David Hatch - Artist Web Site

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Stop the war in Iraq?!!(*&^%} Youtube pulled down two videos I posted during the period
around the Iraq war. The first one was Drinking the Koolaid. It was posted in 2005. The second pulled recently was Fake News, which was posted in 2009. I put them back up with clips removed that violated policy. too graphic???$%. Not sure about freedom of speech when it comes to graphics but policy is enforced by some algorithm or AI bot. Make Orwell fiction again.

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The University Philosophical Society (The Phil) at
Trinity College Dublin awards the Gold Medal
of Honorary Patronage to Jesse Welles

Award Speech

Folk singer Jesse Welles singing:

DEPT OF WAR

ICE

THE LIST

CHARLIE

And he can really Jam:

God Abrahm and Zanax

Domestic Error Live at Farm Aid

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Tribute to soldier, Rory Dunn from Renton WA,
disabled in Iraq, passed away in 2025

He Came Back from the War

The video above is followed by poem "Road March"
with permission and read by Rory's Mother

Seattle Times

Seattle Times Tribute

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The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro,
has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in
prison after being found guilty of plotting a military coup.

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol
Jailed for Life for Sedition, leading an insurrection, in one of the
country’s biggest criminal trials in decades.

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS'S “FOURTH OF JULY” SPEECH (1852)

July 5, 1852

Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens:

He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I
have. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more
shrinkingly, nor with greater distrust of my ability, than I do this day. A feeling has crept over
me, quite unfavorable to the exercise of my limited powers of speech. The task before me is
one which requires much previous thought and study for its proper performance. I know that
apologies of this sort are generally considered flat and unmeaning. I trust, however, that mine
will not be so considered. Should I seem at ease, my appearance would much misrepresent
me. The little experience I have had in addressing public meetings, in country school houses,
avails me nothing on the present occasion....... (read the rest)

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excerpt from article by Thom Hartman put on top of page

Donald Trump has spent ten years modeling for America
the exact opposite of leadership.

Ten years of cruelty framed as strength.

Ten years of mockery, insults, and grievance elevated to the highest office in the land.

Ten years of praising strongmen, including Putin, Xi, and Orbán, while attacking democratic institutions.

Ten years of targeting Hispanics, Black Somali immigrants, demonizing refugees, and encouraging suspicion and hatred toward entire communities.

And now he’s giving us the example of using ICE not simply as a law enforcement agency, but as a masked, armed, unaccountable weapon of state terror aimed not only at brown-skinned families, but at journalists, clergy, lawyers, and anyone else who dares to document their abuse.

Kids graduating from high school this year have never known anything else. That fact should alarm every parent.

Children learn what leadership looks like long before they understand policy debates. They absorb emotional cues, and notice who gets rewarded and who gets punished.

When a president calls fellow Americans “scum” and suffers no consequences, the lesson is clear: cruelty is permissible if you have power. Empathy is expendable. Democracy is a nuisance. Accountability is optional.

This is how normalization works. What once would have been unthinkable becomes routine. The outrage dulls. The abnormal becomes background noise. And a generation grows up believing this is simply how adults in authority behave.

History tells us where that road leads: dehumanizing language precedes dehumanizing actions.

Every authoritarian movement begins by teaching people to see their neighbors as less than fully human. Once empathy vanishes, abuses become easier to justify, and violence becomes easier to excuse.

That’s why we all — parents, grandparents, and citizens — have a special responsibility right now.

We can’t assume our nation’s children will automatically recognize how dangerous and abnormal this moment is; instead, we have to name it for them.

We have to tell them, plainly and repeatedly, that this is not what healthy leadership looks like.

That calling people “scum” and “sleazebags” is not strength. That praising autocrats while undermining democracy is not patriotism. That power without empathy is not leadership; it’s merely a simple pathology known as psychopathy.

And we must model something better ourselves.

Disagree without dehumanizing. Stand up without tearing others down. Teach that democracy, in order to work, depends on mutual recognition of one another’s humanity.

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BBC

Daily Dose of Democracy

Brian Tyler Cohen

Democracy Now

Thom Hartman

ACLU

Sierra Club

SPLC

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The Poem of the Day

Jabberwocky

BY LEWIS CARROLL

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Source: The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (1983)

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The University Philosophical Society (The Phil) at Trinity College Dublin awards the Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage to Jesse Welles

Folk singer Jesse Welles singing:

CHARLIE And he can really Jam:

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Tribute to soldier, Rory Dunn from Renton WA, disabled in Iraq, passed away in 2025

The video above is followed by poem "Road March" with permission and read by Rory's Mother

Seattle Times

________________________________________________

The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in prison after being found guilty of plotting a military coup.

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol Jailed for Life for Sedition, leading an insurrection, in one of the country’s biggest criminal trials in decades.

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July 5, 1852

Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens:

Donald Trump has spent ten years modeling for America the exact opposite of leadership.

Ten years of cruelty framed as strength.

Ten years of mockery, insults, and grievance elevated to the highest office in the land.

Ten years of praising strongmen, including Putin, Xi, and Orbán, while attacking democratic institutions.

Ten years of targeting Hispanics, Black Somali immigrants, demonizing refugees, and encouraging suspicion and hatred toward entire communities.

And now he’s giving us the example of using ICE not simply as a law enforcement agency, but as a masked, armed, unaccountable weapon of state terror aimed not only at brown-skinned families, but at journalists, clergy, lawyers, and anyone else who dares to document their abuse.

Kids graduating from high school this year have never known anything else. That fact should alarm every parent.

Children learn what leadership looks like long before they understand policy debates. They absorb emotional cues, and notice who gets rewarded and who gets punished.

When a president calls fellow Americans “scum” and suffers no consequences, the lesson is clear: cruelty is permissible if you have power. Empathy is expendable. Democracy is a nuisance. Accountability is optional.

This is how normalization works. What once would have been unthinkable becomes routine. The outrage dulls. The abnormal becomes background noise. And a generation grows up believing this is simply how adults in authority behave.

History tells us where that road leads: dehumanizing language precedes dehumanizing actions.

Every authoritarian movement begins by teaching people to see their neighbors as less than fully human. Once empathy vanishes, abuses become easier to justify, and violence becomes easier to excuse.

That’s why we all — parents, grandparents, and citizens — have a special responsibility right now.

We can’t assume our nation’s children will automatically recognize how dangerous and abnormal this moment is; instead, we have to name it for them.

We have to tell them, plainly and repeatedly, that this is not what healthy leadership looks like.

That calling people “scum” and “sleazebags” is not strength. That praising autocrats while undermining democracy is not patriotism. That power without empathy is not leadership; it’s merely a simple pathology known as psychopathy.

And we must model something better ourselves.

Disagree without dehumanizing. Stand up without tearing others down. Teach that democracy, in order to work, depends on mutual recognition of one another’s humanity.

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Links:

The Poem of the Day

Jabberwocky

BY LEWIS CARROLL

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand; Long time the manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

The University Philosophical Society (The Phil) at
Trinity College Dublin awards the Gold Medal
of Honorary Patronage to Jesse Welles

CHARLIE

And he can really Jam:

Tribute to soldier, Rory Dunn from Renton WA,
disabled in Iraq, passed away in 2025

The video above is followed by poem "Road March"
with permission and read by Rory's Mother

The former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro,
has been sentenced to 27 years and three months in
prison after being found guilty of plotting a military coup.

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol
Jailed for Life for Sedition, leading an insurrection, in one of the
country’s biggest criminal trials in decades.

Donald Trump has spent ten years modeling for America
the exact opposite of leadership.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.