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(Contributed by Gwyllm Llwydd)

Today I will speak from my heart.

MAY 19, 2025

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Today I will speak from my heart.

When I speak from my mind, others hear me with their mind. When I speak from my heart, others hear me with their heart. Today, I will speak from my heart.

There are no limits to the blessings I receive when I speak with love and gentleness. May I not be tempted today to choose defensiveness or anger, as the ways with which I express myself? Rather, may I remember that to do so is to sabotage my good.

Dear God,
Please make of me an instrument of Your peace.
May my words reveal Your tenderness, and my heart, express Your love.
May every word I say be a blessing.
Amen.

Today, I will speak from my heart.

America, America

Elia Kazan

“America, America!” These words are the vision of a young man, Starvos Topouzoglou, 20 years old and ablaze with the dream of a new, far-off world. Nothing can stand in his way. AMERICA, AMERICA is about immigration, the tyranny of our ancestors’ homelands and the obsessive drive that brought our families to this country. It is difficult for us to imagine the realities of our heritage, but Elia Kazan shows us how the America we know today emerged from our forefathers’ drive for a life of greater freedom and opportunity.

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About the author

Elia Kazan

Credits of Turkish-born American stage and film director Elia Kazan include A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) of Tennessee Williams and the movies On the Waterfront (1954) and East of Eden (1955).

This award-winning theatrical producer, screenwriter, and novelist co-founded of the influential actors studio in New York in 1947. Kazan won Academy Award thrice, Tony Award five times, and Golden Globes four times and received numerous awards and nominations in other prestigious festivals as the Cannes film festival and the Venice film festival.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elia_Kazan

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What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis

Malcolm Harris

A vital guide for collective political action against the climate apocalypse, from bestselling leftist Malcolm Harris— “a brilliant thinker and writer capable of making the intricacies of economic conditions supremely readable” (Vulture).

Climate change is the unifying crisis of our time. But the scale of the problem can be paralyzing, especially when corporations are actively staving off changes that could save the planet but which might threaten their bottom lines. To quote Greta Thunberg, despite very clear science and very real devastation, the adults at the table are still saying “blah blah blah.” Something has to change—but what, and how?

In What’s Left, acclaimed writer and public intellectual Malcolm Harris cuts through the noise and gets real about our remaining options for saving the world. Just as humans have caused climate change, we hold the power to avert a climate apocalypse, but that will only happen through collective political action. Harris outlines the three strategies—progressive, socialist, and revolutionary—that have any chance of succeeding, while also revealing that none of them can succeed on their own. What’s Left shows how we must combine them into a single a meta-strategy, one that will ensure we can move forward together rather than squabbling over potential solutions while the world burns.

Vital and transformative, What’s Left is the guidebook we need at the moment we need it most. It confirms Malcolm Harris as next-generation David Graeber or Mike Davis—a historian-activist who shows us where we stand and how we got here, while also blazing a path toward a brighter future.

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Published: May 19, 2025 (TheOnion.com)

LOW EARTH ORBIT—Dreading a scenario in which He showed up early and was forced to make awkward small talk with mankind, Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, circled the earth a few times so He wouldn’t be the first to arrive for Judgment Day, heavenly sources confirmed Tuesday. “It’s still looking pretty quiet down there, so I’m just gonna take a couple laps around the planet until the End Times get into full swing,” the Son of God said as He anxiously hovered high above South America, adding that almost everyone He was looking forward to seeing wouldn’t show up until the resurrection of the dead anyway. “Man, I really should have made plans to head over with the Four Horsemen. It’s way less stressful to arrive for the Day of Wrath as part of a group. I could text Abaddon, the king of the locusts, to see when he’s getting there, but that guy never checks his phone. If I’d been smarter about it, I’d just be leaving heaven now. Oh well. I’ll give it one or two more trumpets, and then I should be good to head down.” After arriving upon the earth in the divine glory of His Second Coming, Christ was reportedly dismayed to find that everyone had already judged the souls of the living and the dead without Him. 

“The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.” Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) German Writer

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR DAILY REFLECTION BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY

The Six of Wands The Lord of Victory is a powerful and happy card, which offers us satisfaction and contentment. We may have had to struggle hard in order to achieve the success this card promises us, but when we achieve this breakthrough, we are well rewarded.So on a day which is ruled by the Six of Wands, we can feel confident that the things we place our energy on will finally yield to our efforts. Pick things that have been particularly difficult to follow through on, and see whether the energy available today will bring them to completion.Also remember that, with the Six of Wands, there is a strong element of competitiveness. So when looking for things to work on when ruled by the Lord of Victory, seek out those areas where you see yourself as a contender. And go whole-heartedly after the opportunities offered.Finally remember to count your blessings – I know I’m forever going on about this one, but it’s relevant often with the Tarot – know who you are, know what you’ve got, and choose where you are going. It’ll come up again!! Affirmation: “Success and victory enter my life like welcome friends.”

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove • May 19, 2025 Gary Lachman is the author Jung The Mystic: Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung’s Life and Teachings as well as over twenty other books on topics ranging from the evolution of consciousness to literary suicides, popular culture and the history of the occult. He has written a rock and roll memoir of the 1970s, biographies of Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson, histories of Hermeticism and the Western Inner Tradition, studies in existentialism and the philosophy of consciousness, and about the influence of esotericism on politics and society. In this interview, rebooted from 2019, he maintains that Carl Jung always had an interest in the esoteric and occult, going back to his childhood. His own mother would, occasionally give voice to an alternative personality, as did Jung, himself, as a child. As an adult, his break with his mentor, Sigmund Freud, precipitated an emotional crisis that led him to use a method of active imagination to explore hypnogogic realms. To find historical precedent for such explorations, he delved into gnosticism, alchemy, astrology, divination, and Eastern mysticism.

Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman

Leslie Feinberg

With a New Afterword by the Author

In this fascinating, personal journey through history, Leslie Feinberg uncovers persuasive evidence that there have always been people who crossed the cultural boundaries of gender. Transgender Warriors is an eye-opening jaunt through the history of gender expression and a powerful testament to the rebellious spirit.

About the author

Leslie Feinberg

Leslie Feinberg was a transgender activist, speaker, and author. Feinberg was a high ranking member of the Workers World Party and a managing editor of Workers World newspaper.

Feinberg’s writings on LGBT history, “Lavender & Red,” frequently appeared in the Workers World newspaper. Feinberg’s partner was the prominent lesbian poet-activist Minnie Bruce Pratt. Feinberg was also involved in Camp Trans and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Starr King School for the Ministry for transgender and social justice work.

Feinberg’s novel Stone Butch Blues, which won the Stonewall Book Award, is a novel based around Jess Goldberg, a transgendered individual growing up in an unaccepting setting. Despite popular belief, the fictional work is not autobiographical. This book is frequently taught at colleges and universities and is widely considered a groundbreaking work about gender.

Leslie Feinberg was Jewish, and was born female. Feinberg preferred the gender-neutral pronouns “hir” and “ze”. Feinberg wrote: “I have shaped myself surgically and hormonally twice in my life, and I reserve the right to do it again.”

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Tool That Diagnoses Disobedience To Be Mailed To U.S. Households

Published: May 12, 2025 (TheOnion.com)

WASHINGTON—Citing an urgent need to combat dangerous and highly contagious ideas that might lead people to oppose the president, the Trump administration began offering free at-home loyalty tests Tuesday.

The tests, which are distributed through the government website www.LoyaltyTestKits.com  and mailed to the homes of U.S. residents, have been described by the White House as a quick and painless way for Americans to prove they support the agenda of President Donald Trump. In a post on Truth Social, the president described the kits as critical to determining who was a dedicated foot soldier of the MAGA movement and who was a traitor to their country.

“America can ONLY be great again when EVERYONE is loyal to me,” wrote Trump, who went on to blame the previous administration for failing to identify and isolate several virulent strains of anti-Trump sentiment. “Unlike CROOKED JOE BIDEN, the American people LOVE their favorite president of all time! Me! GO ONLINE NOW to order up to 4 test kits so you can ensure the whole family is LOYAL to the commander-in-chief.”

“With your help we are one step closer to being the most obedient country IN THE WORLD,” he added. “Prepare yourselves, radical left haters!!!”

According to the White House’s current disloyalty guidelines, Americans who test positive for treason are required to report their results to the federal government, wear protective MAGA gear, and quarantine indefinitely until they can prove their penance is paid and undying fealty to President Trump has been achieved.

In a press conference, Trump praised the brave men and women on the front lines of the fight against disloyalty, who he said had worked tirelessly to enforce his “beautiful vision” and ensure that dissenters were crushed, never to oppose his ultimate authority again.

While several users reported glitches with the tests, including false positives that incorrectly labeled them a “high security risk and enemy of the state,” many expressed gratitude, saying they would have never known they were disloyal if their test hadn’t alerted them.

“I took a test last week, and ever since, I’ve been in lockdown,” said 39-year-old Arizona resident Jason Stambaugh, adding that he had been forced to stay inside, isolate, and watch hours of Fox News clips praising Trump. “I used to oppose his policies, but after a few days of state-mandated quarantine, I feel so much better. No matter what he does—whether he takes my money, cuts my benefits, or imprisons my family—I support him.”

“If President Trump wants to lock me up, there must be a reason,” Stambaugh added. “Maybe I was the enemy from within all along.”

At press time, reports confirmed several members of the Trump administration had been pronounced dead after testing positive for a terminal strain of disloyalty.