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Akunda
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A student of life
Take a minute to yourself...

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It’s Time to Weaponize Love
Grace must be trained, not merely professed
open.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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De-escalating is an important first step. And only because they know they have serious legal exposure. We've got to keep the pressure on until the hit men and their bosses get jail time.
January 26, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Love is THE superpower. Every angry, hurtful person (including myself) is hurting in some way, even if they don't know it. See if we can find out how to help...

meditationsinanemergency.com
This Cold Winter, Love Is a Superpower

There are great days and terrible days in history, ...
Meditations in an Emergency
Essays and analyses by Rebecca Solnit
meditationsinanemergency.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:50 AM
please take the time to listen, watch. His facial expressions are sooooo familiar.... his statement and emotions are so personal...
There are entire new cohorts of Americans, discovering in horror what the Black Americans always knew, from their firsthand experiences…

This interview with James Baldwin was aired in the 1960s… and is so painfully valid today - on the day of ICE murdering another American.
January 25, 2026 at 2:00 PM
@eileenworkman.bsky.social Has done it again....

Simple mantra ... I Can Be Kind, I Will Be Kind.

eileenworkman.substack.com/p/the-only-f...
The Only Freedom That Cannot Be Taken
Kindness knows no borders.
eileenworkman.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:57 PM
What's up? This is up..... 10 minutes well worth it...
youtu.be/6l4NbWd21kM?...
Things Fall Apart: Understanding America's Cascading Economic and Political Crisis
YouTube video by Cy Canterel
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"Thiel should heed the Gospels, which warn that “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

Now there’s scripture worth dwelling on—and it’s a problem that no AI, no surveillance, no power, no money can fix."
What’s Up With Peter Thiel’s Obsession With the Antichrist?
The tech mogul is amping up his apocalyptic rhetoric—and adding a dangerous dose of extremism into the already-fraught culture war.
newrepublic.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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🚨BREAKING: With our members by her side, @ramirez.house.gov has *officially* introduced the #EqualTaxAct.

Here's what it does:

✅Taxes millionaire investments like wages
✅Closes billionaire loopholes
✅Boosts the economy & cuts inequality
✅Raises revenue only from the rich
September 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
When you get a chance check this out. Gives debate a whole new perspective which doesn't include berating the other side

https://braverangels.org/
September 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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#OtD 1 Sep 1937 the USSR began their first deportation of an entire ethnic group moving 175,000 Koreans, including partisan vets, and 8,000 Chinese to unpopulated areas of Uzbekistan and elsewhere. Their homes were mostly given to European immigrants stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7716...
September 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I have been thinking something similar for months now…. And I know in my heart of hearts it is the only way ….

Try to think of them as hurt children … It helps me perhaps it will help you deal with the outrage, hatred, fear.
Indiscriminate Compassion: The Way Beyond
One of the most common resistant reactions to indiscriminate compassion that I encounter rather often is this:
eileenworkman.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Words and sentence structure matter. Let us talk about and promote those wonderful people, events and creations!

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-were-made-for-this/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter
September 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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August 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
August 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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In MacArthur Park in Los Angeles for a free ska show, and I gotta tell you, it’s really healing to see this pavilion full of dancing, smiling people instead of the fascist goons who trampled through here in July
August 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
In my limited reading this end result has been going on since Reagan and potentially since Nixon… rabbit and the hare???

“Because Article V imposes no time limit on the accumulation of these resolutions, the effort can proceed indefinitely, building its count slowly over years or decades.”
Rewriting the Constitution
Forget Project 2025—this could change the rules of government forever.
jamesbgreenberg.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
you know the funny part is that if ‘they’ keep up this ‘resource extraction’ they are going to extract themselves & all their Assets right out of existence…
Adapting Our Systems to Serve Life
We All Want to Live Well
eileenworkman.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Does anyone remember the statement made by someone in the Proj2025 camp who said something like 'it will be a peaceful revolution if they will allow it' (I know it is not exact)?... Well here is the new Handmaid's Tale..
https://jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/the-quiet-path-to-a-new-constitution
August 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Every Republican accusation is a projection
August 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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August 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
So good to know!! I use audio books daily from Los Angeles public library and love it!
August 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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August 13, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Data center energy consumption has reached a record 5% of total US power demand.
#MorePower #EconSky
August 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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I’m telling you, if a dude talks non-stop about pedophelia or groomers, check his hard drive…
August 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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I spent my many years wandering the Smithsonian, learning everything I could about science, history & culture. It’s personal to me that Trump wants to turn it into a MAGA museum.

It’s not just a war on knowledge, it’s a war on how to know anything at all.
www.mind-war.com/p/the-war-on...
The War on Knowing
The first step in erasing reality is destroying how we test it.
www.mind-war.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM