BREAKING: A group in Minnesota has just filed a lawsuit to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot in Minnesota under section 3 of the 14th Amendment. This is now the second 14th Amendment, Section 3 lawsuit against Trump in the past week. More of this.
At 16, Yvette Stevens joined the Black Panther Party. She was responsible selling the Black Panther newspaper & helping start the free breakfast program for children.
You might know her by another name: CHAKA KHAN!
Werner Herzog told me yesterday he’s written an autobiography called ‘every man for himself and god against all ‘ and recorded the audio version himself. Can’t wait. He’s one of the smartest guys I know.
Not sure how R's and magas can pivot so quickly between strong man Trump, and cry hard for trump the victim.
The walk about like life is a pro wrestling job. Suspended disbelief. It's absolutely mind boggling. Idiots. All.
“September approaching…I feel I owe myself a brief respite of leisure and no rushing around. I can’t face the dead reality. I want rainy days, lanterns and a hundred moons twining in dark leaves, music spilling out and echoing yet inside my head.”
—Sylvia Plath
THIS IS GOING VIRAL SO I WANTED TO SHARE IT HERE TOO:
A bit from my past:
My first job after getting my PhD was working as a therapist for people from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
Almost all of them were diagnosed with depression, GAD, bipolar, or BPD. Most were highly medicated— some to a point that still sticks with me years later.
As I got to know their background and lives 3 things were very clear:
1. A vast majority had been emotionally neglected, emotionally abused, or physically abused as children.
2. A vast majority had experienced domestic violence or were currently living in it.
3. Basic needs were never met. Life was an hour by hour struggle. Treatment was an attempt to allow them to get to work in most cases. To just continue to surviving.
It was the start of me questioning the field I had been trained in. One that diagnoses people with disorders without taking a look at the whole picture. It began my path of holistic understanding.
A person cannot be well when one unexpected bill will have them fall behind on rent. When they lay their head on a pillow and all they can think about is expenses piling up. When a bill at the grocery store is almost double what they paid last year when their income has stayed the same.
An entire family unit deeply struggles within survival mode. When a job is lost. When daycare needs to be paid, but so does the light bill— what do you choose? When parents can’t even think about the emotional needs of their children because they have to figure out where their next meal is going to come from.
In 1942, 10 years before the diagnostic manual of mental illness was released Maslow knew what was once just common sense: we have a hierarchy of needs.
At the bottom are basic needs food and shelter. Then safety (resources, security). Then belonging (connection, friendship, intimacy.) Without three things we *will* be sick, period.
I get pushback for questioning the status quo. And I’ll continue to do it. The status quo is keeping people sick. It denies their experience. And it says we should bandage people’s symptoms so they can return to the environment that made them sick.
May we wake up, heal ourselves, and build conscious communities to help each other.
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The point of arguing that "we're a republic, not a democracy" isn't accuracy; it's to legitimize the idea that it's fine, good and proper for this country to reflect, not the broad will of all people, but the will of traditionally entrenched power and privilege.
So tired of people fearing the 'Civil War' threats from magats. The absolute worst these morons can manage is a few stochastic events, and even that's a stretch. Remember who these idiots are. Conditions for a civil war are not met with a group of powerless idiots shout it.
How did Trump and Giuliani forge their friendship in the late 1980s? Trump was being investigated for organized crime. He offered Giuliani's campaign two million dollars and then the case against him was dropped. From the late great Wayne Barrett: https://t.co/0XNVCuFsAX