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  1. ✮ An Ache That Pricks Even Thorns ✮

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  6. A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

    Q. With what the Germans, Japanese and Italians are trying to do to the democracies of the world — especially our United States — do you really mean you would permit your children to number among their friends any Germans, Japanese or Italians?
     
    A. I certainly do. How are we going to live in peace in the world of the future if we cannot be friends ourselves with Germans, Japanese or Italians? I have friends of all those nationalities; some of them have fled their own countries because they were in disagreement with the policies of the governments of those countries. I imagine there are many people still in those countries who are suffering because they do not agree with what their governments are doing. If we take the attitude that we can never be friends with people of these nationalities, our chance for a peaceful world in the future is slim indeed!

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
    Column (1942-09), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/83…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #axis #combatants #enmity #friendship #nationalism #peacetime #prejudice #war #worldpeace #WorldWar2 #ww2 #enemy #peace #reconciliation

  7. A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

    Q. With what the Germans, Japanese and Italians are trying to do to the democracies of the world — especially our United States — do you really mean you would permit your children to number among their friends any Germans, Japanese or Italians?
     
    A. I certainly do. How are we going to live in peace in the world of the future if we cannot be friends ourselves with Germans, Japanese or Italians? I have friends of all those nationalities; some of them have fled their own countries because they were in disagreement with the policies of the governments of those countries. I imagine there are many people still in those countries who are suffering because they do not agree with what their governments are doing. If we take the attitude that we can never be friends with people of these nationalities, our chance for a peaceful world in the future is slim indeed!

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
    Column (1942-09), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/83…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #axis #combatants #enmity #friendship #nationalism #peacetime #prejudice #war #worldpeace #WorldWar2 #ww2 #enemy #peace #reconciliation

  8. A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

    Q. With what the Germans, Japanese and Italians are trying to do to the democracies of the world — especially our United States — do you really mean you would permit your children to number among their friends any Germans, Japanese or Italians?
     
    A. I certainly do. How are we going to live in peace in the world of the future if we cannot be friends ourselves with Germans, Japanese or Italians? I have friends of all those nationalities; some of them have fled their own countries because they were in disagreement with the policies of the governments of those countries. I imagine there are many people still in those countries who are suffering because they do not agree with what their governments are doing. If we take the attitude that we can never be friends with people of these nationalities, our chance for a peaceful world in the future is slim indeed!

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
    Column (1942-09), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/83…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #axis #combatants #enmity #friendship #nationalism #peacetime #prejudice #war #worldpeace #WorldWar2 #ww2 #enemy #peace #reconciliation

  9. A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

    Q. With what the Germans, Japanese and Italians are trying to do to the democracies of the world — especially our United States — do you really mean you would permit your children to number among their friends any Germans, Japanese or Italians?
     
    A. I certainly do. How are we going to live in peace in the world of the future if we cannot be friends ourselves with Germans, Japanese or Italians? I have friends of all those nationalities; some of them have fled their own countries because they were in disagreement with the policies of the governments of those countries. I imagine there are many people still in those countries who are suffering because they do not agree with what their governments are doing. If we take the attitude that we can never be friends with people of these nationalities, our chance for a peaceful world in the future is slim indeed!

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
    Column (1942-09), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/83…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #axis #combatants #enmity #friendship #nationalism #peacetime #prejudice #war #worldpeace #WorldWar2 #ww2 #enemy #peace #reconciliation

  10. A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

    Q. With what the Germans, Japanese and Italians are trying to do to the democracies of the world — especially our United States — do you really mean you would permit your children to number among their friends any Germans, Japanese or Italians?
     
    A. I certainly do. How are we going to live in peace in the world of the future if we cannot be friends ourselves with Germans, Japanese or Italians? I have friends of all those nationalities; some of them have fled their own countries because they were in disagreement with the policies of the governments of those countries. I imagine there are many people still in those countries who are suffering because they do not agree with what their governments are doing. If we take the attitude that we can never be friends with people of these nationalities, our chance for a peaceful world in the future is slim indeed!

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
    Column (1942-09), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/83…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #axis #combatants #enmity #friendship #nationalism #peacetime #prejudice #war #worldpeace #WorldWar2 #ww2 #enemy #peace #reconciliation

  11. A quotation from Bill Watterson

       CALVIN: I’m writing a fund-raising letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they’re systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It’s a War of Values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight!
       HOBBES: How cynically unconstructive.
       CALVIN: Enmity sells.

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/77538…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #anger #antagonism #compromise #culturewar #demagoguery #demonization #donations #enmity #fundraising #hatred #politicalmovement #politicalpower #politicalpressure #politics #usvsthem #values

  12. “I don’t believe we have the legal authority to stop an authorized payment certified by an agency,” he wrote to the group on Jan 24. #DavidLebryk, who had been a federal employee for >35 years, was pushed out of his job days later for refusing to give Krause access to the system. Late on Jan. 31, a Friday, #ScottBessent authorized entry for a team led by Krause after Lebryk’s departure.

    #Trump #ElonMusk #USAID #Treasury #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #law #USpol #geopolitics

  13. “I don’t believe we have the legal authority to stop an authorized payment certified by an agency,” he wrote to the group on Jan 24. #DavidLebryk, who had been a federal employee for >35 years, was pushed out of his job days later for refusing to give Krause access to the system. Late on Jan. 31, a Friday, #ScottBessent authorized entry for a team led by Krause after Lebryk’s departure.

    #Trump #ElonMusk #USAID #Treasury #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #law #USpol #geopolitics

  14. The possibility of systems at the #Treasury’s little-known Bureau of the Fiscal Service being used to stop congressionally authorized spending has stoked alarm among #Democrats, who have called for investigations & led protests at the Treasury building.

    #DavidLebryk, formerly the top career official at the Treasury, rebuffed the request to grant access & pause the #aid payments.

    #Trump #ElonMusk #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #law #USpol #geopolitics

  15. The possibility of systems at the #Treasury’s little-known Bureau of the Fiscal Service being used to stop congressionally authorized spending has stoked alarm among #Democrats, who have called for investigations & led protests at the Treasury building.

    #DavidLebryk, formerly the top career official at the Treasury, rebuffed the request to grant access & pause the #aid payments.

    #Trump #ElonMusk #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #law #USpol #geopolitics

  16. A quotation from Lincoln

    To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy, and from positive enmity, among strangers, as nations, or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Speech (1859-09-30), Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7808…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abrahamlincoln #abelincoln #humannature #humanity #usversusthem #civilization #coexistence #compassion #enmity #hatred #internationalrelations #loveyourneighbor #neighbor #othering #peace #society #strangers #sympathy #tolerance

  17. #israel #iran : #history / #conflict / #shadowwar

    „Israel said on June 13 that it carried out strikes in Iran, a day before talks between the Islamic Republic & the US about Tehran’s escalating uranium enrichment programme (…).
    This marks the latest #escalation since the war in Gaza began in 2023 & heightens fears of an all-out war between the two countries, whose history of #enmity spans decades of clandestine conflicts & includes land, sea, air & cyber attacks.“

    straitstimes.com/world/middle-

  18. #israel #iran : #history / #conflict / #shadowwar

    „Israel said on June 13 that it carried out strikes in Iran, a day before talks between the Islamic Republic & the US about Tehran’s escalating uranium enrichment programme (…).
    This marks the latest #escalation since the war in Gaza began in 2023 & heightens fears of an all-out war between the two countries, whose history of #enmity spans decades of clandestine conflicts & includes land, sea, air & cyber attacks.“

    straitstimes.com/world/middle-

  19. The emails viewed by NYT undercut #Treasury’s explanation for why Krause & his team were given access to the payment system. That system disburses >$5T in funding on behalf of much of the federal govt.

    The department, now led by Secy #ScottBessent, has said that Krause, a Treasury staff member, & his team are conducting an “operational efficiency assessment” that does not involve blocking agency payments.

    #Trump #ElonMusk #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #law #USpol #geopolitics

  20. The emails viewed by NYT undercut #Treasury’s explanation for why Krause & his team were given access to the payment system. That system disburses >$5T in funding on behalf of much of the federal govt.

    The department, now led by Secy #ScottBessent, has said that Krause, a Treasury staff member, & his team are conducting an “operational efficiency assessment” that does not involve blocking agency payments.

    #Trump #ElonMusk #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #law #USpol #geopolitics

  21. In a Jan 24 email to a small group of #Treasury ofcls, the chief of staff, #DanKatz, wrote that Krause & his team needed access to the system so they could pause #USAID payments & comply w/ #Trump’s Jan 20 #ExecutiveOrder to halt #ForeignAid.

    “To the extent permitted by #law, we would like to implement the pause as soon as possible in order to ensure that we are doing our role to comply with the EO,” Katz wrote.

    #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #USpol #geopolitics

  22. In a Jan 24 email to a small group of #Treasury ofcls, the chief of staff, #DanKatz, wrote that Krause & his team needed access to the system so they could pause #USAID payments & comply w/ #Trump’s Jan 20 #ExecutiveOrder to halt #ForeignAid.

    “To the extent permitted by #law, we would like to implement the pause as soon as possible in order to ensure that we are doing our role to comply with the EO,” Katz wrote.

    #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #USpol #geopolitics

  23. A quotation from Lincoln

    To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy, and from positive enmity, among strangers, as nations, or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Speech (1859-09-30), Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7808…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abrahamlincoln #abelincoln #humannature #humanity #usversusthem #civilization #coexistence #compassion #enmity #hatred #internationalrelations #loveyourneighbor #neighbor #othering #peace #society #strangers #sympathy #tolerance

  24. A quotation from Lincoln

    To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy, and from positive enmity, among strangers, as nations, or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Speech (1859-09-30), Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7808…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abrahamlincoln #abelincoln #humannature #humanity #usversusthem #civilization #coexistence #compassion #enmity #hatred #internationalrelations #loveyourneighbor #neighbor #othering #peace #society #strangers #sympathy #tolerance

  25. A quotation from Bill Watterson

       CALVIN: I’m writing a fund-raising letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they’re systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It’s a War of Values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight!
       HOBBES: How cynically unconstructive.
       CALVIN: Enmity sells.

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/77538…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #anger #antagonism #compromise #culturewar #demagoguery #demonization #donations #enmity #fundraising #hatred #politicalmovement #politicalpower #politicalpressure #politics #usvsthem #values

  26. A quotation from Bill Watterson

       CALVIN: I’m writing a fund-raising letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they’re systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It’s a War of Values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight!
       HOBBES: How cynically unconstructive.
       CALVIN: Enmity sells.

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/77538…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #anger #antagonism #compromise #culturewar #demagoguery #demonization #donations #enmity #fundraising #hatred #politicalmovement #politicalpower #politicalpressure #politics #usvsthem #values

  27. A quotation from Bill Watterson

       CALVIN: I’m writing a fund-raising letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they’re systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It’s a War of Values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight!
       HOBBES: How cynically unconstructive.
       CALVIN: Enmity sells.

    Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
    Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/77538…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #anger #antagonism #compromise #culturewar #demagoguery #demonization #donations #enmity #fundraising #hatred #politicalmovement #politicalpower #politicalpressure #politics #usvsthem #values

  28. #israel #iran : #history / #conflict / #shadowwar

    „Israel said on June 13 that it carried out strikes in Iran, a day before talks between the Islamic Republic & the US about Tehran’s escalating uranium enrichment programme (…).
    This marks the latest #escalation since the war in Gaza began in 2023 & heightens fears of an all-out war between the two countries, whose history of #enmity spans decades of clandestine conflicts & includes land, sea, air & cyber attacks.“

    straitstimes.com/world/middle-

  29. #israel #iran : #history / #conflict / #shadowwar

    „Israel said on June 13 that it carried out strikes in Iran, a day before talks between the Islamic Republic & the US about Tehran’s escalating uranium enrichment programme (…).
    This marks the latest #escalation since the war in Gaza began in 2023 & heightens fears of an all-out war between the two countries, whose history of #enmity spans decades of clandestine conflicts & includes land, sea, air & cyber attacks.“

    straitstimes.com/world/middle-

  30. #israel #iran : #history / #conflict / #shadowwar

    „Israel said on June 13 that it carried out strikes in Iran, a day before talks between the Islamic Republic & the US about Tehran’s escalating uranium enrichment programme (…).
    This marks the latest #escalation since the war in Gaza began in 2023 & heightens fears of an all-out war between the two countries, whose history of #enmity spans decades of clandestine conflicts & includes land, sea, air & cyber attacks.“

    straitstimes.com/world/middle-

  31. “I don’t believe we have the legal authority to stop an authorized payment certified by an agency,” he wrote to the group on Jan 24. #DavidLebryk, who had been a federal employee for >35 years, was pushed out of his job days later for refusing to give Krause access to the system. Late on Jan. 31, a Friday, #ScottBessent authorized entry for a team led by Krause after Lebryk’s departure.

    #Trump #ElonMusk #USAID #Treasury #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #law #USpol #geopolitics

  32. “I don’t believe we have the legal authority to stop an authorized payment certified by an agency,” he wrote to the group on Jan 24. #DavidLebryk, who had been a federal employee for >35 years, was pushed out of his job days later for refusing to give Krause access to the system. Late on Jan. 31, a Friday, #ScottBessent authorized entry for a team led by Krause after Lebryk’s departure.

    #Trump #ElonMusk #USAID #Treasury #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #law #USpol #geopolitics

  33. “I don’t believe we have the legal authority to stop an authorized payment certified by an agency,” he wrote to the group on Jan 24. #DavidLebryk, who had been a federal employee for >35 years, was pushed out of his job days later for refusing to give Krause access to the system. Late on Jan. 31, a Friday, #ScottBessent authorized entry for a team led by Krause after Lebryk’s departure.

    #Trump #ElonMusk #USAID #Treasury #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #law #USpol #geopolitics

  34. The possibility of systems at the #Treasury’s little-known Bureau of the Fiscal Service being used to stop congressionally authorized spending has stoked alarm among #Democrats, who have called for investigations & led protests at the Treasury building.

    #DavidLebryk, formerly the top career official at the Treasury, rebuffed the request to grant access & pause the #aid payments.

    #Trump #ElonMusk #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #law #USpol #geopolitics

  35. The possibility of systems at the #Treasury’s little-known Bureau of the Fiscal Service being used to stop congressionally authorized spending has stoked alarm among #Democrats, who have called for investigations & led protests at the Treasury building.

    #DavidLebryk, formerly the top career official at the Treasury, rebuffed the request to grant access & pause the #aid payments.

    #Trump #ElonMusk #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #law #USpol #geopolitics

  36. The possibility of systems at the #Treasury’s little-known Bureau of the Fiscal Service being used to stop congressionally authorized spending has stoked alarm among #Democrats, who have called for investigations & led protests at the Treasury building.

    #DavidLebryk, formerly the top career official at the Treasury, rebuffed the request to grant access & pause the #aid payments.

    #Trump #ElonMusk #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #law #USpol #geopolitics

  37. The emails viewed by NYT undercut #Treasury’s explanation for why Krause & his team were given access to the payment system. That system disburses >$5T in funding on behalf of much of the federal govt.

    The department, now led by Secy #ScottBessent, has said that Krause, a Treasury staff member, & his team are conducting an “operational efficiency assessment” that does not involve blocking agency payments.

    #Trump #ElonMusk #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #law #USpol #geopolitics

  38. The emails viewed by NYT undercut #Treasury’s explanation for why Krause & his team were given access to the payment system. That system disburses >$5T in funding on behalf of much of the federal govt.

    The department, now led by Secy #ScottBessent, has said that Krause, a Treasury staff member, & his team are conducting an “operational efficiency assessment” that does not involve blocking agency payments.

    #Trump #ElonMusk #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #law #USpol #geopolitics

  39. The emails viewed by NYT undercut #Treasury’s explanation for why Krause & his team were given access to the payment system. That system disburses >$5T in funding on behalf of much of the federal govt.

    The department, now led by Secy #ScottBessent, has said that Krause, a Treasury staff member, & his team are conducting an “operational efficiency assessment” that does not involve blocking agency payments.

    #Trump #ElonMusk #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #law #USpol #geopolitics

  40. In a Jan 24 email to a small group of #Treasury ofcls, the chief of staff, #DanKatz, wrote that Krause & his team needed access to the system so they could pause #USAID payments & comply w/ #Trump’s Jan 20 #ExecutiveOrder to halt #ForeignAid.

    “To the extent permitted by #law, we would like to implement the pause as soon as possible in order to ensure that we are doing our role to comply with the EO,” Katz wrote.

    #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #USpol #geopolitics

  41. In a Jan 24 email to a small group of #Treasury ofcls, the chief of staff, #DanKatz, wrote that Krause & his team needed access to the system so they could pause #USAID payments & comply w/ #Trump’s Jan 20 #ExecutiveOrder to halt #ForeignAid.

    “To the extent permitted by #law, we would like to implement the pause as soon as possible in order to ensure that we are doing our role to comply with the EO,” Katz wrote.

    #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #USpol #geopolitics

  42. In a Jan 24 email to a small group of #Treasury ofcls, the chief of staff, #DanKatz, wrote that Krause & his team needed access to the system so they could pause #USAID payments & comply w/ #Trump’s Jan 20 #ExecutiveOrder to halt #ForeignAid.

    “To the extent permitted by #law, we would like to implement the pause as soon as possible in order to ensure that we are doing our role to comply with the EO,” Katz wrote.

    #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #WhiteNationalism #enmity #USpol #geopolitics