Reposted by Penguin RanchGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Make like the South Koreans. And the Israelis. Show the world that we can stand up for ourselves. April 5, everywhere: handsoff2025.comhandsoff2025.comHands Off!Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre... 19059671744
Reposted by Penguin RanchTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...snyder.substack.comTwenty Lessons, read by John LithgowKey selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing 26691484383
Penguin Ranch @penguinranch.bsky.social · 21/02/2025There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien 000
Penguin Ranch @penguinranch.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I guess I’m old, but didn’t President Carter pardon his brother Billy? Each president seems to have a black sheep in the family. Hunter Biden was targeted because of his father. Some of the outrage is not about the sanctity of laws, but because a club to use against Biden has been removed. I call BS 000
Penguin Ranch @penguinranch.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Today, in 1959, 12 nations signed The Antarctic Treaty that demilitarized the continent and encouraged using the continent for scientific research. HAPPY ANTARCTICA DAY!! (Penguins rule, especially emperors, but Weddell seals are also pretty cool.) 010
Penguin Ranch @penguinranch.bsky.social · 28/11/2024When I was little, my mother it was in bad taste to discuss religion or politics at the table. Given today’s contentious issues, maybe also include a $10 fine for each infraction. You can then give any money collected to a charity. 010
Penguin Ranch @penguinranch.bsky.social · 13/11/2024I have to hope that Laurence Tribe was correct when he said this weekend that there still are SOME guardrails. The Constitution still grants considerable power to the individual states and Democratic Governors are going to legislate resistance. Hope for the best. Plan for the worse. 000
Penguin Ranch @penguinranch.bsky.social · 10/11/2024I believe in peer-reviewed science. I believe in vaccines & wearing N95 masks in crowded places. I believe in water fluoridation. I believe in democracy (big D & little d). Dogs have people; cats have staff. Love both. I learned that sooner or later all storms must end. Courage. 070
