Even if I am allergic to some people's needs for external validation, and it is just not good for my body or for my health responses to cater to their cult leadery coping mechanisms, this is just so cute!
"Cat Walks Over To Neighbor's House For Nightly Sleepover"
https://youtube.com/shorts/BNOQsX-8JmM?si=HFa6ELyfs-bVn5II
Thank you, kitty cats, I appreciate this feline goodness! 💖
😺 Honestly, sometimes the people who act like they need cult leaders to make themselves feel successful or have a nice home or whatever still seem like so absolutely untrustworthy and not very good for my health to be around very much, but God bless humanity, and I will be looking for the fun and cuteness in life, anyways! 😺
💞🙏🏼🕊️💖 Humans need healing, and a lot of people can really use all the prayers and gratitude for healing right now!
Peace.
💞🙏🏼🕊️💖
People need it and I pray for help to get through a challenging time when people are sick and they need real help and compassion and healing.
Imagine being so addicted to willful ignorance as a coping mechanism that you must replicate oppressive conditions to make yourself feel acceptable to others. No, it's just too much unhealthy stupidity to be a real choice.
Find the people you want to be nice to when they accidentally make a mistake because they actually feel bad about it. And don't get sucked in to worrying about the people who you want to yell at because whenever they make mistakes, they constantly dig in their heels and never want to admit it, and they just keep repeating the same old patterns over and over and over and over again, no matter who it hurts, like they're locked into some kind of survival mechanism.
"Sometimes I think greed is just like the offspring of fear and stupidity meeting," A Voice said.
"People who behave stupidly are more dangerous than people who behave maliciously. Evil people at least have some accurate sense of their own self-interest, which might restrain them. Stupidity dares greatly! Stupidity already has all the answers!"
~ David Brooks
"Opinion | Trump and Stupidity" - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/opinion/trump-executive-orders.html
"A prudent administration would have picked the programs it opposed and focused on cutting those, through a well-established process known as rescission authority. But the Trump administration decided to impose a vague, half-baked freeze on what it claimed amounted to more than $3 trillion in federal spending. Suddenly, patients in cancer trials at the National Institutes of Health didn’t know if they could continue their treatments, Head Start administrators didn’t know if they could draw federal funds, cities and states across America didn’t know if they would have money for police forces, schools, nutrition programs, highway repair and other basic services.
This Trump policy was like trying to cure acne with decapitation. Nobody seems to have asked the question: If we freeze all grant spending, what will happen next? Once the ramifications of that stupidity became obvious, Trump reversed course. And this is my big prediction for this administration: It will churn out a steady stream of stupid policies, and when the consequences of those policies begin to hit Trump’s approval rating, he will flip-flop, diminish or abandon those policies. He loves popularity more than any idea.
~ David Brooks
"Opinion | Trump and Stupidity" - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/opinion/trump-executive-orders.html
It was nice to be merely curious and concerned about my own health for a little while, and now it's like it's impossible to only see that, and not to see all the other stuff, which also affects human health a great deal. Huh!!!
What values to emulate!
The real improvement would be to figure out how to heal and to admit that just because some outside forces instructed you to be very self-absorbed, you need not adhere to greedy, sexist, racist, coping mechanisms in order to have a "good life" according to patriarchal standards.
Perhaps you could still thank the people who are picking your food and paying into your social security. (I mean, people of a certain age are paying into social security too but the way things are going, it's going to run out. But maybe nice things might happen in the future if better leadership happens?)
The guy in charge is now focused on deporting the immigrants on account of racism and scapegoating, but you don't have to be that way to survive a life on Earth, right?
"Utah's Episcopal churches see surge of interest following D.C. bishop's viral sermon"
https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2025/01/30/episcopal-church-trump-budde-sermon-utah
"You Are In Danger"
~ PoliticsGirl
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fvmctbycWDk&si=C1SUmOoiqbV8f-hE
Robert Reich on X:
"To recap, Trump:
-Forced out the FAA chief at Musk's insistence
-Imposed a hiring freeze that reportedly included air traffic controllers
-Fired the TSA head and gutted a key aviation safety committee -Blamed the DCA crash on DEI
This is disastrous leadership." / X
"About Blonde and White Supremacy"
~ Knitting Cult Lady
https://youtube.com/watch?v=B-FLt4bYTqs&si=cOBHxkwOT0toSV6s
"Brave Sir Robin"
I just used SO much of that Dr. Bronner's peppermint soap in the shower. It was decadent!
Why use such things to push people away? I think some people might be enjoying their privileges and their things more through this tumultuous time if they weren't acting like scared hoarders.
"Healing collective trauma"
@brown19170
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFeFEC6yoO0/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
💗 Something I really appreciate about my cat is that she doesn't act like greedy people who don't care about anybody but themselves, and maybe they do not even care about themselves very much, because I think people who actually cared about themselves on a much deeper level would be able to show more compassion to other, different kinds of people. She just acts like a cat, and yes, she wants to take care of herself, and she also appreciates people who are good to her, and I like that. Go, cats!!!!!🐈⬛
"Donald Trump Blames Obama, Biden, DEI for DC Plane Crash"
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-obama-biden-dei-dc-plane-crash-2023610
😭 Did you ever want to tell a person who was acting needy and seemed kinda extra narcissistic about it, "Don't you know that there's SO many other needy people, including some people who might actually have it worse than you, also vying for my attention right now?"💞😭💗I feel like that's something some people need to hear sometimes.💞And then they should go to partake of whatever Healing Waters they need to be in that I cannot be providing for them at this time. 😭😭😭😭😭
Not everyone in that dangerous period of history needed to be horrible to other people's children in order to feel less insecure about themselves, although those were very trying, trying times. Right?
True! Very, very true.
At least I know my body wants me to be well, and I am pretty sure my body thinks that going along with certain old patterns just to obtain some kind of temporary materialistic comfort or advantage is actually not what's best for my health!
🍾🥂🛖🏘🤑
"Mass Deportations Could Cause Wage Increases in Five States"
https://www.newsweek.com/mass-deportations-could-cause-wage-increases-five-states-2022942
"American citizens, including citizens of Native tribal nations, have been pulled into the vast immigration operations ordered by President Donald Trump in accordance with his campaign vow to conduct mass deportations since Day 1.
Those who are getting caught in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raids are being targeted because of their race or skin color, according to witnesses."
~ Suzanne Gamboa and Nicole Acevedo
"Barron Trump's Inauguration Move Fuels MAGA Speculation"
https://www.newsweek.com/barron-trump-inauguration-move-fuels-maga-speculation-2018247
"Donald Trump Says He's Sent Military Into California..."
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-military-california-fires-water-latest-2021833
"In an article for The Free Press, conservative leaning writer Christopher Caldwell said: 'So tumultuous was the first week of Donald Trump's second term that people have barely noticed, a week on, that last Tuesday he repealed affirmative action by executive order. That is astonishing.'"
~ James Bickerton
"Donald Trump's Approval Rating Has Declined" - Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-approval-rating-declining-2022141
"Andres Oppenheimer wrote in the Miami Herald: 'You don't have to be an expert to speculate that detentions of undocumented factory workers, restaurant dishwashers, house cleaners, nannies and gardeners will increase in the coming months. Trump has said he wants to deport most of the estimated 11 to 13 million unauthorized immigrants, but only up to 650,000 of them are estimated to have criminal records. As criminals become harder to find, where do you think Trump will find more potential deportation subjects, if not among those who aren't criminals?
'The U.S. economy needs more—not fewer—immigrants. In part because of declining U.S. birth rates, there are 8 million job openings in America but only 6.8 million unemployed workers, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Without immigrants, labor costs will rise, and so will inflation. The bottom line is that it's OK to deport foreign criminals, and there's no question that America needs to fix its immigration system. But detaining people who clean shrimp at a Newark seafood market while freeing Jan. 6 violent rioters is not only morally questionable but economically insane.'"
~ Ewan Palmer
"Trump's Mass Deportation Plans..."
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-mass-deportation-plans-miami-herald-ice-workers-2023397
Interesting perspective shared, including certain things about where she grew up and how it has affected her.
"#healingjourney"
~ brown19170
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFdWJcMSL7g/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Ever since the world started to get even more crazy on the outside, it seems like I have to focus on learning how to take better care of my health and body. It's very obvious that my body just really needs me to take care of my health right now.
I had a dream that I accidentally sent some extra information about my life to a person I know who's into healing techniques, (like when you accidentally text someone) but the person reacted enthusiastically, and I got to find out more about the healing techniques by sharing information!
To wake up in the middle of the night and know that people need better lives, and that can include more time to rest, and more good healing experiences.
Earlier today, it seemed like I actually felt a stone scraping down a tube in my body and instead of feeling panicked, it was more like it was a curious experience. Still, it's very obvious I need to learn how to take better care of this body, and I don't want that to continue, and I will need to make some good decisions.
I feel like there are addictions to old patterns because people were told that by using money or possessions or gaining attention or social acceptance, they could rely on those as their safety nets, and there are also struggles with people showing empathy or having healthy boundaries, and it goes way beyond just which party you're aligned with, or which person you voted for.
"Teacher asks ICE to raid his school, says many students don't even speak English"
Reunited for the first time in many years! And it's just like when you haven't seen an old friend in a long time, but when you finally see them again and it's as if barely any time passed.
It's a book written by a man who is no longer alive. However, here is his book and these characters.
"Captives of Time by Malcolm Bosse"| Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1709582.Captives_of_Time
This is a wondrous thing for me.
I wonder if he was writing about himself from some other lifetime. That's the kind of thing it makes me think about.
Another lifetime.
Now I am the owner of the book.
I searched for it years after reading it as a library book in a different part of California. I didn't remember the title, but finally figured it out. But I only saw it online, and I never got around to buying it.
It is here again now, and it is a good one for me to read again.
🕊️ I pray for peace because multiples need healing, and this is in my awareness today. 🌿
I think it's pretty...
"Intro Jam & Marys Of The Sea"
~ Tori Amos
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Wbr4XCYHAw&si=RpLeilt9h2VDwgV0
Got some songs in my head now!
That after the big fires, a lot of people will become missing persons.
"LASD seeking 17 at-risk, missing people in LA County"
"Sheriff Robert Luna reported 15 people remain missing in the Eaton fire area, highlighting early rescue efforts that saved 30 disabled adults and 250 residents from facilities that later burned."
"At Altadena Town Hall, Residents Hear Details of 18-Month Cleanup Process"
"Trump Visits Fire-Ravaged Pacific Palisades, But Not Altadena and Pasadena" – Pasadena Now
"How is Orange County Going to Handle Trump’s Immigration Crackdown?"
https://voiceofoc.org/2025/01/how-is-orange-county-going-to-handle-trumps-immigration-crackdown/
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"Mayor Ashleigh Aitken said the Anaheim Police Department does not enforce any type of federal laws, and added that immigration policies like Trump’s strike fear among immigrants regardless of legal status.
'We have our police force do what they want to do, which is keep Anaheim residents safe,' she said in a Thursday phone interview.
'As a city that was built by immigrants and whose economy would crash if immigrants felt unsafe to open up their small businesses or go to their jobs in the resort district, it’s imperative that we let people know that we are going to continue to be a welcoming city.'"
~ Hossam Elattar and Spencer Custodio
"How is Orange County Going to Handle Trump’s Immigration Crackdown?"
https://voiceofoc.org/2025/01/how-is-orange-county-going-to-handle-trumps-immigration-crackdown/
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''There’s a lot of cities in between the extremes of Huntington Beach and Santa Ana and they just want to keep their heads down for the next four years and that is a scary place to be,' said Fullerton College professor and local government expert Jodi Balma in a Thursday phone interview."
~ Hossam Elattar and Spencer Custodio
"How is Orange County Going to Handle Trump’s Immigration Crackdown?"
https://voiceofoc.org/2025/01/how-is-orange-county-going-to-handle-trumps-immigration-crackdown/
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So much depends upon the local government of the city you live in!
"Trump administration strips schools, churches of immigrant protections"
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-5269899/trump-immigration-enforcement-schools-churches
'Local governments across U.S. signal they won't aid Trump migrant crackdown"
"Churches have a long history of being safe havens -- for immigrants and others"
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/26/nx-s1-5273652/church-safe-haven-history-immigrants
"Keiko Fujimori" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko_Fujimori
How could it stay that way forever?
"Susana Higuchi" - Wikipedia
Obviously, it could not stay that way forever."The forced sterilization policy under Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori affected almost exclusively Quechua and Aymara women, a total of about 270,000 (and 22,000 men) according to official figures.[22] The sterilization program lasted for over five years between 1996 and 2001. During this period, women were coerced into forced sterilization.[23] Sterilizations were often performed under dangerous and unsanitary conditions, as the doctors were pressured to perform operations under unrealistic government quotas, which made it impossible to properly inform women and receive their consent.[24]"
"Quechua people" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechua_people
You can't be young and naive forever, can you?
"When is Hello Kitty Cafe Truck coming to San Diego?"
Oh well. Maybe next life time?
"Moms who had to throw daughters to the wolves so certain dads could feel better about themselves" will not be able to keep on attending their cult leaders' services or gatherings this morning, or any other mornings, because there are other, more important things they need to be doing right now.
"Women Who Run With the Wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241823.Women_Who_Run_With_the_Wolves
Dad was just trying to fit in with his co-workers and neighbors. So he could bring home more money to support his family, and get along with people around them. And daughter was just trying to support Dad's need to do better for his family as best as he knew how, by adopting his belief system. And now, it hasn't paid off for her.
Someone's daughter was paying the price for willful ignorance again, and it was painful to see what society had been trained to do.
Because I physically feel like my body requires me to get much better at taking care of a certain kind of human eco system, I will learn how to make really good changes to help a body that is in need of good health and healing.
If you had to act like certain types of people were more important than others just to survive some kind of situation or environment, maybe tomorrow can be different.
When your parents start acting like they need other people to act more like them just so they can feel good about their choices, I get a bad feeling about that.
How to convince significant others to start respecting different kinds of people more in this lifetime, not waiting for the next lifetime to happen, but to actually do it in this one, even though getting high off of dehumanizing people was exactly what they were rewarded for in the by their unwell patriarchal society?
A local to this area Latina girl who is not rich was crying in a video because she's afraid that people in her family are going to get deported, even though they're not criminals, and all these people in the comments were being vicious to her because they felt she had not been smart and that she had believed in lies...
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Think of the energy when children who are feeling what's in their hearts hug each other. And how they want to help each other.
Thanks to my body, I can learn to get better at accepting that other people's survival mechanisms just did not work out well for me in this particular body and with my particular circumstances in this life, and so I can also accept that since my body has gotten ill because of so much stress, now I and my body can really and truly know that we need to focus more on how to heal.
What if I stop resisting what I don't agree with to the point where I get sick, and become better at accepting? This doesn't mean agreeing or just going along with unhealthy patterns. It means accepting things the way they are and finding new ways to get better and going towards healing from a place of accepting that humans truly do deserve healing.
Your body knows when you need to choose a more healing path, regardless of whether or not other people feel the need to do so, and you don't need to be knocked off it and set back so much by their decisions and choices and ways of interpreting things. And even though the healthcare systems are very imperfect, there must still be so many ways to fund out how to help you help yourself more.
Yes, we know that people be hard and insensitive and they can be led astray by materialistic possessions or by cult mentalities. Yes, we know a lot about that. Let's get better. Let's get relaxed. Let's get back to a place where we can help ourselves get back to the healing ways. Let's help ourselves heal now.
I must care for my health. I feel sorry to have gotten knocked around so much by the harshness when I could be aligning myself more with what could heal me and help me get better, too.
I need to ask higher and wiser forces to help me.
A body knows that liberal people being convinced to be just as prejudiced and warped by patriarchal patterns as conservative people being convinced to be prejudiced is making life feel worse for the humans of all ages.
Bless me.
Dear God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
"We can feel that we experienced brutality and encountered beings with brutal attitudes, and it hurts, but we can and we will find good ways to heal from the hurts and suffering."
What are the right messages? What are the healing messages? What healing messages are we needing now?
Last year I spent money on investigating the source of some pains and the insurance has the deductible to meet so it covered none of it but they found nothing. So there's a reluctance to go that route again, because spending money just to find out nothing is not ideal. Pains are here. We need a lot. We need healing. I need the pain to go away. There's also all of the emotional pain. Emotional pain because of people who got duped. And they still get duped, even now.
This is like a crisis here. I need to get through my crisis.
I wish people were healthier. I am getting really scared about my health, and I feel like I'm going to have to pray to angels now. It's a lot. I have to find out what needs to be done for healing right now.
"When You're HOMELESS - Dirty Again Again Again..."
@fullestness
Dads who were duped by the unwell patriarchy could start asking moms how they were duped by the unwell patriarchy so they can compare notes on the similarities and differences???
"In the run up to the November elections, then-Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance famously blamed Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris for spiking the price of eggs.
'Let’s talk about eggs. Eggs, when Kamala Harris took office were short of $1.50 a dozen. Now, a dozen eggs will cost you around $4, thanks to Kamala Harris’ inflationary policies.'
It’s true egg prices are through the roof. The Consumer Price Index for last November showed the price of eggs jumped 8.2% from October and spiked 37.5% year over year.
But Vance is oh so wrong on why egg prices are out of control. Inflation really has very little to do with it. The driving culprit is the spread of bird flu across the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says more that 133 million birds have been detected with the highly pathogenic viruses since January 2022. All those dead chickens directly impact the U.S. egg supply. And fewer eggs combined with higher holiday demand equals higher retail egg prices.
Since the fall elections, Donald Trump admitted bringing down the cost of groceries would be some feat: 'I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard.'
But when it comes to the bird flu, the Trump White House has much bigger problems than the cost of eggs. And it better be paying attention."
~ Dave Dickey
https://investigatemidwest.org/2025/01/22/second-trump-administration-must-take-bird-flu-seriously/
The paychecks and payouts of the patriarchy are like drugs for dads and moms who get tricked into making life worse for the daughters and sons.
"Trump’s EPA also rejected a proposed ban on chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to developmental disabilities in children."
~ Monica Cordero
The unwell patriarchy wants dads to be convinced to act like self-absorbed assholes who don't care about anybody else except themselves, and it's so desperate to survive that it will give so many cookies to certain dads who act that way.
Why did you let the patriarchy warp you? Can you detail it? What were the choices you made and why did you make them? Why did you let them do it?
Imagine being the person who doesn't want to know that I'm way too busy trying to take care of my own health and survive to waste extra energy on trying to behave in a certain socially expected way just so an insecure, sexist, untrustworthy man can feel better about himself.
What could help people actually find the help they need, the help will actually help them, instead going along with such harmful and confusing delusions, which is what they were told to do, by people who were not well and also not to be trusted?
Just a few questions, though. Why are dads who are rapists in the highest offices of government? Why does Megyn Kelly apparently like dads and guys who are rapists better than she likes almost any other kinds of people in Earth, to the point where she has to persecute someone's daughter to her indulge in her preferences? Does the unwell patriarchy want to create a world where it's much better to be a clueless dad than to be the daughter of such a person? I think it does, but I also kind of think it's failing, because that's just too messed up to be good for anybody.
The internet really does bring out the highly insecure sexist guys sometimes, and some of them have daughters.
"I'm going to keep speaking my mind..."
~ refashionedhippie
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFNxa8BJgw2/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
But I'm sure a bunch of the guys who are feeling insulted and therefore feel like insulting her to make themselves feel better probably love to venerate immature male comedians and the dudes who are talkshow hosts and podcasters! Not well at all, those guys.
"Allometry of Alarm Calls: Black-Capped Chickadees Encode Information About Predator Size"
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1108841
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"Therien the wood chopper was here yesterday — and while I was cutting wood some chicadees hopped near pecking the bark and chips and the potatoe skins I had thrown out — What do you call them he asked — I told him — what do you call them asked I — ‘Mezezence’ I think he said. When I eat my dinner in the woods said he sitting very still having kindled a fire to warm my coffee — they come and light on my arm and peck at the potatoe in my fingers — I like to have the little fellers about me —
Just then one flew up from the snow and perched on the wood I was holding in my arms and pecked it and looked me familiarly in the face. Chica-a-dee–dee-dee-dee-dee, — while others were whistling phebe-phe-bee- in the woods behind the house."
~ HDT
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity”: Henry David Thoreau
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/walden-henry-david-thoreau-and-the-politics-of-solitude/13244658
You don't have to be perfect, ok. 🎭
"my 2025 plan to defeat capitalism & save money"
~ Christine Baraka
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ckRUg93cB-U&si=1jV4OZnpWqAdNgcA
"Therien the wood chopper was here yesterday..."
~ HDT
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity”: Henry David Thoreau...
https://www.abc.net.au/religion/walden-henry-david-thoreau-and-the-politics-of-solitude/13244658
A picture which highlights the klutzy early 21st century PCOS perimenopausal struggle.
And interesting to explore! I hadn't heard of them before for some reason.
"Go do some good!"
~ refashionedhippie
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEpwmIEJsWV/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Protect the Porcupine Mountains!
I'm afraid a traumatized kitten that got stolen away from a deported immigrant child won't be the right fit for our household. What is there to do?
"Our ancestors"
~ simplyysri
https://youtube.com/shorts/58PSWeiPQsI?si=6w3r7kcGN0zqhA6Z
"oh grandma"
~ sinplyysri
https://youtube.com/shorts/FQutHaND91U?si=1K_yNhlvjElNTIjq
"how to (not) find a husband in 10 days"
~ simplyysri
"The crowd laughed as Trump referenced Usha Vance. The President continued with a grin, 'I would have chosen her but somehow the line of succession didn't work that way, right?' JD Vance, smiling, nodded in agreement."
"'Would've Somehow Chosen Her:' Trump Calls JD Vance's wife 'smarter'"
Do you want to hang out with these people?
No. Not right now.
Do other people, including some who think they are liberal, ever remind you of Trump and Melania and Usha and JD Vance?
Somewhat, yeah.
Do you want to hang out with those people?
Not right now.
Maybe other people's children deserve better than some people's low self-esteem, low self-education, and low expectations. And if some could act more like they were actually motivated to be trustworthy people, that would help everyone.
"2 years later: Half Moon Bay promised farmworker housing after mass shooting. Where is it?"
"It has begun: Farm workers getting rounded up"
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/22/2298567/-It-has-begun-Farm-workers-getting-rounded-up
The world is filled with people who don't have to make themselves be insensitive to others as a survival strategy just because they live with or work for someone who feels he needs lots of accommodation and attention at the expense of others.
It's not just you. I think other people would be better to more of humanity, too, including some of the people who seem to have been convinced they need to accommodate you and your coping mechanisms at the expense of others.
"Your behavior patterns just once again reminded me of how I think patriarchal people have a lot of their own pain, and I wish that you and they would deal with it in some others ways, ways that would encourage you and them to be a lot nicer and sensitive to more of humanity."
Maybe certain people shouldn't be treated so badly just because certain other people were treated differently by the patriarchal systems and structures.
"ICE can raid churches and schools to arrest immigrants"
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/21/trump-deportation-ice-churches-schools-raids
~ April Rubin
This is the last straw.
"Trump’s Deportation Plans Could Affect Millions of Pets"
https://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/trumps-deportation-plans-could-affect-millions-of-pets/
It also weirdly reflects some bad dreams I've had, so okay. I guess I know why you had those dreams now, brain.
Oh, what have parents with their traumatized backgrounds done to their own children?
Honestly, there probably should be a lot more wailing and grief. I think that it's about to start happening soon.
People start helping people help their peers be less prejudiced than they were in the early 2020s.
You know it might be kind of mean if you need to separate children from pets AND parents who are janitors and farm workers and handy persons and house cleaners and all those good jobs just to feel like you're making life better for yourself.
“'Tradwives' vs. 'Reality'"
~ To the Contrary on PBS
"If you come from Llanelli and you’re dark of skin and eye, you’ve probably heard the one about the Italian ice cream parlour owners – and how your Great Aunty May got taunted at school for looking like a senorita."
"Why are the Welsh Dark? A story from Wales Online in 2007." | Tours Of Wales https://search.app/3sdEgxbd2vMC3mau9
"Medieval Cat Laws - Laws for your Medieval Cat"
"Medieval Cat Laws - Laws for your Medieval Cat"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jD3b1s-s9bk&si=Epsa94e8FhbcLAtt
Always a baby-sitter, never a...father of ten?
"Neo-Nazis Love the Nazi-Like Salutes Elon Musk Made"
https://www.wired.com/story/neo-nazis-love-elon-musk-nazi-like-salutes-trumps-inauguration/
And now, a pet sitter! 🐈⬛🃏☺️
I don't think you should deport people who are caring for innocent animals and plants.
That's a good reminder.
"Medieval Cat Laws - Laws for your Medieval Cat"
"This is the sort of behavior that helped us fit in better with the uncaring patriarchal ones who taught us we need to accumulate more stuff and numb out our emotions."
Why should they suffer?
"Trump’s Deportation Plans Could Affect Millions of Pets"
https://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/trumps-deportation-plans-could-affect-millions-of-pets/
"...describing her as a 'genetic anomaly' because she possessed so many ideal qualities."
~ Jude Sheerin
"Who is Usha Vance, the new second lady of the United States"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c897483zpyeo
"Who is Usha Vance, the new second lady of the United States"
Parents who have been acting like self-absorbed ninnies will be very busy with the adopting of children and the pets of the deported poor people, as well as finding their replacements in the labor systems, so let's all get ready to share and / or create new content!
This just made me think that if you're addicted to buying things (cars? shoes? furniture? real estate?) and you're also addicted to posting about those things, and also fishing for compliments for buying those things...
"Can you tell?"
~ refashioned hippie
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFIq3-jp-PA/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Just don't do it"
~ refashionedhippie
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFJflBiNCBm/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Trump’s Deportation Plans Could Affect Millions of Pets"
https://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/trumps-deportation-plans-could-affect-millions-of-pets/
"Medieval Cat Laws - Laws for your Medieval Cat"
"Medieval Cat Laws - Laws for your Medieval Cat"
"Understanding the Women Menstrual Cycle and Estrogen Dominance - Dr. Berg"
"Why I'll Never Read Another Book About Poverty"
~ Scott Anderson
"Capitalism is Running Out of Time"
~ Parkrose Permaculture
I have had the most ridiculous experiences and encounters with some people.
"Jamie Dimon says Elon Musk is the ‘Einstein’ of our time"
https://fortune.com/2025/01/22/jamie-dimon-elon-musk-hugged-it-out-jpmorgan-chase-tesla/
"Malcolm Gladwell's life has changed; he has not"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/malcolm-gladwell-revenge-of-the-tipping-point/
"The US Supreme Court, the Sexual Revolution and Neil Gaiman"
https://catholicherald.co.uk/the-us-supreme-court-the-sexual-revolution-and-neil-gaiman/
Sadness can be a form of love. It's okay to have those moments, even if you got messages from segments of society that said you should not be so. You want people to heal more, and not suffer so much. You want people to feel better.
"Deuteronomy 10:19,Leviticus 19:18 ESV - Love the sojourners"
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2010%3A19%2CLeviticus%2019%3A18&version=ESV
“The people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants, and work the night shifts in hospitals. They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation. But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors."
~ Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
"Trump's response to Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's sermon should worry all Christians"
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-bishop-budde-sermon-truth-social-rcna188764
Because I didn't watch the inauguration at all.
"Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde asks Trump to show mercy to LGBT people and migrants"
https://search.app/bNuKMEjJYFyRtv518
Now I have health concerns, so I will need to learn how to take better care of my body on multiple levels. That's survival, too.
I'm just hopeful that some of the "liberals" or "conservatives" will become the kinds of people who will feel more able to see that they are connected to the "others," and they will be more genuinely interested in the welfare of other human beings, and they will not be quite so addicted to whatever coping mechanisms made them feel entitled to act so flagrantly insensitive and greedy and self-absorbed, because they mostly did that in order to survive the ailing systems which are not going to be working like they used to be.
Well, since the ones who 'favor' the ones like 'them' are now going to start going after the 'others' even more aggressively, surely 'they' will see the light and stop inadvertently dehumanizing the 'others' in exchange for the short term benefits they were receiving.
I'm still disappointed by the harshness.
Processing knowledge!
Not everyone can take the same kinds of drugs that apparently worked SO MUCH BETTER for....you know.
It's been obvious that the systems of patriarchal white supremacy didn't want you to acknowledge, respect, or care about certain kinds of people.
A time to know it's time to grow, and to stop "accidentally" treating certain kinds of people so badly, just to fit in with the so-called "normal" ones in their society.
A game for a 5-year-old called "Like or Pass?"
"Real talk from a mom"
~ refashioned hippie
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFGUOesSTdk/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
~ brown19170
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFHDBkTvV6j/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Maybe you actually shouldn't be colder and meaner to certain kinds of girls or women, or to poorer people who don't own property, or to people from cultural backgrounds who are different from yours.
Are they keeping them around to pick the food next?
"But why is it only enforced on dark people? I had friends for years from Ireland that had expired visas for years. Nothing happened to them."
~ Erika Ferrari
"Wonder why Southern California has a housing crisis? Hint: it's not illegal immigrants"
https://www.reddit.com/r/InlandEmpire/s/9IjkpOpWXC
"Wonder why Southern California has a housing crisis? Hint: it's not illegal immigrants"
https://www.reddit.com/r/InlandEmpire/s/9IjkpOpWXC
"Wonder why Southern California has a housing crisis? Hint: it's not illegal immigrants"
https://www.reddit.com/r/InlandEmpire/s/9IjkpOpWXC
I stood on the ground in bare feet and I felt this real sense of the generous ways that nature can heal humanity.
Nature can help all of us.
Even if you're a completely untrustworthy person to me, and I can't do much with you right now, go out in nature and ask nature to heal you. Really. Just do it. You have a responsibility to yourself to find ways you can heal.
Nature helped me understand that even if somebody has done horrible things and I never want to be around them, that person still has a responsibility to heal themselves.
Even if this person has been manipulative and shallow and abusive and disgusting and I never want to see them in real life, I honestly do want nature to help them and heal them.
Find the people who can help you, too, and really help to heal you. Like really. Really really, really, really, really, really, really. Nature can really heal you.
Thank you, nature!
"Random Cat Keeps Walking With Woman And Her Dogs" - Videos - The Dodo
I don't want to be mad too much, but recently I felt I'd rather be mad than in a state of nervous system exhaustion, which also happened not so long ago.
But then if you're mad too much, your health is going to suffer and then the nervous system exhaustion will come back.
That's why it's a delicate balance.
I don't know how to describe what it's like when you're in a state of nervous system exhaustion, but I can tell you that when you're mad, you actually might get more things done sometimes.
Which one of you guys hangs out with women who don't have to act like girls and women are inferior in order to make you feel better about yourself?
"Now on 'Be a selfish rich guy or a woman who acts like they're the only ones who matter' mode."
What if there was a game called "How to not get killed by the healthcare system (in spite of the fact that you're not rich and you're living in a female body in the United States in the early 21st century and guess who's about to get put in charge of all the things)"?
Setting up a new computer shows you who's important to the guys with the money!
"Peak strawberry season is mere weeks away but more than 100 immigrants with temporary visas are set to pick the fruit at local farms amid frigid temperatures."
~ Cristina Mendez
"Donations of warm clothing needed for Florida farmworkers" | wtsp.com https://search.app/5a7TyegRCjwhkECs5
"Alabama pizza boxes"
"Trump one’s exclaiming 'Make pizza great again!' while Trump two’s behind bars and wearing an orange prison suit. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is a She-Grinch saying 'How dare we say Merry Christmas' as a beer-clutching Kid Rock waves an American flag. On the boxes’ interior, Elon Musk, Dana White, Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney cheer as Trump and Harris prepare to grapple inside a mixed martial arts octagon."
~ Matt Wake
Oh my gosh, you worthless to the patriarchal society person, why don't you act like we're more important?
Why don't you act like we're worth more than the other kinds of people, and the other kinds of children, like all the rest of the people we like to surround ourselves with do all the time?
That insane story about how Trump needs to be the one to pick the potatoes for all the blond moms is simply too much about the healthcare inequities of the early 21st century.
My body needs to feel better, so I'll try to take better care of myself and my health for the rest of the day.
"Living your life to impress other men by hating women is one of the most embarrassing things I can imagine."
~ Rebecca Shaw
"Letter: Expensive ski tickets and soaring homelessness characterize America’s income inequality"
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/letters/2025/01/16/letter-expensive-ski-tickets/
Rich men in a Patriarchal Society actually do have a lot in common with homeless people, though. Maybe that's why they're creating so many of them.
If my wife had gone to a different Church, would she want to act like other people are pieces of trash just to make me feel good?
Some liberal people love discriminating against girls and women more than some conservative people, and, surprise surprise, vice versa!
I just went and asked my definitely not a lesbian firefighter husband, "How many slave children from other women had to cater to Daddy's particular needs this morning?"
If some people would have treated you better just because you had more money, or a different set of genes, that's not very wise.
How to not be so discriminatory and dehumanizing towards other people's children, even if your own church wanted you to be, and also wanted you to just focus on your own short term personal gains at the expense of others, including people in your own family?
Have you ever felt like someone's mom or dad had to repeatedly discriminate against you, or someone like you, just to make a shallow man with more $ feel more powerful or happy?
Pretty soon, parents who voted for Trump might want to have more thoughtful discussions about the harmful effects of Patriarchal rape culture on them, too!
Instead of pretending like it's just fine, and it's just not happening, because that's more convenient for you or for the people around you.
"Tucker Carlson’s Weird Spanking Fantasy Is Designed to Stir Up MAGA Misogyny
By extolling Trump as 'Daddy' meting out corporal punishment, the disgraced TV host is pitching authoritarian patriarchy."
~ Jeet Heer
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tucker-carlson-spanking-fantasy-gop/
"Multiple women said that he exposed his son to some of this behavior. Pavlovich says that at one point, Gaiman's son called her 'slave' and told her to call him 'master,' which Gaiman seemed to find 'amusing.'"
~ Daniel Roman
"Horrifying..."
"My great-grandchildren are going to be less horrible and abusive to girls and women than your great-grandchildren are going to be, thanks to your disgusting, selfish, narcissistic role-modeling!"
My ancestors' Christian church was less shallow, racist and sexist than your ancestors' Christian church. Wasn't it!?
"Maybe if everybody wasn't still choosing to be so myopic about hanging out with a bunch of other people who are so much like them all the time, they would have actually noticed when one of them was having serious issues that would eventually manifest in abusive ways to hurt the other, 'less fortunate' people."
