Garden Calm
@gardencalm.bsky.social
The garden can wait. There’s work to do.
Pinned
Empathy. Sociopaths don’t have it, can’t imagine it, can’t fake it and therefore can’t anticipate it. It’s their Achilles heel.
Case in point:
They can’t conceptualize empathy and therefore cannot comprehend or anticipate the public’s response. Without that, they cannot predict the political blow back. The sociopaths are operating in the dark.
They can’t conceptualize empathy and therefore cannot comprehend or anticipate the public’s response. Without that, they cannot predict the political blow back. The sociopaths are operating in the dark.
They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
February 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Case in point:
They can’t conceptualize empathy and therefore cannot comprehend or anticipate the public’s response. Without that, they cannot predict the political blow back. The sociopaths are operating in the dark.
They can’t conceptualize empathy and therefore cannot comprehend or anticipate the public’s response. Without that, they cannot predict the political blow back. The sociopaths are operating in the dark.
100% this.
Directly from Gene Sharp’s manual.
Directly from Gene Sharp’s manual.
“We put him in a lose-lose situation,” the Minnesota woman says. “He could’ve kept talking and we would make fun of his voice, or he shuts up and we looked like we shut him down."
It is your patriotic duty to mock these people. Mercilessly.
It is your patriotic duty to mock these people. Mercilessly.
The power of mocking Trump’s pathetic monsters
It's impossible to ignore the administration's blend of violent repression and overwhelming cringe.
www.motherjones.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:26 PM
100% this.
Directly from Gene Sharp’s manual.
Directly from Gene Sharp’s manual.
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sorry bari, its woke 2 and youll be doing what the mob says from here on out. please choose your pronouns and please choose wisely
February 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
sorry bari, its woke 2 and youll be doing what the mob says from here on out. please choose your pronouns and please choose wisely
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Knitters & Crocheters! If you have things you've made but don't wear and/or yarn you're looking to use up, consider sending them to Chicago mutual aid at @katmabu.bsky.social Kat Abughazaleh's office at 7016 N Clark St!
February 3, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Knitters & Crocheters! If you have things you've made but don't wear and/or yarn you're looking to use up, consider sending them to Chicago mutual aid at @katmabu.bsky.social Kat Abughazaleh's office at 7016 N Clark St!
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Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know.
I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro.
1/8
I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro.
1/8
February 2, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know.
I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro.
1/8
I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro.
1/8
I keep thinking about Stanley Milgrim.
- ICE action is the critical break off point of the Trump Regime
- Courage begets more courage
- ICE action is the critical break off point of the Trump Regime
- Courage begets more courage
January 31, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I keep thinking about Stanley Milgrim.
- ICE action is the critical break off point of the Trump Regime
- Courage begets more courage
- ICE action is the critical break off point of the Trump Regime
- Courage begets more courage
Empathy. Sociopaths don’t have it, can’t imagine it, can’t fake it and therefore can’t anticipate it. It’s their Achilles heel.
January 31, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Empathy. Sociopaths don’t have it, can’t imagine it, can’t fake it and therefore can’t anticipate it. It’s their Achilles heel.
I keep coming back to this article. Brilliant writing and hopeful truths.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
www.theatlantic.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:05 PM
I keep coming back to this article. Brilliant writing and hopeful truths.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
I’m a sucker for good writing. When its also a scathing review of the regime? 😘
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest
Dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing – there is a decent documentary to be made about the former model from Slovenia, but this one is unredeemable
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:58 PM
I’m a sucker for good writing. When its also a scathing review of the regime? 😘
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
Rookie error: Mistook Midwest nice for a doormat.
This is a long and very quotable piece about one of the more bizarre episodes from the ICE surge in Minneapolis.
Read it this weekend. You won’t regret it.
Read it this weekend. You won’t regret it.
January 31, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Rookie error: Mistook Midwest nice for a doormat.