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[Tug @FromC2C2C]

https://t.co/jMsiLPXbgv Colonial Humans

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

March 20, 2025

Happy first day of Spring to residents of Earth’s Northern Hemisphere, and first day of Autumn to residents of Earth’s Southern Hemisphere.

[Dr. Tara Taylor @tara_taylor]

Guess I won’t be going to any US conference any time soon. I wasn’t planning on it but yikes.

[Blacklock's Reporter @mindingottawa]

DOCUMENTS: Secret memo @HICC_ca shows feds knew they couldn't meet housing targets despite repeated public promises to  "unlock the door to the middle class for millions." 
https://t.co/XsBApSnfyH @SeanFraserMP @Beynate #cdnfoi #ATI #cdnpoli

[Tom Whittaker @whittakertp]

Pierre Poilievre calls himself a tough guy. Same guy that will not face the media. Same guy that will not get a security clearance. Same guy that will not debate Mark Carney. https://t.co/HlO75wxi76

[🇨🇦Cathy💙💛 @MoralityPLS]

@patgagnon_75

[Patrick Gagnon 🍁 @patgagnon_75]

Before, you believe that Pierre Poilievre will fight for Canadians. The last time the CPC was in power, they:
*Signed FIPA in secrecy
*Sold the Canadian Wheat Board to a Saudi-owned Global Grain Group
*Raise the age of eligibility for Old Age Security (OAS) from 65 to 67 yrs old

[Humanspective @Humanspective]

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong (LA Times owner), throws his support behind Robert F Kennedy Jr saying: “[he] knows more about the science than most doctors.”.

Stunningly, he goes on to mention “we have to face reality” about the disturbing fall out from mRNA covid vaccines and the cancer cases he’s never seen in his lifetime, or at least his clinical career:

“We’re gonna have to address the rising instances of cancer. For the first time in my career, I’ve seen an 8-year old, 9-year old, 10-year old with colon cancer.”

“For the first time in my career, I’ve had a 13-year old child in our clinic d*e of metastatic pancreatic cancer.”

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I honestly don’t know if we’ll make it.

I can’t say with any degree of certainty that truth and sanity will prevail, that the world will stop burning, that we’ll stop being cruel to each other and start moving toward health and harmony.

Maybe our species is approaching the end of its run here. I cannot tell you for sure that it isn’t.

What I can tell you for sure is that there is a magpie outside my window, and that my eyes are dripping with love for it.

I can tell you I went for a walk about an hour ago, and the ground felt delicious on my feet while the wind caressed my hair.

Maybe we don’t get to be here for much longer. I can’t honestly tell you otherwise. But I can tell you it’s very possible to relish each precious instant we are here.

The universe will sing to you, if you listen. There are kisses hidden in the rustling leaves. There are galaxies hidden in the sounds of trains.

We can live from there. Even amid the raging fires. Even amid the genocide and pain. Even amid all the advertising, the vapid Hollywood dogshit, the fast fashion, the phoniness, the deceit. We can cherish the world like a mother cherishes a newborn baby, even if we wind up doing so while watching it die.

We are living in dystopia, but we don’t need to be living in hell. As fraudulent and destructive as this civilization is, and as all-pervasive as its madness seems to be, it is still built on the surface of an ancient planet which pulsates with primordial wisdom. Just below the superficial layer of the cacophony of human madness, there are uncharted depths in which strange leviathans swim.

I’m not here to tell you we’re going to win this thing. I’m not here to sell a false and unearned certainty in a happy ending. I’m here to tell you that this world is one hell of a glorious ride regardless of what happens, and that it would be a damn shame if you didn’t appreciate it while it lasts.

You don’t need to waste your life as one of those jaded, world-weary politically conscious people who think they know too much to be happy, and that everything is too dark and dismal to enjoy their time here. You don’t need to choose between being happy and being well-informed. We are engulfed in an endless explosion of miracles and beauty in every living instant on this earth no matter what happens and no matter how much we we know. It is only a failure of our own perception if we don’t recognize this.

We’ve got a lot of work to do here, and we’re going to continue seeing some very ugly things happening in our world for the foreseeable future. It does nobody any good for us to let the darkness burn us out and exhaust us instead of learning to enjoy our time on this planet while we fight.

I know I’ve shared this same message before in various ways, but that’s only because I see a great need for it. I’ve heard too many people saying they are feeling torn down and broken by the terrible things happening in this world, and that they don’t know how to go on.

You go on by going in. By diving right in to reality, in all its burning, blood-soaked, agonizing glory. By feeling it all, all the way through, without trying to lean back and compartmentalize any part of yourself away from it. The ocean is unbothered by the waves not because it is separate from them but because it is inseparably one with them.

Feel the pain. Cry the tears. Witness the suffering. Experience the beauty. Notice the endless eruption of love which lies at the heart of all things. Celebrate the magpie. Cherish the wind in your hair and the ground beneath your feet.

No matter what happens, nobody can take these things from you. No matter what else the bastards might take, they can never take away your innate exuberance at living a human life on this terrestrial wonderball.

That’s the secret to finding happiness in the midst of a genocidal dystopia on a dying world. Not by hiding from the reality of it, but by diving right into it without holding anything back.

If you do this, you will find that there is so very, very much more joy, love, beauty and exhilaration in this adventure than there is heartbreak and pain. There is vast delight to be found in the smallest of things.

Our minds tend to focus on what’s wrong and what’s bad, while overlooking how absolutely fucking amazing it is to be living as a human organism on this earth. This habit can be unlearned. The gift of each moment can be appreciated as it comes. Everything that arises can be met for the first time with wide-eyed marvel.

And we can keep fighting in the meantime. And we can do so with deep gratitude in our chests for every magical instant.

[Dave Glover 🐔🍷🇨🇦♿ @legant66]

@Freire1Pb The Finance Minister is LYING.
The FAO has stated on many many occasions that in FACT this govt has been steadily reducing funding to Public Hospitals while spending more than double on Private for profit facilities.
Our tax dollars are making privateers a fortune.
As ours suffer

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

JUST IN: Family of accused Trump hotel truck bomber Matthew Livelsberger says he was a “big Trump supporter,” questions the incident.

Odd.

The uncle of Livelsberger told the Independent that he is confused by the explosion because his nephew could rig a bomb to blow up half the hotel if he really wanted to do damage.

“He used to have all patriotic stuff on Facebook, he was 100 percent loving the country.”

“He loved Trump, and he was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American. It’s one of the reasons he was in Special Forces for so many years. It wasn’t just one tour of duty.”

“Matt was a very skilled warrior, and he would be able to make if it was him, and if he did this… he would’ve been able to make a more sophisticated explosive than using propane tanks and camping fuel.”

“Some of it doesn’t make sense, when he had the skills and ability to make something more, let’s say, ‘efficient.’ His skills were enormous from what he had been taught in the military.”

“[He] could have fashioned a bomb that would have obliterated half of that hotel if he seriously wanted to hurt others.”

Source: Independent

[Ralph Nader @RalphNader]

Bomber Biden’s obeisance to the genocidal mass murderer Netanyahu continues into the New Year.

The Israeli regime is no longer just obstructing the entry of American humanitarian aid trucks. They have established a siege of this tiny enclave as they bombard defenseless Palestinian families, finish off their destruction of hospitals, markets, bakeries and refugee camps where Palestinian children are freezing to death, starving to death and coughing to death from untreated infections. Bibi Biden no longer even pleads publicly for Netanyahu to stop the civilian killings.

[Ralph Nader @RalphNader]

Curious that all the coverage by the press on the Musk/Trump efficiency mission ignores all of this vast looting of Uncle Sam by Big Business, including the military industrial complex. Come on reporters! Wake up! -R

[SPIEGEL English @SPIEGEL_English]

Already facing significant headwinds, VW has now been hit by a data protection nightmare. Location data from 800,000 electric vehicles and contact info from owners was accessible unprotected on the internet. And the company didn't even know about it. https://t.co/YvW10oaYhx

[FRANCE 24 English @France24_en]

Oil slick from Russian tanker spill reaches Crimea
➡️ https://t.co/sgIH05AZfs

[Resister in GA 🟧 @ResisterInGA]

@emptywheel @ClaudetteGGibs1 @elonmusk Death traps.

[doloresquintana @doloresquintana]

@emptywheel @elonmusk Conveniently, they remotely lock too. Seems like a great way to get rid of a witness if you want or need to. There's no way I'll ever get inside of a Tesla.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

"Military service is now the number one predictor of becoming what is called a 'mass casualty offender,' surpassing even mental health issues."

@MikePrysner discusses the mass violence that can result when U.S. warfare and empire comes home.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

America This Week: Terror Attacks Live Discussion at 10 ET, Friday, January 3

Recapping a confusing jumble of new facts with @walterkirn this morning:

https://t.co/IymcQU1a8J

[Ralph Nader @RalphNader]

"Gaza is now the world capital of child amputation. And that doesn't even cover the true horror, because Israel blocks any anesthesia from entering Gaza as a means of imposing further agony on the population that they are subjecting to genocide." - former senior United Nations human rights official Craig Mokhiber

[Wild First @wildfirstcanada]

In 2019, Prime Minister Trudeau promised to remove ocean-polluting Atlantic salmon farms from BC waters by 2025. End the pens.