"I'm Not Bad, Right?" | Portlandia | Season 8
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
So, not a monster to everybody.
"His friends considered him smart, even brilliant, generous and funny, willing to bend a rule for a laugh or the next great adventure. “If he likes you, he will do anything for you,” Kafka wrote to Epstein’s assistant Lesley Groff in 2019. “If he doesn’t, he won’t give you the time of day. He’s the most private person ever. Even when he was poor!” Even today, after everything she has learned about him, his high school friend Barbara Santangelo credits Epstein for tutoring her in geometry so she could get into college. “I talk about it now and I could get choked up,” she said in an interview."
Lisa Miller and Steve Eder
"Searching for Clues in Jeffrey Epstein’s Boyhood" - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/well/jeffrey-epstein-childhood-sea-gate-coney-island.html
I feel like people should read more.
They say they deserve to have a simple life, but I say, what are they going to do when the other dads gang up on their daughters??? Will she have an older sister or a friend who's willing to sacrifice her health and her career to try to save somebody else because she knows that in the long term, it's also part of what's best for her under these circumstances, and because it's also like, what other choice does she really have that seems viable???
"Epstein was a child once."
"Searching for Clues in Jeffrey Epstein’s Boyhood" by Lisa Miller and Steve Eder - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/well/jeffrey-epstein-childhood-sea-gate-coney-island.html
Is it a crime to get a snack at a fast food place?
"Zoned Out (A Documentary Short Film About Gentrification)"
AshleyMSpence
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qnDUeSr5gN8&si=idMzCiddCrV9A5b4
Were things better, or were some things just more hidden?
Lotsa nostalgia in the comments.
"Working the checkout at Barnes and Noble in 1997"
vampirerobot
I had thoughts on what could happen as Society evolves for the better.
Like, even if you did something really bad in a past life, instead of having that bad thing or something worse happen to you in the next life, you could read a story or see a movie and have it affect you so strongly psychologically that you wouldn't have to have the horror repeated on you to be horrified of ever repeating that action again. Or you could also have a nightmare.
"Bless their mesmerized noggins."
"Think of them like the children that get more clingy and needy when somebody else gets sicker."
"And then there was the time the shallower ones told themselves that being more condescending and bullying towards x-types of peoples was called for, as if they knew that people in those kinds of bodies were just about to get pummeled by more plans of sadistic patriarchal revenge. They were not the most aware of what was going on in certain situations, but their perceptions had been molded, and their instincts were sharpened to encourage them to behave in certain ways."
The old ways...
I think it's Patriarchal when parents are compelled to leave behind messes that other people's daughters will have to clean up after them. They might also get reincarnated as part of the clean-up crew, though.
How simultaneously horrifying and interesting to read about.
"Father Florek says that some farm owners offer the workers access to alcohol and women but make no effort to provide any true comfort. In one camp in Ohio, he says, the owners don’t even let the workers play soccer on their days off for fear they will be injured and will not be able to fulfill their contracts.
'The workers use the word dehumanization. [They tell us:] ‘They treat us less than human,’says Father Florek. 'Like animals. In some places it’s difficult even to get in to visit them. The owners are suspicious, even of the Catholic Church. We’re seeing more and more of that, especially with this administration.'
After dinner, Veronica Rodriguez, the 48-year-old coordinator for the Ministry to Neighbor program in her Michigan diocese, passes out rosary beads, Bibles and prayer cards with the help of her sons, husband and mother. Ms. Rodriguez—whose reserved, quiet strength balances Father Florek’s resounding voice and outgoing nature—helped create the Sembrador pilot program here four years ago. The project has now spread to Yuma, Ariz., and is sprouting in upstate New York; Raleigh, N.C.; Monterey, Calif.; and Richmond, Va.
As a rooster crows and the sun sinks farther on the horizon, the priests lead the group in a Hail Mary and bless them with holy water. The men humbly bow their heads. 'It’s a great thing,' the former construction worker softly says, 'to hear the word of God.'”
~ Helene Stapinski
"Migrant farmworkers are lonely and scared. This Jesuit leads a ministry to serve them." - America Magazine
https://www.americamagazine.org/features/2026/06/22/migrant-farmworkers-jesuit-florek/
This story could make a wonderful film.
"The Story of Martha Oliver"
https://inthepast1.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/the-story-of-martha-oliver/
Is it ADD?
"Prairieland Defendant: 30 Years in Prison for Moving a Box of Antifascist Zines"
https://theintercept.com/2026/06/23/prairieland-texas-ice-protest-prison-sentences/
"ICE Took Mom and Dad. Now the Perez Kids Are Home Alone."
So anyways, lazy...
"lazily stowing away the china"
⚜️
"The bitch knew"
⚜️
"I liked feeling so well rested."
⚜️
"André-Aciman-Call-Me-by-Your-Name_-A-Novel-Farrar"
🤣
Patriarchal people in this culture are trained to protect the patriarchy and to protect the violent people.
I feel like I know people who could have turned into Amber Czech. However, they were more psychologically assaulted than anything. And if somebody already has trauma to deal with from other bad things happening to them, that is very serious.
And people are mesmerized, so mesmerized by patriarchal b******* that they just do not help women when they meet a violent male co-worker in the workplace. Even when it's on camera. And HR gets involved.
And the men at that workplace. Men who were fathers making excuses for this guy.
Even your own parents can seem mesmerized, stuck in some weird state of helplessness, feeling unable to fight back against The Violence of The Patriarchy.
Patriarchal people.
They make excuses for violence and then they expect you to be fine with it. They expect people who were traumatized, even those who were sexually assaulted, to cater to their shallow, materialistic and incredibly selfish egos.
These people are not okay. You cannot rely on these people. They are very swept up in catering to the kinds of people that their patriarchal society taught them to cater to, though.
Amber Czech was penalized for being a hard worker. Penalized. She went to HR and it didn't help. This man was violent. People still made him more important than her. He killed her. What was the reason. She gave him a bad attitude? She wasn't cute and feminine enough for him?
It's not okay. Daughters deserve better than that.
Catering to people's selfish egos is not inspirational, and in fact, I think it's quite tragic. Patriarchal people really have been led astray.
Amber Czech is coming to mind.
"After Amber Czech, a woman welder, is killed, tradeswomen demand action"
https://19thnews.org/2025/11/amber-czech-welder-murder-tradeswomen-demand-action/
They are mesmerized and traumatized.
No, you were not able to rely on those people.
These people were full of their own things they were going through, though, so you should try not to take it too personally.
I still feel like I have to heal more from the violence of the Patriarchy.
I still feel like I have to heal from the violence of the Patriarchy and from experiencing how much it got inside of people's minds, including the kinds of people you were supposed to be able to trust and rely on.
So, what was going on here?
"The brutally sad reason Disney child star Daveigh Chase had millions in residuals, but died homeless."
https://www.reddit.com/r/popculture/s/f3XqAkTfOz
"Daveigh Chase, star of ‘The Ring’ and the voice of Lilo in Disney’s ‘Lilo & Stitch,’ dies at 35"
😵💫
So many circumstances are getting in the way of some things.
I can enjoy, and I have enjoyed reading this book, but I cannot stress enough that there are many time when circumstances have interfered a lot with my being able to feel like I can stay focused on the cozy little world it depicts.
"Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1) by André Aciman"| Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36336078-call-me-by-your-name
Yes, I did say that it depicts a cozy little world. Because it does! I'm not saying that it's free of conflict world, but it's still a very cozy little world. And it also doesn't really reflect my reality very much. At all.
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
I think the lifestyle change of meditating more may be coming upon me.
Tori Amos - "Taxi Ride" - PBS Soundstage
I have to get better at meditating on the richness of healing through friendship.
Maybe I'll go out to the mystical desert soon, but it is very hot in the mystical desert. Still, I could do it. It's not that far to drive. But when it's very hot, you have to stay well hydrated. Maybe Palm Springs?
I actually like how lots of different areas of the United States can be mystical. You just have to be in the right state of mind.
I guess it's possible that I've been allowing the bad political things to infiltrate too much. I guess it might be. That's been throwing me off, perhaps.
I don't know. It just feels so selfish to ignore what's going on, though. I'm not supposed to ignore it, am I?
Well, I just read this thread. There's a shocking detail about a lawyer.
"I just watched Boys Don't Cry" (1999)"
A writing prompt inspired by the current era.
"If you've been a butt sometimes, it could be a good idea to try to figure out why."
Well, I feel like I enjoy a variety of movies.
I am a little scared to watch "Boys Don't Cry." I haven't seen that one yet.
I suppose this might be a good time to finally finish up "Escape from Sobibor," after I escaped from it halfway through the movie in junior high and didn't come back to school for like, a week, or a few days, at least.
I can't tell if they're making kids watch all the harsh stuff and read all the harsh stuff nowadays, like at school, officially, but I wonder if they're just getting access to some information because of the internet's wily ways anyway.
I hope the more fortunate ones are not being raised to be desensitized to what's going on in regards to the human rights of their peers. I feel like the incels want to prey on those kind. The incels are not going to make our world better, kids.
Has anyone thought of that? 🌸
How am I going to be the more sensitive person to you and your body if you have a uterus in your next life, and I have the other situation again.
"People," meaning, real and actually living and breathing children, too!
It's really too bad about the Patriarchal White Supremacist Society still being so unfair to so many different kinds of people who truly do deserve so much better.
Parents are indeed very special sometimes.
Way more special than my little boy who was brown person friend was to the little-minded shallow and sad white mom blonde babysitter. Who was so different from the nice not-a-mom but cool and fun blonde teenager with a swimming pool in her backyard babysitter. I don't know. I feel kind of bad for her (the mom who probably just needed to take care of her own child instead of take care of other people's children) but at the same time she was so mean, and she left this permanent scar on my body. I just looked at the scar just now. I still have it. She left a permanent scar that exists over 40 years later on my freaking finger. It's still there. She dug too deeply with a needle to get the splinter out. Grrrr! It's still there, after all of these years! Take care if you dig splinters out of kids' fingers.
A new era...I guess we really do need the E.R.A., by the way.
"#stitch with vangie"
sinchantress
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ5x4LZDxwI/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Music can be a nice teacher, too.
Cute!!!!
oliviajeanmusic
"Spin Class"
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXXH2bQFdCN/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Jack White's wife Olivia Jean files for divorce"
Energy...in the body...is a teacher.
I decided it just meant "energetically" clearing things out, when the healer asked if I'd ever lost a child and said she was being told that my womb needed to be "cleared out" and it was like I had lost a child, then it got poked at and it was painful, and now I'm wondering if I should pay for an expensive womb massage like I used to do once in awhile back when I used to have cramps a lot more regularly. Although there is also self-womb massage.
Yikes! So glad I never had to go through this.
In labor with an IUD???
"#stitch with vangie"
sinchantress
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ5x4LZDxwI/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Like lots of different songs mixed together.
With all that's going on with human health / human rights situations, I can see why the universe was constantly encouraging me to look at the dynamics of the Ludovico/Beatrice non-lavender marriage, resplendent with art and excessive wealth and too much power, and then, a few centuries later, the folksier and more productive rapport of Emerson/Thoreau.
CARITAS! NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH CARNITAS. IT'S TACO TUESDAY.
"No, I don't wanna to play let's not be demonic grandparents; I wanna to play fuckboy makes spiritual progress."
Then it can be more of a fun game for them🃏.
Some parents should have contests to try and see who can be the least demonic-looking grandparent / great grandparent, just in case any of their children grow up to marry or tend and befriend the kinds of people who are outside of their circle.
Make their ignorance die out faster, God.
Cults are very cruel and dehumanizing because they mess with minds so much.
"Her cross. The moment she learns the truth..."
fredchong . me
Sometimes I feel sorry for how coldly uncaring the "successful" people seem.
The banality of evil.
"This is what the Dobbs decision has done to us."
pullupspastapolitics
It's an odd time to be on Earth. Maybe they'll start making more advances in medicine.
Upgrade the tools!
"What does World War I have in common with..."
jjfeds
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZZu38cRGeY/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It's just going to have to be a longer journey for some of us.
Oh, when the part of you that could have more fun can't deal with the part that doesn't want to be around the cult leaders. Because the cult leaders are so into maintaining the status quo. But there's a spectrum. There's always a spectrum.
I think this film looks very possibly quite fun to watch and discuss!
"French Bill..."
"Le Bonheur ('Happiness') 1965"
butchnoir
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZInt1Ahwdh/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It's all a game!!! Grown ups love games the best.
We need to be less biased, racist, misogynistic, etc. towards the daughters that the patriarchy wants to discard, and we need to make it feel more fun to be that way, like it's a really fun game.
Now I have the plan.
Bodyworker brilliance.
"Oh you know, just preparing..."
lindseybruno
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ6FI_yhvJN/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Hooray for speaking up about the pain management!
"not gonna lie..."
"ngl kinda glad..."
soellegirls
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ5mlfTPpxu/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
If they don't want to change, they don't want to change.
"Stop blaming yourself for not saying it clearly enough."
misfit_mama_therapist
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXaElblifdQ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
But not That Island!
Acting like the daughters' bodies are less important than the violent predatory impulses of the deeply unwell is such an emotionally immature...
Which parents will have enough emotional bandwidth to stop discriminating against the daughters? We may be surprised.
"Stop reducing our health to our reproductive output."
ojiirot
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZheWFKOHkm/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Surprise"
fboyisland
https://www.instagram.com/p/C7myYxgyH5y/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"They're defunding the women's bureau"
womensrightsny
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWo3uidEew5/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Also, there's a whole "taking accountability for aligning with attitudes that produced behavior patterns such as acting like the rich dads who violently raped 19-year-old girls were the best dads ever" dynamic that we're still waiting on.
Imagination is our best asset.
"I 1947. Forgotten Film Exposed How Nazis Recruited"
DavidHoffmanFilmmaker
https://youtube.com/watch?v=f5StiYRF-NQ&si=i2eeH8oRYvF0DaeR
"We shared this in February"
steveningmft
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ6Bq3TPTmk/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Imagine signing a business contract..."
emaansaidso
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZfu0XTon5j/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"If every billionaire..."
emaansaidso
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ26kIUoE8f/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Parentifying.
I'm sure someone's older sibling will get convinced to go where the emotionally immature parents fear to tread.
What kinds of shows should children trying to survive adverse conditions be able to watch?
Imagine making a show for the children who are trying to survive adverse conditions in which a generous proportion of the parents (half of them!) are the helpers, and the other ones have potential but aren't quite there yet.
"FBoy Island"
Controversial Lyrics
"It's okay to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings"
Nirvana – "Something In the Way Lyrics"
https://genius.com/Nirvana-something-in-the-way-lyrics
And also, an opportunity to wonder why the patriarchy wanted so many people to act like they still wanna behave like shallow cult devotees divorced from their ability to have or process deep feelings.
So many different kinds... Kindnesses!
There can be music in the part of the film where an emotionally immature adult begins to act like it's okay to self reflect more. They are God's gift to the world; they're just not the only one of them on this planet!
Monday, June 22, 2026
The humans around you were imparting lessons, and you learned from them.
"I'm a Raccoon!"
@CanItAlready
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EmVipGX2c58&si=RJ14w1DaBolljfWb
I'm glad that they created core memories that gave me access to a certain sense of humor.
"Throw Your Cat Away"
@Gakevan
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uKDJeQxSON8&si=fAQRlqFwa4OQplEh
And the raccoon thing happened after I was thinking about when an energy healer asked me if I'd ever lost a child and then told me I was supposed to get my womb energetically cleared and also the womb was sitting low in my body and she was going to move it but to let her know if it started hurt too much and my womb area indeed got poked at and I started to cry out and then I was given the gentler version of an energy healing and I started getting calmer and thinking, but I have a cat. So I got the cat inside, but after the raccoon encounter.
I see how it is.
I was getting the cat inside for the night when all of a sudden she went after something and that something happened to be a raccoon. She didn't want the raccoon in her yard, but the raccoon was skittering across the cat mat laden wall and then I went closer to it and also picked up a flimsy bird bath that the birds never use and then the raccoon just grew taller. Then I called for assistance and the man came outside and the raccoon ran away. And I wondered why I had the "does not scare away the raccoon" energy, and then I remembered being a child and there were some raccoons in the backyard and they called the dog catcher to get rid of them. And at one point my father, who probably wasn't even 30 years old yet, was supposed to assist the dog catcher for free and he was standing in the backyard holding a big stick and a raccoon was snarling on the end of it and this makes me laugh now for some reason but I was trying to see what was going on. Get back. Get back, stay away, get back the adults yelled at me to stay away from the situation with the raccoon, so you know, they did have that instinct to protect children. So, good job. But now maybe I don't have such big scare away the raccoon energy. So.
There's going to be an all women's music festival!
"Olivia Rodrigo Sets All-Women Music Fest"
https://deadline.com/2026/06/olivia-rodrigo-all-women-music-festival-chappell-roan-1236964142/
Oh, I'm really glad she pointed this one out 🍿!
"Muriel's wedding is on Netflix"
brown19170
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZsnyQFOFA0/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I just realized that I feel like my brain got "Muriel's Wedding" and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" mixed together, but they're two very different kinds of movies!
"Muriel's Wedding (1994) Official Trailer"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vwkCIpLMZBw&si=ITx1mS6fS3yvOpXz
ABBA abba ABBA!
"🙂"
olivia_radz
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ3QxRwpBAN/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Positive changes coming very soon 🕯️.
This is going to become the household of let's try some meditation and save some humans from burning out.
Doesn't feel good at all, but...
It takes a lot of immature parents with unhealed internalized misogyny issues to prop up an unwell patriarchy.
Why don't you stop being terrible to the daughters for a change?
"Here is the man who assaulted me..."
tammywallace_3355
https://www.instagram.com/p/DTlRB1pEodk/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Mt. SAC women’s basketball coach Brian Crichlow wins Coach of the Year for a third year" – SAC Media
It's very extravagant and unpleasant.
The only thing worse than "some people's daughters are more rapeable than others" is "some people's raped daughters are more important than other people's raped daughters."
There but for the grace of God went some other people's oppressed dads...
"ICE Conducts Father’s Day Raids on Santa Barbara’s Westside and Eastside
Observer Reportedly Bear-Sprayed by Agent, as Many as 11 Individuals, Including U.S. Citizen, Detained Sunday Morning"
"ICE agents also apprehended a U.S. citizen in the Father’s Day action, but released him at a hospital in Oxnard, where he was treated for unspecified injuries after it reportedly became apparent that he was a U.S. citizen.
According to the reports, ICE vehicles hit speeds of 80 miles an hour barreling down San Andres Street on their way to the Mission Street off-ramp to Highway 101 in the early morning hours. The ICE agents allegedly then performed donuts with their vehicles under the freeway overpass for about 15 minutes. According to the monitors who were following after them, the agents entered the freeway at speeds in excess of 100 miles an hour.
'We did not get any notification ICE was in town. We didn’t have any calls for service from 1 a.m. on that were remotely close to what was being alleged on the Westside,' stated Santa Barbara Police Chief Kelly Gordon. 'Of course that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, just that we didn’t get notified by ICE or the community.'”
~ Nick Welsh
Quelle horreur. 🏰
"A Timeline of Donald Trump's Shocking Changes to the White House — from the East Wing to the Rose Garden"
https://people.com/timeline-of-trump-renovations-to-white-house-11837455
Rolling in needs, and then their dissenters either have to pay the rent, or need the renters to pay them (the descendants).
"It was already dusk. They walked about twenty paces down the 'garden' and turn to look back. Above their flat with its lights ablaze was a window with a fainter light. Some skimpy curtains were drawn but they could see the light glowing through.
'That's not a proper electric light,' said Emma.
'I don't think they have electricity at all in their part,' said Roger. 'It must be an oil lamp. It's too bright to be a candle.'
'That's dangerous. . . . It must be awful to be so poor, and to have rich people to stay in your house.'
'Who's rich? We're not rich!'
'I mean compared to them. Compared to them, we're rolling.'
They stood for a while, as dusk fell, gazing at the bulk of the château. It was changing from gold to gray and would soon go black."
Page 103 of Melusine by Lynne Reid Banks
https://archive.org/details/melusinemystery00bank_0
"MELUSINE: A Mystery
by Lynne Reid Banks
RELEASE DATE: Sept. 15, 1989"
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/lynne-reid-banks-6/melusine-a-mystery/
Lords of the Manors.
Maybe you should have called yourself shitloads of manure piles, like how the bad ancestor you were taught to reverse (revere?) actually treated his daughter.
Which parent or church or school or drug taught you to do this?
"Treating other people's daughters poorly is excellent for our daughters." No, it's not!
Not everyone can exist in the same insensitivity bubble.
I am sick almost to death of experiencing more health complications on account of the world's meaner parents discriminating against the other parents' children just because they were pressured into aligning themselves with the guys who get suckered into acting like the asshole lackeys of the ailing, failing, dying patriarchy all of the time.
But they made some content more interesting to watch.
"When a group protects the wrong person"
jeremy.r.ostler
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZdZjV9P2xc/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Who needs the patriarchal people to accept you? Anyways, they're never going to do that.
🧚🧚🏼♀️🧚🏿♂️
"Ladies..."
thewildamalia
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ2LHKCBiGb/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"feminism requires self critique, not just self indulgence"
ojiirot
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZuX9xDI5uR/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Knowledge is power even when it hurts."
toninagy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ3FQ0uP61E/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Another day of looking out for the helpers ⚕️.
Well, it's time to look out for the helpers again (as Mr. Rogers advised) in order to survive another day of the damaged patriarchal people truly being so incredibly dedicated to discrimination against hatred of so many kinds of women and girls and their bodies and their stories and their very existence on Earth.
It's like the patriarchal ones seem to believe that it's kind of a requirement for them to continue the patriarchy's favorite past times for them to get by in life and get access to their hearts desires, like praise or money or property or social acceptance amongst other patriarchal people, or any of the other things that the cult of patriarchy wants them to value the most and love the best.
Healthy people in a healthy society do not have to stay silent when the people are being treated this way.
“'We were calm. The only thing I said was to not separate me from my son because that was what I was most scared of,' Jonathan said.
Neither of them knew where the other one went.
'I arrived in Adelanto, and they wouldn’t tell me where (Joani) was at all. Even if I asked, they wouldn’t tell me,' he said.
While at the center, Jonathan faced delays in accessing medical care and faced mistreatment before he was released in May, he said.
'Once a week they would feed us chicken, but what really hurt is that they would throw it in your face,' he said. 'They did not let us eat sometimes, or if you wanted a second helping, they also would not let you, they grabbed you and threw the plate.'
'It was so humiliating.'
He also recalled getting sick, suffering from debilitating headaches and asking for medical care but faced delays in getting seen.
'They did not pay attention to me, they did not attend to me,' Jonathan said. 'Other detainees would tell me, ‘Here, you have to be dying for them to pay attention.’'
He told his lawyer about the repeated lack of medical care, and the lawyer called the center. Jonathan said he was seen quickly after his lawyer called.
'When I arrived at the medic, he was annoyed because I had called my lawyer,' Jonathan said.
After his medical appointment, Jonathan said he was led to a small, cold room with a bed. He believed he was taken there as punishment for calling his lawyer.
'It was so cold because they change the temperature to cold, and they don’t give you a blanket, nothing,' he said.
He said this made him fearful of telling his lawyer anything else over the phone because the calls were recorded and monitored.
He said he never gave up on being reunited with his family. He recalled thinking, 'I have to endure this and keep fighting.'
Joani said it took two days to travel to Dilley, and Kaleth was in distress the whole time.
'I couldn’t count how many (moms and kids) there were because there were too many,' she said."
~ Pricila Flores
"Santa Barbara Family Speaks Out After Being Separated, Detained by ICE
The family of three are asylum seekers who were separated across state lines in March after showing up to an immigration appointment"
https://www.noozhawk.com/santa-barbara-family-speaks-out-after-being-separated-detained-by-ice/
Time to reincarnate, suckers.
I mean, Hans.
"I 1947. Forgotten Film Exposed How Nazis Recruited"
DavidHoffmanFilmmaker
https://youtube.com/watch?v=f5StiYRF-NQ&si=i2eeH8oRYvF0DaeR
Cool Library Story. 🪶
"Beloved Heavy Manners Library in Echo Park is moving"
I've never been to this library, but something about reading the article makes me feel like schisms and divides that certain people are still currently going along with and accepting as normal reality are just going to feel weirder and more jarring and really not what the next generations will want to be repeating.
Eeeesh, the banality of a bunch of selfish, entitled conformists making "the others' children" suffer so much more for their weird idea of comfort.
"Santa Barbara Family Speaks Out After Being Separated, Detained by ICE
The family of three are asylum seekers who were separated across state lines in March after showing up to an immigration appointment"
https://www.noozhawk.com/santa-barbara-family-speaks-out-after-being-separated-detained-by-ice/
Don't be as cold as ICE.
It's too toxic, and definitely not the optimal way to raise our very special and talented children.
"It’s like Hell’: 60 lawsuits detail alleged medical neglect at ICE detention center"
Some have gone through quite a bit, haven't they?
"Jewish Love Song recorded in Concentration Camp (1944) 'Westerbork Serenade'"
I object to the cult-like phenomenon where something about having excesses of money is still convincing too many humans that acting like shallow, insensitive jerks is just the best they can do.
"Trump loyalist Jim Jordan linked to group that received ‘dark money’ from ICE detention contractor" | Jim Jordan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/20/jim-jordan-super-pac-ice-donation
Evolve! Do it for fun???
I used to have more of a problem with the terrifying, gripping, undiagnosed complex PTSD type of fear, and lately I feel like it's been evolving a lot more.
That was a different experience.
"Well, well, well, it's not exactly the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' is it?"
Okay, Voice.
She's very cute and likes her humans and hangs out and acts happy according to how she really feels.
I really like how my cat is so impervious to the wily ways of patriarchal white supremacist cult indoctrination.
This also seems very appropriate to read at this moment in time.
"How the Father Complex Shapes the 'Tradwife' Movement"| Psychology Today
Someday, I would like to see the documentary that's been made about him.
"THE RETURN FROM THE OTHER PLANET" Official Trailer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fB6KpNGv1JM&si=jw6USvwHgo1elejN
"In his opening statement, De-Nur described Auschwitz in unearthly metaphors, saying:
I do not see myself as a writer who writes literature. This is a chronicle from the planet Auschwitz. I was there for about two years. The time there is not the same as it is here, on Earth. (...) And the inhabitants of this planet had no names. They had no parents and no children. They did not wear [clothes] the way they wear here. They were not born there and did not give birth ... They did not live according to the laws of the world here and did not die. Their name was the number K. Tzetnik.[9]
After saying this, De-Nur collapsed and gave no further testimony.
Tom Hurwitz, son of the TV producer showing the trial live at the time, was present during this testimony and recounts the collapse as a stroke.[10]
In an interview on 60 Minutes broadcast on 6 February 1983, De-Nur recounted the incident of his fainting at the Eichmann trial to host Mike Wallace.
Was Dinur overcome by hatred? Fear? Horrid memories? No; it was none of these. Rather, as Dinur explained to Wallace, all at once he realized Eichmann was not the god-like army officer who had sent so many to their deaths. This Eichmann was an ordinary man. 'I was afraid about myself,' said Dinur. '... I saw that I am capable to do this. I am ... exactly like he.'[11]
In her report on the trial, Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt perhaps sarcastically implies that his fainting might have been because he was 'deeply wounded' by the polite efforts of the prosecutor Gideon Hausner and presiding judge Moshe Landau to get him to speak in more concrete descriptive terms.[12]"
"Yehiel De-Nur"
How bizarre it's been to see it be so in control of some people, and to see their drive to make it seem so normalized, sometimes.
"[Banality is] simply the reluctance ever to imagine what the other person is experiencing. That is the banality of evil."
— Hannah Arendt
"Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny"
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/hannah-arendt-documentary/36135/
They're actually being mean to themselves too, but they're very dumb about it.
They will know what they did to people like my friend at the daycare and to me. Their numbness will last for however long it lasts, but it's not possible for it to last forever.
They're not okay.
Beware the people who are acting like the happy colonizers / Nazis.
"Who Goes Nazi?", by Dorothy Thompson
E.M. Forster was brilliant when he said "Only connect."
Colonizers created the kind of racist, misogynistic, unwell, imbalanced culture where humans began to believe that they needed to be in control or push away others more than they needed to connect.
Sunday, June 21, 2026
The free carousels were great!!
I rode the one in Johnson City the most.
"C. Fred Johnson Park Carousel - All You SHOULD Know Before Going 2026 (with Reviews)"
The one with the carousel lit up at night on the cover is also really appealing.
"Herbert Rowbarge (New)" | Natalie Babbitt | 9781250075109 | Awesome Books
https://www.awesomebooks.com/book/9781250075109/herbert-rowbarge?gc=AU
The Tunnel of Love 💗
"For as such things go, or could go, this ride is rather tame. The little boats will trace their route a short four yards apart, eliminating privacy. And the tour will only take five minutes -- too short a time for serious arousal of the blood. Still, it is titillating in its way, and Walter likes it. Walter is forty-two and, like his cousins, unmarried, but, unlike them, no virgin. If it weren't for the fact that he is son to his now-dead father, Dr. Stuart Loose, and nephew to his uncle, Herbert Rowbarge -- in other words, if Walter weren't as rich as he is and due to get richer-- the town would long ago have written him off for a wolf, and worse. But things being what they are, he is instead admired and indulged, especially by his mother and the waitress at the President McKinley tea room."
Page 10 & 11
"Herbert Rowbarge by Natalie Babbitt" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/449892.Herbert_Rowbarge
This Merry-Go-Round reminded me 😍.
This novel is really great for Father's Day.
🎠👼🏼🪽
I think Herbert Rowbarge is a very under read book, and I hope more people will discover it. I also think it would make quite an interesting film!
sierraelizabethferrell
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZMgO1CCcbo/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Herbert Rowbarge by Natalie Babbitt" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/449892.Herbert_Rowbarge
"This is absolutely a policy of white supremacy."
"This is a corrupt government money laundering scheme based in cruelty and human rights abuses"
chelseaisgods
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY3v9d6A5rU/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Crossing a border is not a reason to..."
"This is a corrupt government"
chelseaisgods
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY3v9d6A5rU/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
No, because I still have to read more books.
I have to read some more books about gritty things. That's kind of a solitary activity. We don't have the same genetics. We don't have the same imbalances. We don't have the same experiences. And we don't have the same needs.
"the bigger the height difference"
ashelnok and babiesofsteele
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXZr9AhgD8u/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Is it Coffee Shop Time?
Flight of the Conchords - "Business Time"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WGOohBytKTU&si=d4xAt1PRFIdSQQ6w
Fond memories of when I worked with two guys in a coffee shop on several little skits that we enjoyed crafting together and performed in front of a real live audience. And the reception to our work was excellent. And they weren't ever acting like degenerates or disrespectful jerks or anything. They were just like colleagues who were open to new ideas and sharing and all that sort of thing. And I will always have that experience to remember. Thanks for raising the bar, fellas!
So, I guess this person hates living in Florida. Read the thread.
And the quote in her bio! That really interested me too.
"There was this adorable little Latina girl..."
vicki.likes.drums
"... The genetic betrayal that is my legacy."
~ Janeane Garofalo
But Mike, look on the bright side. Much like Oliver and Elio!
At least they'll never have to get abortions or hysterectomies.
Suicidal Tendencies - "Institutionalized"
Well, this is horrifying.
"States can now legally institutionalize and sterilize women..."
cancel.the.state
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