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finished my first ever knitted bag yesterday. later editions will need some redesign but so far i love the results

Day 1: No Kings March and A Visit to the Met While I was in New York City I insisted on attending the No King’s March, much to the chagrin of my father.

really enjoyed writing this one. i had a good time in NYC. another article incoming soon substack.com/@beatthefall...

Idc, "4 people disguised as construction workers heisted the Napoleon family jewels from the Louvre in 7 minutes by rolling up to the second-storey window on a basket lift" is an objectively hilarious event

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Artist Highlight A Visit to MOCA and The Broad

new post inspired by my trip to LA open.substack.com/pub/beatthef...

your path has already been chosen, and manifesting strength is the best thing you could do at this point. knight of pentacles reversed signals a stagnation or barrier to your efforts at harmony, but there's still hope. you're stronger than you think. channel that fear into something creative.

heavy fire energy. you may be experiencing some instability in the face of upcoming communication but you must access your internal strength to handle it like the empress. this is something you've wanted for a long time; a calm and stable approach will yield the best results.

lots of people are saying this

Cover of George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy” showing a young Japanese American boy in a line of people being sent to an internment camp guarded by a uniformed American soldier

Meant to mention this last week, but if you have a young person in your life who’s into history or graphic novels or just good books, buy them George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.” My oldest couldn’t put it down.

also heard someone say "thank you". dunno what that means, but if it's significant to you, take it.

you have all these ideas and passion but truth is you're having trouble with expression or procrastination. ace of wands, the hanged man: you need to surrender to it. page of cups & 9 of cups: doing so will bring a release. it will seem easy; a wish fulfillment.

are you cursed, or just going through it? lol. queen of wands in reverse suggests that you're feeling temperamental & pessimistic, the hermit suggests self-reflection. page of pentacles: you feel out of your element.

got a real "externally beautiful person who wants to control another person refusing to take an offer, meanwhile it's just that they're a mean bald man inside" energy from this one. "I must be cursed"

remember that what you put in you get back. focus on what you can control inside yourself in terms of personal growth vs being obsessed with an idea of union. you still have to put in the work to get there.

balancing internal/external judgment of yourself/you in the aspiration for connection w an equal, potentially unattainable. 777, creativity & hope after a tower moment, using inspiration for a project you might want to keep safe. Conflicted, perhaps btwn the 2 natures of 1 person, or 2 ppl.

THERAPIST: you seem to interpret real life as if you're streaming, and can only process emotions through a discussion with some sort of non-existent group viewing your every action
ME: Chat am I cooked

😭😭😭i love them

Im no fan of Iranian state media, but attacking the press (free or otherwise) is an IDF signature move.

interesting.

When Los Angeles actually *was* burning down six months ago, these people didn't give a damn about us. Now they're spreading fake AI videos showing LA burning

They are in a media bubble that insists all the bad things Trump promises to do will only impact a nebulous Other, not them and their friends.

But if a few people in masks start lighting stuff on fire? Then you have news. This creates an *enormous* attentional advantage towards the most violent and chaotic kind of protest.

in Germany a lot of this was a reaction to the war years and the failed promises of German imperialism, but you see similar dynamics all over. Fascism's greatest supporters are mediocre people born in comfort who need someone to blame for the fact that they don't have more.

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and…

Tear gas can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses, including COVID.

The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):

What’s happening is that the cops are totally closing off downtown and making it near impossible to use mass transit that runs through Union station while costing the city a small library in overtime fees.

BREAKING: The enforcement chief at America’s consumer watchdog is quitting, ProPublica has learned.

Cara Petersen writes in her sign-off letter that it’s “clear that the Bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.” 🧵 1/

However, communications proved to be a challenge at times because Marines, soldiers, and police all use different terminologies, Delk wrote. In one incident, a squad of Marines accompanied police to a home in response to a domestic dispute. One of the police officers was hit when someone inside opened fire. “His partner grabbed him and as he pulled him back he hollered to the Marines ‘Cover me!’” Delk wrote. “Now to a cop, that was very simple command. That means aim your rifle and use it if necessary. To a Marine, and there were some well-trained young patriots in that squad, it meant something entirely different. They instantly opened up. A mom, a dad, and three children occupied that house.” Police later found more than 200 bullet holes in the home, but thankfully no one inside was hit, Delk wrote. “The point is, those great young Marines did exactly what they’re trained to do, but not what the police thought they requested,” Delk wrote. “You need to understand the differences in language.”

And this is what I fear is going to happen. Some "communications glitch." The Boston Massacre was also a communications glitch.

peach 🍑

The popo pepper sprayed a sin bather in a a Georges Seurat painting

LAPD out there like

of all the cities to fuck with i would not wanna fuck with LA

Why Is Elon Musk Tweeting About Me at 3 A.M? What the world's richest man doesn't get about universal health care

Our health care system is one of the worst in the developed world. Medical debt is the cause of 66 percent of bankruptcies in the U.S. In Canada, the runner-up in this bleak competition, that number is 19 percent. We spend more on health care than any other wealthy country and yet have the worst outcomes. We take Ubers instead of ambulances, take fish antibiotics instead of prescriptions, and often skip medical treatment altogether because of the expected cost.

Donald Trump and the Republicans want to make this worse. By creating even more hoops for Americans to jump through just to get care that is often lackluster, by demonizing the poor, and by insisting health care is something you must earn, this administration is bragging about its own inhumanity. When I said, “Every person in the world deserves health care,” Jennings couldn’t fathom that idea. His first instinct was to blurt out, “Even illegals?” The answer is yes. If you are a person, you deserve health care, no matter where you are or who you are. No one deserves to die because they can’t afford insulin or because they’re too scared of bankruptcy to seek medical attention. If you show up at my doorstep starving or injured, I am not going to ask for papers before I help you.

One of the main reasons I’m running for Congress is because our leaders have conditioned us into thinking we don’t deserve good things, especially if we aren’t rich. But we do. You do. Every American deserves to afford housing, groceries, and health care with money left over to save and spend. We deserve to thrive, not just survive. And every single human being in every single country deserves to know that they can find the help they need on the worst day of their lives, when they are at their weakest and most vulnerable. For most Americans, this concept isn’t hard to grasp, but when it comes to Elon Musk and right-wing pundits, they simply can’t fathom having even an ounce of basic humanity.

I wrote about universal healthcare for @newrepublic.com and why everyone deserves healthcare, regardless of your income or your papers: newrepublic.com/article/1962...