@heidilifeldman On top of that, you'll have an armed wing of one of the major parties thrust out into the cold, but with connections inside government at levels high and low. It will require constraining, disciplinarian, dare I say color-of-authoritarian administration to ferret out corruption and instill an instinctive respect for the letter of written rules. It's going to be a heavy lift. The days of the "wild and crazy American can-do spirit" are gone either way. Sad to see it go.
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The lies, non-compliance, delays in compliance - all show the endless bad faith of the Trump regime, from its highest officers to rather low-level ones. -
Wondering what journalists might be interested in the news story of an ICE agent negligently discharging his gun through the walls of a hotel he was staying at.@deviantollam The bullet bears a grudge against the chamber.
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What is one book that positively shaped who you are as a person and how did it influence you?@bookstodon @ShaulaEvans There are several, but I'll offer up two:
Jean Merrill, The Pushcart War (1964)
Read in the sixth grade of elementary school. It taught me the positive power of subversion, and the importance of solidarity in the face of corruption.
Donald Knuth, The TeXbook (1984)
Read while working as an early-career legal academic. It unlocked in me a passion for, or obsession with, grasping programming logic and putting it to use.
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Did you know@jik I once rescued a moped from a neighbor's junkpile, found that it was sold through the Sears & Roebuck department store, and was able to order specific carburetor parts from the exploded view in their catalog to get it going again.