Carol-Face-in-the-Crowd
@thalaisa.bsky.social
I’m the face in the crowd no one sees. Liberal, progressive. A negative optimist. I’m behind you in the grocery store. I sit next to you at the doctor. I am your neighbor.
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He couldn't care less.
Trump Just Called The Concept Of 'Affordability' A 'Democrat Scam'—And Got Instantly Dragged
www.comicsands.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
He couldn't care less.
Consider the comparison between GW Bush and our current nightmare’s Christmas address. You may question Bush’s sincerity yet it remains a kind, encouraging and appropriate message. It reflected the dignity of the office.
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/th...
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/th...
The President's Radio Address | The American Presidency Project
www.presidency.ucsb.edu
December 25, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Consider the comparison between GW Bush and our current nightmare’s Christmas address. You may question Bush’s sincerity yet it remains a kind, encouraging and appropriate message. It reflected the dignity of the office.
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/th...
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/th...
The pole isn’t right but the essence is. Sometimes AI serves up a “dish best served cold.”
December 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The pole isn’t right but the essence is. Sometimes AI serves up a “dish best served cold.”
It’s been suggested we stop paying taxes. I don’t want to give this dictator a dime. Yet, not paying taxes would hurt us even more.
Despite massive cuts at least some taxes will continue to go to what people need. All or nothing thinking doesn’t capture reality.
www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
Despite massive cuts at least some taxes will continue to go to what people need. All or nothing thinking doesn’t capture reality.
www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
Where Do Our Federal Tax Dollars Go?
In fiscal year 2024, the federal government spent $6.9 trillion, amounting to 24 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), according to the June 2024 estimates of the Congressional...
www.cbpp.org
December 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It’s been suggested we stop paying taxes. I don’t want to give this dictator a dime. Yet, not paying taxes would hurt us even more.
Despite massive cuts at least some taxes will continue to go to what people need. All or nothing thinking doesn’t capture reality.
www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
Despite massive cuts at least some taxes will continue to go to what people need. All or nothing thinking doesn’t capture reality.
www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
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Thought for the Day…
December 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Thought for the Day…
We’re hard wired to pay more attention to the negative and focus on threats to our survival.
Our brains don’t easily separate physical survival with survival of our spirit. My spirit feels crushed. That is counter productive.
It’s time to get ahead of our own stories.
Our brains don’t easily separate physical survival with survival of our spirit. My spirit feels crushed. That is counter productive.
It’s time to get ahead of our own stories.
December 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
We’re hard wired to pay more attention to the negative and focus on threats to our survival.
Our brains don’t easily separate physical survival with survival of our spirit. My spirit feels crushed. That is counter productive.
It’s time to get ahead of our own stories.
Our brains don’t easily separate physical survival with survival of our spirit. My spirit feels crushed. That is counter productive.
It’s time to get ahead of our own stories.
It’s imperative to set aside our emotional response to what’s happening. Our focus needs to be on doing what we can to reduce suffering.
Peaceful protest
Civil disobedience
Personally helping immigrants, the poor, the marginalized…
Peaceful protest
Civil disobedience
Personally helping immigrants, the poor, the marginalized…
December 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It’s imperative to set aside our emotional response to what’s happening. Our focus needs to be on doing what we can to reduce suffering.
Peaceful protest
Civil disobedience
Personally helping immigrants, the poor, the marginalized…
Peaceful protest
Civil disobedience
Personally helping immigrants, the poor, the marginalized…
A certain amount of liberal outrage is coming from the right.
It’s in their best interests to cripple the opposition with despair and incredulity at the insanity of this all.
Stay sane and soldier on. We can defeat them. We can’t stop believing.
It’s in their best interests to cripple the opposition with despair and incredulity at the insanity of this all.
Stay sane and soldier on. We can defeat them. We can’t stop believing.
December 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A certain amount of liberal outrage is coming from the right.
It’s in their best interests to cripple the opposition with despair and incredulity at the insanity of this all.
Stay sane and soldier on. We can defeat them. We can’t stop believing.
It’s in their best interests to cripple the opposition with despair and incredulity at the insanity of this all.
Stay sane and soldier on. We can defeat them. We can’t stop believing.
There’s enough evidence to impeach, try and convict these sly fools of a laundry list of crimes.
We don’t need even a shred of evidence more. We need to develop the power to convict.
We don’t need even a shred of evidence more. We need to develop the power to convict.
December 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
There’s enough evidence to impeach, try and convict these sly fools of a laundry list of crimes.
We don’t need even a shred of evidence more. We need to develop the power to convict.
We don’t need even a shred of evidence more. We need to develop the power to convict.
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"The actual difficulty lies in the fact that physics is a kind of metaphysics. Physics describes 'reality', but we do not know what 'reality' is. We know it only through our physical description. They are wedded together."
Albert Einstein to Erwin Schrödinger
June 1935
re EPR Paradox
Albert Einstein to Erwin Schrödinger
June 1935
re EPR Paradox
December 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
"The actual difficulty lies in the fact that physics is a kind of metaphysics. Physics describes 'reality', but we do not know what 'reality' is. We know it only through our physical description. They are wedded together."
Albert Einstein to Erwin Schrödinger
June 1935
re EPR Paradox
Albert Einstein to Erwin Schrödinger
June 1935
re EPR Paradox
Are we rapidly reaching a tipping point in which the lid blows off and reality finally makes headway.
Or are we going to continue to maniacally cycle around the Trump inferno as we wail and gnash our teeth?
This got old before it started.
Or are we going to continue to maniacally cycle around the Trump inferno as we wail and gnash our teeth?
This got old before it started.
December 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Are we rapidly reaching a tipping point in which the lid blows off and reality finally makes headway.
Or are we going to continue to maniacally cycle around the Trump inferno as we wail and gnash our teeth?
This got old before it started.
Or are we going to continue to maniacally cycle around the Trump inferno as we wail and gnash our teeth?
This got old before it started.
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More educated women, mean more educated children and whole societies move forward. That's not true for men. That’s not an accident—that’s patriarchy terrified of women who can think, earn, and lead. Educate women, and you don’t just lift families. You rewrite the future. #MomSky
December 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
More educated women, mean more educated children and whole societies move forward. That's not true for men. That’s not an accident—that’s patriarchy terrified of women who can think, earn, and lead. Educate women, and you don’t just lift families. You rewrite the future. #MomSky
Shock creates headlines. It fuels more non-productive outrage.
Righteous anger, focused on protecting the victims has always made more sense but it requires effective action. It’s our moral imperative.
Yet, most sit with mouths agape and watch. Pitchforks and torches go nowhere.
Righteous anger, focused on protecting the victims has always made more sense but it requires effective action. It’s our moral imperative.
Yet, most sit with mouths agape and watch. Pitchforks and torches go nowhere.
December 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Shock creates headlines. It fuels more non-productive outrage.
Righteous anger, focused on protecting the victims has always made more sense but it requires effective action. It’s our moral imperative.
Yet, most sit with mouths agape and watch. Pitchforks and torches go nowhere.
Righteous anger, focused on protecting the victims has always made more sense but it requires effective action. It’s our moral imperative.
Yet, most sit with mouths agape and watch. Pitchforks and torches go nowhere.
The details have become irrelevant.
A dictator, a law breaker, a racist, corrupt man and his cronies don’t belong in a democracy.
The fact that they are in power demonstrates the severity & complexity of life in this regime because that’s what it is. That is what must be destroyed. All of it.
A dictator, a law breaker, a racist, corrupt man and his cronies don’t belong in a democracy.
The fact that they are in power demonstrates the severity & complexity of life in this regime because that’s what it is. That is what must be destroyed. All of it.
December 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The details have become irrelevant.
A dictator, a law breaker, a racist, corrupt man and his cronies don’t belong in a democracy.
The fact that they are in power demonstrates the severity & complexity of life in this regime because that’s what it is. That is what must be destroyed. All of it.
A dictator, a law breaker, a racist, corrupt man and his cronies don’t belong in a democracy.
The fact that they are in power demonstrates the severity & complexity of life in this regime because that’s what it is. That is what must be destroyed. All of it.
The most moment Trump entered politics and found support this nightmare was inevitable.
Instead of constant shock, we need to understand why, how and the who.
Then we work like mad to destroy the roots of this madness.
Instead of constant shock, we need to understand why, how and the who.
Then we work like mad to destroy the roots of this madness.
December 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The most moment Trump entered politics and found support this nightmare was inevitable.
Instead of constant shock, we need to understand why, how and the who.
Then we work like mad to destroy the roots of this madness.
Instead of constant shock, we need to understand why, how and the who.
Then we work like mad to destroy the roots of this madness.
If I have to create one more online account on a poorly designed form that fails to provide the critical information to complete that form, I might lose the last shred of my brittle sanity.
When is the last time that a virtual assistant solved a problem?
For me: NEVER
When is the last time that a virtual assistant solved a problem?
For me: NEVER
December 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
If I have to create one more online account on a poorly designed form that fails to provide the critical information to complete that form, I might lose the last shred of my brittle sanity.
When is the last time that a virtual assistant solved a problem?
For me: NEVER
When is the last time that a virtual assistant solved a problem?
For me: NEVER
This is meaningless to us. We're retired and don't pay in. How much do you want to bet that we'll have to pay again this year?
I see the rich among us benefiting the most once again. He's so full of crap.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/t...
I see the rich among us benefiting the most once again. He's so full of crap.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/t...
Trump promises 'largest tax refund season of all time.' What you can expect
President Donald Trump is promising bigger tax refunds in 2026 due to changes enacted via the "big beautiful bill." Here's what to expect.
www.cnbc.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is meaningless to us. We're retired and don't pay in. How much do you want to bet that we'll have to pay again this year?
I see the rich among us benefiting the most once again. He's so full of crap.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/t...
I see the rich among us benefiting the most once again. He's so full of crap.
www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/t...
About 1.6 Americans identify as trans or non-binary. Not all identify as male. Not all have the insurance to pay for such a surgery. Even less have Medicaid…So, how often is the government paying?
This constant obsession is extremely cruel and ri-dick-ulous.
www.newsweek.com/mehmet-oz-bl...
This constant obsession is extremely cruel and ri-dick-ulous.
www.newsweek.com/mehmet-oz-bl...
Dr. Oz blasts cost of making a penis
Dr. Mehmet Oz has said a typical vaginoplasty costs $60,000, while a phalloplasty costs $150,000 per child.
www.newsweek.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
About 1.6 Americans identify as trans or non-binary. Not all identify as male. Not all have the insurance to pay for such a surgery. Even less have Medicaid…So, how often is the government paying?
This constant obsession is extremely cruel and ri-dick-ulous.
www.newsweek.com/mehmet-oz-bl...
This constant obsession is extremely cruel and ri-dick-ulous.
www.newsweek.com/mehmet-oz-bl...
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Trying to forecast the future is prone to uncertainty, though I am probably closer to the alarmist end of the spectrum.
This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable?
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable?
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Trying to forecast the future is prone to uncertainty, though I am probably closer to the alarmist end of the spectrum.
This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable?
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
This article is most useful in highlighting the dismissals of such warnings. Big question is why? Normalcy bias? Not being vulnerable?
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
Instead of solving social problems with a vengeful sword, how about understanding the sources: income inequality, lack of opportunity, unaffordable housing, poor education…
You’ll never eradicate crime or drug use, or a thousand other evils but you could find much better ways to try.
You’ll never eradicate crime or drug use, or a thousand other evils but you could find much better ways to try.
December 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Instead of solving social problems with a vengeful sword, how about understanding the sources: income inequality, lack of opportunity, unaffordable housing, poor education…
You’ll never eradicate crime or drug use, or a thousand other evils but you could find much better ways to try.
You’ll never eradicate crime or drug use, or a thousand other evils but you could find much better ways to try.
When someone says, “I still really hate Biden.” I’ve got to question their sanity.
His predecessor broke my hate scale a million times over.
His predecessor broke my hate scale a million times over.
a person 's finger is pointing at a scale that says tie .
ALT: a person 's finger is pointing at a scale that says tie .
media.tenor.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
When someone says, “I still really hate Biden.” I’ve got to question their sanity.
His predecessor broke my hate scale a million times over.
His predecessor broke my hate scale a million times over.
You don’t need to tell me:
He lies
He’s corrupt.
He’s a demented sociopath.
He’s a predator…
I don’t need more evidence.
I need the channeling of righteous anger into collective action.
To constantly stir up the mud from the bottom feeds my despair.
He lies
He’s corrupt.
He’s a demented sociopath.
He’s a predator…
I don’t need more evidence.
I need the channeling of righteous anger into collective action.
To constantly stir up the mud from the bottom feeds my despair.
December 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
You don’t need to tell me:
He lies
He’s corrupt.
He’s a demented sociopath.
He’s a predator…
I don’t need more evidence.
I need the channeling of righteous anger into collective action.
To constantly stir up the mud from the bottom feeds my despair.
He lies
He’s corrupt.
He’s a demented sociopath.
He’s a predator…
I don’t need more evidence.
I need the channeling of righteous anger into collective action.
To constantly stir up the mud from the bottom feeds my despair.
I’m addicted to my idea of how the world should be and constantly angry that the world isn’t cooperating.
What backwards form of denial is this?
It is what it is.
I have work to do.
What backwards form of denial is this?
It is what it is.
I have work to do.
December 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I’m addicted to my idea of how the world should be and constantly angry that the world isn’t cooperating.
What backwards form of denial is this?
It is what it is.
I have work to do.
What backwards form of denial is this?
It is what it is.
I have work to do.