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Especially because I was dreading today

An easygoing monday? What a pleasant surprise

In fact, the concept of only reading non-fiction when it's entertaining is actually quite concerning. The informational and empowering prospect of knowledge is not centered, amusement is.

Most people suggest that we need to read more fiction, but the opposite is true.

I would even go so far as to say that pushing past "boring" titles is a civic responsibility. A well-informed and knowledge-seeking populace is how a democracy survives. You don't get there by endlessly reading fiction or only choosing entertaining non-fiction books.

Non-fiction is so good. People today seem to have an averse reaction to "dry, dense" titles, but these are the most enriching. And, ironically, they're what would fortify us the most in times where ignorance reigns and escapism is the norm.

Now that I’m working an 8-5, it’s becoming so much more difficult to find that precious time to read, and tbh sometimes I don’t feel like reading at all. But that’s exactly why I try to persist and read a couple of pages.

Selecting your next books is one of the funnest parts of reading, even more so when you use a wheel generator to pick your next read.

BREAKING NEWS!

A prime minister catches on to something most of us knew 11 years ago.

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.

TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.

Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.

Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

Family of Alex Pretti retains lawyers who helped prosecute the George Floyd case The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota’s attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck of murder.

The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota's attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd's neck of murder. https://to.pbs.org/3ZA2HfU

BIG CHANGES NEED TO HAPPEN BY #MIDTERMS 🗳️
WATCHING ALL IN HOUSE AND SENATE.

AMERICANS WE MUST VOTE OUT ALL COMPLICIT LAWMAKERS WHO ARE SILENT. 🤬

There may be some niche examples somewhere, but I cannot think of any system, natural or human-made, that isn't strengthened by more diversity. Ecology, biology, economics, politics, agriculture... am I missing anything?
This lesson is reflected everywhere and in everything.

In spite of the horrible things that are happening, I have a lot of hope. The US empire is actively, precipitously nosediving into their own demise. Weakening themselves on the global scale. Universally loathed.

Its end is near.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

It's true that when a government becomes tyrannical it is the duty of the citizens to overthrow it and form a new one. It's just that the people who have been saying it in my lifetime have been saying it in response to stuff like the existence of Hannukah, and Black people, and the Spanish language.

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

Anyone who votes to fund it clearly has no respect for the Constitution or the American people.

Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.

ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

“He Can’t Do That” Is a Hope, Not a Strategy The Steady State |by Steven A. Cash

“He Can’t Do That” Is a Hope, Not a Strategy open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...
"The question is are we prepared to respond when [Constitutional] limits are tested, ignored, or broken. History suggests that waiting until the law is fully cast aside is always too late."

We must stop the purchasing of our elected representatives by big money seeking favors.

This is a global far right power grab, so the sooner everybody realizes that and puts aside their deeply outdated notions around national identity, which got us here to begin with, the better. The only way out is through, but the only way through is all of us fighting these climate warlords together

She was absolutely right. And she would have been an amazing President.

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

Patty O'Keefe, who was violently arrested while monitoring ICE activity, says one agent told her, "You guys got to stop obstructing us. That's why that lesbian bitch is dead," referring to Renee Good.

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.