"Michael Tubbs on South Stockton, Trauma and Hope"
Tuesday, June 02, 2026
Cat box, gunfire, falling down stairs.
"JUNE 2, 1944
Dear Kitty,
'If you're going to the attic, take an umbrella with you, preferably a large one!' This is to protect you from 'household showers.' There's a Dutch proverb: 'High and dry, safe and sound,' but it obviously doesn't apply to wartime (guns!) and to people in hiding (cat box!). Mouschi's gotten into the habit of relieving herself on some newspapers or between the cracks in the floor boards, so we have good reason to fear the splatters and, even worse, the stench. The new Moortje in the warehouse has the same problem. Anyone who's ever had a cat that's not housebroken can imagine the smells, other than pepper and thyme that permeate this house.
I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up and down a few times, making sure to stumble at least once. What with the scratches and the noise of running and falling, you won't even be able to hear the shooting, much less worry about it. Yours truly has put this magic formula to use, with great success!
Yours, Anne M. Frank"
"The Diary of Young Girl by Anne Frank"
https://pubhtml5.com/yxxx/jyqg/basic/201-225
They got used to it. So?
"It is not just that there are so many of these men. It is that they are so boring in their evasions. They are all running the same software."
~ Lyle W. Fass
"When Men Are No Longer The Chosen Ones"
It's not like they're improving anything significantly by getting richer faster, either.
"Ranked: Where the Ultra-Rich Are Growing Fastest"
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-where-the-ultra-rich-are-growing-fastest/
Well, I wish I'd gotten more sleep, but maybe I can still sleep a little bit.
Because it's going to be dark out for a tiny bit longer.
"My mission..."
sofiaorska
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY0khPrgApm/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I think all classes of people could work on some version of this big lesson that's been unfolding.
"Hurt people hurt people."
Sometimes criticism is just very necessary for the next phase of social progress to unfold.
"Take a Sexy Picture of Me (And Tell Me Why You Hate It)"
What can make the bad stuff fizzle out more quickly? An average brain wants to know.
"'Where are all the kids?’: questions arise over treatment of pregnant minors in Texas immigration facility" | Texas | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/pregnant-minors-texas-ice-facility
I suppose you could make your brain twist this around in whichever way you feel like.
For the happy chemical thinspo reasons that seem to be so comforting if you've inherited a certain set of circumstances.
"I needed to share my experience..."
Katie Mac
Are you guys going to adopt all the kids that are being treated terribly right now? Of course not, right?
"Ranked: Where the Ultra-Rich Are Growing Fastest"
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-where-the-ultra-rich-are-growing-fastest/
When are you making a deal with the rich sugar daddy?
When his ultra rich wife and ultra rich daughter start acting like being more compassionate towards other human beings triggers the happy chemicals in their brains. Like their middle class ancestors would have. Maybe. I suppose the son gets a pass because Patriarchal People always feel they need someone to carry their traditions onwards.
"America Is Creating Ultra-Rich Individuals at an Unmatched Pace"
The same time as human rights are being decimated. Something is wrong with this picture!
"Ranked: Where the Ultra-Rich Are Growing Fastest"
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-where-the-ultra-rich-are-growing-fastest/
You'll look like a much better person who had more potential for growing as a human being.
My personal opinion about the more sensitive people who got duped into voting for Trump is you should say a lot more about how and why you are sorry about it. Because you can act like things are fine now if you want, but your descendants are still going to know. You can numb yourself out with your small-minded friend group and pretend things are fine, but the descendants are going to know. They get to experience the effects and the ramifications of your decisions. That's why.
Is that so bad?
I want your kids not to feel trained, so trained, to behave in dehumanizing ways towards the not - so - patriarchal women and girls and men and boys, or at least, way less than you were trained to repeat those old, harmful, hurtful patterns.
Moreover, I am not the property of a man.
Moreover, we have lots of conversations in this house (actually it's an apartment but it kind of feels like a house because we have a backyard and no upstairs neighbors) and we don't wear rings and we don't take on each other's last names. The world is filled with more painful and uncomfortable things and circumstances, and if you don't f****** like that, there's plenty of worse things going on in the world that you can start thinking about instead.
Growing as a human being, like with more emotional depth and s***, is great.
Just remember, other people's children shouldn't have to feel like they're worthless trash just because they're not as genetically superior as you, according to the shallow patriarchal standards you were trained to uphold and have been trying to align with for so many years.
My life is much richer now.
Thanks to the efforts of a sensible and creative human being.
"When a kid is a kid is back in the news"
sashbomb
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZERoMlTjnV/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Making stuff can still be lots of fun.
Like cooking, for example!
"Watch me cook!"
dr. archaeology
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYXrTBhuXhB/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I guess getting pregnant's not going to fix it, ha - ha...
And then, what if the ramifications are even more pronounced if your female body happens to be afflicted with the genetics of a PCOS / PMOS person, and also, now it's in perimenopause as well.
Sabrina Jade RMT
Maybe this dopamine versus oxytocin thing is why?
I just don't see how any job or any amount of money or artistic product or house or cult or mob of fans can make up for this s***.
Sabrina Jade RMT
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBBGePNC/
" When they did study the female body..."
Oops! I shouldn't run those scientific studies.
I hope someday they figure out if the students that became ICE for the money tended to be the ones that had the meanest parents.
How do you feel about your future adopted child possibly being locked away in a detention center...?
Or, if they're not actually locked away in the detention center, maybe their biological parent is and...You're just so preoccupied with being full of yourself in ways that seem to repeat old patterns, and those ways do not feel very kind and loving, let's put it that way.
Things are NOTICEABLY not okay.
"‘The worst thing that has happened to me’'
And sometimes I really do feel like it's been CRAZY how some people, who when they were younger, probably would have acted like they cared more about this kind of stuff, have been acting in their supposedly wiser and more mature years.
But then again, I'm sort of starting to accept that when people are hurting, they deal with their hurt in ways that are very human, and some of that looks very selfish. Hurting people become more selfish acting when they are hurting in certain ways.
Egregious.
Being highly insensitive about genetic differences in order to feel like a "normal" person who could fit well enough with what the rest of society wanted from the traditional ones was considered a typical and even desirable trait to possess in that tactless, oppressive, fascist era.
Okay, here's some new information about the female body coming in again!
Now think about this, and imagine the toxic patriarchy cutting you off from a lot of the nice sister friends you might have had, just because you're constantly getting the message that your defective body is a worthless piece of s*** since you didn't get pregnant like they did, and they don't support or value your kind of body or life experience, and they act like that kind of attitude is normal all the goddamn f****** time. (Not everybody does this, but some people do it as a matter of course on a regular basis.)
Sabrina Jade RMT
Think about a word like "egregious" and how you would describe a person who seems to embody this quality.
Niceness about some people's attachments to their prejudices has run out. Their meanness has now become egregious.
Oh, the agony of the unfinished task.
People who got trained to not be mature enough to talk about important things really are in a state of suffering, because acting like land and money is more important than what should be considered a fairly normal human interaction is not really a healthy or humane response, and this is why I've tried to send a thank you card, a nice one, and I've gotten one or two sentences down, and then the card just sits and sits and sits; it doesn't get sent, and it's been weeks and weeks and weeks.
Monday, June 01, 2026
Pegasus made several appearances.
vivariumnovum
https://www.instagram.com/p/CYpdFdJqvTI/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Pegasus flies over the Nine Muses in the Castalian fountain on…: retrofire — LiveJournal
Maybe I'll make a little mini film in the future.
Or on second thought, maybe I will focus on how she calls on Mother Nature in some of her writings.
Maybe I'll make a little, little mini film about Christine de Pizan writing a poem about Joan of Arc, if I can get motivated.
(This was the first thought.)
I can tell. I know what I'm talking about!
I think my friend should come out here and we can like, look at the Bible and stuff, and I can learn about it as a work of literature from somebody who has enjoyed it more.
Goin' through stuff Nation...
"When a kid is a kid is back in the news"
sashbomb
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZERoMlTjnV/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Just had to bring the cat inside.
She was chasing a possum out of the yard, and I don't think she needs to be getting into fights with any possums out there. She wants to go out and fight again! But I decided to keep her in.
What is your relationship with food these days? Because this is...
"I needed to share my experience about what just happened..."
Kate Mac
I just got a reminder of our problems again.
I don't care if it's not exactly the same, because it's still close enough, really.
#daddyissues #viral #fyp
💀M_Skull🖤☠️
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBBXfw9P/
Oml #alt #viral
💀M_Skull🖤☠️
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBBXPrwB/
I don't know why these industries that keep certain people in the immaturity zone in the name of art are just really exhausting to think about if you've inherited a certain set of genetics.
It might be because I just finished eating, but it might be more than that.
I feel some heartburn or perhaps even some heartache or heartsoreness about how humans are worth getting to know better, but at the same time, humans are also very delicate creatures. Humans go through a lot at different stages of their lives.
Both of them seem really nice.
🏋️♀️🪷🚴🏼
"This is TRAD LIFTING!!"
meltop317
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZDfxRBP33E/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Five things more important than weight loss after 40"
meltop317
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX7tw7xyra8/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"And the only people that will be upset..."
stay.at.home.tom
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZBsdgCAKQT/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
As for now, the stay-at-home dad has way way way more followers (for a variety of reasons I'm sure) but c'est la vie.
I know it would be more mature.
Instead of being mad that people are so sexist and that they went to these sexist little churches in sexist little towns and got inculcated with sexist little values. And then if anyone doesn't conform to those sexist little ideals because of like, their like, genetic makeup or whatever. Why don't you just, like, have more empathy for them, man.
The tales have only been at the surface scratched.
I would like to hear some more tales. If you ask some questions from a different perspective, the tales can regenerate.
I should just take a nap.
Oh my God, I just had a half flashback. I'll bet I was at some place during a nap where some other people were. I think that happened a lot. Maybe the details are not important. Only the knowledge.
I was there.
Sometimes.
Occasionally.
Just not in this body.
The body was asleep in another house. Where it most needed to be at the time, apparently.
Oh, it must be nice.
I have to take a nap on some grass on a thin rain jacket and a canvas shopping bag. I think a rich person dressed up as a poor person took my picnic blanket. Whatever, there are worse things happening. They were saying eccentric things. hand hand hand and hand
Can you believe that some full-grown adults are actually jealous? If children who are less fortunate get more attention than them?
It's incredible! It's astonishing. You would think they would have grown out of that by now. Decades and decades ago. But no. As soon as you bring up the less fortunate children, they need to tune you out, and then they need to show off how special they are. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me. Look at me, mommy, look at me. Don't look at them. Look at me! Dear God.
Strong words for Kevin Sullivan from reviewer Lindsay.
He will do better in the next life.
"Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #8) by L.M. Montgomery"| Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/433533.Rilla_of_Ingleside
What. Did. He. Do.
!!!
???
I can't believe the dads have been so rude and insensitive that this is going to be, like, happening again.
"But undreamed-of challenges await the irrepressible Rilla when the world of Ingleside is endangered by a far-off war. Her brothers go off to fight, and Rilla brings home an orphaned newborn in a soup tureen. She is swept into a drama that tests her courage and changes her forever."
"Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #8) by L.M. Montgomery" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/433533.Rilla_of_Ingleside
When ICE when when how how mommy daddy orphanage detention center???
"When ICE arrests you, what happens to your car?" - Maryland Matters
https://marylandmatters.org/2026/06/01/when-ice-arrests-you-what-happens-to-your-car/
"Notes From an ICE Chaser"
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/an-ice-chaser-bovino/tnamp/
"USA: RELEASE ASYLUM SEEKER WITH OVARIAN CYST (28.26)"
https://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actions/usa-release-asylum-seeker-with-ovarian-cyst/
I've had fewer options available to me in thrift stores this year.
The PCOS / PMOS in perimenopause really hit at the exact incredible moment.
It's not my unpaid job.
Wife wife, work wife, whatever.
I can't keep up with all the specific kinds that the rich white guys think are the most socially acceptable to call their wives in this still excessively Patriarchal era. I mean Trump is a rich dude married to a woman who is an immigrant, and look how he treats people. It's very familiar.
May the gezellig prosper.
"Financial Literacy Isn’t The Problem. Why Women Still Struggle To Build Wealth"
Nein, we say, "Not the brightest crayon in the box!"
😜🖍️🍏
"Did you know all of these?"
germanwithsammy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZB1K0AvIQu/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I want my life to be more householding.
Gezellig! Hazel, like I said?
"WHAT?! 💔😭"
Irene.learns.dutch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXmDdTBCLXM/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Is pingo getting softer? 😳"
irene.learns.dutch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX9ZZXZInzE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Almost time to watch more funny videos about learning Dutch! 😊
"#patriarchy #incel #feminism"
harsh_lodha
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZAfvo8BZcu/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Hi x"
juliajacklin
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZC8RGZRPrn/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
We have met many who also experienced trauma, mind games and gaslighting as small children, as they were growing up.
"He paid his taxes and had no criminal record, his family said. Eventually, he got married and settled in Maine, where he was working as a cab driver by fall 2025. ICE seized him in October when he showed up for a regular check-in.
After several weeks in detention, he vanished. The decades Mohamed had spent building a life in the U.S. unraveled in less than a week. When his family spoke to him next, he was calling from Somalia. He had been deported. For his sister, Saynab Mohamed, and her daughter, Eza Nour, each update arrived too late and never from ICE itself. 'I think the whole point was to traumatize us,' Nour said, 'and leave us with a lasting scar.'”
~ Aala Abdullahi and Geoff Hing
"They Were Detained by ICE. Then They Vanished." – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/they-were-detained-by-ice-then-they-vanished/
"During Hueso’s transfers, her lawyer and family had little idea where Hueso was, Simbron said. “She was moved away so many times, it was just so scary, like how fast they were moving her,” she added. Simbron repeatedly refreshed the detainee locator, called the U.S. attorney’s office, and waited for a call from Hueso. At one point, Simbron said, Hueso managed a single three-minute phone call to her family to say she had been moved. But as her lawyer, Simbron didn’t get the chance to talk to her during these transfers, she said.
Hueso declined to speak with The Marshall Project because her immigration case remains active. Simbron spoke on her behalf, explaining that after her release, Hueso said the repeated shuffling caused fear and frustration. Hueso had known about the judge’s order and kept bringing it up to officers, who told her she was “going home,” Simbron said. At first, she thought they meant New Jersey. Eventually, she realized they meant El Salvador.
'It was like mind games and gaslighting her,' Simbron said."
~ Aala Abdullahi and Geoff Hing
Life is not fair, as we've noticed. Many times.
"They Were Detained by ICE. Then They Vanished." – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/they-were-detained-by-ice-then-they-vanished/
Maybe some more big songs will come out of this situation someday.
What if George Michael reincarnated, and he's locked away in a detention center right now?
It was fun to listen to these songs about "Sugar" together.
"Sugar (Live)" ~ Tori Amos
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PiWIdAi4O0Y&si=J7aJgG0cbtY7HjpU
Sufjan Stevens - "Sugar [Official Music Video]"
Liquid diamonds in donuts.
"Liquid Diamonds (Live In Philadelphia 10/15/07)"
💍🍩💎
"Doughnut Song (Live In San Diego 12/12/07)"
Tori Amos
Perhaps a deeper collective self-nurturing is about to take off in a good way.
Someday, when their cup is more full, they will feel more curious about certain kinds of people, and they will want to learn more about them, and they will want to love them more.
Like loving parts of themselves that have been scattered out in the universe, and they're calling them back.
I hope more people will feel refreshed.
"😁😆 Best things about coming back"
driplist
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXMyFdtjWyL/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"just another option"
lovejuliadawn
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY-fL9JSE3e/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Oh cool! I found this piece again.
"But something rustled on the floor, and someone called me by my name."
"Lucia Joyce: FULL CAPACITY"
MulrooneyDeirdre
Nearly at the end!
"To me, the melody of nature is a beautiful song, and if all a scientist gives me is the tapped-out rhythm, but keeps the melody to himself, he's barely given me the skeleton of nature. I want her energy, her luminous skin, the light in her eyes. I want to see nature snap her fingers and dance."
Page 193
"Alan Alda’s If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating" - PMC
Arrogance and error.
Anyways, it's inspiring to see that some people are trying to make inroads when it comes to fields that are teeming with arrogance.
I wonder why the hypothetical situation is the one that interests my brain the most?
"I could have told her instead about the young medical student who helped a woman actually understand her diagnosis, and even sat and cried with her. Then after my dinner partner asks me how in the world we had been able to help a young doctor learn to do that, I could tell her a couple of facts. Because now she'd want to know."
Page 169
"Alan Alda’s If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating" - PMC
It would be nice.
It would be nice to have all the student loans paid off and the debt gone. And also, to like, actually feel able to watch a movie on Sunday night.
And I mean, there's been other Sunday nights and other movies have been watched, so it's not like it's an impossible dream to strive towards the possibility of that happening again, someday.
And some of these people are the same people you would say are very emotionally expressive.
The amount of times some people felt far more comfortable acting like they just didn't care because apparently that survival strategy was very strongly inculcated in them.
Of course, it would be great to have a lot of things going much better really soon.
"This is me...in 1993."
criticalskills1
"Breakfast for my child 💜 #desayuno"
Obduliah Ag
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBkDmQjf/
Other people have had some really devastating experiences, too.
"Specifying sorrow can capture the attention of whole nations.
In the summer of 2015, hundreds of thousands of people were fleeing from war. One family, having escaped from Syria, paid smugglers for a motorboat to take them from Turkey to Greece. But what the smugglers gave them instead was a rubber raft. With no other choice, they tried to use it. High waves spilled the family into the ocean, and the father tried desperately to hold his children's heads above water long enough to keep them from drowning. But when he was washed ashore, he was the only member of his family alive. The body of his three-year-old son, Aylan, was lying facedown on the sand, the edge of the ocean that had killed him lapping gently on his cheek. A photographer shot a picture of Aylan and within hours it rocketed around the world on the Internet. Immigrants, suddenly, were no longer statistics."
Page 130
"Alan Alda’s If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating" - PMC
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6132044/
It's just accepting that certain lessons need to be learned before other things can happen or be known.
We were supposed to watch a movie on Sunday evening, but once again there was too much work, and I ran out of steam and fell asleep instead.
The strong personality is like a drunken sailor sometimes.
Being able to have a conversation is important. You learn more. You find out there's more going on than you'd previously thought of. You discover you need to learn more about things than you'd imagined. You think of new things you want to ask and learn more about in the future.
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Special needs, I suppose.
Also, just remembered that one time I ate a hamburger with another person, and I got legitimate food poisoning from it and he didn't, so that was weird.
Still too much frat boy stuff.
I don't know why the people who act the way that you prefer are the people who always do the worst things to the people I know.
The body. The Patriarchy. The score keeping.
It's kinda weird being told that I'm supposed to be more expensive, but whatever.
Whatever, Dios
"preparing food to take to work"
Obduliah Ag
I believe that when more of the rich men begin to want to heal, they can help the others.
🙏🪷⛪
"No privacy when..."
danadanedotcom
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBk2oAoT/
"No Broke Boys - Disco"
danadanedotcom
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBk2yCww/
"#italiangirl #livinginamerica"
francescalimolij
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWSsJp9ASU9/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I think this is a tasty salad.
Chopped baby gem lettuce
pomegranate seeds
toasted walnuts (still warm)
TJ's vegan Green Goddess dressing
a little bit of freshly ground salt and pepper
😳🌮😳🌮😳
"Demonstrators Hold 24-Hour Fast in Solidarity with Hunger Strike in Adelanto ICE Facilities" ~ L.A. TACO
I wonder if they provide decent snacks at family visitation? Really... 🥟🍫🍒🥨🍇🍿🍊
"Family visitation partly restored at New Jersey ICE facility after week of protests" | New Jersey | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/31/new-jersey-ice-facility-protests
Growing up can be painful sometimes.
Well, at least I now know where the emotional eating 15% of my DNA test really comes from. Ancient out-of-wedlock Grandpa.
"#italiangirl #livinginamerica"
francescalimolij
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWSsJp9ASU9/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Happy Mother's Day"
monkee_bois
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYLHZy1JaiE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Better babysitter studies continues.
There will be a cheat sheet below.
WHATTT?!
irene.learns.dutch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXJhbysCFMV/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Ok..."
irene.learns.dutch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXHgM8_iDBi/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
🤔
😔
😔🤔😊
Daily body scan update.
My left thumb is still very sore, and not as flexible as it used to be. But it is just a little bit better than it was yesterday.
DAT IS NIET GOED GENOEG.
"I think my AI just became my dad."
irene.learns.dutch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWoeCXQiCpe/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Isn't this a beautiful language?
DENK JE DAT HET OVER IS
"Pingo scares me"
irene.learns.dutch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWgyEFZCHYw/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Quotable A.A. plus the latest random Shazams.
🎼👩🎤📻
"I couldn't stop him. This man was sacrificing his bladder for me. I wished I'd never started the whole thing."
Page 105 of
"Alan Alda’s If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating" - PMC
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6132044/
Chapter 12 "My Life As A Lab Rat" (104 - 105)
Hitler didn't eat meat.
I will not be cosplaying a vegan Nazi if chorizo and eggs is the only culinary delicacy a much better man knows how to prepare.
Making great use of her voice and her instrument.
🎶💖🎶
Mae Karthauser - "Army Dreamers (Kate Bush cover)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JblvxtpRLkU&si=pnBffZ9dRp2-WQMr
Mae Karthauser - "Army Dreamers (Kate Bush cover)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JblvxtpRLkU&si=pnBffZ9dRp2-WQMr
I feel I'm taking great care of my health right this instant.
Current maturity level is making piggy snorting noises at Brothers.
Miserable! What makes people who can function in society well enough to get a regular paycheck do this?
"Children 'held like criminals' inside ICE detention center" - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/children-held-like-criminals-inside-ice-detention-center/
I had a very vivid dream that I was in a very Mexican part of the continent.
"It’s easy to look at the child of a celebrity or power couple and see the leg up their family’s wealth, power, and connections got them in their own separate venture or company. And it’s even easier to label them a nepo baby when they benefit from their parent’s money and clout. But the nepo baby trend may extend beyond Hollywood, touching the lives of everyday Americans.
In other words, it’s increasingly obvious that who your parents are has become a more reliable predictor of your wealth than what you actually do for a living.
According to a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, there’s a growing rift between income and wealth generation. For decades, the American Dream was predicated on the fact that hard work and a decent income would lead to homeownership. But the research finds that high earnings no longer correlate directly with wealth generation. Rather, it matters more so today what assets your family owns.
“Those that come from wealthier families that are maybe able to achieve those other economic goals—wealth building, homeownership—I think also could play into a sentiment of a sort of unfairness in the economy,” Max Risch, one of the study’s co-authors and an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, told Fortune.
Even as Wall Street hits successive record highs, Americans are feeling worse and worse about the economy. An April Ipsos poll found that 61% of Americans today feel the economy is on the wrong track. Meanwhile, the May consumer sentiment index hit the lowest level since the University of Michigan started tracking the metric in 1952, lower than during the COVID pandemic and aftermath of the Great Recession. And that may be because even when workers secure steady if not high-paying jobs, they’re increasingly locked out of securing assets to generate wealth."
~ Jake Angelo
"A new study finds escaping your income bracket no longer means building wealth. That disconnect may be what’s driving consumer pessimism to record highs"
https://fortune.com/2026/05/27/income-wealth-inequality-housing-consumer-pessimism-index-high/
Fail to see how this benefits us.
"'We could die here, and it feels like no one here would care,' Navdeep said in the ACLU statement.
People being held at Camp East Montana don't receive timely medications to manage a range of serious medical issues such as HIV, cancer and diabetes, according to the lawsuit. In February, the detention center was closed temporarily to visitors because of a measles outbreak, according to Marfa Public Radio. The complaint also describes housing units without windows, crammed spaces and a constant odor of urine and feces, a lack of clean water and reports that detainees receive only two pieces of bread, a piece of ham or bologna, a slice of cheese and a cookie for all three meals."
~ Kristin Wright
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/30/nx-s1-5841359/immigrant-detainees-sue-texas-camp-east-montana
I wonder why this is happening...
"Immigrant detainees sue over ‘horrific’ conditions at Texas ICE facility" : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/30/nx-s1-5841359/immigrant-detainees-sue-texas-camp-east-montana
Hopefully "for the greater good" kinds of reasons, from higher up sources...
Margaux and another mother, who didn't get diagnosed with ovarian cancer until after her death, even though she went to the ER and they sent her home several times, have also been in my thoughts recently.
"Liza Anne Penalosa's Obituary - Charlotte, NC" | Ever Loved
https://everloved.com/life-of/liza-penalosa/obituary/
"Margaux Fragoso, child sex abuse victim who wrote powerful memoir, dies at 38"The PBS version is stirring.
"Sara Bareilles sings powerful cover of 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Toad' | NEXT at Kennedy Center"
PBS
This has really been upsetting the rich people a lot, I can tell.
"The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens" | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-aliens-gov-us-citizens-arrested/
Turn that toxicity off and...
"Girls are supposed to feel flattered when boys..."
met
"Poor people are supposed to feel flattered when rich people..."
Saturday, May 30, 2026
This is a bit of Midwestern mom humor. It just came up!
"Why midwesterners stay!!"
hannahparentcomedy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYzr-zgR5GM/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I might try to go back to the Irish pub soon.
Sir, I am sorry, but I have to say I think you're ignoring your daughter too much again, just like when we were on our walk when we were younger. Because her Pinterest board fills me with anorexic despair. And I feel like that's on purpose.
What's life purpose got to do with it?
I feel like being on a path of healing imperfectly but getting better and better about believing in it is a good thing for me. It's making me feel like my eyes are opening to new possibilities.
I think it would be fun to harvest chia seeds, actually.
Lol: " That's why we have that phrase, separate the art from the artist."
"I'm Really Good at Flirting" | Milan Patel
"Why I stopped using AI"
r/antiai
u/cashewcoconut
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