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New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant. So hear me President Trump when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.

– Zohran Mamdani, 2025 Victory Speech, Brooklyn NY

And that as the Internet grows, and as our ability to be linked up, like–I mean, you and I coulda done this through e-mail, and I never woulda had to meet you, and that woulda been easier for me. Right? Like, at a certain point, we’re gonna have to build some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that’s the basic main staple of your diet, you’re gonna die. In a meaningful way, you’re going to die.

– David Foster Wallace, interview with David Lipsky, 1996

How did he know – almost 30 years ago how did he know?!

I’m all for unifying. I’m all for bridging gaps. But not at the expense of my neighbor’s humanity.

– Ta-Nehisi Coates, Klein, E. (2025, September 28). Ezra Klein podcast: Ta-Nehisi Coates [Opinion]. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ta-nehisi-coates.html “Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines”

The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it.

– Last V. Jonathan. (2025, April 3). The American Age is Over The Bulwark. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-american-age-is-over

“We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every four years.” He was right

– Last V. Jonathan. (2025, April 3). The American Age is Over The Bulwark. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-american-age-is-over

Only 1,460 days to go …

A country teetering on the edge of collapse is filled with patriots

– Laozi’s Dao De Jing: A New Interpretation for a Transformative Time by Ken Liu

Failure means you’re trying.

All you have is all you need.

– Coach Pain

Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight“

– Thomas Marshall, Woodrow Wilson’s vice president commenting on the death of Teddy Roosevelt