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July 2022 Media Diet

Molly Beane
Jul 29, 2022
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July was another eventful month. We’re in a recession that we’re trying not to call a recession. Manchin shocked us all in an unexpected party-line agreement on a climate/tax/healthcare bill and stripped McConnell of his leverage to block the CHIPS bill. And JLo and Ben got married and made all my dreams come true! 😍

On a personal note, this has been a bonkers busy month. I am studying for the GRE Exam, which has consumed almost all my free time outside of trying to have some semblance of a personal life. I take the test in September so August will be much of the same.

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I’m at the heatwave, I’m at the monkeypox, I’m at the combination heatwave monkeypox inflation covid fascist polio gay panic vibe shift
1:39 PM ∙ Jul 23, 2022
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On My Radar

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Are we, the citizens of this country, brothers — or are we not? That is the fundamental question underlying current events. “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
12:54 PM ∙ Jul 23, 2022
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“Human arrogance is not a container for God, nor will it ever be.” — Marianne Williamson

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes
While there are many many individual Democrats who are fighting to preserve democracy against its domestic foes, as a whole, the Democratic Party does not actually act like an institution that believes there is an existential threat to American liberal democracy.
9:53 PM ∙ Jul 13, 2022
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“The problem with perfection is that it is mythical, it is an imaginary pathway that, with enough time, will lead back to sorrow. Being attached to perfection is not only a refusal to accept the ups and downs of reality, but also a manifestation of the craving to control. 

Life is not a straight and unbreakable line, it is choppy, unpredictable, and is more similar to waves and the movement of tides.

And much of it is out of our control. Giving external events a high degree of importance over how you feel inside will lead you far away from happiness.”

— Yung Pueblo

@heymollybthe best is yet to come 🫶🏼 #inspiration #personaldevelopment #dctiktok
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“We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts.” — bell hooks

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Good morning. I calculated Josh Hawley's 40 time.
sbnation.comJosh Hawley ran 7.2 in the 40 at the January 6 combineCalculating Hawley’s 40 time using science.
3:32 PM ∙ Jul 22, 2022
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“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, not to hate them, but to understand them.” — Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Politicus, 1976

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Molly Beane @HeyMollyB
“The persistence of Dem opposition to raising taxes on plutocrats is the party’s most damaging political liability… …And the GOP’s descent into authoritarianism looms over everything.”
nymag.comThe Democrats’ Failure Is CompleteIt would be too easy to blame only Manchin for the death of their agenda.
11:59 PM ∙ Jul 16, 2022
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“When I was a teenager I wished for world peace, but now I yearn for a world in which competing ideologies are kept in balance, systems of accountability keep us all from getting away with too much, and fewer people believe that righteous ends justify violent means.” — Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind

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✺ Alicia Blázquez @aliceatlin
I see the future here and it's not digital.
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The Perfect Way is only difficult

for those who pick and choose;

Do not like, do not dislike;

all will then be clear,

Make a hairbreadth difference,

and Heaven and Earth are set apart;

If you want the truth to stand clear before you,

never be for or against.

The struggle between “for” and “against”

is the mind’s worst disease.

— 8th century Chinese Zen master Sen-ts’an

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When people ask how life in America is going
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Looking for a DIY project? Try making your own coffin. “We just had so much fun.” https://t.co/VQ3WOrog7t
7:23 PM ∙ Jul 18, 2022
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“Life isn’t just about what happens to us; it’s about who we choose to be within the space of what has happened to us.” — Marianne Williamson

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She’s a 9.1 but she’s inflation
3:19 PM ∙ Jul 13, 2022
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“The people of every country are the only sage guardians of their own rights and are the only instruments which can be used for their destruction. It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves.” — Thomas Jefferson

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#KillTheBill | audacity @nana_agyepong_
Instagram is receiving direct, clear user feedback about the same thing and they’re like ✨no✨
12:39 PM ∙ Jul 27, 2022
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What I’m Watching

All I have had time to watch this month are GRE Test Prep videos from GregMat Plus, but here is his free YouTube channel.

What I’m Reading

  • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt

  • The Official Guide to the GRE General Test (Power Pack) by ETS

  • Kaplan GRE Prep Plus 2023

  • Manhattan 5 Lb Book of GRE Practice Problems

Videos I Published

I published three original YouTube videos this month. The most recent video on the 5 books that will change your life is probably my favorite video on my channel so far. 🤓

P.S. If you’re not already subscribed to my channel, please do so!

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