Author: Mark Alexander

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The Witches by Kyri Koniotis

It was not witches who burned.
It was women.
Women who were seen as:
Too beautiful,
Too outspoken,
Had too much water in the well (yes, seriously),
Who had a birthmark,
Women who were too skilled with herbal medicine,
Too loud,
Too quiet,
Too much red in their hair,
Women who had a strong nature connection,
Women who danced,
Women who sang,
or anything else, really.
Any woman was at risk of burning in the 1600’s. Sisters testified and turned on each other when their babies were held under ice.
Children were tortured to confess their experiences with “witches” by being fake executed in ovens.
Women were held under water and if they could float, they were guilty and executed. If they sank and drowned they were innocent.
Women were thrown off cliffs.
Women were put in deep holes in the ground.
Why do I write this?
Because knowing our history is important when we are building a new world.
When we are doing the healing work of our lineages and as women.
To give the women who were slaughtered a voice, to give them redress and a chance of peace.
It was not witches who burned.
It was women.

~ Fia Forsström (Excerpt)

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Just The Right Amount of Fretting

From Greg Fallis:

We’re two weeks out from election day and there’s a whole lot of OMG OMG Trump’s gonna try to steal the election if he loses OMG WTF do we do now?! floating around in social media. And it’s making some folks downright frantic.

Yeah, Trump is absolutely going to try to steal the election when he loses. That’s just a fact. We all know it. We saw him try to do it four years ago. Of course, he’s going to try it again. This time he’s better prepared for it. This time he knows what he did wrong last time. (Okay, that’s not entirely true; Trump is just a bone-ignorant as he was last time, but now he’s got a cadre of feral GOP fascists who are far more skilled at ratfucking.) This time the stakes are higher…both for the nation and for Trump his ownself. He loses, and he’s looking at prison.

So yeah, it’s understandable that folks are worried. EXCEPT for this: the Dems are also better prepared than last time. We’ve had four years to put as many safeguards in place as possible. We’ve had four years to anticipate Trump’s moves. Things look better for us than they did four years ago. For example:

        • We’ve changed the Electoral Count Act to make it far more difficult for state legislatures to reverse the results of an election.
        • We have hundreds of lawyers, lawyers in every state, ready to counter the GOP’s attempts to ratfuck the votes, and they’ve got dozens of briefs already written and ready to file, tailored to each state.
        • The governors of five of the seven so-called ‘swing’ states are Democrats. The two GOP-led states includes Georgia, where Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger both resisted Trump’s efforts four years ago.
        • Of the 60+ lawsuits brought by Trump four years ago, all but one was shot down. Many of the judges in those cases were Republicans, some appointed by Trump his ownself. They’re no more likely to agree with him this time.
        • Four years ago Trump had the Department of Justice and the Attorney General in his pocket to help him. Now, the DOJ and the AG are more independent.

This isn’t to say that your anxiety isn’t warranted. It’s not to say there’s nothing to fret about. Trump, his Nazgûl lawyers, and his angry supporters are willing to use any corrupt means that might give them a chance to obtain power, including violence. We HAVE to be concerned and vigilant.

But remember, Trump failed last time. He’ll almost certainly fail again. Failure is Trump’s true brand. Trump is all make-up and weird hair. His strength is mostly an illusion. So yeah, there’s reason to fret. It’s right and proper to fret about the election.

Fret enough to get out to vote. Fret enough to encourage your friends and fam to vote. Fret enough to put up a yard sign or cough up some coin to donate to your local candidates. Ain’t nothing wrong with fretting about this election.

But don’t fret too much.

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Reasons Trump is Unfit for Office, with Sources

Reasons Trump is Unfit for Office, with Sources.

From this comment on Reddit:

Top reasons why Trump should not be president.

      1. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Lost the election and lied about it.Source
      2. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sent an armed angry mob to Congress and told them they need to fight like hell. Source
      3. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Approved of the mob saying “hang Mike Pence”. Source
      4. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Was found liable for sexual assault.Source
      5. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Was found guilty of defrauding his university students. Source
      6. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Was found guilty of inflating his assets to get favorable loans.Source
      7. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Admitted to walking in on pageant contestants’ dressing rooms.Source
      8. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ Allegedly Raped and beat Ivana Trump. Source
      9. ⁠⁠ Stole from a kids’ cancer charity. Source
      10. Received $413 million inheritance despite claims that he’s a self made man. Source
      11. Blocked his chronically ill infant nephew from getting any of that inheritance. Source
      12. Is the first president to receive votes against him from his own party during impeachment. Source
      13. Led us into being one of the worst hit during Covid despite our head start and resources, leading to high inflation. Source
      14. Said the Democrats do better with the economy.Source
      15. Was ranked as the worst president in history by bipartisan presidential historians.Source
      16. Pushed a plot to have fake votes created and then used to make him President despite losing the election.Source
      17. Ordered republicans to block a bipartisan immigration billso Biden would not get a win before the election.Source
      18. Is a convicted felon guilty of falsifying records to influence an election.Source
      19. Told the Department of Justice to “just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.”Source
      20. His VP, Mike Pence said Trump should never be president again, and that Trump asked him to put himself “above the Constitution”. Source
      21. Got Fox News successfully sued for repeating/pushing his administrations election lies. A $787M settlement. Source
      22. Said he’d be a dictator for one day Source
      23. Trump lied to, or misled the public 30,573 times in the four years he held office. Source

Also, just regarding some of the Trump administration that have been convicted of crimes:

Donald Trump was charged, convicted, and is awaiting sentencing.

Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.

Trump’s former campaign vice chairman, Rick Gates, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.

Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.

Trump’s former adviser and former campaign aide, Roger Stone, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.

Trump’s former adviser and former White House aide Peter Navarro, was charged, convicted, and is currently in prison.

Trump’s former campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.

The Trump Organization’s former CFO, Allen Weisselberg, was charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison.

Trump’s former White House national security advisor, Michael Flynn, was charged and convicted.

Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, was charged with wire fraud and money laundering, in addition to a conviction in a contempt case similar to Navarro’s. He’s currently awaiting sentencing.

Though he was later acquitted at trial, Trump’s former inaugural committee chair, Tom Barrack, was charged with illegally lobbying Trump on behalf of a foreign government. (Elliot Broidy was the vice chair of Trump’s inaugural committee, and he found himself at the center of multiple controversies, and also pled guilty to federal charges related to illegal lobbying.)

Two lawyers associated with Trump’s post-defeat efforts, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, have pleaded guilty to election-related crimes.

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And if your vote is based strictly on economic achievements, here is a TikTok video comparing Trumps economy by the numbers. Tiktok link