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The Difference Between an Activation and an Upgrade
If you’ve been feeling shaken, stretched, or completely rewired lately, this may help you understand what is happening.
A lot of people are going through major internal shifts right now, but they don’t always have the words for them. Some believe they are waking up. Some feel like they are falling apart. Others are simply trying to keep functioning while everything inside them changes.
An activation and an upgrade are not the same thing. They feel different, move differently, and ask something completely different from you.
An activation happens when something buried inside you wakes up.
It is not about becoming someone new. It is about remembering something you lost, ignored, or were never ready to see before.
It can happen through a person, a place, an experience, a loss, a moment of silence, or a truth that suddenly becomes impossible to avoid.
Something opens, and after that, you cannot fully go back to who you were.
You may become emotional. You may question your entire life. Old memories rise. Patterns become obvious. Relationships begin to look different. The identity you built starts cracking because it can no longer hold the truth that is coming through.
Activations can be intense. They bring things to the surface. They expose what has been buried and force you to see what you are ready to release.
An upgrade is different.
An upgrade is what happens when your life, body, mind, and nervous system begin adjusting to what the activation revealed.
It is less about awakening and more about embodiment.
You become calmer where you used to react. Clearer where you used to feel confused. You recognize manipulation faster. You stop needing to explain yourself. You can sit inside uncomfortable situations without abandoning yourself.
Things that once overwhelmed you no longer have the same power.
You may notice changes in your sleep, energy, emotions, relationships, or priorities. You may need more quiet. You may feel less interested in noise, drama, or constantly proving what you know.
That is not disconnection. It may simply mean your system is learning how to carry more truth without being consumed by it.
An activation changes how you see yourself.
An upgrade changes what you are capable of holding.
One wakes the flame.
The other teaches you how to carry it without burning yourself alive.
We need both.
Knowing which one you are experiencing can save you from believing something is wrong when your life is actually reorganizing around a deeper truth.
If everything feels like it is being torn open, and the old version of you is falling apart, you may be in an activation.
If you are becoming steadier, clearer, and able to face things you once avoided, you may be moving through an upgrade.
Do not chase either one.
Let the truth reveal itself. Let your body catch up. Let the lesson become part of how you live. Stay honest. Stay grounded. Stay open. It may already be happening.
Zachary Foster
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The New York Times spends a weekend documenting a broke, paranoid DNC; Minnesota (who else?) builds a barely legal classroom doll with interchangeable private parts; more.
Good morning, C&C, it’s Monday! Welcome to a fresh week of coffee drinks and bizarre antics. Thanks to an early court hearing this morning, your slightly reduced roundup includes: $16 million in the bank, $18 million owed, and a national party headquarters pledged as collateral — the New York Times spends its weekend cataloguing Democrat finances and its chairman’s temper; the formal HR complaint nobody wants to discuss; why the long knives are out 100 days before the midterms; and Minnesota’s new taxpayer-funded classroom teaching aid for four-year-olds, which ships with interchangeable private parts and a legal loophole.
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🔥🔥🔥 Over the weekend, the New York Times ran a remarkable, above-the-fold, 2,000-word story on page A-1 that dunks on Democrats and reads less like a political news story and more like the script for a streaming network tragi-comedy. The headline announced, “Inside the Phone-Throwing Drama at the Troubled, Broke Democratic Party.”
The article detailed the escalating chaos surrounding the DNC’s new Chairman Ken Martin, who took over in early 2025 promising to rebuild the party from the grassroots up. Instead, he appears to be rebuilding it into a smoking crater.
According to the Times, which seemed oddly exuberant in describing Democrats as “troubled” and “broke,” the DNC is currently $18 million in debt, with only about $16 million in cash on hand. For context, the Republican National Committee is sitting on a Scrooge McDuck-style vault containing $128.5 million in cash, with zero debt, and that’s not even counting the super PACs that engorge the GOP war chest to just south of $700 million.
In June, 2025, Chairman Martin gushed to Axios, “Powered by our grassroots community, the DNC has just set a new record for most money raised in the first four months under a new Chair — ever.” Thirteen months later, he’s mortgaging the office equipment.
Literally. The financial situation is so dire that the DNC has been forced to put up its own Washington D.C. headquarters as collateral for a $15 million line of credit. They are actually mortgaging the furniture. They have also started asking vendors to hold all bills until after the midterm elections, an advanced financial maneuver that CPAs refer to in technical terms as “hiding from the repo man.”
But if Martin was right, and the DNC raised tons of money early last year— where did it go? That’s murky, but we do know that the DNC bought Kamala Harris’s mailing list for $7.5 million— even though she lost.
But the most telling part of the story wasn’t the “broke-ness”. The real story was the “troubled-ness.” Paranoia!
🔥 But first, let’s learn a little more about how the journalistic sausage gets made. The same two reporters from this story’s byline —Shane Goldmacher and Reid Epstein— are also the primary authors of a running series of at least five major hit pieces against Chairman Martin in the Times starting back in June 2025. And in May, seasoned Times hit-lady Michelle Goldberg published an op-ed that flatly stated, “After this fiasco, Ken Martin should be replaced.”
So the Times’ editorial perspective is not exactly a mystery.
But there’s a problem. Martin won his four-year term as DNC chair over the explicit opposition of party bigwigs Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and Nancy Pelosi, who all backed Martin’s main opponent, Ben Wikler. The Washington establishment wanted Wikler. The 448 state-level voting members distrust DC, and wanted Martin. Martin won on the first ballot.
These politics are a particularly delicate part of the polycrisis, pitting state Democrats against their national leaders, right as “moderates” are warring with DSA-style hyper-progressives. The party as a whole is trying its best to keep the simmering conflicts contained to conference rooms, but meanwhile the Times is jabbing its rhetorical shiv into Martin at every chance.
But, right on brand, they’re jabbing in a passive-aggressive, “mean girls” kind of way. The lack of a physical shiv matters little. Ken Martin is still bleeding out. Headline from the Daily Beast, yesterday:
The DNC has now halted all traditional transfers to House and Senate campaign committees. Less than 100 days before the midterm election. So.
🔥 According to the Times’ colorful description, Chairman Martin is “increasingly isolated, gripped by the fear that he will lose his job and relying on a vanishingly small circle of people he trusts.” His nerves are apparently so frazzled that earlier this month, the mild-mannered Minnesotan ‘furiously’ threw his cellphone at the desk of a junior aide while screaming at her.
This predictably resulted in a formal human resources complaint against the Chairman of the Democrat National Party. Irony alert. There’s zero public reporting about what kind of anger management or woke re-education Martin was forced to attend. Things are not going swimmingly.
Things are clearly non-jubilant at DNC HQ. The man running the national party apparatus is throwing phones at his staff like a temperamental Hollywood actress who got the wrong kind of sparkling water. Opinions vary about who or what was the actual target of the hurled phone. Team Martin doesn’t deny it happened; they claim it was only heaved at the desk.
Coincidentally, this is exactly the same excuse used by Maine’s replacement Senate candidate Troy Jackson, who claims that when he was once righteously enraged about politics and hurled a water bottle, it was only against the wall and not reallytoward state senator Heather Sanborn.
So now we have two male Democrats with anger issues. Two objects thrown in temper tantrums toward women in private meetings. Two lame excuses about the “direction” of the toss. And now, an excuse parade. She was never in any real danger.
In an all-hands meeting in May, Martin reportedly complained about leaks to the press. “It pisses me off when I see leaks out of this building,” he told his staff. “No more of that sh—t.” He then added, in a statement that surely inspired boundless confidence: “My success is your success. So the weaker I am, the weaker all of youare.” Then, as if sensing the awkward moment needed a little encouragement: “Keep your head up. Keep a smile on your face.”
The DNC’s leader has not addressed the entire staff since.
🔥 These colorful stories from inside Martin’s office were decorated with the Times’ best creative writing. The article deployed an armory of loaded, highly suggestive words and phrases like: “fraying nerves showing,” “a pique of frustration,” “upbraiding,” “a new gambit to mask the severity,” a “growing sense of paranoia,” “macabre jokes about how long he will remain,” “a budding coup,” “paralyzed by the idea of leaks,” “a vanishingly small circle,” and skeptically, “standard negotiations with vendors.”
When the Times runs what amounts to a recurring, yearlong column airing the DNC’s internal dirty laundry —complete with details about phone-throwing tantrums and a mortgaged headquarters— it means the long knives are out. The establishment has decided that Ken Martin is expendable, and they are either preparing the narrative battlespace for his removal, or plotting to blame him for Democrat underperformance in November. Or both.
In other words, with a little help from the Times, there is now a well-developed record of excuses if things go sideways in November. It was Ken’s fault.
This is the Democrat Polycrisis in action, the Grand Unraveling. The party is fracturing, money has dried up, leadership is panicking, infighting is rampant, blame shields are rising, and the media apparatus that usually protects them has turned its guns sideways down the line.
Maybe this kind of intraparty conflict and infighting happens a lot, and is a “healthy part” of the democratic process. But this time they are doing it just 100 days before the midterm elections. That can’t be good.
As Chairman Martin himself wrote in a defensive 3,000-word Substack posted early last week: “We must measure success by power built, not simply dollars retained.”
Well, Ken, right now you have neither. But at least you still have your cellphone. Try not to throw it at anyone today. And tell Nancy we said, “hey.”
Congratulations to Minnesota Democrats, university professors, and to Governor Tim “Free Tampon Dispenser” Walz for the latest innovation in education: a teaching toy for kids. It’s like Mr. Potato Head, except instead of interchangeable plastic arms, legs, hats, and mustaches on a potato, it features realistic private parts on realistic paper dolls of children.
In other words, it’s Child Porn Potato Head.
Technically, MyGender Dolls was a University of Minnesota “science” project (now commercialized) developing customizable paper-style dolls and related materials as “therapeutic tools” for transgender and “gender diverse” children— children aged 4–10. The project was first excreted from U. Minn.’s Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, and “emphasizes gender-affirming approaches” in which “identity” is considered independent from biological sex or anatomy.
🔥 Needless to say, the notion to teach 4-10-year-olds about gender dysphoria is, well, a minority position. Consistently, 75% of parents and educators say sex education for children under 10 should be left to parents. 72% say schools should not teach young children that gender is something they can choose or declare. Even among teachers —hardly a right-leaning group— majorities oppose teaching gender identity in elementary school.
At the exact same age when kids still treat a stick as a rifle or a cardboard box as an impenetrable fortress, MyGender Dolls invite them to treat realistic child genitalia as interchangeable accessories and to explore “all the different options that exist for who they can be—regardless of their body parts.”
Nobody thinks that is a good idea except a hardened cadre of gender activists. Yet in 2026, Minnesota has decided to try to change everyone’s minds, whether they like it or not. Helpful timing, too, hitting Minnesota public schools right before the midterms, in case anyone was still wondering what the ballot choices are about.
Governor Walz, reeling from widespread welfare fraud, already dropped out of politics. He’s done this year, leaving Minnesota Democrats trying to defend the wreckage.
“Minnesota is going to continue to be a refuge,” Walz said recently, “for people who seek to provide and to receive gender affirming health care services.” So.
🔥 It used to be a “fun and therapeutic” app. Now they’re making physical dolls, and the good news is that the dolls are inclusive —all having gender-neutral names— and super diverse, with all races, colors, nationalities, and body types all included in a wonderful rainbow of conduct illegal in most states.
This bold initiative is definitely not meant to confuse anybody, especially kids who still use magical thinking, since in real life, people swap private parts all the time, without any consequences, pain, cost, or regret. Well, maybe not everybody agrees.
Dr. Quentin Van Meter, former president of the American College of Pediatricians (historically critical of trans ‘care’ for minors), called the dolls “just a grooming tool” with “no place in an ethical medical care world.” Conservative media, Republican influencers, and social media commentary have pointed out how Governor Walz is turning Minnesota into the “San Francisco of the Midwest.” They’ve called for his resignation, described the project as “disgusting,” “perverted,” and a revolting “obsession with little children.”
“Offering dolls where children mix and match genitals and internal organs with various ‘gender identities’ encourages kids to chase a fantasy that their bodies can never deliver – the ‘transition’ to an opposite-sexed body,” Katy Faust explained. Katy leads Them Before Us, an organization that advocates for children’s rights in marriage and family issues.
“This disconnect between mind and body is one reason why transgender youth experience such high rates of mental health problems,” she added, pointing out the obvious.
Meanwhile, co-founder Prof. Dianne Berg, who created the MyGender Dolls and “instructional” materials, says they are only meant to reassure children, like young girls anxious that “I’m not a ‘real’ boy because I don’t have those private parts,” and to provide therapists with tools that counter “shame-inducing societal messages.” You’re only one operation away from having a pickle, dear. (PS— no takebacks.)
U. Minn.’s gender-bending brochure, channeling an American Girl catalog, explained, “With over 100 different clothing, accessory, and hair options, kids will have a lot of choices for self-expression through their doll.”
They aren’t really trying to hide the fact this is really a surgical advertisement disguised as a horrifying kids’ toy. “We were able to explore and brainstorm not just what our bodies are able to do now but what we want our bodies to do and look like in the future,” reported therapist Elizabeth Panetta, who participated in the project trial.
After U. Minn received withering criticism in early 2025, it deleted most of the related web pages, temporarily went dark, and now the gender dolls have resurfaced under a private company called MyGender Dolls. Ta-da! No more risk of pesky FOIA requests.
The dolls evade child pornography laws because they were initially described as meant for “therapeutic” use with kids alreadytrans-identifying. The PROTECT Act excludes from child porn laws explicit anatomical drawings —including of children— if they have a serious scientific, artistic, or political purpose. It’s a loophole.
That’s how the slippery slope works: this month, Minnesota public schools announced plans to start rolling out the grotesque materials more broadly, in normal, grade-school classrooms starting in the Fall term.
“We make gender fun!” claims the new product website. Or, maybe not completelyfun. According to the Telegraph, neither Walz, U. Minn., nor MyGender Dolls responded to requests for comment. Weird! It’s almost like they are experiencing shame.
Shame is corrosive. Maybe some paper dolls would help alleviate their ‘stigma.’ They could have diverse outfits like orange jumpsuits and trendy accessories like handcuffs.
Have a terrific Monday! We’ll be right back here in the morning tomorrow, with an all-new roundup of essential news and caffeinated commentary. See you then.
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Greetings, Dear Ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service.
We speak of the Merkaba. I want to give you some more esoterics of this delightful conversation you are having finally of that which is the most sacred part of the human being. There are so many questions that might be asked about what is it, where is it, how does it work. These have all been answered esoterically for actually hundreds of years. What is it in the human being that is part of that which you call God? How does it work?
We have discussed the Merkaba in a way that says: as above, below. We have discussed it as a shape and given you the shape. The shape that indeed does not occur in nature, but it does in atomic structure. But that really is not a shape that you’re ever going to find in the human body. You’re not going to go in the human body and ever find that. And if you have that quantum lens that we have discussed that someday science will have that lets you see multidimensional energies, you won’t see it there either.
Completely and totally, this shape of the vehicle of the soul is esoteric. It is a metaphoric shape because you can’t really see it in any form, not really. It’s been given to humanity in a certain way so that you can relate to that in your three-dimensional mind, and that is what it has to be always. I want to give you an example of this. It’s a good one and I hope you understand it.
If there is something that you cannot see, and you have an information that says it doesn’t exist so you can’t see it, if something then shows up that’s similar, you will interpret it from what you can see. Moses on the mountain had a burning bush and he describes this. It’s a fire that does not consume itself or what it is that it’s a fire of. A bush, it’s not consuming the bush, and it stays, and it’s bright. Do you think that’s really what he saw? And I have given you this information before.
In those times, Dear Ones, that Moses saw this, the only thing in the culture of humanity that made brightness on its own was fire. Now if the same thing happened today, it would not look like a burning bush. It might look like an angelic presence that glowed by itself in that beautifully exquisite way that you see some lights glow or perhaps electricity glow or plasma glow. You have so many examples of things that create their own light in all the colors that you have and the ways the light is happening. You can imagine, can you not, an angel that is beautiful and glowing? And that was not Moses’ time. All he had was fire. And so it became a burning bush.
Do you see where I’m going with this? The Merkaba is an energy that is not available to you to see. It is the energy of the communication you might say of your body, your cellular structure and all that is with the other side of the veil. That’s what it is. And so the geometry that has been given to you to look at is completely and totally metaphoric, but it all means a completion of the idea, but it’s still only an idea.
Let’s continue the discussion. Let’s say that this idea of God inside a vehicle of your soul that you carry around, the transmission to and from that Merkaba, where does it come from in the body? And you would say, “Well, does it come through an organ? Does it come through your consciousness? How is this converted to the chemistry of intuition? How is it then converted to consciousness broadcasting you might say or transmitting?” And the answer is the pineal, and you knew that I think. You’re going to see a little more activity in the pineal, and it may be chemistry, it may be a feeling that you have, but this has always been the window to the soul, Dear Ones. This is where it happens.
You always have to have this conversion, you might say from that which is multidimensional and that which is esoteric to the chemical human being because this is the physics you might say of your reality. One of the issues, one of the problems that’s always been with esoteric thinkers, is it isn’t real, so people would look at you when you say, “You believe this and that, and this and that, but you can’t see any of it. So why is it that you believe these things?” And that’s where we would say to that person, “Can you see love?” In its rawest form, can you see it? You only see the results of it.
Can you see faith and hope? Can you see gratitude? These are perhaps just emotions. Alright, can you see emotions? And you could go on and on and on into the physics. Can you see gravity? Can you see the Magnetic Grid, all of these things that you have, believe in, use every day are invisible and you’re having trouble with the belief of God inside. It’s because that is not your programming. Some of you are starting to realize this.
There are things coming in this next year that I want to talk to you about. As the time goes on, the revelation of these things is possible because you are moving out of one energy slowly into another. This five-year plan you have to get to 2030 to totally come out of the shift is happening now and we gave you some of the attributes for this year.
Well, they’re attributes of next year that we’re also going to give you. These are the things that you’ve been waiting for, Dear Ones, because I have come to this planet to tell you all about this time, the sacredness of the precession of the equinox, what it meant to you, the cosmology of the planet from the indigenous to you, what they said, what your churches said, and now you sit in it!
I want you to know that there is so much gratitude, even of those on the other side of the veil that you sit in this energy and you start to understand why there is more. And the Merkaba, the vehicle of your soul, it’s going to be a little more active than you think. Transmission to the field, that is what we are speaking of. You’re so familiar with receiving from Spirit. You get the miracles. You get the coincidences. You get all of these things. You get the massive amount of intuition that’s coming to you. That’s that antenna that’s receiving and receiving and receiving and receiving. Now we’re talking about something you’re sending back, but not to where it came from necessarily. You’re sending it to the field.
The field is real physics and it’s also invisible. These are the things that have been brought to you only lately in these last 20 or 30 years of life on this planet that is documentable. The field is real. It is a conscious energy. It sits there and it transmits nothing, not really. Your Merkaba is the antenna that’s going to pick up an energy in the field. It’s not really transmitting, but you’re picking it up anyway. That’s because transmission and reception is a bad word for this. That’s too simple. You don’t have a word for it. Planned congruence – oh, that’s not very good either. A coherence with the energy of specific consciousness. That’s not really good either. And yet those are the kinds of things we’re speaking of. You don’t have a word.
When you receive miracles, synchronicities, healing, what’s the word you use for that? I’ll tell you what the word is: thank you. That’s the word. “Thank you, Spirit, for loving us enough to put these things in.” And Spirit will look at you and say your consciousness is creating this, all of this. This is not gifts from heaven. This is you fitting into a divinity that’s always been there! And the field, it’s just part of the planet. It’s part of the mechanism of this cosmic clock that reacts to your consciousness vibration.
It is a vibration you know, and the higher it gets in this vibration, the more it receives and sends because it then fits into this word you don’t have yet. The simplest thing I can give you is transmission and reception, because that’s the only thing you have that is similar. And so you can keep that if you wish, but it is so much more.
You are riders of the light! You might say it comes in this way. Imagine a light that transmits and receives at the same time that’s always yours, but changes colors as you have a higher vibration. And the colors then change what is possible in physics and you start then becoming part of the field and transmitting – not really – part of that which is all of the consciousness that you have that is so divine and so beautiful. There is so much more to tell you.
What specifically are you giving back to the field from that which is your vehicle of light called the Merkaba? You cannot see what you cannot see. The Merkaba is real and it is spiritual and it’s there and it’s energetic and it definitely is not a geometric figure, but that’s the best you’ve got. Just like Moses, the best he had was a fire that didn’t burn the bush. Stay tuned, Dear Ones, there will be more about the preciousness of who you are. And so it is.
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