"The most beautiful..."
olivia_radz
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYvCzPxJU_p/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Is this a masterpiece?"
rambothepuppy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYuooxvuGHQ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Marriage means nothing in Hollywood"
therealebjohnson
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYw8vtrorfa/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I don't see why anyone's possible Grandpa or Grandma should be locked up for 4 months with an ovarian cyst that the Patriarchal Cult says can't get operated on.
"Minnesota woman detained by ICE needs emergency surgery for tennis ball-sized ovarian cyst, lawmakers say" - CBS Minnesota
Grandpa movie star good looks never felt that good-looking, and you could tell. Actually, music and dancing were his second favorite things. First love was working and keeping busy.
"Austin church celebrates teen’s return after weeks in ICE custody"
"Immigrant detainee pleads with ICE to let her have surgery"
New Order - "Blue Monday"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=c1GxjzHm5us&si=ri4GIfuFXKuiwobp
Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zuuObGsB0No&si=OpIFFjfLwOK60bqm
"The House of Dolls by Ka-tzetnik 135633" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/771394.The_House_of_Dolls
Read a valuable $150 book. Why not? The Joy Division band which became New Order read it.
"House of Dolls" | Ka-Tsetnik 135633 | Sixth printing
https://www.boo-hooray.com/pages/books/5178/ka-tsetnik-135633/house-of-dolls
And a man wrote it! That's really helpful for you to know.
"What We Lost When We Lost the Veranda:
How Modern Design Quietly Changed Community Life" | Psychology Today
Childish adults who still choose to side with the abusive old molesters just 'cause those guys got the land and the money and the status. And all because their parents' cult brainwashed them to follow that sort of person as their leader as kids. It's awfully taxing on the nervous system.
"Gerardo: From ‘Rico Suave’ to Discovering 'Gata Only' & Brewing Coffee"
"My mom had me when she was 15 years old. When I was little, she would come in with her record player and the 45s. She would play Stevie Wonder’s 'Sir Duke' and 'I Wish.' She loved American music. Once we came over here [to the U.S.], it wasn’t much of a culture shock, because I was kind of living it over there through my mother. I just totally enjoyed both cultures. Mi país es súper salsero, super duper.
If you hear the 'Rico Suave' song, there’s a little sample that goes, 'Ahhh, rehh, ari.' That’s from an old song ['Chamo Candela'] from Venezuela by a group called Daiquirí. I used to love that song so much that I [sampled it], which became the part that people chanted. Some people might not know the Spanish lyrics to 'Rico Suave,' but they always sing along with that chant."
~ Gerardo Mejia to Isabela Raygoza
"What happened to Trump’s in-your-face mass deportations?"
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/24/politics/trump-immigration-policies-mass-deportation
"Confusion and Worry After Abrupt Change to Green Card Process
Immigrants and their advocates and lawyers are trying to interpret a new Trump administration rule that requires people to be in their native country to apply for a green card."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/green-card-application-changes-trump.html
"He informed the crowd how it was his wife’s 50th birthday and that they decided to celebrate with a Foo Fighters concert in Napa. Grohl said the weekend was about “drinking from noon to midnight.”
Before playing the next song, Grohl suggested bringing Blum on stage to celebrate her, but when she wasn’t in the wings, he scrambled. “She’s probably drinking wine in the back,” he told the tens of thousands of people about his wife on her golden jubilee. “It doesn’t matter.”
Alone with the guitar, Grohl started strumming “Big Me.” It was saccharine. It lacked the conviction of the recording and felt performative. Grohl ended by saying, “That’s my version of a happy birthday song,” and I could have sworn I saw his ego erupt in a blaze of self-glory — surprising, since he looked so tiny on stage from the crowd.
Although their first two CDs were on repeat throughout my childhood thanks to older siblings, BottleRock was my first time attending a Foo Fighters concert. It was abundantly clear that Grohl is a rapid pacemaker. He told the crowd how he likes to play song after song after song, and before ending the night, Grohl predicted his future. “I’ll be 87 f—king years old and still up here screaming,” he said.
Numerous times, a song featured a false ending, giving him a chance to belt the hook yet again. It was as if Grohl couldn’t let the moment end, perhaps afraid to face the back of the stage and the rest of the world waiting for him when the final note played out."
Silas Valentino
"It was hard to love the Foo Fighters during their headlining BottleRock set
"SFGATE editor Silas Valentino reviews the Foo Fighters BottleRock in Napa, their third headlining set in nine years"
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/foo-fighters-bottlerock-22268679.php
"Fear of ICE pushes Washington DC daycare workers into hiding" | U.S. | EL PAÍS English
"It’s about 10.30am, time to take the children out for a walk. The teachers settle the youngest into double strollers and take the older ones by the hand. Then they walk down the narrow, tree-lined street where Delia’s daycare operates, in a residential neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It won’t be a long outing. Since President Donald Trump stepped up his offensive against immigrants in the capital last year, the daycare workers — all vulnerable to deportation — avoid going very far. They used to take the children to the neighborhood public library, the capital’s free museums or the zoo. Now they have gone nearly a year without doing so."
~ Federica Narancio
'Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds"
That's what happens when the childish men run things.
He really needs the men to be the cult leaders. Por que???
“There was a Native American reservation where single men would find comfort in a bottle of very cheap wine called Cracklin’ Rose. That wine became their woman. I had to write a song about that”: Neil Diamond on his classic hits and the art of songwriting"
"Fear of ICE pushes Washington DC daycare workers into hiding" | U.S. | EL PAÍS English
"The childcare and early education industry in Washington relies heavily on immigrant women: here, about 40% of early childhood workers are immigrants (both documented and undocumented), nearly double the national average. The figure is part of a state-by-state analysis that the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley published in 2025 using Census data."
~ Federica Narancio
"I spent the last 8 years researching..."
jvanderleun
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYsp9beu56C/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I have two modes"
thenewstepford
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYr_V31tMq9/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Perimenopause starts..."
theultimatemomchallenge
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYiTVLYygRJ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"UN Women published a report this month called Tipping Point."
thesteministwitch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYkivW3MalJ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"In The Time It Takes to Get There"
Adobe Creative Cloud
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QWIblC4rEL0&si=1ANWDrdTe4dwu_9O
Maybe I would watch this "Rooster" show.
"Directing 'Rooster' photos..."
zachbraff
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYuvsekGs1t/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
NEVER have seen this:
"A Good Person"| Rotten Tomatoes
"therapy has so much protein 🤠"
kabirswalia
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYnquuNOZFa/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Creators deserve to be protected. But platforms continue to allow this to happen"
abbyeckel
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYp2OcaxgRv/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I feel like if I were an indie musician and my fans were getting weird and culty about me, I would try to do something about it so that they would start acting more sensible.
Courtney Barnett's fans don't act that way.
Julia Jacklin's fans don't act that way.
Eating nettles raw???
"Eating like a fairy 🧚 Nettle is natures multivitamin"
@Ebbymoyer
"By infiltrating the dangerous world of illegal 'orchestra groups' in Bihar, Singh demonstrated an immense act of bravery...a five-day descent into a criminal underworld where women and underage girls were being treated as commodities, sexually exploited, and abused behind the curtain of entertainment."
~ Arya
"Mahima Singh: The reporter who became every girl's shield"
"Woman story time⚜️"
sarah_olivia_rose
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYusG8RoU51/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
🧑🏼🍳
"1940scooking #1940sfood #ww2rationing #ww2recipes"
1940s Cooking
And less "chatty around some people closeted English professor" who wants to push the envelope a little because oh my God why should I be the only one who has to feel called to get out of my comfort zone?
"Omnichord version of 'Allison Knew'"
billie_conge
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXmc3p-Bbh8/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
PJ Harvey - "Send His Love To Me"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rsUIl7qVzYw&si=M5uheN5LT1XZTdCI
Mitski's "Your Best American Girl" at 10
The kids in Ecuador were a little different, though.
"Being asked to help dampens the joy of doing good, according to children in multiple countries"
"A study of 6-11-year-old children across 5 countries found that children believed individuals are more willing to help and share when they decide to do so spontaneously compared to when it is requested of them. However, how much requests diminish this perceived willingness varied across cultures. The research was published in Developmental Psychology."
Vladimir Hedrih
"ICE Is Ignoring Woman’s Life-Threatening Ovarian Cyst—and Her Condition Is Getting Worse"
One with more money might have a nice swimming pool.
Skating Polly - "Little Girl Blue and The Battle Envy"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0B4Nn9_9YHg&si=uN-s-oaxCB0wMvwO
Skating Polly - "Hail Mary"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=v2ahvxACX5Q&si=kudTbdMD6T3QtO0F
Skating Polly - "Camelot"
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
At the beginning of Chapter 19.
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
"Hippocrates of Concentration Camp Universe! Prescribe this patient his cure!" (Page 233)
The cool thing about a diary is that different people will relate to different parts of it. You get more information back just by putting some information out in the universe.
"Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream."
~ Wallace Stevens
"TWO PORTIONS OF BREAD"
Can you believe that some rich people are spending money to look like they've been on a hunger strike???
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
Unfortunately, if you have come from people who are too immature to talk about the abuse that was embedded in their family and yours, that's an awful experience.
One time, at night in the parking lot of a Barnes and Noble in Ann Arbor, I said "No" to a good looking guy who wanted to borrow my phone. "No! I'm on the phone." I glared at him. He ran away. My mother was on the other line, saying who was that and telling me to get away from him. Something was wrong with him. And I had just been in the bookstore looking at a book when these weird sexual thoughts came into my head, but not like I wanted them or like they had anything to do with what I was reading. So I just told myself I was going to notice and acknowledge that had happened. Then he showed up in the parking lot. After I said no to him, he ran over to another couple and asked for help but I could tell he was acting. Hopefully he got help with whatever problems he had and never assaulted anyone. One can hope it worked out that way.
So, I decided to take a break from my torture novel.
Scrolling on the wilds of internet again.
Well, I think so and so is very talented and...
Jesus Christ, it's like a giant f****** snowball with rocks in it just hit me.
Fix yourself. I don't know what you need to do.
Probably a lot.
If I feel like reading about Nazis and rape and evil misogynistic dominatrixes helps protect me from falling into whatever decadent and irresponsible lifestyle you've fallen into...
"The House of Dolls by Ka-tzetnik 135633" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/771394.The_House_of_Dolls
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
"London exhibition reveals scale of Nazi slave labor"
"Lawmakers, clergy call for humanitarian release of release of woman in Texas detention center with ovarian cyst"
Imagine what life might have done to someone to make reading a weird and disturbing book like this more appealing:
"The House of Dolls by Ka-tzetnik 135633" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/771394.The_House_of_Dolls
And a better alternative to replicating whatever your temporary survival strategy of success is. (It's also going to look very old-fashioned really soon.)
It's a very f***** up book.
And I think if some people were actually curious about and interested in more people succeeding, they wouldn't act so much like the white people in this book that they're never going to read:
"My Place (An Australian Classic)" by Sally Morgan
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1144682.My_Place
And their whole, "Wouldn't you be lucky to be able to live like one of us" ridiculousness is not helping. Taking a longview, actually, no.
If your ability to fit in and look out for number one is the best thing you've got going for yourself, that's fine, but I also think there's other people out there who have more to share and say, and perhaps they will be the ones who will teach me how I can change and do better for myself instead.
I wish more people my age (and older) were better at asking themselves deeper questions and were more curious about how other people are doing.
"When did it all start?"
streetlighteyesdontdie
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYsoMOoRq2o/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Like, if the collective wasn't so collectively damaged by the white supremacist patriarchal culture, a lot more people would be more curious than they seem to be about others, and they would act like they care a lot more about a much wider variety of people, and that's just how the universe is acting about our culture at the moment.
Other people are still too shallow and insensitive and gossipy, but I type and read too freely to suit their needs, so discovering that is part of the peril of participating in the human experience.
"Lawmakers, clergy call for humanitarian release of release of woman in Texas detention center with ovarian cyst"
Women who seem to care about other women and don't make you feel like hurling yourself over a cliff:
"U.S. Rep. Angie Craig calls for release of woman in ICE detention with large ovarian cyst" • Minnesota Reformer
Also, tonight I saw someone who looked like the really rich guy's white South African mom again, and I don't even know if that was actually her or her sister or some other person related to them or if it was just someone who happened to remind me of them and I'm never going to find out and that's fine.
"Hundreds of ICE detainees launch hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall"
Krystal Knapp
"When you are tired..."
michellesuicomedy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYUxZCkI1wF/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Friday night self love"
michellesuicomedy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYYQc0JIhVn/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"A banter with my mom"
michellesuicomedy
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYr0wcwlr_H/?img_index=2&igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I want outer space to know that I tried, and to help me figure out how to feel better, in spite of PCOS intersecting with perimenopause. Also outer space, I cannot fix the stubborn people who seem to like certain aspects of patriarchal white supremacy if it suits them, so I'm not going to try to do it anymore.
"Teenager taken by ICE released; hundreds gather in Menemsha rally" - The Martha's Vineyard Times
https://www.mvtimes.com/2026/05/23/teenager-taken-by-ice-released-hundreds-gather-in-menemsha-rally/
Seems like a wider variety of human beings would be more equally valued if society wanted us to value them.
"The things we do for LOVE (of fitting into the Patriarchal White Supremacy as best as we can so we get whatever we can out of it) will be burning out so that hopefully something much better will be able to flourish very soon."
"'Clear Racism': Trump Admin Blocks Refugee Resettlement, Except for White South Africans"
What will make her feminine medical emergency appealing enough???
Locked away in a facility for four months with an ovarian cyst; medically tortured with the help of the tax payer money of the better off at being wilfully ignorant in service to the cause of being so much more noble and caring for the truly special, according to this Violent Patriarchal White Supremacy.
Maybe we have enough songs about how pretty and special and sensitive the white guys are. Maybe it's actually to the point where it's kind of like a lie that keeps getting told over and over again.
Maybe self-parenting is necessary. Maybe it involves admitting that the selfish, insensitive about racism and poverty, emotionally immature, uncaring people are not going to be very helpful, instead of constantly deluding yourself that maybe they're going to act like they want things to get better for others. Also, maybe the Mexican ice cream shop is a better place to be today.
"Pedro-Francisco saw medical staff seven times and went to the emergency room once, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, but she never received the surgery her doctor ordered.
“Her condition has worsened because she has still not received the surgery that is needed, that is urgently needed, and her body is continuing to suffer with this cyst that needs to be removed,” said Amy Fischer, director of refugee and migrant rights at Amnesty International."
~ Patrick Terpstra
"Immigrant detainee pleads with ICE to let her have surgery"
"Andrea Pedro-Francisco, 23, was scheduled to have an ovarian cyst removed. Then ICE arrested her."
"Immigrant detainee pleads with ICE to let her have surgery"
"Pedro-Francisco, 23, is a house cleaner from Guatemala who came to the U.S. in 2019 where she had been living without legal status, according to ICE.
Her arrest occurred five days before she was scheduled to have surgery to remove a golf-ball sized ovarian cyst and have it checked for cancer.
ICE first sent her to Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, a for-profit detention center operating under a government contract.
Since it opened a year ago, Scripps News has documented complaints about lack of health care and other conditions inside Camp East Montana, a complex of tent-like structures quickly stood up on the Fort Bliss Army post last summer.
While there, Pedro-Francisco saw medical staff seven times and went to the emergency room once, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, but she never received the surgery her doctor ordered.
“Her condition has worsened because she has still not received the surgery that is needed, that is urgently needed, and her body is continuing to suffer with this cyst that needs to be removed,” said Amy Fischer, director of refugee and migrant rights at Amnesty International."
~ Patrick Terpstra
The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News | "Vineyard High Schooler Released from ICE Custody"
https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2026/05/23/vineyard-high-schooler-released-ice-custody
"A lot of emotionally intelligent women get labeled..."
claritywithclint
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYj-PFJBANE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Both women and men do not benefit from this imbalance.
"400+ women ZERO men"
deliciousalex
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWMAVK4Cojk/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I also wonder what happened with my picnic blanket, because I used to use it a lot, and I wonder if it's being used as often now.
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
Hentschel the Moon.
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
I remember some of those old textbooks!
"Back in the 1960s and 1970s..."
chervy.femme
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIBSRrkNzF5/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
The physician role (medic) sounds very difficult to me.
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
Sometimes, I still can't believe that some people actually seem to think that a civil rights movement in a time of persecution is just supposed to feed their egos and their bank accounts without them changing the least little bit.
I think that some people might start to think of their lives as creative projects, and they can share different parts of their lives with different people so they can connect more deeply in certain ways, or have more curiosity about certain topics and learn more that way.
And the sad thing is, it's at least six times cheaper to buy an analog version of this book in Spanish then it is in English.
"House of dolls : Ka-tzetnik 135633, 1909-2001"
https://archive.org/details/houseofdolls0000unse
"John Mayer Says His 2003 Hit ‘Daughters’ Was 'Very Selfish'"
https://people.com/john-mayer-says-the-inspiration-behind-daughters-was-selfish-11954259
"L.A. has its own mini 'Gardens of Versailles'”
https://secretlosangeles.com/los-angeles-gardens-music-summer-museum-roses/
Oh, it's the Huntington. I've been there a bunch of times.
"‘Canada is handing people over to ICE’: refugees rejected at border face US detention
As Canada tightens asylum rules, refugees reuniting with family say they were turned over to ICE and jailed for months after failed border claims"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/23/canadians-refugees-rejected-face-ice-detention
"Guillermo Torres recalls bearing witness to the suffering of detainees at Adelanto when hunger strikers were mistreated for protesting, and says these conditions have not improved.
A program director at Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice, he described a recent visit with a mother from Colombia who suffered a dislocation in her shoulder during her arrest. The GEO Group staff ignored her cries and pleas, he said.
“They denied her help and they told her that they couldn’t do anything, and that she had to put the bone back in place herself after screaming and crying. And that’s what continues to be at Adelanto,” noted Torres.
Immigrants in detention, meanwhile, are denied options for release on bond back to their communities. The bond system has been “systematically dismantled,” said Soto. “The Trump administration declared that anyone who entered without papers was ineligible for bond, regardless of their record, their family, their ties to the community.”
A February ruling ostensibly ended the Trump administration’s efforts to deny bond to immigrant detainees, though, according to Soto, “ICE and the immigration judges there at Adelanto kept applying it anyway.”
Ultimately community advocates want Adelanto and other detention facilities to be shut down.
GEO Group—along with private prison firm CoreCivic—is reporting significant profits from these operations. Both companies stand to benefit from the $75 billion additional funding set aside for immigration enforcement and detention centers under H.R. 1.
“We will continue to add our voices to … shut down this place,” Torres said. “And not only this place, but all these horrific immigration centers that should not exist.”
Li Lovett
"Hunger Strikers Protest Conditions at Adelanto ICE Detention Center" | ACoM
You're also going to have to start looking at the toxic patriarchal white supremacy mindsets living inside of the non-white people, because so many people who are joining ICE are not white!
"Video shows ICE violently arresting Oregon farm workers and using facial recognition"| ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/21/ice-immigration-oregon-facial-recognition
Courtney Barnett - "Pedestrian at Best (Live on KEXP)"
At least pick a man who's not feeling so blatantly entitled to act like a jerk towards the ones who are so different from him, why don't you?
"Paul was not issuing an economic manifesto. He was telling a group of eschatological freeloaders to stop being weird"
~ Derrick Day
"Capitalism, Socialism, And Christians Who Ignore Jesus"
"Paul was a genuine intellectual titan, a Roman citizen who wrote Greek the way surgeons use scalpels, and many of his letters contain passages of devastating moral clarity. His chapter on love in First Corinthians has earned its place in every wedding since Gutenberg invented bulk printing.
But Paul had a worldview. It was hierarchical. Slaves were to obey masters. Women were to be silent. The Body of Christ had members with different functions, some more dignified than others. He was a man of his time, which means he was also a man shaped by Roman patronage culture, where your value was inseparable from your productivity and your productivity was inseparable from your place in the social order.
Jesus had no such worldview. Or rather, his worldview was a direct assault on that one. He praised a widow’s two pennies over a rich man’s substantial donation. He elevated a Samaritan — a religious and ethnic outgroup — as the moral exemplar in what is probably his most famous parable. He positioned a child, the lowest-status person in first-century Jewish society, as the model for entering the Kingdom of God.
Paul’s theology organized people. Jesus’ theology disordered them — intentionally, radically, and with what one suspects was a fair amount of pleasure.
As one Christian minister and theologian writing for Radical Discipleship puts it, the word 'capital' simply means money, and capitalism is 'moneyism' — a system that strives to place money at the center of all human life. Jesus, according to the Gospels, said plainly: 'You cannot serve God and money.' The conflict is not subtle. It is definitional."
~ D. Day
"Texas mother of 4 says 'no one is safe' after spending more than 6 weeks in ICE custody" - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-mother-speaks-weeks-ice-custody/
"Infected tooth led to death of man in ICE custody in Arizona, medical examiner says
Family says 56-year-old Emmanuel Damas complained about toothache for days before given proper medical care"
"Over 145,000 US children separated from parents since Trump’s ICE surge, study estimates" | US immigration | The Guardian
"She was deported without her toddler. Then ICE blamed her for his killing." - The Washington Post
"Rebekah Del Rio, 'Mulholland Drive' singer..."
https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/s/SOOe8OCS1b
Mulholland Drive (2001) - "Llorando [HD]"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vI8c3eSIkQY&si=kqEbERgAHZj1-znt
"Crying (Album Version)"
Roy Orbison
https://youtube.com/watch?v=k_L_GZLa5ow&si=YWBL-cNlxOS7fnoU
Rebekah Del Rio - "Llorando"
"Riggs was a gay Cherokee playwright, born in Indian Territory in 1899. He was a disappointment to his father, a banker and a rancher. Photographs of Riggs show him to be a man of slight build, something of an 'egghead' with his glasses and premature balding. What was his experience with the hypermasculinity and heteronormativity of the West? Did he experience hazing and bullying as a rite of passage? Did he learn to 'stand it' in order to become an adult? Is he telling us something about the survival of his people, as each new generation has had to face a heritage of ongoing violence, denigration, and theft?"
"Green Grow the Lilacs and Oklahoma!: The Appropriation of Native Perspective" - Carolyn Gage
"'Charivari' dates all the way to medieval and early modern Europe, where it was a ritual used to punish members of a community who failed to conform to social norms, especially sexual norms. Targets of the charivari might include a widow who remarried, a wife who assaulted her husband, or a couple who failed to have children. In France, where the term originated, teenaged boys and unmarried men traditionally led the ritual, parading through the streets, shouting mocking insults, beating on pots and pans, and threatening violence. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England, these males would also attack local brothels during Lent. If the victim paid his or her tormentors off with money or wine, the charivari might end without these threats being carried out.
Apparently, until two hundred years ago, most Europeans thought the charivari was a legitimate and effective practice for curbing social deviance. It allowed for a public venting of outrage, with the opportunity for a “peaceful” resolution of a potentially explosive situation. In other words, it served as a kind of communal vent for blowing off steam… an exorcism of deviance. The victims were shamed, but then reintegrated into the community.
Here’s the thing: It’s actually a rape culture ritual empowering young males to assert their primacy and dominance in the community, and especially with regards to widows who dare to remarry, women who most likely were just attempting to defend themselves in abusive marriages where their husbands had legal rights to rape and batter, married women attempting to salvage some degree of bodily autonomy and/or freedom from compulsory serial pregnancy by practicing birth control or abstinence, and women who were prostituted. The historical roots of the 19th century Midwest shivaree were not in a playful hazing of newlyweds, but in a sanctioned, violent policing by gangs of young men over women who, in their eyes, were not sufficiently sexually subordinate."
"Green Grow the Lilacs and Oklahoma!: The Appropriation of Native Perspective" - Carolyn Gage
"The shivaree as depicted in Oklahoma! has become sanitized and civilized, so that it is little more than an extension of the wedding party… kind of like when the bridesmaids and groomsmen sneak off to tie old shoes onto the back of the newlyweds’ car. The musical has transferred the scene from the dead of night to broad daylight. Shivarees are traditionally done in the dark. In the musical, just after the ceremony, the bride tosses her flowers over her shoulder, and then exits to change into her traveling clothes. The groom leaves to pack, and the men announce that they plan to have a shivaree. There is a vaudevillian interlude featuring a henpecked husband, and then the men return with pots and pans, making a racket. As the bride and groom exit for their travels, the men hoist the groom amiably on their shoulders… but whatever good-natured hazing they have planned is interrupted by the arrival of Judd Fry, the villain of the piece. Wielding a knife, Judd goes to attack the groom and a fight ensues that ends in Fry’s death. The shivaree has been reduced to a noisy, fraternal, daytime bon voyage party for the newlyweds.
The shivaree in Riggs play is something completely different. It is a terrifying artifact of rape culture, and it serves to traumatize and permanently alter both protagonists in ways that are resonant with the appropriation of Indian Territory. To understand its dramaturgical significance, it’s important to look at the origins of the custom:"
"Green Grow the Lilacs and Oklahoma!: The Appropriation of Native Perspective" - Carolyn Gage
Like the difference between eating stale versus high quality food or clothes or art or whatever speaks to them the most.
One time I was really in the hot seat because I felt like the universe wanted me to talk to a Dean after a professor encouraged me to do so, and the Dean did not like what I was bringing to him, and he kept telling me all these things about myself like I was a bad listener, and in a way he was right, because other people told me don't talk to this Dean, but I ignored them, so I was a bad listener, but not in the way that he was implying. I guess that's another experience that's passing away.
I just imagine people surviving brutal changes and coming out better for it. And also, for some reason I have this happy memory of having orange herbal tea with my mother when I was very small, possibly 4 years old. And she did some embroidery and we watched television and I had so much fun drinking this herbal tea with her. Kind of like Heaven on Earth for a little kid. Very different from how I usually feel when I listen to these songs though. As a matter of fact, it might just be the memories coming back to me as a parallel experience alongside of listening to the songs. That can happen when you're in a calmer state.
Steely Dan - "Do It Again"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jmdiKePVUy8&si=flEPePf8u2wrkDZz
tori amos - "do it again"
It's as if the universe told me I had to drag out the skeletons (out of the closets.) So that happened. Maybe it will happen again in the future. But maybe it will never need to be that dramatic again. I know some things about how the Universe operates that I wasn't aware of before. Then the Universe decided to give me the calm and peaceful feeling after all.
I really don't listen to this one as much as I listen to a lot of her other songs, but it got my head this morning when I was going for a walk.
Tori Amos ~ "Putting The Damage On Live"
"We will not survive’: jailing of Daria Egereva highlights plight of Russia’s Indigenous people' | Russia | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/22/jailing-daria-egereva-plight-russia-indigenous-people
Looking forward to some of the better moments!
"Hot off the press"
toriamos
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🎶GUNS AND FUCKING ROSES is a much better thing to think about🎶
tetyanawrites
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYpCHTnhUog/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Anyways, a lot of us have been repressed and oppressed, and a lot of us are just waking up now in different ways, according to our biological inheritances and our life circumstances. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next few decades.
My friend, do you have the feeling that the patriarchal ladies and gentlemen have honestly been giving you the absolute best advice that you're ever going to get in this lifetime?
What are they thinking.
"NC Republicans have lost their damn minds"
pullupspastapolitcs
Sometimes, I honestly think that my biological make-up, combined with my specific set of circumstances, and the emotional aftermath of having certain encounters with the violence in our patriarchal society, must have made believe that I must identify with the marginalized, oppressed and forgotten people more in this life then the average person seems to want to.
"They don't go away just because you act like they're not there," is what I feel like saying to some people. Even if a marginalized and oppressed person dies, their spirit lives on and might come back in another body, and other people are going to live out those destinies too. I feel like we need to embrace change as a collective to allow more different kinds of people to flourish in their lifetimes on this planet.
"The results of the protests..."
kimiyasajjadi
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