Allen Parmenter
@allenparmenter.bsky.social
Literary soul. Democracy is my first principle. Lover of music and art.
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Orange Palpatine won by 229,766 votes out of over 152 million.
In other words, 0.001% of the electorate.
NOT a mandate!
In other words, 0.001% of the electorate.
NOT a mandate!
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Watch this when you can.
Trump calls Jan 6 a “day of love.” This bodycam footage shows otherwise.
YouTube video by NPR
www.youtube.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Watch this when you can.
"In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times." - Motto poem by Bertolt Brecht
January 4, 2026 at 2:14 AM
"In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times." - Motto poem by Bertolt Brecht
“A writer is a world trapped in a person.”-Victor Hugo
January 3, 2026 at 6:51 AM
“A writer is a world trapped in a person.”-Victor Hugo
“Becoming children of God is a true power – one that remains buried so long as we keep our distance from the cry of children and the frailty of the elderly, from the helpless silence of victims and the resigned melancholy of those who do the evil they do not want.” - Pope Leo XIV
January 3, 2026 at 4:51 AM
“Becoming children of God is a true power – one that remains buried so long as we keep our distance from the cry of children and the frailty of the elderly, from the helpless silence of victims and the resigned melancholy of those who do the evil they do not want.” - Pope Leo XIV
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
December 31, 2025 at 5:22 AM
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
“Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.” ~ from A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
December 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.” ~ from A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
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“We talk about kayfabe. And it’s fun, because pro-wrestling is the codex for understanding modern America. But also: Kayfabe is a pathway to authoritarianism. Because in the political context, it is a mode of nihilism. And nihilism is liberalism’s kryptonite.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Why Marjorie Taylor Greene Gives Me Hope
People don’t change—but they can remember who they are.
open.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“We talk about kayfabe. And it’s fun, because pro-wrestling is the codex for understanding modern America. But also: Kayfabe is a pathway to authoritarianism. Because in the political context, it is a mode of nihilism. And nihilism is liberalism’s kryptonite.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Eclogues of Virgil (1908)/Eclogue 4 - Wikisource, the free online library
en.wikisource.org
December 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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THE MAN THAT NEVER APPEARED IN THE EPSTEIN FILES !!!
and Trump can’t tolerate that!
and Trump can’t tolerate that!
December 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
THE MAN THAT NEVER APPEARED IN THE EPSTEIN FILES !!!
and Trump can’t tolerate that!
and Trump can’t tolerate that!
There is intelligence not where there is separation, but where there is connection. To distinguish is useful, but to divide, never. Jesus is the eternal life in our midst: he brings opposites together and makes communion possible." | Pope Leo XIV
December 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
There is intelligence not where there is separation, but where there is connection. To distinguish is useful, but to divide, never. Jesus is the eternal life in our midst: he brings opposites together and makes communion possible." | Pope Leo XIV
“We are threatened with universal genocide if we cannot work out the way of salvation by a symbolic death.”
- Carl Jung
- Carl Jung
December 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“We are threatened with universal genocide if we cannot work out the way of salvation by a symbolic death.”
- Carl Jung
- Carl Jung
Democracy requires a significantly large enough minority of citizens who will deliberately aim at democratic service every single day. Democracy first. Such people must embrace suffering, intending to suffer as long as it takes before democratic breakthrough is achieved.
December 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Democracy requires a significantly large enough minority of citizens who will deliberately aim at democratic service every single day. Democracy first. Such people must embrace suffering, intending to suffer as long as it takes before democratic breakthrough is achieved.
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I get confused. Is he D.E.I.?
December 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I get confused. Is he D.E.I.?
50 years walking into this mess. 50 years walking out.
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 AM
50 years walking into this mess. 50 years walking out.
‘Watching The Potomac Burn’ by Carolyn Srygley Moore is an excellent new book of poems, written for a time such as ours
December 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
‘Watching The Potomac Burn’ by Carolyn Srygley Moore is an excellent new book of poems, written for a time such as ours
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I don't even want to know what they did with a Dentist office...wtaf
a man with long hair and a beard is holding a cup and the word dude is on the bottom
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is holding a cup and the word dude is on the bottom
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December 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I don't even want to know what they did with a Dentist office...wtaf
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We’re in a hell of a lot of trouble.
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We’re in a hell of a lot of trouble.
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Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe.
“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...
www.propublica.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe.
“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
What , then, is Jedi realism . . ?
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 AM
What , then, is Jedi realism . . ?