"Happy Nation"
@officialaceofbase
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2XU5FLNcq_/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Sunday, July 12, 2026
He's the Big Paleta.
"An artist's 'I.C.E. pop' exhibition was shut down within days at a Texas university" : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/12/nx-s1-5783832/ice-pop-texas-victor-marka27-quinonez-artist
This is one of the songs that makes me feel better at the moment.
The Kinks - "Sunny Afternoon (Official Video)"
That wasn't what I expected.
I woke up feeling kind of sick and I was thinking I just can't deal with these f****** people. It doesn't matter. I just can't deal with them right now, and then I got this weird kind of guidance and it told me that the reason why Otto Frank had to deal with a bunch of lawsuits in his life was because it helped him work through any impulses he had for more payback or revenge because of all the wrong that had been done to him.
Maybe even an array of hedgehogs.
"Hedgehogs are very rarely seen in a group; they are solitary creatures. However, they do have a collective noun, just in case. A group is called an ‘array’ of hedgehogs"
Nature | "Surprising Things About Hedgehogs"
I feel like I've never seen one of these in real life. I'll put it out there. I should see a hedgehog in real life.
"Knows Your Scent #hedgehog #animals"
@Snugbarn
Saturday, July 11, 2026
It'll probably come back, of course, but it's fun to let it go sometimes!
I let go my ego I let go my ego I let go my ego I let go my ego 🤭✨💓😇
O holy sky...
🌬️🌬️🌬️
In the summertime 🎶
"A new test for endometriosis?!"
linsayladybody
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Daqn7URPXuV/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I really don't understand this"
tompapa
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DalDG6uSEsD/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Who is this queen"
yourdailydoseofselflove
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaqEWFlB6NC/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
The universe can be cheeky.
There's cheeky radio DJs. There's cheeky people leaving free things on curbs. But sometimes the universe puts a car in front of you, and it says something funny on the license plate or bumper sticker, and you're like, that there's very cheeky, of the universe to do that.
I'm decorating a serving of it!
🎶A Horse With No Name ~ America🎶
Oh I should add some inositol, too, maybe?
America - "A Horse With No Name (Official Audio)"
My pilgrimage for delicious farmers market yogurt was a success!
I really like this picture.
There were protesters on the way there.
I stood in a *significant spot and took some pictures as the staff at the restaurant across the street played Rage Against the Machine's "Bulls on Parade" and "Killing in The Name Of."
Delicious yogurt!
I believe it was a good pilgrimage.
When I got my parking spot, Sinead O'Connor's "Emperor's New Clothes" was on the radio.
The spot where I took some pictures was *significant to me because it was where I met a good person and received helpful guidance yesterday.
I have to prepare breakfast.
"My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son 'Should Just Die'"
https://time.com/7002003/donald-trump-disabled-americans-all-in-the-family/
"The Menopause Conversation Still Has One Major Blind Spot"
https://time.com/article/2026/07/09/the-menopause-conversation-still-has-one-major-blind-spot/
"Making French house music..."
https://substack.com/@blindboyboatclub1/note/c-286742307?r=1oj2u
Good grief. Well, I guess people are doing their best.
"US Government Plans Dedicated Airline for Deportation"
"Trump administration rolls back a key protection for imperiled wildlife"
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/11/nx-s1-5890025/trump-administration-imperiled-wildlife
"Fiona gave me this video to share"
zeldahallman
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DansYv7uwG3/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Ah, I'll look up the proportions of white around a Polaroid photo later.
And it's later now.
"Instant Film Dimensions: Polaroid, Instax, One Instant"
Where will the Uber driver run off to?
"Self aware f boy"
quentinnguyen-duy
https://youtube.com/shorts/FOz_X6V23IM?si=4ym8779-FAbvP0Co
Will he find a self-aware mom on Facebook who needed a man and a mortgage to be his friend?
I just had to do some figure eights over my chest on account of heartburn, or something?
The past intersected with the present yesterday...
That's what happens when you start focusing on your own stuff more, sometimes.
Friday, July 10, 2026
I feel like it's kind of too bad.
I donated the book of wedding poems that I had bought impulsively one day at Half Price Books in Illinois and it gave me the weirdest most disturbing dreams about mirrors shattering and people fighting and stuff the night I bought it. Felt like the book was haunted by something. I still kept it around for a little while but then I eventually gave it away.
Oh well. Whatever, never mind.
Mary heard John marry her John. She'd be so good for you.
#22.1 St.Vincent - "Marry Me"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UFELzm9MFtA&si=lLhag07hz1k2vqoA
Never mind, that's creepy.
This was a very good song from a very good film.
Arvo Pärt: "My Heart's in the Highlands"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6UadEvSJMrQ&si=i8CTNg2dNrs-jO0q
And my friend who I had more of a soul connection with than we articulated to each other while she was still alive made me feel like she followed me around a lot for a certain period of time after her death, but then she moved on to her new new Journey.
With more care than previously.
Maybe the artists are supposed to learn how to communicate with one another better in this life.
Some people would.
"A reluctant town supervisor agonizes over ideology vs. reality" by Michelle Breidenbach
💸Yeah, I'm sure.🏚️Less mentally taxing for the mortgage.🏦
👨🏻💻"Well, I would try to get one of the desk jobs."👨🏾💻
Imagine taking a job kidnapping people just so you can buy a home and pay your mortgage!
What's next?
"tradwife influencers"
girlvsglobe
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DanAtZWsrvj/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Germans First Time In The USA!😂🇩🇪🇺🇸 #germany"
ZacRyanYT
https://youtube.com/shorts/RARu6RJlR_E?si=ZNTYKQaK3qpH3KvR
"Real American Marriage Falls Apart on Camera (1964)"
We have better access to more information now.
"In bed 23 at Adelanto ICE detention center, a terrified son misses his mom" - Los Angeles Times
Mexico got a Jewish woman president before US.
"Mexico seeks prosecutions over deaths of 17 Mexicans in U.S. after shooting of Houston man by ICE agents" - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-wants-prosecutions-deaths-mexicans-us-ice-shooting-houston/
She's a cold hearted one! Ugh.
A real, actual, cold-hearted, church-going Christian!
Paula Abdul – "Cold Hearted Lyrics"
As if my Christian, twice weekly church going friend obsessed with her mortgage even cares right now.
"ICE activity increasing across country, reports of Chicago arrests on the rise" - CBS Chicago
Am I in hell?
"Alabama community praying for release of 18-year-old ICE detainee: ‘He’s in hell’" - al.com
Ew, France's long history of colonialism.
"France national team uses ICE deportation planes for World Cup travel" | Trump administration | The Guardian
It's probably all about love...don't be so mean.
Thinking about ways to protect God's precious children from the racist, sexist, psychologically unwell people who got sucked into acting servile to Patriarchal White Supremacy's version of Christianity, and it's obsession with men, money, mortgages...
Thursday, July 09, 2026
🎶How does it feel🎶
🦔💎🧑🏼🎨🤳🏼🪟
"Patriarchy socialized us..."
baddestbinthebldg
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DagzQCNuKc3/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"These are common roles"
innerworldpsychotherapy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZs68g7JJfS/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"not funny"
fiona_yoong
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUS3LfOEQ9Y/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
🏰👑⛲🖼️
"Like a Rolling Stone"
Bob Dylan
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EdSOPuDSht4&si=RsutH-Oi970BMbo9
"Blue Monday"
New Order
https://youtube.com/watch?v=c1GxjzHm5us&si=CVgcLW8bzvmr1AWN
"Baby You're a Rich Man"
The Beatles
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gEu7fcjgWK0&si=QoB65dC0YCgMgMl4
🛣️🪕🪽🗡️🌬️🗽
Girls and other kinds of human beings just wanna have fun...💃🏻
☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️
"Kodachrome / Mabellene (Live at Central Park, New York)"
Simon & Garfunkel
I understand that humans are very safety-oriented.
The thing is, I know that having a job and a house and a mortgage doesn't really protect you very much, and sometimes it just traps you in an abusive situation.
Anyways, I was caught a bit unawares again, because sometimes when people were younger they seemed more empathetic to the plight of the less fortunate, and then as they got older they sort of seem to have done away with that part of themselves.
When I honestly said that the stuff that's happening with ICE stresses me out, she was defending herself for not thinking about it very much. For not thinking about it at all. Really. She doesn't want to think about it at all.
I could tell the conversation was starting to devolve a bit because at one point I asked her well, what if somebody who has to pay their mortgage decides to become a Nazi concentration camp guard?
She said she would try not to do that. She said she would try to do something else, like sweeping the streets. She said she would try.
I don't know what the church ladies discuss but she's probably hanging out with a bunch of church-going people who voted for the guy who's creating this mess. And they don't want to talk about it!
If I had known that would happen, I would have been prepared with a quote like the "First they came for so and so" by the Lutheran pastor.
"First They Came"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came
It's always the people who go to church, too.
Super into attending church every Sunday. Super into meeting with the women's group on a weekly basis to discuss the Psalms. Not super into applying the more interesting precepts of Christianity to their actual lives.
Men and mortgages.
They are attending the church of worshipping men and worshipping mortgages.
I honestly feel chills right now.
I am chilled.
Know thyself.
"I haven't thought about the racism and concentration camps and the people being kidnapped who aren't as privileged as me because I'm too busy thinking about my mortgage," is not going to cut it with me.
This is a big problem with Patriarchal White Supremacist culture.
Well, now I know how bad things happen. They happen because you have a conversation with somebody you think is your friend, and then, because their first motivation is to pay their mortgage, and they truly feel that this is the most important thing in their life, they just cannot see what's going on with other people.
I don't ever want a mortgage or a house if it makes me have that attitude. And I pity the people who have let themselves become that cold-hearted about what's going on right now. I actually feel a great deal of shame, and it's not because I got angry. It's because other people have deluded themselves into thinking that their mortgage is more important than human rights.
" Well, I'm looking for a job and I have to pay my mortgage right now so I'm not very interested in what's happening on a political agenda."
I said it's not political agenda. It's a person.
A person who doesn't want to get it does not want to get it.
This person did not like my tone of voice and felt that it was a reason to end the conversation. They said that they wanted to end the conversation. They wanted to end the conversation, not me.
People who were my students have been put into ICE facilities and people who were my students have become ICE agents.
I don't care about other people's mortgages and houses.
These people are brainwashed by their societal conditioning.
They also don't know how to embrace feminism very much. No, instead they're still trying to protect men, even though these men have not done very much for them. They're scared to delve into feminism.
They're scared to go into dark places.
Well I don't care about their mortgages.
Good luck with developing as a human being is how I feel when people become that strange to me.
Hello beautiful!
Beautiful hello!
"I thought I was raising a little princess"
emoiryah
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX_-dE-RyFA/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Parenting in the '80s"
elainecarroll
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaQrfUfSMvA/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Just now realizing..."
breezleweezle_
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DabpYf2NdVE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I hope all the attentive big ones are paying attention for the little ones.
"You know what they say"
yourdailydoseofselflove
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaLSsNTNezW/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"💅🏻"
dailybez
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ3NQkXBtqz/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"R u still a believer tho 😳"
realmelindahill
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZvBh7nPlHP/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Musical Shadow Work!
🎼👀🎶
"In one of the stories of Shiva and Shakti..."
deeply.rooted.expansion
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ2fMwBxCEl/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"All You Had To Do"
eric_bill_is_present
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYrrepYO92u/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Harmonies go crazy!!!!!"
charlenekaye
liann.kaye
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Daks-Qmq3v9/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I feel some can see / feel more of what's going on...
"Sometimes you hear a song..."
Courtney
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTS4gKwHN/
"As Russia attacked..."
Ukraine
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTS4gCdCh/
"Dear African/Black parent
I need you to hear me and hear me well."
nuelmikes
Cleaning out the underwear drawer.
Sturgill Simpson - "The Promise"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-eWJmN8D820&si=Pj1ynvnlMq13B4Iz
All the old size sixes got to go.
Wow! This is cool! Thank you for sharing!
"Sturgill Simpson speaking facts ✨"
amy_king_amy_king
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DC97oUXx74S/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
My husband was the one who first introduced me to Sturgill Simpson.
Hooray for MTV, my first musically moving visual medium babysitter.
Stray Cats - "Stray Cat Strut"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vEtbfzMLVWU&si=A41W0gBfSLvUGWuc
The Buggles - "Video Killed The Radio Star"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs&si=JVEBO5ujnfWcymOm
ZZ Top - "Legs"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eUDcTLaWJuo&si=-fnCv5CXxcSIM-hf
Berlin - "No More Words"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oIb9QUGjdIc&si=lenbM9vUr0fBDI8f
The Go-Go's - "Head Over Heels"
Good for the cat.
They're normal. I'm off balance. Thank God for the normal people. Gives an off balance person perspective and something to aspire to become more like in the future.
Good luck all.🍀
God give me peace and help me realize I'm not going to fix the world just because a few people found the stuff I wrote. Let's detox. Give the eldest daughter a break now.
Hormonal stuff can be horribly vexing and challenging to experience.
What if it's just a lot of hormonal crap going on, and thats intermingling with the other stuff.
At least the cat is happy now.
The cat is okay. She had some chicken broth and now she's outside living her best life. She doesn't feel the need to stay in here while I'm having a disgusting detox or whatever I'm going through.
Maybe it's deep grief.
My kitty is mewing mournfully and then she's purring. I had some ginger and bone broth and it seemed to help and now I feel sick again. My cat keeps rubbing up against me. I will see what she needs. Well now she just settled down. I will ask the universe to help me figure out what I need.
I need the ginger root and so much more.
It is so, so challenging to be in a human body, and in this particular human body, right now. I want angels to help me, please. I need help. I need healing. I need assistance. I need peace. I need help with all of the imbalance and the nausea and the clogged airway passages and the bad stuff that's going on around the tooth that got traumatized which is the front right top tooth with a root canal and a crown. And it's neglected right now. But I'm trying. I am using things I'm using the water flosser I'm using mouthwashes. I'm going to change my diet now too. My God, my body got very imbalanced. I need to help it heal more ASAP.
ALL of the daughters of all of the income and backgrounds and classes deserve healing.
Daughters with dads who didn't know what was best for them can heal and help be the ones who bring about the good change. This culture has encouraged daughters to cater to men and to act like princesses and it has penalized them when they didn't do that. This culture is collapsing. It's time for the daughters to heal and then share their stories or maybe sharing their stories is part of the healing.
Everybody deserves healing and love.
I feel so sick. I can tell I am not well. I'm going to pray. Everybody deserves healing and love.
You have to make a new way instead.
Older men who were taught to go along with patriarchal white supremacy and who are treated best by patriarchal white supremacy will fill your minds with poisonous ideas and tell you that you're supposed to live that way, but it's not going to work out as well for you. It's not going to work out as well for your children. It's definitely not working out as well for other people and their children!
Pray for yourself and for protection.
I have seen men use and manipulate other women's children to prop themselves up and to make themselves feel better about what they did to align themselves with a patriarchal white supremacy. That is not a good way to be.
Pray. People deserve healing. People deserve to get well.
The sick ones need bravery so that they can heal.
God help the sick and the wounded ones.
Poor little wounded by the unwell Patriarchal Culture babies.
I want to cry for what's happening right now.
I feel like what I'm going through right now is really terrible and the tooth injury is just making it worse, with people ignoring acting like it's okay if I just attend to it with more flossing and it's not okay.
I'm re-visiting this one now.
"Clearing shame and pain from the hips, psoas and fascia"
JadeCosmicIntelligence
And it's sad when people I used to admire remind me of them.
Me and my sister were exposed to dangers and my horrible relatives never wanted to acknowledge it because they're assholes. Their favorite thing about themselves is the houses they own and the way they were able to align themselves with an unwell Patriarchal White Supremacist culture and take vacations to Europe, or sometimes other places because that's their way of being culturally sensitive. They probably went over there and acted like ugly Americans. And I don't know what else. I'm glad I didn't bring little children around them. Some people become worse as they get older. That's what I learned.
They aren't? Really?
Oh, they're not racist and sexist? They're just awfully prejudiced and act like it in ways that are incredibly racially insensitive and "accidentally" misogynistic? All the things that the unwell White Supremacist Patriarchy taught them to be when they were children. And they never healed from it, and then they have to show off how entitled they feel to perpetuate those old, prejudiced attitudes. Terribly unwell people. I suffered from being too sensitive when their behavior got so terrible; I was distraught. I felt like I was related to Nazis or something. It's bad. Other people were luckier with the kinds of people they got in their families. I should have just made myself less sensitive and let them bother me less. If they want to act like prejudiced materialistic jerks in their old age, that's their f****** problem. The hoarding sexist, selfish, prejudiced jerks of Patriarchical White Supremacy.
I can't take on her religious beliefs or outlook on gender roles, but my grandmother was a good person.
My grandma didn't have to be friends with a single Mexican person to see a Mexican person working hard in the fields in Michigan, and to have empathy for their struggle. And she used her words. I wish her other children had turned out more like her because they didn't, and they've been acting like huge materialistic assholes.
What did my uncle do when I tried to bring up concerns about racial prejudice to him? He stopped talking to me and then he made a big display of inviting friends with little boys to play on his farm and their last name was White and he made this big deal about how their last name was White and that's what he posted. Who does that? This is a man who worked in the school system. He has multiple degrees, and psychological training. This is what he did. He regressed into a prejudiced child. What an awful person he was. This was somebody I was supposed to look up to and respect and admire when I was a child. A creative person. An artistic person.
Where do white people get off acting like such assholes? They dare to act like assholes right when the country is getting more and more awful for non-white people. Everyday the white people get worse in their behaviors.
This stuff is really happening. People don't need more people to be in denial about it.
It's important to live with good, honest people. It's not as important to have a perfect relationship. You can always work on the relationship more. I feel that I live with a good, honest person. We don't have a perfect relationship. Also, to be honest, the worst thing is that sometimes things that happened to me were things he didn't want to believe happened to me, and that felt a lot like gaslighting, and that's incredibly painful. It was just hard for him to want to believe that something that happened to me that he didn't want to happen to me had happened. But he's not malicious. He deserves better. I'm not going to expose him to the icky, foul, prejudiced white people. Are they crazy? Yes, the answer is yes. The foul, prejudiced white people are f****** crazy. And it's probably better that I don't have children right now. But if I ever am put in the care of children, I know what I think about them. I think they are not good for children. I'm sad that their own children don't have better role models than them. Well, I hope that they do find some better role models. They're going to need them.
Sorry if they are hurting; if they don't seem to think so.
You deserve better; abused children deserve better. The incredible emotional immaturity of some makes them audacious. Well, I guess it had to come out. Maybe a lot of the younger people can learn from the example of the older people, and not repeat what the older people are demonstrating.
You should never expect your children to emulate your prejudices; that is really selfish and cruel. Parents can be incredibly cruel, not only to other people's children but to their own children.
Things are not okay. Don't pretend that things are okay with these people when they're being jerks. You could get reborn as one of the kinds of people, including children, that they're disrespecting right now, and that's terrible. Things are not okay. Do not act like what they're doing is okay; it's not.
Jesus weeps.
People who were callous, insensitive bullies when times were better feel like they want to keep on being bullies when times get worse, too.
You can pray for children who are way worse off than you right now.
People of all ages deserve better. I'm sad that some people are acting like callous insensitive jerks at a time when more compassionate empathy is called for, and then they expect you to just celebrate their chauvinism? What is wrong with them? Dear God, really? It's like what they learned from their elders, their whole upbringing, has brought them to this?
Wednesday, July 08, 2026
Well, this was also interesting to watch.
"A mama's boy narcissistic man worst nightmare is an eldest daughter"
narcabusecoach
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaGa6ZntB0g/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I would like to be done learning this lesson now please.
I think the Angels should help me with my tooth now. Please. After all, I was a little kid once, happy in a swimming pool in the summer. It would be nice to have that kind of a summer experience again. I feel I've been quite neglected by medical misogyny as an adult. It's not been fun. Don't want this life to keep on being this way.
Maybe it would be good if people listened to Angels more.
Hey, if you want to commune with Angels, and like, my clumsy way of communicating is not doing it for you, and you need the Angels to help you, I encourage you, I really want you to go find your Angels and get some help. Please.
That's me, and maybe some angels did help me.
Also, if I picked myself up when I fell, if I helped myself when I was hurt, and I pulled myself out of a way thinking that made me think, "Oh gee, I now understand why Virginia Woolf walked into a pond with a bunch of stones in her pockets." That's me.
I'm not planning on repeating the behavior patterns of irresponsible patriarchal adults.
"But my parents taught me that imperialism is good for children."
"Well guess what? It's not. It's just selfish stuff that adults do. It's actually very bad for children."
Anyways, that's been my lived experience.
Yeah, they don't even say that, but it would be better than acting like imperialists.
"I've tried to think about those types of people but it just stresses me out too much and I can't handle it."
I'm going to ask for higher guidance to assist me.
I have to learn how to take better care of my health. My nervous system gets too stressed out by their stupid selfishness.
I don't believe these people.
Selfish people who say they want to live a simple life, but actually, they just act like they want to live a very prejudiced and bigoted life. It's banal. It's unbecoming. It's unflattering. It's going to be an embarrassment and be a weight on your grandchildren, if you have them. Figure it out.
"We do not believe them’: Family, advocates want answers after fatal ICE shooting"
https://thehill.com/homenews/5959687-family-advocates-fatal-ice-shooting/
Someday you won't have to be in such a painful place anymore.
But since you're here, why not be a better version of yourself? Don't contribute more to the problems by acting so insensitive, mean, shallow, callous, uncaring.
"A Mexican father was shot and killed by an ICE officer. His son is demanding an independent probe"
Creeps me out.
It's amazing how what some people think is best for them is just so bad for society, and for them, too, in the long term. You have to set boundaries with those people. They're like drug addicts. Maybe someday they'll get clean and sober and they'll be nicer people to be around, but until then, you are going to be affected by their influence. And maybe they have to make a decision to change, for themselves. When they want to. I actually wonder if they're being used by, like, bad energies or something. Bad energies or something like that are manipulating them, maybe.
Misuse of your tax dollars, materialistic and selfish people!
“Has a single deportation made your life better?” Ramos said. “Has one inhumane detention center improved your circumstances and conditions? Has terrorizing our streets, tearing apart families, has any of it made your life easier, your wages higher, or your communities stronger? No, it hasn’t and it won’t.”
~ Vandana Saras
"Newburgh rally opposes possible ICE detention center near airport"
Don't age so sexistly and racistly. It's not good for your health.
Older people who carry their prejudices with them as they age just weigh young people down. They are not helpful and they are being very selfish.
Of course, it's not good to make generalizations.
But since journalists are asked to look at other people's lives and consider what they're going through, maybe they're more likely to be trustworthy than some other types of people in different occupations.
Oh where is this? A real place with real people?
"ICE raided their city, taking parents, spouses and friends. That’s not where it ends" | US immigration | The Guardian
I think this is a time when showing anger is appropriate.
And moreover, the people who are determined to be mean and racially insensitive and sexist and flaunt privilege at a time like this don't seem they would be very trustworthy or like they would be very kind people for most children to be around.
Cuz usually people who are kind for most children to be around are also nicer for most adults to be around, not just a select, small-minded, closed-hearted, insecure, mean little group that needs to exclude the ones who deserve much better right now.
And if I don't suck up to people, yes, it is partially out of my own self interest, but is also quite painful because maybe it'd be easier to just be a pushover and go along with them, but actually no, not for me, it's not easier for me. There's too much stuff that happened in my life for me to be like that.
And so if the supposedly more "privileged" ones have to be stubborn and mean to get through whatever they're getting through right now maybe they aren't that privileged after all. And they only have more in terms of materialistic things or perhaps they feel genetically superior. That's tragic to think that's the best you can do with your life.
But perhaps they'll find the people who speak to them in the ways that they want to hear and maybe that will help them. But I deserve better than to have to deal with the insensitive shallow people sucking the life out of me. And so do lots of others, including the children that are surviving trauma wrought upon them by the mean patriarchal white supremacy and the self-absorbed, uncaring adults who perpetuate it.
I guess I was just trying to have some fun, mystical experiences or something.
I will say that sometimes fun, mystical things still do seem attractive sometimes. So I'm sure that shadow work and journaling and reconnecting with nature and getting in touch with more by doing some somatic work and finding people who want to do deeper amounts of healing could all be really good.
It does seem like some people who are being so offensive had some pretty awful role models as parents.
They need to do the work!
"feminism is a trend to you"
themindfulnesscoach
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Daf5RD3Rgu1/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
These are global problems, like global warming is also.
"Without repair, there is no relationship."
christie.heals
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DajPuPSCp0r/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Appalled, but I have to move on now.
Maybe the prejudiced parents can finally find the prejudiced parent party or group that truly satisfies them? Because I don't think they're ever truly satisfied.
Actually, I'm feeling kind of relieved.
I'm beginning to realize that not being in any strange living arrangements with any people who were trained to feel any need to act like cult leaders is quite the luxury.
Well, I really don't feel this way, but some people seem to.
"I'd rather be just as prejudiced as the people who raised me in a Patriarchal White Supremacy then not be a parent."
I am NOT interested in following that dictum. AT ALL.
No one expects you to fix medical misogyny either.
You just have to act like you care a little. Which is clearly the exact opposite of what the Patriarchal White Supremacy wanted you to do.
I think the world is filled with children that deserve better than that.
Sexist, complacent, racist adults, repeating the old ways, sometimes, of their sexist, racist, complacent parents.
Exactly how monstrous do you have to be to feel special and important?
And acting like all girls and women should just be baby makers for the sexist, shallow, insensitive dudes that they marry, and then not having any care about what's happening to so many of the girls and women right now on account of shallow, sexist men going along with the oppressive patriarchal beliefs?
Well I'm sure they had hard lives.
Those not so motherly mothers who worked at the daycare and would mutter their not so motherly prejudices. Ugh. It's as if they reincarnated and came back as you and now you're just like well. I'm quiet enough to keep my mouth zipped. But you're still emanating their f****** energy. It's disgusting, I don't like it, and I'm not going to pretend I like it because it's disgusting. So careless.
What did your grandma sing to you?
"Jesus only loves the richest children. He wants the richest children to stomp on all the other ones."
Is that what your grandma kept saying to you.
How old are you, really? What is your age right now? Like, how old are you emotionally?
Are you at some age when the elders taught you all of the worst prejudices and made you? Just believe you had to go along with it or you wouldn't be loved by them? Is that what happened.
I guess my grandma just saying that song to me too much when I was a kid affected my mind or something.
"Red and yellow, black and white. They are preciousness in sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world."
Thanks for the role modeling. What I don't want to be like has been made clearer to me.
You know who doesn't need more shallowness and complacency?
People of all ages including children who are going to survive the horrible conditions of concentration camps. That's who doesn't need your dumb b*******.
You should do a deeper dive into what your parents taught you was acceptable.
You treat women badly, and you have bad taste in men, too. Wait let me rephrase that. You seem to be attracted to replicating patterns of being misogynistic towards women, and you also seem to vibe best / feel most comfortable with men who are complacently existing in a sexist way. Is that better?
So unkind! So unbrotherly and unsisterly! I guess The Patriarchy must have really insisted upon it?
Unkindness is made to feel "normal" to chauvinistic people warped by patriarchal training. Parents are some of the worst offenders when it comes to replicating these old patterns! The banality of not giving a s*** about women and girls because some shallow men and women feel the most "loved" (pampered and comfortable) with that attitude? Seriously?
It is sad how this memory returns now, too.
Older white women working at a daycare in Washington State muttering in a prejudiced way about children who were *gasp* half black and half white! Right in front of the children. Yes, those women definitely sucked. They had their own kids, too!
This is adorable!! 😻
"After 27 days, lucille..."
lucilletherescuecat
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DajWsjaR0pn/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Pointing out how incredibly vapid and shallow this is.
But perhaps they have love, or whatever.
"My Husband Deleted Our Invitation To Taylor Swift’s Wedding. When He Told Me Why, I Lost My Mind."| HuffPost
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tk_n_6a4d953ce4b094d71e70f5a5
Good to empathize with my fellow man.
Since I feel like I have a toxic tooth in my mouth that no one wants to treat yet just because it's not causing severe physical pain, and the end of the good herbal cigarette was burning my mouth; I don't know what was going on, but it felt like sparks were coming through the tip of it or something.
"meta deleted my main account"
werewolffbarmitzvah
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaAqS0UOv4H/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I'm sorry, sir. I'll try to get to the point sooner next time.
Finally, the post that makes me want to go out back and smoke my herbal cigarette. Because I've earned it now.
"To stand with, and believe..."
itsquinnpadilla
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaiEYqiuB7b/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Feeling closer and closer to the good crazy grandmothers everyday.
"Cooking cheeseburgers"
iamuniquedaily
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZjsvXvRMla/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Fall in love..."
sunandmoonguy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYDjkmbNSfN/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"to be a woman..."
juicyfriedcouda
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DahhDPcROc1/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Problematic people make problematic times happen.
👀
"This mostly happened yeah"
chelseathepope
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ5_gwLvHo4/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"the restraint we have developed"
thelaurenhyland
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZRSlJetL6K/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I love my husbands"
alexandrasedlak
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaB1NIeCgRB/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Makes sense. Makes sense. Makes sense.
"This is something we can all do today"
built.pretty
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaEAHwuBHxj/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"calling all eldest daughters"
mentalhealthbymaria
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZVYE7bBgS6/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Love him the way he deserves"
chloejuliett
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaV_4DYSnJd/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It even feels banal, almost.
It still feels shocking how much the White Supremacist Patriarchal Cult truly wants people to act like callous, insensitive, unempathetic trolls.
"He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him."
Like...
"thanks kaya"
loki.doestricks
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DajGanAPEMl/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"It's really the children who suffer"
clarabelletoks
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaTEeUfRJgo/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Legacy 🤍"
embodiedbean
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DagQiu-vhVQ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Anyways, I definitely don't think only women should run the world.
Because a hard lesson I learned early on in life was, consider who you might get, and it's not good.
"Alice Weidel is the posterchild"
sophie.hrs
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DagSrqwxGZP/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"They have a really hard job"
northern_funnymum
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DagImjPNm8W/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Sounds like the best course of action"
straight_lines_and_bourbon
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Daig7H5Ot4-/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
You can encourage them to love themselves more!
"But if I start being bigger-hearted and less of a bigot, than what if my friends don't love me as much?"
But not even all 2-year-olds act the same, you know?
Maybe they're just like 2-year-olds testing the boundaries.
What can you do for yourself to help break out of that confining mindset?
"The only reason why my friends and I are so incapable of showing more empathy is because we don't love themselves enough to be able to see what's going on with others."
Start loving yourself more!!! Things could get interesting.
I'm totally looking forward to your transition out of "Dehumanizing the circumstances of other human beings with my friends is my zone of comfort."
That's why you're mean; you don't love yourself enough.
Probably should love yourself more. You don't love yourself enough.
After all they're still trying to please the old system, I guess.
Maybe the immature mommies and daddies who don't seem to care very much about human rights for their own children, much less for other people's children, can be the last of their kind.
It's great that a lot of people respect girls and women more than Pete Hegseth's pastor does.
"The pastor who wants to repeal voting rights for women is becoming more mainstream"
NPR
https://youtube.com/watch?v=e-oE7ox_XAg&si=JxDxJM2xi8IejBKY
"They can't do it."
afightbackwoman
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dah3IHdt9vV/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I'm very disappointed in the choices some people have made.
Really, they made their choices, which were very cruel. And discriminatory. And selfish. And sexist. They seem immature, almost like a part of them never grew up.
I feel like they might have made themselves more immature in order to fit in with a system that rewarded them for being more immature.
And now that the system is collapsing, what can you do? You cannot look to these people for any kind of inspiration or help whatsoever.
If they choose to continue on with their old ways, you can't.
What does that change look like for you?
Why don't you imagine not needing to be so mean, and such a tool of the systemic discrimination that the Patriarchy wants you to inflict in others, in order to have a fulfilling career?
Because they can now visualize so much more, and bigger, and and better.
"Shallow rich women and bigoted rich men will no longer be acting like sacrificing the well-being of others feels necessary to their existence. Just because they're so entranced with their favorite pampered by the Patriarchy white men, expensive toys, and the audience adulation that everyone who's serving the whims of patriarchal white supremacy so desperately seemingly needs in their lives, doesn't mean that's what you're going to be doing with your life."
If you can visualize it...
"Women are now in charge"
rachbelle77
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DagWIHKS9JA/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Maybe today can be a developmental day!
♥️🎆🧠🎇💙
"Inequality doesn't just harm women's opportunities. It physically changes the brain."
ditto.daily
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaQnxbRNo8l/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Grandma Martha, you are my why"
Elizabeth
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSChkM6q/
"The one joke that started it all"
sashbomb
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DahmITwzFAk/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Maybe they're just in a developmental stage and still processing stuff.
People's weird, weird need to be mean is not my favorite thing about them.
Interesting choice of words for the headline.
"Former Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan spared prison for obstructing ICE arrest of Mexican immigrant" | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/08/us/wisconsin-judge-hannah-dugan
Of course; he deserved to be treated humanely, and he wasn't.
"‘He did not deserve to die’: family of man fatally shot by ICE agent speaks out" | Texas | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/08/texas-ice-shooting-victim-son
Actually a guy is helping because he is cleaning the septic tank.
Thank you, kindly handyman from Mexico.
And I mean nobody!
I feel pretty sick and I'm going to have to figure out how to tend to my own health right now because nobody else is helping me.
That's how she felt!
"We could not have done more."
Miep Gies
https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/main-characters/miep-gies/
Run away. Their banality feels too insidious and incestuous.
Some of them act like the types who will put a child molester with money and property on a pedestal, degrade children and women "for fun," have no clue how to say they're sorry they did that, and then they feel the need to brag about how great they were about hoarding everything for themselves.
So young to already be working for a living!
"I Ain't Gonna Worry - Rare 1958 unknow teenage Rockabilly girl"
@jollypascal
I am not getting paid to act like a clown, am I?
"The Trial of Hannah Arendt" | National Endowment for the Humanities
https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2014/marchapril/feature/the-trial-hannah-arendt
Maybe some men should just stop acting like tools of The Patriarchy now.
"Empathy Makes Women AI-Proof at Work. It's Burning Them Out."
https://www.thepersistent.com/empathy-skill-women-ai-proof-burning-out-careers/
Time to make a protein packed breakfast for myself.
"People wanted an innocent story about a young, self-sufficient couple on a farm for the same reason a wartime audience loved the sweet musical 'Oklahoma!' about a young couple going to a picnic basket party."
Connie Cronley
"Me and 'The Egg and I'"
Tuesday, July 07, 2026
Can you imagine your descendants writing something about you like this?
"We are certain that if Betty were alive today, she would address the plight of the American Indian in a much different manner. We feel that she only meant to turn what was to her a frightening situation into a lighthearted encounter. Remember, she had been brought up to be a lady — one who in those days was completely unprepared to handle the problems she dealt with so blithely in "The Egg."
The egg and i, page 8
"KUOW - Chickens are just the fall guy in this funny blunt tale" by Katie Campbell
Undoubtedly, the works of Betty McDonald are calling me again.
KUOW - "Chickens are just the fall guy in this funny blunt tale"
"I didn't just cringe at the casual racism, though. I also cringed as it became clear that some of her humor was a pretty mask over a truly rotten situation."
~ Katie Campbell
The older I get, the more I realize this.
It's great to rediscover authors like Betty McDonald of Vashon Island who was really talented and funny and a great writer, and also be like, but gee, it's too bad she was so horribly racist against Native Americans!
The power of ice money!
Opinion | "Skin color top of mind for a new generation of CA Latinos"
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2026/06/immigration-raids-new-generation-latinos/
Anyways I did NOT eat all my beans. I put some of them in the fridge. Too much.
I bet some people in concentration camps wish they had that problem, huh?
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