Superman lives . . .
Thursday, June 5, 2025. It's Thor's day . . . Easy Northeasterlies are to maintain cloudy skies over TulseyTown today. Low 80's. Thor's thunder later tonight.
“Data? We don't need no stinkin' data!”
This is not hyperbole: Trump is building a spy-machine to use against ordinary Americans.
Trump's disinformation campaign continues to pose a significant threat to our democracy and the rule of law. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse.
Trump’s economic policies are designed to transfer wealth from consumers to the wealthy and corporations. From 1981 to 2021, American policies moved $50 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. After Biden stopped that upward transfer, the Trump administration is restarting it again, on steroids. [and denying every bit of factual data while attempting to dismantle reliable governmental data trackers]. – – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
“If his lips are moving . . .”
KILL BILL In case you missed it: Elon Musk is attacking the “big beautiful” Republican bill cutting taxes, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Musk wrote on his social media platform yesterday urging Americans to call their lawmakers to kill the bill.
The most important Spanish poet and playwright of the 20th century, Federico García Lorca, was born on this day in 1898, Fuente Vaqueros, Granada province, Spain. Assassinated by Franco's followers, Lorca's legacy continues to influence creatives around the world.
Laurie Anderson turns 78 today (hard to believe). The gifted performance artist, composer, and writer was born in 1947, Wayne, Illinois.
“If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?” – Zen Master Dogen
The “Truth” isn't some where.
It's always where you are in this moment.
Where it has always been.
Where it will be always.
— jab
Never say “never . . .”
Wednesday, June 4, 2025. It's Odin's day . . . Easy Northerlies brought cool rainshowers to my dawn mailbox visit here in TulseyTown. Forecasts indicate the rain showers are to yield to overcast skies during the afternoon hours with a cool mid 70's. The weathefeather says we're entering into our Summer pattern of +/- 20% rain chances every other day for the next ten days. As I write, the rains have ceased and the birds have begun their morning conversations.
Today in 1919, Congress approved the Nineteenth Amendment, assuring the right to vote for women in the U.S. after 160 years of demonstrations.
Joyce Vance is celebrating three years in Civil Discourse.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the news, remember, that’s a feature, not a bug. He needs all of that noise to distract enough people for enough time because Trump is attempting to assume the role of dictator or autocrat, call it what you like. – Joyce Vance in Civil Discourse.
How to stand your ground in the face of the gaslighting and hosing of disinformational change.
Beyone sticky, Ukrain's spider webs look lethal. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.
And in 1896, Henry Ford completed, and successfully tested, his first experimental automobile, the quadracycle.
Call of the Way
I hear a voice you cannot hear,
Which says I must not stay;
I see a hand you cannot see,
Which beckons me away. --Thomas Tickell (1685 – 1740)
If he who is organized by the Divine for Spiritual communion
refuses and buries his talent in the Earth,
even though he should want natural bread,
shame and confusion of face will pursue him
throughout life and into eternity – William Blake (1757 – 1827)
. . . you're going to be miserable
if you don't do what you are called to do – Kris Krisofferson (1936-2024)
– jab
I seem to be a verb…
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
It's Tiw's day . . . Mixed clouds and sun this morning are forecasted to bring a slight chance for thunderstorms for TulseyTown developing this afternoon, becoming likely overnight and into tomorrow morning. Strong Southerlies. Low 80's.
I don’t want to define what a tree is. Each tree is different. I don’t want to self-define and stop becoming. . .The I cannot be sustained. It pretends that a self can survive without a we, without a community, without a constant updating of our ideas of truth. – Sophie Strand
Land rights for all indigenous peoples in Australia were established by the High Court of Australia today in 1992.
Corporate media is gutless and handling Trump with kid gloves terrified of speaking anything that looks like truth to power. From the perspective of The Way, Trump is trying to change the flow of the stream, an impossibility by definition and the ultimate example of attempting to swim against the stream. Avoiding speaking truth to power is another example of the same thing. The only way to navigate The Way is to speak truth to the power of The Way.
Poet Allen Ginsberg was born on this day in 1926 Newark, New Jersey.
It's also the birthday of Larry McMurtry. The author and Pulitzer Prize laureate (Lonesome Dove) was born in 1936 Wichita Falls, Texas.
“Whoopie, we're all gonna die.” – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters From An American.