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Trump Kicks Off His Morning By Making Attack On Israel All About Him

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/10/trump-kicks-his-morning-making-attack?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=80403

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So I follow the @auschwitzmuseum account, and when I see a post of an individual, I take a moment with them. What they looked like. Where they were from. I try to learn to pronounce their name if it is unfamiliar to me. I purposefully make the effort to bring this human individual into my mind and think about the life and potential that they had that was stolen from them. I make them real for me. I don't know them. I will never truly know them. But I want to acknowledge that they existed and that their existence was extinguished and that their very existence was important and has meaning.

I know not everyone has the emotional bandwidth to do this. For me, my flavor of neurodivergency has a tendency to want to pull me outside of humanity, so I find this practice as one way for me to reconnect and to sit with the tragedy and to feel. It isn't a good feeling obviously. But it helps cement the importance of our humanity and that we as humans have a lot of work ahead of us to be better to one another.

Can you even imagine if Trump were in the WH now?

No, don't. Please don't.

But do... this: VOTE for Biden.

I'm going to repeat something I said a few weeks ago.

I notice that when I post good news, people apparently feel compelled to find the negative in it (even about pics of my dog!).

Can we just appreciate good news for once? Is that really too much to ask?

FFS people, you complain constantly about everything (rightfully!), so when we get news that something worked, accept it and try to appreciate it.

Kthxbye.