@dannyboy Love you DannyBoy! Glad you're back.
An interesting factiod I recently found relevant to Minneapolis: 95% of the Somalis there are AMERICAN CITIZENS . About half by birth and about half by naturalization. And most of the remaining 5% have green cards or other legal permission. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/5-things-to-know-about-the-somali-community-in-minnesota-after-trumps-attacks
Yes there are Somali criminal gangs in MN. But for the most part they are not illegal immigrants. So if the Feds want to eliminate Somali gangs, they are not going to get anywhere by rounding up illegals. (But then again they don't care-- the real targets are mostly anyone with brown skin. Sigh.) Nevertheless, keep the faith Danny
@DannyBoy I listened to a podcast today with that mayor. I think he could be an up and coming leader for sure
@tybin if things are going to be bad there I’m at least glad it’s easy to follow Mr Roger’s advice about looking for the helpers.
@dannyboy Yes... I too see it getting much worse..escalating rapidly...over the next few days...as the temp rises on holding their feet to the fire over the files. Those files? contain much worse than what has been released thus far. That is why they are fighting so hard to distract from it. No lie... it's getting even more horrific for a small point in time. Boiling point, ground zero time. Tighten your seat belts... and remain seated... the fight ... and the Light... is coming.
- @dannyboy welcome back! You were missed. I too see light growing despite the darkness flooding our beloved USA. I agree with you that the pain being inflicted on our people and the people of the world is pushing awareness and change.
I had strong vision around December 11 that keeps repeating, rolling relentlessly through my consciousness… It’s too long to recount here, but in brief I saw T lying on a cot or hospital bed. He was in a huge empty room. He swung his legs over the side of the cot to sit up and began swinging his legs like a child does when their feet don’t touch the floor. He had a blank look on his face. He shifted his gaze from left or right, and then he looked over his right shoulder. He saw no one. When he looked forward again, he looked confused, lost. I sensed that he was wondering where everybody was. Past his left shoulder at the far end of the building was a a circle of his advisors and cabinet secretaries. They were fighting and yelling at each other. I heard the phrase “ circular, firing, squad.” I sensed that this occurrence is imminent, perhaps as soon as next month. The scene reminded me of the railway station scene in the last Harry Potter film called the deathly hollows part 2. The station represented the intermediate place between life and death. In the scene, a part of Voldemort’s soul was shaking with terror. I am NOT sensing T’s physical ending, but rather that some part of his life is about to change dramatically.
Two pieces I read/listened to today felt worth my attention, and possibly yours. First was M. Gessen's op-ed in The NY Times warning America of the authoritarian creep. She is the Russian National Book Award/Guggenheim fellowsihp and too many other journalism awards to list. She has written extensively on autocracy and was close to a female journalist murdered by Putiin. Her brilliant reporting is worth reading. Here is her op-ed piece today in the NYTimes: Gessen is sobering. She sees America is in serious danger and she knows that affects her safety, so she's risking her life with this article. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opinion/trump-one-year-later.html?
Her reporting is similar to Nadya Tolokonnikova, founding member of Russian dissident activism group Pussy Riot who is now exiled in the U.S. and says the situation in the U.S. now is similar to Russia in 2018, before Putin totally clamped down on free speech.
Then comes Marianne Williamson, the New-Ager who ran for president in 2016 and wrote the beautiful heailng book Return to Life about the Course in Miracles. She's got this moment that we are in and she expresses the kind of hope and action that is soothing and strengthening and truthful.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aak53BsDAd8
I see Teddy Roosevelt coming through Donald Trump, as if he is channeling that ambitious, conquering, ruthless nature and bringing backed the Gilded Age with him. It is at odds with today's world and is not understood. I think Davos is going to be a very bumpy event, and the NATO alliance further eroded.
@jackofhearts An incredible speech. A blueprint for other world leaders to adopt in response to the gangsterism of Trump, his administration, and the GOP.
This morning I felt within Trump an intense fear of humiliation at Davos, a fear at the cellular level. It feels like this fear of humiliation is one of the main ways he organizes his life. I also got the sense that he is beyond reasoning with, as if he is isolated within his own mind/psyche and can't get out.
@gbs @jackofhearts Mark Carney's speech made me think of Jeanne's prediction many years ago about the U.S. emerging from the T years much weaker, with less influence in the world. (I'm paraphrasing, so feel free to correct me, Jeanne.) Carney's speech called time of death for the old U.S., and signaled the new world order that is to come, with the U.S. much, much weaker. I found the speech much more refreshing than sad (though it was sad too). Carney is merely recognizing a long-existing truth. We (the U.S.) haven't been the good guys for a long time. Maybe by being rendered weaker, we and the world will be better off. It's sad that our decline has been at the hands of the GOP (Bush, T), but it is what it is.
i know you guys are just getting started on Jan predictions. I see several double entries. Maybe they are a result of cut and paste
@tybin I've posted more predictions today to add to a large group of randomly shared predictions made by our team during early January, plus whole year by month predictions by Baba, Dannyboy, and me.
We should have the whole Team's predictions by the end of January -- Bluebelle, CC21, Lovendures, Tonya, Teri, Andrew Posey, Andy, Baba, Dannyboy, Seaholly, Caroline, SeaLion, Earthangel.
Looking like the U.S. is on the edge of something major.
Thanks for catching that repetition error. Have corrected it.
@lynn, weaker is relative. If power exists in a certain lens, I will take the white male lens because, well, white male. Do I have more power or less power if I take that and share it without reservation? One theory says don't share it, or you will lose that power, but I think sharing that power actually gives more power. Just in a profoundly different way. One is based on control, and one is based on legitimacy and influence. One requires a zero-sum game; the other does not. Our best moments always tend toward not embracing the zero-sum game. Right now, I would say the US ( gov't ) has embraced the zero-sum game to such a degree as to undermine itself. The world as it is today. Looking forward, it may look bleak, but I suggest if the lens is changed, or maybe thinking back 20 years from now, maybe it's not so much the US will be weaker, just its power metric shifted.
In the end, power is neither there to be given or taken from anyone; we just are. I find power these days either comes from respect or adulation. When everyone arrives at that point, then a better world will be well underway.
The funniest prediction of the night: Vance seems rather surprised that people don’t like him (Baba)
well 🙄 , JD
@tybin I've posted more predictions today to add to a large group of randomly shared predictions made by our team during early January, plus whole year by month predictions by Baba, Dannyboy, and me.
We should have the whole Team's predictions by the end of January -- Bluebelle, CC21, Lovendures, Tonya, Teri, Andrew Posey, Andy, Baba, Dannyboy, Seaholly, Caroline, SeaLion, Earthangel.
Looking like the U.S. is on the edge of something major.
Thanks for catching that repetition error. Have corrected it.
Looking like the U.S. is on the edge of something major.
I hope so. We need change more now than ever.
@carmen The blatant execution of Alex Pretti today? Minneapolis shooting: Tim Walz condemns ‘federal occupation’ as victim identified as Alex Pretti – latest updates
I think this is a turning point.
Getting a vision of a vast forest at night. Stumbling in the dark, trying to find a way out. And then I see an opening between the trees, with blinding light spilling out. Then I opened my eyes and I could see. Kinda feels like we are at the stumbling in the dark part right now.
@journeywithme2 Alex Pretti was an Intensive Care Unit nurse at the Veterans Administration hospital. As such, he most definitely was a tax-payer. And some of the taxes that he paid were actually used to murder him. For disagreeing.
How very north korean
In our January predictions, February was described as a turning point, and it cannot come soon enough.
The young man who was killed was the same age as my son, who is also a nurse caring for the sickest patients. Nurses always want to help others, as is the case with my son. According to Heather Cox Richardson—who is meticulous in her research—Pretti’s ordeal began when he tried to help a woman who had been knocked down by Border Patrol agents. (what are border patrol agents, the most brutal of the worst, doing in Minneapolis?) He was then sprayed in the face with pepper spray, leaving him struggling to see. As he tried to recover, multiple agents jumped on him. He fought to keep his head up while being beaten, and then nine—no, ten—shots were fired into him. Afterward, the agents scattered, as if trying to escape the reality of what they had just done to an innocent man. The woman closest to the event (the one dressed in bright pink) began screaming, no no no no, and then just screamed in agony.
We are beyond sick. Exhausted. Heartbroken. This truly feels like a turning point, though one that comes at an unbearable cost.
I am praying for this young man's soul, and for everyone who loved him. I have never seen anything as horrific as what I saw today. I urge people to read Heather Cox Richardson’s account—and to spare yourselves the videos. https://youtu.be/2501T81PR38?si=Tt608oA--NbrJ5wZ. (HCR: What we Know so far)
May angels accompany his soul and bring comfort to his family. May he be remembered, honored, and never forgotten.
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