Dream

goin to a gig was somewhere in nj and had to leave there to get to a gig oacked thr car tight and waa brining the band in thr car too we were srivibg to the gig but didnt know how to go realized i forgot my guitars then i took wwhat i thought was the right turn to go back but it was a ramp the gwb going into nyc tried to turn around but got stopped then we were all out of the car and filing through the bridge on foot in a giant line of people all trying to commute i was trying to find a short cut and one of the band members was stressed bc we were going to be late to the gig there were all of these scenes of areas of the bridge along the path back to mj the feelong waa being filed through a seriea of passageways but never getting anywhere i woke up abruptly but i dont remember what woke me up my firat thoughts were about being atuck in quarantine and feeling the monotony of each day oddly, i received an email from tarquin about gigs for the apring this was an email he said he was going to send 4 days ago

Nightmare

i had a nightmare last night it was a cinematic version of me staying with some people in the country. being accused of something by a person that person getting into a brutal to the death fight with one of the people you are staying with the accuser winning the fight by electrocuying the host with a car battery i run into another room and get someone to call the police then run out the door to get away and closer to where the police are coming from down the lane of the country house/farm. as im running i reslize they are following me i start to realize they are all after me and that the cop isnt going to protect me bc hes on their side. i realize that its like the kkk and im a black guy who is accused and will never find protection when i woke my first assoc was to how the senate acquitted trump, how the mob of white supremacy that is the senate has always protected its own no matter what the crime. they were able to do it again snd reinforce that feeling of subjugation and injustice and helplessness that the rest of us feel because we are not the priveledged

Separating kids is a crime against humanity

The family law community has been struggling with issues of separating children from their parents for decades. Family court judges have relied on mental health experts to guide the court in making these crucial decisions for children and their parents. Research into the implications of separating children from a parent, especially very young children has been used by experts to provide the court with crucial information in making parenting time and custody decisions. One of the clear and consistent findings is the separation on children from a parent can create significant psychological stress that can have long term impacts on these children. These psychological impacts include higher rates of anxiety, depression, learning disorders, relationship problems, aggression, and substance abuse. Such early trauma is linked to these symptoms and long term identity and the development of post traumatic symptoms that can last for decades. We know that these are the repurcussions when children are exposed to trauma and separation from primary caregivers, especially at young ages. So if we know this, how is it that the federal government, the courts, and our representatives in Congress are not being held accountable for crimes against humanity? When family courts have been consumed by the questions of whether or not an infant is at risk if the court allows overnights with the non custodial parent at the risk of causing trauma even with a loving parent, how can immigration courts, ICE, and the Executive branch, not be accountable for causing trauma in young children by separating them under already traumatic conditions? It is imperative that we recognize the significance of these acts, and the callous nature under which our government officials have acted against the interests of protecting human health and welfare. We know that these acts will have serious implications for the children that have been exposed to this crime, and our Courts should hold them accountable for knowingly exposing these children to psychological trauma, harm and long term damage.

The transgender bathroom fear debunked

FYI https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b96c5b0e4b0511db3e52825 http://jaapl.org/content/46/2/232 The first is the popular article The second is the scholarly research article

Right wing conspiracy

My two cents on this are pretty simple and practical. The republicans owned congress for 6/8 years. If there was something on Obama they would have pursued it. Your issues with IRS, Benghazi (a total farce just like going after trump on niger would be), etc. amount to nothing. McConnell, Ryan and Boehner would have nailed the guy. They did it to the last democratic president over nothing. Pretty simple math to me. As for the corruption of the media. This is a story that goes back to right wing talk radio in the 90s. Started with spreading right wing mythology about the media. Up until then there was a consensus that the newsprint and national news was giving a fairly reasonable account of what was going on. Then comes talk radio- Rush et al perpetrated by ailes and Murdoch. Buying media outlets, clear channel, and then fanned by right wing think tanks(brookings, American enterprise institute etc...). They present with just enough reality to sound real but aren’t. And they push and push a clear “conservative “ agenda and anti media campaign for years and years. It grows and grows fomenting doubt in weak minded ppl. And perpetuating a fraud that has spread to the point that every bit of information is now in doubt. So scientific information (what science calls fact- ie, what we know to be true at the moment based on our best scientific work) is doubted or it’s findings are questionable bc of some fantasy about who funded it. And why is that? Bc corporations (mostly run by right wingers) figures out they can fund fake studies, and create confusion about science. Then the left decides it has to play the game and they create left wing “media” (really equivalent to right wing propaganda) to combat this already too established right wing. But that just serves the right’s agenda by reinforcing the narrative. This is how it all went down, filtered down to the point that so many people now believe all news is fake, or deliberately biased, that we get someone like Trump who is a master manipulator of this entire process. Now it makes us ripe for totalitarian govt and for now the right is winning that contest

From. http://www.salon.com/2017/07/13/donald-trump-jr-s-emails-wont-change-anything-his-dads-supporters-will-stay-loyal-no-matter-how-much-collusion-is-exposed/ Thus a painful truth for those patriotic Americans who oppose Donald Trump: He will not be impeached. His son’s emails basically admitting collusion with Russia will ultimately mean little if anything. Why is this? Because there is likely no amount of empirical evidence or facts that will turn the Republican Party and its supporters against President Trump. He is a tool for accomplishing the Republican Party’s goals of giving more money to the very richest Americans, punishing poor and working-class people, destroying the commons and the social safety net, creating a Christian theocracy, undermining the middle class, giving corporations full control over the country, destroying the environment, taking away women’s control over their own bodies, abusing Muslims, and denying the civil rights, freedom and equal citizenship of African-Americans and other people of color. In all, the Republican Party, its voters and the right-wing media have chosen political power over loyalty to country. In that context, Russia’s meddling in our presidential election to put Donald Trump in the White House is but a means to an end. I have written hundreds of essays about the rise of Donald Trump and what it tells us about American politics and culture. I am also in the process of writing a book on the same topic. In my writings on Donald Trump and this political moment, I have tried to warn and prepare readers for the reckoning that is coming to the United States. Yes, in some ways the reckoning has already arrived in the form of Trump’s fascism and the authoritarianism, bigotry and racism that fuel it. But there are worse things on the horizon in Donald Trump’s America. When the full scale and depth of Russia’s interference with last year’s presidential election are laid bare for the world to see, Donald Trump’s rule will be made wholly illegitimate. The Republican Party will then be implicated as a co-conspirator in one of the greatest political crimes in American history. Nevertheless, Republicans and other members of the American right wing will continue to support Donald Trump.

Trump - Narcissistic Personality Disorder

We may talk a lot about people and their pathologies, and some of that talk is a bit tongue in cheek and we play loosely with the definitions of certain disorders. But, when you have someone who repeatedly acts out in infantile ways, without regard to obvious self and other damaging consequences, behaves in a manner that creates the circumstances that they later complain about, then claim victimization by externalizing blame, and then insist on putting into place all kinds of self-protective measures (that also serve to undermine their position) -- you just can no longer deny the obvious. This is the best lay persons description of behavior that strongly suggests narcissistic personality disorder: "The escalation of the probe is packed with irony. Trump’s insistence that he was not personally under investigation led him to fire the man leading the probe, which ensured a special prosecutor, which ensured Trump came personally under investigation. Trump has given Mueller another building block for the investigation by raging about the very circumstances he brought about." (http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-declares-war-on-rosenstein-he-has-no-qualms-about-throwing-him-under-a-bus) Also in the same article: "In other words, Trump’s latest account of why he fired Comey (again) portrays Rosenstein as the driving force behind events, as if Trump never admitted on national television that he fired Comey over the Russia investigation. Mueller will inevitably investigate the exact circumstances leading to the Comey firing, which he is likely to interview both Trump and Rosenstein—now in conflict with each other—about. Even Trump’s senior aides blame the president for bringing the obstruction inquiry upon himself and the White House. “The president did this to himself,” one senior administration official told The Daily Beast on Wednesday."