On @LegionFX S02E03 they start out with the nocebo effect and the question, "What else in our society is a disorder?" The montage has stock markets, wildfires, protests, hashtags-- anything involving groupthink with a predetermined negative outcome. Our marionette strings... The question becomes more dire when we add in politicians jumping in bed with corporations, the judiciary shifting to become protector of the elite, the show democracy we live in, the jackboots in our cities & concentration camps on our borders. We respond to trauma w/ a disorder

At a certain point in the apocalypse the earth began to vibrate beneath us. Graveyards sunk & buildings subsided at an odd angle. A low thrum filled the air. We all showered after each trip outside b/c a fine dust crept through our cities & hung about us for many windless days. It caked our masks and clothing with a strange film, both dull and shiny at the same time. The weather report held no answers. The sun assumed a dull bronze sheen. Then the people began to appear.

“I thought the world was one way, and I found out it isn’t. And it terrifies me. But I can’t live in fear. I won’t. I gotta face this new world head on, and stake my claim in it.” - Leti @jurneesmollett (seems relevant to more than #LovecraftCountry) @MishaGreen is the writer behind these words so head over there and follow her!

I was teaching my students about the Silk Road and what jumped out at me was there were two eras, punctuated by a 300 year period of disastrous diseases. This was brought on by globalization in early CE and seems pretty predictable from our POV, but this was early days, 250 CE Afro-Europe lost about 20 million people on that time, China about 15 million. Just before that, early 200s CE, was the first recorded bubonic plague in China. There's no vaccines. In any case, the Silk Road started back up after a massive disruption to society. Globalism is back

I'm going 2 tell you stories-- stories from the future. I feel you're ready 4 them now. Even the telling may change the events I describe, but that's fine. Our present always exists in the tenuous line btw thought & action, focus & distraction, what shd be & what's allowed to be. This story starts in "Stone City." You can see it scratched in the cement by the corner store near where I grew up. 105th & Apricot. "Hunerts." Place they used to call the "Kill Zone."

I've finally reached media saturation. The shocking revelations are predictable, they will keep coming, our current systems are insufficient to deal with this, the solutions are obvious but will continue to be rejected, true justice & the common good are lost in the struggle. Many sources observe the same things but they are best received in digested form from a clear-eyed Cassandra like @sarahkendzior

Food Truck thoughts: Street food is already much loved in the Bay Area. We have everything from fusion Korean-Mexican tapas to your street corner hot dog stand. With this pandemic it seems like the rent cost of Bay Area real estate will be deadly for many restaurants. THREAD 1/ Many restaurants are sitting vacant. Some are boarded up. Even if they offer take-out the cost of renting the property is entirely wasted-- you are only utilizing your kitchen, your staff (cut back) and your food budgets. Food trucks are much better suited to our times 2/

In my fantasy world candidates use the rest of their PAC money to bring direct relief to victims of tornadoes & flooding, they would invest in mom-n-pop groceries in food deserts, bring services to reservations, aid and support pipeline protestors, pass out free sanitizer & masks They would make an actual difference on the ground, regardless of the consequences. They would show up and spend themselves dry to give a helping hand wherever help is needed, eschewing shallow politics and addressing needs that have often been ignored.

We have a war on our southern border, like Vietnam at home It is designed to exacerbate political divisions in the US, set the stage for genocide and open us up to malign foreign influence

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To my descendants-- you are alive because: I got vaccinated nbcnews.com/nightly-news/v… via @NBCNews