'Parable of the Talents' - Octavia Butler
Stubborn, opinionated and sometimes far more full of myself than anyone rightfully should be but in the quiet moments I do reflect on things that have been said, I doubt myself a lot and prone to self hate for my deficiencies while trying to grow. š³ļøāšš³ļøāā§ļøš¤š¤šµšøā®ļøšŗš¦āļø
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'Parable of the Talents' - Octavia Butler
MO Gov Mike Kehoe is calling a special session to gerrymander the 5th District which encompasses Kansas City. He is specifically violating Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bans any voting practice that denies or weakens the power of a racial minority to elect its preferred candidates.
All tremendously valid points.
Smash the š if you agree!
Wow!
Wise advice to cities targeted or shall I say invaded by ICE Small towns are also seeing these unlawful kidnappings too Spread the word! All it takes to stop them is a few arrests Show the video to your local DA
RADDATZ: You talk about what can be done. After shootings in Buffalo & Uvalde, Congress passed a bipartisan Safer Communities Act. It provided hundreds of millions for schools to expand mental health services. You didn't vote for it. Why? TOM EMMER: I don't remember the reasons I didn't vote for it
I hope they are surrounded by close support privately and have mental health outreach at the ready. This isnāt merely coming forward this is facing the onslaught of vitriol from a cult and its leader.
Boy - š³ he really thinks heās the second coming of Jesus doesnāt he?! I guess in the face of the inevitable of death of course the malignant narcissist has to believe heās above it all and canāt die.
My apologies- in looking up the definitions of censorship vs. selection I can see your point.
Trump says museums focus too much on the ānegative aspectsā of American history, like āhow bad slavery was.ā And plans to purge cultural institutions. But be clear: heās not talking about alternately uplifting Black inventors, builders, and leaders we were never taught aboutā¦
I recommend the 13min analysis video - I have never seen this movie and wanted to know the ending (I donāt like to be left disappointed after 2hrs of watching)- itās not just a bad ending and I am horrified that this was lauded as a good movie in more ways than one. youtu.be/7HkRPzmYxhU
Bad pun - š but I get your point - because the current government would classify all those not aligned with their agenda(s) as crazy which could criminalize everyone and everything they own that could possibly be deemed a weapon.
I stand with Chicago. I stand with Mayor Johnson. šØ NEW: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just signed an executive order to resist Trumpās federal invasion and occupation of the city. Details in š§µ
For me I donāt need drugs I just need sadness, self-loathing and anxiety to initiate a misguided physical urge that eating will make it go away.
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.socialās @mizzwelch.bsky.social
That would make a good SNL skit.
A good thread showing an example of how thoughtful school library censorship can and should be used when authors implement the Dunning-Kruger effect in their content of non-fiction authorship.
Holy crap, I hate this administration.
My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trumpās name in the Epstein files. Iām suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...
I have really - really wondered about that. The trolling of Trump amuses me but in the back of my mind I canāt get over the fact he sets my hair on end a lot of the time. That feeling he is at heart an egomaniac like Trump.
The most hateful people do seem to last the longest - donāt they.š
A must watch I like how he breaks it down: People are overwhelmed by a lot of different things the luxury of hiding that is based on privilege and oneās capacity or desire to reserve energy for others more important to us - so what may seem rude is just one being too overwhelmed.
Knowing youāre there - that you care - will always mean the most. It must be hard for you too. Truly - sending you love from an internet stranger.š
Calculation: Steps that an average person takes going to the bathroom vs climbing in and out of a golf cart while shitting their pantsā¦ subtract for recommended daily activity.š
Flowers are nice - for me personally being woke to a delivery of food would be worth it - Iād be too sad to cook.
Sending healing thoughts- mentally and physically to you all.
Is cheating still considered playing? š
It can also be from lack of physical activity. My mother-in-law has had it for years. We think sheās still aliveā¦ but weāve been no contact so šš¤·š¼āāļø
Iām unfamiliar with the album but itās good parenting - because it shows you care, that you support them and you have their back. My father made excuses for my first ex-boyfriend and basically told me it was to be expected because āheās youngā - I felt 2x more alone.
I am an imperfect person struggling to live in an imperfect worldā¦ while believing I should be better than what I am - to act, feel, think better. Motivated be a desire to not be at fault - to not cause harm - to be better than I am. To be worthy of the privileges happenstance has bestowed me.
Thank you for saying this.
šØBREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) reinforced GOP power grabs sweeping the country, calling a special legislative session Friday to redraw congressional districts and weaken the ability of voters to pass laws through ballot initiatives. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
As long as it is those who are being held accountable to their actions and not the generalization of the whole populace of Israel then yes - the soldiers, politicians, supportive journalists and civilians who participated in acts conducive to this genocide should be brought to justice.
This is very important. We have no federal government.
Oh, thatās so wrong - but funny.
š„ need a political break ? š„ #Catsky #Dogsky #Kittens ā„ļø
Women can decide what kind of life they want. Stay-at-home mom? Great. Working mom? Great. Not a mom at all? Great. Feminism = making decisions for yourself, much like men do. We don't have a word for men doing that because it has been their privileged, default position to do so. I digress ...
There has to be a way forwardā¦ There has to be a way forward out of these cycles of hate - Those justifications we give ourselves to hate, to dehumanize, to condone actions that make us hypocritical to ourselves. The way forward- perhaps means forgiveness or acceptance of human imperfection.
Even Israeli children- much like those in Gaza- who have no choice, no say in the matter? Cruelty for cruelty - where does it end. Hold Israel to account. Penalize them as a whole force them to make amends for this genocide- yes. But nuke them - as you said?! I mean itās just the same hate cycle.
I want the cycle of killing to end. I want the hate to stop - the dehumanization to stop - to find compassion in others unlike themselves and seek kindness and empathy. I want the Palestinians safe and free and I want Israelis to realize their transgressions and genocide against them.
I just donāt understand hating people in mass. Maybe itās the arrogance of privilege. I just wish people could treat others the way they wish to be treated. I hate what Israel is doing - I want to shake them and go āWhy, why after October 7th why with the Holocaust are you doing this to others?!
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
šØ BREAKING: JD Vance just claimed there is no Epstein client list ā and blamed Biden for the scandal going public. Let that sink in: Theyāre rewriting the timeline, gaslighting their own base, and pretending the list never existed.
I donāt support Zionism. I donāt support any religion ran government.
That is the same justifications being used in this genocide against Palestinians. āTheyāre all bad, all terrorists, they arenāt capable of compassion or empathy, they only care about themselves and hurting others.ā Over and over again a just blind dehumanization of people on a massive scale.
Thank you for the education- I made the assumption Israeli/Israelite worked hand in hand with ethnicity. ā¦if Palestinian is not technically an ethnicity then (from what Iāve read) why is it considered ethnic cleansing to remove them from Gaza as Trump spoke of?
Huh - learn something new every day.
This is what real patriotism looks like. youtube.com/shorts/SmW_b...
And that is the same mindset others have towards the Palestinians- two wrongs do not make anything right. To be Israeli is an ethnicity not a ideology. The same as how Palestinians identify their ethnicity.
WHOOPSIE DOODLE
Donāt look away
As I was saying yesterday . . . Call your representatives. Insurance companies & pharmacies will refuse or fight about folks getting vaccinated, even when eligible, & point to FDA/CDC & this administration as the reason. #Sigh2
Unless youāre JD Vance?
I never said random - I said, āsome land that doesnāt belong to usā meaning the UN had no real right to just uproot the Palestinian people or ignore them and suddenly grant authority of a shared religiously linked site to dominantly one group by then turn a blind eye to the massacres and the Nakba.
I feel for her. American history is layer upon layer of erasure. Itās one of the largest historical cover-ups on record. A monstrously cruel and deeply uncivilized throughline runs through our national story. Thatās why those in power and their allies fight so damn hard to erase it.
These lunatics really are comic book villains when you get right down to it.
That is fair and appropriate. I am far from perfect in expressing myself through language and constantly fearful of how the words - the things I say can be taken and twisted. Sometimes in the fear I project and Iām sorry to you and the original poster.
some land that doesnāt belong to us cause we donāt care for those people either.ā NIMBYism at its finest. It all is just sad, frustrating, abominably disgusting how collectively as humans we keep making the same mistakes over and over again - but then thatās me being a hypocrite and generalizing.
I do think the construct of Israel was a white guilt act for the pervasive antisemitism around Anglo-Christian world and when faced with the depravity, the utter inhumanity of the Holocaust (similar to what Israel is doing now) ā¦ itās like āoh, sorry we shouldnāt have turned a blind eye but hereās
I think religion tied to any government is disastrous.
I have. I wish its model had been used in the US rather than the public school history lessons of āAmerica is the greatestā. I would like to think had our government not been oblivious hypocrites we might have further overcome our racial issues.
No, I do not. I do believe if one chooses to use a similar generalization of a group of people (which is exactly the style of Israelās government and Zionist supremacy use to justify there actions) than one becomes a victim to the very hypocrisy the wish to admonish.
And there have been protesters who have called out the governmentās management of the war - not just to get the hostages back but because they see the inhumanity. I just do not see how reducing ourselves to generalization moves anything or anyone forward - hold to account - yes.
My apologies - when people speak of āfull ofā itā¦ well itās the very wording Israel has used against the Palestinians.
If you mean penalizing- then yes - I agreeā¦ and perhaps I jumped too conclusion that your intent was dehumanize a whole populace. I just see this so much in so many ways just a constant cycle of cruelty justified by pain and outrage all ending with innocent lives lost over and over again.
So in your mind for those actions every individual US citizen should be killed because of the actions of those in power and those who brought them to power?
Oh, yes I forgot about that!ā¦š
Yes, but the response to what happened to the whole of the German populace in the wake of WW2 was not excite everyone because of the Holocaust. Not every German was for the Naziās.
Do you consider the same about the whole of the US population by that logic.
Caveat - Israelās government. Yes, there are people in the civilian populace as well but to generalize the whole of Israel is unfair and disingenuous. We canāt allow the outrage of actions by some become the dehumanization of all for then itās just a cycle of hypocrisy and leads no where.
Bingo - Duh and THATāS WHAT WEāVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT WHAT ISRAEL IS DOING TO THE PEOPLE OF GAZA!!!
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Not unlike how slave owners in Britain and Northern US received reparations in the abolishment of slavery while former slaves in mass received nothing š - and no 40 acres and a mule never happened in any large way because Lincoln was assassinated & Andrew Johnson stripped away all progressive plans.
Kansas did in trying to remove their constitutional protection of abortion by titling their removal of it as āProtect them Bothā - sorry just REALLY tired of all the underhanded tricks they use and because Dems canāt gain financial traction or break the tribalism cult mentality. Well - you get it.š®āšØ
And these jerks are putting forth a proposed amendment (because elected officials have carte blanche vs. the arduous effort and scrutiny average citizens must go through) and they want to call it AMENDMENT 3 which would essentially ban abortion in our constitution. Kind of like what
Two years of fighting to overturn the abortion ban just to allow the people āto make a choiceā, passes with 52% of the vote, and now as of August the amendment is in limbo because the GOP is trying to say the voters didnāt understand the Amendment. š”
Want to know the crap they pulled to stall a referendum on abortion after Roe? All referendums must have ācost to MO residentsā they continually argued that the auditor was incorrect on $0 costs - that it would cost billions due to aborted future tax payers. missouriindependent.com/2023/05/04/m...
@piperformissouri.bsky.social ran for office & started the dirt road democrat movement in Northeast Missouri but lost. She had to quit her job as teacher to do so- by law. Years and years of propaganda and wanton ignorance was not enough to wake people up. Sheās earned a right to yell into the void.
Thatās what theyāre wanting to do next - change our constitution so the people canāt have a voice - in the meantime they just commit illegal acts against our majority vote.
Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved earned sick time last November. Governor Mike Kehoe and Missouri Republicans signed away that right. Corporations won. Working Missourians lost. ļæ¼ This is an actual email forwarded to me from an employee of a company removing earned sick time.
One of the firefighters arrested is an Oregonian. My office has been in touch with his lawyer who says he can't locate his client. My office is working to get more information on his whereabouts ASAP.
Full story
"The Biden administration was totally feckless when it came to holding the Netanyahu government to the standard of American law and the standards that we claim to apply to every other country in the world when it comes to the duty to provide humanitarian assistance," Sen. Chris Van Hollen told NPR.
Heās talking about Missouri Republicans repealing earned sick time. I donāt care if heās late to the party. Letās go.
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@aspenstarrcarter.bsky.social states āWow, nice quote. Thatās a hard-hitter.ā And I second that.
AP livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
I have believed this for quite some time but Trumpās Freudian slip about ānever have to vote againā the micro pause before he continued felt like he knew he said what he really thought and had to pull his usual verbal deniability by saying āweāre gonna fix itā¦ weāre gonna fix this country.ā
Now I want to see a whole rom-com based on these two. Such instinctual rhythm!!!šš»šš»šš»
āā¦just 40% of white adults say new [civil rights protections] are neededā š³š Iā¦ I just donāt understand my my race. I never really have butā¦ really?! 60% acknowledge widespread racism but want to do nothing about it. Acknowledge. Not in denial but straight up -
I sometimes canāt tell if those thoughts are based in karma or if it makes me as much a hypocrite as those individuals like her. Wanting her FAFO moment, wanting this epiphany of self awareness and empathy to occurā¦ something in me feels itās just as bad in some ways. A societal double negative.
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
Was in Missouri ran her hate campaign and lost by a good margin now sheās in Texas running for 31st district for 2026. Family immigrated from Columbia in 2009 her current citizenship status is unknown. Am I a horrible person hoping sheās picked up ICE?
More than one reason to watch it especially for the rebuttal of Michaelās remarks by Nikole Hannah-Jones! youtu.be/JTpasb5XB88?...
Do you think there will be a moment in time for these individuals when they will feel a pit of shame weigh on them realizing how much the chose to demean themselves for a malevolent narcissist?