A Texas school board rejects 'In God We Trust' signs in Arabic
An activist plans to test Texas' 'In God We Trust' law with signs in Arabic

A plaque with the words 'Ku Klux Klan' still hangs on a building at West Point

Episode #293

Trump’s Legal Jab Left Him Open to Justice Dept. Strike
Trump team may have hidden or moved classified material, DoJ says
Read: DOJ's response to Trump's special master request
In filings, Justice Department rebuts Trump's claims on Mar-a-Lago search
Justice Department filing on Mar-a-Lago documents puts Trump's lawyers in focus
Some records seized at Mar-a-Lago may be protected by client-attorney privilege
Materials taken from Mar-a-Lago will be assessed for possible national security risks
Possibility of Obstruction Looms Over Trump After Thwarted Efforts to Recover Documents
Judge Signals Intent to Appoint Special Master in Trump Search
U.S. intelligence officials will assess the materials taken from Mar-a-Lago
Judge plans to appoint special master in Trump records case
Republicans, Once Outraged by Mar-a-Lago Search, Become Quieter as Details Emerge
Over 180 classified docs removed by National Archives from Mar-a-Lago, affidavit says
The Trump affidavit: Four conclusions on guilt and evidence
It’s Over: Trump Will Be Indicted
Trump files motion to stop further review of items seized in Mar-a-Lago raid
An attempted attack on an FBI office raises concerns about violent far-right rhetoric
Trump seeks special master to review Mar-a-Lago documents
Trump Had 300 Classified Documents At Mar-A-Lago, Called Boxes ‘Mine’: Report
Trump Search Affidavit Should Be Partly Released, Judge Reiterates
Trump asks for a 'special master' to review Mar-a-Lago evidence
The Final Days of the Trump White House: Chaos and Scattered Papers
The many investigations surrounding Donald Trump: Jan. 6, Mar-a-Lago, taxes and more
What the search warrant affidavit for Mar-a-Lago might reveal
Judge creates path for releasing redacted affidavit from Mar-a-Lago search
FBI, Homeland Security warn about threats to law enforcement after Trump search
TS/SCI: What an acronym reveals about the files seized from Mar-a-Lago
Trump's relentless attacks on Mar-a-Lago search lack context. What he said vs. what we know.
Why right-wing actors are threatening violence on TikTok
Trump says he will not oppose the release of documents tied to the Mar-a-Lago search
FBI raids Trump's Mar-a-Lago home amid reported investigation into classified documents

Princess Diana showed the world how to use celebrity for good

An astronomer thinks alien tech could be on the ocean floor. Not everyone agrees

A shipment of baby wipes turns out to be $11.8 million worth of cocaine

A winner is emerging from the war in Ukraine, but it's not who you think
Russia can't stop war, even if Ukraine drops NATO hopes -Putin ally
Slovakia's neighbours to patrol its skies, freeing MiG jets for Ukraine
Turkey dismisses 'meaningless' concerns over U.S. sanctions warning
US warns of sanctions against Turkey over Russia ties
In sign of support, US bombers fly over Dubrovnik, Balkans

Tyson pork plant in Indiana suspended from exporting to China -USDA

Russia ships S-300 air defence missiles out of Syria - satellite images
Fighting Between U.S. and Iran-backed Militias Escalates in Syria
Biden orders 'proportionate, deliberate' airstrikes on Iran-backed militia in Syria, Pentagon says
Iran denies any link to targets hit by U.S. in Syria
Russia's Lavrov condemns Israeli missile strikes on Syria

Saudi woman gets 45-year prison term for social media posts -rights group

Andrew Yang Doesn’t Have Any Litmus Tests

China's jobless youth left in the lurch

China's hit summer song takes fans back through space and time

California lawmakers approve landmark fast food workers bill
Columbus school board, teachers' union reach "conceptual agreement" to end strike
American University staffers plan to strike over working conditions and low wages
Why teachers from one of Ohio's largest school districts are on strike
Columbus teachers' union votes to strike days before start of school year
A Chipotle restaurant in Michigan becomes the first in the chain to unionize
Starbucks must rehire 7 Memphis employees who supported a union, a judge says

Biden's goal to end hunger by 2030 and his new food conference, explained
World food shortage going from 'bad to worse,' UN official says
China plans to use chemicals to generate rain to protect its grain harvest
U.S. is 'losing some of these smaller farms' amid historic drought, economist says
'Flash droughts' and weather 'whiplash.' Welcome to New England’s climate future
Most of state in severe drought, officials say, creating conditions conducive to wildfires

Whatever happened to the Malawian anti-plastic activist inspired by goats?

‘It’s a deal with the devil’: outrage in Appalachia over Manchin’s ‘vile’ pipeline plan

Small farms are in trouble, but nobody seems to care

You know what's attractive?

Effort.
Thoughtfulness.
Appreciation.
Kindness.
Honesty.
Compassion.
Respect. - Whitney Fears

'It's been a hard year': Terrebonne Parish struggles to recover after Hurricane Ida
Years after Hurricane Katrina, a new documentary asks: What happened to the children?
30 years after Hurricane Andrew devastated Florida, researchers are using a 'Wall of Wind' to design safer homes – but storms are getting even more intense

Employee who attempted to disarm gunman among those killed in supermarket shooting, police say
3 dead, including suspected shooter, in Oregon grocery store attack

#solidaritywithsanna

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In Finland, a Partying Prime Minister Draws Tuts, and Cheers
Finland's leader apologizes for party photo at summer home
Finnish PM Sanna Marin tests negative for drugs after 'wild' dance party video surfaces
Why women are dancing in solidarity with Finland's prime minister
Finland's prime minister takes a drug test after criticism over her partying

What our shopping choices say about the U.S. economy
Inside the survival story of a Mississippi store fighting high inflation

In the Taliban's Afghanistan, the near-broke central bank somehow still functions
A year after the Taliban takeover, U.S. veterans worry about the Afghan people
Kite fliers gathered in multiple cities in a show of solidarity with Afghanistan

The government will no longer be sending free COVID-19 tests to Americans

Some Republicans in Washington state cast a wary eye on an election security device

Long overlooked, Oregon's Swastika Mountain may have a new name soon

"If you are fully present, the rain of Dharma will water the deepest seeds in your consciousness, and tomorrow, while you are washing the dishes or looking at the blue sky, that seed will spring forth, and love and understanding will appear as a beautiful flower." - Thich Nhat Hanh

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. - Rumi

Don’t swim, splash, water ski, power boat in Willamette River near St. Johns, health officials warn

W, I love you.

Here Are the Challenges Ahead for California's Ban on Gas Cars
Following California’s lead, Oregon exploring ban on gas-powered vehicles
California wants to end sales of new gas cars by 2035. Here are 4 key roadblocks
California will ban sales of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035
California is poised to phase out sales of new gas-powered cars

Sending suspect to China could cost New Zealand millions

'Harry Potter' actor slams Air Canada after travelling to Toronto: 'Worst airline'

A Rochester couple denied allegations of racism. Then came a confession

Why Singapore's gay sex law change is a double-edged sword for LGBTQ activists
Singapore will decriminalize sex between men by repealing a colonial-era law

This NJ man beat the odds and survived after weeks on a ventilator. Now's the hard part

Cascade snowpack melts faster in burned areas, study says

Portland Timbers down Seattle Sounders 2-1 to win Cascadia Cup

It's hard to work when all you want to do is book flights and travel the world. - @LadyMoeSorrell

We're all wind and dust anyway.. we don't even have any proof that the universe exists. We don't have any proof that we are even sitting here. - Bob Dylan

Europe is in its worst drought in 500 years, study finds
China fights brush fires, extends power rationing in drought
The drought in Europe
The Yangtze River is shrinking as drought disrupts the world's No. 2 economy
Historic rainfall turns Seoul's roads into rivers and leaves 8 dead
At least 40 people are dead after floods and landslides leave hit northern India

Colorado Democrats call for new national monument in Rockies
Utah sues to stop restoration of boundaries at Bears Ears, Grand Staircase monuments

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Experience The Quietest Place On Earth

Frustration and despair grow as the homeless encampment in downtown Phoenix swells

Madam C.J. Walker, the first U.S. self-made female millionaire, gets her own Barbie

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Thlions
What is tomato flu? Viral infection is spreading among children in India.

U.S. suspends 26 Chinese flights in response to China flight cancellations

Scientists are stumped why quakes keep hitting this small South Carolina town

In honor of National Dog Day, please enjoy these adorable pups

Shipping container suppliers abandon $987 million deal after U.S. probe

The Night before Change

How many transitions appear in one lifetime? How many events influence the next choice that will lead to another relationship inside yourself—or create a pathway to the unexpected? What if the Unforeseen ushers in an intense challenge or breakdown in a long-standing connection, or awakens a deep-rooted truth you never clearly saw before now? And what if your response to this unforeseeable moment ended in a decision to move to an unfamiliar place or live a healthier lifestyle, or draw on a fresh way of perceiving the life you already inhabit? How many roles will you act out, how many solitary moments will determine the next answer, and how many skins will you shed to get to another phase beyond your comfort zone—or past this prevailing mode of being?

Just like the waves making up an entire fluctuating sea, as unpredictable as they are inevitable, we have no choice but to go through transformation. These What Ifs are happening all the time to everyone, everywhere through subtle changes and abrupt shifts. Unsettled or planted, change is ever-present. Ubiquitous. Sometimes a big change might have felt overwhelming, as though the formerly current stage was shoving you out of a personally comfortable, familiar threshold and into the open seas of the unknown.

It's not always easy to envision connections as sequences, or see turning points as useful signposts, or forks in the road as universal options with no wrong or right answer, merely differing routes that will offer an opportunity to expand and grow as we’re being led by some mystery into a forward moving motion.

I wish you all the encouragement and care you will need to keep going. I wish you always well. May you see the Former Way of Being as a guide anointing you with approval and confidence. May you recognize the truest course to set your pace. May you find sanctuary in the joy of fond memories, kindred spirits and future blessings. May you welcome the hidden beauty within transition, and may you always know your path, whichever way you choose, will ultimately lead you Home. - Susan Frybort


The Night before Change

As your dreams pace restlessly
between wake and sleep,
it is the eve of transformation.
Old identities no longer fit.
Transition calls out in the night.
You sit on the hinge
ready to swing into change,
trembling, nto knowing the outcome.

Courage stands by on this threshold,
when you are ready to begin
completely and finally.
Courage remains as you bloom into life,
then step over into a bold new reality. - Susan Frybort

Scanning students' rooms during remote tests is unconstitutional, judge rules

Biden names new a Secret Service director as the agency faces controversy

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$350 million for WeWork co-founder shows how broken and biased venture capital is

It's definitely not a good year to be a motorcycle taxi driver in Nigeria

Lawsuit alleges Whole Foods has antibiotics in its beef labeled antibiotic-free
Whole Foods is sued over 'No Antibiotics, Ever' beef claim

The Latest Find as Water Levels Fall: Dinosaur Tracks in Texas
Climate change led to dinosaurs' demise. Now, drought reveals more of their tracks
Dinosaur tracks from 113M years ago have become visible amid drought

The Iron Road
Japan police chief to resign over shooting death of former prime minister

Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a rier which sweeps me along, but I am the river, it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger, ti si afire which consumes me, but I am the fire. - Jorge Luis Borges

The outer world - forms, temperatures, the moon - is a language humans have forgotten or which we can scarcely distinguish. - Jorge Luis Borges

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. - Jorge Luis Borges

The world is a Phoenix. It perishes in flames and even as it dies it is born again. - H.G. Wells

A star is the glowing light inside the other perosn, distantly seen, brave soul's tiny flame, too bright to approach without great courage and integrity. - Eric Berne

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the yes of others onl a green thing which stands in the way .. as a man is, so he sees. - William Blake

An Australian news site dared Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch to sue. Now he has
Former Fox News editor claims viewers have been 'deceived' and 'coddled' over the years
Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch threatened Aussie news site 'Crikey.' It's fighting back
Murdoch heir goes into battle over US Capitol riots criticism
Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch threatened an Aussie news site. It's fighting back

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night. - Jack Kornfield

Turkey says Greece harassed its jets during NATO mission

Experts: Force appears excessive in Arkansas beating video
3 Arkansas officers suspended after video captures beating
Arkansas officers were suspended after video on social media shows a police beating

Ex-LMPD officer pleads guilty to federal charge related to Breonna Taylor’s killing

In converted buses and tin-roof sheds, migrant students get a lesson in hope
Why keeping girls in school is a good strategy to cope with climate change

'Saints Row' takes players on a GTA-style spree that's goofy, sincere — and glitchy

Fed up with poor broadband access, he started his own fiber internet service provider

A new system to flag racist incidents and acts of hate is named after Emmett Till

The Independent Spirit Awards moves toward gender-neutral acting categories

Panda twins are born in China as the species struggles for survival

Kim Kardashian, Kevin Hart and Sylvester Stallone are accused of massive water waste

As India turns 75, Muslim girls are suing to wear the hijab — and protect secularism
For Kashmiris, resolution to decades of conflict remains a distant dream
75 years after India's violent Partition, survivors can cross the border — virtually

Judge rules against Ben & Jerry's in fight over Israel sales

Walmart ordered to pay Oregon man $4.4M for racial profiling

You haven't even met the best version of yourself. not yet.

The most healed.
The most fullfilled.
The most content.

and meeting that "you"
is worth fighting for.

So keep learning and growing. - Topher Kearby

Founder of China's Huawei urges focus on cash flow, survival in downturn - media

How Alex Jones helped mainstream conspiracy theories become part of American life

We tak photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone. - unknown

Oregon Humane Society receives 80 beagles from historic dog rescue operation

Which pesticides are polluting Oregon streams? New site shares state findings
Race to the bottom: How Central Oregon groundwater sells to the highest bidders

Addiction recovery services receive funding from M110

Judge sees an ‘absolute conflict’ with Idaho’s abortion ban and federal law
Is a Fetus a Person? An Anti-Abortion Strategy Says Yes.
3 more states will enact abortion trigger bans this week
U.S. judge questions Idaho abortion ban in Biden administration challenge
Judge blocks prosecutors from enforcing 1931 abortion ban in Michigan
Abortion is legal in Illinois. In Wisconsin, it's nearly banned. So clinics teamed up
States with the toughest abortion laws have the weakest maternal supports, data shows
Title X advocates worry that birth control may go the same way as abortion
All three Louisiana abortion clinics are leaving the state, staff say
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GOP Senators Say Kansas Abortion Result A 'Wake-Up Call' For Party
Abortion rights supporters and opponents look for lessons from the Kansas vote
How the 2022 midterms strategy could change after the Kansas abortion vote

Monkeypox in Oregon is disproportionately hurting Latino men

Can you improve memory? Brain stimulation could make a 'moderate to large' difference, study shows.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. - Sydney J. Harris

The 3 hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats or intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong.' - Sydney J. Harris

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. - Sydney J. Harris

No matter where you've been or what you've done, today is a great day to start becoming the women you know you're called to become. - Lysa Terkeurst

Fire by Joy Harjo

a woman can’t survive
by her own breath
alone
she must know
the voices of mountains
she must recognize
the foreverness of blue sky
she must flow
with the elusive
bodies
of night wind women
who will take her into
her own self
look at me
I am not a separate woman
I am a continuance
of blue sky
I am the throat
of the sandia mountains
a night wind woman
who burns
with every breath
she takes

The IRS could be on the verge of changing the way Americans file their taxes
Tougher IRS enforcement central to Dem economic package
This tax loophole made hedge managers rich. Closing it may help fund the climate bill
Sinema says she will move forward with Senate Democrats' climate, health and tax bill
Senate will take up Democrats' tax, climate and health bill on Saturday, Schumer says
Democrats still have this going for them
Climate experts experience an odd sensation after the Manchin budget deal: optimism
With Manchin deal, talk of Biden's climate emergency declaration may be dead
'Absolutely historic': Senate budget deal would be biggest climate change action ever
Biden calls deal with Manchin 'godsend' for US families
Democrats Outsmart Mitch McConnell With Surprise Reconciliation Deal
Manchin, Schumer in surprise deal on health, energy, taxes
Sens. Joe Manchin and Lisa Murkowski have tested positive for COVID-19
Sen. Joe Manchin has tested positive for COVID-19
Facing legislative failure, Biden announces incremental climate initiatives
How Joe Manchin Left a Global Tax Deal in Limbo
White House privately fumes about Manchin — and sees the futility of airing it out in public
Ring doorbell video shows UPS driver collapse in extreme Arizona heat
U.S. cannot fulfill climate change pledges if Manchin won't vote for clean energy, experts say
How One Senator Doomed the Democrats' Climate Plan
Manchin rejects climate and tax provisions in Democrats' spending package

How Spotify changed the tune on IPOs

Apple employees launch petition to protest return-to-office plans

When you're drowing with worry and your heart is sinking heavily like an achor, you can reply on the ocean waves to wash your worries away, then you can find your peace and breathe with ease like an ocean breeze. - unknown

A Florida district declines dictionary donations as it navigates a new book law
The Bible is among dozens of books removed from this Texas school district

Forest Service testing special balloons in Northwest to monitor big wildfires

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. - Bob Kerrey

How 2 astrophotographers teamed up to capture a stellar image of the moon
Parts of the moon have stable temperatures fit for humans, researchers find

All-Black, all-female American Airlines crew flies from Dallas to honor Bessie Coleman

This city manager wants California to prepare for a megastorm before it's too late

Mount Kilimanjaro climbers can share slope selfies in real-time thanks to new Wi-Fi

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Fauci to step down in December after decades of public service
Anthony Fauci Is Retiring in December
Fauci to step down as nation’s infectious disease chief

The U.S. and South Korea are staging their biggest military drills in years
US, S. Korea open biggest drills in years amid North threats

Police file terrorism charges against Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan

The Universe is disappearing, and we’re powerless to stop it

It matters not
who you love,
where you love,
why you love,
when you love,
or how you love.
It only matters
that you love. - John Lennon

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. - Nelson Mandela

May your painful experience not have the final say. May you hold tightly to the truth: you’re worthy. You’re enough. You are a blessing. - Dr. Thema

Love art, love yourself, do what you have to do and what only you can do. Utter honesty is the only path to originality. - Roberta Smith

“When the time comes for the heart to open fully again, the old fears will awaken and the inner walls will tighten up. Although fear can become terrifying and paralyzing, what we most fear is where we must go. “Fear is the guide for the true direction of the heart,” they used to say when considering the courage required to become oneself. Our way of loving and healing is seeded within us, yet it takes more than one breakthrough to reach the inner treasure. A long road made of longing and self-discovery is required in order to re-open the heart and reveal the gold within it. Another old proverb states that “what the heart loves is the cure.” Life is the ailment and what we love provides the cure for what ails us.” - Michael Meade

“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.” - Carl Sagan

A disturbing 1995 prediction by Carl Sagan accurately describes America of today.

I just got in this mindset of appreciation of all the magnificent things that are working for me, and when I activated that, then everything started working for me. - Abraham

You can't keep getting mad at people for sucking the life out of you, if you keep giving them the straw. - @realtalkkim

Actions prove who someone is, words just prove who they pretend to be. - unknown

Nothing will cost you more in life than a predetermined belief that things aren't going to work out. - Donald Miller

A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing grows there. - unknown

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. - unknown

"Authority is a big word that troubles most people, especially in the form of the authorities. Yet the roots of authority go back to words like author, and augment and authentic. There can be forms of genuine authority that develop from authoring things and from being truly creative. When faced with the inevitable inequities of life, there is such a thing as authentic authority that is rooted not in the common, often confused world, but in something deeper, that is both more creative and more genuine. When people draw from the root of their deeper self, they become authentic and able to act with true originality, for the deep self is secretly connected to the origins of life." - Michael Meade

Forgiveness is not a concept. It’s a process. And, if you choose not to forgive at the end of that process, it doesn’t mean that you are unhealed. It doesn’t mean that you are a lesser human. It doesn’t mean you are not spiritual or evolved. It doesn’t mean you will come back in the next lifetime to live it out again. It may just mean that forgiveness is not actually in your integrity. The assumption that forgiving the abuser is the benchmark of a completed emotional and karmic process is the mistake. The real benchmark of resolution is whether you have gone through your emotional process authentically and have arrived at a place where the negative charge around the experience has dissipated. Perhaps you will learn some lessons, or perhaps you will eventually be legitimately liberated from the memories. Perhaps you will work it through so completely that you have very little energetic charge around the events. Or perhaps you will actually realize that forgiveness is not essential to your healing, and not your responsibility. The point is that focusing on our responsibility to forgive a wrongdoer sidetracks the whole process. Your sole responsibility is to arrive at whatever destination is true to you. - Jeff Brown

Re-set, re-adjust, re-start, re-focus... as many times as you need to. - unknown

Spirituality is all about moving from seriousness to joyfulness. - Adeep

There are two ways to be happy: Change the situation or change your mindset towards it. - unknown

Once you discover your own source of happiness, no one can take it away from you. - Adeep

NASCAR Driver Who Inspired 'Let's Go Brandon' Lacks Sponsorships After Leaning Into Anti-Biden Slogan

A Texas county's election administrators all resigned, leaving the state to step in
Plunging gas prices won’t help Democrats
Kari Lake, news anchor turned election denier, is Arizona GOP nominee for governor
Biden used to keep Trump mentions to a minimum. Not anymore
Kris Kobach makes a rebound with the Republican nomination for Kansas attorney general
Pennsylvania's mail-in voting law is upheld by the state's Supreme Court
Republicans on track to win 230 House seats, CBS model predicts
Trump Endorses ‘Eric’ In U.S. Senate Race In Missouri. But There Are 2 Erics.
In Races for Governor, Democrats See a Silver Lining
Trump-targeted Republican blasts Democrats for subsidizing his challenger
Judge: Wisconsin probe found 'absolutely no' election fraud

States with the toughest abortion laws have the weakest maternal supports, data shows
Long uncertain, young people's access to abortion is more complicated than ever
Does your rewards card know if you're pregnant? Privacy experts sound the alarm
Nebraska cops used Facebook messages to investigate an alleged illegal abortion
Google workers sign petition asking company to protect people's abortion search data
How realistic are the post-Roe abortion workarounds that are filling social media?
A new student filmmaking grant will focus on reproductive rights

UPS Drivers Say 'Brutal' Heat Is Endangering Their Lives

The science is in: Everyone recognizes and uses baby talk with infants

A majority of Americans see an 'invasion' at the southern border, NPR poll finds
Talk of 'invasion' moves from the fringe to the mainstream of GOP immigration message
Fueled by virtually unrestricted social media access, white nationalism is on the rise and attracting violent young white men

Fred Gray was 'chief counsel' of the civil rights era. At 91, he's still in the fight
How a history teacher and 13 Black students shaped the civil rights movement
A new exhibit in LA explores the complicated history of Black Cinema
California becomes the first state to break down Black employee data by lineage

Be you. Not who you think people want you to be. - unknown

驪歌行

Science Suggests Parents Are Taking Parenting Too Far

The Rise of Lonely, Single Men

5,760 cases of Capri Sun have been recalled after being contaminated with cleaning solution
More than 2 million baby swings and rockers are recalled after an infant's death
Kraft Heinz recalls contaminated Wild Cherry flavored Capri Sun pouches
Lyons Magnus recalls 53 products including alternative milks and protein shakes

In Moscow, Idaho, conservative 'Christian Reconstructionists' are thriving amid evangelical turmoil

More often than I expected.

11:11 – Are You Seeing It Too?

#reaching for hope

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world. - Pema Chodron

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

It never depends upon whether we say the right words, but whether we live the right reality. - Richard Rohr

If most of us remina ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefere the pleasures of illusion. - Aldous Huxley

Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every morning we wake up is the first day of the rest of our life. - unknown

There is no " wrong way " to be you. - unknown

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. - Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

Funny how we see the potential in people that may not exist yet fail to identify the power within ourselves. - Morgan Richard Olivier

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. - Fred Rogers

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward towward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. - Abraham H. Maslow

“So remember when you’re feeling very small and insecure,
how amazingly unlikely is your birth,
and pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,
cause there’s bugger all down here on earth!”

The shock of discovering that most of the power in the world is held by ignorant and greedy people can really bum you out at first, but after you've lived with it a few decades, it becomes, like cancer and other plagues, just another problme that we will solve eventually if we keep working at it. - Robert Anton Wilson

Trauma comes nack as a reaction, not a memory. - Bessel van der Kolk

Helping your child to manage their emotions requires you to learn to manage yours. - The Gottman Institute

Watch carefully the magic that occurs when you give a person enough comfort to just be themselves. - Atticus

Do good things whether others notice or not. It's the deeds that matter, not the size of your audience. - unknown

Friendship isn't about who came into your life first. It's about who comes into and never leaves. - unknown

If you have the chnage to make people happy, just do it. Sometimes people are struffling silently. Maybe your act of kindness can make their day. - unknown

What we don't need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human. - Brene Brown

To inspire people, don't show them your super power, show them theirs. - unknown

Company scraps lithium project in Oregon’s Alvord Desert

How to talk to kids about radicalization and the signs of it

You can choose a new name for yourself. Here's how

Bear Grylls on how to S-T-O-P fighting fear in everyday life

我等, Warren.

Mosquitoes surprise researcher with their 'weird' sense of smell

How to take better (and more distinctive) photos on vacation

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Late-stage cervical cancer cases are on the rise

African fashion rules in British museum show, from chic dashikis to mud-dyed cloth

A plan to bring the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction raises questions

CDC: Lettuce on Wendy’s sandwiches possibly linked to E. coli outbreak
CDC investigates an E. coli outbreak in 4 states after some Wendy's customers fell ill

Andrew Tate gets banned from Facebook, Instagram, TikTok for violating their policies

The Apple-1 prototype Steve Jobs used has sold for nearly $700,000

Buy a rural hospital for $100? Investors pick up struggling institutions for pennies
Transplant agency is criticized for donor organs arriving late, damaged or diseased

The DOJ under Barr wrongly withheld parts of a Russia probe memo, a court rules

Study finds bias, disgust toward mixed-race couples

Sending holiday packages at the post office could cost more this year

Hong Kong dim sum parlour Lin Heung Tea House closes after 104 years; owners blame impact of pandemic disruptions
快樂餅店結業 林海峰感慨老舖又少一間
Hong Kong's Star Ferry faces an uncertain future, as ridership falls and debt climbs

ATTENDING BURNING MAN OR PARENTING A TODDLER?

Jobs fill your pocket, adventure fills your soul. - unknown

“Because the greatest part of a road trip is not arriving at yourdestination……
It's all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” - Emma Chase

Federal judges deal the oil industry another setback in climate litigation

At least 20 people are dead after gunmen stormed a hotel in Somalia's capital

How To Brew Amazing Coffee With Science

Paying for the Inflation Reduction Act
Three inflation indicators
How inflation is impacting the lives of Americans
How inflation is influencing politics in a bellwether Florida county
Inflation reduction actually
The job market got even better, in a surprisingly positive sign for the economy
Government workers feel inflation's pinch as wages lag
Feeling inflation in the grocery store
What the Inflation Reduction Act does and doesn't do about rising prices

The surprising economics of digital lending

“A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman. She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life. Her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense of being appreciated as herself by another....

"One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object -- and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.” - John Berger, Ways of Seeing

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