Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it does. What do these people (and I use the word loosely) think they are doing? Who are they protecting? 🔗California police kill double amputee who was fleeing: ‘Scared for his life’.
Said it before saying it again ..l 🔗 this Mastodon / MicroBlog stuff is not easy is it?
🔗 Chris Hedges is one of many voices I read talking about the war mongering U.S.A. … and I get it - I really do … BUT … if somebody invades a country … and we 🔗 don’t do what we are doing … then what should we do?
David Fisher has the scoop this morning in the NZ Herald about Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s WhatsApp comments to his ‘Grumpy Old Men’ tennis mates about having to cancel their game on Friday because of having to deal with media ‘drongos’ requests about the flood. This will embolden more people to call for his resignation. And when Wayne loses the Herald he is in trouble…the detail about Brown begging Fish not to run it is instructive.
💬 Wayne Hickey
The article ….
🔗 Auckland floods: Mayor Wayne Brown’s 30min phone call with the Herald.
… which I haven’t read because it is paywalled, opens with these words …
This is how Jim Crow rolls on in the 21st century. Yes, it’s about the guns. But the guns are about the racism. If my fellow men weren’t so damned racist, so scared of “the other,” they wouldn’t be getting killy, fewer people would be getting killed, and de-escalation could begin.
As it is, you’re safer in Kyiv.
💬 Dana Blankenhorn
🔗 Florida teachers told to remove books from classroom libraries or risk felony prosecution
If you are teacher in Florida, why would you stay? (Either in teaching - or Florida).
… without a shared understanding of where we are in life and what words mean to us, there’s no room for constructive interactions."
💬 Manuel Moreale
No argument.
Behold … a source for your ‘daily enigma’ …
Series 1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Just finished the first season, Did not expect that ending.
Series 2 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The second series seemed to take a long time to come through - but kept up the pace - but somehow it …
🔗 Too much truth for a comic strip. - but a potential solution to one of society’s many ills?