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Kassandra’s Lark
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No American tax dollars funding concentration camps 🤮😡
FREE KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA
April 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Reposting with alt text.

#newskies #news #nyt
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
December 13, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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The Texas stare insect is the #Monarch butterfly. Methinks the Texas department of agriculture needs a lesson in pollination.
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER SID MILLER STATEMENT The Biden Administration's recent proposal to list the Monarch Butterfly as a threatened species is just the latest example of federal government overreach which cripples agriculture and rural development. Don't be misled. This proposal isn't about protecting butterflies. It's about out-of-touch and out-of-control Washington bureaucrats forcing a radical agenda that punishes rural America and the people who call it home. This designation would slap widespread restrictions on anything that might 'disturb' monarch habitat, making it nearly impossible to build or expand in rural areas. We're not just talking about farmland. This will impact dairies, wind and solar farms, football stadiums, roads, airports, railways, feedlots, rural hospitals, parking lots, logging, and mining — you name it. These restrictions will hit Texas farmers, ranchers, small businesses, and consumers where it hurts, threatening the very industries that drive our state's and nation's economies. This is nothing more than a parting shot from the Biden Administration, a desperate move to impose its heavy-handed, radical climate agenda on hard-working Americans before they leave office and sanity returns to our nation's capital on January 20th. This is not a balanced approach to conservation; it's a roadblock to growth, jobs, and prosperity, all in the name of feel-good policies. We deserve better. www.texasagriculture.gov/News-Events
December 12, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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Ah yes, internalized misogyny.

From the book, Trauma Stewardship:
This may escalate to scapegoating, which may in turn lead to aggression against the targeted parties that can take many forms-from individual violence to government legislation. When the victims of oppression come to believe the misinformation used to denigrate or dehumanize them, the result is "internalized oppression." Ultimately, internalized oppression can drive members of targeted groups to turn the methods of the oppressor on each other or themselves. For example, female case managers may internalize social messages that women should be compliant, cooperative, and grateful. So, while men who contact human service agencies with an assertive sense of entitlement to effective services may be met with deference, women who present with the same tone may be dismissed as undeserving, combative, litigious, or "borderline" - especially in fields predominantly staffed by female workers. A particularly powerful component of internalized oppression arises when its victims come to believe in a notion of scarcity. The oppressor creates a climate in which people fear there is not enough room for everyone, and so they begin a desperate attempt to conform to the oppressor's ideals in order to survive. This can happen on an individual, group, community, or even societal level. People accept the negative stereotypes that say they are not good enough, and they begin to strive, largely uncon-sciously, toward a rigid idea of what may be acceptable. They may also attempt to impose their externally derived standards of right and wrong on other members of their communities, often quite harshly. Within targeted commu-nities, this dynamic can contribute to pervasive and brutal strife. On an individual level, it creates people who are never able to feel that who they are is enough. These people may seek protection by striving for the trappings of an idealized life in which they might someday measure up as "enough." This looks different for everyone throughout the world, and yet at the risk of overgeneralizing, we can see some persistent themes.
December 8, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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The internet hasn’t been this fun in a minute…
Scene from the movie Titanic where villain pretends to be a father holding his child to get on a lifeboat saying “I have a child”. Captioned “World famous dead-beat dad Elon Musk the day after some other CEO parasite is assassinated”
December 8, 2024 at 1:54 PM