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I'm incurably curious about many aspects of this journey of ours. Here are a few noteworthy items I've stumbled across that I want to remember so I can revisit them from time to time.
Appetizer:
"Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated."
– Albert Einstein, from a short speech he gave to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin, in 1932, which can be found in Einstein: A Life In Science by Michael White and John Gribbin, Dutton, 1994, pages 262 – 263: via Internet Archive⩘ .
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Freedom! Democracy! Hope!
Photo by Chris F⩘ via Pexels.
Rebecca Solnit, a writer I really appreciate, wrote an excellent opinion piece today titled "New beginnings" as part of an article by multiple writers titled 'A historic beatdown': Americans take back their country in rebuke to Trump⩘ :
New beginnings
Landslide. Tsunami. Earthquake.
In this historic night, Americans took their country back, making epic changes to the political map, putting blue back in places that had been solid red for decades. Everyone I knew was almost afraid to hope, auspicious though the polls and other signs were, afraid to set themselves up for disappointment, and then last night came report after report of almost unbelievable victories, the Senate retaken, the House retaken.
It is a profound repudiation of Trumpism, helped along by Trump's unerring ability to pick truly despicable candidates from Texas's criminal Ken Paxton to Ohio's creep Vivek Ramaswamy to South Carolina's inane Darline Graham.
In that it's the end of something, and when the celebration is over, it'll be time to remember it's the beginning of something, of rebuilding this country in all the ways it's been broken and corrupted. So tonight there was a finish line, and tomorrow or the day after it'll be our starting line.
'A historic beatdown': Americans take back their country in rebuke to Trump⩘ by Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian, Nov 4, 2026.
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Ongoing contemplations
- Why I dislike artificial intelligence⩘
- My heart is with the people of Ukraine⩘
- Broken heart: Palestine, Gaza, the West Bank, Israel⩘
