Melani Weber

In a Truth Social post, President Trump said he directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to send U.S. troops to Portland, Oregon. Mayor Keith Wilson dismissed the threat, calling it “a big show of force, and nothing more.”

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

The Constitution protects your right to record law enforcement in public.

The compassion deficit.

Let's ban congressional stock trading once and for all.

I want to see what Claudia has to say about this. #mexico

DAILY MEMO: ICE Brutalizes and Sends High-Profile Female TikToker Who Documents Raids to Hospital

@eltragon.bsky.social

’m 59 and have never seen this whole cartoon. Our local station played Looney Tunes cartoons on Saturdays but *never* played this one. I saw Figaro many times but never this one. I wonder why?

Great review. Helpful info!

So happy that this is the first video I see on this app. 💙

a poem I wrote about all the breaking news #creatorsearchinsights #poetry #poem #breakingnews #election2024 TikTok video by teaologypod

Amazing poem.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YYBPdC/

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Firefox, when I type “live” into your address bar I am NEVER going to mean livejournal .com. Though ‘How long do owls live?’ is a serious contender for my attention.

Copilot AI showing up everywhere in MS 365 is making me crazy. I see it as an an indication of how little thinking they actually want people to do. Mindless serfs will be easier to part with their money, after all.

“Don't speak negatively about yourself, even as a joke. Your body doesn't know the difference. Words are energy and they cast spells, that's why it's called spelling. Change the way you speak about yourself, and you can change your life.”
~ Bruce Lee
Lee by Stanley Bielecki / Getty Images

My favorite quote from holiday get-togethers is from a great-nephew, who, when asked what his sous chef Dad does for a living, said, “He cuts stuff up.“

What is the norm is often different than what is ethical, unfortunately.

Good grief. I’m such a tarot nerd. It took me about an hour to realize that my subconscious recognized the Two of Swords even if my conscious mind didn’t. 🤓 ⚔️

The blessings of a 27” monitor mean today’s Bing image struck me the moment I saw it. The whorls and shapes of their visible breath seem like magical spells to me.

(From iStockphoto - no photographer listed except “Wirestock.” Taken in Hokkaido, Japan)

Used to get Death card often. Like, low stakes reading, going great, then Death! Oh, the drama! I’d explain: it’s probably not real death, etc. Almost like a joke was being pulled on me. Then one time it WAS about real death & I sobered up about that card quick. Now I rarely get it.

Under December’s Cold Moon, let’s come together for a moment of peace and reflection. ❄️🌕 This is the final full moon of the year—a time to release what no longer serves us and make space for clarity ... TikTok video by Chaka Khan

Meditate on this month’s full moon with Chaka Khan. No, really.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8N9PUEG/

When I see research results like these here my conviction to teach people a basic gut feeling of data grows stronger. Folks think that one in five people are transgender?! That’s soooo off. People think that 40% have served in the military?! That’s one of the reasons I share so many charts and maps.

All apologies to Mindfulness Bell as I had to replace 'and' with an ampersand and remove two Oxford commas to get it to fit the BlueSky text limit. ☺️

Mindfulness Bell 94 – The Mindfulness Bell Brother Pháp Lưu says this issue "... explores the radiant nature of nonduality at a critical moment on our planet, at a time when our tendency toward dualism seems to be taking over the collective co...

“I aspire to practice to love Mother Earth, Father Sun & for human beings to love one another with the radiant insight of nonduality & interbeing in order to help us transcend all kinds of discrimination, fear, jealousy, resentment, hatred & despair.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
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