Wow, the memory loss issues are coming fast and furious for me! Just now, I was completely shocked at being dropped off at a particular address, despite scheduling it. Rather shook me up.

#MemoryLoss #Disorientation

A wake-up call for #WhiteAmericans

The deaths of #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti are forcing white people to face hard truths about power and violence

By Chauncey DeVega, Senior Writer, February 1, 2026

"None of what we have seen over the past few weeks — not the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis at the hands of federal officers, the seizure of children by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents, the callous disregard of civil rights and liberties from an increasingly authoritarian administration — is supposed to be happening in America. But it is.

"American citizens are being arrested and brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights — recording ICE, standing nearby or simply being the 'wrong' color in the wrong place. The Trump administration has labeled these Americans 'domestic terrorists,' claiming they posed existential threats to heavily armed federal agents, despite clear video evidence to the contrary. Immigrants are hiding, afraid to go outside. Entire neighborhoods and communities are under siege. Even though it’s only January, at least eight people have died from their encounters with ICE.

"The #CognitiveDissonance is dizzying. #Disorientation is one of the #authoritarian leader’s most powerful weapons.

"Hours after Pretti was killed on Jan. 24, hundreds of people protested near the site in Minneapolis where he died. There, an older white woman told a reporter that 'the government is not supposed to be doing these horrible things to the American people. It is unbelievable. This is something like Nazi Germany or Russia.'

"I yelled at the television. 'What d**n country do you live in?'

"But her sentiments are common among people who are gathering at protests, community meetings and town halls all across the country.

"Like many other white Americans, and too many Black and brown Americans, she seemed willfully ignorant of her own country’s history, which includes #genocide and #LandTheft against #FirstNations; white-on-Black chattel #slavery; #JimCrow and #JaneCrow; the #BlackCodes; the #RedScare; violent social and political repression of #LGBTQ Americans; the #PalmerRaids; mass #incarceration and the #WarOnDrugs, to name just a few examples."

Read more:
https://www.salon.com/2026/02/01/a-wake-up-call-for-white-americans/

#AmericanHistory #Racism #SystemicRacism #USPol #Authoritarianism

A wake-up call for white Americans

The deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are forcing white people to face hard truths about state power and violence

Salon.com
تَـوَهـانْ (disorientation)。

In between the continuous clashes with our surroundings for survival, and the self-doubt that hovers heavily in our hearts because of all the turmoil with questions of whether or not we've been wrong all this time about our choices in this life, there comes moments of such discrepancies that I might as well describe as being moments from another dimension where we look at ourselves in the eyes and ask a simple question but without any answer: Where are we?
In fact, this is probably the question at the surface, but the deeper question could be: "Where do I belong?" to begin with. It is kind of a situation where you see yourself here, but also there, but yet you don't quite belong to here because you don't get along with much of what is going on here, and yet you don't feel belonging to there because, again, you don't agree or get along with what "there" represents.

It is such a heavy load that casts its shadow not on the heart alone, but on the whole body; you find yourself sluggish, hardly moving, hardly desiring, hardly achieving, hardly completing the simplest of tasks, and every passing day becomes a story of survival on its own, worrying and wondering how the day will end, instead of living each day for what it is. Meanwhile, the mind thrives to seek the answer to that question: Where do I belong?
For some, the question seems not so important. All they see in this life is to survive. Yet, for those with dreams, and sense of purpose, the question is quite crucial to decide where and what path to sit foot on. It's not about success as much as it is about putting an agitated soul to rest and not to let it roam the realm of the living, like a ghost under purgatory, and until the answer for that question comes, one has no choice, but to undergo the torture of that transcendent dimension which doesn't belong to anywhere…

#disorientation #lost #identity #project #match #matchstick #4d #hypercube #tesseract #goodmorning
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And now commodity analysts at Standard Chartered have pointed out that oil markets are showing signs of disorientation in the face of the sheer volume of new policy positions by the Trump administration. According to StanChart, fu #bcm #analysts #disorientation #stanchart #season

This is true: He’s no longer running against an incumbent president, & #Harris has been skillful in making the campaign about #Trump’s record. Trump keeps pining for #Biden’s candidacy. At a stop in Detroit, he admitted that people are advising him “don’t waste your time” on Biden — even as he mentioned his former opponent 5X.

In his #disorientation, Trump retreats to his instincts.

He makes up stuff.

#TrumpLies
#weird #Nonsense
#WeAreNotGoingBack
#RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024

In a test of #character, #Trump shows his true #grift

In his #disorientation, the #GOP nominee & fmr president retreats to his instincts

The NYT ran a fine specimen of unintentional comedy this week: an essay by conservative writer #RichLowry titled “Trump Can Win on Character.”🤯

The only thing that could have made it better was if it had been under the byline of #StormyDaniels.

#weird #Nonsense
#WeAreNotGoingBack
#CommonSense #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/30/trump-lowry-nytimes-win-character/

In a test of character, Trump shows his true grift

In his disorientation, the GOP nominee and former president retreats to his instincts.

The Washington Post
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#Vertigo #Tinnitus #Disorientation

Eff this vertigo.

Yesterday, it hit me so suddenly, I dropped to the floor. 45 seconds I was unable to move as the world teetered and spun.

I developed dramatic hearing loss in one ear in 2018, the vertigo joined in the fun in 2020. About 5 very bad episodes since the fist, but yesterday was very sudden, like a switch was thrown.

A milder one today, but cold sweats and spinning.

It fucking sucks.