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YouTube video by True Value This Japanese Tradition Fixed My Life | Trevor Noah #motivation #inspiration #selfimprovement

Trevor Noah – he just keeps getting better and better – on KINTSUGI, the Japanese art of repairing broken things in a way that values the breaks. ("There is a crack in everything; that's where the light gets in." Leonard Cohen)

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YouTube video by Shizen Style Japan's Secret to Happiness: Not Marie Kondo

A good reset for our behaviors this time of the year, when we stock up on garage sale items for subsequent years.

Marie Kondo is a great start: go further. Buy nothing. Invest in our values.
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We've moved the needle in 10 years, in VERY big ways. Not enough yet, no. The revanchist Trump administration and its billionaire overseers are doing their damnedest to set us back, as the rest of the world makes painstaking progress. But we can celebrate a bit, slap shoulders – then back to work.

I was looking at the one on the other side.

That gold bar is worth over $138,000. No idea what the Rolex is worth. Pretty good return on investment for Switzerland. Maybe it was accompanied by some crypto purchases as well.

We spend twice as much per capita on health care as almost any nation on Earth. We pay the highest prescription drug prices in the world. 85 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured.

Republicans — pathetically — have nothing serious to say about the health care crisis.

an adorable golden brown pup lays on the floor of what appears to be a vet’s office. he has a pink bandage on one leg and a blue bandage on another. he stares up at the camera blankly

an x-ray shows one of Luke’s legs. his bone is crushed and severed in several places

a woman leans over Luke as he appears to be wagging his tail. this time, he has two legs raised, likely from pain

This is Luke. He was hit by a car, crushing his back leg and fracturing his shoulder - both on his right side, making it very difficult to walk. He's in pain and needs urgent surgery to fix his broken bones, followed by rehab. You can help him below ❤️‍🩹

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Damn shame this isn't from a credible source; it would be worth amplifying. No specific town? Anonymous? On Reddit? Posted by Occupy Dems? Three strikes – no, four! I'll wait for someone credible to report on a particular town, sign their name, get the article vetted and published somewhere, thanks.

OMG, that photo on Epstein's desk while he's talking with Bannon!!!

OMG, that photo on Epstein's desk while he's talking with Bannon!!!

Well it's hard to argue with that.

In time, hopefully not much time, we will look back on headlines like this and see the resemblance to headlines during World War II about the Axis powers.

Billionaires are a cabal of transnational enemies of democracy, decency, community, and the environment. With few exceptions.

Trump apparently wants to be as destabilizing an influence as his buddy Vladimir. In one year’s time we have gone from protecting international stability with USAID to trying to break up NATO and the EU and extorting Ukraine.

Apparently, the Republican plan for your health care is just Mike Johnson drawing a giant "FU" on the back of your hospital bill. He won't write "fuck" because he's a CHRISTIAN. So that's why he'll pray as your baby dies of a preventable illness that RFK Jr. made great again, and you have to put up a GoFundMe to afford the funeral.

Sometimes on a Friday you just need a hit of @lyz.bsky.social clarity.

Release the September 2 war crimes video

Release the MRI results

Release the Epstein files in their totality

In time, hopefully not much time, we will look back on headlines like this and see the resemblance to headlines during World War II about the Axis powers.

Billionaires are a cabal of transnational enemies of democracy, decency, community, and the environment. With few exceptions.

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If only Al Franken was still in office.

Are you talking an AMERICAN political party? Wow, that'd be cool. Do we have time to launch one before midterms?

Billionaires are an international cabal. We need an international movement against them. But a start here would be a good start. Call it the Social Contract Party.

Trump Administration Scraps Plan to Mint Quarters Featuring Abolition, Suffrage The move comes as a controversial $1 Trump coin for the nation’s 250th birthday is also being considered.

one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states

My Prosecco is chilled and ready to go.

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YouTube video by KCAU-TV Sioux City Farmers React To President Trump's $12B Aid Package

"Bandaid on a broken leg." Iowa and South Dakota farmers react to Trump's bailout.

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Good news for even strangers to hear, Nancy. What a nice early Christmas gift. 💝

The War Prayer by Mark Twain

LOTS of people need to read more Twain. He's got things to say about that whole "God on our side" thing.
Like Anne Lamott said: "You can assume that you've made God in your image if he hates all the same people you do." warprayer.org

Hey GOP and Trump 🖕 because there goes our affordable health insurance -- and health care. Our blood is on your hands.

#RIPaffordablecare #ACA

Don’t laugh. Minnesota is the state that gave us Michelle Bachmann and Jesse Ventura.

Don’t laugh: Minnesota is the state that gave us Michelle Bachmann and Jesse Ventura.

Hers gets 1.8⭐️ on Goodreads.

Yours gets 4.3⭐️.

Much better ROI for your publisher.

Gets only 1.8⭐️ on Goodreads

If I were a reporter: Cool story, bro. Now answer the fucking question.