The Art of the Shoulder Tap From Distraction to the Divine: Finding Clarity in a Busy World

The Art of the Shoulder Tap
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Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?

Now you know.

As the Supreme Court Focuses on the Past, Historians Turn to Advocacy

How the hell do you write a piece about historians writing for the courts that quotes three judges and four law profs but ZERO historians?

🔥 COACH SULLY: “If that’s not a false flag of hate I don’t know what is.”

Sully shows how Fox & Republicans regularly focus on trans athletes to distract from the real problems they ignore. 🎯

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

Brain-dead woman must carry fetus to birth because of Georgia's abortion ban, hospital tells family A hospital is using a breathing tube and other measures to keep a brain-dead Georgia woman's body functioning because she is pregnant.

#ProudBlue #MomSky

This is so disturbing. I don’t even have the words.

This was not the Mother’s or family’s wishes. This is because the state considers it an abortion if they let the Mother die.

Can thing get anymore dystopian?

Economist cover: RUINATION DAY

Why would a leader tank his own country's economy?

It's a key part of the aspiring autocrat's playbook.

Tariffs & chaos mean more power & control for Trump.

But America has no king. The Republican-led Congress can stop this at any time.

Let your reps hear from you.

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Sidewalk chalk message says: "Start imagining the revolution. Stop imagining the apocalypse."

Solid advice. Keep your eye on the future victory, not the temporary doom.

Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.

BREAKING: Trump's National Security Advisor Mike Waltz used GMAIL to discuss NATIONAL DEFENSE INFORMATION. That's LESS SECURE than Hillary's private email server. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny:

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Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:

@lisazipp.bsky.social

Charlotte Clymer on Substack Honestly, this might sum up American society far more than most of us would care to admit.

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The Firehose Effect Don’t let Trump’s deluge daunt you

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Shameful

Alexander Hamilton’s Nightmare Realized: How Billionaires Hijacked America From the Founders’ Vision to the Billionaire Takeover of Democracy

I wish I could personally apologize to Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com for not posting enough of his amazing writings. I’ll try to remedy that as America plunges ever more deeply into #ChristoFascism, #Kakistocracy and #Broligarchy!

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MLK-ALI 40 DAYS OF PEACE AND GREATNESS We invite you to be part of a powerful movement for unity and healing. From January 20th to March 1st, 2025, we honor the legacies of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali through 40 days of ...

Start something meaningful on inauguration day.

This!

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January 15, 2025 It is somehow fitting that President Joe Biden’s farewell address to the nation, scheduled for 8:00 Eastern time tonight, was overshadowed today by the dramatic announcement that after months of negot...

January 15, 2025:

Yup.

January 12, 2025 Almost ten weeks after the 2024 election, North Carolina remains in turmoil from it.

January 12, 2025

Ex-FBI informant behind fake Biden-Ukraine bribery allegations sentenced to 6 years in prison | CNN Politics The disgraced former FBI informant who falsely accused President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden of taking a $10 million bribe from Ukraine was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison, a...

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨

The disgraced former FBI informant who falsely accused President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden of taking a $10 million bribe from Ukraine was sentenced Wednesday to six years in federal prison, according to court records.

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