“Mike is fine” ☮️

Husband, Father, Son, Brother, Papa, Uncle, Friend, Chicago Cubs Fan, Appliance Installation Business Owner, Acoustic guitar player. Give me the TRUTH

[GABRIEL 🪽 @thegabriel72]

This is absolutely soul-shattering... Please God, watch over him

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Special Counsel Jack Smith refers to 6 CO-CONSPIRATORS in the indictment

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

If you watch one thing make it this and wait for the end

[“Mike is fine” ☮️ @MLKuster]

@HumansNoContext

[“Mike is fine” ☮️ @MLKuster]

Videos have surfaced of @Starbucks managers ripping down LGBTQ+ flags in cafes, & that’s just their latest attack on LGBTQ+ workers.

Join in solidarity w/ @SBWorkersUnited & sign the petition to demand Starbucks let workers & customers celebrate Pride! https://t.co/qYhoLlYTnk

[The Dodo @dodo]

Guy convinces a 49-year-old elephant's owner to let her retire — and she follows him so sweetly across a river to freedom 😭❤️

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

AI innovation just doesn't sleep.

This week was massive for AI.

Here's the rundown on the top 10 biggest things that happened:

[VoteVets @votevets]

Well said, @haldonahue! House Republicans will thank us for our service, then turn around and cut our benefits! Not on our watch!

#HandsOffVeteransCare

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

Some say love is the most powerful human driver/desire. Others say sex, or hunger. As a social scientist, I am aware of Maslow’s views, as well as those of many other key figures in this area.

However, I’ve long said that the strongest drive/desire of human beings, is that of familiarity.

A battered woman very often stays until she’s murdered, not because she is “stupid.” She often stays…because it is familiar. “Better the evil you know, than the evil you don’t know.” For her, familiar felt more comfortable than the fear of the unknown, or unfamiliar.

I’ve known 80 + year old farmers who had never been out of the 15-20 mile radius of the county they were born in. EVER. It’s not that they had never had dreams of doing something else, or seeing new things. No. The comfort of familiarity simply overrode those dreams.

Yes, even things that are dangerous, are also quite often familiar. In familiarity, we usually find a weird kind of powerful comfort. Even, and especially, while we are in a very UNcomfortable setting.

This is where many MAGA folks are situated. No, I’m not suggesting that familiarity is the only factor involved; it’s not.

However, MAGA is very familiar to them. Even those who may start feeling an occasional logical thought-about Donald Trump’s lunacy-enter their mind, they find that they immediately process it as being very UNfamiliar territory.

“Different” screams “FEAR” to the almond shaped structure in the brain called the amygdala. Unfamiliar, at least initially, is “different.”

When looking at your day to day preferences and routines, notice how few there are that qualify as “unfamiliar”, and how many are very….familiar. It’s a powerful force in our lives.

This is one reason independents are so often persuadable. Going in another direction isn’t nearly as unfamiliar. The familiarity of changing the path of their journey, when feedback indicates that doing so makes sense, is something they’ve done before. Thus, in familiarity…they find comfort in change.

As we think about MAGA, and wonder when their lunacy will end, just consider that, as long as it feels familiar…..and safe….it won’t. It’s going to be around for a good while.

We simply keep moving forward, bringing along as many people as we can, who find enough familiarity in changing their mind, to do so…and win election after election…until THAT…begins to feel familiar.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

'Last Stand' is a sci-fi short film directed by Hashem Al-Ghaili and made with AI using https://t.co/SX9XmD9hgZ with music by Thiago Nugent

[HD version + read more: https://t.co/kPUjvBxQGb]
https://t.co/VQwZu066oe

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

You can hear the words «Green Needle» or «Brainstorm» only based on which one you think about.

This is an auditory illusion, or a false perception of a real sound

[explanation: https://t.co/cnq2xCRkvg]
[📹: https://t.co/XdLyrDr418]

[“Mike is fine” ☮️ @MLKuster]

@RepMTG You can’t use the word “values” and “trump” in the same sentence, it contradicts itself.

[NASA @NASA]

Journey into the quantum realm with Ant-Man actor Paul Rudd! Learn how @NASASpaceSci’s quantum science could help unlock insight into the universe’s biggest mysteries, while contributing to technologies that improve our lives on Earth & advance space exploration.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Ladies and gentlemen - Jon fucking Stewart. 🔥

[“Mike is fine” ☮️ @MLKuster]

@BeatlesEarth Beware Of Darkness

[“Mike is fine” ☮️ @MLKuster]

@rocknrollgarag1 Sheep

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

BREAKING 🚨: Rare green comet will pass by Earth for the first time in 50,000 years on February 1

[“Mike is fine” ☮️ @MLKuster]

@officialDannyT Nailed it!

[LovePower @LovePower_page]

when you're having a bad day...watch this!

[“Mike is fine” ☮️ @MLKuster]

Every word!

[Elaine Luria @ElaineLuria]

Donald Trump lit the flame, poured gasoline on the fire, and sat in the White House dining room for hours watching the fire burn as rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol. Today, he continues to fan those flames.

This was his dereliction of duty.