Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Wendell Berry anathema: Life as a race … … toward destinations … far away … in the future … using expensive means … regardless of one’s responsibilities to our family and our community. 000
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sports annoyances: - spitting in baseball - grunting in tennis - WWE is considered a sport - talkative announcers and color analysts - sports “challenges” (just let the computer make the call if it is already set-up) 000
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You can fool Some of the people All of the time. - because stupid - because gullible - because blinded by passion for their group You can fool All of the people Some of the time. - because mass delusion But you can’t fool All of the people All of the time. - because a skeptical, thoughtful remnant 010
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 16/07/2026MAGA CHOOSES ITS ABOMINATIONS? 1. to rid themselves of abortion, MAGA embraced pedophila? 2. to rid themselves of DEI and wokeness, MAGA embraced homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and war-making? 3. to rid themselves of business regulation, MAGA embraced corruption and cronyism? 000
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 14/07/2026What is it with politics these days? A senator unfortunately dies, and he is replaced by … his sister? Is government a family affair, like an inherited monarchy? I thought we sought independence from that kind of government, oh, about 250 years ago. 010
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Like many career politicians, Lindsey Graham was a principled man, one of whose favorite principles was to abandon any healthy sense of consistency and morality if those principles might interfere with your re-election. 000
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 08/07/2026When you hurt yourself swinging a baseball bat (Red Sox Roman Anthony) and playing first base (Red Sox Triston Casas), maybe baseball isn’t for you. Especially when your recovery period is … indefinite. 010
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Breaking News! Todd Blanche (“I love you, sir”) just announced that the recently removed letters from the Kennedy Center Memorial will be reused at the Lincoln Memorial, which the President has unilaterally renamed “The Donald J Trump and Abraham Lincoln Memorial.” 020
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Is anyone buying what the Salesman-in-Chief is selling? I guess his diehard supporters, who don’t know any better. Independents? 000
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 16/11/2025And yet we all are gathered in this leftover love, this longing become the measure of a joy all mourners know. An old man's mind is a graveyard where the dead arise. 000
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 27/07/2025One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this. — Omar El Akkad re Gaza. Could also be said about MAGA, MAHA, tax cuts without corresponding spending cuts, etc 000
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 21/07/2025What happened to Congress’s Art I power over interstate commerce and trade that the president can impose, modify, reimpose, pause tariffs as he alone decides upon? 110
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Whatever happened to federal civil service protections that so many career federal employees are summarily fired? 010
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 21/07/2025What happened to our current trade agreements that President Trump can unilaterally impose whatever tariff he wants on other countries? 000
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Fascinating, especially the part about leadership being less about control and more about service.nytimes.comPope Leo’s Doctoral Dissertation: Thoughts on Power and Authority 010
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Read along with one of the most popular books in history. 032
Reposted by Neal BeetsTom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 26/04/2025insideclimatenews.orgA Grim Signal: Atmospheric CO2 Soared in 2024 - Inside Climate NewsScientists are worried because they can’t fully explain the big jump, but they think it might mean that carbon absorption by forests, fields and wetlands is slowing down—a major problem for the world. 011
Reposted by Neal BeetsHp Rosenlechner @kairos.social · 13/04/2025M. a. W. mehr #Losdemokratie: #Zufallswahl – #Deliberation – #Rotation. 011
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Great, long article about Trump and Trumpism. Best I’ve seen. 000
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Rigid ideologies turn politics into a morality play, a soap opera. 000
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Paraphrasing Wendell Berry, trying to make sense out of many of President Trump’s actions is like looking for eggs in a cuckoo clock. 010
Reposted by Neal BeetsClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Rain gardens not only prevent flooding, they can be really pretty 1049841
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Looking forward to the day, I hope soon, when Trump says he hardly knows Elon Musk. 000
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Elon Musk is a radical capitalist of the creative destruction school — though his destruction is not often creative just destructive. Not the American tradition, which balances disruption with empathy and compassion. 010
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Maybe God thinks “America First” is selfish, the stock market thinks trade wars are bad business, and allies don’t appreciate being treated as enemies. 010
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Trump is playing with tariffs like a toddler plays with a light switch. 030
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 04/03/20251. Tank the economy. Check. 2. Appoint performance artists like Kristi Noem. Check. 3. Abandon an ally fighting for survival in a war against an invader. Check. 4. Allow an immigrant from South Africa to audit and fire by computer alone--no personal familiarity with the person or agency. Check. 000
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Nothing says danger more than a flak jacket, heavy make-up, fully conditioned hair free-flowing over your shoulders, and lips full of puffery. Hegseth should take her out of "the fight." She might break a nail. 000
Neal Beets @nealbeets.bsky.social · 02/03/2025After pardoning Pete Rose, Trump said he was going to pardon Benedict Arnold. 000