The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures…. ICE agents don’t get to kidnap someone, from a coffee shop parking lot, without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. The Fifth Amendment guarantees due process…. Holding someone against their will while refusing to tell them why, or denying them access to contact anyone, is a constitutional violation

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During the six days I was abducted and trafficked, the man I called the Bike Man followed me through the streets on a bicycle. He flashed a gun at me so I understood what could happen if I tried to run. I was 20 years old when I left a homeless shelter with no money, no phone, and a small backpack. I was addicted to her*in and cr*ck, and my only plan was to get high. That was why I got into the car. Getting in was my choice. Being held, watched, sold, threatened, and beaten for the next six days wasn't. It was a Detroit block with several trap houses. Most of the other houses were abandoned, burned down, or already gone, leaving empty lots overgrown with tall grass and weeds. The house where I was being held was run by drug dealers and had a doorman controlling who came inside. The houses on that block were all connected. They knew when police were doing street sweeps. They sent me out to find men who were buying sex, but I wasn't allowed to get into their cars. Some of the men were extremely high and paranoid. When I refused to get into their cars, they became suspicious and wouldn't follow me. Others followed me straight back without asking me where to go, as though they had been there before. I couldn't explain why I wouldn't get into the car. The Bike Man stayed close enough behind me that I was never out of his sight. When a man agreed, I brought him past the doorman and inside. Behind that door, I was forced to do whatever they told me to do. They took the money, gave me enough drugs to keep me from getting sick, and sent me right back out. I had been awake for days. I don't remember eating anything, and I had been using massive amounts of her*in and cr*ck. It was an extremely hot summer. I remember walking through those streets projectile vomiting while the Bike Man rode close behind me. Cars were passing. People were going about their normal lives. I didn't know who was connected to the people controlling me, who might help, or who might report me before I got to the end of the block. They also controlled the her*in my body depended on. At one point they accused me of hiding money. I didn't have any. I was walking down the street when someone ran toward me from across the street and tackled me into an empty lot. People working the street nearby laughed as I screamed for help. The man who tackled me went through my pockets while I kept telling him I had no money. I looked around and realized no one was going to help me. That's when I knew I had been set up. When it was over, I walked back to the trap house with my clothes torn and my nose bleeding. The man watching me was still nearby, acting like he hadn't seen any of it. I knew I was still being watched, and I knew I had to go back. They laughed when they saw me. No one asked if I was hurt. No one was surprised. It had never been about money. It was a warning. I remember feeling deeply betrayed. Addiction had bent what I believed relationships were. Part of me believed that underneath all of it, they still saw me as a human being. Their laughter told me they did not. People usually picture an abduction as someone being dragged into a vehicle or locked behind a door. I was walking down a public street and speaking to men, but I couldn't tell them what was happening. Being outside didn't mean I was free. For years, I blamed myself because I got into that car willingly. I thought to being addicted meant I deserved it. Leaving a shelter because I wanted to get high wasn't consent to being trafficked. The only person I told was my mom, and even then, I didn't tell her everything. I didn't call it trafficking. I called it something I had brought on myself. Blaming myself felt easier than admitting how powerless and afraid I had been. I saw myself as damaged goods and believed I didn't deserve anything better. That shame helped keep me using. When I was high, I didn't have to think about what happened. I couldn't heal from something I refused to name. I had to admit that I had been trafficked, stop calling the abuse something I deserved, and tell someone I trusted. I'm sharing this because someone reading it may still believe they're responsible for what was done to them while they were addicted. Addiction didn't take away my humanity. You don't have to behave like a perfect victim for what happened to count. If you have been through something like this, please tell someone safe. Shame told me silence was protecting me. Silence kept me inside those six days long after I had physically left them. The street was open. I was still being held. ❤️‍🩹 We Do Recover #mentalhealth #wedorecover #addiction #recovery #healingjourney


 






















 


 

I dunno what to say about belief systems but I am evolved enough to know that if you are not worthy of one god due to merits you surely are adored by another for your effort so just do your best if you try and lessen addictions and eat like only 20% meat in you life and treat everyone with profound kindness respect and compassion feed crows and wave at cats and dogs and smile at people - you will be turned over to new guidance that is normally not reserved for the masses and this is due to merit and karmic fluff so even if we all get microchips or new shots or whatever just if anything you do is karmically unfortunate you may have to think about it for up to 72 hours even if they are blackmailing you or threatening you with hurting your family after about 72 hours you can come to a conclusion you should never ever be rushed swiftly into anything I am at a time in my life where of course i care about my family but I know they are kind of illusion with my own self and I dont take on their karma and they should not be expected to take on mine like if I ever become wealthy I will make everyone have a great time but never should they say oh if you dont fight to the death we will kill your mother or something that is a serious karmic obstacle and universal laws violation


 

yeah cause he actually found out he has to pay for all this shit somehow might as well be mobster fraud as if hooking people on dangerous drugs and stealing their souls wasnt enough satanism is massive


 

what is next; the futuristic age of AI data centers chips implanted crypto... Not for the faint of heart, not for the ones who are just above the level to get food stamps.. we have all sensed it I pay attention to a local neighborhood slate and I see the loneliness the longing the suffering I see all the suicides that have come since covid... Christians cling to the return of Messiah, I hoped for rescuing


 

of course we believe in traditional family values in the matrix !!


 

cat nibbling on petunias isnt he so precious?


 

oh she loves me that I know and does she ever show it


 

Poor thing is drunk all day !!


 

If you break mans law I will come after you NO EXCEPTIONS HUMAN


 

We are living in the new nazi germany currently a masonic nazi hell racist and fascist takeover 2.0










 A little-known court tasked with handling highly sensitive deportation cases against alleged alien terrorists has lain dormant since its 1996 creation, lacking even a website for tracking any proceedings before it.  But this month, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court sprang to life with a first-of-its-kind case filed by the Trump administration as it reaches for new deportation tactics.  For 30 years, a rotating set of judges assigned to the court have sat ready to hear any cases brought to it. Yet never before has the federal government thought it had a case that required the court – or was worth the risk of testing the constitutionality of its controversial procedures.   The court gives the government enormous latitude to keep secret – including from the person it is trying to deport – its reasons for believing an immigrant is a terrorist. And it closes off many of the avenues migrants typically have for contesting their removals.  Because, by design, most of what happens in the court is kept under wraps, little is known about the groundbreaking case the Justice Department filed in the court this month. But what is a public is an order from the ATRC judge who is overseeing it, indicating she was not persuaded by the government’s initial arguments and was requiring additional information to be submitted this week.  Here’s what to know about the secretive court and the new questions its use will raise.  The DOJ has avoided the court – until now  Since Congress set up the court in a sweeping bill called the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, questions have lingered about whether its procedures are constitutional, which could explain why previous administrations avoided even trying to bring a case before it.   Lawmakers set out the court’s secretive procedures as a way to protect state secrets that the Justice Department has determined would pose a national security risk if disclosed in open court.  Under the statute, the alleged “alien terrorists” – a term defined in law – are given very limited information about the evidence the government has gathered to justify their quick deportation. But those limits have brought accusations that the court violates the due process protections that the Fifth Amendment extends not just to citizens, but to lawful and even unlawful immigrants within US borders.  “The ATRC was the absolute last court of choice,” said Andrew Arthur, who oversaw terrorism cases as a top attorney at the Justice Department’s Immigration and Naturalization Service in the late 1990s and early 2000s.  During his time at the agency (which was shuttered with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security), the government determined that the conventional immigration proceedings provided sufficient protections for classified information in the national security-related cases it brought. In addition, Arthur noted that it was inevitable that once the ATRC was used, it would invite legal challenges that would force the Supreme Court to weigh in.   It’s not clear exactly why the calculus has changed, but the Trump administration has shown itself to be much more risk tolerant when it comes to pushing the legal envelope.  Arthur – now a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for stricter immigration laws – speculated that the case could involve an “individual who the government concludes has done something very bad, but the very bad thing that the person did is not something they can say in open court.”  “Alternatively, it’s because they want to establish the ATRC as a separate, slightly faster tribunal,” he said.  Unlike other flashy immigration moves by the administration, the Justice Department filed the new case quietly, with submissions under seal. It was first reported by Court Watch.   “This Department of Justice will use every tool available to bring alien terrorists to justice and remove them from the United States, including this court established by Congress in 1996,” a DOJ spokesperson said in a statement to CNN.    Comparing the Trump administration’s turn to the court to the movie “Jurassic Park,” CNN legal analyst Steve Vladeck said that, “the velociraptors are testing the fences.”  “If they lose this case, it’s one person who, presumably, they can put in normal removal proceedings,” Vladeck said. “If they win, think of the precedent it creates.”  A fast-track process  Several aspects of the court make it, in theory, a faster process for deporting individuals and one where the individuals are deprived of many of the typical mechanisms for contesting their removals.   The law requires that the proceedings happen as “expeditiously as practicable.” It forecloses raising asylum claims and other arguments individuals can raise to head off deportations that are available to them under standard immigration law.  The appeal process is faster, too. Any appeal must be filed with the DC US Circuit Court of Appeals within 20 days of the ruling. Appeals of rulings in regular immigration proceedings are much slower and go through several other steps before reaching a federal appellate court.  But on the flip side, it is not a tool that the administration will be able to use to deport sweeping numbers of immigrants, legal experts say. The five judges who sit on the ATRC come from the Article III judicial branch, making them more independent arbiters than the executive branch immigration judges that typically preside over deportation proceedings.  The website for the Alien Terrorist Removal Court of the United States, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026. The website for the Alien Terrorist Removal Court of the United States, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026. uscourts.gov With an alleged alien terrorist given little to work with to challenge the DOJ’s arguments, the law essentially “transfers the responsibility for that to the judge,” said Vladeck, a Georgetown Law professor who has previously written about the court. “The whole process was always intended for the judges to be extra skeptical, but I think the events of the last 18 months will make it even more likely that the judges will be.”   Given how the court operates, “it doesn’t really make sense for the administration to try to use this court for mass deportation,” said J. Wells Dixon, a senior staff attorney Center for Constitutional Rights who has litigated cases concerning immigration and national security.  Constitutional questions about the procedures  Establishing that this fast-track process is constitutional will take some time, observers expect. Even as the court remained unused in the decades after its creation, legal experts have long debated whether it offers immigrants adequate notice of the proceeding and the opportunity to respond.  “We’re really going to say they can be deported based on evidence they never see?” Vladeck said.   Once the government has determined using the normal deportation procedures would pose a national security risk, it can file an application with the court, entitling it to present the bulk of its case in camera and ex parte – meaning that only the judge sees the full slate of evidence and that information is withheld from the targeted individual.  “Throughout the ATRC’s statutory framework, Congress’s purpose for the court is evident: to provide a forum through which the U.S. attorney general may deport resident aliens who likely are terrorists without requiring the attorney general to sacrifice any state secrets in doing so,” a 2011 Duke law review note by John Dorsett Niles said.  Once the initial application is approved by the judge, the law requires a public hearing and lays out procedures for the alleged alien to have legal representation – but there are secrecy provisions that constrain the defense their attorneys can mount.  Legal permanent residents have the most rights under the court’s procedures. While they’re not entitled to review the government’s evidence itself, the law requires the appointment of a special attorney who could access that classified evidence and contest it on the immigrant’s behalf. But the special attorney cannot share the details of the evidence with their client, a hurdle to the defense they can provide.  A plane carrying the children of Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrives at Simon Bolivar International Airport, in Maiquetia, Venezuela, on July 18, 2025. A plane carrying the children of Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrives at Simon Bolivar International Airport, in Maiquetia, Venezuela, on July 18, 2025. Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters Those with weaker ties to the US – unlawfully-present immigrants or documented immigrants with temporary status – can be provided highly generalized summaries of the evidence the government is presenting. However, the government doesn’t always have to provide even that generalized summary.   In addition to the due process questions the procedures raise, there are also elements of the law creating the court that are in tension with the Fourth Amendment’s prohibitions on unlawful searches, Dixon said.  The statute, for instance, says the alleged terrorist cannot seek the suppression of evidence against them that was obtained illegally by the government.  “When Congress creates new courts that are intended to deprive people of the benefits of regular Article III courts the only predicted, guaranteed outcome is years of additional litigation,” Dixon said.  Early skepticism of the Trump case  The Trump filed its application in July, according to the Federal Judicial Center’s webpage explaining the court. Besides the cover sheet of the DOJ’s application, the only public filing in the case is a July 16 order from Judge Joan Ericksen, who has been Chief Judge of the ATRC since 2025 and is presiding over the new case. It says there was a hearing before her that day.   Judges serve on the court in staggered 5-year terms and are assigned to it by Chief Justice John Roberts. The law requires that they each come from different circuits – meaning the regions each federal appeals court covers. Roberts did not respond to an inquiry submitted by CNN to the Supreme Court about other criteria he considers in the assignments.  Ericksen is a senior judge on the US District Court of Minnesota, which was ground zero for judicial tensions with the executive branch during the immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis early this year.  The ATRC will sit in the federal courthouse building in Washington, DC, which hosts the federal district and appeals courts in DC, as well as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, but court officials could not provide details about the July 16 hearing.  Ericksen’s order hints that there were holes in the government’s case, vaguely referencing questions she had about how the individual’s alleged actions were connected to the laws the government was invoking.   She gave the administration until Wednesday to file additional information, noting that she believed “the government could benefit from the opportunity for more thoughtful consideration.”  As of Thursday morning, that filing was not on public website.

This bird was recovered today because of the fast response of a friend who knew nothing about parrots called a friend who has a parrot for help. That parrot friend, my long time friend Dawn then called me this morning saying the bird appeared yesterday at the same branch today. I called around for help, but it had to be me this time. Im really happy I went as the bird was a horrible flyer in skill yet desperately wanted down. In the same light, the grace of the guy who found the bird was amazing, dawn amazing and our rescue network. The whole team that came out and listened and helped were mind blowing as always!!!! Thank you david and katherine, who were there for this grey when i failed to recover their grey earlier this year. I really hope this will help you heal. He flopped down to a lower branch that became reachable…. It took some goading to not climb up but climb down but he did it. He climbed to my hand, tentatively put his foot out, my hand shaking, but he placed it in my palm and i then wrapped his foot in a toe hold. He did not fight or cry. And he was then placed in a carrier. He is being held by Flight Club Foundations rescue network currently as we do more evaluation and try to find his owner. The bird is clearly fully flighted recent grooming. In great physical shape. We will check for a Chip tonight. I have fully documented the physical condition of the bird to ask any potential people saying the bird is theirs specific questions. He was very thirsty!!! Please only send me actual lost notices and serious owner potential at this time. No bird is not up for any kind of adoption question or comments at this time, so please do not comment saying “ill take him”. He is in a stable place and can remain there for some time. Thank you Deb


 

BREAKING: JUSTICE! A judge sentences the man who murdered Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark to two two life terms plus 40 years on top. This is what we've been praying for... U.S. District Court Judge John R. Tunheim described it as “the longest sentence I have imposed after hearing thousands of cases over the years, but I do believe it is deserved.” The murderer, Vance Boelter, pleaded guilty last month to killing the former Minnesota House Speaker and her spouse. He also critically wounded state Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. “The defendant looked me in the eyes and pulled the trigger. The defendant looked at my wife and chose to do the same,” said Hoffman. “My wife and I now live with injuries. We live with our bodies remembering the gunfire.” “I miss my mom. I miss my dad. I miss my best friends. And I miss believing in the goodness of humanity. I hope that one day these aches feel less sharp. And I know just like the love I feel for my parents, the pain will never go away,” said the Hortmans daughter Sophie. “My days are filled with gray, and the blood that was spilled is the last thing I see before I go to sleep and the first thing I see when I wake,” said their son Colin. “There is no sentence that weighs 15 gunshots, a murdered dog and the rest of my life.” Authorities discovered a likely "kill list" inside Boelter's vehicle that contained roughly 70 names of abortion rights advocates, abortion providers, and prominent Democrats. This is what happens when conservative media relentlessly brainwashes a large swath of the country into thinking that liberals are "demonic" and trying to destroy America. This tragic assassination has gone largely ignored by President Trump and Republicans, because they are desperate to push the lie that political violence in this country is primarily a left-wing phenomenon. In reality, the data shows that it is overwhelmingly carried out by right-wingers. In fact, when Trump was asked directly why he had not U.S. flags lowered to half-staff for Hortman and her husband, he disgustingly replied: "I'm not familiar. The who?" Thankfully, we need not rely on our monstrous President to dispense justice in this country. The courts just handled that and this killer will spend the rest of his miserable life behind bars. Good riddance. Please ❤️ and share to thank the judge.


 

BREAKING: MAGA senator sparks OUTRAGE by calling for New York City's Mayor Mamdani to be arrested and sent to Guantanamo For calling an internationally indicted war criminal exactly what he is, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is now facing calls from a sitting United States senator to be sent to Guantanamo Bay. Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville demonstrated his fascist sympathies when he declared that Mamdani would eventually "do something more stupid than what he's done," at which point "we will finally say enough is enough, go put the handcuffs on him... and send him to Gitmo." Mamdani's actual crime in Tuberville’s disturbed mind? Calling Benjamin Netanyahu an "architect of genocide" — a man under an active International Criminal Court arrest warrant accusing him of exactly that. Mamdani's administration determined, after legal review, that New York City lacks independent authority to execute the ICC warrant itself. Rather than pretend otherwise, Mamdani did something refreshingly honest: he called on the FEDERAL government to join the ICC and enforce it. "Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large," he said plainly. The backlash was instant, ugly, and revealing. Congressman Randy Fine (R-FL) called Mamdani — who is Muslim — a "terrorist." Fine demanded he be denaturalized and deported, joining a chorus of threats against Mamdani's citizenship that Trump himself initiated last year. It’s a marvel that Fine didn’t call for the New York City mayor’s castration as well. Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC) called Jewish New Yorkers who voted for Mamdani "self-loathing" and baselessly linked him to violence against American women. Even Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) piled on, smearing Mamdani by suggesting that he sympathizes with terrorism. Trump, meanwhile, made his priorities crystal clear on Truth Social, declaring Netanyahu "will not be arrested... in any way, shape, or form" — not because of due process concerns, but because Netanyahu is "fighting against" Iran. Let that sink in. A U.S. senator wants an American mayor sent to a notorious torture prison, without trial, for using his constitutional rights to free speech to criticize a man under international indictment for war crimes. Meanwhile, the actual indicted individual gets a personal guarantee of protection from the president of the United States. We’re living in Bizarro world, folks! Since America isn't officially party to the ICC, nobody expects Trump to arrest Netanyahu, particularly when he himself may be eventually indicted by the international court for his own war crimes, like bombing fishing vessels without public evidence of any crimes, kidnapping the leader of a sovereign country, and targeting civilian infrastructure in Iran. But a growing number of Americans increasingly see exactly what Netanyahu has done in Gaza as the genocide that it is — and see exactly who's willing to name it. Please like and share if you think that Mayor Mamdani deserves praise for his principled stance, not empty threats from a MAGA ideologue who’s complicit in the Trump administration’s crimes!


 


 

BREAKING: E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers rip into Trump’s desperate bid to take back the $5.6 million he paid her! Donald Trump simply cannot accept losing, even when he’s already lost. A federal jury found him liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, and ordered him to pay her $5.6 million, but Trump is now trying to force her to give the money back. Too late pal, the check has already cleared. 😄 Carroll’s lawyers fired back in court filings Monday night, calling Trump’s move “desperate” and accusing him of trying to “forestall payment” even after losing at every level of the courts. “Rather than accept the reality that he had lost, [Trump] has engaged in a series of maneuvers trying desperately to forestall payment… The judgment here is final, the money has already been disbursed, and Carroll is entitled to keep it.” The lawyers also pointed out that Trump has continued making the same defamatory attacks against Carroll that got him in trouble in the first place, subjecting her to ongoing harassment and death threats. Of course, Trump denies he has even met Carroll, calling the case a “hoax” and a “con job.” Now that he’s been ordered to pay up, he’s again doing everything he can to make his own personal reality stick, and it’s not working. Trump’s lawyers are asking for an emergency injunction while they beg the Supreme Court for yet another Hail Mary victory, but Carroll’s team is having none of it: “Defendant has lost before a jury, the district court, a unanimous Second Circuit panel, the full Second Circuit en banc, and the Supreme Court of the United States … Carroll should not have to wait any longer.” Jeez Louise, either Trump believes the rules don’t apply to him, or no longer inhabits the same planet as the rest of us. Maybe both. If you have a pleasing case of schadenfreude that the guy who milked the presidency for more than two billion dollars last year is reduced to groveling over a measly five mil and, barring a miracle will lose


 

I emailed a simple question to the people that run the housekeeping tech course and received no response but an auto reply that says that the person no longer works for the company so like warning bells all over they have an okay refund policy so gonna try nagging them for awhile if they cant even retain staff or reply to an email not gonna send them $900 lol like I already work as a housekeeper anyway so dunno why I signed up for it just thought it would add more weight to my janitorial prospects but I am onward with other schooling and stuff so not too worried I can always dispute the charge and stuff but yeah not there yet just funny just was an impulse janitorial buy lol I was fresh out of paying for the non profit mgmt course so was ready to spend baby hahaha


 

on blogspot I get a few "violations" day and I send them all back that are post take downs and 100% of them get reversed within about 6 hours so it was pointless a lot of them are just warnings about adult content which my blog already has so a lot of these things are pointless and a full time job just arguing with this ai program all over the place I was going to spend $160 a month on google flow to make tons of videos all day but like 3 out of 5 of my concepts gets flagged and denied so not gonna pay for that shit they can screw themselves this nanny state is pretty laughable like denying social media to everyone under 15 what is everyone on just crazy so should they sit there and listen to the radio all day or study stuff they "learned" in their youth prison system all night too on top of the all day they spent incarcerated by the system just bonkers


 

The obvious going theme in my life seems to be karmic -I recognize that on one level my suffering may be from eons of built up karma but I also know that I am smart enough to recognize masonic curses and recurring dark and hell magic.....see my history allowed me to brazenly break mans law many hundreds of times and alter everything forever and for all of time so naturally one of the aspects of that would be well if he wants money we will send him more money than he knows what to do with - michael jackson died with $500,000,000 in debt its unfortunate and his spending was out of control had he made one minor adjustment to his life like not eating meats or giving generously to world vision like a whole heifer for a whole village a lot of this would have been avoided but I am kind of a causality or recurrence of him in a lot of ways just one notch all different for all aspects I have serious sleep difficulties, skin problems and an insatiable talent not to mention a jaded history with lots of weirdness like his but I just believe I can avoid such an outcome like his by 1) never joining a famous sex cult that protects its members from ALL crimes... 2) by living a karmically sound life in line with my belief system 3) and endlessly serving people through my written life and my normal usual day to day life---I escape the humiliating aspects of being infamous and guard my own personal existence by not being apart of them in any way and to me that is really wonderful


 

BREAKING: VANCEY TANTRUM! Exposed diva JD Vance goes scorched earth on his own Secret Service after they allegedly leaked details about how high maintenance he is. Imagine this guy with the nuclear codes... “A member of the Vice Presidential Protective Division is the subject of an administrative investigation, and potential criminal inquiry, involving allegations of compromising operational and information security,” stated Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi. “While we will not comment on the specifics of this matter, one principle is unequivocal: any conduct that undermines the trust and confidence between a protectee and their protective detail is fundamentally incompatible with our mission and will not be tolerated," he added. The agent in question has been placed under internal review and administrative leave. The news comes after MS NOW ran a story revealing that agents on Vance's security detail are completely "fed up" with the Vice President's demanding, exploitative behavior. A highlight of that story was the revelation that Vance abused his powers to plan a flight with his son on a Marine Corps helicopter for a golf lesson, which was later canceled. But the Vances have regularly used the chopper to travel while hunting for houses to buy. It's a waste of not only the agents' time, but our tax dollars. “The detail is tired of them not giving notice on things and making everything an [off the record],” said one person familiar with the mood amongst agents. “[Vance] thinks he can still move around like a U.S. Senator. “ The Defense Department estimates that use of the helicopter costs between $16,000 and $24,600 per hour. Imagine what your family could have done with that money if the Trump administration hadn't taken it and wasted it on Vance. According to MS NOW, the helicopter incident is part of a "building morale problem inside the team of agents assigned to shield Vance and his young family." The report cited administration officials with knowledge of Vance's schedule and "another person." Several agents have voiced concern about Vance using them to plan trips that were described as "inappropriate" and an "unprecedented use of government resources." The Vice President is said to make "last-minute travel demands" involving his wife and he expects "royal treatment" for his family. “That is RIDICULOUS,” one person with knowledge of the planned golf trip said in a message. “Pence and Harris never pulled anything like that," one individual with knowledge said to MS NOW of the golf trip. “They change everything,” said another. “They don’t stick to their schedules, and that costs shit-tons of taxpayer money.” This pattern of behavior is perfectly in keeping with the MAGA political ethos. These people don't believe in public service. They see government work as an opportunity to line their own pockets and live lavishly off our dime. Vance gave up every shred of morality and decency that he ever had to get this job. Now, he's living like a hog and punishing anyone who exposes him.


 

“If Buddhists don’t believe in God, why do they worship the Buddha?” This is a question I hear quite often, and it’s an understandable one. Speaking only from my perspective as a Theravāda Buddhist monk, I don’t worship anyone or anything. I don’t worship the Buddha, bodhisattvas, monks, spirits, or deities. The confusion often comes from seeing Buddhists bow or make full prostrations. Many people naturally assume that bowing means worship, but they are not the same thing. Worship is directed toward a being believed to have divine power, from whom one seeks blessings, protection, forgiveness, or salvation. A Buddhist prostration, at least in the Theravāda tradition, is an expression of humility, gratitude, and profound respect. It is not about asking someone else to save us, but about reminding ourselves to cultivate the qualities that lead to awakening. When I prostrate before the Buddha, I am expressing gratitude to the one who discovered and taught the path to the end of suffering. The Buddha never claimed to be a god. He showed that liberation is possible through our own practice, and every bow renews my commitment to cultivate wisdom, compassion, generosity, ethical conduct, mindfulness, and equanimity. There are also occasions when I make full prostrations to senior monks. This is a traditional expression of respect for those who have devoted their lives to preserving the Vinaya and practicing the Dhamma. My respect is for their virtue, discipline, and example. In my own Theravāda practice, however, I do not prostrate to bodhisattvas, spirits, or deities. Ultimately, the highest object of reverence in Buddhism is not even the Buddha as a person, but the Dhamma, the truth he discovered and taught. As the Buddha said: “One who sees the Dhamma sees me.” So when you see me prostrating, you are not seeing an act of worship. You are seeing gratitude for the Buddha, respect for the monastic tradition, and a daily reminder to cultivate those same qualities within my own heart. The Buddha pointed out the path. Each of us must walk it for ourselves. #buddhism #TakeABow #postration


 

THE BUDDHA CARED FOR A MONK SUFFERING THE RESULTS OF PAST KARMA Shortly after his ordination, the Venerable Putigatta suddenly developed painful boils all over his body. His condition grew worse day by day. The boils burst open into foul-smelling sores, and maggots began to infest the wounds. At first, his fellow monks patiently cared for him. But as time passed, the foul odor spread throughout the monastery. The Elder could no longer eat, relieve himself, or even move without assistance. Unable to endure the stench affecting the entire community, the monks built a simple bamboo stretcher and carried him out to the veranda, where it was easier to clean and care for him. Yet, as is often the case, the filth and unbearable smell gradually discouraged everyone. Fewer and fewer monks continued to look after him with the same care. The Elder's body was in unbearable pain. All he could do was lie quietly on the empty veranda, letting out soft groans of suffering. One day, the Buddha appeared.He called a few monks to help Him. The Buddha instructed them to remove the Elder's outer robe and wash it. Then, with His own hands, He dipped a cloth into warm water and gently cleaned each wound, carefully washing the Elder's body and cleaning his bedding. When the outer robe had dried, He had the inner robe removed and washed as well. Wrapping the Elder in the clean outer robe, the Buddha personally washed the inner robe. Finally, He dressed His disciple properly with His own hands. After caring for him, the Buddha stood before the Elder and recited this verse from the Dhammapada: Before long, this body Will lie upon the earth, Cast aside, unconscious, Like a useless log. The moment he heard these four simple lines, Venerable Putigatta immediately attained Arahantship. With a gentle smile, he peacefully breathed his last and entered Parinirvana on the spot. The monks who had not yet attained enlightenment asked the Buddha why the Elder had endured such terrible suffering, yet attained enlightenment so quickly. The Buddha explained that in a distant past life, the Elder had earned his living by trapping birds and selling them for meat. To keep the birds from escaping and make them easier to store, he would deliberately break both their wings and both their legs before throwing them into a basket to be sold later. By crippling and tormenting countless birds in this way, he created terrible karma that caused him to wander through many lifetimes of suffering. In this final life, that karma ripened as the horrific disease that left his body covered with festering sores and decay. Yet during that same lifetime as a bird trapper, he once encountered a Paccekabuddha on almsround. Filled with sudden faith, he offered food and made this aspiration: "May I one day attain the same realization as you." The Paccekabuddha accepted the offering and gave him a blessing. In this life, when he met Gotama Buddha, both kinds of karma ripened at the same time. The karma of killing and cruelly abusing living beings had matured and was ready to be exhausted in full. At the same time, the merit of his offering and his aspiration for enlightenment had also ripened. The root of all attachment is attachment to the body. Clinging to the body is the foundation of attachment, and regarding the body as "mine" is the highest form of possessiveness. Because people identify this body as "I" and "mine," they naturally go on to cling to houses, wealth, family, power, status, and reputation. Contemplating the impermanence of the body—that one day it will lie abandoned on the ground, unconscious like a useless log—strikes directly at the deepest root of attachment. By continually reminding ourselves of the body's impermanence while walking, standing, working, or meditating, even without deep concentration or supernormal powers, unwholesome qualities such as anger, greed, hatred, and delusion gradually wither away and weaken on their own, often without us even realizing it.


 


 

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oh yeah the guy that got away with the most child rapes in history is holding canada accountable for not raking the forests and now iran cause he is the accountability coach now


 

oh cute- like the innocence of all animals birds cats etc are reason enough to fight for the continuity of this place even if you do not like any people here lmao


 

there is a timeline way less macabre where jesus survived and invited everyone to live in the peace matrix forever and for all of time -just sayin'