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msderohanes.bsky.social
Don't be disembodied.
Screenshot of a tweet posted by Pope Leo XIV on October 31, 2025. It reads: "Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex In recent years, many young people have approached the faith through social media, successful programs and popular online Christian witnesses. The danger is that a faith discovered online is limited to individual experiences, which may be intellectually and emotionally reassuring, but never "embodied." Such experiences remain "disembodied," detached from the "ecclesial body.""
November 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
msderohanes.bsky.social
The technical term for the problem is "wealth gap" not fake economy. It's indeed a problem, as the graphics below shows.

The dark orange color in the bottom right of the image (you have to look hard to see) IS the bottom 50% of AMERICAN wage earners' wealth.
www.visualcapitalist.com/wealth-distr...
A graphic of Distribution of Household Wealth in the Unite States, which demonstrates the huge disparity in earnings and disproportionate accumulation of wealth in the top income earners, and how has that disparity been drastically increasing since 1990- 2003. The dark orange color in the bottom right of the image, which you have to look hard to see, IS the bottom 50% of AMERICAN wage earners' wealth compared to lighter orange (50%-90%), yellow (90%-99%), and green (top 1%).
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
msderohanes.bsky.social
Where we were just one year ago.🤷🏻‍♀️
A screenshot of the cover of The Economist magazine of October 19th, 2024 it reads: "THE ENVY OF THE WORLD AMERICA'S ECONOMY: A SPECIAL REPORT"
November 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
msderohanes.bsky.social
I did not know that Ezra Klein was the co-founder of Vox.
Screenshot of Matthew Yglesias bio on Vox website, it reads: "Matthew Yglesias Former Senior Correspondent Matthew Yglesias co-founded Vox.com with Ezra Klein and Melissa Bell back in the spring of 2014. He was a senior correspondent focused on politics and economic policy, and co-hosted The Weeds podcast twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays."
November 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
msderohanes.bsky.social
The Constitution prohibits the President from accepting ANY present, Emolument, Office, or Title from ANY foreign government... Much less a crown.

Congress didn't allow Abraham Lincoln to keep a gift of elephants tusks given to him by a foriegn govt, much less a crown. 😵‍💫
A screenshot of Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, it reads: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States. And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
October 29, 2025 at 5:54 AM
msderohanes.bsky.social
This would also be consistent with the Constitution.

The President is prohibited from receiving ANY money from the Federal Government or the States other than the salary determined on the day he is sworn-in.

constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay...
ArtII.S1.C7.1 Emoluments Clause and Presidential Compensation Article II, Section 1, Clause 7 of The United States Constitution: The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
October 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM
msderohanes.bsky.social
It breaks my heart just to look at that picture. 😔💔
Screenshot of Google's definition of "Allegory," it reads: "Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more al·le·go·ry /ˈaləˌɡôrē/ noun a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one."
October 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
msderohanes.bsky.social
More right-wing media buying... Now, Rupert Murdoch effectively controls MSNBC as well. 🤦🏻‍♀️
Sky News is owned by Sky Group, a division of Comcast, and was founded by Rupert Murdoch, who has right-leaning political affiliations.
September 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
msderohanes.bsky.social
This is sheer madness.

When renewable energy industry is one of the fastest growing sectors... We decided to cede that economic growth & potential to China & focus instead on fossil fuels, right when we're canceling health research grants.

Sheer madness policy making.
productiongap.org/2025report/
Governments, in aggregate, still plan to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C. The persistence of the global production gap puts a well-managed and equitable energy transition at risk. Taken together, government now plan even higher levels of coal production to 2035, and gas production to 2050, than they did in 2023. Planned oil production continues to increase to 2050. These plans undermine countries’ Paris Agreement commitments, and go against expectations that under current policies global demand for coal, oil, and gas will peak before 2030.
September 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
msderohanes.bsky.social
The most profound image I saw in a long while.

I think it's a powerful reminder to federal agents in combat uniforms that they are on AMERICAN soil. 🇺🇸♾️
Protester from the Uptown neighborhood, holding an American flag while standing face to face with federal agents during a protest at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 12, 2025. (Dominic Di Palermo/Chicago Tribune)
September 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
msderohanes.bsky.social
In an oligarchy, only a small number of People has an opportunity to prosper, all the rest of the population are at a disadvantage.
Google definition of oligarchy. It reads: "noun: oligarchy; plural noun: oligarchies a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution. a country governed by an oligarchy. "the English aristocratic oligarchy of the 19th century"
September 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
msderohanes.bsky.social
It was never about antisemitism.
If it were, a Hitler fan wouldn't be the one prosecuting the case.
A screenshot from thr article, it reads: "“At Harvard in 2011, no one would say that Hitler was a controversial figure,” said one person with direct knowledge of the incident at the time. About 18 months later, he returned to the subject of Hitler, this time telling a peer that “Mein Kampf” was among his favorite recent reads, according to an email obtained by the Globe. “[I]s it bad that my favorite class at harvard was nietzsche and my favorite book i’ve read this year is mein kampf?” Velchik wrote in June, 2013, one year after receiving his undergraduate degree from Harvard."
September 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
msderohanes.bsky.social
New Deal policies are no socialism, no matter who says so. Promoting the General Welfare of the People was one of 6 main reasons this Country was established, as the preamble explains.

Often overlooked, the Preamble is a mission statement that explains *why* we even have a Constitution & a Country.
A screenshot of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America. It reads: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
August 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
msderohanes.bsky.social
I think it's funny. It is also revealing to all of us, including to FoxNews, how normalized Donald Trump's weird communications' style has become.

Apparently Newsome's Twitter account responded to Perino already. 🤭
Screenshot of a Twitter post by Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice It reads: "DANA "DING DONG" PERINO (NEVER HEARD OF HER UNTIL TODAY!) IS MELTING DOWN BECAUSE OF ME, GAVIN C. NEWSOM! FOX HATES THAT I AM AMERICA'S MOST FAVORITE GOVERNOR ("RATINGS KING") SAVING AMERICA WHILE TRUMP CAN'T EVEN CONQUER THE ""BIG" STAIRS ON AIR FORCE ONE ANYMORE!!! TRUMP HAS "LOST HIS STEP" AND FOX IS LOSING IT BECAUSE WHEN I TYPE, AMERICA NOW WINS!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER. -GCN"
August 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
msderohanes.bsky.social
We need to bring allegory art back!
American Allegory art, circa WWI Era.
A page from the NYT WWI allegory art and an article about establishing the League of Nations, the predecessor of today's United Nations organization. The art features a drawing of three women, each representing one of three words in the headline "Victory" "Democracy" and "Peace." The text reads: "THE NEW YORK TIMES, WEDNESDAY. DECEMRER 25 1918 Victory Democracy Peace Make them secure by a LEAGUE OF NATIONS Christmas this year dawns on a world groping from war toward peacc. The world hopes and prays that peace may be established on justice and safeguarded against future wars. The army of occupation that sleeps till the Judgement Day in the graves of France will have fought and died in vain unless such a PEACE is framed. Our Soldiers and Sailors, returning from VICTORY, will have fought and suffered in vain if that VICTORY is not made secure, GAll the peoples of the free nations will have given in vain billions of their wealth and millions of their own flesh and blood if DEMOCRACY is not established forever." In this poster, “Lady Victory” locks an aggressive German caricature, synonymous with “War,” in jail. With her hand extended toward the viewer, she seeks the public’s support for the League of Nations. The League to Enforce Peace, the organization hosting the advertised rally, was an American organization founded in Philadelphia in 1915 to promote the formation of an international body for world peace. Citation "Bennett, King Co, “Give her the key to lock him up: League of Nations mass meeting 71st Regiment armory, Park Ave. and 34th Street Thu,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/1dda798003cb702be8c37f8990c91279 "
August 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
msderohanes.bsky.social
In his Gettysburg address in 1863, Abraham Lincoln encouraged the troops to keep fighting for the United States of America & its Democracy, to survive the war waged on it by the Confederates' oligarchy.

"that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
"...that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
August 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
msderohanes.bsky.social
Imo, no social is necessary, just simply Democracy.

That it's about the People is already in the root of the word "demo."
Origin of the word Democracy. Greek (demos)(the People) + Greek (-kratia)(power, rule) = Greek (demokratia) ⬇️ Late Latin ⬇️ French (democratie) ⬇️ Democracy (Late 15th century) late 15th century: from French démocratie, via late Latin from Greek dēmokratia, from dēmos ‘the people’ + -kratia ‘power, rule’.
July 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
msderohanes.bsky.social
It never stops to be shocking how one man decides one day to just shutdown a media outlet bc he can.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/hulk-hogan...
The rich man, who continues to full-throatedly denounce the concept of democracy, had decided to take down Gawker before Hogan’s dispute with the site even began, and he was happy to invest a reported $10 million in lawsuits against Gawker, including Hogan’s. The two of them won a March 2016 decision that killed the site for good. Hundreds of jobs were lost and a precedent had been set: billionaires and celebrities were capable of annihilating media outlets by weaponizing the legal system.
July 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
msderohanes.bsky.social
It's ignorant to believe that they would've all been Southern landowners, Viven Leighs & Clak Gables & their lives would be a "Gone With the Wind" style Southern oligarchy, if we just didn't have a Civil War.

During the Antebellum, as it is now, only a small percentage of People were ultra wealthy.
Social structure Much of the Antebellum South was rural, and in line with the plantation system, largely agricultural. With the exception of New Orleans, Charleston, Richmond, and Louisville the slave states had no large cities, and the urban population of the South could not compare to that of the Northeast, or even that of the agrarian West. This led to a sharp division in class in the southern states, between the landowning "master" class, yeoman farmers, poor whites, and slaves; while in the northern and western states, much of the social spectrum was dominated by a wide range of different laboring classes Wealth inequality The conclusion that, while both the North and the South were characterized by a high degree of inequality during the plantation era, the wealth distribution was much more unequal in the South than in the North arises from studies concerned with the equality of land, slave, and wealth distribution. For example, in certain states and counties, due to the concentration of landholding and slave holding, which were highly correlated, six percent of landowners ended up commanding one-third of the gross income and an even higher portion of the net income. The majority of landowners, who had smaller scale plantations, saw a disproportionately small portion in revenues generated by the slavery-driven plantation system.
July 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
msderohanes.bsky.social
Paradigm change doesn't happen from the top down. It happens from the grassroots up. This is not a dictatorship.

In America, we The People do not parrot the "party line" nor do we adopt the government's idiology like they do in China.

It's not a matter of association, it's a matter of principle.
Public sentiment is everything With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. Abraham Lincoln
July 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
msderohanes.bsky.social
Exactly. It's an extremely dangerous tool for any one person or government to have and to exercise at a whim, as such.

Also, the Constitution prohibits Bills of Attainder, which this kind of tool would be. The president can't even ask Congress to pass a law for him to give him such authority.
Article 1, Section 9, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution: No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
July 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
msderohanes.bsky.social
Idk if we can call it a 100 year flood when the same flood happened in 1987.

web.archive.org/web/20250301...
National Weather Service page on the 1987 Guadalupe River Flooding details.
July 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
msderohanes.bsky.social
The Constitution says that the President is prohibited from receiving ANY payments other than his alloted government salary for the period of his presidential term.
A screenshot of Article II, Section 1, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution. It reads: "Article II, Section 1, Clause 7: The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them."
July 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
msderohanes.bsky.social
Dropping bombs disqualifies People from being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

It's the antithesis of the whole reason why the Nobel Peace Prize exists.
www.history.com/articles/dyn...
Although Nobel never explained his motivation for creating the prizes, which vere first awarded in 1901, a popular story holds that when newspapers erroneously reported his death in 1888-instead of that of his brother-he read an unflattering obituary that called him a "merchant of death." While that obituary has never been found, Nobel may have still been driven at the end of his life to change his legacy and donate profits partially gained from warfare. As Bown says, "He devoted himself to philanthropy to counterbalance the moral gray area he perceived resulted from the explosives."
June 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
msderohanes.bsky.social
The Constitution *prohibits* the President from receiving ANY money other than his fixed Presidential Salary.
"ArtII.S1.C7.1 Emoluments Clause and Presidential Compensation Article II, Section 1, Clause 7: The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them."
June 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM