Lent

Negative self-talk is what I am struggling with releasing today going forward.   At least I’m catching myself doing it and stopping it in its tracks.   I’m not talking about news, I just mean overthinking and playing out catastrophic scenarios of pretty much every random thing on my to-do list. It would probably help to go back to work in some capacity.   Actually using my meditation app might help, too, so add that to subtracting negative self-talk.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/21/politics/russia-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-test/index.html

“Russia carried out a test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears to have failed around the time President Joe Biden was in Ukraine, according to two US officials familiar with the matter.”

“Russia notified the United States in advance of the launch through deconfliction lines under its New START treaty obligations, one official said, adding that “such testing is routine.” Another official said that the test did not pose a risk to the United States and that the US did not view the test as an anomaly or an escalation.”

“The test of the heavy SARMAT missile – nicknamed the Satan II in the West and capable of delivering multiple nuclear warheads – appears to have failed, officials said. It has been successfully tested before and had this one worked, US officials believe Russian President Vladimir Putin would have highlighted the test in his State of the Nation address on Tuesday.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/22/entertainment/ben-platt-antisemitic-protesters-parade-broadway-cec/index.html

“Audiences at the first preview of the Broadway revival of “Parade,” a musical about the dangers of hatred, were met by a group of antisemitic protesters, who gathered outside the theater before the show, said Ben Platt, a Tony Award winner who stars in the musical.”

“Platt, who plays Leo Frank, a Jewish man who faced antisemitic hate in 1900s Georgia, said the protesters harassed audience members on their way into the theater and said hateful things about Frank, “spreading antisemitic rhetoric that led to this whole story in the first place.”

“Parade” follows the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory superintendent in Georgia who was accused and eventually convicted of murdering a young factory employee in 1913. Though Frank maintained his innocence throughout his trial, he was kidnapped from prison and lynched by a mob. Per the New Georgia Encyclopedia, his trial was a “miscarriage of justice” fueled by antisemitism in the South, among other social issues.”

“It doesn’t end with antisemitism,” Myers said. “From antisemitism, it moves on to another minority group and another minority group until there’s no one left to call out because all of the groups are no longer around.”

https://deadline.com/2023/02/blizzard-warning-tv-los-angeles-snow-winds-forecast-1235267927/

“First-Ever Blizzard Warning Flashes Across TV Screens In Los Angeles As Snow, Extreme Winds Are Forecast Over Much Of Region”

Well, Joe or Pete should’ve made an appearance in Ohio long ago, but yeah, they need to point out that tRUMPsky’s dismantling of RR regulations helped make this disaster possible.  Pointing fingers is not a fix, though.

ps – It’s the oil.  They don’t want to talk about the oil. 

https://newrepublic.com/post/170727/trump-deregulated-railroad-industry-lies-people-ohio-visit

“When later asked by a reporter about his administration overturning an Obama-era rule requiring better braking systems for trains carrying hazardous materials, he lied again, saying his administration had nothing to do with it.”

“With his party buttressed by millions of dollars in donations and lobbying from companies like Norfolk Southern, Trump overturned an Obama-era rule that required more adequate braking systems for trains carrying highly flammable and hazardous materials (instead of the Civil War-era brakes trains use now). He pulled a stalled Obama-era proposal that would have directed companies to have at least two-man crews on trains and banned states from instating such a requirement themselves. He also halted an auditing program of railroads that has since been revitalized by the Biden administration.”

“The common denominator of it all is a conservative politics that argues that the government is weak, and therefore weakens the government in order to prove it at all. So, as Trump visits East Palestine, and as fellow deregulation-chasing Republicans (and even conservative Democrats) may posture themselves as the benevolent voices on the issue, may we not allow them to weasel off the hook so easily.”

https://youtu.be/C2zdNm-fgYQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C2zdNm-fgYQ