Hi, friends,

I keep thinking about how if we ever get out from under this destructive regime I will be so unbothered on a daily basis. I feel like I wasted a lot of years worrying that I wasn't living up to my potential, and just when I started figuring out how to work with my ADHD, the country collapses. All these systems that I thought I wasn't going to be able to navigate correctly because of my ADHD are caving in anyway. And the groups that were supposed to protect us are just standing around making money and not doing anything to help us.

I'm specifically angry about AARP, which is marketing to me but doesn't really have any desire to serve me or anyone my age, and I don't think they're serving actual retired people, either. I'm so irked about it that Doug and I recorded an entire podcast episode about what I'd do differently if I had an association to serve people my age. Listen to it or read the edited transcript here: https://whentheflamesgoup.substack.com/p/episode-70-wheres-the-gray-mafia​

I am also not going to get past my anger at Elissa Slotkin, who I campaigned for to become a senator for Michigan. During the campaigning she was a solid progressive, but as soon as Krasnov was inaugurated on January 20 she's been a centrist Republican. She voted yes on 8 of Krasnov's cabinet picks, including Kristi Noem. She gave the weakest rebuttal to Krasnov's SOTU speech earlier this week in which she essentially said she doesn't like that he isn't being nice about making all the cuts he's making. I'm just throroughly repulsed by her and if there are still elections in 5 years I will do anything in my power to kick her out and put an actual progressive in that Senate seat.

Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, which means that Christians are in Lent, the season of comtemplation and drawing closer to God in preparation for Good Friday and Easter. We're also a few days into Ramadan, which means that Muslims are also drawing closer to Allah during this month. Next week is the Hindu holiday of Holi, which celebrates renewal and new beginnings. Nowruz, Persian New Year, is the week before Ramadan ends, and then two weeks after Eid is the beginning of the eight days of Passover. Basically, a lot of us have times of contemplation and becoming closer to the divine during these next six weeks. Can we make use of this time? Can we get closer to the divine and to each other? Can we form real bonds and real communities to support and defend each other from the evil trying to harm us?

I hope the answer is yes. I've had Lenny Kravitz' "Are You Gonna Go My Way?" in my head since yesterday about Ash Wednesday, but I looked up the lyrics and I think it's just going to be the theme song of the occupation by the oligarchy for me:

I was born long ago
I am the chosen, I'm the one
I have come to save the day
And I won't leave until I'm done
So that's why you've got to try
You got to breathe and have some fun
Though I'm not paid, I play this game
And I won't stop until I'm done
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But what I really want to know is
Are you going to go my way?
And I got to, got to know
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I don't know why we always cry
This we must leave and get undone
We must engage and rearrange
And turn this planet back to one
So tell me why we got to die
And kill each other one by one
We've got to hug and rub-a-dub
We've got to dance and be in love

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Love,

Magda

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