"Inside Gloria Steinem’s Month as an Undercover Playboy Bunny"
https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/gloria-steinem-undercover-playboy-bunny
Counting Crows - "'Big Yellow Taxi' ft. Vanessa Carlton"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tvtJPs8IDgU&si=NT4v-RR6gCTN9DtB
Counting Crows “Round Here” on the Howard Stern Show
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AQQyIEV0iP8&si=13cDwQqdumDeST1o
Napoleon XIV - "They're Coming To Take Me Away"
When I was younger and my feet hurt after working a lot of hosting shifts in a restaurant, I was advised to leave to go and see a certain podiatrist by my stepfather. I told the managers I had to do this for my feet, and I left the restaurant to see the doctor. He was a young, blond guy who had moved to the area recently. He was very nice, and so were his female assistants. He took my "doesn't cover very much" insurance card & taped my feet and didn't charge me anything. He said he liked to go to the restaurant / bar where I worked, and seemed almost on the point of wanting to socialize with me. Well, my feet got taped up and padded and it was back to work for me. I think I might have said, "Don't you think I should just not stand on them so much?" Or was it, "Don't you think I should just go home?" No, nobody thought that. I never saw the lonely doctor again. I went back to work. "Are your feet better now?" a manager was smiling and laughing. I stayed for the rest of my shift. As I walked by some store windows that night on my taped up feet, I looked at my reflection and could not believe that this was my ridiculous life.
I had a lovely day, both indoors and outdoors, but changes are happening, and I feel exhausted this evening.
"#goodmorning I'm very happy nonstop because look 😯 @TeamCoco podcaster of @ConanOBrien who is a Very famous comedian and television presenter from the United States just retweeted sharing the digital drawing I made in honor of He on x Twitter just happiness 🥲💖 I am becoming more and more important and internationally known in the world every day, I am very proud of my incredible work and my important struggles, I will go far please share and follow me linktr.ee/joaoensina"
https://x.com/JoaoEnsina/status/1708089382857560278?t=EP1xDxmd655vgWG4NuDg4Q&s=09
And not uncomplicated.
"Nighttime Harvests Protect Farmworkers From Extreme Heat, but Bring Other Risks"
There's dads who still have a lot of misogynistic minions surrounding them who would be way worse to them if they were on Earth in a different kind of body right now. Their minions still feel very oppressed, and they reach for those fixes...humans are just kinda like that sometimes.
"Celebrate Modesto Children’s Museum opening day"
https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article279265189.html
"The Sands of Modesto" - SNL
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qwjRnJ9hNDw&si=KHxDk-a-5wOTvx0n
Places to rent
"Anyone who's like, 'Well, I've never met an intersex person,' I can guarantee that you have," says author and advocate Alicia Roth Weigel. "You just didn't know it."
~ Mary Elizabeth Williams
https://www.salon.com/2023/09/26/intersex-inverse-cowgirl-alicia-roth-weigel/
And their many personalities...which ones were getting stronger...and why...???
And I'll be this guy:
"Newton’s Cradle made from bowling balls #physics"
Formative cinematic experiences from the younger years...
"Lena: My 100 Children (1987)"
"Tons of vegetables. It’s hard to go wrong here."
"Insulin Resistance Diet: How to..."
https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/diabetes-insulin-resistance-diet
Met the people who seemed to feel entitled to act like some human lives and their working conditions are way less worth considering than others, and wondered how long that would last, lately?
"Should Farmworkers Be Allowed to Pick Wine Grapes in Wildfire Evacuation Zones?"
"Csíkszentmihályi Mihály : a flow-ról"| TED Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_flow_the_secret_to_happiness?language=hu
Well, maybe I'll show you later? What do you think?
"Texas county bordering New Mexico approves abortion travel ban"
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/28/texas-county-approves-abortion-travel-ban
“'This is an effort, one by one by one, to create a statewide ban against travel to other states, literally creating a reproductive prison in the state of Texas,' Wendy Davis, a former state senator who is now a senior adviser at Planned Parenthood Texas Votes, said on Wednesday."
~ Jayme Lozano Carver
"A Teacher In Texas Was Fired For Reading An Adaptation Of Anne Frank's Diary, And These Are The Horrified Reactions Of 21 People"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexalisitza/21-reactions-teacher-fired-anne-frank-graphic-novel
Might like them better if they didn't act like fascists together.
"Mihály Csíkszentmihályi's 89th Birthday"
https://www.google.com/doodles/mihaly-csikszentmihalyis-89th-birthday
I guess it's late enough to drink wine over there right now.
"All set for a spot of wine tasting, Tudor-style 🍷🔥@hevercastle @LionTelevision @channel5_tv"
https://x.com/TracyBorman/status/1707703120678039921?t=0ordRR8wIbsuxpjbvQcp7Q&s=09
"Hitler had, in fact, shown mercy to only one Jew, Eduard Bloch. A Linz-based doctor, Bloch treated Hitler’s mother, Klara, when she was dying of breast cancer. When Germany annexed Austria in 1938, Hitler awarded him special protection and he was allowed to emigrate to the United States in 1940."
Hitler called Bloch 'the noble Jew,' according to the documentary, and said, 'If all Jews were like him, there would be no Jewish question.'
'Hitler’s very private act of mercy towards Dr. Bloch was not to be repeated,' Borman said."
~ Robert Philpot
"UK documentary claims Hitler was 'very hands off'"
"While I do not want to downplay the struggles – often rooted in racism – that farmworkers as a whole have endured for decades, I want to focus on the children of migrant farmworkers – often also farmworkers themselves – for whom the problems are more than just a small part of their lives, they’re issues that have life-long effects. It’s a tragic system that, sadly, many of us are complicit in. The impacts are going unaddressed because these children are seen as an insignificant afterthought, in a marginalized population that is seen as an afterthought."
~ University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Human Rights Program
"The Forgotten Migrants: Children of Migrant Farmworkers"
https://cla.umn.edu/human-rights/news-events/story/forgotten-migrants-children-migrant-farmworkers
Well, it was very common for many grandchildren to become more educated by being pulled out of school in order to labor on the farm.
"By working from as young as elementary school age – 9 in Oregon for example"
~ University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Human Rights Program
"The Forgotten Migrants: Children of Migrant Farmworkers"
https://cla.umn.edu/human-rights/news-events/story/forgotten-migrants-children-migrant-farmworkers
"My ego and my appetite are far more important than than your human rights, and who taught me that I should be rewarded excessively for acting like that is so?"
Just Because You Got Rewarded For Being More Irresponsible, Shallow, Self-Centered, and Bigoted Than the Future Generations Will Be (Or Will Be Able To Be) Does Not Mean You Can't Try To Figure It Out Faster Anyways, Does It????
Who will no longer be carrying out the ways of the bigoted parents, even though, of course some of their parents wished that they would have, but why is that, exactly????
Dehumanizing The "Too Different Ones" With The Other Bigoted People Just To Fit In With Patriarchal Systems Did Not Truly Feed Their Souls, They Discovered.
Mom Accidentally Affected by Patriarchal Society explains why she was SO Grateful that They Preferred People with Her Kind of Genetics to the More Worthless Kinds of People who made it SO Much Easier for "Her, Too" to Dehumanize the "Other" Ones Who Weren't Created More Like Them.
"Everyone who wasn't a rich guy was so easy for people like them to dehumanize because that's exactly what the Patriarchal Ones wanted them to do in exchange for more money, but unfortunately it couldn't feed even the most special & privileged of their grandkids forever, right????"
If you were raised to act like abusive rich guys are way more important than everyone else on the planet is, I just have to say I can feel how hurtful & imbalanced and unhealthy that kind of attitude is, and I really don't think that it's in your best interest to continue perpetuating that way of life because it's very unsustainable.
“'People are going to have more and more issues from heat because we need to eat. We need to grow food,' said Dr. Lori Talbot, who recently retired after providing health care to South Jersey farmworkers since 1982. 'We need to figure out how to work within the limits that the extra heat is causing.'”
~ Karen Yi & Michael Sol Warren
"They pick your fruit and veggies, but NJ doesn’t protect farmworkers from rising heat"
"Video of the Week: 'Willkommen' from Cabaret!"
"The percentage of Jews of the total population did not differ very much and was low in all three countries: 0.75% of the French and Belgian population, and 1.5% of the Dutch population."
"The Pasadena Rental Housing Board will adopt regulations establishing relocation assistance and services for covered tenants — those subject to no-fault evictions or large rent increases — at their Wednesday, Sept. 27 meeting.
The regulations, proposed by board attorney Goldfarb Lipman, would apply to tenants evicted due to substantial and necessary repairs, owner move-in, government order, or the permanent withdrawal of the unit from the rental market.
Tenants who are forced to move due to large rent increases — in excess of five percent, plus the Annual General Adjustment amount landlords are permitted to increase rent by — would also be covered in the proposed regulations.
Pasadena already requires relocation assistance for some displaced tenants, but the new regulations would expand their eligibility and increase the assistance to renters."
~ John Orona
"Pasadena rental housing board to decide relocation assistance"
"A pediatrician's view on child poverty rates: 'I need policymakers to do their job'"
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/15/1199753605/child-tax-credit-poverty-pediatrician
What do other people see?
"How the U.S. Lifted Children Out of Poverty and Then Threw Them Back Into It"
"She did not speak a word of English and her isolation was emphasised in that 'she was the only girl in the group of Holocaust survivors,' observed Harold Jackson. He was keen to help but Anna was desperately shy. 'It was a difficult situation because they couldn't talk to me,' Anna recalls. 'Some of them spoke German, which terrified me.' She was even more puzzled to find that Tante Anna, Paula, and Bertha were German. Unlike her brother, Arthur, who was soon firm friends with Sam Oliner and the other Polish concentration camp boys, sensitive Anna felt her early weeks at Bunce Court 'were filled with silence and loneliness'" (350).
~ D. Cadbury
The School That Escaped the Nazis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59228226-the-school-that-escaped-the-nazis
"Momentarily she felt like the heroine in one of her fairy stories. 'The change in environment was so beautiful, so total" (350).
~ D. Cadbury
The School That Escaped the Nazis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59228226-the-school-that-escaped-the-nazis
"The number of Holocaust survivors at the school increased steadily, including the only girl, twelve-year-old Anna Rose from Poland. It had proved much harder for girls to survive the Holocaust..." (349).
~ D. Cadbury
The School That Escaped the Nazis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59228226-the-school-that-escaped-the-nazis
"Sam responded to the strong emphasis on the outdoor life at Bunce Court. He enjoyed practical tasks, especially gardening. His confidence was low, but growing vegetables for the kitchen was something he could do. Tante Anna noticed his interest. She talked to him about his gardening and made sure he had a plot of his own, where he decided to grow carrots. Sam noticed that the teachers took a keen interest and were always ready to answer any questions. He responded to other acts of kind-heartedness. Miss Ney of the Jewish Refugees Committee 'made sure I got clothes, clothing that was useful for the weekend, several sets of clothing...' Sam knew it was all donated, but her concern about working out what fit each boy seemed to him 'a tremendous act of kindness'. Sam also appreciated the music at Bunce Court. He found 'it calmed me down'" (348 - 349).
~ D. Cadbury
The School That Escaped the Nazis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59228226-the-school-that-escaped-the-nazis
"His sister's silence was interspersed with brave but unconvincing attempts to reassure him that she was fine. They reached Dukla and were directed to the headquarters of the Gestapo, the former mayor's villa. The guard fetched another Nazi official, Finke, who to Sam's astonishment greeted them warmly. Finke seemed surprised to see them. He had forgotten all about what he had said to Feigele. He smiled at Sam, gave him some sweets and told him to wait outside and guard their horse. Sam was frightened. He hated leaving his sister. He also felt very silly. Finke had forgotten his order and 'we had walked into the jaws of the lion like two dumb rabbits.'
The minutes dragged by. Sam circled the horse. An hour passed and more. Eventually Feigele emerged. She looked unhurt, but was in tears and wouldn't speak all the way home. The next day, Sam overhead his grandmother saying that she was 'very much afraid that Feigele had been raped' by several of the Nazis at the headquarters" (192).
~ D. Cadbury
The School That Escaped the Nazis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59228226-the-school-that-escaped-the-nazis
"No one wanted Feigele to go to the Gestapo headquarters but Sam's grandparents feared reprisals. Would they lose their farm? Should they run away? Where could they go? If Feigele disappeared to his father's house at Bielanka, would the Gestapo return and kill everyone else? Eventually, no longer capable of rational thought, his grandparents decided Feigele must do as instructed. Sam should drive his sister in the wagon to the Gestapo headquarters" (191-192).
~ D. Cadbury
The School That Escaped the Nazis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59228226-the-school-that-escaped-the-nazis
"His grandparents were pleading with the Nazis for them to let the child live. He shivered with fear. At the same time, he thought quite rationally, 'how stupid to cry when the next moment I would be dead'. The Nazi in charge did not seem to hear their pleas. His face was impassive. There was a click as he released the catch on his gun.
Just then the Nazis heard a commotion in the yard and rain outside. Through the window, Sam saw the Nazi driver was trying to kiss his sister. Feigele was about four years older than Sam and pretty, with her creamy skin and dark hair. He had already noticed the effect she seemed to have on men. The driver held her down against the car. He had torn her shirt as he tried to kiss her. The Nazi officer ordered him to let her go. Feigele fled but she was caught by one of the other Nazis, who pinned her against the barn as he ordered her to report to Gestapo headquarters" (191).
~ D. Cadbury
The School That Escaped the Nazis
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59228226-the-school-that-escaped-the-nazis
It's good to be able to read.
"Many of the attempts to describe the 'Bunce Court spirit' are also a bit vague and idealising but perhaps the most striking is the suggestion of one former pupil that the school was animated by 'a complex amalgam of humanism, the Quaker faith, liberal values and Judaism, brought together by the mind of a woman whose one purpose in life seemed to be to serve children'. Another, who came from an English school where she had just learned about the Tudors and Stuarts, was amazed by a style of teaching that was 'more like a conversation' and required her to write essays on urgently topical issues such as 'American isolation and imperialism'."
~ Matthew Reisz
The School That Escaped the Nazis by Deborah Cadbury
"Even if they wanted us to act in ways that in retrospect seem to be incredibly insensitive, abusive, immature, and uncaring, weren't there also a lot of other options?"
The descendants of some abusive dudes' friends and family get impressively articulate at explaining why dehumanizing others felt far more natural to their forebears than it does for them, and that's why they're definitely gonna do things a whole lot differently.
"Yeah, the child poverty rate was 5.2 per cent in 2021, and that increased to 12.4 per cent in 2022, so it more than doubled."
~ Christopher Wimer to Issac Chotiner
"How the U.S. Lifted Children Out of Poverty and Then Threw Them Back Into It"
So, what's this rental relocation assistance stuff about?
"The Pasadena Rental Housing Board will adopt regulations establishing relocation assistance and services for covered tenants — those subject to no-fault evictions or large rent increases — at their Wednesday, Sept. 27 meeting."
~ John Orona
"Pasadena rental housing board to decide relocation assistance"
Ask not what the family and friends of abusive men can do for you.
"Modified Wayne Cook Posture" ~ Julie Fowler
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fPLR6ZkJHdI&si=00SwC_0dvfKhPruZ
"The Modified Wayne Cook Posture: When TAT Does Not Work"
https://tatnow.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/the-modified-wayne-cook-posture-when-tat-does-not-work/
"How to do TAT"| TAT now
"Oh Comely"- Neutral Milk Hotel
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OALwvzmW6_o&si=LkMu9mxRaNGVY758
'"Oh Comely' by Neutral Milk Hotel is one the most"
"The Anne Frank Album" - Tablet Magazine
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/anne-frank-album-neutral-milk-hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel - "Oh Comely Lyrics" | SongMeanings
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/36473/
Jeff Mangum - "Oh Sister (Live, New Year's Eve)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2gJGA1QJz_E&si=MbH7LmXj1-WF_Txx
It depends on who you ask..."Fainting resulted from a feeling of powerlessness; it was a response to an oppression that allowed for neither fight nor flight. Like a hold-up. Like misogyny."
~ Alice Fulton, Feeling as a Foreign Language, page 38
"My nearest near-death experience occured in grad school. I'd gathered my nerve and spoken to my advisor about the male domination of academe. 'Women are motes of dust around here.' I hadn't expected this pronouncement to be met with sympathy, but it was. 'I think I'm going to faint,' I said. Was this some kind of joke, the angel-of-desire-poetess swoon? I surprised them by dropping to the floor, deeply unconscious."
(Alice Fulton, Feeling as a Foreign Language, Page 36)
"The articles recommended 'that affected individuals avoid...exposure to abrupt auditory stimuli. This can be accomplished by eliminating alarm clocks, door bells, and phone ringing from the household.' Hank speculated that the phone had startled Laura from a nap; this would explain why it had been found ajar. In Marleen's case, as in mine, the emotional component of the disease was telling. The literature cited instances of children who dropped dead while being scolded in school."
(Alice Fulton, Feeling as a Foreign Language, Page 37-38)
They're capable of unapologetically raising the bar for their friends, too.
"Jim Downey Shared An Office With Bill Murray"
A friend I ate with yesterday and a couple people online inspired me.
"Congregation Shirat Shalom - Talking to Food?"
"Student loan debt forgiveness becomes a reality for more than 804,000 who paid for decades"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2023/09/25/student-loan-debt-erased/70865070007/
"Dan Solomon: Well, I was there. I was a grownup at that point – I had a job and paid taxes – and it was still kind of a life-changing experience for me. Just seeing all of the energy, all of the passion, all of the kind of down ‘n dirty politics and seeing protests, which I was familiar with, actually make a substantive difference in how the day’s events went on.
And so as I was thinking about that as an adult, I was thinking, what if I had been 17 at the time, when your life is so ready to be changed by these events? And so it just sort of made sense to me to put that character in this situation and see where it led."
~ Dan Solomon
"In 'The Fight for Midnight' from author Dan Solomon, 17-year-old Alex finds himself on the fence of the abortion conversation."
"'When we hang out, I make sure I'm with the right Elon,' Grimes, who is legally named Claire Boucher, told Isaacson. 'There are guys in that head who don't like me, and I don't like them.'"
~ Grace Kay
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-worst-boyfriend-grimes-amber-heard-new-biography-2023-
"Russell Brand, Donald Trump, Elon Musk..."
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/russell-brand-dad-father-toxic-masculinity-b2416589.html
"The whole grocery store scene of the Maid. #netflix"
https://www.tiktok.com/@kacilou87/video/7018553592638426374?lang=en
Domestic Violence Shelter Shopping Experience Included, Too.
Some people's dads should start getting friends who are way better to other people's daughters than their friends were.
"Russell Brand Shows Conan His Reincarnated Kitten" - CONAN on TBS
https://youtu.be/SKMiC6iEI8Q?feature=shared
"#CONAN: Russell Brand Full Interview" - CONAN on TBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbD8M7OGtQE
"#ConanAtHome: Russell Brand Full Interview" | CONAN
Immature & Abusive & Untrustworthy but still Much Nicer than another Angry Patriarchal Person's abusive ancestors were, just as long as certain needs got catered to...for a certain stretch of time.
The good feelings that came with a plush Black Cat stuffed animal in red onesie, (which was accepted b/c some nice energy came along with it), versus not as nice feelings elicited by the "Bride of Chucky" doll still in a box that someone else must have taken.
Some people have been reliable, and I feel super grateful for knowing them and feeling they can be good to talk to in this lifetime.
And yes, their lies made me feel nauseated, and now it's better to get back to a sleeping and healing state again, if possible.
If you found out that some who learned to behave in very old, bigoted ways felt they needed to rely on those ways again for temporary benefits and rewards, and that they turned out to be not what they had presented themselves as, it's because that's what you needed to know in order to go in a different direction.
"Its a real shame to see that your society apparently raised you to treat not only yourself but also other people so unbelievably badly," is just one of the forms it has taken so far. It could appear in other ways...
Maybe Fascists (who were not born fascist but changed themselves to fit in with fascist values for a few reasons) Are Just Immature & Unhealed, in Addition to Being Untrustworthy.
"Mom who definitely acts like dehumanizing sick people to make herself feel better will help her become the first woman who gets to become president wins the 'Upholding Patriarchal Values Game' again."
In a country where so many were raised to have such INCLUSIVE family values?
"Trump takes 10-point lead over Biden"
"Employers lose migrant workers fleeing Florida’s draconian law. Feel better now?"
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/fabiola-santiago/article279599409.html
"Whistleblowers say U.S. government's poor oversight may have led to migrant kids' working in unsafe and illegal jobs"
What's so comfortable about being a dehumanizing asshole to others just to fit in with some other people's selfish and disrespectful and discriminatory standards of what a "comfortable lifestyle" looks like to a miniscule portion of the population?
Because she's so much more enlightened than the people who raised her wanted her to be.
"Postpartum depression takes toll on immigrant farmworkers"
https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/13/postpartum-depression-farmworkers-immigrants/
Processing a hurtful financial shock which is also like an emotional shock which is what our system is designed to do to a lot of people, apparently!
"California housing shortage triggers cycle of despair"
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/01/california-housing-shortage-triggers-cycle-of-despair/
Dehumanizing the poor and the sick with the parents who have more money and "better genetics" according to the Patriarchal Norms that shaped them has been like...what???
"Van Life" | Portlandia | Season 8
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TIH4ElBo4l0&si=b0-K-3JDJFsT0FFJ
"The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (Live)"
"A new study will aid in the counting of farmworkers"
https://azpbs.org/horizon/2023/09/a-new-study-will-aid-in-the-counting-of-farmworkers-in-arizona/
"Autumn equinox: A date steeped in Irish cultural heritage"
"I know one place I'm not spending a day at this summer" - Nathan Bargatze
"How the Irish became black in: Ireland, slavery and..."
https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526151001/9781526151001.00028.xml
"And if you are looking for a movie to watch this weekend, there really is a lot to be said for the Barbie movie. So much of why people 'protesting' at clinics is still a thing is because we just don’t honestly talk about inequality and inequity. Barbie not only moves the conversation a big step forward, but is that rare achievement of delivering the very message everybody needs to hear in such an overwhelmingly enjoyable way that everybody the world over wants to hear it. Well done."
~ Bill from Penzey's
(Spice company guy again, after recommending a mix called "Outrage of Love"
https://www.penzeys.com/online-catalog/outrage-of-love/c-24/p-4370/pd-s)
"This week’s return of women’s rights in Wisconsin also brought with it the return of protesters at Planned Parenthood here in Milwaukee and in Madison. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covered it well. That mindset that it is acceptable to treat women this way is like some sort of horrible historic reenactment. I see nothing in this day and age where it’s acceptable to treat men this way. Nothing.
From the photos it seems these protests have also become some sort of date event for young Christian couples. I don’t get it. If a man on a date sees verbal assault and physical intimidation as an acceptable response to a woman doing something he doesn’t want her to do, where’s that going? Next to a photo of an armed Milwaukee Police officer at the event the Journal Sentinel noted: 'There were no physical confrontations at the clinic.'
So four great regularly $3.95 to $7.29 Wisconsin-based seasonings this weekend for just $2 each with $1 for every $2 seasoning sold donated to Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin."
~ E-mail from Bill at Penzey's Spices
Me wanting a cat who was runaway shy but hungry to find some food, and leaving some for it and coming back inside, and after a half hour seeming to hear mewing, and going back outside to find the food had been eaten.
Me wondering if the woman I saw one day who said she was excited to eat pizza (she was carrying a stack of boxes) also has left out some food...or perhaps, someone else has...
Sigh...
Simon and Garfunkel - "Fakin' It"
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/7389/
Can I help you? (How)
"Conan Hollers His Measurements At A Tailor"
https://www.reddit.com/r/conan/comments/16pcqki/conan_hollers_his_measurements_at_a_tailor_conan/
Can you help me? (How)
"Tina Fey Read Too Much Into Her Daughter’s Book Selection | C"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MKNJmHPNbMw&si=EwXd-x2zrnlco4v_
I feel sick when I look at student loan stuff. Now I owe more than the principal. Working part time in public service while going to school didn't help anything under the current rules. Interest rate is 8%. I thought there was supposed to be something relevant to the length of time the loans were held...
"Why Child Stars Have Chronic Illness and Mental Health Issues" ~ Alyson Stoner
"Rattlesnakes" - Tori Amos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOuCBaJYTIY
"I Coulda Been a Contender" - On the Waterfront
"In a neighborhood 'crawling with fascists,' she writes, the sisters, Janny and Lien Brilleslijper, organized a celebration of Yiddish culture at their countryside estate in Naarden, about 30 minutes from Amsterdam.
'There is dance, music, song and recitation,' van Iperen writes. 'Simon drums, Puck plays the violin and Jaap builds Kathinka a little piano. Lien uses the death mask for a Yiddish story.' The attendees 'quietly dissolve into the night — without a single Nazi, German soldier or overzealous neighbor even noticing they were there.'
How did this take place in 1943, during the most lethal phase of Jewish deportations from the Netherlands to extermination camps? 'Luck, I guess. A lot of luck,' van Iperen said in an interview. _For a short while, nothing was very public, and after a while, people knew, the milkman and the baker knew, but for one reason or another they chose to keep silent.'”
~ Nina Siegal
"How 2 Jewish Sisters Built a Cultural Oasis During WWII"
I found that after reading
"The Last Secret of the Secret Annex Archives"
https://timboyce.com/tag/the-last-secret-of-the-secret-annex/
(The last time there was an official change of season, I believe I was reading or re-reading The Last Secret of the Secret Annex, and also some other stories.)
"Whatever it takes," "autonomy of a turnip."
"The Enormous Turnip Story For Children With Moral For Kids"
https://www.firstcry.com/intelli/articles/the-enormous-turnip-story-with-moral-for-kids/
"I guess we have to use white male pain (father of a rape victim) to appeal to white male voters, because focusing on the woman does not move the needle with them."
https://x.com/anylaurie16/status/1704215243055059215?t=O5vP_PFp_74dy8KxlkGgWg&s=09
"The Nov. 7 elections in PA & OH are the next battlegrounds for reproductive rights.
What you’re about to see is happening to little girls & women all over our country.
Watch the sequel to 'Republicans In Your Bedroom:'
'Republicans Watching Your Daughter.'
#MAGAIsWatchingYou"
https://x.com/progressaf3/status/1704171490575589582?t=MjYoecMjvbTdK0vDfNLwog&s=09
"In the weeks and months following Bill Schroeder's death, his parents received over 2,000 threatening/harassing messages. They were called every vile name imaginable. They received death threats.
Think about that. Not one or two hateful nutcases. 2,000 messages."
~ A. Whitman
http://andywhitman.blogspot.com/2019/09/bill-schroder-and-great-red-white-and.html
"Funeral Service for William Schroeder - Film & Video"
https://www.efootage.com/videos/93351/funeral-service-william-schroeder
(The casket holds the body of someone killed by his own people.)
"I Ran With A Gray Ghost" - Short Film by Levi Abrin
Proof:
Simon & Garfunkel - "The Sound of Silence" - Madison Square Garden, NYC - 2009/10/29&30
Why do you suppose some people's parents decided to act like bullies when their belief systems got challenged in some way?
"Why Child Stars Have Chronic Illness and Mental Health Issues" ~ A. Stoner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Driy0nCGGjc
Miike Snow - "Genghis Khan (Official Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=P_SlAzsXa7E&si=AuXBEYuFqaiz1hB2
John Lennon - "Imagine Official video (HD)"
Oh God, I really love celery and water now. It was the worst headache. I want to be baptized.
Whether it's an evolving spiritually thing, or "You're never too old to know that getting free but not very healthy food catches up to your kind of body quickly," the very real pain relief is SO great!!!
A subdued day, but things slowly got better, and I feel grateful for some very good and true conversations, and some positive developments appearing on the horizon. And some free food was good as well.
Healthy Casserole Surprise
"'I Ran With A Gray Ghost' - Short Film by Levi Abrin"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpEX5cGrtc8
"As the week wore on, the grieving families received cards, flowers and kind words from supporters, sometimes from unexpected sources. In New York, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller arranged a secret meeting at the home of Jeffrey Miller's parents to offer condolences.
But there was no protection from the hate-filled envelopes that arrived in their mailboxes from strangers who wanted more blood to be spilled.
'There's nothing better than a dead destructive, riot-making communist,' began one letter received by the Schroeders in Lorain."
~ Paula Schleis
"In the weeks and months following Bill Schroeder's death, his parents received over 2,000 threatening/harassing messages. They were called every vile name imaginable. They received death threats.
Think about that. Not one or two hateful nutcases. 2,000 messages."
~ A. Whitman
http://andywhitman.blogspot.com/2019/09/bill-schroder-and-great-red-white-and.html
"Funeral Service for William Schroeder - Film & Video"
https://www.efootage.com/videos/93351/funeral-service-william-schroeder
The casket holds the body of someone killed by his own people. Wondered if a certain guy could have been his little brother. Was he already tall like that? Hmmm.
At the moment, I am feeling like getting older is quite a splendid development & really a great thing to keep on looking forward to.
And just in case some have been deceived by a superficial culture to think otherwise, you don't have to be scared of growing up, kids!
Earlier, as a younger person, there was another, rather more angry voice. But I still find it kind of interesting. It was more like...
"Is it weird that some people's behaviors and choices made me feel like reading about the Holocaust is actually a helpful roadmap to understanding why some rely so heavily on learned behaviors and childish, small-minded prejudices as temporary coping mechanisms to get through life?
It feels as if have suffered from a great gash in my heart, and it seems that the universe is telling me that I simply cannot hide it longer!
Have you ever struggled to make a basic decent life for yourself, but encountered so many obstacles that you felt like perhaps your own people either want to kill you, or get you to kill yourself, instead of helping you to feel able to actually do that?"
Come on, be honest...
"'How to be the opposite of self-centered, small-minded, abusive assholes (even if apparently that's exactly how some people really wanted them to act)' could be a helpful personal enrichment workshop to attend for sure...but why???"
For Growth and Change.
Ahhh...it's good now.
Corb Lund - "Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!" (video)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EIWINsaEpnw&si=8fJjWq0R_02SGHsI
Well...
"6ft. in 7min. - Short Film by Rafael Del Toro"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uhoOtJ368K0&si=mbStapWo0rkYlAw5
"Religious practices
Edit
Jewish law forbids embalming for traditional burials, which it considers to be desecration of the body. The body is ritually washed by select members of the Jewish community, wrapped in either a linen or muslin sheet, and placed in an all-wood casket. The casket must not have any metal in it, and it often has holes in the bottom to ensure that it and the cadaver rapidly decompose and return to the earth. Burial vaults are not used unless required by the cemetery. In Israel, Jews are buried without a casket, in just the shroud.[citation needed]
Islamic law instructs that the deceased be washed and buried with only a wrapping of white cloth. The cloth is used to preserve the dead person's dignity and to emphasize simplicity. The cloth is sometimes perfumed, but in a natural burial, no chemical preservatives or embalming fluid are used, nor is there a burial vault, coffin or casket. Islamic law does not require any of these.
Alternative methods of burial
Edit
Alternatives to ground burials include burial in a coral reef, sky burial, burial at sea, hybrid cemeteries and human composting.
Coral reefs
Edit
Cremated remains are sometimes placed inside concrete coral reef balls, and ceremoniously placed in the sea as part of a reef ecosystem. These balls are used to repair damage to coral reefs, and to provide new habitat for fish and other sea life."
Natural burial - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_burial
"Michigan dairy farm housing: ‘Invisible’ workers suffer, state looks other way"
"Absolutely Beautiful: Watch This Woman Tell Her Husband She’s Pregnant While Conan O’Brien Pours Good Milk Down The Sink"
https://clickhole.com/absolutely-beautiful-watch-this-woman-tell-her-husband-1825126511/
"You'll love 'A Million Miles Away'"
What's this?
"Michigan dairy farm housing: ‘Invisible’ workers suffer, state looks other way"
"Absolutely Beautiful: Watch This Woman Tell Her Husband She’s Pregnant While Conan O’Brien Pours Good Milk Down The Sink"
https://clickhole.com/absolutely-beautiful-watch-this-woman-tell-her-husband-1825126511/
"These People Were 'Today Years Old' When They Learned"
https://parentinfluence.com/people-were-today-years-old-when-they-learned-these-facts-is/19/
"What Mireille Eats in a Typical Week"
https://frenchwomendontgetfat.com/mireilles-musings-a-weeks-food-journal/
What can I watch to learn more about Ebony & Ivory before I attempt to discover another film about being a Nazi mother?
"Toni Erdmann" | Official US Trailer (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0uwi5EPnpA
"The year’s scariest horror film is 'The Zone of Interest'"
https://www.vox.com/culture/23733985/zone-interest-arendt-banality-review-canes-jonathan-glazer
"Toni Erdmann is a 3-hour German film about modernizing"
"The Hunger Games: Rehab and Plastic Surgery" | Dear Hollywood
When many hours of "it's okay, they didn't mean it, they just don't know..." go unseen just because your little upset warrior side was keeping you alive and sniping so you could drag yourself up out of that hole...if you have to experience that again, what will that be like in another incarnation?
It's like, no one else can ever really know how processing your own personal trauma actually feels...is that right?
"Like that fresh salad? Might want to enjoy it while you can. Immigrant workers and farmworker advocates fear a new state immigration law could worsen labor shortages in South Florida’s agricultural industry, making it harder and costlier to plant, harvest and ship the fresh fruits and vegetables that consumers have grown to expect. The new law, which took effect July 1, cracks down on workers without proper Florida documentation through a variety of means, from invalidating certain out-of-state driver licenses that immigrants use to subjecting new hires for some companies to background checks. The law also requires hospitals that accept Medicaid to ask patients about their immigration status. Taken together, the law has a chilling effect on workers and producers alike, and growers and farmworkers told the Miami Herald the impact could be far-reaching as workers prepare to return to Florida to harvest winter and spring produce. Even a special federal visa for agriculture, called H-2A, might not fill the gap because of the expense of attracting workers through the program. Will farmworkers and their families avoid Florida en masse? Will growers pull back on planting? This was a self-made mistake that Florida lawmakers and employers need to address."
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2023/09/16/scared-farmworkers-high-achieving-teens-editorial/
"To this day, doctors perform unnecessary and dangerous surgeries on children that can have adverse physical consequences down the line. In Weigel’s case, doctors removed the internal testes she was born with, which 'forced my body into hormone withdrawal, leaching calcium from my bones, which is why I now have osteoporosis. That's very common in the intersex community.' There are also psychological scars: As a child Weigel was told she should keep her identity secret or she’d never find a husband, that people would make fun of her. 'By trying to fix me,' she said, 'they broke me. There was never an issue in the first place.'”
~ Lina Fisher
"New Documentary Every Body Illuminates the 'I'"
"Sandra Huller Interview: ‘Anatomy of a Fall,’ ‘Zone of Interest'"
No trailer for "The Zone of Interestingness" just yet.
"The Zone of Interest" - Metacritic
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-zone-of-interest/
"Toni Erdmann" | Official US Trailer (2016)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=j0uwi5EPnpA&si=LeaXzmxS08zWkTxF
"TIFF ’23 Review: ‘The Zone of Interest’ is a chilling portrait "
"F. Murray Abraham: 'My work is my salvation'"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/f-murray-abraham-amadeus-the-white-lotus/
"Why Did F. Murray Abraham Leave Mythic Quest"
https://movieweb.com/why-did-f-murray-abraham-leave-mythic-quest/
Creedence Clearwater Revival – "Fortunate Son"
https://genius.com/Creedence-clearwater-revival-fortunate-son-lyrics
"End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood" by Patty Lin
How to watch "Maid" again on Netflix.
"9 best Netflix miniseries to binge-watch over a weekend"
https://www.tomsguide.com/opinion/best-miniseries-on-netflix
That's reasonable, isn't it?
"How to help your kids make better choices than what's his face made" wasn't nice enough and "You go girl, you can stand up to that bully" just made her run to all his friends who find ways to make excuses for a variety of gray area abuses, (and those are just "gray area" by today's standards in certain circles, by the way.)
Would they be half as tempted to make so many excuses for immature abusive B.S. if any strange, poor, unseen laborers were doing it to anyone in their circle of acquaintances (not to other unseen people in their designated potato patches)...uh, probably not, right?
Can saying "Hey, Russell Brand being way worse than you is still not an excuse!" be a step towards a more healing journey?
I believe it could be!
I wish to know on a deeper level that from now on, if I feel some old trauma coming up, there are good and healing ways to follow, and that healing from trauma is not dependent on making other people understand you, nor is it necessary to do so in order to heal, so I pray that this will guide me towards more healing, and in this body, I feel that now I want to be on a healing journey more than ever.
My body is telling me I really need to heal again, so I will be applying myself to healing this body's experience for the rest of today. Oh my goodness.
To follow...
"Inverse Cowgirl: A Memoir--Alicia Roth Weigel in conversation with Park Cannon"
Several times a day, for the past several days, this song from my younger era invited me to listen to it again.
Counting Crows - "Round Here (Official Music Video)"
"According to experts, around 1.7% of the population is born with intersex traits – comparable to the number of people born with red hair."
"Jewish population before the war
Before 1940, the Netherlands, Belgium and France had been characterized by a parliamentary democracy and a liberal tradition for decades. Admittedly there was some antisemitism, often not openly expressed, but in these countries there had been no legal difference between Jewish and non-Jewish citizens for almost 150 years. The percentage of Jews of the total population did not differ very much and was low in all three countries: 0.75% of the French and Belgian population, and 1.5% of the Dutch population."
I really am going to have to learn how to get much better at focusing on health and healing and not rely too much on how some other people (some of whom got acclimated to patterns which feel very unhealthy for me and my body right now) choose to deal with life.
The Bigoted Family Values Club explains how to be the kind of human being who seems to be so much more acceptable to them.
“I think both sides are going to like me.”
~ The Former President
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/09/trumps-terrible-abortion-comments/
If this generation is still being so slow to change.
"Recent research has investigated how infrahumanisation influences behaviour. In a series of studies, Jeroen Vaes and his colleagues investigated people's reactions to outgroup members who attempt to 'humanise' themselves through the use of uniquely human emotions. They found that ingroup members reacted negatively to outgroup members' attempts to humanise, offering less help and withdrawing faster than when the same uniquely human emotion was expressed by an ingroup member or when the outgroup member expressed a non-uniquely human emotion.[4][clarification needed] In an American context, Cuddy and colleagues[5] have investigated the influence of infrahumanisation on intergroup helping behaviour. Examining helping in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Cuddy et al. found that people believed outgroup members experienced less negative uniquely human emotions than ingroup members. The more participants infrahumanised the outgroup member, the less likely they were to help."
"Infrahumanisation" - Wikipedia
Because I don't understand why so many "loving mothers" apparently got trained to feel entitled to act like they don't care about others' human rights, in this modern day society. They learned to act like that was just "normal behavior" from some people or situations, somehow, somewhere.
Acting like you're better at being considered a valid human being only if you're a biological mother if you're alive in a certain type of body is a very hurtful and discriminatory belief system.
It is degrading and dehumanizing and exclusionary, and humans deserve much better.
When the people who said they didn't want to be as mean as what got role-modeled for them end up repeating the same patterns as what got role-modeled for them?
"Society places women’s worth in their ability to bear children. Fertility is the perceived pinnacle of our existence and what marks us as female. Because of my external anatomy, they ticked the 'F' box on my birth certificate — there still is no available option on this document for intersex people, born in between — but from my first breaths I was seen as a defective female, a girl who needed to be 'fixed.'”
~ Alicia Ross Weigel
"I Came Out as Intersex in Front of the Texas Legislature"
"The trauma doctor: Gabor Maté on happiness, hope and how to heal our deepest wounds"
Some People May Choose to Align Themselves with Patriarchal Norms and Dehumanize Designated Outsiders because that is One Survival Strategy they've gotten Familiarized with, but how can that be a Good Enough Coping Mechanism to Rely On Forever?
"A disappointing 10 years of Pope Francis on abuse"
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/disappointing-10-years-pope-francis-abuse
"Woman suing Texas over abortion ban vomits on the stand in emotional reaction during dramatic hearing - Three plaintiffs testified about the trauma they experienced carrying nonviable pregnancies."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/woman-suing-texas-abortion-ban-vomits-on-stand-rcna95162
'"My life was on the line, too’: How 1 mom joined the fight against restrictive abortion laws in her state - Eight women are suing three states with near-total abortion bans. This is how Tennessee mom Allie Phillips became one of them."
https://www.today.com/parents/moms/tennessee-abortion-lawsuit-rcna103744
"She Just Had a Baby. Soon She'll Start 7th Grade."
https://time.com/6303701/a-rape-in-mississippi/
"Maybe so-and-so won't be as good at being bigoted against women's bodies and their healthcare issues, and some just find that very threatening to the whole paradigm their lives were based upon."
Imagine the possibilities!
"I don't frankly feel inclined to act like I care very much about human rights for girls and women. Because they never encouraged me to care about that stuff, and everyone told us feminists were man-haters when I was growing up. And as long as I got to have my own kids and obtain that coveted status of motherhood, I'm good."
Who would believe that THIS GUY is better at acting concerned about women getting access to a basic level of healthcare than nice, caring, liberal parents?
"Trump: I 'don't frankly care' if abortion is regulated"
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/17/trump-abortion-federal-state-regulations
The Patriarchal Ones will let you know when you're one of the ones they were trained to dehumanize.
Why do the Patriarchal Ones still want "good people" to degrade and dehumanize others and act like most privileged men are far more important than everyone else? Is it because...?
"The war on women who use abortion pills takes a terrifying new turn"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/16/abortion-pills-week-in-patriarchy-arwa-mahdawi
Some "conservative" parents and some "liberal" parents can be stubbornly unified in clinging to old-fashioned Patriarchal Norms and acting like going along with those norms is good enough for everyone. But it's really not, and every day it gets more and more impossible to ignore that.
"Lots of kinds of people matter, they just weren't trained to act like that's true or to see it that way."
What cookie could quell the pain of the actually - not - so - conservative baby shower moms who acted like girl babies were inferior to boy babies because that's just how the Patriarchy taught them to act? If they have sons or daughters by now, will their kids care more about human rights than the previous generation cared?
When the "conservative" people and the "liberal" people who are still acting a lot like the "conservative" ones choose to dehumanize "the others" for the sake of fitting in with whatever has been "normalized," it's not because that's what's best for them. It's because that's what they learned to do as a way of coping with their own problems.
Those coping mechanisms still seem to be working for them, but when you know deep down inside that they are not healthy enough for you, your body will make you hear that message.
It can be good to know that there are others who will find it easier to encompass a much wider variety of human experiences, and if you think that some were capable of better, who knows, maybe one day that way of living may begin to appeal more to them, too.
"She’d been a long time finding the one-bedroom apartment we rented, and Joey’s family owned the building. I didn’t know it then, but Mom was, for many, an undesirable tenant: a single mother with two children. The working-class world we lived in had little tolerance for women like her. She’d gone on welfare after having to quit her job because she couldn’t keep a steady babysitter. She told me, years later, that the women who babysat us were usually married women with kids of their own.
Sometimes, I wonder if Joey chose me because he knew it would be harder for Mom to tell."
~ Kim Vose
"The Boogeyman"
Have you been invited to the "Dehumanizing the 'Different Ones' so you can fit in with the 'Normal Ones' club" lately?
A "different" body can teach you more about how heteronormative "family values" in modern society have convinced many that excluding a lot of the "different" ones is just what feels "normal" to them.
Bigotry gets normalized in the name of trying to have a sense of control over situations and circumstances.
When some of the people who are claiming to be more "liberal" are still acting like their family values got inherited from conservative church people, it can feel like the jagged edge of a knife that comes out whenever a certain segment of the population reacts to "the others" when their ways or beliefs get challenged.
I can be all for silliness and spontaneity! Really. It's like, that could, in fact be my truest self.
But what about all of the other things I need to pay attention to? What about all of that, too?
"A little over thirteen years ago, in my second semester of graduate school, I was in a novel-writing class with the late Margaux Fragoso. She was writing about a sexual relationship between a child and an adult that lasted into the child’s own adulthood, ending when the pedophile committed suicide. In our workshop, several of my classmates eviscerated the pages they’d been presented with.
“What a ridiculous premise,” a brassy redhead declared. “Like any child would willingly stay in a relationship with her abuser.”
“Yeah, seriously, dude,” a younger guy added, his wide-spread legs sprawling out into the room.
“I mean, like, why wouldn’t she just tell her mother?” He nodded to the woman who’d spoken.
“Sorry, but it makes zero sense. No one would do that.”
I knew the truth when I heard it, but I didn’t say a word as they talked, just watched Margaux’s shoulders slump as she scribbled in her notebook, the sweep of her dark hair hiding her cheeks. She wore a teddy bear t-shirt, with white and pale pink high-tops.
There was something vulnerable, almost childlike about Margaux’s demeanor and the sound of her voice that seemed to bring out the bully in many of my classmates; the same ones had been similarly dismissive of her work the previous semester. Their attitude sparked our friendship, and I’d written to her after one especially nasty workshop to tell her what I hadn’t dared to say aloud: that they’d been unfair to her work. She’d responded that there was no way she’d value criticism from someone who wrote “arrogant rambling garbage that he thinks is reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.” That made me realize she was far less vulnerable than I thought, at least where her writing was concerned."
~ Kim Vose
The Boogeyman
"How to heal from the trauma triggers of the past several years will continue unfolding..."
Grimes - "Oblivion"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtH68PJIQLE
Yep and Nope.
"Russell Brand backed by Elon Musk and Andrew Tate as he denies ‘serious criminal allegations’"
"Perry admitted the movement had its upsides for women, but it’s been very hard on men, and we should all listen to our grandmothers now to get back to 'normal.' Khachiyan, who found it necessary to vape during the discussion, proclaimed she was 'a mother trying to keep her child out of the clutches of rabid ideologues, while making sure not to indoctrinate him too far in the opposite direction.' 'Still, it would be hypocritical for me to blame the sexual revolution for everything,' she continued. 'Instead I’d like to blame liberals.' All cited Paglia as their feminist hero except for Grimes, who appeared wholly unprepared for the rest of the panel’s canned talking points on second-wave feminism, intersectionality and sex-positivity. (As a result, the Canadian singer-songwriter came off as the only sincere voice of the bunch.'"
~ Lorraine Ali
I saved it four times "to read later" and then finally realized what I was doing and just finished reading the article.
"When he went to Berkeley High in the ’70s, a teacher smoked and drank with his students and was known for dating high school girls, Trampleasure told Mage during an interview. (He gave Mage permission to share the recording with Berkeleyside.)
Trampleasure told Berkeleyside that other teachers did illegal things, too, and 'they didn’t have to hide it … nobody cared.' By comparison, when he came back to teach in the ’90s, those teachers were more discreet and the administration drew firmer boundaries.
Looking back now, Trampleasure said he wishes he had intervened, though he maintains that even today, such a photo wouldn’t necessarily be a red flag. 'I’m really sorry I wasn’t aware enough to do something about it,' he said."
~ Ally Markovich
"Mt. SAC coach accused of sexual abuse to remain employed"
https://sac.media/2023/02/10/mt-sac-coach-accused-of-sexual-abuse-to-remain-employed-school-says/
"People who wanted abortions after being sexually assaulted were...."
~ A Glossy Voice
"Troops avoid abortion travel policy fueling Tuberville Blockade"
"Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville has blocked hundreds of military promotions over a single policy that allows troops access to abortions, creating turmoil within the Pentagon and even his own party."
By LARA SELIGMAN and JOE GOULD
"Troops avoid abortion travel policy fueling Tuberville Blockade"
"Tommy Tuberville" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tuberville
"An Army officer stationed in Kentucky was one of the few to use the travel policy to obtain an abortion in a different state after she was sexually assaulted, according to an Army official with direct knowledge of the case. In order to receive reimbursement, she had to provide documentation from a health provider, as well as fill out paperwork letting her superiors know where she was going and how long she would be gone. After the procedure, the officer was reassigned to a different unit, the official said."
By LARA SELIGMAN and JOE GOULD
"Troops avoid abortion travel policy fueling Tuberville Blockade"
AL versus KY...Bye-bye!
"Mouth of the South"
https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/chopped/episodes/mouth-of-the-south
"Mouth of the South"
https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/chopped/episodes/mouth-of-the-south
I caught some of this show because it was playing in the jury duty lounge, above a woman who was typing stuff on a school district laptop. There were two men and two women, and a bit of cattitude, and there was a mention of how she thinks she's from the South but I'm from Alabama and she's from Kentucky and we always considered those people to be like Northerners and I was like, hmmm, fascinating, but both of you are currently getting your reproductive rights infringed upon more than people who live in other places, but back to this vegan fried chicken challenge! The judges tried their dishes and there was a mixture of criticism and praise, and one contestant got praised more then the rest, and they went to commercial and I got up to go the bathroom. But I wondered what happened when I was in the bathroom because the woman who got all the compliments had been eliminated. And then, they interrupted the show to tell us we could go! I was like, Universe, did you seriously send me here just to see that? And I kinda want to look up the chefs again, so I just wonder, where are their names?
In certain places, maybe they will still give you a sandwich, in spite of the official change in policy...
"The best one yet is Jersey Mike's"
https://www.tiktok.com/@jessierietsma/video/7276537567993056558?
"Customer Picks Up Birthday Freebies From 29 Stores"
"No more free coffee on your birthday? Companies rein in customer rewards programs — here’s why"
https://apnews.com/article/dunkin-sephora-starbucks-birthday-reward-72016abf73305931efd82f2a05c32dfa
"Currently, we are taking time to review our free birthday sub program. While new members cannot join at this time, our Shore Points® program is a great way to earn free subs."
FAQs - Jersey Mike's Subs
https://www.jerseymikes.com/faq
IT REALLY DEPENDS ON THE PLACE & THE PEOPLE!!!!
"As for the best free offer, Jessie says it’s a toss-up.
'Either Jersey Mike’s or HopCat. Jersey Mike’s was a GIANT sandwich for free and HopCat (a midwest chain) was an entire free meal,” she recalls.
In the comments section, users were amazed by Jessie’s efforts.
As one user put it, 'This is impressive.'”
~ Braden Bjella
"Customer Picks Up Birthday Freebies From 29 Stores"
"Fairy house pumpkin purse!" @HollyAuna
https://youtube.com/watch?v=e0V1NlddcSg&si=Km-pWe2k1KcAJZuy
"GRWM and my parents for renfaire! #renfaire #cosplay" ~@HollyAuna
https://youtube.com/shorts/MzM_vlXOZ64?si=bREgCuEQG6NPlIkm
"how much free stuff can you get on your birthday??" @HollyAuna
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PPJSAp4ZoIU&si=AvnrsyzWJqdemimj
Maybe wholesomeness can come crawling back out of the Hole O' Gremlins?
"That time Conan tried selling makeup #CONAN"
https://www.instagram.com/teamcoco/
That's very clever. As he peers through the window, his face all smudged with cosmetics, one can almost imagine how it would be if he were a nice kid, wide-eyed with wonder, sometime back in the 1970s.
"The Lupine Blue occurs with its host, often on rocky balds and in alpine and subalpine 'rock gardens;' males puddle, and both sexes often visit Pussy Paws."
Plebejus lupini | Art Shapiro's Butterfly Site
https://butterfly.ucdavis.edu/butterfly/plebejus/lupini
"Understanding Men and Their Trauma with Dr. Gabor Mate"
"Knowing these signs helps us not only identify emotionally immature behavior in others but also become more aware of these traits within ourselves."
~ Lachlan Brown
https://hackspirit.com/if-someone-displays-these-12-behaviors-theyre-an-emotionally-immature-adult/
"Women with serious pregnancy complications sue over state abortion bans"
"'To call for any sort of change is painted as an attempt to destroy the achievement of the past three decades and return to the cauldron of bloodshed and violence,' Strangio says. "When the liberation happened, it triggered a mass flight into what’s familiar — into tradition, into Buddhism, into conservatism, a very risk-averse view of politics.'
That idea extends to attitudes toward the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge. According to Strangio, the government’s grip over information has 'inhibited the achievement of some kind of objective understanding of what happened.' That means even more time will need to pass before the nation can even really begin to come to terms with its history.
'It’s very hard within Cambodian politics to have an open and honest free conservation about who the Khmer Rouge is,' he says. 'It will take the passing of this political generation before people will be able to have one of these conversations.'”
~ Casey Quackenbush
