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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · May 3

“Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being… Over my years in politics and business, I have found one thing to be universally true: The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.”
JB Pritzker

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#KindnessMatters

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · May 25

The best thing to have is enough.

Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Dec 27

I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word—stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn’t have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · May 25

“It’s a little embarrassing that, after forty-five years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.”
Aldous Huxley

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · May 3

What a line from Warren Buffett this morning:

“Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer."

[applause] 🙏🏼

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Jun 18

“Stand up for what you believe in, especially if that thing is justice and peace. Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear… This tragedy must become a moment for us to come together. Hold your loved ones… Love your neighbors. Treat each other with kindness and respect.”
Sophie and Colin Hortman

Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · Jun 18

“The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else."

Beautiful statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman.

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 20d

“Be kind. Kindness is underrated.”
Barack Obama

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Feb 17

“Everything we can save is worth saving.”
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Rebecca Solnit tweet quote meme: “They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.”

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 6d

“Grateful beats hateful every time.” @lyndacarter.bsky.social

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#KindnessMatters 🤍

Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · Dec 24

Sharing holiday gratitude… I’m grateful for the love of family, friends and colleagues.
I’m grateful to have known great love in my life—Robert Altman. I miss him.
So, let’s cherish each holiday, my friends! No politics, no drama. Grateful beats hateful every time…😎 trust me.
Love,
Lynda

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Feb 15

“Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong… Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.”
@dahlialithwick.bsky.social

Alice Walker quote tweet meme: “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

We all have power if we are willing to employ it.

As Dahlia Lithwick observed and said, “Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.”

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Feb 3

“I said, ‘Somebody should do something about that.’ Then I realized I am somebody.”
Lily Tomlin

#DoSomething
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Lily Tomlin quote meme: “I said, ‘Somebody should do something about that.’ Then I realized I am somebody.” Be somebody now. Do something today.

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Jan 21

“Autocrats want us to feel helpless and hopeless… Instead, this is Day One of mobilizing together and taking actions every day to strengthen our democracy in the face of its assault… It’s the beginning of a new era of taking back our country for the good of democracy.”
@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social

Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · Jan 20

Flip the script on democracy's destroyers. It's Day One of the new phase of the fight for our democracy.

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · May 16

“In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now… Majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from abuses of an unfit president and a rogue gov’t.”
@brucespringsteen.net

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · May 16

“We’re in the middle of an attempted authoritarian overthrow of American democracy… The story [every day is] their incompetence, their inability to defend what they’re doing, and the American people in a louder and more intense way telling them nope.”
@maddow.msnbc.com
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The Katie Phang Show @katiephangshow.bsky.social · Apr 26

"I do think we are in the middle of an attempted authoritarian overthrow of democracy...But I don't think [Trump's] any better at it." @maddow.msnbc.com on Trump's first 100 days #KatiePhangShow

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Apr 9

“Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.”
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Apr 8

Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Jan 23

“When a prison camp opens in your town… When a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom… When the president* destroys what’s left of the Constitution… They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” @aoc.bsky.social

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 22

AOC 🔥🔥🔥

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Mar 2

“Genuinely care and act for a better world.” @aoc.bsky.social

AOC quote tweet meme from BlueSky:

“I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy, and despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.”

“Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It's not intellectually superior. It's the virus they're trying to infect us with. NO”

Thank you, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. @aoc.bsky.social 🙏🫶

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Feb 10

“Get proper amounts of rest, take breaks regularly, hydrate and take proper self-care. This is going to be a long fight. It won’t change overnight and there will be some pretty dark days ahead, honestly. But we need each other at our best. Don’t let the bastards wear you down.“ @vcdgf555.bsky.social

Illegitimi non carborundum meme quote aphorism: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” Thank you, Evergreen Intel.

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Dec 31

“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”
Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield meaning of life quote meme: “In the end, just three things matter: how well we have lived, how well we have loved, and how well we have learned to let go.”

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Dec 2

‪Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief.

Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now.

You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

— The Talmud, 303

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Feb 5

Do small acts of kindness and love. Every day.

Tolkien quote (misattributed): “Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” [Incorrectly attributed to JRR Tolkien. It is a line from the Hobbit movie that did not appear in the books.]

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · May 25

“Remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour…
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So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth; and pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere out in space…”
Monty Python Galaxy Song

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · May 14

Lessons are repeated until they are learned.

The Ten Rules For Being Human:
You will receive a body.
You will be presented with lessons.
There are no mistakes, only lessons.
Lessons are repeated until learned.
Learning does not end.
"There" is no better than "here."
Others are only mirrors of you.
What you make of your life is up to you.
Your answers reside inside of you.

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 21d

“Practice empathy and forgiveness and care for people rather than exploit and surveil them. Instead of worrying about Armageddon, Thiel should heed the Gospels, which warn that ‘it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Gd.’” @gilduran.com

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Jun 1

“Trump signed an executive order calling for federal gov’t to share data across agencies, raising questions over whether he might compile a master list of personal information on Americans that could give him untold surveillance power… They have turned to one company: Palantir.” @sheeraf.bsky.social

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Apr 16

“It’s a [digital] coup… We can’t fight it if we can’t see it and we can’t see it if we don’t name it… We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start. Coups are like concrete: Once they stop moving, they set.”
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Jun 25

“Happening now in America: They are building a techno-authoritarian surveillance state. We can see that happening in real time. This is huge amounts of data on every single person in America, that can and will be used in opaque and unaccountable ways.” @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @thedailyshow.com

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