Buddhist meditation practice focuses on recognizing the moment as the only thing that matters instead of living in the future or the past. If you find yourself worrying that elections won’t happen take a breath, focus on now, and do one thing to fight the MAGA agenda, not matter how small.

International politics were always my weak spot when I was studying political science and the topic of economic sanctions was one where I was open to arguments on both sides. The idea that economic pressure was necessary vs concerns that innocent people were harmed by them. But now…sanction the US

The lesbian was killed because straight men are too feminine.

Does anyone have a list of orgs in Minn that are helping people on the ground with basic needs who are unable to work or travel because of ICE? Or because of the federal aid cutoff?

We are perilously close to him banning all ATM fees.

Do you think that the studio behind Greenland 2 think that all the Trump/Greenland stuff is going to help or hurt the box office? Is this going to be like in 2020 when we all watched Contagion at the same time?

Look at the language. We are supposed to accept if an trained agent of the state "panics" and shoots someone but we aren't supposed to understand why an average person might want to go document the activities of ICE in their neighborhood.

Pretty sure I main charactered myself for the day so I'm going to go touch lots of grass.

Do you think we can sneak in some talking points to the right wing about how this is all because cars are too dangerous and that this wouldn't be happening in a 15 minute city?

Being the child of a drug addict was always sad but JD Vance has made it just embarrassing. Seriously. We aren’t all like that.

While I understand the concerns about privacy, I also think that dash cams and similar quick recording devices are some of the biggest weapons to fight ICE at the moment.

The biggest indictment against Yale Law School is watching a YLS graduate talking about the law.

It's not a brick. It's soup for my family.

DOGE cut NASA's gravity budget and now this is happening.

Pitching the Black Mirror episode where Polymarkets has to overthrow the American government to avoid a big payout.

We joke a lot about "the writers of reality being too on-the-nose" but this woman's name being Good...that an ICE agent murdered Good...

If we are just dropping Geraldo lore, he also was once Kurt Vonnegut's son-in-law.

I keep thinking about the THING that his woman did, originally, that made ICE mad enough to murder her was observing. Documenting. Witnessing. They were furious that someone dared to make a record of what they are doing because they know it is wrong.

Don't watch the video. Traumatizing yourself doesn't raise awareness. You don't NEED to watch someone's death in order to make it meaningful. Instead of subjecting yourself to trauma send this to your most normie/median voter friend or family memeber. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

OK but...why is the thing we want to do depose the leader of another country and take over the oil. I don't want to do that. I want to build high speed rail and increase renewable energy and shit like that.

As someone who has experienced psychosis...at first there is something sort of freeing about it. To no longer have to worry about what is or isn't real and just depend on whatever shit your brain is telling you without having to worry about being right. Anyway, that's the Trump White House.

I had some really good bacon when I was on vacation in Macon, GA over the weekend and I'm just...sad that I don't have that bacon now.

I had to work with someone who was pushing a hand counting bill and it was wild just how much they did not understand about...everything. Like, they didn't understand why it would take more than three hours to count 10k ballots (because they assumed humans could count a ballot a second).

Kids born today will one day learn about the January 6th Riots will literally be like "WTF, really". Anyway, listen to the Knowledge Fight recap from that day to remember how the right wing was celebrating. knowledgefight.libsyn.com/517-january-...

The problem about debates/arguments “on here” about what various people need to do is that even if everyone on here United under a single idea, it doesn’t matter because the work needs to be done out there.

I developed tendinitis from playing too much Guitar Hero.

As far as I can see the current discourse amounts to “stop sharing accurate information, it is getting in the way of my simple narrative to explain the world which means you must be my enemy”.

I am just saying that, narratively, it would make sense for the US military to do a coup now. In a “I heard you like the US getting rid of corrupt leaders” thing.

Those of us who have been not following the news because of Holiday stuff are tuning in and feeling like we missed some very important episode.

For a lot of these people it isn't even they are true believers...they just are looking at a shot at fame and fortune. Like the Oklahoma Essay girl or some racist with a gofundme.

The funny thing is that definitions of America based on ancestry leads to Obama to be more American than Trump. Obama is a direct descendent (on his mother's side) of Mareen Duvall, who arrived in America as an indentured servant in 1659. And yet...

Whenever anyone in my life (thankfully not many people) starts talking about gender affirming surgery in my life, I always say that I think they should make a law that says that you can only do a surgery on a minor if the doctor, patient, and a parent or guardian agree on it. Which is the law now.

I would also like to dunk on the "it's hard to be a millennial white man" story but mostly my issue is that he needs to understand IT'S HARD TO BE A HUMAN. Like, in general. Life is suffering. The endless cycle of death and rebirth is suffering. You can't find satisfaction in the material world.

👀 White House chief of staff Susie Wiles on Trump, Vance, Musk, Vought and Bondi: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

I m entering my second month of almost daily vertigo which we won’t be able to fully diagnose until March because it is busy season at work and, I have to say, I do not like it.

The Florida Capitol History Museum has a display on the 2000 election including a voting booth and butterfly ballot so you can see yourself how confusing it is. (It's a nice museum. Free and located in the old Capitol that we pretend is the current one)

As a perpetually single woman who is not very attractive and, as a result, pretty much never dates, my "favorite" thing is when a guy writes on the internet complaining about his wife spending too much money on stupid stuff like hair and nails and clothes and makeup. You knew that going in.

People are never going to blame Republicans for what they've done and will blame Dems for not stopping it for the same reason I spent most of my childhood angry at my Mom for my father being an alcoholic.

One of the most crowded theaters I have been in this year was the local indie theater showing The Sting the weekend after Redford's death. Lots of college kids were there who hadn't ever seen a Redford movie outside the MCU but who had seen the reaction to his death and wanted to "get it".

My normie Mom gets "hangover" IVs all the time. It is just so normalized in Florida. I don't even think this is a RFK weirdness. I would not be surprised if Mar a Lago offered them as part of the spa package.

Can't everyone sort of imagine what their dead relatives would say to them? I know my grandma would call my outfits slutty and complain that I'm still single. I don't need AI to do that.

Why do I have to be a smart person living in the dumbest timeline instead of a dumb person living in the smartest timeline?

I understand people annoyed that they have to take poetry so they can get a degree so they can get a basic job anywhere. That does suck, but the part of it that sucks is that workplaces require the degree instead of doing better hiring and training, not that the school makes you learn poetry.

I often read the news and realize how not normal I am because…why would you want a computer to tell you what it thinks like someone looks like naked when you can…imagine it.

The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’ www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

I think it is interesting that these guys view "wanting to make the world a better place" as being a value in opposition to "building a life" or "stability". Sir, we live in a society.

AI returning as Jesus has really different implications than Jesus returning as AI.

There's this constant discourse about how "the left" (whoever that is) has to stop being condescending and speak directly to men's issues. But these gurus are, without fail, more condescending to men than any feminist or SJW I've ever met.

Yeah, having a terrible childhood fucks you up in a lot of ways but the benefit is that I don't go around saying stupid stuff like "why isn't Christmas magical anymore?"