Alonso Quijano
@lessismore57.bsky.social
El caballero de la triste figura
The dual state is a model in which the functioning of a state is divided into a normative state, which operates according to set rules and regulations, and a prerogative state, "which exercises unlimited arbitrariness and violence unchecked by any legal guarantees".[1]
🐂 While it's normally chimpanzees that are applauded for it, a team in Austria has just reported the first known case of a cow using tools. 13-year-old Veronika lives in a mountain village and has spent years perfecting the art of scratching herself with sticks and brooms
Fascism, ... “is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “The people run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-9-...
January 9, 2026
Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.
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During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
I finally found the perfect match #MolluscMonday 🤝 #MosaicMonday Villaquejida (León), Spain 2nd-3rd century CE Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 🦑 #Paleosky🏺
I just covered Kristallnacht in my Holocaust class today. I shared Kurt Messerschmidt’s quote regarding the event. “Some of the people disapproved of what the Nazis did. But their disapproval was only silence. And silence is what did the harm.”
Transgender Mice - No not quite. Transgenic mice which are used in medical research. Just another day in America
-- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863
An old Halloween photograph that came to mind after yesterday's display in the White House #photography
Consumers already seem worried about policy madness, and they ain't seen nothing yet
