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GET READY FOR A RECESSION
1) Buy nonperishable nutritious food on sale and store it. Cases of cans of food can be stored under a bed. Rotate your stock. (Eat whatever will go out of date first.)
2) Buy necessities on sale and store them. For example: Light bulbs. Toilet paper.
3) Cut unnecessary expenses as much as you can. Are you wasting money?
4) Look for places to reduce costs. For example: Can you find less expensive car insurance?
5) If you can, establish an emergency fund.
6) If you can, pay down debt.
7) If you can, start a victory garden (or a big garden).
8) Get or make a list of local food pantries and places that provide free meals.
9) If you can, sell your clutter.
10) Begin to make use of the library for free entertainment.
11) Go on picnics rather than eat in restaurants.
12) Maintain your health. In the USA, health care is expensive. Prevent health problems through appropriate exercise and a good diet. Walking is good exercise and can be free entertainment.
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“Astonishing speech by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.”
Leadership in support of Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNs6wRvSpSU
Brian Tyler Cohen: “British leader delivers PUBLIC REBUKE to Trump”
British prime minister Kier Starmer delivers PUBLIC REBUKE to Trum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgj8QQi8V0o
Brian Tyler Cohen: “World leaders combine to issue SHOCKING rebuke of Trump”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd4y1mBxnP4
THE CAPITOL RIOT: AS IT HAPPENED (YouTube, 1 hour and 31 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6uSYhyFao4
BRIAN TYLER COHEN: FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT
https://www.youtube.com/@briantylercohen
https://bsky.app/profile/briantylercohen.bsky.social
GLENN KIRSCHNER: FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT (JUSTICE MATTERS)
https://www.youtube.com/@GlennKirschner2
https://bsky.app/profile/glennkirschner.bsky.social
MARC ELIAS: FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT (DEMOCRACY DOCKET)
https://www.youtube.com/c/DemocracyDocket
https://bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social
https://www.democracydocket.com
ASSOCIATED PRESS (Independent International News Agency): FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT by Reporting the Facts
https://apnews.com
ANDREW TOBIAS: FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT
https://andrewtobias.com
ROBERT REICH: FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT
https://www.youtube.com/@RBReich
https://robertreich.substack.com
WIRED INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM: FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT (Investigative Journalism)
https://www.wired.com/category/politics/
THE GUARDIAN (British Newspaper)
https://www.theguardian.com/us
DAVID HOGG
https://bsky.app/profile/davidhogg.bsky.social
RACHEL MADDOW (TV)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show
INDIVISIBLE
https://indivisible.org
5calls.org
“Calling your congressperson is the most effective way to influence policy.”
https://5calls.org
Ukraine’s Euromaiden Protests Raw Footage documentary. Protests that ousted a Putin puppet.
https://youtu.be/NK_rEIzV16g
World History of Protests and Strikes Map
https://map.workingclasshistory.com/#map=4.13/46.98/14.2
US Labor Movement History
https://youtu.be/ewu-v36szlE
Yoon Impeachment Protests that Ground Seoul to a Halt Every Saturday Until He Was Impeached
https://youtu.be/PI94llSaMW0?si=r9t_a5vYgV-Ii0FJ
June Uprising South Korea to Restore Democracy
https://youtu.be/oExFFQMxw3c?si=FWdLwkfIwecSETyU
Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-legal-challenges-trump-administration-actions/
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
Trump’s Egg Prices
https://www.trumpseggprices.com
Protest Songs & Lyrics
Historical, Social Justice & Human Rights Songs
http://www.protestsonglyrics.net
Spike Jones - Der Fuehrer's Face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWF8iRCan7I
THREE STOOGES - Ep. 44 - You Nazty Spy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTBWkMQz6nY
The THREE STOOGES - Ep.56 - I'll Never Heil Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEApJmUXamg
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The Doing of Good Deeds is Important
As a free person, you can choose to live your life as a good person or as a bad person. To be a good person, do good deeds. To be a bad person, do bad deeds. If you do good deeds, you will become good. If you do bad deeds, you will become bad. To become the person you want to be, act as if you already are that kind of person. Each of us chooses what kind of person we will become. To become a good person, do the things a good person does. To become a bad person, do the things a bad person does. The opportunity to take action to become the kind of person you want to be is yours.
“I Will Go with You Into the Grave”
In a medieval Christian mystery play, a man asks who will go with him into the grave when he dies and give him support at the Day of Judgment. Time after time, he hears the answer, “I won’t go with you into the grave.” His wife won’t go with him into the grave, his children won’t go with him into the grave, his priest won’t go with him into the grave, his friends won’t go with him into the grave — even his wealth won’t go with him into the grave. Finally, the man’s good deeds say, “I will go with you into the grave,” and the man and his good deeds knock at the door of death, together. Your good deeds will plead for you on the Day of Judgment.
“Do Small Kindnesses for People”
Amy Alkon, aka “The Advice Goddess,” does good deeds, and she used to write an advice column for alternative newspapers. She advises, “Do small kindnesses for people.” For example, she buys and reads a newspaper every day. When she is finished reading it, she will look around wherever she is — often, she is in a café — and often see somebody who is looking for a newspaper. She will then ask, “Sir, would you like my newspaper?” She points out, “You’ve noticed a stranger, you’ve solved their problem, you’ve gone out of your way to do it, and they’re gonna feel very good about that, and I think people will tend to pass on good deeds, do other good deeds, if you do good deeds for them.” She adds that “it does make a difference.”
“Dear”
One of the things that Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., believes firmly is this: “God d*mn it, you’ve got to be kind.” One of the things that cheers him up is buying a morning cup of coffee in New York City, which he describes as mad for money. He says, “You can go into a little café and the waitress calls you ‘dear’ even though she knows the bill will be a small expenditure and the tip tiny. So she is responding to you as a person and feels happy and wants to communicate.”
Show the Haters that They are Wrong
Robert DeMott and Dave Smith became friends in the early 1970s. They had a number of things in common that facilitated their friendship: They were or would become editors, scholars, teachers, and writers, plus both had been told as undergraduates by professors that they “were not smart enough or able enough to amount to much in the ‘real’ world” — predictions that they ignored. Mr. DeMott became a noted John Steinbeck scholar, and Mr. Smith became a noted poet.
“The Touchstone For What Good Deeds Became In My Life”
Donna Delfino Dugay of Harper Woods, Michigan, grew up in California, where her family had a picnic at the beach when she was 11 years old. Her mother fixed each of the children a plate of fried chicken and potato salad, and then, Donna says, “When I looked up from my plate, my mother was fixing one more plate …. She turned away from us and walked over maybe 20 or 30 feet to where there was a man by himself. And he was picking his way through the trashcan. And my mother — I don’t know whether she just put the plate there or whether she touched him gently or whether she said a few words — but I remember him turning to her in a gesture of thankfulness.” Years later, when Donna asked her mother about this good deed, her mother claimed not to remember it; however, Donna says, “But for me, I remember it very well because for me, it was the touchstone for what good deeds became in my life.”
“What is Hateful to Yourself, Do Not to Your Fellow Man”
A cart driver asked Rabbi Akiba to teach him the whole of the Torah all at once. Rabbi Akiba told him that Moses had stayed on the mountaintop 40 days and 40 nights to learn the Torah, but that if he really wanted to learn the basic principle of the Torah, he should learn this: “What is hateful to yourself, do not to your fellow man.” Soon after, the cart driver went on a journey with two other men. They came to a field filled with seed pods, and the two other men took two seed pods each, but the cart driver took none. Then they came to a field filled with cabbages, and the two other men took two cabbages each, but the cart driver took none. They asked the cart driver why he wasn’t taking anything, and he replied, “Thus did Rabbi Akiba teach me: ‘What is hateful to yourself, do not to your fellow man.’”
The Sacred Mantra
A guru had a disciple to whom he revealed a sacred mantra, along with a warning not to reveal the mantra to anyone. The disciple asked, “What will happen if I reveal the sacred mantra?” The guru replied, “Anyone to whom you reveal the sacred mantra will learn about Ultimate Goodness and will become wiser. But you will be excluded from discipleship.” Immediately, the disciple ran to the marketplace and began shouting the sacred mantra to everyone there. The other disciples came to the guru and demanded that the first disciple be excluded from discipleship because he had revealed the sacred mantra. The guru smiled, agreed, and said, “Yes, you are right. He is no longer a disciple. Today, he has become a guru.”
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL FOOD PANTRY
Athens County Food Pantry
https://www.youtube.com/@athenscountyfoodpantry8713
Joe Burrow “Hometown Hero” - Athens County Food Pantry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IItb5MX3fIY
OUR MISSION - Athens County Food Pantry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTW9WWvdG98
'On The Road' - Athens County Food Pantry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Y6bF2eAbY
Burrow's efforts help Athens County Food Pantry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZK-nHLRaNA
Athens County Food Pantry thankful for Joe Burrow, fans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyzgTTZNje0
Feeding My Best Friend - Athens County Food Pantry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmCdRpQzQBI
$31 donations being made to Athens County Food Pantry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ5EgsnrMA8
GuyLuomo
Another A+++ share — thank you!!
Verbalstunts
Hey, as a non US guy, you remember the high cost of parts and components for US armies ? 90k for a bag of nails. 10k for a wrench...that's where the "billions" are from : business.
grapekoolaid
These are great resources and images. Many thanks
LordFriteuse
#1 Can we stop disparaging sex workers ?
kurvarVillain
You can donate directly to the war effort and local charities through Ukraine Post official site:
https://postmark.ukrposhta.ua/index.php?route=information/charity
cavewolf
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
#6
UserNamesArentEasy
#28 honestly this is what makes me the most mad of the people excusing this shit. They think they will somehow get this money from all the "savings" when in fact it's just Musk taking it all.
mzjsgalleries233502
Hell been to king up an w this fool started his campaign- hit every food bank in my city stocked up on home needs medical needs etc… - withdrew all my 401 - im not doing 2020 all over again -
RockKickass
I do not give a shit what Murkowski thinks as long as she continues to enable this
RightToUpvote
#6 if republicans were on Epstien's side, why did Trump have him killed? checkmate athiests
alittlebitbored
Whilst it might make America feel better to blame this on a Russian plot the fall of your countries values in the face of money grabbing “business men” has a distinctly American flavour to it.
powwerbottom
Have you ever heard trump call anyone a nazi? Weird that I can't think of even one time
Kunkoh
#8 when did the onion start printing real news?
Grimmrog
Go for walks ? Like protests? They are walking and free entertainment.
MarkRavingMad
#3 For now.
SavageDrums
#11 Global* history
Sebastopol140
#1 Sad but true!
CatEyebrows
crossingdynasty
#3 it’s not even that complicated. Trump could use the total immunity he created to just be like “hey listen I was compromised here’s everything I have on Putin” and the international community would praise him as a goddamn hero. Compromised or not, he’s there willingly at this point.
He might lose his “fortune” but just have the government take ownership of his debt, have the US military protect his family. The only thing he’d be certain to lose are his creature comforts but that’s his line.
Z0op
Also, he’s likely aware of his own mortality, he aint got much longer to live so he just needs to keep grifting and stalling till the day he croaks. He’s literally going all in with everything, he aint got much to lose as long as he can keep stalling consequences.
HowlingRollercoaster2
#3 for now
Grimmrog
# prostitution is real work, they are muppets with putins arms elbow deep in a republican.
RadasNoir
Traitors. That's what they are, straight up. They've sold their country to other dictators and technocrats.
Grimmrog
I doubt they identifies themselves as their countries at any point. So they hardly can be traitors in these regards. They always were loyal only to money.
Bunnies007
#7 Excellent work from that young lady!
StellarJay77
I point this out to religious idiots all the time that women in the Bible are treated like absolute shit with actual quotes and passage numbers. Women are treated worse than animals in the Bible. For some reason, they stop talking about religion around me after that, wierd right?
Bunnies007
It is indeed weird. I can't imagine why they would do that! /s :)
StellarJay77
"Following the Bible makes you a Christian, actually reading the Bible makes you an atheist"
KalypsoKirin
#3 that's what I don't fucking get. They would literally rather be nobodies in a shithole country than Senators and Congresspeople of LITERALLY THE STRONGEST COUNTRY ON EARTH. THEY LITERALLY ALREADY HAD THEIR BIG EVIL EMPIRE AND THEY'RE THROWING IT AWAY FOR WHAT? BECAUSE PART OF MAINTAINING THE BIG EVIL EMPIRE INVOLVED BEING NOT A MASSIVE GAPING DICKHOLE TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE? THAT'S IT! THEY AREN'T ALLOWED TO BE MEAN TO BLACK PEOPLE SO THEY THROW IT ALL AWAY!
laserfork
Yeah but just think of how owned the libs will be.
MarkRavingMad
Okay so you got your FOX news republicans and your Wall Street Journal republicans. For decades the WSJ republicans were the donors and the actual office holders while the FOX republicans were the rubes they got to vote for them. But now, Trump, a FOX republican, has taken over the party. The inmates are running the asylum, and the WSJ republicans may secretly hate it but they play along because anything else might cost them power and require acknowledging their hand in making this monster.
OldSchoolNewRules
The technocratic elite want city states they can rule over. Its Curtis Yarvin's insane bullshit.
castamir
"The Party will feed itself".
crossingdynasty
Because the empire, to them, is the rot and corruption.
RadasNoir
They'd rather reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
FoamingToad
+1 for the reference.
BillHubbard
#3 they are all afraid. None of them dare stand up and proclaim to be against Trump. Afraid to be the only one standing up and face whatever consequences that has. A classic divide and conquer.
Danuck123
Too many now owe their position or post to a real or perceived MAGA base that seems to be at Donald's beck and call.
Voter suppression is poison.
ProjectDA
they are complicit in this. they do not get the out 'we couldnt stand up'. they wont stand up. they are supporting this. this is also their fault. they all are to blame
paullyboy1999
Maybe it's time we make them afraid of what the working class will do to them, not what their sponsors will do to them
Hercules99
If they ALL stood against him, it may work. Power in numbers.
Tenugui
That's the part they don't like
ThatShiftyMonkey
It wouldn't take all, or even a lot of them. But it would need to be enough to stand SOLIDLY with dems to take away gop control of both house and senate.
THREE solidly obstructionist republican congressmen and FOUR senators could stonewall literally everything. The republicans only have a 218-215 and 53-45-2 advantage.
Which, obviously, is a hell of a longshot. But it really would not take a ton of them.
QuitLookinAtMineAim
Same goes for us though, ya?
BeragondGreatstride
It’s a lot easier to organize the 10-20 votes they’d need to caucus against Trump than to organize a few million partisans to engage in revolution. It’s a lot safer too.
QuitLookinAtMineAim
Except if they keep their heads down, they can be on the "winning" side and get a piece of it. Or risk their and their family's livelihood and safety to speak up.