@atrupar It doesn’t seem productive to sit with him. He just regurgitates his spiel, feels no obligation to present facts, and is horrendously disrespectful. Why bother?
🚨 Trump's AG Todd Blanche announces that the DOJ will not be releasing the 2.5 million remaining Epstein files they have.
He says they have "moved on."
This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.
The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.
And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.
Record-breaking temperatures.
A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.
The response?
Yank out the instruments and walk away.
That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.
For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.
The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.
That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv
Thomas Massie says the conspiracy theorists were right again about Section 224 of the NDAA, which he says will merge the United States military with the IDF.
Massie says the provision is treasonous and warns that it will force the United States to compromise its own security for Benjamin Netanyahu's demands.
"The difference between a conspiracy theory in Washington has been reduced from six months to six days."
This concept sounds good. Channeling money to people rather than insurance co’s sounds good. However, I’m concerned that’s it’s merely a scheme to break through the support for health support and that the program (like many other campaign promises) will then never be established.
HOW TO LET GO OF THE PAST?
A WONDERFUL ANSWER BY A BUDDHIST MONK
A woman once asked an old Buddhist monk:
“How do I let go of my past?
The memories still hurt me.
The regrets still follow me.
No matter how hard I try, I cannot seem to move on.”
The old monk smiled gently and asked her:
“If you carried a heavy bag of stones on your back for many years...
what would happen?”
The woman replied,
“My body would become exhausted and weak.”
The monk nodded.
“Your mind works the same way.
Every regret, betrayal, heartbreak, guilt, and painful memory you refuse to release becomes another stone you continue to carry.”
The woman asked,
“But how do I stop carrying it?”
The monk picked up a glass of water and held it before her.
“If I hold this glass for one minute, it feels light.
If I hold it for one hour, it begins to hurt.
If I hold it all day, my arm becomes numb and useless.
The weight never changed.
Only the length of time I chose to hold it.”
Then he looked at her and said:
“Your past is much the same.
The pain may be real...
but much of your suffering comes from holding onto it long after the moment has passed.”
The woman lowered her head quietly.
“But I don't know how to let go,” she whispered.
The monk replied:
“You let go by accepting that the past cannot be changed.
By forgiving yourself for who you were when you knew less than you know today.
By understanding that pain often teaches lessons that comfort never could.
And by realizing that you do not have to keep punishing yourself to prove that you have learned those lessons.”
Then he smiled and said:
“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.
Visit it only to learn...
never to live there forever.”
Sometimes healing is not about forgetting what happened.
It is about putting down the weight you were never meant to carry for the rest of your life.
✨🙌🏾💫