Hate Is A Complete And Total Surrender Of Personal Power…to people who can’t or won’t change anyway. There was a time in my much younger life when I hated one or more persons. I think at one point, it was a sort of searing, visceral hate. There were things that I dreamed about doing to the other person, but could never bring myself to do him or her. I couldn’t do those things because I kept thinking through what would happen to me. I’d be embarrassed. I’d feel bad for the other person. I’d go to jail. I’d be ostracized by everyone who knew me. I’d regret it for the rest of my life. Yet, those things that I thought of, that I fantasized about, they were obsessions. They took up space in my brain, time in my day and life away from me. Hate made me tired, so tired. And my hate required other people to change. But at that time in my life, I was not willing to change. My unwillingness to change made me tired. I ran in circles in my brain, trying to enjoy the hate and make the other person change more to my liking at the same time. All along the way, people I knew and who knew me could see that I was suffering and they kept telling me the same things: “You can’t change people.” “Those people are never going to change.” “You are filled with resentment. Resentment is like drinking poison, waiting for the other person to die.” But no one ever told me that hate is a surrender of personal power to someone else. I had to figure that one out for myself. I had known this intuitively for a long, long time, yet had never articulated it. Now I see that I live in a culture that is filled with hate, with mass shootings being a major symptom of that hate, and I know what hate means to me now. When I look at racism, I see people who hate other people for the color of their skin. That skin color is never, ever, going to change. There is no therapy, no cure, no magic available to change the color of the skin. Yet, day after day, I see headlines for mass shootings, hate crimes, threats, and protests against people of color. For the racists, I have to wonder, why hate people with brown skin when you know that the color of their skin is never going to change? Then there are the Trump haters. I understand their pain, their sense of urgency, and their motivation. But Trump is never going to change. His job is not to make you happy. He is only interested in making his base happy, and if you’re not in that set, forget it. Move on. Focus on something that makes you happy. I don’t actually hate Trump myself. I know the trap of hate well. The problem I have with hating Trump is that I don’t actually know who Trump is as a person. I’ve read reports of Trump visiting people in a hospital and they said he was warm and friendly, even personable in private. That is in complete contrast to the reports I read of his rallies. So I really don’t know who Trump is. And if I don’t know him, then it’s reasonable for me not to hate him. And not hating Trump != supporting Trump. I don’t support his policies, and I don’t support him as president. But I don’t hate him. I don’t have enough knowledge about him to hate him, nor do I have the time or patience to hate him. I’m not sure, but perhaps I’m apathetic about him. I don’t really care what he does. What matters then, is what I choose to do in response to the people in my life who may be irritating, high maintenance, or that lack the skills or capacity to do better. When I hate someone, the focus is on them, not me. When I hate someone, since the focus is on them, that means the object of my hate is required to change in order for me to be happy. If they changed more to my liking, would my hate decrease or stop? Would I stop hating someone who changed in response to my hate? I don’t think so. There is a region in the brain called the amygdala. That is the part of the brain that is responsible for identifying associations between objects in our environment and pain and pleasure. Most people have trained themselves to see someone like Trump and respond with pain, anxiety or displeasure, even hate. Hate is a learned behavior. Babies are not born with hate. Even racists learned to hate from someone, and they train themselves, their amygdala, to feel hate when they see someone with a skin color different from their own. There was a time in my life when I hated mustard on my food. Instead of spending my time obsessing on how I hated mustard, I stopped putting it on my food. I did something else. I changed. The mustard was agnostic, so to speak. Mustard doesn’t have to change for me. Whether or not it has any consciousness is debatable, but for sure, I can say that it’s not the job of mustard to make me happy. The mustard didn’t change, I did. Much later in life, I developed a taste for mustard, but either way, I made the change. I exercised my own power. When we hate something or someone, we are giving up our power. When we hate someone, we surrender our personal power completely and totally. That is because, when we hate someone, we are not considering our part in the hate. We may not have considered the possibility that hate is a choice. When we hate someone, we are completely focused on the other person, our hate is dependent on the other person changing, in order for us to be happy. And I can tell you from personal experience, it is not possible to be happy and hateful at the same time. Try it sometime. You will find that hate and happiness cannot exist in the same room at the same time. I have seen firsthand, the power of hate and how it disabled me. I guess then, that hate is a disability. Hate is a disability to love. Hate is a disability to do anything about my circumstances. Consider this in the context of racism. A white person hates a black person. A white person goes to public gatherings to express his hate for black people. Is the white person making anyone’s life any better by expressing his hate? He’s not working to make money, he’s not being of service to anyone, even the god that he purports to love. Hate doesn’t satisfy any human need that I can think of. Therefore, hate as a verb is a complete and total surrender of personal power. Hate satisfies no human needs, it displaces one from a state of peace, it displaces self-awareness, and it’s addictive. Addiction is the pathological pursuit of reward. The reward in hate is the endorphins released when one is engaged in hateful behavior. Shouting epithets, marauding in groups or packs around the target of hate, protesting, writing hateful things, posting hateful pictures, memes, violence, and threats of violence, they all cause the brain to release endorphins. Those endorphins get us high, like the runner’s high. When people start recovery from addiction, the first step is to admit complete and total powerlessness over the addiction. Most people who hate are loathed to admit powerlessness. Hate assumes the power to make other people change when that power doesn’t actually exist. The only purpose of hate then is to feel those endorphins, to feel the rage, to displace oneself from one’s own pain, and one’s own power. So I avoid hate. I notice when the temptation to hate presents itself and I do something else. I write. I use the phone. I interrupt the thought pattern and think about something else. I think about what I could do differently. I think about the other as a person, with feelings like I have feelings. I think about the other person with needs like I have needs. I make the other person human. I assume that it’s not the job of the other person to make me happy. And I figure out how to make myself happy without any help from the other person. Those are habits, and I have done those habits for so long, that I don’t actually hate anyone now. Hate is not a part of my life anymore. When I really want to grow, I figure out a way to be of service to the person that caused pain, irritation or inconvenience, however briefly. This doesn’t mean that I have to support the other person for their counterproductive behavior. I can be of service to that person in a very general sense by promoting peace. By meditating, by writing, by considering the other person as someone with unmet needs, without hate. Or maybe I can find a way to help that other person with his or her own pain. People who hate are usually in pain. People who cause pain to other people are usually in pain, retelling, recreating their own painful experience and imposing their fate upon another. But whatever I do, I don’t take what others do personally, and I make it my job to find my own happiness. I make it my job to love others exactly as they are. I make it my job to be the change I want to see. I do not surrender my power to hate. I retain my power to love, for love is the antidote to hate. Write on. medium.com/swlh/hate-is-a-co…

The Uruguayan national team arrived in the USA for the World Cup, where they were greeted with dogs and full security checks This happened the day after their plane was denied permission to enter US airspace - as a result, the team was stuck in a hotel in Mexico City the night before their first match, while FIFA and the airline blamed each other, and the pre-match press conference was cancelled.

The whole-of-government takeover by Israel is far worse than previously understood. America is handing over its most sensitive national security systems to Israel thru: - presidential memo NSPM-12 (01:18) - 5 Israel bills and (03:39) - Pax Silica. (05:36) This backdoor alliance floods US cyber, AI, crypto, and defense with Israeli tech, intel, and co-production while a known espionage powerhouse gains keys to the kingdom. (05:53) Sovereignty is being sold out. Secrets are now at risk of total compromise.

Netanyahu would be doing us a favor by releasing the Epstein Files. Not a chance in hell that's going to happen. He needs the leverage. If he releases the files, he loses the leverage.

There are 989 billionaires in the United States. A country can't afford necessary and good things for the whole population & also have a government whose top priority is making sure 989 oligarchs have more than a billion dollars. The math doesn’t work. Politicians should stop pretending public policies that support the wealth-hoarding of billionaires & trillionaires aren’t a problem. Those policies are THE problem.

If you remove the corruption from capitalism, you have socialism.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Tulsi Gabbard told Congress Iran was nowhere near a nuclear weapon. Nuclear regulatory agencies said the same. But here we are Americans are used to propaganda from Washington that leads our military into foreign wars"

BREAKING: Benjamin Netanyahu says he will not comply with President Trump’s peace deal with Iran and will strike Iran and Lebanon whenever he deems necessary. Netanyahu says he does not see eye to eye with Trump on the issue and that he is responsible for Israel’s security. Nethanyahu needs to be removed.

Isn’t an ‘underground church’ just a fancy term for a cult?

🚨Trump — who spent years calling Obama’s Iran deal “the worst ever” — has reportedly agreed to a framework that makes the that deal (JCPOA) look like a masterful negotiation. Per Reuters, the draft MOU would have the U.S. unfreeze $25 billion in Iranian assets, including direct cash transfers — nearly 15x the $1.7B released under Obama. Washington would also waive oil sanctions, lift its naval blockade of Iranian ports, and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran, in return, agrees not to pursue nuclear weapons and to pause uranium enrichment — with final nuclear talks to follow within 60 days. Just 16 days before this deal was announced, Trump gave a prime-time address accusing Obama of flying pallets of “green, green cash” to Tehran, saying the $1.7 billion payment had only made the Iranians laugh. Last week he called Obama’s deal “stupid, claiming he “thought he could bribe them.” Now Trump has reportedly agreed to a framework that makes the JCPOA look like a tough negotiation. That’s the exact same structural framework as the JCPOA — just with exponentially more money and zero congressional authorization. The man who ripped up Obama’s deal, called it the worst in history, and accused Democrats of funding terrorism just handed Iran a check that makes Obama look like a tough negotiator. Obama gave them $1.7B and got called a terrorist sympathizer while they emphasized that his middle name is “Hussein.” Trump gives them $25B and MAGA cheers on his “4-D chess.” You can’t make this up.

Zillow just announced starter homes in the U.S. now cost at least $1 million in 242 cities. Under capitalism most Americans can’t afford a home or find a job that pays a living wage. This is why people are rightly losing faith in the system and looking for an alternative. The alternative to a capitalist system, where the economy is run purely to maximize profits for corporations, is a socialist system where the economy is run to meet people’s needs. Capitalism guarantees endless profits for rich shareholders. Socialism guarantees housing, healthcare, education, and community for all.

How big money divides us, especially when we don’t have it, by @ScottCDunn open.substack.com/pub/scottc…

So what is in "The Deal with Islamic Republic of Iran"? If you're confused, it's normal: the US and Iran already publicly disagree on what they agreed to, and it's not even a "deal": just a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that sets the terms for negotiating the actual deal within the next 60 days. We do, however, know a few things: 1) Israel is actively trying to undermine the deal - for instance by striking Beirut yesterday Sunday. Israeli media say that the deal is causing "profound concern among Israeli officials," that "Israel, despite having started the war alongside the US, was not involved in the negotiations," and that "the deal do[es] not achieve the goals of the war that were set out by the US and Israel" (timesofisrael.com/us-iran-re…). That last part is clear: the very existence of this MOU proves the objectives of the war were not met, as they certainly didn't include the US negotiating an exit with an undefeated Iran while Israel is freaking out about it on the sidelines. 2) We know, because both parties and Pakistan (the mediator) confirmed it, that a finalized MOU does exist and that it's due to be formally signed on Friday in Switzerland by JD Vance and maybe Trump himself (Vance told Fox News: “I certainly plan to be there, but it’s possible the president himself could be there” nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dea…) 3) We know Trump ordered the US naval blockade to be lifted (supposedly today, Monday) 4) The Strait of Hormuz will reopen on the Iranian side (though both parties publicly spun the terms differently - Trump says "toll-free," Iran's FM Araghchi says with "service fees") 5) The war would end on all fronts including Lebanon - both sides used this exact phrase. Israel, obviously, is trying hard to spoil this. 6) Some form of sanctions relief is included - Iran speaks of "termination of all sanctions" (fortune.com/2026/06/14/iran-…) and a senior US official confirmed the structure is "Iran would earn economic rewards each time it met a set of US demands" 7) The MOU apparently does not agree on anything wrt nuclear, just that it will be discussed during the 60-day negotiation window, with Iran maintaining its current nuclear status quo in the meantime 8) In fact I suspect the MOU defers most things truly contested - like nuclear - to later negotiations while resolving in the immediate only the problems the war itself created: stop shooting, reopen the strait (under updated Iranian rules), and lift the blockade. Which means that, most likely, this "deal" is - at this stage - less a deal than an acknowledgement of the new status quo reached in the war. It differs from the April 5 ceasefire in that, this time, the US is lifting all coercion it introduced in the war - including the naval blockade it imposed on April 13. So in effect the war had two phases of failed coercion (military, then economic with the blockade), and the MOU formalizes the failure of both. In exchange what the US is getting is a conversation about its initial stated war objectives (like nuclear), which it will now have to pursue after having proven it cannot impose them by force. Needless to say, you don't get better terms at the table after showing you couldn't get them on the battlefield 🤷

If I was looking for proof that the Democrats were controlled opposition, I’d read this article on Common Dreams by Ralph Nader. commondreams.org/opinion/cow…

I think it's reasonable to wonder what they're feeding Trump. psychedelics.co.uk/news/a-mu…

In my lifetime, China lifted 850 million people out of poverty, while the US created one trillionaire. It is clear as day that socialism is the key to our future.

Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly

Life in US for billionaires: — Their wealth has tripled — They’re becoming trillionaires Life in US for the people: — 75% cant afford median-priced home — 70% live paycheck to paycheck — 140 million are poor or low-income — 100 million have medical debt

Many Iranians want the resistance against U.S. arrogance to continue. After the Foreign Minister stated that the country would be signing an MOU with the U.S., people flooded the streets demanding that there be no compromise with America. Many of the protesters are also calling for revenge for their Supreme Leader. This is certainly not the news the U.S. was expecting, and especially not Donald Trump. The man wants to get out of a conflict that he allowed himself to be drawn into by the Zionist regime. Donald Trump must be lying awake at night thinking, "What a terrible mistake I've made. Why did I allow myself to be dragged into such a mess by the Zionist regime?" You do not start a fight with people who are prepared to sacrifice everything, including their own lives. In fact, many of them view death in such a struggle as martyrdom. They said these people wanted regime change and Trump's help, but the exact opposite is happening. They are protesting against any deal with the U.S. and want to teach Trump's criminal army a lesson. Now the world sees what Iranians truly want.

They are ignorant. They are arrogant. They are hateful. They are childish, impetuous, reckless, incompetent & dishonest. 👉🏻 They are a danger to us all!

Understand that Pete Hegseth is trained in media. He knows broadcast speak, an exaggerated form of speaking that ensures listeners and viewers can understand you. He knows how to manage body language to convey the message. He's an expert at lying.