This post was triggered because someone clicked on and read my 2014 post about JULIAN ASSANGE.
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NOTE September 23, 2025 I followed the Julian Assange saga for YEARS and well, it seems he was allowed to go free - in his home country of Australia. Like the Edward Snowden saga, which I also followed for years - Snowden has married and has a child but looks to be permanently in Russia - it seems these men's stories have fallen out of media interest.
As of today, the Freedom of Speech is being challenged in the United States. Of course it's not like the Freedom of Speech isn't tied into Freedom of Thought or overall Expression through Art, Ideas, Interpretations, and so on.
The other day I spoke with a "conservative" friend of mine about POLITICAL CARTOONING and showed him some cartoons printed in publications - even before he was President - of Thomas Jefferson. Every President is controversial to someone, some more than others.
My favorite President is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Controversial. He stepped up into the chaos of the Great Depression and found ways to put people to work and have money circulate again.
Yes, we should be worried.
Get out there and vote. Vote those who oppose your IDEAS ABOUT HOW LIFE IS BEST LIVED - which includes, not just us as individuals with our "own" concerns but others - OUT OF OFFICE.
I know how frustrating it can be to even research who is running and what they stand for. I do it every election, especially looking into what various newspapers and organizations such as the Teachers and Women say.
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I loath the idea of persons being assassinated for their opinions or ideas...
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I do not hold the values of a Charlie Kirk...
Never heard of the man actually, until he was assassinated. So, I find it almost unbelievable that he is being held up as a Hero of the Crazy Right Wing Conservatives.***
C 2025 Christine Trzyna
***My conservative friend seems to think there are only Crazy Left Wing Liberals, no middle of the roaders.
