Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 15h"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition." Alvin Toffler, "Future Shock" 021
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 15h“If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.” Alvin Toffler, “The Futurists” 121
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine.” Woody Guthrie, as quoted by Dave Marsh in “Pastures of Plenty” 000
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always." Mohandas K. Gandhi 000
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“I have no weapon but love.” Mohandas K. Gandhi, “Quit India” speech, Bombay (Mumbai), August 8, 1942 112
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Mood music… m.youtube.com/watch?v=ajcU...m.youtube.comTom Petty & the Heartbreakers - I Won't Back Down [HD] - Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre (1994)YouTube video by Rock Vault 021
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced.” President Jimmy Carter, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1977 010
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“There is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.” Truman Capote, “The Thanksgiving Visitor” 141
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?” Miguel de Cervantes, “Don Quixote” 000
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"For neither good nor evil can last forever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted so long, good must now be close at hand." Miguel de Cervantes, "Don Quixote" 110
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Nobody who lived through the '50s thought the '60s could've existed. So there's always hope.” Tuli Kupferberg, Mojo magazine, 2008. 031
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable.” Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener” 021
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?” Rachel Carson, “Silent Spring” 000
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.” T.S. Eliot, “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism” 010
Reposted by Michael BlevonsLucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We may see people pulled out of voting lines and asked for their citizenship papers. That’s how bad it could get after today’s Supreme Court order. Buckle up. Election day is going to be a fight like we have never seen. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-suprem...luciantruscott.substack.comThe Supreme Court just sicced ICE on our voting rightsThis by far the most dangerous thing that could possibly happen before the midterm elections. 198
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” William Faulkner, “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters” 041
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the ‘impossible,’ come true.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up” 000
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?” Fannie Flagg, “Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe” 010
Reposted by Michael BlevonsLucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It’s heartening to see the networks show a spine in the face of Trump’s authoritarian violation of the First Amendment. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/major-netw...luciantruscott.substack.comMajor networks stand up to Trump and suspend White House pool coverageIt has finally happened. 082
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." H.G. Wells, "The Outline of History" 011
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” Stephen King, “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” 010
Michael Blevons @mblevons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?” Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “My Own Words” 021
Reposted by Michael BlevonsLucian K. Truscott IV @lktiv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026When you were a child, you were treated kind But you were never brought up right You were always spoiled with a thousand toys But still you cried all night… Here it comes, here it comes Your 19th nervous breakdown. luciantruscott.substack.com/p/waaaaaaaaa...luciantruscott.substack.comWaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Trump throws a tantrum over the Kennedy Center.It will hardly surprise you to learn that Donald Trump had his 19th nervous breakdown yesterday over the John F. 063
