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Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 3h

This is worth reading. x.com/athenaeumbc/...

Athenaeum Book Club on X: "Hegel wrote The Phenomenology of Spirit in 1807, while Napoleon’s armies were reshaping Europe. It was a time of chaos. Hegel thought the chaos itself had meaning. He believed that history, like a person, learns about itself through conflict. https://t.co/CcuBCq7t0i" / X

Hegel wrote The Phenomenology of Spirit in 1807, while Napoleon’s armies were reshaping Europe. It was a time of chaos. Hegel thought the chaos itself had meaning. He believed that history, like a person, learns about itself through conflict. https://t.co/CcuBCq7t0i

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Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 17h

Once a safeguard against political abuse, the Hatch Act is now a stage prop for performative ethics. Pam Bondi’s Senate showdown shows how both parties invoke it as ritual, not reform—proof that in Washington, accountability is theater, not law
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The Church of Hollow Ethics

How the Hatch Act became Washington’s sacred farce—worshiped, weaponized, and willfully ignored.

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Cat Joe💙 🌊 #brotherly_cats_are_awesome @catjoe.bsky.social · 6h

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It’s like fishing for carp, every now and then you land a big one!!😂

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Magi S @ateasecoaching.bsky.social · 9h

Donut make you want to laugh?

Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 1d

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Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 16h

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Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 16h

thanks

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Lady Liberty @sadworld.bsky.social · 17h

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Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 1d

yet as community coverage drops below 95% for diseases like measles, the virus finds new playgrounds.
Mutations brew in unvaccinated hosts, and exposure rises for everyone—especially the vulnerable: elders, immunocompromised kids,

Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Misinformation has evolved into a new “selfish meme,” outcompeting truth like a virus. From vaccine lies to politicized science, collective safety erodes as individuals act responsibly in vain. Dawkins warned us—memes don’t seek truth, only survival. open.substack.com/pub/normsmus...

The Drift of the Selfish Meme: Dawkins’ Legacy in an Age of Viral Lies

When Lies Evolve Faster Than Truth, The Meme Pandemic Outpacing Science, Collective Safety in a Broken Herd, Dawkins’ Legacy Meets the Algorithm, Age How to Survive the Drift of the Selfish Meme

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Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 17h

Once a safeguard against political abuse, the Hatch Act is now a stage prop for performative ethics. Pam Bondi’s Senate showdown shows how both parties invoke it as ritual, not reform—proof that in Washington, accountability is theater, not law
open.substack.com/pub/normsmus...

The Church of Hollow Ethics

How the Hatch Act became Washington’s sacred farce—worshiped, weaponized, and willfully ignored.

open.substack.com

2 7 18

Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 1d

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bluegirlfighter.bsky.social @bluegirlfighter.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I do and state police

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Woody☘️Expat in🇲🇽Slava🇺🇦⚡️ @woodyphi.bsky.social · 1d

YES! That’s what I’ve been saying! And when federals come & say they have to be released, the response must be “Make me.”

Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Do you believe the proper use of city police is to monitor ICE agents and arrest them when they break the law?

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Julia @toddlenrant.bsky.social · 1d

Those who are fans of John Birch Society see eugenics as the way to 'purify' the population. Anti-vax movement will wipe out those with poor health and stupid.

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Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 1d

yet as community coverage drops below 95% for diseases like measles, the virus finds new playgrounds.
Mutations brew in unvaccinated hosts, and exposure rises for everyone—especially the vulnerable: elders, immunocompromised kids,

Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Misinformation has evolved into a new “selfish meme,” outcompeting truth like a virus. From vaccine lies to politicized science, collective safety erodes as individuals act responsibly in vain. Dawkins warned us—memes don’t seek truth, only survival. open.substack.com/pub/normsmus...

The Drift of the Selfish Meme: Dawkins’ Legacy in an Age of Viral Lies

When Lies Evolve Faster Than Truth, The Meme Pandemic Outpacing Science, Collective Safety in a Broken Herd, Dawkins’ Legacy Meets the Algorithm, Age How to Survive the Drift of the Selfish Meme

open.substack.com

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Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 1d

It’s frustration turned existential:
Why mask if the room’s a petri dish?
Why vaccinate if the herd’s AWOL?
Yet naming it, as Dawkins named the gene’s selfishness, strips it of mystique.
You are not powerless.
You’re part of the immune response.

Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 1d

RAH @rah82ndaa.bsky.social · 1d

Bad actors are one thing, American durability quite another. Determined ignorance and belligerent stupidity afflicts half the nation.

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Norm Clark @normsmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Misinformation has evolved into a new “selfish meme,” outcompeting truth like a virus. From vaccine lies to politicized science, collective safety erodes as individuals act responsibly in vain. Dawkins warned us—memes don’t seek truth, only survival. open.substack.com/pub/normsmus...

The Drift of the Selfish Meme: Dawkins’ Legacy in an Age of Viral Lies

When Lies Evolve Faster Than Truth, The Meme Pandemic Outpacing Science, Collective Safety in a Broken Herd, Dawkins’ Legacy Meets the Algorithm, Age How to Survive the Drift of the Selfish Meme

open.substack.com

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ₚₐᵥₑₗ ₜᵣₒₗₗₒᵥᵢcₕ🇪🇺 𝓐𝓃ţƗ千Ⓐ @resistaustria.eu · 1d

Arresting masked kidnappers with no badges, no ID, no warrant that go after random people with braindead brutality? Hell yeah!

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The Specious Report @thespeciousreport.bsky.social · 1d

[1/2] I believe the proper use of a city's police *AND* a State's National Guard is to protect neighborhoods from bands of roving gangs of armed, masked individuals who abduct men, women and children indiscriminately.