Friday, 25 September 2026

🧚‍♀️ TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

Great Spirit bless 🙏

Happy sunny Friday morning 🌄 all! I pray that today is better than yesterday and that each day gets better than today ☀️ May the Great Spirit bless 🌌-🙏 I have something personal to share with you 🎤👩‍🦳 and it may be a good example of how, when you're around negativity for too long, it seeps into you. Unwittingly, you become like a sponge sucking up water. Or bad news, conflict, and lies in the news become like a slow-acting elixir of poison coursing through your veins.

This will cause stress — stress that you may not be aware of because you have a struggle inside you. The negative — and the positive +, the ethics you grew up with and their seeming absence in government and society today — are fighting one another, as if empathy were a dying species. That's the world today. Greed and power rule.

My pent-up anger toward those who destroyed law and order and trashed empathy and social responsibility means my response comes across as a little too harsh at times; my apologies for that. I was not called out by a moderator. One of my own Groups is good at catching language edging toward vulgarity. I encroached on one of my own Group's rules. It's almost laughable, but it isn't.

All this gloomy news 🌧📰affects not just mine but anyones moods 🥵😢 usually I can wash away my gloominess with humor 😆🤣 My partner and I share a lot of that, but some of that crap in the news is subconsciously working inside the higher-level cognition part of my neocortex 🧠 Google it .

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Question: Little guy in the comic books with the umbrella and the little storm cloud over his head

So you begin to feel like ... Joe Btfsplk in the old comic strips

Bad Luck Joe.

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That character is *Joe Btfsplk* from the classic satirical comic strip

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Li'l Abner by Al Capp

July 7, 1940, and appeared intermittently throughout the strip's run until it ended on November 13, 1977

Question: Vicarious Traumatization

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Vicarious traumatization is a profound shift in a person's worldview and mental well-being caused by empathetic exposure to the traumatic experiences of others...

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Question: Psychologically disturbed by all the negativity in the world

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I hear you, and it makes total sense that you are feeling this way. The constant barrage of heavy news, conflict, and negativity can genuinely feel suffocating and exhausting. You are not alone or broken for feeling deeply impacted by it—it means you have empathy, but right now, that empathy is hitting a limit.

When the world feels overwhelmingly negative, your brain can get trapped in a state of high alert. Here are a few immediate, practical ways to protect your peace and rebuild your mental energy:

_*Psychologically, negative thoughts will put you in a doom-and-gloom attitude; I do my best to *CHANGE MY MIND ABOUT THAT*.

_*Like I said before, when you get rid of bad thoughts, twirl them away with your hands or your imagination, and don't let those disturbing thoughts come back. Make the sign of the cross or whatever other sign you make in your religion; it's all the same to the Higher Power. Meditation and prayer: prayer can be as simple as taking a couple of moments to have a chat with your imaginary mentor.*_

Question: Psychologically disturbed by all the negativity in the world*

_*I felt like I wanted to snap at everything like a snapping 𓂏 turtle 🐢 and that's not my nature.*_

_*And that's it for today. Tomorrow will be soon enough to get back into the demoralizing news. I don't demoralize it. I shouldn't have to; The news does that quite well on its own.*_

Thank you for visiting and reading the Tree House News🏡📰

*BREAKING NEWS RECAP:*

Inside Trump’s plan for the ‘biggest DOJ election observer effort in history’

President Donald Trump and his allies inside and outside his administration are aiming to blanket polling places with an expanding network of party and federal election monitors this November, intensifying scrutiny of the nuts and bolts of voting as Trump hunts for what he claims, without evidence, is widespread cheating and fraud in US elections.

Trump’s Justice Department says it will dispatch more than 1,000 monitors on Election Day in what Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon has called the “biggest DOJ election observer effort in history” — hundreds more than the Biden administration deployed in 2024. New records reviewed by CNN suggest that several DOJ monitors deployed during this year’s primaries helped challenge Trump’s 2020 election loss. Another pleaded guilty to illegally accessing a government elections website in 2016...

* Plans to surge DOJ election monitors:*

_Some 2026 primary election monitors are linked to past election challenges_

* An RNC push to monitor the machines:

* ‘Eyes and ears’ on the ground:

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Updated Sep 25, 2026, 8:04 AM ET - 3 hr ago

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Inside Trump’s hunt for a new press secretary as clashes with media intensify**

*Nearly a month after Karoline Leavitt’s exit, the job is still vacant. Some aides say that’s why a surprise ban on three news outlets got out the door.*

*NEWS VIDEO | Included:*

For nearly a month, the White House has been without a press secretary, the longest such gap in modern American history. There is little sign of urgency to fill the job.

The stretch since Karoline Leavitt left her post in August has hardly been quiet. President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have hit their lowest point to date, he has escalated a trade war with U.S. allies and the war with Iran is nearing its seventh month with no clear end in sight. That is more than enough to keep a chief spokesperson busy.

Even so, some senior aides are in no hurry, and they want the job to go to someone already inside the White House. In recent weeks, they have worked to steer Trump away from an outside pick, such as Scott Jennings, the conservative CNN commentator who emerged as an early favorite...

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* After losing key court case, Hegseth’s Pentagon imposes new limits on journalists:

_The episode underscored how much of the White House’s message now runs through Trump himself. The two people who described the internal dynamics, along with a third who spoke to MS NOW for this story,_ ...