Libby

"That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the Earth”

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

From 2021 when the @EmpireStateBldg lights synched to Grateful Dead’s U.S. Blues for 4th of July is still better than any fireworks show out there

[SweetPeaBelle @SweetPeaBell326]

ICYMI, this song is awesome and the love and patriotism oozes with every verse.

Celebrate America’s 250th with reverence, respect and loads of patriotism. Free we will always be thanks to the patriots who fought tirelessly to keep us this way.

[blue @bluewmist]

I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

[Libby @redTNblues]

@MoxeeBeMe @Phil_Lewis_ And pus and blood…

[Tracy Beanz @tracybeanz]

I posted a frustrated rant at 10 PM on a Wednesday and apparently touched a nerve. Good. It needed to be touched.

Here is what the responses made clear to me:

1. Women need to talk more - kindly, and openly, and honestly. Not the way some of the exchanges under this post went, but really talk. We need to share what we know. We need to stop gatekeeping our own experiences out of shame or silence or the misguided idea that struggling alone is strength. It isn't. It's ignorant.

2. The medical establishment does not take women's health seriously. At all. They don't take anything else seriously, but when it comes to women's health? Run the other direction. I have my own horror stories and the thread is full of them. The proof is how many of us are sitting alone googling symptoms that nobody ever warned us about. Holistic wellness practitioners actually help and actually care. The system we were told to trust has been failing us for a long time. It's time we change that for ourselves. I am.

3. Generational trauma is real and it is running through the replies to this post in real time. Moms repeating what they lived because it is all they knew. Daughters left to figure it out alone because their mothers were still too broken to try something different. Nobody is villainized here. But the pattern has to stop.

If your first reaction to any of this was anger and defensiveness, think about that. That reaction is not about me. It is information about you, and it deserves your attention more than my post does. Think about it.

I am a 45 year old woman living as clean as a person can live. Filtered water, natural everything, carnivore lifestyle. Clean soap, clean hair products, clean water, clean skincare - and this is still hitting me hard. Which means this is not a lifestyle failure in my case, and I can't imagine how people who are metabolically unwell feel.

One thing I do know? Women deserve real information about what happens to their bodies.

That ends with us.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“We moved from being a part of nature to being apart from nature.”

— Sir David Attenborough

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it ... By the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now.” — George Orwell, 1984

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

they tracked him, observed him, a mentally ill person whose brother had informed on him the day before; they waited for him to "attempt to assassinate the US president" --(who was, in fact, on another floor & nowhere near)--firing shots wildly & one of these "friendly fire" shots striking the bullet-proof vest of one of their own; with much fanfare they tackled the mentally ill person whom they'd been tracking, charging this hapless person with "attempting to assassinate the president of the US."
but all did not go perfectly on script since, in being hustled out of the ballroom upstairs, the US President had no time to raise his fist bravely crying "Fight! Fight" but tripped & fell heavily to the floor & several persons were required to lift his heft, & hoist away to safety backstage.

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. Many science advocates see it as the latest step by his administration to erode—some would say destroy—the independence of the 76-year-old research agency. https://t.co/5LrByFdzHz

[Peter J Herron 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇷🇴 @PeterJHerron]

@gtconway3d @marceelias I fear you have too many self serving cowards in your Congress. Their inaction after everything we've seen already kinda proves that sad fact.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now.

Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia.

Read the full announcement ⤵️
https://t.co/yhjqSBVDOa

@WMLawSchool #SupremeCourt #DemocracysLibrary

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

The U.S. military just dropped its annual flu vaccine requirement.

One of the world’s largest deployable forces is voluntarily reducing protection against a virus that reliably degrades readiness, spreads fast in close quarters, and sidelines troops every winter.

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

George Washington believed that vaccinating his troops against smallpox was the key to winning the Revolutionary War and our independence. A founding father from 250 years ago had a better understanding of science and military readiness than Pete Hegseth.

[Old North @OldNorth1723]

On this night 251 years ago, two men climbed Old North Church's steeple. They held high two lanterns as a signal from Paul Revere that the British were heading to Concord via the Charles River.

Their famous “one if by land, two if by sea” warning ignited the American Revolution.

[Hasan Toor @hasantoxr]

This isn't a conspiracy theory.

A peer-reviewed study from Trinity College Dublin found that your Android phone contacts Google's servers every 4.5 minutes.

Even when you're not touching it. Even when the screen is off.

It sends your device ID, your phone number, your SIM serial number, and your location.

Even if you never signed into a Google account.

Source: Professor Douglas Leith, Trinity College Dublin, 2021.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

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One of the persistent mysteries of modern politics is why the online right always seems to move in lockstep. A scandal breaks, even fake scandals like the Biden Crime Family and within minutes thousands of accounts are repeating the same attacks.

Via the GOP’s Wall of Sound, things like trans people on beer cans or fake policies like CRT become MAJOR ISSUES. A talking point appears on Twitter, and suddenly it’s everywhere—from influencers to Fox News hosts to members of Congress.

To outsiders, it looks like spontaneous grassroots consensus.

[MayoIsSpicyy @Mayoisspicyy]

Anyone have dead raccoon
dick on their bingo card?

[CCJ @NastyOldWomynII]

@mcopeland_ @RickPetree @arenella1 @david_hemond @fredwalton216 @HCandler @DavidZippel @Teri_Kanefield @kevin_snapp @KDbyProxy @HPalmerlll @jolberding01 @RobertClark62 @AmicusLegis @Antidote4BS @KeyserSozeThree @JohnOleske @mryoung151 @capitolhunters @MOWNeverSleeps Keep tilting: never, ever, ever give up. When you feel discouraged about the last 10 years, look at how hard, how long, and how valiantly the Black community has fought, and how they’re fighting still. So are Democratic women.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

The most annoying thing about being human on Earth right now is the absolute waste of potential.

Brilliant minds and artists could be solving world hunger, climate change, and ending cancer, etc.

We could house, feed, clothe, and care for everyone.

But instead, we’ve decided to let a handful of asshats become billionaires, start wars, murder and imprison people, and keep the majority in poverty while ruining the climate.

It’s so stupid. The wasted ingenuity hurts to think about.

[Arlen Parsa @arlenparsa]

If there are any other politicians who “everyone in DC knew were creeps,” let’s get them out of office now, please. I don’t want to hear this same song all over again about how all the insiders knew.