"Will you stand and watch while all the seeds of hate are sown?"

Which way are you goin'?
Which side will you be on?
Will you stand and watch while
All the seeds of hate are sown?
Will you stand with those who say,
"Let His will be done"?

One hand on the bible
One hand on the gun
One hand on the bible
One hand on the gun

Which way are you looking?
Is it hard to see?
Do you say what's wrong for him
Is not wrong for me?
You walk the streets, righteousness
But you refuse to understand

You say you love the baby
Then you crucify the man
You say you love the baby
Then you crucify the man

Everyday, things are changing,
Words once honored turned to lies
People wondering, can you blame them
It's too far to run, and too late to hide

Now you turn your back on
All the things that you used to preach
Now it's "Let him live in freedom,
If he lives like me"

Well your line has changed, confusion reigns,
What have you become?
Your olive branches turned to spears
When your flowers turned to guns
Your olive branches turned to spears
When your flowers turned to guns

Jim Croce, 1973

He knew.

I admit... I didn't (don't) like Twitter.

Part of it was/is just me being the wrong age, I think. Part of it was/is that my ipad couldn't (can't) resolve those blue "link to tweet" lines into images, forcing me to decide whether to click or not. Part of it was/is just the feeling that it was/is all a bit of a show.

But, there were (are) people to whom it is an important part of their lives. A community. Although I don't really understand it myself, I do understand community and what it is to lose one.

A billionaire should not be allowed to destroy one just because he can (and for whatever other nefarious right-wing / libertarian reasons he might have.

So, despite my own ambivalence toward Twitter, I empathize with those who are soon to be grieving their loss.

Congressional hearings will be too little, too late - but they should happen anyway.

This really is less of a laughing matter the more I look at it and think about it.

I hope I don't mess up my 200th post on DU

Foundational work on Jan 6 prosecution

Disclaimer: I know nothing about Merrick Garland except that he was middle-of-the-road enough that Obama thought the Repugs would not block his nomination. I am as impatient and full of doubts about the pace of the DOJ's investigation as anyone here, and still not sure we're ever gonna see any real justice when all is said and done.

Anyway...

I was watching this video: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017739993

Glenn Kirschner was saying "Sometimes justice seems to take forever, and then it comes all at once."

It reminded me of the time I built a retaining wall at my sister's house. My brother-in-law was very impatient with the amount of time I was taking to make sure each and every one of the first retaining blocks was exactly the way I wanted it - just slightly off level, tilting in toward the area to be filled with dirt. To him, it looked like I was doing nothing (or close to nothing) for days.

The time finally came when I was ready to put the rest of the blocks up. He and another person who happened to be there helped me put the blocks in place; it took maybe an hour or two. He remarked on how fast it happened - where there had been just one layer of blocks, all of a sudden there was a wall.

No real point to this allegory except to say I hope that's what has been happening this whole time - the DOJ has been painstakingly building a good foundation so their case will not eventually crumble and fall, as the retaining wall eventually would if not for the time and meticulous care involved in setting the first layer down just right.

At the end of the video, Kirschner says, "I am so damn ready for the 'all at once' part."

Pretty sure we're all with him on that one.

America is addicted to guns

I know a thing or two about addiction. One thing I know is, before you can recover, you have to hit bottom.

The problem is, everyone's bottom is different. What might be the bottom for one person might not be low enough for someone else.

America, as a whole, must hit bottom before it has a chance to recover from its gun addiction.

I thought Sandy Hook would do it. Sandy Hook didn't do it. Sandy Hook would have done it for any other country, but America is a much tougher case. Knowing that Sandy Hook wasn't our bottom, we can presume that Uvalde is also not our bottom.

I don't know what America's bottom will have to be. I don't want to see what America's bottom will be. Probably none of us do.

But apparently, we don't have the luxury of having that choice.

What's the t-w-e-e-t? - Sunday, May 1. (Screenshot compilation)

Selected tweets posted on DU, for the twitter-averse.

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Saturday tweets

What's the t-w-e-e-t? - Saturday, April 30. (Screenshot compilation)

Selected tweets posted on DU, for the twitter-averse. Check back later for additions!


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Friday tweets - final edition

What's the t-w-e-e-t? - Friday, April 29. (Screenshot compilation)

Selected tweets posted on DU, for the twitter-averse. Check back later for additions!

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Thursday tweets - final edition

Thanks for the recs!

What's the t-w-e-e-t? - Thursday, April 28. (NO twit-ter links!)

Selected tweets posted on DU, for the twitter-averse. Check back later for additions!

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Wednesday tweets - final edition

What's the t-w-e-e-t? - Wednesday, April 27

Selected tweets posted on DU, for the twitter-averse. Check back later for additions!

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