We're still looking to add a few readers to our fall reading groups conducted in Spanish! Zorrilla, Don Juan Tenorio, 8:30-10 AM ET (10/04-25) Donoso, Lugar sin límites, 4-5:30 PM ET (10/06-27) Suetonio, Vidas de los doce Césares, 8:30-10 AM ET (11/01-29) tinyurl.com/2ze3bxwn

During my town hall, someone asked me what they could do to stand up to authoritarianism. Despite what the cynics say, you have power. All it takes is one person speaking up for somebody else. It is small acts that can change the course of this country.

A periodic reminder for all car drivers: You are not stuck in traffic. You are traffic!

🔔#Earthquake (#deprem) M5.2 occurred 21 km S of #Marmaraereğlisi (#Turkey) 5 min ago (local time 14:55:04). More info at: 📱m.emsc.eu/#app 🌐m.emsc.eu/?id=1874796 🖥emsc-csem.org/Earthquake_inf…

every time someone asks me about my dislike and refusal to use AI, i send them this.

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The Mamdani proposal is apparently to phase out tracking in K-1-2, *not* higher grades. It does seem like a good idea - to let smart kids meet one another - *not* to ask 4-year-olds to take entrance exams How to balance these? Not clear!

My first Substack article I am British Progressive Muslim, and I stand against Islamism and antisemitism open.substack.com/pub/nervana3/p… Jake Wallis Simons Campaign Against Antisemitism Kemi Badenoch Conservatives Nile Gardiner

incredible video. foh.

Women of the Day are the 67 German women who achieved something quite remarkable on 6 March 1943 in Berlin when they forced Goebbels to release nearly 1,800 Jewish men held by the Gestapo pending deportation to forced labour camps or death camps. Have you ever heard of the

"The experience of migration accompanies the history of the People of God. Abraham sets out without knowing where he is going; Moses leads the pilgrim people through the desert; Mary and Joseph flee with the child Jesus to Egypt. Christ himself, who 'came to what was his own, and

A really interesting idea here, it seems to me. I was initially horrified to think they had actually painted the stone, but no. If you don't like the artwork, it will be removed by March. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I will be there on October 18th, and I hope you will be too. #NoKings snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-fre…

I voted for Proposition 50 today

"Get every high school and college student hooked on a product, then convert it into an infinity-porn engine" is the most evil business model anyone's devised since the North Atlantic slave trade.

For people participating in the NO KINGS demonstrations, techniques for responding to antagonistic confrontation. Please retweet, unless you have something better. youtube.com/watch?v=bmZXne…

As Socrates pointed out, when we die, our bodies can be buried, not ourselves. Perhaps after death the Dalai Lama will choose a new body to be born on. Does anybody believe he could make the wrong choice?

Nostalgia: Don Pullen, "Kele Mou Bana" youtube.com/watch?v=mpsT1n…

"Growing your own vegetables" is optional only if somebody else is doing that job, and I don't think AI will be doing it