatherfeather indicates a 50/50 chance for rain. Which translates to “either it will or it won't.” Chances remain tonight and tomorrow but drop off into our usual 20%.
You are the sky. Everything else – is just the weather. — Pema Chödrön
One of my heros, Bill Moyers died yesterday.
Today is the birthday of Helen Keller. The blind, deaf author and educator was born in 1880 Tuscumbia, Alabama. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller
Trump news continues to hi-jack the blog.
[The] unprecedented strike has shown the Islamic regime for the second time, that nuclear diplomacy is reversible, fragile and vulnerable to changes in leadership in Washington. There will not be a third time. If Iran now decides to move towards a bomb, it will do so following a clear strategic logic. No one bombs the capital of a nuclear-armed country. June 21, 2025 may go down in history not as the day the Iranian nuclear program was destroyed, but as the day a nuclear Iran was irreversibly born.” – Enrique Mora, European Union Iran nuclear negotiator, cited by Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.
Wars pose particular challenges to democracy because nations at war often become more xenophobic and willing to give those in power extra leeway to protect the homeland. That’s an underlying danger with Trump’s warmongering. – Robert Reich, “What Trump Will Do With His War.”
A president who is uncomfortable with liberal democracy and civil rights and religious tolerance might welcome an attack so as to declare martial law and cancel the midterm elections. I hear sensible people discussing this lunatic idea and it is troubling. – Garrison Keillor, The Column, 6.24.25.
Trump administration officials have restarted aggressive social media screenings of student visa applicants. If we let the government punish students for what they post online, what’s to stop it from coming after citizens next? Like this blog. Or that you read it.
ICE is holding roughly 59,000 people in detention, likely the highest number in American history. Nearly half have no criminal record.
[The Supreme Court justices] work for us. The job may not always be easy. They will not be able to avoid a confrontation with this White House over the scope of presidential power, unless they are willing to concede that the president has the powers of a king, because that is clearly what Donald Trump is trying to acquire. – Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse.
“When a pickpocket meets a saint, all he sees are the saint’s pockets.” – Soren 2.0, 6.26.25
You am, I are, We
– remembering e.e.cummings
The universe is our temple, a pimple,
a humble gimbal, a dimple, frankly fickle.
Left in a pickle, loud proud and ignomineously
deaf, dumb and blind to the level of a stubbed toe –
toiling in the shambles
of spilled leftover soup
on a linoleum floor, slipping
out from under foot at a speed
faster than that of light.
– jab