These are not the best of times.
Was just reading about other times when certain people were targeted and taken away from their communities
Sadly, understanding just a little bit more about what it was like, I have realized that eight decades was not so very long ago.
"Dutch guy gives a speech to the shareholders 🫠"
@letsdoubledutch
American culture is still alive and well.
"POV: A German is Driving"
@MarioAdrion2
https://youtube.com/shorts/gNe83vhjWTc?si=nRHOS4-Tr9NmFeeV
"German Police"
@MarioAdrion2
https://youtube.com/shorts/6JtHSqqVNn8?si=x_WoswfVd0L3NFRW
"Is Germany Racist?"
@MarioAdrion2
"Migrant Farm Workers Says It Will Be 'Chaos' Without Them" - Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/migrant-farm-workers-chaos-immigration-2091545
"Typical day as a trad wife #shorts"
@Stanzipotenza
"Homemade Liquid Fabric Softener Recipe - tested!"
https://happymoneysaver.com/homemade-liquid-fabric-softener-recipe-works-best/
"Rolla activists aid ICE detainees in the Phelps County jail..."
"Trump’s ICE raids on farms risk US food supply, economists warn
A sharp reduction in the number of agricultural workers could have devastating impacts on the food supply chain and farm-belt economies"
Your children will never be as pampered / sheltered / innocent / naive as you were.
"The suburban Los Angeles cities, each overwhelmingly Latino in population, have scuttled planned movie screenings and Independence Day celebrations as fears of ongoing Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids continue to ripple through the state."
~ Farley Elliot
"ICE fears shut down July Fourth events in multiple cities"
https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/ice-raid-california-fear-july-4-cancellation-20397692.php
"A woman should be like a Hallmark card who gives birth to favored children and caters to the patriarchy."
Or maybe I have read about it in books. But it feels like I've actually seen it happen, too.
No one needs to starve or have a summer of kidnappings just so you can feel more special.
How can someone discern if some sentient human beings in the future will be less immature, materialistic, racist, sexist, self-absorbed, etcetera, compared to what certain people in previous generations got the most socially and monetarily rewarded for?
Maybe some people are going to have really different values in the future, compared to what was considered "the norm" or status quo for them or for their elders in the past.
"Up to 70% of Farmworkers Not Returning to California Farms following ICE Raids - The Packer - Fruit and Vegetable Industry’s Leading News Source"
https://www.thepacker.com/70-farmworkers-not-returning-california-farms-following-ice-raids
"Cherished Culver City Ice Cream Vendor Abducted in Broad Daylight"
https://smmirror.com/2025/06/cherished-culver-city-ice-cream-vendor-abducted-in-broad-daylight/
Why do you and your friends constantly act like some kinds of children are so much more important than other kinds of children? It's almost like it's a money and skin tone thing sometimes, too.
"The decision to 'self-deport' was not an easy one for DACA recipient Patricia Vázquez Topete. After all, California has been her home for the last two decades."
~ María G. Ortiz-Briones
"Fresno DACA recipient ‘self-deports’ to Mexico after two decades in California"
There's things that need to be done this week. I will need to be looking after my health and not get burned out. And today was very rough, although I did get some cleaning done later in the day. I will need to be looking after my health better henceforth. Beautiful higher powers that can assist humans with living on Earth in these difficult times, I ask for your assistance and for care and for peace to rejuvenate and restore health to my being. Please help us. Please help us. Please help us. Thank you for your help.
"Checking claims undocumented immigrants paid more taxes than Amazon, GM, IBM and Netflix combined"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/checking-claims-undocumented-immigrants-paid-013000959.html
"Omahan who is U.S. citizen spends two nights in jail spends two nights in jail on immigration ‘hold,’ drawing criticism
Honduras-born man adopted by Nebraska couple as baby says ‘ICE never apologized’"
"Yamamoto and De Leon’s husband, who was waiting in another room, were particularly taken aback that Hermelinda, 14, also was detained. Yamamoto was with the mom and daughter when agents asked the teen to empty her pockets. She pulled out her phone and a lip gloss.
“That moment was horrible,” Yamamoto said. “Her eyes got big, like, ‘Am I being detained right now?’ I’m glad they didn’t cuff them.”
In past experience, Yamamoto said, youths typically were allowed to stay with the other parent. De Leon’s husband, Abel, had arrived in the U.S. two years prior to his wife and daughter, fleeing gangs, and has had an active asylum application pending for more than a decade in a backlogged court system. The couple’s 10-year-old son, born in the U.S., remains with dad in their South Omaha home.
De Leon’s family received word a few days later that mother and daughter were together in a family ICE facility in Texas. Yamamoto said the mom likely has no chance to stay in the U.S., though Hermelinda appears eligible for an asylum interview."
~ Cindy Gonzalez
"Immigration enforcement ‘hit home’ for Trump supporter worried about ‘little buddy’ ICE detained • Nebraska Examiner"
"Longtime Omaha immigration attorney Rachel Yamamoto said she has noticed a pivot by federal officials to go after 'easy pickings, low-hanging fruit,' apparently to meet the reported quotas of up to 3,000 arrests daily demanded by the Trump administration.
She pointed out her own clients: a mother-daughter duo detained June 4 at an appointment that in years past was a routine 'check in.'
Maria De Leon of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, had entered the U.S. in 2014, with 3-year-old daughter Hermelinda in tow. She was released at the border to await a 'credible fear' interview with federal officials that came six years later.
Her plea to stay was denied, and she was under an Order of Supervision to check in annually with immigration officials, Yamamoto said. Federal officials did not violate any rules in detaining De Leon, the attorney noted, as the food plant worker had an outstanding order of removal. But she called it 'a drastic change from usual procedures.'
'She’s been on this order of supervision since 2014,' Yamamoto said of De Leon. 'Everything was fine every year, until now. She’s never been arrested. She’s had a work permit. Her husband is working legally.'"
~ Cindy Gonzalez
"Immigration enforcement ‘hit home’ for Trump supporter worried about ‘little buddy’ ICE detained - Nebraska Examiner"
"Randall says he is fuming over tactics he said turned out not to be what he voted for last November.
He expected 'God-fearing' workers to be last in line. For the Plattsmouth-area resident who considers himself an independent swing voter, a different reality has 'hit home' and shifted his mindset on federal immigration enforcement.
'Call me naive, but my clear understanding was we were going to go after the bad actors, not hardworking immigrants,' said Randall."
~ Cindy Gonzalez
"Immigration enforcement ‘hit home’ for Trump supporter worried about ‘little buddy’ ICE detained - Nebraska Examiner"
"Okay how about this! 'What a time to realize that when others were trying to feel better by being bullying, controlling, self-absorbed and insensitive, and you had a feeling that it really wasn't the best way to follow, there was something correct about that.'"
Your low self-esteem and prejudice and lack of compassion for others is not a good excuse for the unnecessary insensitivity or the unreasonable amount of oppressively abusive things that are happening.
"Let's be stubborn and cruel and make people feel too afraid to go to parks and churches!"
Maybe the greed and self-absorption is worthy of criticism because it's actually very hurtful and dangerous to people's well-being, and for all ages, from children to elders, and because human beings deserve much, much better.
More of the "It was helpful that we didn't look too Jewish" amongst the Holocaust survivors. (Not their fault. I guess they're just being honest.)
"My father, my mother and I were each hidden from the Germans in different locations in the Netherlands. I stayed in the town of Vassen with a family that had no children where I pretended to be a nephew from Amsterdam who'd come to spend time with them. Because of my new identity, I had to come up with a different first name. I picked Theo --Theo Coster, a name that I've held on to ever since. "
Page 2
"We All Wore Stars: Memories of Anne Frank from Her Classmates"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11450811-we-all-wore-stars
" I left it all behind. In Israel, I soon found a job and met Ora, my future wife. Well, she and I were Jewish and lived in Tel Aviv-- where we still live today and which had become a haven for many Jews. However, I had not moved to Israel because it was a Jewish State; I was looking for a place to live and work-- somewhere to be creative. That was possible for me there. Together, Ora and I soon had fantastic ideas. Our big break came in 1979 when we developed a board game called Wie is het? in Dutch. The toy manufacturer Milton Bradley was as enthusiastic as we were and produced the game in Great Britain under the name Guess Who? It met with amazing success, was launched in the United States in 1982, and has since been sold in almost every country around the world."
Page 3
"We All Wore Stars: Memories of Anne Frank from Her Classmates"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11450811-we-all-wore-stars
"Many Home Depot parking lots, where day laborers congregate to find work, now sit empty. Familiar taco trucks have vanished from street corners. Fresh produce is left to rot in fields because employees are too afraid to report to work.
At one multilingual church whose members hail from Iran and Spanish-speaking countries, parishioners with tenuous legal status have been advised to stay home rather than attend service."
~ Alicia Victoria Lozano
Some people also don't feel safe enough to go to church on Sunday now, so I guess you can pray for them today, too.
"As conditions in Anne's camp section were a lot worse than Hanneli's, she promised to bring Anne food and clothes. The next evening, Hanneli threw a parcel over the barbed wire. What the contents of the parcel were is not entirely clear because Hanneli's statements about it varied. In 1957, for example, she said the parcel consisted of a jumper in which a tin of sardines was wrapped, a few lumps of sugar and some pieces of rusk. In a 2009 interview, she recalled a sock or a glove, some dried plums and Swedish knäckebröd. But whatever was in this parcel, Anne never got it:
'And then I hear Anne crying and screaming and angry. What happened? No, I couldn't see her, and that barbed wire was high and the night was dark and I had to throw at what I hear. But there were hundreds of other hungry women there, and another woman had picked up that package, run away, and didn't give her anything. Well, I had to calm her down first and I promised: 'We'll do it again.´'
Eventually, Hanneli managed to put together a new parcel and this time it did reach Anne. The content of this second parcel is also unclear. In most interviews, Hanneli does not comment on this. In an interview from 1957, Hanneli described it as a pair of stockings and some food. In another interview from the same year, she is slightly more detailed:
'I collected a second pitiful parcel for Anne. A woman mourning her daughter’s death contributed a torn sweater and pair of cotton stockings in addition to the pieces of sugar and stale crackers other people gave me.'"
"Hanneli Goslar and Anne Frank in Bergen-Belsen | Knowledge base | Anne Frank House"
https://research.annefrank.org/en/gebeurtenissen/bc828986-267f-43df-8605-6e858f0ccc0b/
"After reports of ICE at churches in Montclair and Highland, San Bernardino Bishop denounces raids"
What a time it is to see how the Gestapo and Nazis must have manipulated shallow, insensitive, selfish people into just going along with their tactics. Hopefully it won't ever get as bad as it was back then.
"Torosian can be heard pleading with them to administer medical aid. He can also be heard asking whether they know about the situation in Iran and why Christian Iranians fear returning to their native country.
According to Torosian, the woman and her husband are members of his church and entered the United States last year under CBP One, the mobile app the Biden administration launched to streamline the asylum-seeking process. President Donald Trump ended the program shortly after he returned to office.
The woman was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where ICE agents were met by immigrant advocates and detention protesters. Torosian said that he was not allowed into her hospital room and that immigration officials gruffly brushed away a nurse who tried to intercede on his behalf.
UCLA Health said in a statement that it treated a patient under federal custody and later released the person."
~ Alicia Victoria Lozano
"Iranian woman suffers severe panic attack as ICE agents arrest her husband"
"He arrived in the United States in 2010 as a Christian refugee and is now a U.S. citizen raising two children in Southern California. But the recent immigration raids and arrests, coupled with anti-immigrant rhetoric from the Trump administration, remind him more of Iran than he ever imagined possible, he said.
'I was seeing a woman on the ground and masked people who wouldn’t show their warrants,' he said. 'I was just shocked. Am I in Iran or am I in L.A.?'
Another Iranian Christian family in Torosian's parish was arrested this week during a scheduled check-in with immigration officials."
~ Alicia Victoria Lozano
"ICE agents detain mother in Pasadena in front of children without showing a warrant | KTLA"
A guy with a little kid went to the playground slides with her for a little bit.
A guy with a couple of dogs threw frisbee for them.
The birds are here! I can hear them.
Where are the people?
Why so empty? Did ICE stop by?
"Nazis Paid Bounty Hunters to Turn In Jews, Book Says - Los Angeles Times" https://share.google/zHy7iRboFr5onaT3B
In the video below.
"Asking people in Germany what they think about Elon's..."
"Fortunately, not every child who felt neglected acted like X when they grew up."
vielen Dank an alle für Ihren Dienst
"German Tries Taco Bell for the First Time"
Mario Adrion
"Fresno area farm groups respond to Trump's flip-flopping"
How could else she get access to all the best resources?🧃And Good Mom uniforms are a must!
"German Tries Taco Bell for the First Time"
~ Mario Adrion
"The woman said her friend is a hard-working single mom to an 11-year-old boy.
'That’s what hurt the most in that moment — thinking about her son,' she said. 'I’m also a mom and the thought of her son ending up alone is terrifying.'”
~ Jennifer Franco
It's just disappointing when some people become so, so, so focused on being one of the people who has access to all the things that they turn into into uncompassionate, uncaring, self-absorbed, materialistic jerks.
💸 What's a bounty hunter anyway? 💰
"As a German, Here's What I Think About Elon Musk’s..."
~ Mario Adrion
You didn't have enough cookies. You didn't offer enough cookies. You didn't advertise a wide enough variety of cookies. You didn't offer more cookies to the most important people first. That's what being cookie-less was like.
And then if you meet another adult who has a raging unhappy inner child taking over, you can offer them a cookie.
"He works really hard, we pay our taxes, we also own a home and we're a family. We're married, I'm U.S. born, our daughter is U.S. born, so we have everything on paper that should help us through this process, and yet the system has failed us."
~ Alexandra Dowell to Gabriella Vidal
"Aurora woman visits husband at ICE detention facility, learns he was sent for deportation"
"'My heart is broken,' Gardner told the outlet. 'Our baby shower is going to be next weekend, and he’s not going to be at home to go to that with me.'
Giving birth alone is not Gardner’s only fear. She told Newsweek that Karimi’s family worries that if he were to be deported back to Iran, the government would kill him due to his open support for the US and opposition to the Iranian regime.
'My husband himself, even being from Iran, supported Trump, his immigration policies, and understood he was trying to protect the American people and was praying he helped free the Iranian people,' Gardner told Newsweek."
~ Pocharapon Neammanee
"A Pregnant Alabama Woman Says She And Her Trump-Supporting Husband Were 'Blindsided' When ICE Detained Him"
https://share.google/urtNxp3jxrtU6FY01
"Gardner’s cousin Cyndi Edwards wrote in a GoFundMe set up to offset legal fees that the couple spent years 'meeting in Turkey while navigating the complex immigration process.'
'Ribvar quickly became a beloved member of Morgan’s rural Alabama community, supporting her family and friends, and caring for Morgan’s father during a health crisis,' Edwards wrote. 'Most importantly, Ribvar helped Morgan find her self-worth and guided her toward a healthier, happier life.'
"DHS said Karimi entered the US legally in October 2024 under a K-1 marriage visa reserved for people engaged to American citizens. However, he never adjusted his status, which is a legal requirement, and not doing so can trigger a removal order.
Gardner told WIAT that her attorney said previous administrations would not have let her husband be taken away and that he should have been protected because he is married to a US citizen. She added that she and Karimi put his green card application on hold after she found out she was pregnant and had pregnancy complications."
~ Pocharapon Neammanee
"A Pregnant Alabama Woman Says She And Her Trump-Supporting Husband Were 'Blindsided' When ICE Detained Him"
https://share.google/urtNxp3jxrtU6FY01
“'Everyone feels like a fool and regrets the decision. I personally didn’t vote in the last election, and neither did my parents. At this point, I believe there are bad people on the left and the right,' Gardner said."
~ Pocharapon Neammanee
"A Pregnant Alabama Woman Says She And Her Trump-Supporting Husband Were 'Blindsided' When ICE Detained Him"
"A Pregnant Alabama Woman Says She And Her Trump-Supporting Husband Were 'Blindsided' When ICE Detained Him"
https://share.google/urtNxp3jxrtU6FY01
“'We believed in his [Trump’s] immigration policies and were completely blindsided and truly believed that only criminals were being detained,' Morgan Gardner told Newsweek."
~ Pocharapon Neammanee
Believed in them, got betrayed, and now you have a bunch of trauma to work through.
I also went to a park today, and I was invited to join a kind of singing Bible study, but I was on the phone. So I did not join the group of 8 or 10. It seemed to be mostly or entirely made up of younger people.
But that whole scene of being in a park and a group of people are in the corner singing with some guitars, leaning on some kind of spiritual practice...that could be from decades ago.
What's happening now will someday be what happened decades ago.
"Eva's Story - A Survivor's Tale..."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1284957
"Eva Schloss - Wikipedia""On the day of the Dutch publication of the book, which also happened to be De Jong’s 85th birthday, they appeared on a TV chatshow. The discussion centered on two Armenian children who were due to be deported back 'home' in two days, despite having spent their whole lives with Dutch foster parents and speaking only Dutch. 'It was really shocking that the government was saying: ‘We are going to send these children back,' says Van Es. The following day a decision was made to allow the children to stay. 'I had at least the right to speak,' she says, modestly denying Van Es’s reports that people on Twitter were saying DeJong had done more than those in parliament to help. The book sold out in the Netherlands the next day."
~ Lisa Allardice
"US citizen arrested during ICE raid in what family describes as ‘kidnapping’"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/26/immigration-ice-raid-andrea-velez
"ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court"
Several great examples of why self-absorbed people can turn out to be pretty untrustworthy in dire times.
"...there is almost something pitiful about these people, averting their eyes as instructed and doing their best to conform."
~ Bart van Es
Page 201
"The Cut Out Girl..."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36978239-the-cut-out-girl
"At one time the Netherlands really was a country where even the prime minister cycled to work in the morning unprotected."
~ Bart van Es
~ Page 128 of "The Cut Out Girl..."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36978239-the-cut-out-girl
I really had a very particular experience back in 2001. At the time, it felt so safe to just walk all throughout Amsterdam, compared to how it felt in many places in the U.S., and it was amazing to experience that feeling.
I will read and register some of it and then not absorb some other information, so I have to keep going back and rereading. Very specific incidents do not register; I have apparently read certain pages, but I just did not take in the information on them the first time around.
And for some reason, this just keeps happening over and over and over again.
"The Cut Out Girl..."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36978239-the-cut-out-girl
Most recently, I went backwards after I read page 122, where it gave the date that the girl's parents were arrested. I went back to find out if they were arrested before or after the mother's birthday because she wrote a birthday letter to her mother.
When I went back, I found an incident in which she told a friend that she was in hiding and the friend told her mother and then the mother told the foster mother and then she got punished and sent to bed without dinner, and I didn't even remember that at all, even though I must have read it. I still remembered what happened in the next section, when the police came to the foster parents' house.
The cat doesn't get to see lizards on her "Cat Alone app" because the lizards require ads, which turn into tiktoks about some bad things that are happening. And then the tiktoks just keep going and going and the ad never ends.
Maybe these people could do some really deep work to address their suffering.
"Conan buys a Hailey Bieber smoothie"
@teamcoco
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLVSuXtpsvz/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
The other day, I got a turmeric shot, a mini detox juice, and a mini parfait, and my partner got a bowl. So basically, almost everything except a regular smoothie was ordered. I think it all cost about the same as whatever that more expensive smoothie they're talking about must have cost. Because the turmeric shot was free because I got a deal through the app.
I ordered some stuff that I thought would be soft after I had a dental filling. I was upset because my dental filling hurt. I had all this numbness and still experienced icky awful pain. So I wanted a treat and I was feeling self-absorbed about my pain.
So I had my mini detox juice and my mini parfait and my nice fresh turmeric shot for the pain or inflammation.
Then a girl came inside and asked us for help jumping her car and we had a hybrid and it was a whole weird thing where we weren't sure how to do it because that had never happened to us before and we didn't have jumper cables and I was looking at the car manual and in the meantime two young kids came by and they helped with pushing the car because they wanted to because they felt good about helping somebody. And then they asked if we could help by giving some air to one of the bike tires but we didn't have the right stuff and so then they took off. And in the meantime the young adult guys at the pizza place next door had a regular (not hybrid) car and they were able to jump the girl's car and then she came over and said thank you for your help, sorry for interrupting and we said oh that's okay and she said she would be okay now and she doesn't live very far away and we were like oh good.
"Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S."
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/24/g-s1-74036/trump-ice-self-deportation-army-veteran-hawaii
"ICE detained a Marine veteran's wife. He doesn't know how to tell their children where she went."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-detains-marine-corps-veteran-wife/
I feel like crying, but also, getting better at being ready, willing and able to heal a lot of stuff is clearly really super important, Ja?
"This really can't be real"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Netherlands/s/vUfH6gmDN9
They are discussing Trump...and a Dutch politician named Mark Rutte...
"'Another big success’: Nato leader flatters Trump"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/24/donald-trump-nato-summit-mark-rutte-the-hague
"The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36978239-the-cut-out-girl
And if you're curious, you might also wonder, why did they choose that path for themselves?
Love being reminded about reading!
"Reason Why America Is Not Doing So Great Today"| Ronny Chieng
Oh brother! Which sexual predator can be kinder to the "others" sooner rather than later before they die and reincarnate into a whole "other" body and have a nice new life filled with some really different "Xperiences?"
I just had sourdough bread toasted and adorned with some ghee and dabs of Marmite and slices of a Campari tomato. I would make it again, as long as I have access to the ingredients!
"''In some places, the problem isn’t ICE but rumors of ICE. At cherry-harvesting time in Washington state, many foreign-born workers are staying away from the orchards after hearing reports of impending immigration raids,' Wiseman reported. 'One operation that usually employs 150 pickers is down to 20. Never mind that there hasn’t actually been any sign of ICE in the orchards.'”
"Trump Again Considering Immigration Relief for Farm Workers"
"Trump Again Considering Immigration Relief for Farm Workers"
Zac Anderson reported that “President Donald Trump again is saying he wants to shield farmers from the effects of his crackdown on illegal immigration, just days after his administration reinstated workplace raids on agricultural operations.”
"ICE raids on farm workers threaten food supply, advocates warn"
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/06/24/trump-ice-immigration-raids-farming/6251750698654/
"Grounding & Protection Affirmations"
https://thegoddesscircle.net/visionary-writing/grounding-protection-affirmations
Help us choose love, forgiveness and healing.
Help us choose love, forgiveness and healing.
Help us choose love, forgiveness and healing.
Help us choose love, forgiveness and healing.
Help us choose love, forgiveness and healing.
Help us choose love, forgiveness and healing.
Help us choose love, forgiveness and healing.
Help us choose love, forgiveness and healing.
I choose forgiveness and healing.
I choose forgiveness and healing.
I choose forgiveness and healing.
I choose forgiveness and healing.
I choose forgiveness and healing.
I choose forgiveness and healing.
I choose forgiveness and healing.
I choose forgiveness and healing.
"Poorly-Aged 60s Commercials"
~ Microsoft Sam
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fbYz0CmXHo0&si=nhgjEZqgnVX5dP6P
Fricking drink addicts
"Poorly-Aged 60s Commercials"
~ Microsoft Sam
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fbYz0CmXHo0&si=nhgjEZqgnVX5dP6P
Tori Amos - "Snow Cherries From France"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t_9HFbFcvuk&si=QM3cJFbFD7BA4awy
You're like somebody who's slamming you into the ice and punching you while your face bleeds.
Tori Amos - "Snow Cherries From France"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t_9HFbFcvuk&si=QM3cJFbFD7BA4awy
Tomorrow, we'll talk about what else you should be like and how you should act so that certain people will think you're a lot more special, just like they were taught in their schools and churches and perhaps even a little bit at home. Yes, perhaps even there too!
Because then, you know. It could someday be normal! Even some women who were raised to act and think otherwise might start to behave as though caring about the well-being of girls and women is normal, someday!
I wish I would not get so many distressing physical ailments. I wish I would get better at moving forward. And these things are possible, aren't they? I could get better at a lot of things.
I am going to learn how to heal from stuff that has been not great for my health, because waiting for other people to get better at being less prejudiced or less sexist or more compassionate when they don't want to think about that sort of thing is not going to be a very healing experience.
It's not fair that some people have to go through hell just to survive, but I guess it's part of the human experience sometimes.
If you're a sensitive person and you feel feelings and other people can shut down to things more easily that you can't shut down to quite so easily, you're obviously going to have to learn how to deal with that, but you're never going to be able to be like they are.
So don't bother trying.
Dealing with multiple physical elements, but fortunate to feel a bit better now!
I feel like I went through so much stuff in this lifetime. Physically and emotionally and everything.
Got to keep on moving on!
So when do we get to talk to your dad about that one time?
That one time when I found out that some people I knew who happened to be women...
Who happened to be women who were married to white men and changed their last names, as one does...
Who happen to be women who were married to white men who grew up in sexist households who also were taught that making excuses for lots of abusive behavior in order to fit in and benefit more financially was supposed to be what was considered "normal..."
Oh my God!!!!
Do those Patriarchal Women love people like your dad better than they most love girls and women for any specific reasons in particular!?
Please help me to forgive myself and to forgive others when we don't know how to take care of ourselves and we end up suffering. We deserve help and compassion and forgiveness.
I'm asking higher wisdom, God, higher power to help me step into a new way of being because I've had some health issues again and so far both the tests that I had a several years ago and the tests that I had within the last month or so did not bring much of a resolution so I need the higher power of God to help me know what I should do now and walk on the right path.
"Altadena ICE raid highlights fears that roundups will threaten wildfire rebuilding efforts..."
"I want to explain to you how my mother was a deeply broken person who went from man to man trying to find an identity.”
~ Erica Jong- Fast
"The feminist icon who wasn’t" | The Observer
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-feminist-icon-who-wasnt
"I want to explain to you how my mother was a deeply broken person who went from man to man trying to find an identity.”
~ Erica Jong- Fast
"The feminist icon who wasn’t" | The Observer
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-feminist-icon-who-wasnt
“I want to explain to you how my mother was a deeply broken person who went from man to man trying to find an identity.”
~ Erica Jong- Fast
"The feminist icon who wasn’t" | The Observer
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-feminist-icon-who-wasnt
"but his older sister said no"
~ Taylor Lorenz
"Kids are Protesting ICE in Roblox" | Teen Vogue
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kids-are-protesting-ice-in-roblox
"Who's Going To Murder Me"
@refashionedhippie
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKunvpiu9_w/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Trump’s EPA to 'reconsider' ban on cancer-causing asbestos"
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1lfd56l/trumps_epa_to_reconsider_ban_on_cancercausing/
I hope zero people emulate the path I have taken, and so does my Les Miz-esque wardrobe.
Honestly, I have to take better care of this life before the next one begins.
And if taking care of my health sometimes seems like it is like an unpaid job that takes up my entire life, then isn't it a good thing that I don't work with people who have given me panic attacks just so I can get access to better health insurance and a house?
As I have known before, people have needs and people deserve good things.
I'm going to start praying more again because we have a lot of stuff going on and the truth is, is you don't know where other people are at and why and what they're dealing with, and people need to take care of their health.
People deserve really good, helpful energy. Healing energy. The good stuff. That's what people deserve.
Well, I will probably have a change of attitude now, because I need to remember that nothing stays the same forever.
If people who feed you are living in fear right now and if their children are afraid to go to school?
When the kidnappings start traumatizing far more children than was necessary...That's already happening now! It's time to get better now!
"Wait do you see whose selfishness rises like cream to the top when the things get start to get REAL bad."
But now we have updates on where ICE is stopping people. So that's great to know.
Who knows who will be picking it tomorrow?
"DEA Raid Triggers Panic in East Valley; Farmworkers Hide in Fields Amid Triple-Digit Heat"
"Trump administration ends LGBTQ youth option on national suicide hotline"
"DEA Raid Triggers Panic in East Valley; Farmworkers Hide in Fields Amid Triple-Digit Heat"
"People like you really remind me of why racism and sexism still exists on this planet. But congratulations on not being an actual ICE kidnapper! That's pretty cool of you. Congrats on that."
"Oh well, maybe you're just feeling as a human being should be feeling, instead of numbing it out for selfish reasons!!!!"
Sometimes, some people really do show you a lot about how you don't want to ever be.
I don't even know how so many ICE kidnappings could even happen if there wasn't this whole: "It has been a childish yet culturally accepted practice to discriminate against others as a survival strategy for quite some time now" nonsense.
I have to go find the literature. That is like my therapy. Or, a part of it. Definitely just a part of the healing, not the whole thing that it needs to be.
How to heal from experiencing people being not at their best? Like to the point where it feels like horrible things can happen? Because horrible things already have happened?
(In this lifetime.)
Purchased some German food. I got a little lunch to take with me and as I sat there and waited I tried to feel positive. It was a whole thing. I stared at these pictures of idyllic Bavarian style lodges and thought about how weird that that stuff always mixed up in my head with the horrors of, I don't know, perhaps another lifetime or something.
I added extra vinegar at home to the German potato salad because it's not as sour as what I remember tasting growing up, and it's funny how there's stuff you can eat as a kid and you're like well. I don't really care if I never eat this again in my life. And then for some reason when you get older it's like there's this whole nostalgia associated with tasting it.
They definitely deserve better than the greedy callousness of certain sexist, racist, selfish adults who never grew up or into their real potential.
"ICE raid against California farmworkers found to reduce school attendance"
Like little kids in adult bodies. They just don't wanna care. Isn't the selfishness something that some people learn how to grow out of when they grow up?
Do you know people who you think might be a lot better to others if they had been raised differently?
"'Abducted by Ice’: the haunting missing-person posters plastered across LA
The handmade posters of immigrants have become a symbol of quiet resistance. Their creators reveal the story behind the project"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/los-angeles-missing-posters-ice
“'My concern is about my friends and neighbors who are getting rounded up by Ice,' Van Nice told the Guardian. 'We built this country on the backs of immigrant labor … To just round them up like criminals and throw them into these overcrowded detention centers, send them packing without telling their family or attorneys where they are or where they’re going, it’s inhumane. It’s a human rights issue.'”
~ Cy Neff
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/oregon-vineyard-manager-arrest-ice
"ICE’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/oregon-vineyard-manager-arrest-ice
"Los Angeles Dodgers denied ICE access to Dodger Stadium"
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2025/06/19/los-angeles-dodgers-stadium-ice/84277055007/
"I think there's a lot of ignorance and currently there's a lot of dismissing of what these people went through."
~ Damian Zane
"Being black in Nazi Germany"
"Does materialism predict racism? Materialism as a distinctive social attitude and a predictor of prejudice."
"Women of America, I have some 'terrible' news."
@TheRealSpeechProf
"Boche [Moffie] and Tommie were the company's cats. These were not their original names; during the war their names had been changed. Anne explains this in her diary: 'For a while the firm Gies & Co. had two cats: one for the warehouse and one for the attic. Their paths crossed from time to time, which invariably resulted in a fight. The warehouse cat was always the aggressor, while the attic cat was ultimately the victor, just as in politics. So the warehouse cat was named the German or 'Boche,' and the attic cat the Englishman or 'Tommy'.' What happened to Tommy/Tommie, Anne does not mention. 'They got rid of Tommy.'"
https://research.annefrank.org/en/onderwerpen/facb8e53-713e-4ac3-bc29-12e1e3fcebe6/
"The cliche of the blonde, sadistic woman in an SS uniform later became a sexualised cult figure in films and comics.
But out of thousands of women who worked as SS guards, only 77 were brought to trial. And very few were actually convicted.
They portrayed themselves as ignorant helpers - easily done in patriarchal post-war West Germany. Most never talked about the past. They got married, changed their names and faded into society.
One woman, Herta Bothe, who was jailed for horrendous acts of violence, did later speak publicly. She was pardoned by the British, after just a few years in prison. In a rare interview, recorded in 1999 just before she died, she remained unrepentant.
'Did I make a mistake? No. The mistake was that it was a concentration camp, but I had to go to it, otherwise I would have been put into it myself. That was my mistake.'
That was an excuse former guards often gave. But it was not true. Records show that some new recruits did leave Ravensbrück as soon as they realised what the job involved. They were allowed to go and did not suffer negative consequences.
I ask Selma if she thinks the guards were diabolical monsters. 'I think they were ordinary women doing diabolical things. I think it's possible with loads of people, even in England. I think that can happen anywhere. It can happen here if it's allowed.'"
It's a chilling lesson for today, she believes."
~ Damien McGuinness
"Nazi Ravensbrück camp: How ordinary women became SS torturers"
"Inside one of the houses a new exhibition displays photos of the women in their spare time. Most were in their twenties, pretty with fashionable hairstyles.
The pictures show them smiling while having coffee and cake at home. Or laughing, arms linked, as they go for walks in the nearby forest with their dogs.
~ Damien McGuinness
"Nazi Ravensbrück camp: How ordinary women became SS torturers"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55661782
"Guard Johanna Langefeld with her son and another guard's daughter"
😐
"Yeah, they did that with Trump last November too."
~ PleasantWay7
"William Shatner and Neil deGrasse Tyson are coming to Seattle"
https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/Ab6N7gcmzV
"Donald Trump Is Proud of Being a Sexual Predator"
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/donald-trump-e-jean-carroll-trial/
"The Trump Cabinet picks who face their own sexual misconduct allegations"
https://19thnews.org/2024/11/sexual-misconduct-allegations-trump-cabinet-picks/
"In the Family Guy episode 'Boys Do Cry,' Herbert sings this song while auditioning to be the new church organist, the lyrics doubling as a reference to him being a pedophile."
"I Know What Boys Like - Wikipedia"
"'A lot of visitors coming to the memorial ask about these women. There are not so many questions about men working in this field,' says Andrea Genest, director of the memorial museum at Ravensbrück, as she shows me where the women lived. 'People don't like to think that women can be so cruel.'
Many of the young women came from poorer families, left school early and had few career opportunities.
A job at a concentration camp meant higher wages, comfortable accommodation and financial independence. 'It was more attractive than working in a factory,' says Dr Genest.
Many had been indoctrinated early in Nazi youth groups and believed in Hitler's ideology. 'They felt they were supporting society by doing something against its enemies,' she said.
~Damien McGuinness
"Nazi Ravensbrück camp: How ordinary women became SS torturers"
"Eva Schloss fled Austria to escape persecution by the Nazis, but at the age of 92 has again become a citizen of the country of her birth."
~ Sam Francis
"Eva Schloss: 'Why I took Austrian citizenship aged 92'"
"'And those of you who watched that abduction, when you compare the old films of the Gestapo grabbing people off the streets of Poland, and you compare them to those non-descript thugs who grabbed that graduate student, it does look like a Gestapo operation,' he continued."
'It does look like the Gestapo. She was snatched away and detained 1,700 miles away. Her Congresswoman couldn't reach her, her family couldn't reach her, she was held in communicado. 1,700 miles away, her attorney could not reach her. Yeah, that was Gestapo-like. That's an appropriate comparison,' Lynch said."
~ Massachusetts Rep. Stephen Lynch
quoted by Maryam Khanum
"Army Sergeant's Wife Was Told Her Car Was Involved in an Accident. Then ICE Arrested and Deported Her
The 28-year-old mother was separated from her 10-month-old son"
"She laughs at his misogynistic jokes.
She roasts other women because she knows, deep down, that patriarchy rewards betrayal more than sisterhood."
~ Aditi Jha
"Pick-Me Girls Are Just Unpaid Interns of the Patriarchy"
"Trump was telling one of his 'sir' stories, a probably apocryphal tale having to do with the steel industry, and how it had been 'dying,' and how he had 'saved' it, and ultimately how a man who owned a company had come to him with tears in his eyes to say thank you. And all of a sudden a woman sitting behind Trump just a little to his left pierced the comparative quiet with an eye-opening ululation — some strange combination of a battle cry and an animalistic shriek. It was so unusual and so unexpected that Trump himself stopped.
'Wow,' he said.
'She must be in the steel business.'
The place howled, some of the loudest, most spontaneous laughter of the night."
~ Michael Kruse
"'Mussolini,' Ruth Ben-Ghiat, the author of Strongmen, told me, referring to 20th-century Italian fascist Benito Mussolini, 'had the same twisted sense of humor' as Trump. And stenograms of Communist Party and Politburo meetings in the era of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union show no shortage of notations of laughter — from jokes made at the expense of somebody about to be on the outs to a sort of forced or sycophantic fun. 'There’s a lot,' Maya Vinokour, a scholar of Stalinism, told me, 'and that even ends up being true as the purges start.'”
~ Michael Kruse
"'Horseplay is necessary,' believed Joseph Goebbels, one of Adolf Hitler’s closest, most loyal advisers and the Nazis’ top propagandist."
~ Michael Kruse
"More than 1 million people who were granted legal entry to the country under different programs are now being considered illegally here by the Trump administration."
~ Suzanne Gamboa and Fredlyn Pierre Louis
"As Trump pledges mass deportation, he’s creating more undocumented people"
"That's how the culture wanted me to act, and that's how I got my materialistic rewards."
It's sad that some women and men would find it so much easier to "respect" certain other kinds of people more if only they were more "like them." If only they were more chauvinistic and materialistic and Patriarchal, like they are. If only they had the same "values."
"Why do you not know how to act that way so you can get rewarded more, too?"
Not to mention health insurance and college tuition!
"She laughs at his misogynistic jokes.
She roasts other women because she knows, deep down, that patriarchy rewards betrayal more than sisterhood."
~ Aditi Jha
"Pick-Me Girls Are Just Unpaid Interns of the Patriarchy"
Girl! Beetle! Angel!
"'Yeah, crazy! Strange! Ridiculous!' Dot nodded again. 'Someone with a mouth like mine can go hide themselves. Oh, look at that cute beetle.'
Lenie pulled her legs up. 'Where?' She looked a little scared.
"Under your chair," Dot chuckled. "He's crawling up one leg now. I think he wants to build a nest on your knees."
Lenie had already jumped up.
'I think beetles are such scary creatures,' she complained. Her short, blond, very straight hair fell past her ears. 'Where then, Dot?'
'Sweet, sweet. Look, there's the angel scurrying around. What a cute, shiny little body. You can see yourself reflected in it.' She slid forward on her elbows into the path of the beetle. Mia shook her head a little... 'As unpresentable as Dot always looked...' Lenie sat down again with a light sigh. Dot was restless, and never tired at all. Now she rolled over and over like a naughty boy, then jumped up quickly and nimbly and came dancing closer on her toes."
Chapter I., A Summer Folly, Cissy van Marxveldt -
https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/marx002zome01_01/marx002zome01_01_0001.php
Nelly Furtado - "I'm Like A Bird (Official Music Video)"
Because of trying to read two books by Cissy van Marxveldt, I want to know what is the meaning of the early 20th century Dutch slang about a girl being "a crane."
From Chapter 2 of "The H.B.S. time of Joop ter Heul:"
[p. 25]
"'Wow, that's quite nice. And now you're probably doing some shopping?'
“Yes, sir,” said the two Lies.
'I never see you at Pop's anymore, how come Lies?' And Mr. Helmer looked at me.
"I'm studying really hard. Under Dad's care."
'Well, well. Then you'll become a crane. Bye Lies.' Papa Helmer lifted his hat. 'Lies,' he said again."
"Chapter II., The HBS period of Joop ter Heul, Cissy van Marxveldt"
https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/marx002hbst01_01/marx002hbst01_01_0002.php
And in the first chapter of "A Summer Folly:"
"'Well, that's definitely abnormal,' Dot observed, plopping down on the grass again. 'What true HBS student likes school! - No, I ask you...' She half closed her eyes. Then she said apologetically: 'Oh, maybe if I were a crane like you Mia...' Dot didn't finish her sentence, squinted at the sun, which stood fiery and radiant in the sky."
Chapter I., A Summer Folly, Cissy van Marxveldt -
https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/marx002zome01_01/marx002zome01_01_0001.php
And now, despite hearing this song countless times op de radio, it's my very first time watching the music video!
Nelly Furtado - "I'm Like A Bird (Official Music Video"
There's people who feel they've been neglected and cheated, for a whole variety of reasons, and they're using that anger to make excuses for a lot of cruelty and discrimination, which is not the best solution, either for themselves or for others, and will not be admired.
"The morning that ICE took Shirly Guardado into custody had started like any other. She and Correa had woken early to prepare their 10-month-old son for the day and then taken him to Guardado’s mother to watch him while they worked — Correa as a logistics specialist, handling the training for part-time Army reservists at his unit, and Guardado as a secretary at an air conditioning manufacturing company.
Guardado had gotten a work permit and an order of supervision from ICE, meaning she needed to check in regularly with immigration officials, after she was apprehended crossing the border about 10 years earlier, her lawyer, Martin Reza, told The War Horse. Her last check-in had been in February, just a month before."
~ Sonner Kehrt
"Texas Army sergeant’s wife deported to Honduras"
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/texas-army-sergeant-wife-deported-honduras-ice-undocumented/
How to deal with those "I'm so disappointed by the 'segregated swimming pools are really great for my people' vibes being given off by some acquaintances who probably would have been defensive about joining the Nazi party in another era" thoughts?
"In December 2023, Sakeik graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism, her LinkedIn page said. She has been working as a wedding photographer for more than five years."
~ Mandy Taheri
https://www.newsweek.com/stateless-woman-detained-honeymoon-faces-deportation-2085161
"Despite a pending green-card application, a lawful marriage to a U.S. citizen, and a spotless compliance record for the past 15 years, ICE has notified Sakeik's legal counsel that Sakeik could be removed as early as tonight—but will not disclose the destination country. Sakeik's husband fears she could be sent to a country that she has no birth or national ties to, after being given a life to live here for 15 years."
"American receives devastating Dutch feedback 🚀"
@letsdoubledutch
"Dutch Calvinism 🪟 #sketchcomedy #dutchlife #expat"
@letsdoubledutch
"We stopped by the No Kings Day rally in downtown LA"
@latimes
I don't trust some people's parents at all. I don't trust people who put others on a pedestal and put down their own children to do it. Especially people who are kowtowing to patriarchal culture. You guys are not okay.
I don't need to be entertained that badly. I really, really, really don't need to be entertained that badly. Sometimes I wonder if the only reason he's in charge is because a lot of people need some really sick form of entertainment to distract themselves from their problems.
Other people might need it, or think that they need it. And I know that sometimes I actually love being entertained. So in that way, I'm just like a lot of other human beings.
But I'm wired in a certain way, and I know that if I do need to be entertained, for it to feel good, it needs to be something that's a part of the healing process, of getting to live on a much better planet where more people are treated in ways that they truly deserve, and where more people are treated in ways that respect their humanity, too.
I also saw videos of people getting snatched off the street by the "bounty hunters," you know, the people with masks and no identification. It looks like a kidnapping, and it looks really bad. If you have any ounce of sensitivity. Of course, I could understand why somebody might have to numb themselves when watching that because it's very painful to even halfway process it. I would rather be a little bit traumatized and turn it off because it's too painful, but no, I didn't numb myself to it.
I'm glad I'm not addicted to getting a lot of attention from people because it really seems like when you have that kind of addiction, it just warps your personality. And maybe that is why the entertainment industry is so uncaring to so many people. Addicts don't care about other people when they are pursuing what they're addicted to.
Trump seems like he's a extension of an entertainment industry that has been molded in such a way that makes it seem really uncaring to a lot of people, and I just don't want to be a part of giving anything to that kind of uncaringness. I'm aware that a lot of people didn't necessarily vote for him, but they also don't seem to care that much about the people who suffer the most from his decisions, and this is too much for me to be able to go along with it. I just cannot do it.
"Anne Frank's Stepsister: 'Donald Trump Is Acting Like Another Hitler'"
https://www.newsweek.com/holocaust-memorial-day-anne-frank-refugee-crisis-donald-trump-420312
"The forgotten women of the French resistance"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/the-forgotten-women-of-the-french-resistance/
Like when an unwell patriarchy says it will reward you if you prop up certain kinds of men and forget about the humanity of girls and women.
"As Eva and her mother, both blonde, could pass for being Dutch, they took the chance every couple of months to visit her father and brother, who, with no false identity papers, were unable to leave the attic."
~ Oren Gruenbaum
"The Auschwitz survivor who returned to rescue her brother's paintings"
"It was to be Eva’s last conversation with her brother, Heinz. They were human cargo on the railway cattle wagon transporting their parents and a hundred other people, all Jews and Gypsies, to Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944. On their three-day descent into hell, Heinz told her that secreted under the floorboards of the attic where he and their father had been hiding were 30 of his paintings."
~ Oren Gruenbaum
"Dodgers fans voice their disappointment over team’s silence on ICE raids"
"Lunch bags left behind: The ICE raid in Nebraska that shocked officials and split families"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/us/omaha-ice-raid-meatpacking-plant
An American citizen's husband who was brought here as a child explains his situation.
"Why my wife hasn't made me a citizen..."
~ Soymiguelalfonso
"Deported Florida mom begs ICE for mercy: We're 'not criminals'"
"Exodus of immigrant workers leaves Florida industries struggling"
"Six signs of low emotional intelligence from a licensed therapist"
~ therapy_to_the_point
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKXDNLKOs-L/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
