jules

For as long as I live, I will never understand how January 6th wasn’t the end of Donald Trump. I will never, ever understand it.

So in case anybody’s counting, today he called not one, but two female reporters “stupid.” He is going to continue to do this. He’s going to start calling them far worse. Because nobody fucking stops him.

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

He’s dead on.

We live in a world where Trump can post this, but James Comey apparently gets indicted for laying out some seashells saying 8647 and then apologizing and deleting the image.

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Rep. Pat Ryan just revealed that Pete Hegseth ordered military members to an area in Kuwait with an ACTIVE WARNING they had ZERO defense against drone attacks and he IGNORED IT. Six were then KILLED. Survivors blame Hegseth. This is even WORSE than Benghazi.

AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT FINDS IT FUCKING INSANE THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE US GOVERNMENT IS ACTUALLY TRYING TO PUNISH A COMEDIAN FOR TELLING A JOKE, BUT NOT THE PRESIDENT FOR TERRORIZING THE WORLD AND THREATENING TO DEMOLISH AN ENTIRE CIVILIZATION 🤷 RIDICULOUS 🤡

“Now they want to clutch their pearls and murmur about tone, about civility, about dialing it down—as if they haven’t been the ones striking the match, stacking the kindling, standing back to watch what catches.” open.substack.com/pub/jojofromje…

I don't know who this comedian Donald J. Trump is but he should be fired immediately. This hack is cheering the death of the an ex-FBI Director. He is a sick man (very unfunny and unattractive.) No viewer should ever see him on TV. I demand that the United States cancel his show.

@elonmusk Hey can you stick to your autism and racism and not get into the world of politics which appears to be far above your comprehension. FYI, two of the shooters you reference were WHITE, young rural republican raised KIDS...Both who's parents are trump supporters.

this is such an embarrassing country

some incredible stuff happening in bluesky. a dude named will stancil (apparently some lib shitposter) was running a tinder honeypot network in Minneapolis to break ICE's opsec LMFAO

Nobody hated Marjorie Taylor Greene more than the left for 6 years until Trump called her a traitor. Then she needed to hire private security for the first time. But go ahead and tell us more about the violent radical left.

This is monstrous.

“No Todd. Valid criticism isn’t violence and this isn’t f*cking North Korea."

“Jon Stewart on The Daily Show: "We're so f*cked in this country right now we can't even pull off a dinner that shouldn't have existed in the first place. 'Hey, let's celebrate the first amendment with the administration that's doing everything it can to destroy it.'"”

Oh STFU. Trump danced on Rob Reiner’s grave, on Robert Mueller’s grave, called recently for the execution of elected members of Congress. Kimmel told a joke. I’m so fed up of this idiocy, dishonesty and faux outrage.

They want the left to tone it down?!