If you take the joy - even momentary joy - of every person who sees your windows, who notice their beauty, and for whom they represent something true and real compared to most of what is made today... take al those moments and add them up - that's a lot of joy to add to the world!

Even if you don't trust ZeroHedge's interpretation, the report that they link to might be an interesting one if you want to dig into January 6 (and perhaps more importantly, into the implications of having agencies that have no accountability to the public that they purportedly serve). It's messy and complicated and I doubt that there are too many clear answers, but if we can look at it not from a partisan perspective but from a systemic one, it can lead to some good questions.

I tried to withdraw 3k (in the US) a few years ago and was told I had to give a reason. I said "cat litter" and she was not amused. I asked what the limit was before they started asking questions, and the teller said that she couldn't tell me. Then she capped it all off with"it's for your protection."

I've experimented with fasting quite a bit and have been watching this with interest - but not closely enough to know if you've done it before, so I'll mention something that you might be well aware of. For me, coming out of the fast has generally been much more difficult than the fast itself, and by most accounts it seems to be as important to the success of the whole thing. I don't have particular advice, but these days when I fast, I make sure that I save focus (intention, discipline, planning) for the re-feeding day(s). Good luck!

maybe one of the most important recommendations was to stop giving kids tylenol after vaccinations. I'm not much into dr visits (or shots) and didn't realize that was the default advice! Means that the child's body is getting hit with a number of toxins in the shots and then immediately has reduced detoxification ability because of suppression of glutathione and suppression of fever.

The arrogance of this 🤯

🤯 I just listened to most of the White House press conference on autism and was happily surprised. Trump rambled and said a bunch of nonsense (along with some good things) but from the others there were a few gems, including encouraging parents to allow a fever rather than "treating" it. Also from Bhattacharya a calm statement about the complexity of autism and how it's unlikely that there's one singular cause, that it's multi-factorial. Bhattacharya, RFK, and Makary were all on the wrong side of the covid regime. I wonder if there's any camaraderie from those years.

I could only stay on for a minute, but it was easy to find and see! Using Primal.

cool! how long before it fruited? and do you have a co-pollinator?

looking good, Mir!

Reserving judgement until we hear more, but I so appreciate that followed up to let us know.

yeah, exactly 😑

Just in case any of you are concerned about this - because I flipped out when I first heard about this tick-borne allergy - there's a carnivore doc (may have been our own ?) who says that it tends to clear up in a few months.

This is far beyond my understanding of any scripture, so I'll take your word for it! Most of the time that I've heard Mark of the Beast used recently it was about the covid jab but it sounds like you're using in reference to the Sabbath timing?

There's a terrific Twain quote about reading the news. Paraphrasing: if you don't read the news you're uninformed, but if you read the news you're misinformed. What gave black Americans the right to vote was not a bill, so you may be in the latter category at least regarding that claim. Kirk does seem to have been against the Civil Rights Bill. This is a position I hadn't considered but could probably steel man decently given the fact that so many govt interventions tend to have the opposite of their intended effect (Inflation Reduction Act, Patriot Act, Bank Secrecy Act, etc). Have you listened to Kirk yourself or are you going by what someone else is saying? (I'm still genuinely open to you being right on your other claims. I'm currently trying to piece together what Kirk stood for and his views.)

I'm not sure what rallies you mean that Biden led or supported, but Democrats are less tolerant - by far - of people from across the aisle than Republicans. (And I say this as someone who was until recently registered Democrat in the US.) If I were to go to a MAGA rally with a Bernie or Biden shirt I would expect to be mocked but I wouldn't be afraid. If I were to go to a leftist rally with a Trump hat, I would be scared of physical violence. Talking of opposing voices as enemies is very common in both parties, and Trump in particular has been on the receiving end of so many media lies and so much political vitriol that most on the US left - and based on my exchanges with you, I would say around the world - genuinely have no idea what he has or hasn't done. He's overt about his desire to censor where Biden was dishonest about his censorship, which seems even worse to me. Trump's particular style - the pompous, grandious talk - is grating, but that's not the main problem with him in my opinion. The issues I have with Trump are pretty much the same issues I have with the other candidates - basically his bowing to the military-industrial complex and other power structures and more generally the centralization of power and the ramifications of central banking. TDS= Trump Derangement Syndrome

From that note, I would have trouble knowing which US politician you're talking about. Bernie Sanders comes to mind first, but maybe... Biden? Mamdani? Trump? Harris? Newsom? The economic ignorance, the pseudo-antielitism, the followers who will not see their values actually represented in the policy... this is true of all the politicians I listed here and probably nearly every major candidate out there. The reason I keep engaging on this is because TDS tends to blind people to the larger questions. For instance, if so many Americans hadn't fallen prey to it, they would have seen the dangerous violations of freedom of speech and civil liberites under the Biden administration.

yeah I sometimes hear longer clips on the No Agenda podcast, and I'm amazed that they have careers. Most of the voices are sooo annoying

omg this poor kid Also I can barely understand her through that blasted mask Did the "youth" elect this advocate?

You may find this podcast interesting for more background on the US involvement in Ukraine (and Israel). You won't find this kind of analysis and history in the Washington Post.

😂 prime minister of a country that is not the US wants to tell us the definition of MAGA

In the last week I've watched a number of his videos. He was definitely Christian and pro-freedom of speech. The other claims in your post don't ring true to me but I'm open to evidence that they are. How did he use his freedom of speech to remove it for others? I'm not sure what the mechanism would be for that.

and I'm one of them This is how you ruin/capture a movement - let it be institutionalized by the government. Better state than federal, but still. Aghhhhh

oh! hugs to you 🫂 Did your new little one get to meet her?

one of my friends is sending me screenshots of pregnant women gleefully taking Tylenol to spite Trump 🤯

My husband and I watched Fargo a while ago. The last season was fun, but the programming was quite something: the bad guy - violent, corrupt, power-hungry, domestic abuser - was also: libertarian, rancher, sheriff, 2A advocate, prepper, Christian, anti-institutional. He believed in local over federal authority, freedom, the Constitution, self sovereignty and he railed against the tyranny of the state. This is probably more powerful as an indoctrination tool than a thousand stupid news articles. There's good substack about this from Gato Malo today. That cancelled show looks like a doozy. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/cat-corner-morality-playlists

I know lots of folks who still believe that what they saw in the news and their sm feeds reflected the consensus of the medical community on covid and the vaccine. So not only did they not know it before, they didn't even realize it during the pandemic.

"you hate to see it" is tearing them down?