Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Via FB
My daughter came home from school and said,
“Mom, you’re not going to believe what happened in history class today.”
Her teacher told the class they were going to play a game.
He walked around the room and whispered to each kid whether they were a witch or just a regular person. Then he gave the instructions:
“Form the biggest group you can without a witch. If your group has even one, you all fail.”
She said the whole room instantly lit up with suspicion.
Everyone started interrogating each other. Are you a witch? How do we know you’re not lying?
Some kids clung to one big group, but most broke off into smaller, exclusive cliques. They turned away anyone who seemed uncertain, nervous, or gave off even the slightest hint of being guilty.
The energy shifted fast. Suddenly everyone was suspicious of everyone.
Whispers. Finger-pointing. Side-eyes. Trust dissolved in minutes.
Finally, when all the groups were formed, the teacher said,
“Alright, time to find out who fails. Witches, raise your hands.”
And not one hand went up.
The whole class exploded. “Wait! You messed up the game!”
And then the teacher dropped the bomb:
“Did I? Were there any actual witches in Salem, or did everyone just believe what they were told?”
My daughter said the room went dead silent.
That’s when it hit them. No witch was ever needed for the damage to happen. Fear had already done its work. Suspicion alone divided the entire class, turning community into chaos.
And isn’t that exactly what we’re seeing today?
Different words, same playbook.
Instead of “witch,” it’s liberal, conservative, vaxxed, unvaxxed, pro-this, anti-that.
The labels shift, but the tactic is the same.
Get people scared. Get them suspicious. Get them divided.
Then sit back while trust crumbles.
The danger was never the witch.
The danger is the rumor. The suspicion. The fear. The planted lies.
Refuse the whisper. Don’t play the game. Because the second we start hunting “witches,” we’ve already lost.
Missy LeBlanc 
Via Daily Dharma: The Power of Ritual
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Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Via Daily Dharma: Understanding Reality
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Monday, September 21, 2026
Via Daily Dharma: Speaking Truly
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Sunday, September 20, 2026
Via Daily Dharma: Overcoming Upsetting Memories
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Via FB \\ Gay Culture Geeks
A new Australian pop video ends with two rival team captains kissing on a footy field, and one of them played ten seasons of Australian rules football without ever telling anyone he was bi.
"Can't Wait" is the debut single from the Sydney singer ANDY, and the man in that final scene is Mitch Brown, who in 2025 became the first AFL player to come out publicly as bisexual. Ian Roberts, who came out in 1995 as the first high-profile Australian sportsman to do so, is in it too.
"Honestly, when Ian and Mitch agreed to partner up for this, I was stunned and so taken aback by the fact they said yes," ANDY told Outsports. "As wild and raunchy as this video is, there's a deep-seated message of romance, consent and vulnerability in it."
The set went quiet while they shot it. "I think everyone could feel that we were commenting on something very real, very raw and very beautiful," he said.
Brown, 37, put it in terms of the career he spent watching himself. "I spent so much of my playing career being conscious of what I said, how I behaved and what people might assume about me, and now I'm on a footy field - although a different code - kissing another man for a music video," he told Rolling Stone Australia. "There's a nice full-circle feeling to that."
Roberts watched the finished thing and said something to ANDY that the singer says has stayed with him. "I love being gay - it's my superpower."
Saturday, September 19, 2026
Via Daily Dharma: Serving Others
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Friday, September 18, 2026
Via FB \\
BREAKING
JD Vance stood on a stage in Kansas and called a 47-year-old volunteer charity of queer and trans nuns a "devil-worshipping" "anti-Christian hate group."On September 14, at a rally staged by the pro-Trump group MAGA Inc. at Webco Manufacturing in Olathe, Kansas, Vance told the crowd that Democratic Senate candidate Adam Hamilton "proudly supported a drag group called Our Ladies of Perpetual Indulgence."
No organization by that name exists.
He meant the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, founded in San Francisco in 1979, whose members were among the first people handing out safer-sex and HIV information during the AIDS crisis.
Vance also said the group had been "saying special blessings before L.A. Dodgers games." That never happened. The Dodgers gave the Los Angeles order its Community Hero Award before Pride Night on June 16, 2023, for charity work.
Sister Roma, of the group's San Francisco order, answered him directly. "I do not recognize or accept his inflammatory misrepresentation of who we are and what we do," she said. "We do not mock nuns, we are nuns." She described Sisters serving meals to hungry people and sitting with the unhoused and the ostracized.
The reason Vance went after Adam Hamilton at all: Hamilton's church, Resurrection, was one of dozens of sponsors of Kansas City PrideFest.
Vance told the room Hamilton is "a guy who would insult your faith and spit on your religion to accrue donations to himself."
Hamilton is the founding pastor of the largest United Methodist church in the country.
His bishop, David Wilson of the Great Plains Conference, called the attack "inaccurate and unwarranted" and listed what the congregation has actually done: more than 10 million pounds of food given to people in need, 800,000 backpacks of food so kids don't go hungry on weekends, more than 65,000 pints of blood donated, and more than $26 million handed to outside groups serving children and families.
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