BREAKING: California Governor Gavin Newsom is signing new legislation to strengthen protections against election interference, intimidation, and unauthorized law enforcement activity ahead of the June 2 statewide primary. 1/

There’ve been signs & warnings for yrs. This is what persistent dark predators (malignant -psychopathic- narcissists) do with pretty much everything they in anyway touch. As their pathology worsens, so too the destruction. And when they attain global political power, it becomes exponentially worse.

“Just lately though, we've come up with a new solution to the problem of hell being other people. Rather than coercing other people into arranging their affairs to suit our needs, we've devoted trillions …to replacing people with pliant chatbots, … we can just dispense with other people altogether.”

Some words from Nora Bateson and her father, Gregory, for the many times lately when the weight of seeing symptoms of a decaying civilization on display in the USA and around the world becomes too heavy for my mind and heart.

“Meanwhile the world goes on”… the balm I need to soothe my free-floating dread. #Mary_Oliver

A quite timely word from the tv series Westworld. I’m watching Season 4, Episode 1 — The Auguries: “No one with that much money is without sin.” 😉

Great show!

"Obama's Hip-Hop BBQ Doesn't Create Jobs" is my fave Fox headline ever: www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna44041...

Not only is the US not a Christian country, claiming it is means you admit Christianity teaches genocide, enslavement, and systemic oppression of women. That would explain the mindset of MAGAs today. But still doesn’t change the fact that we are a secular nation, not a religious or Christian nation.

#Sane-Making #Music 🖤 Another Stevie! Celebrating her 78th birthday with her cosmically magical songs! 🎵🕊️🎵 youtu.be/UmPgMc3R8zg?...

#Sane-Making #Music to blow the stink of predators in power far away from us. “…Rid me of the problems, do all that you can Keep me in a daydream, keep me going strong You don't wanna save me, sad is my song When you believe in things you don't understand Then you suffer…” youtu.be/ftdZ363R9kQ?...

In case anyone missed the memo about the clinical insanity of all the tech broligarchs like Altman, who thinks himself a visionary, but is only voracious & conscienceless. “People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” • Aldous Huxley

#Madness “There are some spectacles before which satire herself stands mute.” • George Orwell Keeping the Proles as content as cattle on the plain: “…films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.” • George Orwell

My 18 year old grandson (the low brass guy) is in DC with his high school marching band, the FV Royal Regiment, ready to step off in the Memorial Day parade. 🎵❤️🎵

#MemorialDay White poppies represent: •remembrance for ALL victims of war, both military and civilian • a challenge to any attempts to glamorise or celebrate war • grief for the environmental devastation war causes

"Any American who experiences tragedy followed by illness will have two thoughts: 'What is taking time off going to cost me, and how will I pay my medical bills?' Those are deeply dysfunctional thoughts, because this is a deeply dysfunctional country." Sarah Kendzior

#MemorialDay is about death and remembrance. Remember all the fallen, Remember all the “war dead”, Remember generations of loss and grief… Remember Johnnys and Janes, gone for soldiers… gone to graveyards, gone to flowers… 💔 youtu.be/p3ly8cyWvkw Joan Baez sings to Pete Seeger

At the risk of extending the discourse, if I ever start taking GLP-1s, I will not be because I was pressured into it or because I want to lose weight, it will be because I'm trying to slowly transform myself into a gila monster

The year is 2067. "Bluesky is dying, and I know why: It's because my penis done broke," writes Arbuckle F. Fuck, writer for Harper's Magazine and Hog Farm. The userbase is upset, not because of Arbuckle. We're used to his bullshit. We've come to appreciate Harper's quality hogs and expect better.

“Very few people seem to have noticed that we are a species gone mad-it’s not part of our planetary dialogue–which itself is an expression of the extent of the collective insanity we have fallen into.Our madness has become normalized, as it is so pervasive we have become habituated to it.” Paul Levy

Just visited Tübingen museum with the oldest know European art. Little figurines craved out of ivory of mammoths about 40.000 years ago. They also have Egyptian art (only 3000 years old) and Roman art (2000 years old). Plus it is a very nice village.

#PemaChödrön This short clip is on our very human propensity to be bothered, to get hooked. She makes me laugh …often. 🖤 “Each time we sit still with the restlessness and heat of anger we are tamed and strengthened.” youtu.be/m7qFi52FX1Q?...

#RobertFrost, (1874 — 1963) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and poet laureate of the USA (1958 – 59) & astute observer of humankind – apropos today. “Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”

#Sane_Making #Music Back when I still had hands and chops (about 1984) I learned the tab for this outrageously fun piece written by Peter Frampton. I miss my hands. My almost 50 year old guitar is under my bed. 🎵🖤🎵 youtu.be/7uxbHnfuOfc?...

#Sane_Making #Music in this era of predators in power. Winwood… 🎵🖤🎵 ❝Don’t worry about saving these songs! And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn’t matter. We have now fallen into the place where everything is music.❞ • Rumi youtu.be/eoSn2Y-b6wI?...

Ripped from the playbook pages of the 3rd Reich, 1933. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_H...

Very detailed military satellite connection at Zorro Ranch Epstein is Mossad Robert Maxwell sold Israeli PROMIS to Sandia Christine Maxwell built the FBI’s post-9/11 counterterrorism... Chiliad Isabel Maxwell co-founded Commtouch with Israeli Unit 8200 alumni Ghislaine ran human intelligence

And *some*of us have been warning about this dark persistent predator for 11 years. There’s no need for an H.G. Wells-esque time machine. No need to travel to a brutal future. The Morlocks have been feeding on the Eloi for millennia. The Morlocks yelp review reads: “⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Will eat here again.”

““In October, Elon tells me that he is ready to release his, in his words ‘anomaly in the matrix’ And I am like, oh, like, who’s that? And he says that he has 10,000 lasers in space, referring to his satellites,”” I never doubted for one nanosecond that the predator lost.

bsky.app/profile/gamm... “ … say it anyway …” 🎵🖤🎵

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

How you do anything is how you do everything. • a Zen Aphorism The level of insanity seemingly accepted by the hive makes my heart & mind hurt. So, here are some sane words… “To Mankind, and the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all.” • Isaac Asimov “The Gods Themselves”

Wow! Jasmine Crockett just endorsed Xavier Becerra for governor, and I was here to see it. Amazing morning. [Dulan’s Restaurant]

It cracks me up when every few days denizens of social media are flummoxed and hyperventilating over the damage to the skin of the hands of the nearly 80 yr old, multiply-ill predator, who’s likely receiving more than one IV infusion per week. He’s no zombie, just your avg dying monster.

Look, dear hearts! It’s one of those “good billionaires” we’ve been told about.

#Sane_Making #Music “There is a boat to build and sail, a vast sea to navigate. There are refugees to feed and orphans to rear, art to rescue from the bonfire and songs to write so people won’t forget.” • Roshi Joan Sutherland youtu.be/f5JcmAh5vCM?...

#Sane_Making #Music Healing my overwhelmed self with music today.

It’s all quite insane. At least there’s music. At least there’s Joni. 🎵🖤🎵 “… condemned to wires and hammers strike every chord that you feel …”. /1 youtu.be/7W8KGSD-aNE?...

BREAKING NEWS: Baby otters take Power nap before another full day of being adorable.

Of course it is.

#Words_matter. #Framing_matters. The power-ravenous get this. They bank on normal people NOT getting it. “Language is the medium of knowing. And if we are unclear about how language affects what we know, and therefore what we think and relate to as real, we are lost." • Jeff Carrera

…so much to learn, so little time… “If we understand a little bit of what we’re doing, maybe it will help us to find our way out of the maze of hallucinations that we have created around ourselves.” • Gregory Bateson “Steps to an Ecology of Mind”

Few things buttress my faith in humanity like this loathing. The fact that the AI overlords have so miscalculated what we would think and whether it would matter is fun too. A bit like the Trump Administration's miscalculation of how Minneapolis would respond to invasion by a thug army.

Mike Johnson thinks the Congressional salary is too low. Here's the same advice he gives working people: •Get a Second job at $7.25/hr •Go to college w/an 8% loan •Split rent on a studio apt •Dont buy avocado toast •”Find something new” •Make coffee at home •Move in w/parents •Learn to code Be Best!

Lil’ Mikey Moses is peddling a lot of BS about Xian Nationalism being a newly created ‘propaganda’. Don’t be bamboozled. Contemporary Xian Nationalism came to life in the US about the same time Adolf was starting to make noise in Germany.

#Sane_Making #Music “Suddenly it's repression, moratorium on rights What did they think the politics of panic would invite? Person in the street shrugs -- "Security comes first" But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse … “ (Bruce Cockburn, 2002) youtu.be/ipt10FLmENA?...