Playbook: How it looks at the end

GOOD FRIDAY MORNING. Here’s how your American government is ending the year -- and the TRUMP presidency.

-- THE GOVT runs out of spending authority this evening at midnight. Typically, the govt avoids shutting down officially if there is a spending bill on the horizon, so we may be spared that drama. Divided govt began in 2019 w a shutdown, and it may end with another funding lapse.

-- CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS are preparing the second-largest federal rescue package in our nation’s history, and no one has seen it just days before it will get a vote.

-- ALL OF THE POWER is centralized among four people and their aides: @SpeakerPelosi , @senatemajldr , @SenSchumer and @GOPLeader

-- PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has continued his, um, mastery of Congress, by nearly blowing up the talks by demanding large stimulus checks at the last moment -- this is per @JStein_WaPo, the master of the direct check, at the WaPo.

I have more respect 4 Julian Assange today after seeing the clip yesterday where he tried to protect sources & methods (human lives) by warning HRC's State Dept in advance of the stolen State Dept Cables. He cared more than HRC. He should be immediately pardoned. @realDonaldTrump

Let’s talk about this story. It discusses a NJ bill that is designed to make sentencing less harsh. The bill is being held up because a lawmaker introduced an amendment that would eliminate the mandatory minimum for one type of corruption.

First, let's talk about the framing of the story. The lede is about how the lawmaker who introduced the amendment has a girlfriend whose son is facing corruption charges. The story minces no words: It says the amendment was added specifically to help that man.

The idea of powerful people helping each other escape punishment is a powerful one. It is the stuff of headlines and outrage, and so I'm not surprised that this is how the story is being framed.

But there is also another way to frame this story--that most people only appreciate the harshness and injustice of the criminal justice system once they or someone they love have been swept up in it.
We've seen the story before, and it sends us a different message.

The "powerful people get off" framing tells us to be suspicious of leniency & not to trust criminal justice reform.

The "I only realized when" framing tells us that we aren't paying enough attention to harshness & more reform is probably needed.

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What if the entire left right war is theater? Shut out all the arguments, policy differences, hate, love, ally, opponents, and think about the cumulative direction we're heading to as a planet. ->

I'm concerned there's an element in the world that is bulldozing its way forward to amassing resources regardless of the arguments happening in politics or society as a whole. It's as if they're living alongside us but in a different dimension altogether.  ->

A dimension where their will is as good as done.

If there's one thing this pandemic has taught me, it's if there ever was a nefarious force that achieved power they could tell us scared comfortable folks to sit down and shut up and we would do it. ->

Their whole 'plan' would be to make us pay attention to them. To pay attention to every detail, to every sound they make, to how their lips move as they tell us how much danger we are in.

They have authority in three important facets; one is a positional authority, ->

two is an authority by qualification, and the third is authority by experience. I mean, we would be insane to not listen to such a message, and yet. We still wouldn't know if the sprinkling of truth we find is all the truth there is to be known. ->

Brilliant women are almost without fail maligned, diminished and erased in life and death. Glad to see this writing-in for Kamla Chowdhry, a pioneer in so many

I loathed Khushwant Singh for his sexism (that I could spot in his writings even as a teen).

The harm he did to SO many women as he pushed his sexist bile thinly disguised as wit is incalculable

I think he was the first writer I encountered that I read first, quite liked the work, then slowly recognised the issues.

By the time I met him in Delhi, I had zero tolerance for sexist, predatoey men who thought they could make and break women’s careers and lives with impunity

I met him around the time my book came out at a literary do. He was holding court, surrounded by lots of women, men leering at the women while snarking enviously. One of the publishing folk introduced me. He immediately checked me out and told me to ‘drop in for a visit’

I made appropriate noises and walked away. Then someone else at the party told me that I should visit him because ‘if he likes you, he can make your career.’

The implication of what the visit would entail was clear.

30 things I learnt about life, career, and relationships before turning 30.

1. You can never be everyone's favourite. Some will love you for no reason. Some will rather not associate with you, and that is totally fine too.

2. There are topics and areas of life I know absolutely nothing about, but the more I read, the less ignorant I become.

3. The friendships that lasted a year, a week, or even an evening can be as transformational as the friendships that lasted years. A friendship made in less than a month can leave a year’s impact. In all, friends come and go, but they are incredibly important.

4. I am as lazy as I am hardworking. The thing is, my willingness to keep busy always helps me overcome procrastination, but I find that a bit of procrastination here and there is sometimes the catalyst to getting things done quicker.

5. Nothing changes when I worry. The only thing that changes is my mood. Not the situation. So I have learnt to think more about a positive outcome than allowing an issue affect my emotions and how I relate with others at that point in time.

Repainting Religious Landscape: Economics of Conversion and Making of Rice Christians in Colonial South India (1781-1880) by M. Christhu

The ‘rice Christian’ of the Orient goes through the very same steps, when he is after rice and the missionary is after him—Mark Twain

Missionaries believed that calamities and famines were opportunities to make more ‘believers’.

During the eighteenth century, few British writers and missionaries compared the economically-challenged Roman Catholics in England with that of rice Christians in India.

The colonial administrators noted that the Dutch missionaries in India, who established schools for religious instruction, denominated the converts as rice Christians.

With a fixed supply of money, holding the money itself is similar to investing in a global index fund which offers no yield but appreciates with global productivity. Anyone can be an investor; zero fees, experience, or professional management required.

Anyone who earns money can expect to keep it and watch it appreciate, without needing to do any more work.

With easy money, you need to beat inflation to keep the value you earned & for that, you need several professionals working full-time trained for years and plenty of luck

Imagine if every child could expect any money they earn or get as a gift to appreciate over time without needing professional management. How much more would children grow up to value saving and low time preference?

Imagine if every professional could focus on their job and watch their savings accumulate & gain value without needing to have a side job trying to figure out what stocks, bonds, commodities, and other arcane instruments to buy & who to hire to manage them all?

Imagine if the old, retired, and widowed could just count on their savings maintaining value without having to follow & speculate on global macro trends & insane monetary policies.

Some thoughts to share with you. You should prepare and help others understanding of what you know and learn. Robber Barons controlled the planet from as far back as the history books and science will let us understand. #Drugs, #Lust #Gluttony, #Greed #Envy #Pride #Sloth #Wrath

This stuff has been a shadow on the #world. Through the list of words above defines the global issues. My goal and it should be yours as well is to #uncover and #disclose the truth. The above list of words has had strangle hold on society for too long.
Drugs of all types have

been marketed to people in mass by #wizzards, #warlocks and it’s coordinated. #androchrome was and will continue to be an ongoing war against the harvesting and use of it. Androchrome usage has plummeted and we can never let it happen again.
We need to #heal and #recognize that

world wide leaders have for a long time profited on the death and slavery of you and me and the rest of the world. We have all #suffered #traumas of all kinds from birth through life.
During the past 4+ years #WorldWarIII #TheFinalWar is being battled and the enemy is almost

defeated. The number of children missing each year has dropped because we have won a major victory and more victories are being made every day.
Those that have driven us into slavery are now the slaves. It’s important that you understand and share the positive changes that have

I'm reading Radcliffe Hall.

She has many feelings that modern transmen, female detransitioners, and butch lesbians would recognise.

But to call her a "transman" makes no sense, historically.

I'm reaching for something here, you might be able to help me clarify it.

The existence of the category "transman" depends on the possibility of medical transition.

You can't be a tramsman without it.

You might have all the same feelings, but not have access to drugs and surgeries, and it wouldn't make sense to say you ARE trans.

I want to go back to my Foucauldian academic roots and start talking about the way in which institutions create and forbid desires, identities, enable ways of being. But also, f*ck Foucault, child rape apologist, "bucolic pleasures," no thanks.

How do i say it in words i can believe? Am i back to "trans is not a thing you are, it's a thing you do and it's a very recent, modern solution?"

Ok,i think i have it. Is the desire to say about historical figures "they ARE trans" actually a move to solidify trans as a category?

To say that trans as a category has always existed and that it can exist outside of drugs and surgeries? To give it "depth and weight"?

If you say "x historical figure is trans" you are saying "trans is what you are, not what you do."

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter;

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🔴🔴🔴🔴 Mitch McConnell received donations from Dominion Voting Systems and shut down two election integrity bills in 2020.

The Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell (R-KY), is urging Senate Republicans to accept the Biden electors without objection when they are presented to

Congress on January 6. On that day, one member of the House and one member of the Senate may object in writing to the electors presented. This year, there are numerous reasons for every single member to object, but they are being pressured to accept the fraud, no matter what.

McConnell wants Republicans to blindly go along with the process, even though the votes were illegally certified by states in the face of mounting, coordinated election fraud. The 2020 election was attacked like never before and now it is being contested in front of the state

legislatures. Hopefully, these testimonies and hard evidence will be heard before the Supreme Court, including the cases where power-drunk Democrats circumvented the state legislatures and changed election rules and where the Democrats illegally blocked Republican poll watchers.

If America is truly a Constitutional Republic, as established by the founders, then the 2020 election requires that the rule of law be applied to every incidence of coordinated election fraud. There is more than enough evidence to withdraw the Biden electors, and the courts and

hindsight is 20/20. Michael Burry would have been buried and forgotten in the annals of history if the housing boom had continued for just six more months. now, he is considered a whiz kid. life can be funny.

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