At some point, you will have to disappoint others to live a life that is honest to you. People-pleasing will drain you, not save you. You have every right to set boundaries and choose your peace; you can disappoint people and still be a good person.
For many more fun insights - including shifts in gender, race and age composition, and much more - check out the full paper in JDQ:DM!
Open Access!
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Just take 3 mins and 15 seconds to listen to this lady speak.
WHY👏🏾DONT👏🏾WE👏🏾ALL👏🏾KNOW👏🏾ABOUT👏🏾HER??!!!
This genuinely makes me so upset.
She been gone 8 years and I hear her name on a random
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Last week I learned that Loudoun Water processes 10 million gallons of water daily, and fully half of that potable water goes to existing data centers.
tRump’s DOJ defies federal judges, keeping immigrants locked up even after courts ordered them freed on habeas corpus. Judges fume & impose sanctions, and declare a “judicial emergency” as thousands sit in detention despite winning their cases.
Pure contempt for the rule of law.
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People should read.
I'm tired of people not reading.
Please, if you can, PLEASE, read! Read everything, but especially fiction! Read comics!
It will help you with empathy AND make you smarter.
Please, read.
this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990
Here it is, my annual reminder: don't spray spring dandelions with roundup. One flower can be visited by 100+ bees in a day, and your chemicals will kill all of them. 🌻
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2961:
Your voice is unique. It’s a combination of many factors: your upbringing and background; the books you’ve read; your personality. Some people may not like it, but it’s yours. Keep it authentic. Trying to sound like someone else is a betrayal of who you are.
The Borders Modern Quilt Guild is staging a public exhibition at The Haining House, Selkirk, featuring over 150 quilts. The classical Georgian house was built in 1794 and remodelled in 1819.
Quilts 2026, 24 and 25 April. #Borders 🏴
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EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.
The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.
"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..."
"One of her children recently enlisted in the military...
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The EPA is choosing weaker protections on purpose.
Rolling back these standards means more toxic emissions escaping into communities. More risk. More harm. Same communities paying the price.
That’s unacceptable. https://seiu.co/4cP5wB3
More of this, less of bombing other countries
(From @acyn.bsky.social )
Beauty. 🌹
“Be still and the earth will speak to you.”
~ Hopi
The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.
The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.
The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.
It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.
this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.
We should be learning from other countries...
900lb crates full of onions in a field
The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026
DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states.
DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand.
My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases.
DOJ is now 0-5.
My firm is 5-0.
Lesson: When we fight we win.
As an American. I make the decision to buy a gun and go shoot somebody. I get convicted and go to jail.
An a health Insurance exec. I make the decision to deny care and kill someone. I get a bonus.
Not enough people are talking about how hard it is to provide a nutritious, home-cooked dinner at a consistent, reasonable hour when you work a full-time job.
Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.
This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.
Never doubt your power to change the system.
We are holding people in disgusting, filthy hot moldy gulags indefinitely with no legal representation even though they have committed no crime. Includes women, children, and babies. THIS MUST STOP NOW! Immigration is how we all came here, unless we are natives. ABOLISH ICE!
Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.
This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.
It makes me nostalgic to see politicians retire in the face of sexual assault claims instead of running for President.
