"Sen. Gary Peters wants ICE to explain why it bought spyware that can covertly take control of phones" - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-ice-graphite-spyware-phones/
Friday, July 24, 2026
Looks mattered.
"In the early days of my time in Vaassen, my mother would visit the Van Deelen family once a month. That's how I knew she was alive, loved me, and under the circumstances was doing reasonably well. She didn't look Jewish, so she was able to move about with relative ease. Much later I found out that Mother had a false identity card even with a name vaguely resembling her own."
"At school, no one except the principal knew my true identity. That was very much to my advantage because the son of the leader of the local NSB -- the Dutch Nazi party -- was in my class.
I used to bike to school. There was a checkpoint along the way, where the police occasionally asked to see my ID, but --as it lacked the necessary J-- it always went quite smoothly. Whenever necessary, I'd tell them I was Mr. Van Beek's nephew."
"During my years underground, I couldn't be seen naked -- not in front of the boys and certainly not in front of any girls! Swimming would have been a problem, too, were it not for the fact that the farmer had been good enough to add real changing stalls to his homemade swimming pool."
"In the late summer of 1944, shortly after the Allies had been defeated at the Dutch town of Arnhem, My mother came to live with the van Beeks as well. Around the same time, the school next to our house was confiscated by a company of Dutch volunteers in the Waffen-SS. It soon became clear that we hadn't merely acquired a group of SS soldiers as neighbors but that some of them were also moving in with us."
"I was forced to address my mother as 'aunt.' I didn't even think of it as a problem: I simply did it. I had to if I was to survive."
" I never once saw my father. He had gone underground in the small town of Hattem. He looked more Jewish than either my mother or me, and so for him, it was better never to be seen at all. He was forced to be 'cellular' as we used to call it then: locked up inside his house."
Page 32 - 36
"We All Wore Stars: Memories of Anne Frank from Her Classmates by Theo Coster"| Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/11450811-we-all-wore-stars
Reading about the inventor of the "Guess Who" game.
"I moved in with Mr. And Mrs. Van Beek, with whom I would stay until Liberation Day, which in my case would be April 17, 1945. The Van Beeks had no children of their own and seemed happy to receive a "ready-made" child -- and an obedient one at that."
"Barend van Beek was the headmaster of the local Christian Elementary School. I would become like a son to him and he like a father to me. In the winter, we'd go skating together. Once a week, I visited Reverend Van Deelen's son Chris to play chess. Chris was my age and, like me, wasn't a farmer's son.
I went to the same school as Chris did, for, unlike other children in hiding, I was able to go to school. It was all due to the fact that a few years earlier, after the German occupation, my father had failed to complete the required form concerning the origin of my grandparents."
Page 30 - 31
"We All Wore Stars: Memories of Anne Frank from Her Classmates by Theo Coster" | Goodreads
ICE cream
"All Eyes on ICE Detention NOW!" | Ben & Jerry's
https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2026/07/all-eyes-on-ice-detention
Say NO to their temporary and subpar survival strategies.
"DHS abandoned it's plan"
defiancedispatch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbKL-qpMU4q/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Elephants close ranks around their young"
defiancedispatch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbJnXiksR6E/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"This isn't legal."
defiancedispatch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbLdqsbumfr/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It's nice. It's peaceful.
A cat comes in to say hello. A cat watches a human enjoying a back scratch. That probably makes sense. We must look so boring when we're on our phones and computers all the time. So boring. What are they doing on their phones and their computers all the time? Shoelaces are better. Shoelaces are fun for the cat.
It makes you wonder why so many women are still so self-deprecating.
I feel I've learned the hard way that if I put myself down, the Patriarchy just runs right with it. The Patriarchy is not exactly a deep thinker. Do you think the Patriarchy's going to help me out with my issues? Dream On.
Not today, swimming pool.
Waking up tired already...But I am looking forward to having an interesting day anyway.
Humans are here to learn things.
We have to ask for grace and forgiveness from higher sources because we just accidentally got so involved in what we were perceiving that we couldn't see what was going on as much as some who are more balanced or are more in touch with their spiritual health could.
It's like the never-ending lesson.
Learning how to take better care of yourself when you've got a trickier set of genetics to deal with...it is challenging. Well, other people can just be different with their different genetics. They can have the fun they can have.
I had some pain issues and I heard my cat also sounding like she didn't feel well and now she's sleeping relatively peacefully but I had to get up and do some things. I had to drink some apple cider vinegar in cinnamon water and stuff because I was irresponsible with the way I was eating today.
So I suppose I will try to fall asleep soon. Because...sigh. People can think you're interesting, but it doesn't mean that they know what's best for you. You have to figure out what's best for you and sometimes it's difficult.
People just don't know, sometimes. So, they have a lot to learn. Perhaps it's best to make peace with that. And then when you do, find people who seem good at being intuitive or if you get better at being intuitive yourself, you can celebrate that, too.
Always have to focus on health first.
Always getting reminded that I have a special needs situation to attend to.
I'm either going to look up small little vacation excursion ideas or just think about them now.
I almost kind of want to go on a fishing retreat or something. They have stuff like that around here.
I hear the train a coming...
I'm not going to sleep for a while because I'm taking advantage of this long stretch of after hours, everyone else is sleeping, past two o'clock in the morning, calm feeling I am feeling. It's healing for my nervous system. I have to luxuriate in it right now. It's like a free spa treatment.
Whose fault is it???
I just don't know how to punish anybody for their terrible attitudes and all the gnarly panic attacks I suffered from over the years. Especially as I began to enter a certain era.
I lost my number 8 tooth. I have almost no tooth left there. Just a little bit.
"West End Girls... 🎶"
I wonder when these two public servants from Des Moines came up in the world...
"#lunchladyenergy"
breakroom.chronicles and 777melly777
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZI8z-URbwq/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Values. Chicken Pox. Des Moines, Washington.
"Old Home Town : Rose Wilder Lane"
https://archive.org/details/oldhometown0000rose/page/n9/mode/1up
This is what they gave me to entertain myself as I was ailing.
This is what they teach the scouts from the Old Home Town...
"Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight Lyrics"
https://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/hot-time-in-the-old-town-tonight.html
Also, I had these in my ear while I was doing the dishes.
"The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders..."
S. Stevens
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PLEXd_P6A0s&si=hAGr28J2TCptJIdv
"Dear Mr. Supercomputer"
S. Stevens
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2tdDL5Jyigw&si=9MWwvKhqgNBQuoWe
"The Avalanche"
S. Stevens
For a second, I thought this guy looked a little bit like Otto Frank, but actually they looked quite different.
I guess there's just a certain style of dress going on there or something.
"Adlai Stevenson (Music Video)" - Sufjan Stevens
Why don't you let yourself go...
And read Anne Frank's diary? It's a really interesting year to read it because all the days of the week line up this year with the days of the week in 1942 when she moved into the hiding place, the secret annex.
I feel hot and I feel bad for the women who had to hide in an attic during perimenopause.
I don't even think they used to talk about perimenopause very much. It was just like "fertile" and then "getting older and letting yourself go" and then "menopause."
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Keep in mind that really terrible, cruel. Things are happening right now.
Preparing to look ridiculous in NOT very impressive ways to future generations on multiple levels...
"...'Death Wish': 'Not' About Taylor Swift"
I really should check out their work more often.
"#theprodigy #lunchladyenergy"
breakroom.chronicles and 777melly777
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbEnOBFvza7/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
What a loaded word. "Cathected."
"Often, children will want to remain with parental caregivers who have hurt them because of their cathected feelings."
Page 25
"All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks"
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17607.All_About_Love
I should look for this one!
"A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/278046.A_Stitch_in_Time
Another great library book I read as a young person during time spent on the central California coast.
And the adults who read it are also giving it good reviews.
The memory of reading this floated to the surface.
"The Language of Goldfish by Zibby Oneal"
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/413121.The_Language_of_Goldfish
I read it in Monterey when I was a young person. I don't really remember very much about the story. I I might not have connected with this actual story that much, but I think the art on the cover was what I remembered the most about it.
Sometimes we feel the responsibility to others and ourselves haze creeping over us...
"Tomorrow is a big day for my daughter and I"
prosperitylifestyleco
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbB4x4uAPHI/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬👺🔥🔥🔥"
nobodyknowbighamm
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbGVzPwg5Qh/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I'm too lazy to play a musician. I mean a musical instrument right now.
Also, I don't really care if that mom's kid was probably technically not as young as some people in the comments were saying.
Maybe I'll pick up that musical instrument again.
I went swimming and then I made a healthy bowl thing with a turkey burger cut into pieces and lots of veggies and then I ate ice cream.
Celebrity Wedding Concentration Camp Stuff
"This is incredibly disturbing"
embodimentwithemily
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbJh9l5Syir/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
In which the author visits the site of the camp his great-grandfather survived.
"The thing that knocked the breath out of me was a large stone trough in the kitchen. Its official use was for washing potatoes. But I learned that occasionally, an SS man would use it to drown an inmate, just to show that he could. This was the true evil of the camp: even everyday objects -- a shower, a trough -- could suddenly become an instrument of torture. Nothing was left in the camp that was not tainted by death."
Page 104
"The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminateby Martin Puchner" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50489374-the-language-of-thieves
R.I.P. Mr. Rogers.
Thank you for passing along your mother's helpful advice. Surely, you must have reincarnated into the most fortunate of circumstances.
It's like Mr. Rogers' mom always said.
"Look for the celebrities and talented people who are the helpers!"
If the kid gets sent to that wedding guest's ICE facility, do the celebrities who also attended the wedding have any clout?
Can they get the kid back home to Mom?
Waiting for those parents who feel the most superior to speak up....
"But you really don't know what being a parent is like until you've had your child kidnapped in front of you and taken away by armed men who are being paid a lot of money by the government to put people in detention centers with terrible living conditions for who knows how long..."
I think this could be a fun tutorial for me to check out this afternoon.
"Easy 2 Chord Songs! Beginner Ukulele Tutorial"
LaraMarkowitzMusic
"Sometimes it's a capacity problem."
"Why emotionally immature people can't hear you."
francescapsychology
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbI4mAaI4_t/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I suppose there's one thing that's better now, which is that the media is less censored than it used to be?
Compared to other times in history when very bad stuff was happening.
"Trump’s Terrifying Explosion of Sex Offender ICE Agents Revealed"
Things that make you think about jumping out a window.
1) Some scared white people who used to seem a lot kinder and friendlier are getting colder because they really don't want to talk about what's going on.
Okay, let's stop there.
Why don't they want to talk about what's going on?
We didn't have a problem talking about stuff like this when it was something farther removed from us in history.
These people are acting like prejudiced jerks and they don't want to admit it.
There's a difference between them and some other people who don't stress out about it as much as me, but have a kinder, gentler way of letting me know that they don't feel they are supposed to think about it as much.
Like I've had somebody say, genuinely, "It's not that I don't care. It's just that I don't feel like it's supposed to be my main focus of what I should be thinking about right now. Instead I feel like I'm supposed to focus on..."
You know what? I think that's a legitimate response.
But shutting down other people entirely?
That's what's really bad.
Maybe it's just unskilled.
Maybe a lot of the bad things that happen in the world, like genocide, are just because some people are simply scared and unskilled.
Maybe so.
It's a total crap shoot out there.
#fyp #storytime #I-70 #daddyissues
Ashlynn Jenings
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTA2jUp6M/
"This is not the country I thought it was."
emilydoespolitics2
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTA22W5wP/
"i wanted to clarify"
LUCY💫🌈 💕
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTA2Yt8hA/
Remembering that story about the girl who ran away to say goodbye.
"It is the case of Miepie Viskooper, a girl from Amsterdam, aged seven, that is the closest to Lien's. She is the subject of witness statements 146 to 148.
Witness 146 is Joanna Wigman, a barmaid in her mid-twenties who had taken the little girl into her care. On the night of November 15, 1943, Miepie was sleeping beside Johanna on a mattress. Then, at half past eleven, Johanna heard a break-in downstairs. She had just time to hide the child under the blankets before Evers and Den Breejen burst in. The policeman demanded to know if her name was Johanna Wigman and then began their search. All too quickly Miepie was discovered. Den Breejen is recorded in the statement as saying 'Here we have the Yid!' But then, as the men continued in search of other evidence, the little girl ran out.
Evers and Den Breejen were furious and, for her act of protection, Johanna Wigman was sent to the concentration camp at Vught.
Witness 147 is the owner of the adjoining cafe, Cornelius van Tooren. He himself had a daughter, called Jannetje, of Miepie's age. Evers and Den Breejen, he reports, had spent time searching the cafe before moving on to the neighboring flat. After they left, he kept watch in their absence, and then at around midnight Miepie ran into the bar. Evers came in right behind her, pointing his revolver, shouting, ' It's the choke hole for you' at the little girl.
'I've only come to say good-bye to Jannetje,' she replied.
The worst is witness 148. This is Miepie's father, a small-scale confectionary manufacturer in the big city, the same as Lien's. Like Lien, Miepie was an only daughter, and again, just like Lien's parents, the Viskoopers thought their child would be safe if she hid with non-Jews, so they sent her away. They themselves also went into hiding, but they were caught. At the awful moment of their arrest there was at least the feeling that, for their daughter, theirs had been the right choice.
But then, as the couple was held at Westerbork, the Dutch Transit camp for Auschwitz, Miepie was brought into her mother, under guard.
As I read this. I think of my own wife and children and imagine that unwanted reunion. I can see the smile of recognition on the face of the child.
The Viskoopers traveled together to Poland. Then, on arrival, Michel Viskooper watched as his wife and daughter were taken from him and driven away on a truck.
Michel, Miepie's father, was one of just 5,200 Dutch Jews who survived the death camps, but he returned to Holland alone."
(66 - 67).
"'The Cut Out Girl' by Bart van Es"
https://www.optionstheedge.com/topic/culture/cut-out-girl-bart-van-es-tells-story-war-and-family
Parents! Fascism!
I think it takes a lot of highly insensitive and perhaps even fascist parents to make the kind of fascist nation where children are getting kidnapped right in front of their parents in the middle of the day.
I'll bet you could have a lot of fun with this. Deconstructing can be fun for you.
Anyways, knowing that you're still going to go about your day, acting like you think you're better than a woman who saw her child just get kidnapped in front of her in broad daylight, you should really start to deconstruct that.
Can't you build a career and a life for yourself that's less misogynistic?
I feel like if you can imagine it, then it is possible.
Your "privileged" male friends are not great.
Your "privileged" male friends act like you're better than the woman who got her child kidnapped in front of her in broad daylight, and you're not better than her. AT ALL.
And for what???
For 2.5 bathrooms all to themselves and a mortgage, some middle-class women are duped and tricked into acting like the duped and tricked rich women.
Sometimes middle class women are the worst about caring about others, honestly. They have very low self-esteem. Their churches and families instilled it in them.
They think their worth as a human being is caught up in owning property, and everything else comes second to that. And then they start treating other human beings who don't own property or have as much money with great disdain.
How incredibly disappointing and dispiriting.
I'm honored not to be the "privileged" white man friend of a duped and tricked rich woman.
I'm glad I'm not a "privileged" white man friend enabling a rich woman to be duped and tricked.
This country / culture tricks rich women and dupes them.
Rich women get tricked by the Patriarchy into thinking that they're better than the other women and children that are being treated so horribly. $AD.
I think if more people cared and wanted to change, we would have something a lot better.
Kidnapping children in broad daylight in front of their mothers is a f****** low that I never wanted to see happen.
I think if more people cared and wanted to change, we would have something a lot better.
$AD.
It's too bad we can't afford to go to a show but probably some child kidnappers can. It's not like you can figure out which of the rich people are the ones who enable the child kidnappers, but a lot of them are acting very uncaring, and even if they don't actually kidnap children, they might be enablers.
It's time to tend to the body.
There were two clove cigarettes. There was an attempt to do smoking herbs and sort of smudge but it didn't really work. There's cinnamon tea. Energy medicine: rooster comb hold; unzip, blowout, zip up; hook up; massage mingmin point in the back. Daily energy routine or tracing meridians or both.
People need to get better.
This is the ICE agent criminal who killed a good father in Maine threatening his ex-wife.
"Newly released audio reveals..."
Now this Impact
Good job, kitty.
I need to get some sage when the store opens because the palo santo and cedar isn't working with me.
I'm going to make lots of little screams happen now.
I'm going to stare at the shell with smoking herbs in it.
Smoking tobacco-free clothes, I mean cloves (cigarettes) and burning special herbs!
Feeling grateful for all the real parents who don't want other people's kids to be kidnapped any more than they would want their own kids to be kidnapped!
Show me their greatness, Universe!
I can't wait to see evidence of people being better. It would be wonderful to see. It's time to get better now! I'm going to go outside and look at the mountains.
Let's acknowledge that things are not okay.
Let's acknowledge that ICE kidnapping a mother's child in front of her is pretty f****** depraved.
It is not my job to...
They'll figure out how to get better at seeing others when they figure out how to get better at it. There's probably a lot going on in their lives that's convincing them that they don't have to change at all. And I'm not there, and they're dealing with their own s***.
They're not helping. I have to find new avenues and new ways to seek help for my situation. I have to take care of myself first. Because otherwise, I'm going to fall apart, and it's not cool. It's not fun, and it's not what I want to do. I want to get better, so I'm going to reapply myself to this task NOW.
Well, I only drove towards it, but I wasn't there.
Well, I didn't drive to the site of the ICE kidnapping of a mother's child yesterday. I was in other places, doing other things.
It is no longer my job to convince people that they should care.
It is no longer my job to convince people that they should care. They will figure it out when they want to. It is not my responsibility any longer. I absolve myself of this responsibility. I do not need to convince them to care more about others. It is not my job. Nobody's paying me to do it, and it's causing me a lot of harm to my health. If they need to worship egos and money and treat human beings like garbage, it is not my f****** responsibility to fix it.
Think of it as a natural process.
Things have to die so new things can get reborn. I can't feed anyone's ego anymore and their egos are too much in their faces for them to be able to see a lot of the stuff that's going on. It's going to have to change.
I got to get a repertoire going.
If you're singing or screaming, you're doing something with your mouth. It's opening it. It's what they don't want you to do because they want you to shut it up. They want to tone police you. They've been abused by the system and then they abuse others. They're not good examples. Say no to these f******.
I need to let old things go and new things and better things come.
I feel like I want to get reborn. I feel really not okay when I have certain types of setbacks. I really want to get reborn now. I really, really, really need to get reborn. I need to get reborn. This problem didn't start happening until I got into a perimenopausal stage. It's very it's very, it's very very very...
I wonder if I would benefit from getting hypnosis. Nothing is covered by insurance. I'm glad I got good supplements. That was about $300 because of the session and some other supplements that I tested for nothing is covered by insurance. Nothing is covered by insurance. Nothing is covered by insurance. Nothing is covered by insurance. Nothing.
Not even basic therapy was covered by f****** insurance. Insurance through work. If you get insurance through work you can't get covered California marketplace insurance.
The system is SO punitive. I do not need to spiral further. I am going to do some processes on myself right now. I had a relatively decent day yesterday and now it all feels like things are coming apart just because of a problem I have and I don't know how to fix it yet.
I think I deserve to not succeed in the disgusting awful system that's been created because human beings deserve better than the disgusting awful patriarchical system and it kills people; it does. It kills people.
I have to try to make myself get better somehow. I don't like the system. The system has been very bad to me. So now I am dying emotionally and I hope I will be reborn in the not too distant future and I will feel better.
People who tone police and worship mortgages are the worst. But I need to try to pull myself together now because I have no other choice. H. E. L. P.
Sigh.
I have a good shirt I really like and I just chewed a hole in it and now I want to see if I can order a new one.
I feel like I chewed it because I feel like I still can't have a calm conversation with the church-going mortgage worshipper.
I still prefer my tone to her self-righteous tone. I'm not ready to talk to her, but I would be if I hadn't gotten shut down for my "tone."
The good news is I looked up the shirt and it's less than $17 to order a new one. I'm probably going to order a few other things too because you know, that's how it goes. Sometimes.
But I feel sick and I feel sad.
This content creator says ICE picked up this woman's child in Glendale yesterday.
"#glendale #ice #fyp"
Luis714
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAYHqpkA/
"#colonizer #mexico"
americangirl
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAYHfoCD/
Brought a new friend home for a little while...
It was a surprise for me! Only will have to drive for about an hour in good traffic in a few weeks.
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
There are human rights boundaries which are being violated.
"My fury knows no bounds"
rebmasel
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbHLNdcBP4l/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"How would we know!?"
flowerinspanish
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbHhGy8vQ-p/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Humans are dealing with fear in different ways right now.
Today one stranger told me a quote by Mark Twain:
"The human race has only one really effective weapon and that's laughter."
After he talked about being scared. This is when we were waiting in line for the restroom.
And there was a man I thought I startled as he was stacking lettuces, so I said sorry to him, and he said to me, "It's okay; I scare myself."
Say, this is something really beautiful.
"Idyll"
by Siegfried Sassoon
&
Mary Hiester Reid, "Eastbury Manor Gardens, Comton, Surrey, 1910"
@
"Today’s Poem: Idyll" - by Sally Thomas
https://poemsancientandmodern.substack.com/p/todays-poem-idyll
Shopping is fun. Shop safely.
"ICE agents..."
Officialarturo
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTANERu2W/
"ah they'll grab you, take your kids, don't leave them"
leyda Velasquez
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTANwocPR/
"Fun times at work! #cardenas #ice #immigration'
Angelica Ordonez
Fashion tip.
If you ever have to buy plus size clothing and you buy a strappy sundress that you like but the top part of it is a little too big because you're not as plus sized in that area as you are in the other areas and you're sad about it, just put a short sleeved shirt on underneath the top of the dress and suddenly the slight amount of bagginess no longer seems to matter and in fact it actually looks more cute that way.
That's a lot of children for a body to birth.
They could have adopted some?
It must have been a relief to finally have a resolution...
"Freisler cross-examined witnesses, but for some reason he didn't seem as worried about the defeatism charge, of which my great-grandfather had already been convicted by a lower court. Freisler was worried about farmers. It was November 30, 1944, provisions were running low, which was why Freisler was worried about food supply. 'Is he a good farmer?' he hollered. 'Is his family helping him out on the farm?' The witnesses, surprised, mumbled something in the affirmative. To everyone's astonishment, Freisler let the relatively lenient verdict of the lower court, which had decided on three years of penitentiary rather than the death penalty, stand. After subjecting my great-grandfather and others to long, shouted rants, Freisler didn't send him to the firing squad. Instead Freisler sent him to Sachsenhausen."
Page 103
"The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate by Martin Puchner" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50489374-the-language-of-thieves
Desperate times called for desperate measures.
"In their desperation, they came up with a plan of having the daughters chaperoned by the very neighbor who had denounced their father and who was taking the same train to testify against him. I found this hard to believe and asked my mother several times, and later an aunt, but that's how they all told the story. The trial was the typical ritual of humiliation. My great-grandfather, who had been in prison for over a year by then, had his belt taken away while Freisler ordered him to stand at attention, so that his pants fell to the floor."
Page 102
"The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate by Martin Puchner" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50489374-the-language-of-thieves
Can you imagine?
"While my mother was enduring the warriors on the hostel farm..."
Oops, sorry, that's actually "war years on the hostile farm."
"...she spent as much time as possible on a much friendlier farm, the one run by Joseph Kressler, her paternal grandfather, an outspoken but, in her words, benevolent patriarch. As the war continued, he started listening to allied radio and was overheard by a jealous neighbor saying that the American army would liberate them soon. The neighbor promptly reported him to the secret police."
Page 101
The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate by Martin Puchner | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50489374-the-language-of-thieves
Ow, things are kind of funny...
Devoted daughters come to the aid of a benevolent patriarch in his time of peril! Page 101 - 103.
"The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate by Martin Puchner"| Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50489374-the-language-of-thieves
Every human has his or her own life in his or her own body to experience.
My back (the area behind my heart) hurts.
I have to do figure eights over my heart.
And stretch the back muscles more.
So many examples, the universe sends them to me when I'm not even looking for them.
You need to differentiate yourself more from the people who were shady with others in the past and get their history swept under the carpet and then get people to fawn over them because that already happens all the time and it's getting OLD!
There's a lot going on...
"Question: 'Will the gentle lady yield?'"
everywomanisworthy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbEPKTgOG7q/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Oh, to have a little retreat to a forest cabin.
And just peacefully enjoy nature. Maybe have fun with some writing or art or music or cooking or crafts. Spiritual stuff. Maybe I'll look up some places and fantasize. Maybe even look for an A-frame cabin to retreat to, or something...
More for bad cousins.
"Racial undertones in the life of a Showgirl"
https://www.reddit.com/r/travisandtaylor/s/sCxwJKmgHl
"Sara Ahmed's feminist killjoy activism"
rey_philosophy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbB2vv4Sj1V/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Her name is Josephina Gabriel Lopez"
thelaboystandard
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbBluynxQDS/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Be better at being brotherly.
"We're sharing the map"
hollysavinggrace
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbD6ItjuSJ-/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
The clock is ticking.
"ackshually it's ok..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/travisandtaylor/s/wKskcJVIwc
"Book narcissistic abuse recovery"
claire_auden
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbDNmJcx8sG/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"POST 2 PART I"
Eileen Iona 2.0
Oh f***
There are so many more Latino people in the United States right now than there were Jewish people in Holland, sorry, I mean The Netherlands, when Anne Frank was alive.
Poor taste!
So many Band-Aids and bows and ribbons on top of poor taste in humans and poor taste in men in particular.
You could have foreseen and planned ahead. But...
You had to be great within the parameters of Patriarchical White Supremacy and now that's a way of life that's f****** dying.
I think someone has suffered from "colonize her" syndrome
If you have any urges to replicate being a s***** dad you should talk about that. Are you going to be a s***** racist dad? Are you going to be a s***** sexist dad? Are you going to be both kinds of a s***** dad?
A vacation to Florida! Something similar to this happened where I used to live.
"Mexican man killed after ICE encounter in Florida was on vacation, officials say" – NewsNation
People shouldn't have to go through really hard stuff, but...
Sometimes the people who went through really hard stuff are better at relating to the people who are being persecuted.
MaggieRubes
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTALVeWm9/
MaggieRubes
How does that sound?
"I don't care if they put your baby in a concentration camp because you don't care if they put my baby in a concentration camp."
That'd be cool to hear about.
Have you met any "zero babies deserve to be in concentration camps" people lately?
You could blame some of the problems on a ghost I suppose.
Just don't know how much you can really blame on Father-in-Law. Father-in-Law passed away several years ago, didn't he?
It's really sad, honestly.
It's really sad that if I was in a white man's body right now, a lot of your friends would treat me so much better. They seem really screwed up.
Way fewer people say it than actually act like it.
Who says "My child deserves racist parents who obviously don't care what happens to other people's children when they're being persecuted and discriminated against in the most blatant ways possible."
Who says that?
Hate the violence of the racist Patriarchal White Supremacy.
There was a song that reminded me of that playing today, too.
Taylor Swift – "Picture to Burn Lyrics"| Genius Lyrics
I'll pray for people like this not to have to deal with someone like you, because they've been through enough already.
"'Now I go outside feeling afraid': Lake Placid worker recounts ICE detention" | NCPR News
Oh, we know some people will do anything for the money or a mortgage!
"ICE is arresting relatives trying to take custody of migrant kids"
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/07/21/texas-immigrant-children-sponsor-ice-detention-orr-shelters/
Well, at least you're better than this, huh?
Some people really did get the worst grandparents and parents, didn't they?
"I took him to court and he didn't go to jail..."
livlowklit
You're too prejudiced, and it feels too icky.
Try asking a higher power for more help when you get more motivated to change for the better.
If you were more motivated, you would have found a better way by now.
You act like you need people to be just as prejudiced and shallow as you are to make yourself feel better about your life choices.
You don't want to know who you remind me of sometimes.
You couldn't do what you're doing without the system being set up to encourage someone like you to feel entitled to act like an atrocious colonizer.
I have that in common with some other people you don't care about because you're too prejudiced.
You act like I'm a worthless piece of garbage to you constantly.
Yeah, the message that it's really inconvenient for them to consider what's going on with other people has been received, loud and clear.
" It may not be convenient for you"
"I just called a detention center and there was a crying baby in the background."
Michael_Foote
Good people. Nice people. People you've known for decades.
The worst of times really do bring out the worst in people sometimes.
That seems really honest.
Getting up on stage and saying "It's just great to see the audience looking richer and whiter and less compassionate towards humanity than ever before!"
Otto Frank, too.
And now, you have a more empirical experience of why "good" people acted like they didn't give a s*** about what happened to people like Anne Frank.
"These people are real."
"I just called a detention center and there was a crying baby in the background."
Michael_Foote
Simple.
Can I find better friends? Yes
Are they reaching out in the spirit of true friendship? No
Are these people evil? No
Are they psychologically and emotionally immature people who are behaving in a very callous manner? Yes
Nothing is perfect.
Dear God, please don't let Patriarchal White Supremacy's bread and circuses kill us. Amen.
Arcade Fire - "My Body Is A Cage (HD Version)"
I can do that.
Love wants me to remember what it was like to be in the swimming pool of the good babysitter.
I guess I'll figure out what to do somehow.
Love wants me to do some kind of womb healing thing on myself. At the moment. It could be different some other night.
Now things are always changing, aren't they?
The other day, my spiritual friend reminded me that you can put your hand on your heart and say, "Love. What would you have me do now?" and then see what kind of answer or sign or imagery comes up.
Just can't fall asleep now. Need a 🎶ðŸŽðŸ©°distraction.
Hair - "LSD & Hare Krishna Scene (1979)"
Only sensitive when it's convenient and profitable for THEM.
Apparently, some people weren't actually as sensitive as they made themselves out to be.
Hope her Trump-voting church friends are f****** satisfied.
Swear to God, if a church going girl who used to work as a security guard decides to get a desk job with a corrupt organization just so she doesn't have to get a roommate and can pay off a goddamn f****** mortgage for a multiple bedroom, 2.5 bathroom house for one person who doesn't even have the motivation to care for a PET, much less any children...
Also, the vibes of "being in a cult" culture reminds me too much of rape culture.
Rage Against The Machine - "Killing In the Name (Of"
"Aw, do you have kids?"
"I just called a detention center and there was a crying baby in the background."
Michael_Foote
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8trkkq3/
Way to go, Cardenas.
"Ice in San Bernardino but Cardenas didn't let them in."
Angelica Ordonez
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8tMXaSQ/
Gee, it's been awhile since I've been to Cardenas.
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