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GOT NEWS OVERWHELM? (No. 4) It's too much. We know that. A head full of headlines in a tangle is a mental health hairball, so I tried a hella hacks. This works for me. Clip the headlines, put em all on one page and arrange until some kind of order emerges. I do it daily. Here's today's (3 pages).

Futurism.com just resurfaced this provacative 2013 photo of Elon Musk dressed as the Marquis de Sade for a costume party! 🙀 🙀 😹 Between 2013 and now, Musk deleted it from his socials, but it's back! #elonmusk #valentine #marquisdesade

This seems personal but it's important. I went through it and didn't even notice. Not one negative experience, symptom or issue. Zero. The myth that "it will be awful" MUST be smashed. It makes women who do experience problems avoid seeking solutions from healthcare pros. And scares the rest.

Why did it take so long for the collective mind to admit the obvious and call this spade a spade -- which some of us have been doing since we apprehended the gravity of the situation back in February. You all poo-pooed us, called us hysterical alarmists. I wish you'd seen the iceberg earlier.

Why are the most grave geopolitical choices being driven by the emotions of an infant-equivalent, based on the calculus of narcissistic injury? And how did we allow this to become normal. It isn't!

It's such a bloody mess. All of it. This regime is pure chaos and destruction. An abomination. In every way, everywhere, all the time. Have no doubt about that. You see it yourself every day. This cannot be allowed to continue.

Kidnappers brutally take a man to the ground. 🤬 Roscoe / Balboa, LA

Liberian President Joseph Boakai launched a direct "attack" on Trump's insults!

It's worse now. The silence is deafening. My take is that DOGE 2.0 represents the culmination of a surreptitious hostile takeover of the inner workings of our federal government by the NRx / Dark Enlightenment / TechBroligarchy. Holding hands with the Heritage Foundation. It's absolutely chilling. 😳

“Somehow, 83 billionaires have 535 people in Congress fighting for their next $60M wedding.” That's what GOP does. See chart. And hang onto your hat, chat! 🤠 😱 We're in for a rough ride. 😬

GOT NEWS OVERWHELM? (No. 5) Me, too. Welp . . . take two visuals and call me in the morning.

Dalai Lama at 90: son of a buckwheat farmer who became a thorn in China’s side – in pictures

Today was the darkest day in the news for a very long time. But there's good news, too. H.H. the Dalai Lama is turning 90, which is cause for celebration. More so, as he clarified that the Dharma rules reincarnations, not the government of the People's Republic of China. True, that! 🙏☮️🙏

US News from Indonesia's Point of View: Nothing about the Big Bill, ICE, 4th of July or the lawless Trump regime in their major papers, but two huge stories about a goofy T-Rex race in Seattle. With videos, bold jokey headlines, big spashy pics and lashings of witty reportage. That's the news!

USA from an Indonesian Point of View: "Trump Furious!" So he thinks Japan's prejudiced against American rice and mad they won't buy it, though they have a rice shortage. Dunno how true that is, but I doubt the rice America exports could meet Japanese rice standards, even as livestock feed. Sadly.

But “we’re broke”, right? We can’t afford health care, housing, education, etc right? A budget is a moral document. 🇺🇸

This was today. Fitzpatrick is currently one of 4 voting against the rule. Pressure works. Don’t let up.

ENOUGH with the brutal lies already! The Ábrego García torture story is breaking and I just saw THIS (!!!) on my DuckDuckGo results page. It is horrifying that people spread lies with utter impunity. We now live in an information hellscape. I would not click the link, so this is all you get.

Seattle. Come in, Seattle. Do you read? Over.

Senate Republicans are calling to cut Medicaid and CHIP by over $1 trillion, growing to an 18% cut by 2034. This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.

There are good reasons why real enforcers have things like distinctive unforms, visible faces, badges, ID, and proper warrants -- that they actually present to people for inspection before doing things that are otherwise serious crimes. And way more impostors than this article suggests. Be afraid.

Reasons to Be Cheerful Part I : This news made me cheerful yesterday. It's a legit art installation on the National Mall in the form of a gilded retro TV running a video loop of DJT doing his trademark "double-wank dance" (not my term for it, but fun!). The schadenfreude aspect gives me great glee.

Wes Anderson has done an utterly charming short film for Montblanc to mark the 100th anniversary of the Meisterstück. And he's designed a pen to go with it called "The Scribbler". The film is wonderful. And so is the Meisterstück, actually. In all its many iterations. I have two (in constant use).

GOT NEWS OVERWHELM? (No. 4) It's all too much. A head full of horror-headlines is a mental health hairball, so I tried a hella hacks to get my mind around it all. Today I tried asking myself: What are the Trump regime's battle lines? What are they at war with? Made a list. Here it is. 😳

As the world burns, Bezos throws a totally tacky foam party on his $500 million yacht in Venice. Congratulations, everybody. You live in interesting times.

That about sums up this whole crooked regime. Taking everything they can grab for themselves. It's poison to the very idea of civil society. Clearly they prefer barbarism. So let's banish them to a cave somewhere, while the rest of us do the civilization thing, and enjoy its benefits, without them.

The derangement of the diapered despot is truly boundless. He needs to be intitutionalized immediately. This is serious. Dead serious.

Shrouded in secrecy, the US agency has become a kind of domestic stormtrooper for Maga’s agenda.

GOT NEWS OVERWHELM? Me too. I started just grabbing headlines and making collages to get my mind around it all. I recently posted some because it works. Today I grabbed images because the images grabbed me -- about overstep by HSI, ICE, CPB -- Or are they just thugs? Kidnappers? How can we tell? 😳

For what it's worth, here's the latest unverified chatter about today's shooting incident at a church in CrossPointe, MI. This report isn't inflammatory, but we're already seeing aggressive disinformation and targeted hate speech exploding in some "niche" online groups and socials. Again.

GOT NEWS OVERWHELM? (No. 3) It's too much. We know that. A head full of headlines in a tangle is a mental health hairball, so I tried a hella hacks. This works for me. Clip the headlines, put em all on one page and arrange until some kind of order emerges. I do it daily. Here's my (one topic) day.

VALE: "For Anthony Reid, truth-telling about the past was not a threat to the nation but the foundation of its maturity. In this spirit, he remains a guiding light for scholars committed to writing Southeast Asia from within." www.newmandala.org/remembering-...

GOT NEWS OVERWHELM? Me too. I started just grabbing headlines and making collages to get my mind around it all. I recently posted some because it works. Today I grabbed images because the images grabbed me -- about overstep by HSI, ICE, CPB -- Or are they just thugs? Kidnappers? How can we tell? 😳

About halfway through this conversation with Heather Cox Richardson, Gil Duran discusses the network zones Peter Thiel and others want to build on public land. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWjR...

Cheuuuwggy in ultra HD. 😬 Who else has had it up to their eyeballs with the terminally pubescent yappings of Curtis and the Yarvinists? So about his artworld video wet dream, he goes: "The purpose is to freak people out. The barbarians are at the gates, right?” Did I say terminally pubescent yet?

Trump stated, “I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out. I’m not calling. The guy doesn’t have a clue, he’s a mess. So, you know, I could be nice and call him, but why waste time?” That was on Tuesday talking with reporters on Air Force One. Is this a suitable role model for America?

Today I feel called to act against the tide of violent political rhetoric from Pres T and his followers and its growing body count. This is unacceptable, as is the tendency across the political spectrum now to default fast to hateful language. It must end. It is our duty to stop condoning it now!

More grift. Every damn day. How is this OK?

Most people missed this perfectly pointed piece by Peter Dreier, urban policy analyst and Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College. Read it. It goes hard. Says plenty. And no lies detected.

YIKES! Proud Boys poobah Enrique Tarrio—convicted for Jan6 crimes and pardoned by Trump—claims he is now a “Border Czar” with his new crypto venture ICERAID. The app gives IceRaid crypto pay for ratting on immigrants AND for self-reporting illegals. Yep, you read that right.

LA is not in a state of chaos, but this man's mind is.

And here we are, welcome to the nightmare.

It boggles the mind, frankly.

Necessity IS the mother of invention! Now think of the US defense budget and what we could save by being more inventive then allocating excess defense spending to fields that can yield similar advances in tech, tools, materials, intelligence and skills but without the opaqueness, wars, and weapons.

The world should know what made Ukraine's historic drone strikes op possible: Brave1 from Ukrainian Defense Innovations. Anyone who can must support this program! Nations, institutions, angels, philanthropists, influencers, you! #Ukraine #OperationSpiderweb #ArtemTimofeev #Brave1вакансії #Brave1

My new hero.

GOT NEWS OVERWHELM? (No. 2) It's too much. We know that. A head full of headlines in a tangle is a mental health hairball, so I tried a hella hacks. This works for me. Clip the headlines, put em all on one page and arrange until some kind of order emerges. I do it daily. Here's my (one topic) day.