our struggles are interconnected in ways we can't even imagine

Things like this keep happening.

Humanity's self annihilating drives are very manifest in the unprecedented acceleration of change in the last 200 years. If anything survives it will probably not be what we have previously referred to as human. youtu.be/wlrjdCVAuG0?...

Molly Ivins:

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Many on the far-right believe we’re going too far when we call this administration a fascist regime. But we’re simply watching its actions & speaking the truth of what they’re doing. Decide for yourself. Look at what they’ve done & how it matches up to fascism. #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

security did not save charlie kirk. a vest would not have saved charlie kirk. the only thing that would have saved him is if our administrations actually had reasonable gun control in the aftermath of the last hundred school shootings.

Felon/GOP’s politically motivated military occupation, like what you would expect from a hostile enemy nation, is an ATTACK on USA prosperity! Blue states/cities are the economic engine, providing the MAJORITY of funding for red states/cities! Crime rates are higher in red states/cities/rural areas!

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. - Bertrand Russell

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

Newsom: We got here because the President is struggling. We got here because the President is one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history. We got here because he recognizes that he will lose the election.

The Trump-worshipping state of Alabama has a homicide rate that’s 3 times higher than the rate in New York City. But you never hear Trump talking about the crime crisis in Alabama.

Nihilism, the end point of western methods of inquiry, is not bad. It's the clearing away of the debris of our unfounded expectations. It can be a door into another way of looking at the human condition that can be freedom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye5p...

Free will is an outdated folk term. It does not serve philosophy well.

“When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.” --Krishnamurti

Besides being predominantly false, this explains a major problem with religion.

Why christians support trump. It's god's fault. youtu.be/wTui3u3ibsU?...

Stop. Everything. Now just feel 10 in/out breathes. Continue.

Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves. Pema Chödrön,

Noticing how much Bill Maher sounds like a whiny little bitch as he drifts the right.

Ajahn Chah, Food for the Heart

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

This is the best explanation of why we are where we are. a.co/d/iUecO5D

Richard Feynman: 1. Read every day. 2. Spend time with nature. 3. Ask questions. 4. Never stop learning. 5. Don't pay attention to what others think of you. 6. Do what interests you the most. 7. Study hard. 8. Teach others what you know. 9. Make mistakes and learn. 10. It's ok to not know things!

"the deepest and most obstinate delusion in man: his belief in a self, a soul, or an eternal substance of any description." - Nyanaponika Thera