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.
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.
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
5 track album
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/
Paws, Pets, and Metal: Disorientation reflect on late cat Elsa:
#PawsPetsAndMetal #PetsInMetal #Disorientation #RememberingElsatheCat #MetalInsider
https://metalinsider.net/interviews/paws-pets-and-metal-disorientation-reflect-on-late-cat-elsa
Paws, Pets & Metal is Metal Insider’s newest column on bands with pets, discovering who watches them on the road, and more. Get to know more about these metal furbabies. We caught up with Disorientation, the avant-garde metal duo from Montreal, Canada, who recently released their sophomore EP, Survival Mode. Marie-Claude opened up by
#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.