Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, the United States had spent that money helping the people of the United States

The eyewatering hypocrisy writes itself.

US Congressman Thomas Massie “We should end all US military aid to Israel.”

HELL YEAH!

It is not a conspiracy anymore.

Today is the day we remember that Jesus was betrayed for money and self-interest.
#HolyWeek

A war on immigrants, in a nation of immigrants, is a war on America itself.

Never forget the most ironclad rule of politics:

Every abuse you justify against another will be weaponized against you in time.

To cheer abuse, violence, or the suspension of others’ rights is to cheer the abuse, violence, and suspension of your own.

“.. fame and exceptionalism can be very, very destructive. .. I think it’s good to make your own bed, it’s good to go do your shopping, to have your feet on the ground, to know that you’re a human being as well. The other stuff is projection.”

- Annie Lennox, born today in 1954 💕

This is one those things you see and you think "how much longer can @schumer.senate.gov let this guy go on?" but I actually think it's too late to stop him.

It saddens me that we are so unwilling to share life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

“You may rejoice, I must mourn” -Frederick Douglass

What to the detained immigrant is the Fourth of July?
What to the deported veteran is the Fourth of July?
What to the separated family is the Fourth of July?
What to the poor and disabled is the Fourth of July?

Today I am reminded of those words Frederick Douglass spoke in 1852, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” So I ask,

“For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted." –Psalm 109:16

IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid ***

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

Accountability now.

Open link next skeet.

"It's a killing field," one soldier said....no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire w/ machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then.. the shooting stops, they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire."

SS Obergruppenfuehrer Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski told Himmler that: ‘These men were now finished for the rest of their lives: they would either be neurotics or savages….’ ”

Einsatzgruppen. “The Nazis largely abandoned their previous method of extermination, shooting, because of the psychological effect they were having on the killers.

We all become well-disguised mirror image of anything that we fight too long… That which we oppose determines the energy and frames the questions after a while. Most frontal attacks on evil just produce another kind of evil in yourself, along with a very inflated self-image to boot.~Richard Rohr

For those unconditionally cheering the attacks on Iran, remember that our early strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq were “successful”. But we ended up getting dragged into costly wars that created more terrorists than we killed. The American people haven’t forgotten that.

Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

Truth is revealed. It cannot ever be told. We cannot tell the truth. It has to appear inside the telling or through the telling. That's why we listen to what's not said in psychoanalysis and that's again what goes wrong in an interview: It focuses too much on what's said.~James Hillman

Reporter: How did the Israelis treat you, we saw them giving sandwiches? Greta Thunberg: They probably have posted lots of PR stunts, they did an illegal act by kidnapping us in international waters but that’s not the real story here. The real story is the genocide in Gaza and systematic starvation. Reporter: Are you worried about the others? Greta: Yes…I’m calling for everyone who can to mobilize to demand their immediate release and, of course, to demand not only humanitarian aid being let into Gaza but also a ceasefire and most importantly an end to the occupation, an end to the systemic oppression and violence that Palestinians are facing on an everyday basis. Reporter: “Why do you think so many countries and governments around the world are just ignoring what’s happening in Gaza?” Greta Thunberg: “Because of racism.”

This is how.

Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

“It is not until we have truly been shocked into seeing ourselves as we really are, instead of as we wish or hopefully assume we are, that we can take the first step toward individual reality.” ~Connie Zweig

The ultimate hard deadline is death. Don’t wait too long.

Emotional labor is nearly always shouldered by women, whether in families or in service jobs. It is the smile women are expected to wear in the face of obnoxious customers. It is the admonishment to “be a good sport” while being the object of malicious humor. It is the role of smoothing over family conflicts. It is putting up with abuse in the interest of the appearance of family harmony. It is the labor women are expected to perform, because men are not socialized to carry any part of this burden.

“I’m just following orders.”

We’ve all seen where that leads.

Blind obedience is how corrupt systems survive.

#AbolishICE #FreeRumeysaOzturk #FreeMahmoudKhalil

"There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature." ~Alexis Carrel

How do #politicians #compartmentalize their behavior? In their roles as public officials they spew out #misogynistic, #racist #slander. But somehow, back home, they code-switch to be respectful of their families, community members, and constituents. They should beware of spillover.