• Economic Equality (A Goal),  Justice, the Human Construct,  Love and Relationships,  Speaking as a Parent,  Womens Issues

    Injustice: Single Parenthood

    July 11, 2026

    Johanna Baynard

    Johanna Baynard

    3 min read

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    Just now

    What if America truly cared about women and children?

    The very first thing that would be true is that no child in America would go hungry.

    But American children are neither fed nor safe.

    What if a woman could walk into a police station and talk with an advocate and receive immediate safety and security? The advocate would ensure transport to a shelter, but it wouldn’t stop there. The advocate follows the woman to a special family court that doesn’t require attorneys? The advocate could represent her with the full knowledge of her situation. These family courts would be designed for families, not for attorneys.

    Kyle Nieber with Unsplash

    What if access to our court system wasn’t guarded by attorneys who wouldn’t act without a ten thousand dollar retainer?

    What if women had access to the court system and were able to collect child support, no matter what?

    Since we know that at least 60% of the population live from paycheck to paycheck, we also know that 60% of women cannot access our court system and therefore are denied justice. Single parents are denied justice because they cannot pay for representation in our own cruelly designed system!

    We cannot continue that reality and shouldn’t in fact have that reality. We must put more thought into how women and children access legal systems that are designed to safeguard them.

    This is the other part of the equation that Professor Galloway talks about, when lamenting what we are doing to our children, the female perspective, which is that women don’t have access to a court system that is guarded by $500 an hour attorneys. Women cannot afford to access this system. Because women can’t access courts they are not fairly paid child support. They lose marital assets because they want to protect themselves and their children. We need a dedicated space that allows women access to the legal system that doesn’t steal their children’s financial future.

    Alberts Stoynov with Unsplash

    We deny justice to women and children when we don’t build a means for them to gain safety and security in the legal system. Why do so many women suffer without child support? Why do so many families splinter because of the crushing need for justice?

    I don’t know when it became okay to leave helpless women and children to their own devices, but this society has done this.

    We don’t come back from this injustice until we make it free and easy for women to have access to the family court room. We have to make it possible for them to get child support and a fair split of marital assets with a positive planning system for the future.

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  • Compassion,  Fibromyalgia,  It is What it is...,  Management,  Psychology of Life

    I Want To, I Really Do

    July 8, 2026

    I do want to walk as much as you do. Imagine the feeling you get when something important to you is disappointing. You would avoid that disappointment, wouldn’t you? I know I can’t walk very far and every time I try, I am disappointed. I am disappointed because my body lets me down. I am not the capable person I want to be. I am either in horrible pain which comes with a peculiar kind of shutdown of my body, or I can’t breathe. I am completely breathless and struggling for breath. If my blood is burning with adrenalin, I can walk further. The consequences of that activity are not pleasant.

    I am (as is my body, the real culprit) completely unreliable. My energy gets a budget, I savor it when I have it and am in bed when I don’t. Some days I wake up and I can’t function, yesterday, headache and nausea…when I do have energy and feel okay, I’m all in for any activity. I can’t schedule anything and we don’t have a normal schedule. We haven’t been able to pick a day for grocery shopping weekly because I am just that unreliable. One of my ideas is to design a few exercise that I can do quickly without planning so that I can keep up my activity level.

    BTW, none of these things happened overnight. These things occur in peculiar ways as time goes on. It is not as if, one day I suddenly had very bad pain if I stood up. Now, when I am walking and I stop, the pain intensifies badly. It doesn’t matter what the good reason is for my walk, it will always end badly with me struggling to breathe and in awful pain.

    Some days are really painful. I can limp around, but the price of activity is absolute, I will suffer. It’s not a condition that I can take a supplement or even a medication for. The rules are all internal and not subject to interpretation or approval. Post Exertional Malaise

    PEM is a full stop. You cannot function anymore. I experienced it in the times when I refused to stop working. It’s an eclipse of energy. I must lie down and it is the worst experience, from the top of my head, throughout my body to my feet.

    Effects of Exercise on Fibromyalgia patients are not good and that is well documented. COPD same. Yes, you must keep moving, but you do not belong in a gym competing with others.

    Without the nagging of my loved ones, I don’t know if I would ever get exercise. But I do get exercise, not much, and it’s the best I can do.

    At each moment, I am doing the best I possibly can. Unlike the guy next to me, I’m always trying.

    What happened to me? I used to be the most energetic person I knew except when PMS took me down. Otherwise, wow! I was faster than anyone I knew.

    It’s not age,

    it’s my illness and it’s my ability to say no. The more I say yes to people’s needs the sicker I am. I’ll never be better, because the part of me that cannot change lingers here. This is the place where I want to take care of everyone. This is the place where “yes” lingers foolishly trying to control my life.

    I want to say I’m learning to change my behavior. God knows I can be better. But it’s not happening. I am, without a doubt, without hesitation, doing the very best that I can. I promise.

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  • Compassion,  Equality,  Human Evolution,  Joe Rogan,  Love and Relationships,  Professor Galloway

    Male Loneliness Epidemic Explained

    June 16, 2026

    It is not coincidence that women come into their own power and a male loneliness epidemic begins.

    From what I have observed about men’s behavior they have always believed that women are within the rights of a man. This is why there is so MUCH male behavior that must be corrected. This awful behavior of female ownership is pervasive. I don’t mean ownership like slaves. I mean ownership in the sense that men believe that their desires and wants are much more important than a woman’s and therefore they can be forceful and aggressive to get what they want.

    Men are shocked when a woman says no. That’s when a man’s power and mouth is used against the woman. The man will use power to condemn and damage a woman. They will use their mouths to speak awful things about women. They do these things in full consciousness of what they are doing. Why? Because they have a right to do so (according to the damaged thinking of a man).

    If you have ever listened to Joe Rogan you are deeply aware of how a man’s mouth is used against a woman. By some accounts, Joe Rogan has 20 million followers on YouTube. Listen to one of Joe Rogan’s shows and you will discover why there is a male loneliness epidemic! It’s clear in his attitude and verbiage. Constant condescension in the language. Insistence that Epstein Island participants were women who made bad decisions? Are you kidding me?

    Google Reports the following: Minimizing Sexual Misconduct: In a 2011 podcast episode that resurfaced with widespread backlash in 2020, Rogan gleefully laughed as fellow comedian Joey Diaz described a history of pressuring roughly 20 aspiring female comedians into performing oral sex on him in exchange for stage time at a comedy club. Critics pointed to his reaction as proof of a toxic, dismissive culture regarding the exploitation of women in the industry.

    This guy (Joe Rogan) is not someone you want to get warm & cozy with. His language of hate is very popular with men because men are struggling right now. But this tendency towards hate is ridiculous. Why hate?

    Clem Onojeghuo with Unsplash 2019

    Add this phenomenon to the fact that pornography watching is at an all-time high. Research tells us that men who watch pornography begin to objectify women (as if they already didn’t) and become disrespectful of women in general.

    So here we are as women: the men we meet are disrespectful and worse, they objectify us.

    Now do you see it? The connection between the Male Loneliness epidemic and the actions that males take?

    Joe Rogan, let men know that they have to be respectful of women as human beings if they want to stop being lonely.

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  • Capitalism,  Health Care,  Insurance,  Medicare,  United Health Care

    Medicare Description

    June 9, 2026

    Johanna Baynard

    Part A — Hospitalization coverage (what we used to call major medical) You are automatically covered when you turn 65 if you are an American citizen. Everyone is covered under these conditions. You must have paid into the fund for a minimum of 10 years but can be purchased also.

    Pays only 80% of care and has a deductible which is variable and based on hospitalizations rather than time.

    No prior authorizations (a new program is rolling out in a few states, and it’s controlled by AI)

    If a doctor orders the work and the patient agrees the work is done.

    FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OWNED AND OPERATED

    JB Collection

    Part B — Covers outpatient care, imaging and bloodwork. Part B premiums are deducted from your Social Security check and it is $202.90, with an annual deductible of $283. Normally you will pay this insurance premium no matter what type of insurance you pick.

    What percentage does part B pay, 80%? Coinsurance is 20%

    FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OWNED AND OPERATED

    Supplemental Medicare — Medigap will pay for what Medicare does not pay, for example, the Medicare A and part B copay of 20% for hospital stays and outpatient care. It covers a portion of Part B based on what plan you have purchased. Medigap is only available through for-profit private companies.

    PRIVATE FOR PROFIT COMPANY OWNED AND OPERATED

    Part C — Medicare Advantage Plans — Covers all health care, like employment-based care

    BUT it is profit based and

    those profits are made by slowing down care by forcing patients to get prior authorizations and/or downright refusing care.

    Often, salespeople will not tell you your options, but will only explain Part C as if it is real Medicare. Part C is NOT real Medicare. Salespeople make money if you purchase Part C.

    PART C is profit based and they are making billions from the Federal government. The profit is made by providing subpar care, delaying care or refusing care to the patient.

    Copays can be extremely expensive. For example, radiation treatment for cancer patients, (in some cases has a copay of $80). But radiation treatment lasts for 25–50 treatments. Making out of pocket costs a minimum of $2,000.

    If you become sick, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to switch back to regular real Medicare. Medicare covers all care equitably, not so with an insurance company. (This is not something that the salesperson explains to you when you purchase your first plan.)

    PRIVATE FOR PROFIT COMPANY OWNED AND OPERATED

    Part D — pharmacy only and it is required if you have original Medicare, it is not required if you purchase Part C Medicare because (theoretically) your medications are covered by Part C.

    PRIVATE FOR PROFIT COMPANY OWNED AND OPERATED

    The bottom line is that Part C is a very cheap option at first, but only as long as you are healthy. Once you get sick it is an awful bargain and depending on your health issues can bankrupt you.

    You can’t switch back from Part C to original Medicare unless you are healthy for several consecutive years. As you get older this becomes impossible.

    As with all things “health care in America” illness will bankrupt you very quickly and for 25,000–45,000 Americans annually, will kill you.

    The pine tree — JB Collection

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  • Capitalism,  Health Care,  Justice, the Human Construct,  Politics,  World Affairs

    The Current anti-Christ

    May 21, 2026

    I was taught in school that the treatment of Jews during the holocaust was an embarrassment. We were told that America would never let it happen again, and yet here we are.

     The Palestinians are subjected to the worst kind of genocide very much like the Jews from 80 years ago. Now the Jews are the perpetrators and are financed by America. How can that be?    Most Palestinians are displaced and living in camps, with no operable infrastructure. Aid ships are stopped by Israel even when Israel has no authority to do so. Where the aid that is intended for Palestinians goes is questionable as Palestine faces wide scale hunger. As we know from the news, bombs continue daily no matter what cease fire is in place.

    As is true in many wars, the treatment of prisoners is an object of shame. The prison guards in Israel exercise their dominance and reveal their beliefs when they treat prisoners cruelly.

    The Gaza Strip is not the only place that the anti-Christ does his work. Cuban people are now subjected to a blockade that is causing widespread starvation. Cuba is now completely out of diesel and fuel oil. This is because of the American blockade.

    And dare I mention the profit motivated detentions centers in America?

    Alligator Alcatraz is officially the home of suffering and pain. The detention centers across America no longer provide healthcare nor apparently, enough food. Caretakers are cruel and profit for owners is the only outcome. Americans are drowning in shame and what is shocking is that there are no answers available now to save these victims of American hubris.

    How do the prisoners end up in detention centers and more importantly, why? Under Obama far more were deported without the street level drama and without the need for as many detention centers. Deportation means deport! Why are we keeping them? Sometimes for months and often for no reason.

    Follow the money. Who profits? This administration builds huge detention centers. 60,000 immigrants being held in detention times 152 USD per day equals 9,120,000.00 per day, every single day. This is a huge paycheck! Does this explain why immigrants have no health care and food is scarce? Of course it does. Anything or anyone that gets in the way of profit is soon legislated away.

    The questions are, can you be part of a country with a private army that follows no rules and minimally follows laws?

    Can you be a part of a country that finances a modern day genocide?

    Can you be a part of a country that you are ashamed of?

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  • Capitalism,  Compassion,  Economic Equality (A Goal),  Poverty,  World Affairs

    Is Earth Eligible for Inclusion in the Planetary Alliance?

    May 18, 2026

    The invisible ship orbited lazily around the Earth. The slow drift belied the importance of the mission. This mission is the difference between life as it is and the continued life of Earth.

    The group assigned to this task labeled Earth, sat together in the large room with the planet visible via video signal. Each member had a report to give. Each report would shed light on the planet’s value to the Planetary and Universal Alliance. Each report will reveal this species’ achievements and failures. The decision would be final. No review possible. Not that those on Earth are even aware of the review. Their level of technical maturity didn’t allow them to see the ship that slowly circled their planet.

    Photo by Daniel on Unsplash

    The leader was of the Ruggero planetary system. Her blue skin was translucent, and her features made her a great beauty across all species. It was her job to oversee the research and decision making that occurs when a planet is being considered for inclusion into the Planetary and Universal Alliance. Vantulo was beautiful and what humans would label: ruthless. She believed in her mission and did not make exceptions for species that were primeval in their approach to their own living beings. The planetary alliance could not allow the unwinding of the survival of living beings via an unhealthy alliance.

    Much had to be considered when making decisions about inclusion into the alliance. The first item being considered is the social structure of the world that is being considered. Most importantly, of all the things that the alliance must include in the decision is how the world has structured the societies of their world.

    When Veron responded to her demand for a report, he was working hard to keep his tone neutral. “Being on top of others in a pyramid structure is an old survival mechanism that many living beings have used for tens of thousands of years. Those beings that have reached evolutionary maturity capable of logic and intelligence do not need the pyramid structure to build a social structure and resulting relationships between beings.”

    From a human perspective, Veron looked vaguely like a spider. His skin and eight legs were black ink dark, which made it difficult to see his features. However, no one missed his eyes. His eyes were massive in his small body, and they reflected untold wisdom that vectored across species. Veron’s home planet did not and had not, to anyone’s memory, ever engaged in a pyramid social structure. However, he understood the survivalist nature of the social structure. Who doesn’t want to survive? It was hard for him to withhold his judgment of planet Earth because of the results inherent in the social structure to their peoples. Many suffered and very few did not. Those who did not suffer were those that lived on top of this social structure. They amassed great amounts of resources and kept them for their own benefit, allowing those beneath them to die from lack of these same resources.

    Veron continued his report:

    “It is a mark of a survivalist structure to use a pyramid structure to stratify living beings. Humans continue to do so and have often been warned of the dangers of this strategy.

    Photo by Yannis H on Unsplash

    Their society considers those at the bottom of the pyramid to be disposable and unimportant. Those who live on the bottom of the pyramid may be murdered with impunity; they may suffer and die because resources are withheld. The societal structure is one of cruelty and malaise. Humans will fight and die to reach the top of the pyramid, often hurting or killing others in their fevered attempt to reach the top. Those who live in the middle of the pyramid will often close shutters and pretend that outside of their windows nothing exists.

    Those in the middle of the pyramid are often greedy. Winning resources for themselves without any regard for others that are beneath them. This is the reason that this social structure continues to thrive. The weight of the population on the shoulders of those at the bottom of the pyramid keeps the lowest echelons down. It also allows for those above to abuse those on the lowest echelon.

    The lowest echelon includes the weakest of the weak. Children and the disabled often live at this level. On planet earth, the leading society (called America) allows 60% of children to live on the lowest level of the pyramid. These children live in poverty, without resources to assist with life problems. These children die from lack of resources and from lack of power. They are also often the victims of abuse.”

    This is the area that Veron found repugnant. This idea that there are living beings in your society who may be abused by those that are stronger. Expendable living beings that living beings refuse to value. There was never a concept such as this on his home planet. Thank goodness there was not, he himself had been born without two of his eight legs. Yet, he was not considered a burden by his family and his society. Veron’s vote is no to Earth. To be contd

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  • Congress,  World Affairs

    Taxation without Representation

    March 4, 2026

    Taxation without Representation

    I’ve survived Republican presidents many, many times before. There has never been a time when there was so much destruction of the functions of government. Who knew that this time Trump was in office his destructive nature would take aim at our own government?

    I can survive years of a president doing things in government that I don’t really like. Anybody in America can. But what is happening here is next level change. Department of War — there has never been politics in the armed forces until now. Pete Hegseth uses every chance he gets to talk about Republicans vs. Democrats. It is only the ignorant that uses “us vs. them” in life. We aren’t at war (and especially not ourselves) with anyone, at least not until now.

    Bombing the people of Iran is not an answer. Nor do we need to exercise our power and strength. Everyone in the world can see how powerful we are. We spend more money -by a mile- than any other country on weapons of mass destruction. This year our budget is 997 Billion dollars on weapons of mass destruction. That is almost one trillion dollars. This is enough money to house all of the homeless and to ensure that all food-insecure have food. Think of that, American children with enough food to eat, all of them.

    Google Search: The United States maintains -by far- the world’s largest military budget, consistently spending more on defense than the next 7 to 10 countries combined. In 2024, U.S. military spending reached nearly $1 trillion ($997 billion), accounting for roughly 40% of the $2.7 trillion global total, and is three times higher than China’s spending

    Why? There is no need to go crazy with war purchasing like this EVERY, SINGLE, YEAR.

    The Pentagon cannot pass an audit. Think about that, they have failed their accountancy audit for seven years. Ask the soldiers who served in some of these theatres. “Backpacks full of money” to pay this or that foreign soldier for information. How did America come to this?

    Our Tax Dollars at Work — This picture by Levi Meir Clancy on Unsplash

    When did America become the administrator of all war everywhere? Why are we involved in other countries’ issues? It’s not our business, we don’t speak the language, we aren’t an issue in that country.

    And let’s discuss the war at home: Department of Homeland Security has decided to live the thug life. This is to the detriment of all Americans everywhere. The amount of lies are outrageous and amazing. Closing down the portal into our country is a good goal. But it isn’t the same as dragging people out of their cars, knocking them on the head and then placing them into profit centered buildings. These profit centered housing complexes are charging from 70 -300 per night per adult. Guess what they are receiving for kids? As much as 775 per night.

    Why do they want to build more of these buildings, we don’t need more buildings. Stop keeping people here! Send them back to their country. Those with legal standing, get them out of your illegal housing complexes! We taxpayers keep paying for immigrants to stay in these facilities, why? Did you know there is an entire center in a Texas facility for adolescent girls. The ICE detention center won’t allow anyone access to these teenage girls, why not?

    I don’t want to pay taxes for this illegal and illegitimate regime. What they are doing to people is awful, immoral, illegal and just plain cruel. I don’t want to be part of that.

    This is not how I want my tax dollars spent, ever.

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  • Compassion,  Politics,  Psychology of Life,  Republicans

    A Letter to members of ICE

    January 25, 2026

    Look I get it, you are probably supporting a family or otherwise taking care of folks at home.

    ICE can be a decent job, but for some there is a discouragement that goes along with the cognitive dissonance between the public face of ICE and what ICE really does.

    It’s you that I want to speak to. I want to speak to ICE agents. I want you to know that you pay a price for everything that you do in life and that your life energy sows seeds for your future. Most of all, your mind is involved in everything that you do. Don’t imagine that thinking trumps reality. What you do matters.

    Every action that you take that your self doesn’t feel comfortable with will come back to haunt you at a later moment. All of those actions that you take that you feel good about, will also affect that future.

    If what you are doing is to turn away from human empathy and compassion, you will face a double edged sword and that is this: you will suffer when you try to love again, when you try to like again, when you try to be friends again with other humans.

    Human compassion and empathy are not buttons that can be pushed on and off. If you push away your humanity and agree to do bad things to human beings, you can easily lose your humanity in the shuffle. You may face a long slow journey back to yourself.

    Let’s define “bad things to human beings”:  apprehending those who have committed no crime.

    Pushing people down and spraying them in the face with chemicals. Taking away lawful residents and cruelly jailing them away from their families with no recourse. Sending human beings to awful prisons in South America. Being the judge and jury in another human being’s life is a moral crime. These are crimes that you cannot escape from. Every door that you knock down, every body that you push to the ground, every injury you cause with chemical sprays, all are fodder for your future. You won’t escape your actions, nor your memories.

    Photo by RECEP TİRYAKİ on Unsplash

    When you do these things, you turn away from your humanity. Perhaps you have lived a life of hate and anguish, and you wish to share that life with others. You are failing at humanity. If your purpose is to spread the hate that you had to live with, you are failing humanity badly and you will crave love for decades before you can recover.

    Make no mistake, you will have to work very hard at recovery. Some will choose not to recover and they will live in the unloved void of their own soul, screaming out for redemption that will never come. No one can love you, if you hate what you have become.

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  • Equality,  Mother,  Psychology of Life,  Speaking as a Parent,  Wise Words,  Womens Issues,  World Affairs

    For Women Everywhere, Courage

    January 13, 2026

    For women everywhere, we do get close to this thing called equality. We can see it in the eyes of the oppressors, they are not smug anymore, they are not anxious, but they are not smug. And for those women who bow down to a God that tells them that they are inferior to a man, stay away from my daughter! I don’t want her tainted with your poison.

    To all my sisters in the fight for freedom, I tell you that we come close and closer. We are no longer easily tormented as we once were.

    We have redress, though it often fails, yes, we still have redress. Living yesterday, there was no redress, there was only punishment.

    Men believed they were entitled to women. They grabbed, beat, raped and sold and gave away women as they desired. Because men are bigger and stronger, they used their muscle to reinforce their opinion, wishes and desires onto others. They beat on all of those who disagreed or otherwise made it difficult for the man to find comfort. He ruled supreme in his home, in his community and in his country.

    We make slow progress; we often have to argue with our own to make our progress. When we work hard to go forward it is often a woman who tells us to back off, or perhaps that we are in the wrong for not being gentle. Women will often be the ones to tell us the appropriate role of a woman. Because women often take on the opinion of the oppressors, women will join in the fight against equality. Again, keep these women away from your daughters so that they don’t taint our future freedoms and bring us back to an age of submission to those who are physically stronger.

    There will come a day when the beatings will stop. Physical strength will not rule homes and societies. But no strength will rule. We will find ways of living together reasonably and equitably.  We won’t have to keep others down in order to feel up. We will be comfortable with our space in the universe. That space will be full of abundance and life.

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  • Decision Making,  Justice, the Human Construct,  Personal Growth,  Psychology of Life,  Self Responsibility

    Five Signs of Judgmentalness (is that a word?)

    December 29, 2025

    1. Dissecting a conversation after it has occurred- conversations don’t need review, they are what they are. Sometimes you may need to process the conversation, but that is vastly different than judging and taking it apart to judge it.
    2. Commenting on dress or style – is automatically judgmental. No use denying this fact.
    3. If you call something or someone trashy- it is definitely judgmentalness when you believe the least about someone else.
    4. Reviewing an experience ad nauseam- if you need to discuss the experience beyond processing it, you are definitely judging the experience based on how you felt. If you didn’t like the experience you are sure to judge it harshly
    5. Any review of an experience is an opportunity to judge and to judge all of the humans involved in the experience. Leave the experience as it is.

    Who knows why humans are so judgmental towards each other. There are some benefits of judging. Knowing who you want to work with is one such judgment that is important. What humans have done with it from an evolutionary standpoint is make judging into a sport. This sport has some very negative consequences.

    Being human is to be judgmental, it’s judgemental, it’s just so very important to recognize it.

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