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Lots unicorns, chickens, frogs and other critters at the no Kings rally in DC. Probably 100000 ppl here. #NoKings #NoKingsOct18 #NoKingsDayOct18th #NoKingsInAmerica

@CBSNews who is the woman?? the one this fearful foursome tried to you know what but no one could get erect?

President Trump shared an AI image on Truth Social Friday night of him, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum wading in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

@SueRomulus @CBSNews but especially make it blue to welcome the blue wave in November

@CBSNews Paint will only last one season. Pools and ponds are not meant for paint. Environmentally bad and low quality. Should have gone with blue tile instead, or just refinish the limestone.

@MargaritaDali1 @CBSNews you cult members don't realize that don the con sides with Putin over George Washington

@CBSNews Quite an improvement over Hussein's cesspool.

@CBSNews even trump is preparing for the #bluewave2026 and CBS is run by maga Nazis #fuckcbs google.com/amp/s/www.foxn…

Crews with the National Park Service have been coating the bottom of the drained pool with "American flag blue" paint. Swimming or wading in the landmark is prohibited, according to the NPS. President Trump said the renovation project will take a week and cost $2 million.

@pstumps I'm in my 60s and hearing Obama talk does make me a little more optimistic. .... then we get back to the fact that the idiots at @CBS cancelled @StephenAtHome before it was time to sign off #fuckcbs

sorry for libbing out obama always brings out the still hopeful yet naive 11 year old in me

@MehekCooke @ClayTravis and trump and you magats blamed that on the governor when a trump supporter with a hit list of dems killed her google.com/amp/s/www.fox9…

@MehekCooke @ClayTravis you all joked about the Minnesota House speaker being assassinated by a trump supporter.

Democrats motivated a man to try and kill President Trump by calling him a Nazi. Barely two days after the latest assassination attempt, they were right back to calling Trump a Nazi. This isn’t an accident, they want their followers to kill Trump.

@MehekCooke @ClayTravis wtf? trump and maga allies openly call for Democrats to be killed!! gop hypocrites!!

@CawsnJaws @ClayTravis trump openly calls for the execution of Democrats and you call Dems evil? what a bunch of maga hypocrites

@ClayTravis I know an elderly woman who, if you saw her, you would think she's the sweetest flower in the world's garden. BUT... if the possible death of Trump is mentioned in her presence, those old eyes light up and sparkle, and she grins like a demon. It is horrifying.

@anishmoonka but depression is a definite mental illness. And it makes sense this can help keep the mind active.

@anishmoonka I used to do more brick work when I had a bigger backyard just to do something different from mental work. When I got in my 60s I don't work with as many bricks but I put puzzles together which uses a different part of the brain. I think everyone gets down at times...

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.

@JDVance Look in the great trump maga mirror to find the most fraud if you aren't too cowardly #gophypocrites congress.gov/116/meeting/ho…

Fraud has been allowed to run rampant in the US for far too long, and the Task Force has uncovered billions of it already. Democrats will keep trying to give away your tax dollars, but the Trump administration is going to make sure food stamps are not going to dead people.