21 Mar 2025 Reading time: 1 minute
Just like part 1, 2, & 3 - these are all movies I have watched, that can make you think - about all kinds of things and how they relate to society and even politics/similar things. I highly recommend each of them.
A gun manufacturer hires a jury consultant to score a favorable verdict in a landmark trial, but two scheming con artists have a different deal in mind.
Reality Winner, a brilliant, sarcastic young misfit from Texas with a relentless need for helping others, finds her morals challenged working as an NSA contractor, ultimately leaking Russia’s hacking campaign of the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.
A troubled off-the-books fixer for the FBI finds himself in the middle of a deadly government conspiracy.
21 Mar 2025 Reading time: 1 minute This is the ninth recap of my new mini project, where I post a quote by a Founding Father each day to this Bluesky account.
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.“
- James Madison
”What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . .”
- Thomas Jefferson
”bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education & free discussion are the antidotes of both.”
- Thomas Jefferson
”our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it...“
- John Adams
”it is the great parent of science & of virtue: and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both.“
- James Madison
15 Mar 2025 Reading time: 1 minute This is the eighth recap of my new mini project, where I post a quote by a Founding Father each day to this Bluesky account.
“When a broad table is to be made, and the edges of planks do not fit, the artist takes a little from both, and makes a good joint. In like manner here both sides must part with some of their demands, in order that they may join in some accommodating proposition“
- Benjamin Franklin
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence“
- John Adams
“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech“
- Benjamin Franklin
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.“
- James Madison
”The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.“
- James Madison
“Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.“
- George Washington
