They're not helping.
"Fright, blaspheming..."
rebmasel
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DW4cBHrD_Iv/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Somehow, people got convinced to put the most miserable dads in charge of things.
This country treats dads better than it treats moms (or all other kinds of women), and that really hasn't been working out so great for most people.
Music helps again.
"Keeps happening! Why you so silly"
sashbomb
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYvvpk-zWeK/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Scrolling..."Underbabied???"
Cats don't work for ICE. That's true!
"It's all corrupt"
fork.diet.culture
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY0F4ANhiT-/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"People..."
gabsentminded
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWnN7bHCAbB/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Cats don't work for ICE"
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYhk5WnRZvx/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Do better for the next generations than you did for your cohort.
"No better feeling than..."
sashbomb
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWX0TDeEzKN/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Glad I have a nice view and a happy cat. 😺
I need to stay inside. I hope I'm not ill. My stomach's feeling off today. I wonder what I'm supposed to do. But it has to do with staying inside. I know that.
⌨️ 🇺🇸 Good people; easy e-mail. 📨 🦅
🗽🆓⚖️
"USA: RELEASE ASYLUM SEEKER WITH OVARIAN CYST (28.26)"
https://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actions/usa-release-asylum-seeker-with-ovarian-cyst/
"Don't wanna hear that"
@teamcoco
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYz2AHaJ5jy/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
How fun to watch this in its entirety for the first time!
And to be able to understand more of the Dutch subtitles than I used to! Sometimes Dutch looks so similar to an older form of English.
"Give me my leather."
"Tori Amos Piano Shopping 1992"
@TheToriMountain
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BTvyXMhoDuw&si=uGnsnjzCCSGormfm
"Mother, the car is here."
Maybe it will happen soon.
Can a detained woman get her ovarian cyst operated on? Amnesty International has made it easy to at least send them a letter requesting this.
"USA: RELEASE ASYLUM SEEKER WITH OVARIAN CYST (28.26)"
https://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actions/usa-release-asylum-seeker-with-ovarian-cyst/
Can this help create change?
10-year-old girl speaking out on her birthday as her father is detained by ICE.
"On her birthday, 10-year-old Nayeli Gomez stood outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey, confronting guards..."
nessadiosdado
Can you tell if some people are interested in having a conversation...
Even if the conversation might not necessarily reflect their worldview right back at them?
Can you tell if they are more interested in controlling the narrative and protecting themselves?
Can you tell if some people are open to being more curious and learning about new things?
Some people are beginning to have a new point of view about certain topics.
Or maybe some points of view are starting to get heard more now.
"Violence against women and girls is a men's issue that manifests as a woman's problem."
_whatmakesaman_
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVtaSzlCJZa/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
I took this picture of a streak in the sky just before I met a guy who helped make flying machines.
I had "Airplane" by the Indigo Girls in my head.
We were both waiting at a light. He wished me a good day two times, but the light kept not changing. So then he started complaining about traffic patterns and people who want us to take mass transit because mass transit in California is terrible. And he also doesn't like that the government employees get pensions and he never got one. He worked with the metal that made aircraft. He said he won't write letters to the editors of newspapers because big corporations have bought up all of the media. And he also doesn't like something Ronald Reagan did in the '80s with media regulations.
"Now everything is like Pravda," he said.
(I had to ask him what that was.)
He complained that having too many regulations ruins things, and ended by saying that if he wanted to buy a garbage truck and clean up the city, the city wouldn't let him because of all the regulations. Then he walked away and I thanked him for sharing his opinion but he didn't really look back. He was just on his way.
This house reminded me of "Ain't That America" by John Mellencamp.
A lady in the car in the driveway got out and said, "Why take pick chair? Why take pick chair?" I said I thought the butterfly on the front of the house looked pretty.
Indigo Girls ~ "Airplane"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MhVcbRldEfs&si=LHcAsjD7pH4QoGEd
John Mellencamp - "Pink Houses (Official Music Video)"
Hmmm. Hmmm? Hmmm...
"White estrangement and how it affects our relationships with epigenetics"
paralyzedguts
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWt-ul3ku3r/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Well, I watched "The Nowhere Inn" for free on Kanopy.
"The Nowhere Inn Trailer #1 (2021)" | Movieclips Trailer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=F4ryS0bJ7H0&si=Ap7O7Egf6KkF6nly
And if Mexican American Cat Dad wasn't working 6 to 7 days a week lately, sometimes 12 to 16-hour days, then it would have been fun to watch it with him because he's had Saint Vincent's music in his collection for years.
If these guys come back and suffer as the victims of their very own bad policies...
That ain't my fault.
God, I can't tell if I'd be more like Anne Frank or a soldier, and now I have to go for a walk.
Backstreet Boys - "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)"
Oh God, what if I die soon and have to come back again? This time as a...
"John Fogerty Shares Inspiration Behind 'Fortunate Son'"
Sigh...she's pretty great.
Creedence Clearwater Revival! 🎶
"Simping to the algorithm"
michellesuicomedy
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYzqpb2lvyN/?img_index=3&igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Maybe they're concerned about their future lives.
"'Senators are not happy’: How Trump pushed the GOP to the breaking point this week"
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/23/politics/trump-senate-republicans-breaking-point
Oh! What's this???
"South Carolina Senate rejects Trump’s call to redraw congressional maps and target Jim Clyburn’s seat" | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/26/politics/south-carolina-senate-redistricting-jim-clyburn
Oh, really?
"Trump DOJ mass-deletes info on Jan. 6 riot cases, including violent assaults on cops"
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/26/nx-s1-5834992/trump-deletes-jan-6-info
"Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive"
Purging a court of judges and shutting it down entirely? What's next?
"San Francisco immigration court shuts down after purge of judges"
"The court, which had 21 judges when President Donald Trump was sworn in last year, had only two left when it closed May 1. The rest had been fired, retired or resigned amid a White House purge of federal immigration judges."
Olga R. Rodriguez
Here's what Anne Frank was writing about 82 years ago.
"Diary of Anne Frank Friday, May 26, 1944 Summary" | Shmoop
Anne wrote in her diary on Friday, May 26, 1944. “I’ve asked myself again and again whether it wouldn’t have been better if hadn’t gone into hiding, if we were dead now and didn’t have to go through this misery.” Do you agree with her? Why? Wh | The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Questions | Q & A | GradeSaver
The only magical book that sells more copies than Anne Frank's diary???
"How the Trump administration uses the Bible to justify military invasions and immigration raids"
Maybe not enough has been written about two little birds on a wire.
☕
🌱 I feel like I'm getting a little bit more into drinking coffee culture on some days. 🫘
Being nicer to asylum seekers could help more people have access to more vegan foods?
Do you think that could be true???
You need asylum...where do you live?
"San Francisco immigration court shuts down after purge of judges, leaving asylum cases in chaos"
Well, now I feel more like cleaning and divesting myself of my riches.
"God, grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change
the courage to change the things I can
and the wisdom to know the difference."
~ Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr
Bad news? Civics lesson opportunity! Kids are going to remember and really appreciate it.
"Supreme Court Reverses Ruling in Immigration Judges’ Free Speech Lawsuit"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/us/politics/supreme-court-immigration-judges.html
"The decision comes as Trump administration has fired immigration judges across the country and put pressure on those remaining to deport more people, according to a recent New York Times" investigation."
Latinos tambien.
Also, the different treatment of the whiter looking Latinas versus the treatment of the browner looking Latinas thing is not going away still. Por que? Haven't you watched any telly novellas? I watched them when I was younger. And yeah, see who the maid is. But the telly novellas I watched didn't have massive deportations, so it was a happier place to be, in that sense.
🌳 Feelings! 🌱💧👨❤️👨
If you say "I love you" to a plant but forget to water it, that's no good. Maybe it's better to just water it so it can really feel the love. Maybe you need to water the plant of your own life first, and then you can extend yourself and feel able to share the water with others!
🤔 💭 This level of racism is a very bad look for us. 👨🏾🎨🖼️ What will the grandchildren think about it. ♥️🧠
"Immigrants are now being scheduled for massive master calendar hearings — or 'mega masters' — that include 100 or more people at a time. That's up from two or three dozen people at a time, which had been typical before for a first hearing. For many immigrants, this is their first appearance in court to try to make their case to be able to stay in the U.S."
~ Ximena Bustillo
"Immigration courts use ‘mega masters’ to speed deportations"
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/26/nx-s1-5830474/trump-immigration-courts-mega-masters
I feel she used the background music in this video to very good effect.
"I did work with males in my local jail.
This is what they think about domestic violence."
Melody | Life Architect
Not right now, but really soon.
I want to hear more about what the biologically advantaged ops learned when they went undercover to attend those parties. I feel like I hovered around for just a little bit, as an out of body experience, and then I had to come back to this life.
What a good tip! Following for more.
😊🍩👼🏼
"Turns out three bites actually is enough to feel satisfied"
@LeahHopeHealth
Is it time to give this question more comfortable consideration?
What do you do with the knowledge that there was information you could have known about, but it was withheld from you?
Because it still feels safer and more normal to some people to be a part of it...
Patriarchy will not last forever, but it will go on for a while longer.
"And the men get kicked out at 20"
junkmom
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYxCQd_xJF8/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Whether they want to know it or not...
A plethora of women and children deserve much better than what the Patriarchal Cult required the insensitive and biologically advantaged parents (under the systemic Patriarchy) to know about. Check if the children who are getting numbed out by them and their habits are going to do any better at having compassion for the "others," the "different" ones, in the future.
Many parents were taught to be very controlling and insensitive as a way to succeed in a Patriarchal Culture.
The groomed - to - be - insensitive parents hate identifying with certain kinds of women and children, because it doesn't help them feel in control of their emotions like the Patriarchal Cult expects and wants them to be. It's easier for them to do what the cult wants. They are what the cult wants parents to be like, so the cult can continue to be in control.
Being insensitive and shutting out certain types of women and girls feels natural and normal to them. Focusing on money and business and cars and homes and vacations...That helps them feel like it's worth it to continue the cycle of insensitivity. That is what the Patriarchal Cult wants the successful people to be like.
Sorry, the repairs have to start somewhere tho.
Control freaks remind you that some Nazis were also great lovers of the arts! Horrible. Horrible, horrible, horrible. Horrors show humans' vulnerability however.
Insights.
They just want to have control. And they're not wired to be very sensitive to what's happening. You have had some negative experiences with the controlling jerks already. It's enough for now.
Jesus, take the wheel.
Jesus, their parties make me feel like the woman who is locked away with an ovarian cyst is more like us and we need to get away... I request repair of this nervous system now. Please. I need to heal the damage that's taken hold. I have faith I can get better.
Their carelessness is just too much sometimes.
Scream Whisper: "They have me feeling so burned out! Why???" I need to retreat myself from their strangely careless lifestyle and repair the Complex PTSD some more, perhaps.
Oopsy daisy.
The vast inequitable state of patriarchical white supremacy threatened to engulf my entire being and made me remember I might have problems with high blood pressure.
Someone who shares my consciousness encouraged me to calm down by acting as if I was going from one meadow into another and he was a little bunny hopping around and following me.
Monday, May 25, 2026
God bless kitty cats!
"Somehow the ship is still afloat."
coverchargesleeves
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM8yarIOcX2/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Go ahead..."
coverchargesleeves
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPG8SztjjbG/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
And having to factor this into everything as well? Gee!
"Sonder"| The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
https://www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/concept/sonder
Lotta work to do.
Getting through all of that karma and breaking out of old patterns and deprogramming from that cult mentality and then becoming a new person in spite of how the weird tentacles of the old stuff are still reaching out at you from the society around you. Oh my goodness gracious.
Maybe it's part of the path of forgiveness.
"Oh, they acted that way because they grew up in a cult. And they haven't healed from it yet. They've barely begun the process. Oh!!!"
Skit about men and women in cults.
Get out of the cult mentality!!!!
"And the men get kicked out at 20"
junkmom
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYxCQd_xJF8/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Why is it difficult to do so?
"We need to pay attention"
gretathunberg
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYCpDjVs5Gy/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Does this shed some light on the behavior of some people?
"Mice with two moms"
fertilitynursesunfiltered
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYSAMOPgsrM/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
This bill, in the state where I was born, and where half of my family came from.
"This sounded fake..."
_jen_hamilton_
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYyRSFjCE6A/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Our culture needs to get well. It's not well.
Denying people medical care is not how well people behave.
"Andrea Pedro-Francisco's life is on the line because ICE is denying her proper medical care."
mattlittleforcongress
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXQSZl7kXC1/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Hi there..."
Sadly quotable, and sticking out in my head right now.
"Even through the pain, I knew what was happening. I grew up in America. It didn't matter that my family was wealthy or that I was educated or even that my husband was white. Nothing leveled the playing field. I am a brown woman. And these two white doctors felt it beneath them to help a brown woman deliver her baby. They could barely stand to touch me . . . even with their hospital gloves on.
That's one piece of the puzzle, one shard."
~ Samina Ali, page 27
"Pieces You'll Never Get Back: A Memoir of Unlikely Survival by Samina Ali" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/214274118-pieces-you-ll-never-get-back
Oh, I am just one little human.
With a very particular set of life experiences. What do the heavens want of me?
I'm kind of glad I live near the mountains, at least, because I get to feel more in touch with nature that way.
And see the stars...!
Curiosity is coming back again.
I do believe it would be great for there to more projects about women helping women. On multiple levels.
She should just get medical treatment. Not wait for somebody with more clout to care enough.
The gimme $ for it creative project about a woman locked away in a facility with an ovarian cyst, which is not happening for any good reason except for just pure hatred of women, is not manifesting.
Other people need to start doing better.
I still chew on my clothes occasionally when I get really stressed out from the slow, clumsy, insensitivity of the less involved even though I mostly don't do it anymore. So I think I'm doing the best I f****** can.
Birds...🐦
"The girls stay ready..."
coverchargesleeves
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTL4KWfiRD7/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Sunday Funday..."
coverchargesleeves
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVoUBZkDgMm/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Working with cats is good content.
"Anyway, find us..."
coverchargesleeves
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYAodTSJNRL/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I bought that kind of label printer machine as a present.
🎁
"watching the girls grow"
coverchargesleeves
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYht8FDuBOM/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It's that "Turn it to suit you even though it causes harm to others" mentality.
"A Christ figurine watches over the door as the man secures the bolts and bars that protect his home. If the locks fail, a host of archangels, holy cards and crosses stand guard on nearby walls and tables.
'Most people don’t live like I do,' said the Mexican immigrant, who didn’t want to give his name out of fear for his safety. 'I know they’re just pieces of wood or little locks, but they help me because I feel a little safer.'
He said nights have haunted him since Jan. 20, 2025. That was when a group of assailants entered a house he shared with other immigrants in Greensboro, North Carolina, and a hooded man shouting 'ICE! ICE!' kicked down his bedroom door.
'I raised my hands, and he asked, ‘Where’s the money?’ That’s when I realized it was a robbery. It wasn’t ICE. It wasn’t the police,' the Mexican immigrant said.
The assault, which local police have not yet solved and for which no arrests have been made, happened the same day Donald Trump returned to the White House for his second term, vowing to carry out the largest mass deportation operation in the nation’s history. Since then, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has swelled by thousands of agents and has carried out waves of arrests and deportations in cities across the country."
~ Anagilmara Vílchez and Ronny Rojas
"Fake ICE agents terrorize immigrants amid Trump’s crackdown"
The Minimizers.
When 80% or more of the time is spent minimizing stuff in order to fit in better with whatever their agenda is.
Who goes Epstein? No one? Wow, what a relief. Not really tho.
Who gives off the vibes like they almost went to Epstein's Island and ignored a bunch of the bad stuff that was going on because that was more convenient for them?
"Who Goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
It seems like being overly interested in materialistic things and accidentally being better at ignoring inequity goes hand in hand. I'm not talking about having fun on a little shopping spree. I'm talking about a whole lifestyle that's based on materialistic crap being your safest reward. Like a house is what you get for putting up with going along with damaging patterns.
And also, the habit of ignoring a lot of different kinds of human beings because it makes you feel better. It makes you feel more special. It makes you feel like you're able to fit in enough with the Patriarchy to start to enjoy it more. That feels like not the best thing to do right now.
It would have been nice to be able to get more help sooner.
Making excuses for predatory behaviors and acting like everything's a big joke when people who are real human beings are actually suffering does not create welcoming environments for traumatized people. Or actually, maybe it's more accurate to say a certain kind of traumatized person is welcomed in that environment, but another kind of traumatized person is not.
Getting rid of the ones that got too chewed on.
We have to try to make little improvements somehow.
Put the one that was kind of the most sad to get rid of at the top of the pile.
They're going undercover at the parties. Well, that sounds better!
"Who Goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson
"And this just made some people want to go full-on Great Gatsby." "Really Grandma?"
"ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence" - The Intercept
https://theintercept.com/2026/05/21/ice-dhs-social-media-white-supremacist-violence/
I mean the party is just like...Not that great.
Some of you are avoiding both your own children and other people's children. So much.
Coffee!
"Insanity if you ask me"
taylormetzner
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVfFPpKEYwJ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I want to know when her worth's going to skyrocket!
"Immigrant detainee pleads with ICE to let her have surgery"
Alleluia...
"We see you!"
vivekwellness
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYkiQ_1vfMf/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I'm guessing even the 4B pages talk..."
ella.recentering
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX3WeGPhWpL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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