Peacebringer

@Peacebringer735
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> And yet. Forcing myself to suffer simply because other people are suffering doesn’t really make sense to me. Instead, using my current socio-economic comfort to make space for figuring out how I can be a better person and thereby help other people is probably the most ideal use of privilege there is.

This is The Way. 👍

Call it enlightened self-interest.

Happy Ramadan to my Muslim friends 🌙

Happy Passover to my Jewish friends ✡️

Happy Easter to my Christian friends 🐣

Happy Vaisakhi to my Sikh friends ❤️

Happy Hanuman Jayanti to my Hindu friends 🌝

Happy Mahavir Jayanti to my Jain friends ☮️

Happy Days to my secular friends 😊

Much love to my friends of all of all faiths and no faith. Pass it on!

so it turns out that plants will scream when injured, at around the 40-80 khz range.

cats also have a hearing that tops out around the 80 khz range.

this means that when your cat is eating cat grass, they are secretly also hearing the grass scream at them as it's devoured.

anyway. happy monday everyone

TN GOP just expelled Rep Justin Jones for peacefully demanding gun reform.

Jones reminded that the GOP refused to expel Republicans who molested children, abused women, are under federal investigation, & urinated in the chamber. GOP expelled him anyway.

The danger is beyond MAGA expelling Democrats for the "crime" of demanding accountability for gun violence. It's that if this injustice goes unchecked, MAGAs nationwide will do the exact same. This is how fascism & single party rule takes hold.

Why bother banning books when you can just defund Libraries? "Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner." https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wgv5/missouri-voted-to-defund-public-libraries-book-bans
Missouri Reps Just Voted to Completely Defund the State’s Public Libraries

The new budget sets funds for libraries to $0. Library groups say the move is retaliation for suing the state over its recent book ban law.

If Republicans are so concerned about the national debt, maybe they should roll back the $1.9 trillion tax cut they engineered for corporations and the super-rich.
I’m a very patriotic liberal. I don’t like the way the country is going, but that doesn’t mean I will “just deal with it or leave.” It’s my right to fight against the self-proclaimed “patriots.” I think trying to save your country from fascism is extremely patriotic, and I will continue to fight.
There’s a stark disconnect between what how things are and how they’re supposed to be in many aspects of our politics and legal system. As that system moves to course correct and close that gap, these disconnects yawn wider. I discuss that gap and how to navigate it in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/how-things-areand-arentsupposed-to?sd=pf
How Things Are—and Aren’t—Supposed To Be

The news lately is filled with moments for hope alongside reasons for anxiety. I took some time this morning to think about whether there are commonalities to what we are experiencing and feeling as we collectively process events. And something occurred to me:

The Status Kuo

Seriously, US christian dollars buys influence all over the place. Here's Ireland, where they bankrolled the 'no' campaign against the gay marriage referendum;

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/16/us-christians-no-campaign-ireland-gay-marriage-referendum

Uganda's anti-gay laws;

https://www.vox.com/2014/5/19/5724166/the-story-behind-how-american-evangelicals-imported-homophobia-to

Across the whole African continent;

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/19/africa-uganda-evangelicals-homophobia-antigay-bill/

Same thing happened in Taiwan, where conservatives outspent pro-LGBTQ+ efforts by around ten times;

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/nov/24/taiwan-same-sex-marriage-vote-referendum

And this article, noting that, by 2019, US fundamentalists had spent over $50m on European politics;

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/28/us-fundamentalists-spent-38m-on-european-politics

There's tons of stories like this, starting well before the Orange Menace got elected.

US Christians ‘bankrolling’ no campaign in Ireland’s gay marriage referendum

Row over funding of both campaigns in vote for legalisation of same-sex nuptials

The Guardian
Dear Ma & PA Maga