Iowa Democrat (they exist!) shuts up—maybe even converts—Republicans with on-field performance

Iowa State Lawmaker J.D. Scholten Dazzles in Emergency Pro Start

https://www.si.com/mlb/iowa-state-lawmaker-jd-scholten-emergency-start

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#trump #cults

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#JDVance #HarrisForPresident

https://www.ndeo.org/Learn/Dance-Education-Blog/ArticleID/392/What-Makes-a-Dance-The-Brain-as-Choreographer-Dancer-and-Spectator

What Makes a #Dance? The #Brain as #Choreographer, Dancer and Spectator
Judith Lynne Hanna PhD

..."Dance has been a medium to cope with stress through history and across geographical space. Humans have long held dance in their toolkit to resist, reduce, or temporarily escape stress. Dance exercise may lead to increased levels of brain ”feel good” chemicals norepinephrine and endorphins, and dissipate the harmful biochemical elements of energy that can remain in the body when you neither fight nor flee from stress because physical action is impossible. Movements increase blood and oxygen flow to the brain, contributing to alertness, and trigger the chemical brain-derived neurotropic factor that supports the health of young neurons, encourages the growth of new ones, and fortifies connections among neurons.

As exercise plus communication, dance conveys ideas, feelings, and stories. Use of the story telling capability of dance is one method to release a person from bad thoughts and behavior. In dance people can recount stressful situations, holding them up for reevaluation and creating versions of the stories in pleasurable ways. Taboo themes can be held up for scrutiny and confronted safely. After all, dance is only pretend, a venue in which to dream oneself anew, even with abstract dances into which meaning can be read by dancer and spectator.

Dance may be a kind of stress inoculation. With its need for strength, flexibility, and endurance, dance also promotes fitness. An individual adapts to the increase in heart rate, blood pressure, and stress hormones experienced during dancing, and consequently can better resist stress. So dance to resist, reduce, or escape negative stress and maintain your brain health!

More than 400 studies related to interdisciplinary neuroscience reveal the value of dance. For instance, we acquire knowledge and develop cognitively because dance bulks up the brain. Dance contributes to health and healing. Dancers and viewers can learn about themselves–including sexual, gender, ethnic, regional, national, and career identities. Moreover, dance is a means to help us improve mood as it activates dopamine. This chemical operates along neural circuits known as the pleasure pathways, a euphoric rush that engages a learner/ creator/spectator."...

https://hartmannreport.com/p/how-authoritarians-like-trump-orban-5fe

How #Authoritarians Like #Trump, #Orbán, & #Putin Take Down a Free #Press
Trump is right now following a road blazed before him by multiple authoritarians and dictators who took over democracies in recent years…
THOM HARTMANN
JUL 25, 2024

..."Stephanopoulos had asked Republican Representative Nancy Mace how she could continue to support Trump when he had been “found liable for rape.” Trump is claiming that question libeled him and asking for damages that could run into the tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

You’d think he doesn’t have a case. When a jury of his peers found in favor of E. Jean Carroll in her defamation case against Trump, Judge Lewis Kaplan noted:

“[T]he jury’s finding that Mr. Trump ‘sexually abused’ Ms Carroll implicitly determined that he forcibly penetrated her digitally – in other words, that Mr Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York penal law.”

Nonetheless, Judge Altonaga is letting Trump’s lawsuit against the reporter and news organization go forward. This is a very, very big deal that could signal the beginning of the end for a free and open press in America.
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Both Putin and Orbán started by changing their nation’s libel laws, making it possible for the leaders and their cronies to sue any newspaper, radio or TV station, blogger, social media user, or website that criticized them for libel.

It’s a much “softer” way of shutting up the press (and the public) than simply storming in and arresting journalists: instead, you drive them and their media outlets into bankruptcy so they self-censor and their outlets can then be acquired by friendly billionaires and turned into pro-government organs.
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Russia and Hungary are not, of course, the only countries that use libel laws to destroy opposition press and drive independent commentators, bloggers, social media users, and newsletter writers into bankruptcy.

Currently, such a strategy is employed by strongman leaders in Turkey, Egypt, Thailand, Philippines, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, China, Iran, Belarus, Eritrea, Cuba, and Vietnam, among others.

Here in America, Florida was the first state where Republicans recently tried (unsuccessfully) to “open up” their state libel laws, in that case proposing legislation to make it criminally libelous for reporters to “cite an anonymous source.” More Red states will certainly follow as Orbán’s model is further embraced across the GOP."...

https://woodruff.substack.com/p/big-wheels-keep-on-turnin

Big Wheels Keep on Turnin' #astrology #uspolitics
#Biden, #Trump, #Vance, #Kamala, and You and Me. “There are decades where nothing happens. Then there are weeks where decades happen.”
FREDERICK WOODRUFF
JUL 25, 2024

..."with Harris as the presumed Democratic candidate who will challenge Trump. Consider her Libra Sun and Aries Moon. This is the astrological hallmark of an aggressive prosecutor, which, of course, Harris was in California before she entered the Senate. The VP position with Biden never suited her. You don’t put cardinal sign people (Aries, Libra, etc.) behind the scenes; they become rudderless and ineffective. They need the bullring, and so now, finally, Harris is in her element.
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Aside from bringing tons of baggage with her, Hillary Clinton, as a Scorpio, gave off ravenous-for-power vibes, so her attempts at appearing as a metered gentlewoman were, I think, undermined by what others sensed about her subliminally: that she’d rip off the head of anyone who got in the way of her objectives.
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Harris, with her Libran ability to personify male and female attributes simultaneously (amplified by her dualistic Gemini ascendant), should fare much better. This will give her much-needed flexibility regarding upcoming clashes with Trump’s Gemini tricksterism.

More importantly, as I pointed out in studying Biden’s and Trump’s horoscope earlier: Transiting Saturn has ascended to the midheaven of Harris’ horoscope. This is often associated with someone coming to the apex of their career and their allotment of personal power. Think of it as being at the top of the Tarot’s Wheel of Fortune card. It’s an indicator, often of mastery and hardwon wisdom
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I'll have more on Kamala later, but please let me hear your thoughts on her chart. In the comments, I’ll also answer any questions you pose.