This is the raw ginger that I couldn't find for 2 days while I was having the migraine headaches. LOOK WHERE IT WAS.
I miss our old refrigerator which had the freezer on the bottom and the fridge part on top before a power surge killed it. There's a surge protector behind this one now.
I was able to find the powdered ginger.
Anne Frank's 13th birthday film.
"The Lighthouse by the Sea (1924)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gmSIJiEU8kY&si=GilyRQ6hMRFxiHVq
"Doughnut Song (Live In San Diego 12/12/07)"
Tori Amos
I'm really sick of hearing Vishen's voice talking about "the more fat that you carry" because my phone keeps opening that stupid clip again and again.
"For her thirteenth birthday, the Jewish diarist Anne Frank watched this film from a rented reel with an early projection machine along with her friends who thoroughly enjoyed it. Frank was a fan of Rin Tin Tin and mentioned this film in her diary in her second entry, on June 14, 1942.[14]"
"The Lighthouse by the Sea" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_by_the_Sea
"The Lighthouse by the Sea (1924)"
Because my nice grandma was a young person who was alive back then!
"This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good."
Anne Frank on Sunday, June 14th 1942.
"Excerpt: Anne Frank The Diary Of A Young Girl"
https://www.npr.org/2010/01/01/138709936/excerpt-anne-frank-the-diary-of-a-young-girl
The German Shepherds in the "Escape From Sobibor" movie made me want to throw up.
"Susan Orlean on the original Rin Tin Tin"
@newyorker
Well, that's a hard pill to swallow. Actually I could find a pill like that quite easily nowadays. I'm just scared it's going to make me have to get my appendix out.
"Anyway please follow"
sommertothill
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZjv1FOJETV/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"The Personal Growth Playbook of Donald Trump"
https://blog.mindvalley.com/newsletter-donald-trump/
"Can Losing Fat Make You Smarter?"
MindValley
https://youtube.com/shorts/YkKxMMkUij4?si=iRw75sbD3M0X_YcG
"Anatomy Of A Hunger Strike: Why Is It Done And What Does It Do To The Human Body?"
https://www.rferl.org/a/hunger-strikes-russia/31266830.html
Doesn't Donald Trump need to lose some weight? Speaking of being fat and also being not so smart.
How hilarious is it that a bunch of skinny, wealthy people wanted him to be the one to run things?
Maybe he reminded them of their dads or grandpas or something?
"Can Losing Fat Make You Smarter?"
MindValley
Vishen thinks you become smarter when you lose fat, which is very bad news for a lot of females, including females with perimenopausal and menopausal and post-menopausal bodies. Also, he seems to think fasting is the best way to lose weight, and that does not work equally well with all kinds of bodies.
"Can Losing Fat Make You Smarter?"
MindValley
https://youtube.com/shorts/YkKxMMkUij4?si=iRw75sbD3M0X_YcG
"Anyway please follow"
sommertothill
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZjv1FOJETV/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I wonder if I can find some clips of "Rin Tin Tin" to commemorate this occasion?
Sunday, June 14, 1942
I'll begin from the moment I got you, the moment I saw you lying on the table among my other birthday presents. (I went along when you were bought, but that doesn't count.)
On Friday, June 12, I was awake at six o'clock, which isn't surprising, since it was my birthday. But I'm not allowed to get up at that hour, so I had to control my curiosity until quarter to seven. When I couldn't wait any longer, I went to the dining room, where Moortje (the cat) welcomed me by rubbing against my legs.
A little after seven I went to Daddy and Mama and then to the living room to open my presents, and you were the first thing I saw, maybe one of my nicest presents. Then a bouquet of roses, some peonies and a potted plant. From Daddy and Mama I got a blue blouse, a game, a bottle of grape juice, which to my mind tastes a bit like wine (after all, wine is made from grapes), a puzzle, a jar of cold cream, 2.50 guilders and a gift certificate for two books. I got another book as well, Camera Obscura (but Margot already has it, so I exchanged mine for something else), a platter of homemade cookies (which I made myself, of course, since I've become quite an expert at baking cookies), lots of candy and a strawberry tart from Mother. And a letter from Grammy, right on time, but of course that was just a coincidence.
Then Hanneli came to pick me up, and we went to school. During recess I passed out cookies to my teachers and my class, and then it was time to get back to work. I didn't arrive home until five, since I went to gym with the rest of the class. (I'm not allowed to take part because my shoulders and hips tend to get dislocated.) As it was my birthday, I got to decide which game my classmates would play, and I chose volleyball. Afterward they all danced around me in a circle and sang "Happy Birthday." When I got home, Sanne Ledermann was already there. Ilse Wagner, Hanneli Goslar and Jacqueline van Maarsen came home with me after gym, since we're in the same class. Hanneli and Sanne used to be my two best friends. People who saw us together used to say, "There goes Anne, Hanne and Sanne." I only met Jacqueline van Maarsen when I started at the Jewish Lyceum, and now she's my best friend. Ilse is Hanneli's best friend, and Sanne goes to another school and has friends there.
They gave me a beautiful book, Dutch Sagas and Legends, but they gave me Volume II by mistake, so I exchanged two other books for Volume I. Aunt Helene brought me a puzzle, Aunt Stephanie a darling brooch and Aunt Leny a terrific book: Daisy Goes to the Mountains.
This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.
"Excerpt: Anne Frank The Diary Of A Young Girl"
https://www.npr.org/2010/01/01/138709936/excerpt-anne-frank-the-diary-of-a-young-girl
It's so crazy that I don't know if my past students were more likely to have become persecuted by ICE or the ICE agents themselves. I still feel like it's more likely, generally, to be the former, but I feel also like the latter has also been something that has happened.
I'm so sorry if my persecution complex has been triggered by all the persecution that's been happening to real people in this era. Those people actually really matter to some kinds of human beings right now.
Today is the anniversary of when Anne Frank's diary began in earnest!
"Excerpt: Anne Frank The Diary Of A Young Girl"
https://www.npr.org/2010/01/01/138709936/excerpt-anne-frank-the-diary-of-a-young-girl
"Sunday, June 14, 1942
I'll begin from the moment I got you, the moment I saw you lying on the table among my other birthday presents. (I went along when you were bought, but that doesn't count.)
On Friday, June 12, I was awake at six o'clock, which isn't surprising, since it was my birthday. But I'm not allowed to get up at that hour, so I had to control my curiosity until quarter to seven. When I couldn't wait any longer, I went to the dining room, where Moortje (the cat) welcomed me by rubbing against my legs.
A little after seven I went to Daddy and Mama and then to the living room to open my presents, and you were the first thing I saw, maybe one of my nicest presents. Then a bouquet of roses, some peonies and a potted plant. From Daddy and Mama I got a blue blouse, a game, a bottle of grape juice, which to my mind tastes a bit like wine (after all, wine is made from grapes), a puzzle, a jar of cold cream, 2.50 guilders and a gift certificate for two books. I got another book as well, Camera Obscura (but Margot already has it, so I exchanged mine for something else), a platter of homemade cookies (which I made myself, of course, since I've become quite an expert at baking cookies), lots of candy and a strawberry tart from Mother. And a letter from Grammy, right on time, but of course that was just a coincidence.
Then Hanneli came to pick me up, and we went to school. During recess I passed out cookies to my teachers and my class, and then it was time to get back to work. I didn't arrive home until five, since I went to gym with the rest of the class. (I'm not allowed to take part because my shoulders and hips tend to get dislocated.) As it was my birthday, I got to decide which game my classmates would play, and I chose volleyball. Afterward they all danced around me in a
circle and sang "Happy Birthday." When I got home, Sanne Ledermann was already there. Ilse Wagner, Hanneli Goslar and Jacqueline van Maarsen came home with me after gym, since we're in the same class. Hanneli and Sanne used to be my two best friends. People who saw us together used to say, "There goes Anne, Hanne and Sanne." I only met Jacqueline van Maarsen when I started at the Jewish Lyceum, and now she's my best friend. Ilse is Hanneli's best friend, and Sanne goes to another school and has friends there.
They gave me a beautiful book, Dutch Sagas and Legends, but they gave me Volume II by mistake, so I exchanged two other books for Volume I. Aunt Helene brought me a puzzle, Aunt Stephanie a darling brooch and Aunt Leny a terrific book: Daisy Goes to the Mountains.
This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good."
If we got to rendezvous in a coffee shop irl, I could tell you more about my experiences with how liberal white women who haven't healed enough of their internalized misogyny issues to be kind to their own female family members will act like they think that white gay men with money are the peak and pinnacle of their favorite civil rights mission to feel good about. Because they still get to worship white men above everybody else, which is exactly what they were trained to do at a very young age! Duh. Praise their commitment to worshipping white men and their multiple tracts of land and home-owning statuses in a time of great stress and discrimination and upheaval. If you were an old white man who'd owned land and molested children, they definitely would have treated you a lot better, as opposed to a lowly and inferior female living in the kind of body they were taught to discriminate against. All I can say is, the cult truly did its work with them, huh?
The roosters are crowing. It's good to be a rooster this morning! This is a part of the suburbs that's close to some country areas.
The cat is coughing. Oops, I hope she doesn't have a hairball, but she might.
The freeway is being noisy with trucks and other traffic.
I put on my air purifier because it makes a soft sound that blocks out the freeway noises.
"As a product of nature's design, it's just been such a privilege to have been born into the kind of body that makes it really hard for the most Patriarchal people to be able to get along with or understand someone like me. I'm just so complicated for some people. But if I were a simpler man who needed money, who was good at going along with the Patriarchy's rules for getting money, I'd be so, so, so much easier to get along with, huh?! It's really strange and bizarre to know this through my own empirical experiences. Oh my God!!!!"
Who knows what kind of person I would be today if I hadn't been born with the kind of female body that was susceptible to developing PCOS / female hormone imbalances? Lord, does the shallow and imbalanced Patriarchal Society never stop hating the "different" kinds of women and girls? That's how it feels sometimes, anyways.
Patriarchy, capitalism, empire and colonialism has warped people's sense of reality.
This is why those relatives who used to seem better and less cruel would choose to go along with some very abusive patterns and abandon you. They were trained to be the tools of a Patriarchal Society which enforces those systems. It feels brutal and unkind and uncaring because it is.
"Anyway please follow..."
sommertothill
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZjv1FOJETV/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
And so, maybe you're supposed to be more spiritual and more friend-oriented, and isn't it funny how other stuff sucks you away from that so easily. But you could be so good at being spiritual and and friend-oriented. Isn't it weird how you could be so good at being spiritual and friend-oriented, but yet, other stuff could still keep sucking you away from those things. Isn't that weird? Isn't it weird to be in a body? Isn't it weird to be in a body that is making you become a certain type of way as a result of the how you were brought up, and the things you saw, and the way the culture is, and more than that, too? I don't know. It's all really strange. It's kind of interesting, though, if you just step back and take a long view of it.
Where there is failure, there is also potential for learning and growth and healing. That's not a lie. Actually, that's very true.
Oh and another almost fun way of looking at it is: you were supposed to fail so you were going to learn more. OR: Of course you were supposed to fail. Because you're supposed to learn more!!!!
It's because quality of life has gone down recently because of a mental illness called I don't care about anybody's genius anymore. It's not covered by insurance, and to treat it costs too much money and other things, and that is why the muscles of spiritual endurance have to be developed now.
Oh, I got the complicated body in this life. Ow, my head again, ow.
"We all know..."
lucasfisher62
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYkj9-yvwL_/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I believe in equality"
lucasfisher62
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYXrlXyvMdl/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Female service members have a separation rate 28% higher than men..."
jyrola
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZh0CQsSwoU/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I hope the daughters never see these videos. These reactions are disgusting."
u/Valueable_View_561
"'It rips my heart apart': U.S. military veteran calls on ICE to release wife"
"Father of three seized by ICE at FIFA match last summer warns immigrant fans of danger" - France 24
I'm really disappointed by how stubborn some people can be and I don't think they're acting in their own best interest. Actually, I know they're not.
"Death of Haitian woman released from ICE custody in Pittsburgh ruled a homicide" - CBS Pittsburgh
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/haitian-woman-death-pittsburgh-homicide-ice-custody/
Thanks to my experiences, I have to be on the lookout for both women and men to see if they are either going to keep on following old patriarchal ways, which have caused me a lot of pain and suffering in this life, or to see if they want to heal patterns of internalized misogyny within themselves and create new and better ways to live life.
Don't expect me to follow the rules for acquiring a privileged lifestyle when I've seen how harmful those old patterns are to a lot of people.
And a lot of the harm that those rules, which certain people are still completely comfortable following, are causing people, who really do deserve better, is really unnecessary
And I know that following those rules is not what I am supposed to do when I have been shown so much about how they are really bad for Society as a whole, too.
So that's why something better must happen. That's the way Society evolves and changes for the better. It doesn't evolve and change because the people who are comfortable with the way things are just don't change.
I don't know why you'd want to surround yourself with a bunch of people who would have been completely fine with the bad things that were normalized in the past if they had been born back then.
It's just painful.
Why is such and such a habit, which excludes others and pushes them to the outer margins, so important for maintaining such a privileged lifestyle?
"Ask young adults how life feels, not just what they have achieved."
"What Helps Young Adults Flourish?"| Psychology Today
People like that are the ones who keep the old bad patterns continuing, and they don't break the patterns, and they completely have had the opportunity to do so, and they were cowards.
"A Test of Conscience: Who Would Betray Anne Frank?"
https://cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/09/would-you-tell-them-where-anne-frank-was-hiding/
And you'd also think that people who had experienced some bad things themselves would have learned how to have more empathy for others and would have acted like they had it.
I bet there's people who...I know there's people who ...tried to tell other people about the bad things that happened to them (which takes a lot of courage because you can see how Society doesn't respond well to it ) and then they got shut down and then they stopped and they never tried to tell anybody anymore again and then they just suffered and went crazy.
And if there's abuse in your family and if your relatives don't want to acknowledge it, I don't expect how they expect you to act. Everything's fine? I'm so happy to have learned all about your apparent lack of empathy for the less fortunate and to see how your extra strong affinity for houses and money and your abilities for treating white men like they're better than everyone else has led to how poorly you view your fellow human beings! And you even treated the creepy abusive guy like he was better than us too! These were people that I was supposed to trust when I was a little kid. I think that they got warped by a cult. A very twisted version of Christianity warped them. A version that wants grown people to be childish and selfish and materialistic and in denial and discriminatory and untrustworthy. I guess that kind of behavior does something for them. It gives them some kind of happy chemicals in their brains. It makes me think of the banality of evil.
I understand why throughout the centuries so many women who were considered witches ended up having an affinity for cats because cats are just so much nicer than a lot of human beings. Including some Patriarchal women and men who apparently got trained by their brothers or fathers to just act like whatever their fathers or brothers wanted them to act like.
I haven't left the house in 2 days because the PMS and migraines have been rather severe this time around. Now I am very tired. I have to take a break. I'm so tired. I have other tasks here that I need to complete. I'm so tired. Maybe I need another nap. Maybe I should cry. Can I cry? How can I cry?
Actually did leave the house but I forgot. Cuz most of the day I felt unable to leave it.
Like the people who are used to sexism being normal.
"Same place. Same pilgrimage. Same religion."
emaansaidso
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZS4_6uos5p/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"they've alllllways been scared"
calebangellen
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXR1lWRifz2/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Stay safe ladies"
andraberghoff
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZivqyTAAcF/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Compassion is soooo hard. I want to be masculine and mean because that's what the paychecks required. And I am very superficial when I evaluate women's appearances. Especially when it comes to thinking that all women should be exactly as thin as the present day Patriarchal Society wants all women to be. But if I had been born back when the beauty standard preferred fatter women, I would have wanted them to be fatter. Because I'm a little tool and a peon and a lackey and a follower. I mean, I am such a model man of my own culture!"
"Men need to just stop"
valenoffline
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZh-rSwB-Db/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"McDonald's brings back beloved 80s sweet treat"
https://www.masslive.com/food/2026/06/mcdonalds-brings-back-beloved-80s-sweet-treat.html
I think so-and-so should find some men who haven't raised such repressed children in this lifetime and see if those guys will rub off on him.
"The Four Feathers (2002) Official Trailer #1" - Heath Ledger
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JjB6a_Op1bM&si=oVF_3FliNWECWNBK
But if they did see more blood on a regular basis, maybe it would fix something in their brains, at least for some of them?
I wonder if the body butter would turn more pink or more brown?
Update: It barely changed color at all. Try again later.
"Period blood heals wounds TWICE AS FAST"
DITTO - Menstrual Research
The people who are building the torture centers to imprison a lot of people for no f****** good reason at all need land to build their torture centers on. Have you noticed that?
All I wanted was for us to meet in a coffee shop and talk about how we're never, ever going to have biological children together in this lifetime, and they wouldn't let me!
Suicidal Tendencies -
"Institutionalized"
Well, maybe some people's parents were in Auschwitz in their last lives. And that explains why...I mean, that explains a lot...I mean, that might explain some things, these days?
"People in ICE detention struggle to access period products, despite rules to provide them"
https://19thnews.org/2026/02/ice-facilities-federal-prisons-menstrual-products/
The bare minimum! Even that is too much to ask?
The blood is back. Maybe the vile migraines will stop now. There were no menstrual cramps this time though. When PCOS met Perimenopause.
A song called "I'm so glad Hitler's not alive right now" inducing repetitive waves of joy from the side that usually feels nothing.
"Cigarette Mom Rock is the new trend"
fm99wnor
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUUDyGllFu0/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Apocalypse" - Cigarettes After Sex
I had mashed raspberries mixed with chia seeds on a gluten-free cracker. Because one of the containers of raspberries from the discount grocery store was so rotten I probably have to throw it away because the receipt got lost but the other container only had like one bad raspberry in it. But since they were so mushy I decided to make chia seed raspberry jam.
I was thinking about this dramatic movie I never saw.
"The Four Feathers (2002) Official Trailer #1" - Heath Ledger
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JjB6a_Op1bM&si=oVF_3FliNWECWNBK
I don't know why; it just came to me for some reason.
I understand that not everyone can handle this level of excitement. I wasn't handling it very well, either. Gee Golly Gosh. Even now I'm teetering on the edge of wanting to throw up, but you know what, I'm going to deal with it. And the icky pain that starts to go away but kind of lingers...Yep, dealing with that too. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful beautiful.
I have requested plain hummus, gluten-free, crackers, raspberries and parsley.
I already have water and lemons.
Whee, what a roller coaster. Don't even have to get out of bed. Every time I start to feel super horrible, I just have to remember to feel the feelings and know that I'm going to feel better. Eventually. Have I ever learned anything more important than this in my life, ever????
❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷
I'm feeling really happy for you guys. You guys are going to start healing more. I'm so happy for you guys now!!!! 💖
I wonder if ground up flaxseed mixed in oatmeal is good for balancing things when life gets ultra upsetting. It could be; it could help. 🌈🙏😊
It's happening. It's happening. It's happening. It's happening. It's happening!
The starting to feel better is happening!
And you still have traces of pain in your face. But you're starting to feel better anyways!
Ahhhhhh!!!!!
So good.
So so so much better now.
I'm going to feel better soon.
I can feel the feelings. Throwing up, crying, everything. It's time to get through the stuff you got to get through. It's time. Let's do that right now. Yay. Isn't it awful to be here? Isn't it miserable? Who wants to be here anymore? I don't. Why would I want to be here if I'm feeling like throwing up and crying and I'm this miserable. Gross, icky pain. This sucks, come on...
And even with all the bad ways it feels now, it could be even worse.
This is what you do in order to feel better.
See, feeling better is already looking like it's on the horizon!
I only want to feel better. This is disgusting. But I'll probably feel better eventually. That's what happened in the past, right?
Sick and in love and going towards a peaceful sleep slumber state sweet dreams are made of this...
You can maximize your privilege for the greater good and I can put more vapo-rub on my face.
And their "cover your drink" vibes.
"this whole poster..."
u/Conscious-Quarter423
"US government set to transfer large tract of nature reserve land to Starbase"
France 24
"Being Human (1994) Official Trailer" - Robin Williams
https://youtube.com/watch?v=d0SU3f2aRjc&si=o3C4Ierlu5s9nTxG
More affected by vapor rub on the face than by pain that's diminishing but not totally gone, the universe just reminded me that Robin Williams had a sensitive soul.
I'm gonna die. In this puny discarded by the Patriarchy body. Even the guy working seven days a week doesn't feel the curse of the vile stupid rich people killing his soul.
X: You got to start folding out that bed. It stresses me out to see sleeping on the floor.
Y: Why does it stress you out?
X: I don't know. It just does.
I hope I don't have something like a tumor in my brain also maybe they're kind of like you when you're blinded by the headaches stumbling around trying to find the progesterone and estrogen balancing foods and supplements and also whatever else that detoxes.
That a hot shower can detox and that apparently The Lord or whatever is going to make me feel more sick if I try to be more like them?
Tragically I cannot attend dinner parties with rich people who hate poor people so much. This is such a vile time to be alive sometimes.
Terrible headache. Sic sick k. Terrible knowledge of stress people are going through. Living with somebody working 7 days a week lately and it's not good. Trying to find all the supplements and foods to help. Need to jump in the shower.
It feels like a headache is back and we have to survive a very strange time and grow and evolve and let the universe help us become bigger people.
I really like that I found Moondog "Bird's Lament" again. I wanted to find it again a while back. I didn't want to look back through a lot of old posts to find it. That's not my favorite thing to do. Tonight that one seems good for everything! It's good for remembering my younger self, who was kind of discovering a world of more wealth and privilege sometimes, and who used to wonder if she would create something important in the future. It's good for the part of me that gets into a weird headspace in wanting to know more about what Anne Frank was reading, including gossipy teenage novels. It's good for the part that thinks about Christine de Pizan. It's good for the part that wants to escape and the part that wants to tune in. It's good for the part that thinks like the placement of the planets and the stars can affect things. It's good for the mystical part. It's good for the part that wants to be more centered and grounded, too.
And then, what else is there to listen to...
Marcos Valle - "Nova Bossa Nova (New Bossa)"
My brain's going into a weird area where I might either want to watch "Hedda" again or read that "House of Dolls" book again. But I hate to say it. But I'm probably going to choose the dinner party. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why....
And encourage them to take a break from all that stressful worrying, right?
"Extremely sad to see..."
harsh_lodha
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZcgd97oYnZ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Survival strategies once made sense."
"💛 Let's give ourselves the space to learn the skills we never had the chance to develop."
artandtherapystudio
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZfgLNlju-s/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
“'Most of the women detained at this center were illegally detained by ICE,' the letter reads. 'We were taken at the entrances of our immigration court check-ins, at our jobs, taking our kids to school.'"
~ José Olivares
"Women held at much-denounced ICE detention camp sign on to hunger strike"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/12/delaney-hall-ice-detention-strike
“'See How Easy It Is?': People Are Applauding Ariana Grande’s No BS Response To The Trump Administration Using Her Music In A Video Promoting ICE Deportations"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/leylamohammed/ariana-grande-slams-trump-for-using-her-music-ice-video
And yet, having more pretty clothes still does not seem more important than having human rights.
"What if I just can't sacrifice my human rights to live vicariously through you? Because it's impossible! Why do you keep expecting me to do that for you? Who taught you that was a normal attitude to have towards other human beings?"
Sometimes when rich people are making excuses for selfish behaviors and attitudes, it kind of reminds me of the practice of killing human beings and calling it "collateral damage."
"Women held at much-denounced ICE detention camp sign on to hunger strike"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/12/delaney-hall-ice-detention-strike
Letters To Cleo - "Here and Now"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HEa5_Ki33nA&si=zi_mg3UYq6mNK20h
Can sing it to the cat who also napped all day.
It's just so nice to be able put the shades back up again after a day of keeping them down and napping and drinking liquids and taking supplements and fending off the bad headache and having other weird dreams but I forgot to record them.
Hello again, world.
I admired a big cloud outside. Then I got a headache and had to draw the shades and I fell asleep. In my dreams I passed by a sick dog and I felt a lot of empathy for it and it followed me and it kind of latched on to my body. It followed me to a new house and there it was running around and acting healthier. But it was chasing other cats and dogs and I was getting warnings about that dog and then I had to rescue a cat from it and I thought I was rescuing a black cat but when I took it upstairs away from the dog it was orange and also started having a seizure so maybe it needed extra medical attention. It is still true that vulnerable creatures need help. Sometimes the vulnerable creature is a human being that needs help. Sometimes you need help. Sometimes you have to help yourself first.
And sometimes they show their potential for being caring.
"Fairness is a very simple concept.
Even children understand it almost instinctively."
_the_powertable
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZdp_Q1B-3_/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Citing ICE Threat, Global Friends Will Not Feature Refugee Students" | KNOX News Radio, Local News, Weather and Sports
"Citing Immigrations and Customs Enforcement as a threat, Global Friends Coalition has chosen not to feature refugee students at a special day this weekend.
The Downtown Farmers Market is set to feature World Refugee Day Saturday, June 13th.
Global Friends will feature art an six-word essays from refugees, but an annual performance by refugees will not take place.
Cynthia Shabb, Global Friends Executive Director, says gathering refugees in one place may invite them to be targeted by ICE. She spoke of citizens being frustrated that the event has to be approached in this way with the climate toward immigration in the nation."
This could be an interesting perspective to consider.
"Someone tell the men"
meghantschanz
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZfAqBSoFcI/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"The words stopped me cold."
~ Julian Vasquez Heilig
"A Test of Conscience: Who Would Betray Anne Frank?"
https://cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/09/would-you-tell-them-where-anne-frank-was-hiding/
"Every so often, a sentence hits you with the kind of force that keeps echoing in your mind long after you first encounter it. I came across one recently while scrolling Facebook. It was raw, stark, and unsettling in its clarity:
'It’s depressing to realize people I used to consider friends and family have become people who I would not tell where Anne Frank was hiding.'”
"A Test of Conscience: Who Would Betray Anne Frank?"
https://cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/09/would-you-tell-them-where-anne-frank-was-hiding/
"Detainees on hunger strike allege filthy water, moldy food..."
"In 1938 Hitler's doctors put him on a meat-free diet, and his public image as a vegetarian and a lover of animals was fostered; from 1942 he described himself as a vegetarian."
"Adolf Hitler and vegetarianism"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism
♀️instant childhood messaging flashbacks ♂️
"Replying to marjiesanz..."
Belle DeVelle Co.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTB9KpnSd/
"the difference between the men's vs womens room at mission BBQ"
"#mission"
Belle DeVelle Co.
"Confronting the Silence: a Review of 'Sad Tiger' by Neige Sinno, Translated by Natasha Lehrer"
"I wouldn’t say that there’s some sort of evil, instinctual or articulatable impulse to rape that everyone is struggling to tamp down at all times. Rather, I think what Sinno is circling here is closer to Hannah Arendt’s observations at Adolf Eichmann’s trial, the writings in which the philosopher coined the famous phrase 'the banality of evil.' I think evil rises under circumstances and systems of power that allow, nay, want it to flourish; systems in which losers and egomaniacs are rewarded for trampling and transgressing upon those smaller and weaker than themselves."
~ ANNETTE LEPIQUE
The Wallflowers - "One Headlight (Official Music Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zzyfcys1aLM&si=XNC56DySkiTm6T9p
He helped me and my sister. We went out to eat with him, and he told her things would get better. That was great. I feel appreciation for how that happened. I wonder what else happened with him.
He was a very tall and good looking and fit and blond. But apparently, he'd undergone a transformation after going through some really traumatic things and taking some antidepressants that had made him gain weight. He got mad that people treated him better after he got better looking, when he was the same person inside. Yeah, he was kind of cool in that regard, too.
I never knew somebody like him was going to help somebody like me! And not just me, but my sister too! He didn't look at her with disgust just because she was taking medications that had side effects. He was way nicer than most guys.
I think actually, though, that some people are raising the bar for what's expected of young men nowadays.
Obviously, abusing and abandoning the vulnerable was QUITE high on the list. And as far as taking care of the environment goes...🥀
"I'm going to enjoy myself no matter what." Feels kind of like what they'd want you to do to justify rape culture, honestly.
So, how come you didn't end up medicated in an institution or homeless???
Or did you???
Actually, a lot of people have had those experiences!!!
The man I live with has been so much more tolerant of a neurodivergent woman than the average individual in today's society. Not perfect, but probably a lot of the reason why I didn't end up medicated in an institution or homeless at any point was because he was tolerant enough of someone who's different from him to have more compassion than the average individual. But he was made to feel different at a young age, too, for other reasons.
Otto Frank. A real man who really lived a real life.
"Otto Frank" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Frank
Fame, fortune, accolades, ownership, status.
Abuse. Abandonment. Neglect. Discrimination.
ICE raids. Concentration caps.
I get the...I get chills.
I want to thank peak patriarchal white people culture for how it's coldness and selfishness has driven me back to reading my spiritual books for more wisdom and guidance. Ha ha ha!
"Come harvest chive blossoms..."
zachs_garden_and_cats
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZcfwz-xrW8/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"The sass limit exploded"
gon_fights_patriarchy
homoopinionation
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZeF_ImxDG-/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
O Friend, I have to heal from this experience of knowing we weren't expected by our Society to be very good to each other, or to ourselves, not as much we could be, and all that's unresolveable in this lifetime, like inequity, can be so much to grieve. So I will ask the universe for more help with turning over a new leaf.
"Pepper pot stew was survival food for the poor and a path to freedom for Black women in early Philadelphia"
I can remember that I was really great about tapping into spiritual stuff and I read lots of spiritual books as a young person and then when I began to be a teenager there was lots of turmoil. And during this time as a young teenager, I remember hearing about the Los Angeles riots, and it felt like we were far away from that stuff in the Pacific Northwest. Well I guess something in the universe saw me ask the question. Why would people be so violent and riot, and the adults around me at the time said they didn't know. But I suppose part of me needed to know. I feel like I know more than enough about that now. So how about I get back into enjoying some cozy spiritual stuff again? Well, that's what I'm thinking about at this time.
Right now, I don't care if I never have kids or a career because I have so much trauma to heal. That's how much I have to heal. That's how big it is. It's a big project. I'm not like those other people. I have to heal my trauma more than they have to heal their trauma. It's in my body.
I wonder if I cry a lot more if that could be super good for my internal organs.
I feel kind of like I'm a sick person in need of healing. And sick people just need calm energies and friends and healers. They don't need too much extra crazy stuff going on.
I'm sorry, I'm so busy learning how to be a better human being to myself. I am just so completely caught up with this project right now. Someday, maybe you'll understand better how challenging it was.
Maybe I'll try to be really, really good to myself everyday. I'll make a big project out of it. I'll make a diary of it. What nice things did you do for yourself today? I can ask. I'll learn how to self-love in a way that's good for humanity. And then if things get weird and if I get thrown off course either because oh something triggered a trauma or oh something's going on with the PCOS or perimenopause or whatever I'll just practice the art of radical self-forgiveness. And self-care. What about that?
Too bad some people weren't at the babysitter's house in upstate NY with me to see what that felt like. Oh well, I guess then there wouldn't be as much interesting adult conflict to resolve now. Ugh! I'm so tired. Jesus, take the wheel! As some would say. I can't believe things used to be so different. And not as stressful, in my opinion. But then, there were still some big problems to deal with back then, anyway.
Maybe some people can work with you in the future if they are interested in creating something new. Maybe some kind of mutually beneficial creative project could happen when certain kinds of still triggering things are feeling much more healed and just better in a lot of ways.
It's been quite a lesson to learn that some things which can feel quite normal and enjoyable for others are just not going to be the best way for you to be able to heal and feel more balanced. And that what you may need to heal won't be very easy to get when you're around certain people or in certain environments.
I can't work with some kinds of people right now. I have to deal with my own stuff and heal more trauma first. At least now it's more about present life stuff instead of past life stuff. I guess.
Even if there may be a typo? But it might make sense?
"You can't confirm to systems you were designed to break."
crosssamhttps://www.instagram.com/reel/DZdOzN9Pqks/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Ms. Rachel visits Capitol Hill to urge lawmakers to end family detentions" - The Washington Post
This is how I survive what my brain is still doing to me, stupid!
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Nazi (2008)"
@journeyman
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jUvcmGbtHWA&si=Z2_Chai5QYj-SxGt
And I don't care if you don't technically work at Auschwitz like these people did. I don't. I really don't.
People who think they can be negligent and abusive and that they're just going to get away with it and go up to heaven and they're never going to have to come back and try again. Well, good luck with that belief system. I don't believe in it at all.
Great, children's movies that are more for the childish adults than they are for the actual children.
"How can I look less like a stupid Nazi today to the descendants of the concentration camp inhabitants than I looked like one last week? How can I look less like a callous Nazi next week than I did previously?"
Your life is not even going to be that long. How can you be so stupid with the little time you have in this one lifetime? What do you want your next three lives to look like? Why do you never seem to think about s*** like this?
Out of sight, out of mind, just like the average Nazi who wasn't even all that violent, probably.
Like, I know not everybody gets pummeled with all this weird past stuff that happened in history trauma, but they can still read.
Do you ever read.
I should ask the universe to only allow me to attend the musical shows that are going to feel heart and audience centered instead of egocentric and cult leader worshipper centered.
And some people are capable of both. So why don't you make a better decision next time.
Geez, you'd think like nobody else ever felt like they had a past life in a concentration camp where they died or something.
Sung from a younger point of view...
Weezer – "Go Away"
https://genius.com/Weezer-go-away-lyrics
Songs like this. But instead of just being addressed to a boy who cheated on a girl, its addressed to the older people who cheated the younger people by aligning themselves with toxic Patriarchal values which were very discriminatory and harmful and now of all times they should know better and they don't, and they act like they're still stuck in some kind of childish stage of emotional development, and now they're making the younger people, including children, do all the work that they should have been doing a long time ago.
Assuming you don't want everyone to die like some sort of horrible genocide is unfolding on top of all the other stuff that's happening, which, it already does kind of feel like a genocide is unfolding, you know people who suffered more than you are going to remember how you acted in this time. Just because you have a bunch of people surrounding you right now who are making you believe that it's okay to be insensitive about what is going on doesn't mean that it's going to look okay in the future.
You could have been so different. It actually would have been really easy for you to just tweak things in the most minuscule ways and you still could have had a pretty cushy lifestyle and you wouldn't have had to keep on doing the same old oppressive propping up toxic masculinity crap.
After all, if a lot of the narcissistic show business people want to have more in common with the narcissistic Show Business Predator who's in the White House, and they're blatantly acting like it, while immigrants and children are being corralled and and mistreated in the worst ways that they probably can't even bear to bring themselves to imagine...
"A Test of Conscience: Who Would Betray Anne Frank?"
https://cloakinginequity.com/2025/10/09/would-you-tell-them-where-anne-frank-was-hiding/
And it's also very bad for the environment. The Mother Earth, which is supposed to nurture us all, and the climate, is not being respected enough.
When some men and women have to prioritize masculinity in order to have a career, and when they act irresponsibly, they are forcing others to play the role of big sister in order to try to do some damage control.
It's extremely painful to see how much other people keep getting knocked down, and are suffering very dire consequences, just so that the irresponsible ones can still "succeed" and play at being the king or the queen in the unwell patriarchal society.
It makes you wish that some of those irresponsible people would start using their imaginations more and start listening thinking a little bit harder about some other alternatives.
The femininity that prioritizes masculinity is the femininity that upholds the patriarchal structure, which makes life so much worse and so much more unsafe for so many kinds of people. But we don't want to think about those kind of people. Why not? What if it would enrich our lives to acknowledge that more kinds of human beings actually exist?
"Men Have An Expiration Date Under The Patriarchy"
@yv_edit
"When Pedro Arrests Juan: Why Latinos Join Border Patrol"
https://lataco.com/why-latinos-join-ice
"Men Have An Expiration Date Under The Patriarchy"
@yv_edit
It's weird how much some people seem to want to ignore that discrimination is really bad for children. And that stuff, which starts in childhood, might result in stuff that manifests in adulthood. What do they get out of ignoring certain types of human beings? Why is that so necessary for their peace of mind?
"A S S H O L E !"
When the voices of the female upstairs neighbor who had the abusive boyfriend, and the male gay roommate who had the abusive date, commingle simultaneously.
Also, not the brightest crayon in the box sometimes.
"when I was in college..."
lauraroseiswrite
"'The Way of the Superior Man' - an international bestseller 🚩"
kristen_e_seay
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWP_p9KkcdY/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
