…“All while I watched our tax dollars board a money laundering train. Not headed back to Appalachia but headed away. To the Ukraine. The network news too melted away from the pain of manufactured rain”… (Contd)

My dad handed me two clothespins. “This,” he said, “is the story of everything.” In one hand: a clothespin from the 1960s. Solid hardwood, smooth from decades of use. It still works perfectly, some 60 years later. In the other: a clothespin from 2025. Lighter, paler wood, brittle. The spring is thin and unstable. Marketed as “extra durable,” my dad just raised an eyebrow. At first glance, it’s just two clothespins. But they tell a bigger story — the shift from durability to disposability, from craftsmanship to cost-cutting, from stewardship to constant consumption. This is planned obsolescence in action. Products are designed to fail so we must keep buying. Slowly, subtly, they break. Frayed wires, cracked hinges, brittle springs. Not because we want more, but because the old was never built to last. The costs are everywhere. Landfills overflow. Wallets empty. And maybe most quietly, our spirits grow accustomed to impermanence, to the idea that nothing is meant to endure. What if this philosophy extends beyond objects? What if it shapes how we treat relationships, communities, homes, even the Earth — as temporary, replaceable, disposable? It doesn’t have to be this way. That 1960s clothespin reminds us another path is possible. That we once made things to last, and we can again. That quality, care, and intention matter. That we can design for repair, for continuity, for meaning. The story in my palm is about more than laundry. It’s about the choices we make and the world they create.

🧵 By the 5th century, Romans didn't trust the army, the courts, or the emperor. So they stopped participating. Stopped paying taxes. Stopped calling themselves Roman. When people stop believing in the system, it's already dead. Signal 7: Collapse of Trust.

I don't remember where I found this, but its spot on.

Leaked phone call from January 4, 2025 (3 days before the devastating Palisades Fire) The call is between Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and John Alle, a property manager and whistleblower in the Pacific Palisades, Westlake and MacArthur Park areas John Alle contacted Karen Bass to warn her about extreme fire risks due to weather conditions like high winds and dry brush Karen Bass tells him to “read between the lines,” “hold tight,” and that “you will understand soon.” She knew something was coming, almost like a planned fire (many believe the land grab) This call is interpreted as her knowing serious fire danger was imminent but not wanting to discuss what was about to happen openly…. Very cryptic

Thank you for keeping your word to me @realDonaldTrump @POTUS

They should be arrested for this

Everything changed in the last 48 hours and nobody has assembled the pieces. IRGC Joint Staff headquarters under US-Israeli strikes. Iran naming UAE targets as Abu Dhabi enters the war. IDF Chief of Staff warning publicly the Israeli military could “collapse” from manpower shortages. Iran claiming over one million fighters mobilised with IRGC lowering the age for support roles to 12. Pentagon considering 10,000 additional ground troops within striking distance of Kharg. Trump pausing energy-plant destruction for 10 days until April 6. Iran denying it requested the pause. Houthis warning they will enter the war. Lavrov saying the quiet part: “Iran did not violate any of its international obligations.” Russia’s oil revenue doubling to $24 billion this month. That is not a war. That is a realignment. But the development that rewrites everything is not the strikes or the troops. It is a checkpoint on Larak Island. Iran’s Foreign Minister told the UN Secretary-General directly that blocking enemy ships in Hormuz is Tehran’s legal right as a coastal state. Not a threat. A legal claim. Ships are being funnelled into Iranian-controlled waters near Larak for visual inspections before passage. Non-enemy vessels pass with coordination. Enemy vessels do not. This is not a blockade. It is something more durable. Selective access with political screening, transit fees, and a legal framework. Iran shifted from threatening to close Hormuz to administering who uses it. The fees are collected in yuan. Chinese intermediaries process payments through CIPS, bypassing SWIFT. Iran already receives over 80 percent of oil revenue in yuan. Legislation is advancing to codify the tolls into permanent law. The US cannot sanction what it cannot see on SWIFT. The yuan is being anchored at the world’s most consequential energy chokepoint not by Chinese policy but by Iranian necessity. Beijing did not plan this. Tehran built it. Rubio responded to Europeans who called this “not Europe’s war” with the sentence that links both conflicts: “Well, Ukraine is not America’s war, and yet we’ve contributed more to that fight than any other country in the world.” Hormuz is the receivable. Ukraine is the debt. Two wars linked in one sentence by the Secretary of State. Russia’s Dmitriev warns “the most severe energy crisis in human history is approaching.” Russia does not share intelligence with Iran. Russia does not need to. Every dollar Brent rises above $90 funds Russia’s war in Ukraine with revenue Western sanctions were designed to prevent. The Iran war is financing the adversary it was supposed to isolate. Israeli military officials have reportedly told their government that Iran’s capabilities cannot be eliminated in the current operation. Nine thousand targets. $200 billion. The Supreme Leader dead. The navy commander dead. None of it reopened the strait. None of it stopped the checkpoint. The kinetic campaign achieved maximum destruction and zero strategic resolution. Trump says the mission completes in four to six weeks. His mission is kinetic. Iran’s mission is legal, administrative, and fiscal. Those missions do not intersect. You cannot bomb a checkpoint into nonexistence when the checkpoint is a legal claim, a fee schedule, and a parliamentary bill. April 6 is the pause deadline. April 27 is the NPT. May 14 is Trump-Xi. Between now and then, the toll booth collects in yuan, the legislation advances, the checkpoint operates, the IDF bleeds manpower, the Pentagon deploys armour, Russia doubles its revenue, and the AI supply chain loses its helium from the same chokepoint that is being incorporated into Iranian sovereign law. The war did not break the world. It rewrote the operating system. And the new operating system runs on yuan, collects at Larak, and does not require a single admiral to be alive to function. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanak…

Look at the map. 338,000 red dots. Unique IP addresses trading, distributing, and sharing child sexual abuse material… children under 12. Do you notice the blue dots? Probably not. Those are the actual investigations. Law enforcement needs more resources, more support… a bigger rescue team. This is a fight of good vs. evil, and we are losing.

Leftists: “Stop calling us a religion.” Also leftists:

MTG just went absolutely nuclear on Trump’s war in Iran. “We’re in another fucking war, and American troops are being killed.” “We need to have a serious conversation about what the fuck is happening to this country.” “72% of Americans can’t afford health insurance.” “58% of Americans can’t afford car insurance.” “67% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.” “31% of Americans can’t afford their back taxes.” “50% of Americans are in credit card debt.” “We are nearly $40 trillion in debt.” “Most Americans are completely against this war.” “Make America Great Again was supposed to be America first, not Israel first.” “And our President is saying that the Iranian people are all of a sudden going to topple their regime.” “Well, I don’t think the Iranian people are going to be toppling their regime when they’re getting blown apart by the US and Israel in an unprovoked attack.” “I am furious.” “We have seen enough of our American troops dead and murdered for foreign countries.” “Now, we have four more dead … for Israel.” “Trump already said … today that he doesn’t care about the polling.” “He doesn’t care about what the American people think.” “And he may put troops on the ground.” “The man that I supported … denounced what happened in Iraq, said no more foreign wars, no more regime change.” “JD Vance promised it.” “Tulsi Gabbard promised it.” @FmrRepMTG @mtgreenee @megynkelly

Both dandelion root and lemongrass extracts eradicate human cancer cells in-vitro and suppress human tumor growth in mice by ~95% — with ZERO harm to healthy cells. Common, non-toxic plants shown to HALT tumor growth in animal models deserve immediate clinical trials.

46. The Physicists Key youtu.be/5sk5lVxKt-k?si=HbLl…

The term “Elites” is wrong. The new term is “Predator Class”

“We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.” — Terence McKenna

Realizing the Full Potential of Life is more important than how long you live. #SadhguruQuotes

A journalist asks about human rights.

We were built different

I’ve got great news….and some strongly worded suggestions on how to dial down the thermostat of the nation and flatten the curve.

New bag… do better @OnTheBorderChip #shrinkflation

Love = Gravity “Anything that Unifies” Since… “It” is all One.