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How to Stay Alive When You Don't Feel Like You Want To Depression, Mental Illness, and Sticking Around

That is the greatest battle with depression: pulling yourself through the present despair to a place just slightly in the future where you may be surprised by joy or feel less tired or see something differently.

You deserve to experience that place.

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"What was dismantled isn't just marble or plaster...I always knew it wasn’t my house. My home, but not my house. It belongs to the American people...the People’s House."

He had no authority to demolish it.
Where are our lawmakers?
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#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Mehdi Hasan with Jim Acosta.
This conversation comes up a lot but Americans are not paying attention. Trump is at the point where he will do anything to stay in the White House.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Trump and his fascist ilk have got to go.

Pritzker on Fox: "He's challenging the integrity of the next election by sending troops into our cities. It isn't about fighting crime. He said he's going after the worst of the worst. That's not what they're doing. They are literally after black and brown people because of the color of their skin."

YouTube video by Reagan Library President Reagan's Remarks at Briefing on the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement on November 4, 1987

President Reagan's Remarks at Briefing on the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement on November 4, 1987 #cdnpoli
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When I say the MAGA movement is post-truth, this is the sort of thing I mean. Push blatant lies in advance of an event, see overwhelming evidence that the lies were false, know that others saw it too, but plow ahead with the same lies, opposed to the notion that living in factual reality matters.

Well, well, well.
There's always a post.

A black handwritten-style quote on a white background reads: "Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich." The text is in bold, artistic script with varying stroke widths for emphasis, centered in a vertical composition.

Steve Bannon Claims Trump 'Will Be the President' for a Third Term — and Inner Circle Has a 'Plan' Steve Bannon says Donald Trump will serve at least one more term as president, claiming it's 'the will of the American people'

Steve Bannon calls Trump a "vehicle of divine providence" and says he'll get a 3rd term.

All the recent talk of "Antichrist" and demons will increasingly make sense over time.

This is "memetic warfare"—building religious justification for the fascist coup.

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“If the West Wing is the mind of the nation, then the East Wing is the heart.”

- former First Lady Betty Ford

The East Wing is gone.

Over a century of American history, reduced to rubble.

All to appease the vanity of a corrupt authoritarian.

Exclusive | Trump Administration in Talks to Take Equity Stakes in Quantum-Computing Firms The discussions signal Washington’s wider involvement in critical parts of the economy.

Exclusive: Several quantum-computing companies are in talks to give the Commerce Department equity stakes in exchange for federal funding.

FBI backtracks on denying children were zip tied in Idaho raid, saying instead no ‘young’ kids were • Idaho Capital Sun After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in raid in Wilder, Idaho, FBI says no "young" children were.

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were.

The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.

@other98.bsky.social

Love this meme. So appropriate for this moment

Safety of JN.1-Updated mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines This cohort study investigates the association between booster vaccinations containing the JN.1 lineage and 29 serious adverse events in Denmark.

Oh look: another study showing mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are safe.

🔹1 585 883 people
🔹no ⬆️ among 29 adverse events

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The image is a "Choice Cuts of Potatoes" chart that shows different parts of a potato and the dishes they are best suited for. Top of the potato: Roasted, Bread, Pancakes Middle of the potato: Hash Browns, French Fries, Chips, Baked, Scalloped Bottom of the potato: Mashed, Au Gratin, Shoestring, Chowder Idaho Potato Commission

Saw this and thought of you, @darthbluesky.bsky.social

I left Twitter two years ago and haven’t regretted it once. Popping back in to say you can do it too. Staying here means choosing to let your mind marinate in a right-wing cesspool. I don’t care how savvy you imagine yourself to be, you’re not immune to its distortions. Get out.

Time for my annual Get Out tweet. Feels like a lost cause at this point but anyway …

Welcome to Antifa, Lori Lightfoot

Why #Peaceful is the 🔑 for success:

“Can you put two and two together about what’s going on here??”

@saikatforcongress.bsky.social connects the dots for the panel

Thursday's Thought - What really bothers me about The Felon's ballroom beyond the illegality and Un-American opulence is - The Felon cut down 100+ year old trees planted by Andrew Jackson and Chester Arthur.

No words needed.

That’s a trillion dollar increase in two months.

ICE in Portland: “Dear God, they’re Jazzercising in formation! Light ‘em up!”