#whatmatters — Public Fediverse posts
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I’ve decided to stop caring about things. If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you don’t care, nothing matters, so you’re never upset. From now on, my rallying cry is, “So what?!”
HOBBES: That’s a tough cry to rally around.
CALVIN: So what?!Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-01-02)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83708…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #care #takingcare #caring #concern #disappointment #disengagement #engagement #hope #upset #whatmatters
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I’ve decided to stop caring about things. If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you don’t care, nothing matters, so you’re never upset. From now on, my rallying cry is, “So what?!”
HOBBES: That’s a tough cry to rally around.
CALVIN: So what?!Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-01-02)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83708…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #care #takingcare #caring #concern #disappointment #disengagement #engagement #hope #upset #whatmatters
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I’ve decided to stop caring about things. If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you don’t care, nothing matters, so you’re never upset. From now on, my rallying cry is, “So what?!”
HOBBES: That’s a tough cry to rally around.
CALVIN: So what?!Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-01-02)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83708…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #care #takingcare #caring #concern #disappointment #disengagement #engagement #hope #upset #whatmatters
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I’ve decided to stop caring about things. If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you don’t care, nothing matters, so you’re never upset. From now on, my rallying cry is, “So what?!”
HOBBES: That’s a tough cry to rally around.
CALVIN: So what?!Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-01-02)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/83708…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #care #takingcare #caring #concern #disappointment #disengagement #engagement #hope #upset #whatmatters
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"What resists being commodified is usually what keeps us human." L. Nault
#StayHuman #ResistCommodification #Humanity #AuthenticLiving #WhatMatters
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CNN – What Matters – November 10, 2025
Editor’s Note: Below is a re-formatted post from a CNN Newsletter. It will appear online soon. The newsletter is sent first, then it is published online in a later cycle. I’ve posted it here, because of my comments. This 8-member “deal” on the side is a huge mistake. Read more below. –DrWeb
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Questions? Comments? [email protected] by Zachary B. Wolf
CNN What Matters
by Zachary B. Wolf: Democrats seethe over shutdown deal.
They might be celebrating in a yearThe likely end to the longest-ever government shutdown has Democrats turning on each other in searing anger.
The prevailing opinion appears to be frustration that eight senators freelanced a deal with Republicans.
While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.
Sen. Tim Kaine, who helped finalize the deal, defended it on CNN Monday. Kaine noted that the White House had pledged to rehire federal workers fired during the lapse in government funding and to bar further reductions in force at least until January 30.
That’s not good enough for many Democrats who were feeling powerful after victories in mostly blue-state elections last week. They wanted to hold out for more guarantees from the White House, even as the nation’s air travel system started to buckle under the strain of air traffic controllers not being paid and people who rely on the government for assistance buying food went without.
There’s no guarantee that House Speaker Mike Johnson will allow a House vote on extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, but Kaine argued that if senators pass it with bipartisan support and Johnson ignores it, the GOP will pay a political price.
“Their midterm election next year would look a lot worse even than the shellacking they got last week in Virginia and elsewhere,” Kaine said.
The expiring enhanced subsidies, according to analysis by KFF, will be felt more in states that voted for Trump in 2024, and could result in millions of people opting not to have health insurance at all.
This shutdown, assuming it ends and is not repeated in January, won’t be top of mind for voters in midterm elections next year, but it’s still worth taking a look at what happens at the ballot box after a shutdown.DrWeb’s Comment…
“While it does not guarantee the extension of expiring enhanced subsidies for Obamacare health insurance plans, it does guarantee there will be a Senate vote on that subject.” –article quote
I have highlighted in bold a quote from the article. It is embarassing to post the truth for these eight renegades. They got scammed, including Catherine Cortez Masto, one of my Senators I used to support in Nevada.
To believe that quote, is to believe or trust Trump. I don’t.
These 8 should have known better. I don’t believe or trust the Trump Senate. I don’t.
It won’t vote on the subject, or the votes will vote to remove Obamacare and/or the subsidies, surprise surprise.
All the damn signs point to Trump erasing Obamacare (ego thing to do), and replacing it –after many years of asking GOP for any national health plan, they will dump something out and call it National Health Care by Trump.
Watch, wait, Trust me. They are screwed, these 8, we are screwed by the failure to support the Democratic Party (outliers not welcomed). All those closed days –accomplished NOTHING. Because of these 8 fools. –DrWeb
Tags: Americans, CNN, Democrats, Eight Senators, Federal Government Shutdown, Government Shutdown, health care, Newsletter, Republicans, Shutdown Deal, Subsidies in Jeopardy, Tim Kaine, Trump, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Voters, What Matters, White House "pledges", Zachary B. Wolf#Americans #CNN #Democrats #EightSenators #FederalGovernmentShutdown #GovernmentShutdown #healthCare #Newsletter #Republicans #ShutdownDeal #SubsidiesInJeopardy #TimKaine #Trump #USHouseOfRepresentatives #USSenate #Voters #WhatMatters #WhiteHousePledges_ #ZacharyBWolf
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The US veers toward Christian nationalism – CNN What Matters
: The US veers toward Christian nationalismAmericans are used to hearing about the tradition of separating church and state, but the two are increasingly fused in President Donald Trump’s administration.The First Amendment, after all, in addition to guaranteeing free speech, says that Congress shall “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”
US leaders talk about Jesus Christ at Kirk’s funeral
Never in recent memory have Americans seen more top government officials speak so openly about Jesus Christ as they did at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, which Trump described as “an old-time revival” rather than a funeral. It makes sense that Kirk’s funeral would feature religious overtones: Conversion was at the core of Kirk’s conservatism, something praised by the country’s assembled top political leaders who attended his funeral, including the president, the vice president, the speaker of the House of Representatives and much of the president’s Cabinet.
Saying God is on their side
The podcaster Benny Johnson talked about the idea of “Godly government” and pointed down at Trump’s assembled Cabinet secretaries. “God has given them power over our nation and our land,” he said, adding it was God who saved Trump from a different assassin’s bullet “for this moment.” Trump officials said God is on their side as they go after their political enemies.
“We are on the side of goodness. We are on the side of God,” White House adviser Stephen Miller said in a speech that, like Trump’s, promised retribution against an unnamed evil, though evidence release so far suggests Kirk’s alleged killer acted alone.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a sermon that concluded with discussion of the Second Coming. Vice President JD Vance, who referred to Kirk as a “warrior for country, a warrior for Christ,” counseled Americans to “live worthy of Charlie’s sacrifice and put Christ at the center of your life.”
Where does religious belief veer into Christian nationalism?Christian nationalism is the concept — rejected by many scholars — that the US was formed as a Christian nation and that Christianity should imbue its laws. Many Trump administration actions have blurred the lines between church and state.
In the days before Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University, Trump delivered a speech at the privately funded Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, where he promised to protect prayer in public schools through forthcoming guidance from the Department of Education. “To have a great nation, you have to have religion,” Trump said.
“I believe that so strongly. There has to be something after we go through all of this — and that something is God.”
Religion at the Department of Justice
After that September 8 speech, Trump met with the Religious Liberty Commission he created by executive action at the Department of Justice. Among the commission’s charges is “Exploring the foundations of religious liberty in America,” and “identifying current threats to domestic religious liberty.” Trump labeled previous Justice Department prosecutions of anti-abortion rights protesters outside clinics as a form of anti-Christian bias.A pastor with pull on Christian nationalism
Last month, CNN’s Pamela Brown profiled self-described Christian nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson, who has ties to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Wilson is based in Idaho, but his organization has opened an outpost in the nation’s capital. Wilson, who appeared at Kirk’s “The Believer’s Summit” in 2024, told Brown he would like the US to be a Christian theocracy.
He would also like to make homosexuality illegal.
New IRS rules for pastors in politics
In July, Trump’s IRS declared that pastors who endorse political candidates should not lose their tax-exempt status.
Proselytizing in the federal workplace
That same month, the Office of Management and Budget said that federal workers can now bring religion into the federal workplace, including promoting their religious beliefs to colleagues. Hegseth has hosted working-hours prayer services at the Pentagon. One in May featured the pastor of his Tennessee church, which is affiliated with Wilson’s Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.
Many Americans wouldn’t agree
The Public Religion Research Institute has tried in recent years to gauge Christian nationalism and how it is spreading in the US. In 2024, it estimated that about 30% of Americans would qualify as either adherents of or sympathizers to Christian nationalism, according to their definition, including a majority of Republicans. But the portions vary widely across the US.
About half of the people in some Southern states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Alabama are either adherents or sympathizers, compared to only about a third in red states like Florida and Texas. In many blue states, less than a quarter of residents either adhere to or sympathize with Christian nationalism, according to PRRI, which means a large portion of the country also does not share their philosophy about the role of Christianity in the government.
Continue/Read Original Article: https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1758579883240693bb2790a23/
#2025 #America #CharlieKirk #ChristianGovernment #ChristianNationalism #CNN #DonaldTrump #FederalGovernment #Health #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #MemorialService #Opinion #Politics #Religion #Resistance #Science #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #WhatMatters
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The US veers toward Christian nationalism – CNN What Matters
: The US veers toward Christian nationalismAmericans are used to hearing about the tradition of separating church and state, but the two are increasingly fused in President Donald Trump’s administration.The First Amendment, after all, in addition to guaranteeing free speech, says that Congress shall “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”
US leaders talk about Jesus Christ at Kirk’s funeral
Never in recent memory have Americans seen more top government officials speak so openly about Jesus Christ as they did at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, which Trump described as “an old-time revival” rather than a funeral. It makes sense that Kirk’s funeral would feature religious overtones: Conversion was at the core of Kirk’s conservatism, something praised by the country’s assembled top political leaders who attended his funeral, including the president, the vice president, the speaker of the House of Representatives and much of the president’s Cabinet.
Saying God is on their side
The podcaster Benny Johnson talked about the idea of “Godly government” and pointed down at Trump’s assembled Cabinet secretaries. “God has given them power over our nation and our land,” he said, adding it was God who saved Trump from a different assassin’s bullet “for this moment.” Trump officials said God is on their side as they go after their political enemies.
“We are on the side of goodness. We are on the side of God,” White House adviser Stephen Miller said in a speech that, like Trump’s, promised retribution against an unnamed evil, though evidence release so far suggests Kirk’s alleged killer acted alone.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a sermon that concluded with discussion of the Second Coming. Vice President JD Vance, who referred to Kirk as a “warrior for country, a warrior for Christ,” counseled Americans to “live worthy of Charlie’s sacrifice and put Christ at the center of your life.”
Where does religious belief veer into Christian nationalism?Christian nationalism is the concept — rejected by many scholars — that the US was formed as a Christian nation and that Christianity should imbue its laws. Many Trump administration actions have blurred the lines between church and state.
In the days before Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University, Trump delivered a speech at the privately funded Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, where he promised to protect prayer in public schools through forthcoming guidance from the Department of Education. “To have a great nation, you have to have religion,” Trump said.
“I believe that so strongly. There has to be something after we go through all of this — and that something is God.”
Religion at the Department of Justice
After that September 8 speech, Trump met with the Religious Liberty Commission he created by executive action at the Department of Justice. Among the commission’s charges is “Exploring the foundations of religious liberty in America,” and “identifying current threats to domestic religious liberty.” Trump labeled previous Justice Department prosecutions of anti-abortion rights protesters outside clinics as a form of anti-Christian bias.A pastor with pull on Christian nationalism
Last month, CNN’s Pamela Brown profiled self-described Christian nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson, who has ties to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Wilson is based in Idaho, but his organization has opened an outpost in the nation’s capital. Wilson, who appeared at Kirk’s “The Believer’s Summit” in 2024, told Brown he would like the US to be a Christian theocracy.
He would also like to make homosexuality illegal.
New IRS rules for pastors in politics
In July, Trump’s IRS declared that pastors who endorse political candidates should not lose their tax-exempt status.
Proselytizing in the federal workplace
That same month, the Office of Management and Budget said that federal workers can now bring religion into the federal workplace, including promoting their religious beliefs to colleagues. Hegseth has hosted working-hours prayer services at the Pentagon. One in May featured the pastor of his Tennessee church, which is affiliated with Wilson’s Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches.
Many Americans wouldn’t agree
The Public Religion Research Institute has tried in recent years to gauge Christian nationalism and how it is spreading in the US. In 2024, it estimated that about 30% of Americans would qualify as either adherents of or sympathizers to Christian nationalism, according to their definition, including a majority of Republicans. But the portions vary widely across the US.
About half of the people in some Southern states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Alabama are either adherents or sympathizers, compared to only about a third in red states like Florida and Texas. In many blue states, less than a quarter of residents either adhere to or sympathize with Christian nationalism, according to PRRI, which means a large portion of the country also does not share their philosophy about the role of Christianity in the government.
Continue/Read Original Article: https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1758579883240693bb2790a23/
#2025 #America #CharlieKirk #ChristianGovernment #ChristianNationalism #CNN #DonaldTrump #FederalGovernment #Health #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #MemorialService #Opinion #Politics #Religion #Resistance #Science #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates #WhatMatters
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"I'm the luckiest! My bf got me this flashy and expensive bauble."
You and your bf don't know what matters in life.
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"I'm the luckiest! My bf got me this flashy and expensive bauble."
You and your bf don't know what matters in life.
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"I'm the luckiest! My bf got me this flashy and expensive bauble."
You and your bf don't know what matters in life.
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"I'm the luckiest! My bf got me this flashy and expensive bauble."
You and your bf don't know what matters in life.
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"I'm the luckiest! My bf got me this flashy and expensive bauble."
You and your bf don't know what matters in life.
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Scheduled to coincide w/the #election, “#CarrieMaeWeems: The Shape of Things” is currently on view at Gladstone Gallery in #NY. The exhibition is anchored by “Cyclorama: The Shape of Things” a #video #installation in the round that explores the history of #RacialJustice & contemporary #PoliceKillings of #unarmed #BlackMen. Part of a #ForFreedoms initiative, a billboard by Weems was installed near the #DNC in #Chicago in Aug.
#Art #Arts #culture #politics #democrats #WhatMatters #USpol
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Scheduled to coincide w/the #election, “#CarrieMaeWeems: The Shape of Things” is currently on view at Gladstone Gallery in #NY. The exhibition is anchored by “Cyclorama: The Shape of Things” a #video #installation in the round that explores the history of #RacialJustice & contemporary #PoliceKillings of #unarmed #BlackMen. Part of a #ForFreedoms initiative, a billboard by Weems was installed near the #DNC in #Chicago in Aug.
#Art #Arts #culture #politics #democrats #WhatMatters #USpol
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Scheduled to coincide w/the #election, “#CarrieMaeWeems: The Shape of Things” is currently on view at Gladstone Gallery in #NY. The exhibition is anchored by “Cyclorama: The Shape of Things” a #video #installation in the round that explores the history of #RacialJustice & contemporary #PoliceKillings of #unarmed #BlackMen. Part of a #ForFreedoms initiative, a billboard by Weems was installed near the #DNC in #Chicago in Aug.
#Art #Arts #culture #politics #democrats #WhatMatters #USpol
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Scheduled to coincide w/the #election, “#CarrieMaeWeems: The Shape of Things” is currently on view at Gladstone Gallery in #NY. The exhibition is anchored by “Cyclorama: The Shape of Things” a #video #installation in the round that explores the history of #RacialJustice & contemporary #PoliceKillings of #unarmed #BlackMen. Part of a #ForFreedoms initiative, a billboard by Weems was installed near the #DNC in #Chicago in Aug.
#Art #Arts #culture #politics #democrats #WhatMatters #USpol
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Scheduled to coincide w/the #election, “#CarrieMaeWeems: The Shape of Things” is currently on view at Gladstone Gallery in #NY. The exhibition is anchored by “Cyclorama: The Shape of Things” a #video #installation in the round that explores the history of #RacialJustice & contemporary #PoliceKillings of #unarmed #BlackMen. Part of a #ForFreedoms initiative, a billboard by Weems was installed near the #DNC in #Chicago in Aug.
#Art #Arts #culture #politics #democrats #WhatMatters #USpol
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What are 3 specific areas in your life that you feel passionate about?
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#area #passionate #mentaltoughness #youvegotthis #feelings #focusing #focusonpassion #reasons #gratitude #worthit #whereyouputyourenergy #meaning #purpose #whatmatters #whatmatterstoyou
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Life often encourages us to spend all our energy on chasing what we want, but we seldom pause to wonder — if we get what we chase, will it make us happy? Be kind to yourself and take a moment to contemplate what would make you happy if you got it, then compare it with what you chase. The result may be unexpected.
#BertrandRussell #philosophy #happiness #perception #emotionalintelligence #greatquotes #inspirationalquotes #lifedirection #corevalues #whatmatters #senseofpurpose #selfreflection