Insert boring description: I'm a forty-something disabled wife and mother who married the guy I met my first year of college. Hey, he asked me to go look at the stars our first date- How could I NOT fall for him? I'm a former high school teacher but unable to work in that environment or drive anymore. I majored in English Literature and Art History so I'm impossible to watch films or go to the museum with. I blog political stuff and I'm an unapologetic liberal. There's stuff here critical of Autism Speaks and I was diagnosed with autism back in high school, so I'm not the most socially adept person at all. I also have ADD so way too short attention span and good thing I read fast :P I have a long list of physical diagnosis as well, starting with Ehlers-danlos syndrome, as well as Sjogren's, Rheumatoid arthritis, Reynaud's and others.I CAN'T do yoga due to joint damage and there are no supplements that will help that I'm not already on. the war against opiods terrifies me as I am dependent on Norco just to get out of bed and walk in my home. I've been involved in various television and anime fandoms since college, when doing so meant posting on a list serv or attending conventions with packs of blank VHS tapes and a VCR. I've dabbled in fanfiction and fanart, especially slash in many fandoms using many usernames over the years, but I'm actually not very good at either and I have MUCH more fun viewing the amazing works other fans create. I'm socially and politically a socialist democrat, a liberal Christian and I've lived in Texas my entire life. We do exist I swear...and I accept no responsibility for that damn Trump. Or Pence. If my husband and I weren't too old, too poor and my youngest son and I disabled? We would be leaving America to live in a more sane country. We are stuck here and trying to survive...
Story here. Are you now or have you ever been associated with any Democrats or other political/social/religious undesirables (pretty soon this will include the Wrong Kind of Catholics).
All the stuff above is from last night, so everything might have calmed down by now.
This is the insurrection that the fascists in power fear: one person with the courage to stand up to their huddled phalanxes of riot cops and kidnapping squads. *There was definitely more than one person present.*
Comment in Facebook "California is the closest thing America has to France." Which is either praise or damning criticism and I don't know which.
Remember this: most large police forces can handle one march of 10k, but hardly any can handle ten marches of 1000 each.
Also remember: National Guard units are...usually armed for bear. So...go in bear-like I guess, whatever you take that to mean (or go in otter-like, greased and slippery and covered in glitter).
Regardless of where you find yourself or what you end up doing...please drink plenty of water.
@triquizzies thanks for adding this. For folks that don't know, it's from 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic,' a song that goes back to the US Civil War but is in turn based on an older tune, 'John Brown's Body.'
And the original song in case you want to sing along at your next protest. It's catchy, and a tune a lot of Americans, especially the older ones (I learned it because my grandfather would sing both versions on occasion), have it hardwired into their brains and can sing at least half of TBHotR.
Five leaders of the Proud Boys convicted of spearheading the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack are accusing the government and FBI employees of violating their constitutional rights, according to a lawsuit filed Friday.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, seeks $100 million in restitution and comes after President Trump pardoned nearly all Jan. 6 defendants on his first day back in the White House.
I'm gonna say something to Americans right now and I'm going to beg of you to have some reading comprehension and literacy when I say it and know what I'm talking about.
Your government wants you dead, this year there is no discourse at Pride.
Congress can't change it by legislation. It's in the Constitution.
Now, they can introduce a new Constitutional Amendment that says "only children of American citizens are citizens from birth." That's within their power to do.
Of course, it'll need to pass by a 3/4 vote in the House and Senate. With the margins the Republicans have, this will never pass.
Even if it somehow does, though, it'll need 3/4 of the state legislatures (38 out of 50) approving it. This won't happen either.
Okay so just to sum up recent events on the US Right:
• Trump starts a contract with Peter Thiel's Palantir company to create a database of ALL INFORMATION on EVERY LIVING AMERICAN
• Its revealed Stephen Miller and Elon Musk have had a very massive fight, supposedly because Elon Musk is sleeping with Miller's wife
• Trump ousts Elon from the administration, after over five months of being besties. Leaves with Stephen Miller's wife, who he just hired at one of his companies (!?)
• Elon starts saying the Big Beautiful Bill sucks
• A GOP Representative reveals that most of them didnt actually get to read the Big Beautiful Bill, GOP leadership basically made them rubber stamp it and they are pissed to find out it makes them all look horrible. A lot of them are now discussing a shakeup in GOP leadership.
• Trump says Elon has "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (🤮)
• Elon escalates massively, stating that Trump is in the Epstein files and THATS why they havent released them yet
• This comes right as Alex Jones loses a massive chunk of his audience because he's endorsing Trump's Palantir contract, and his fans are basically all very concerned about their privacy. They want a new conspiracy to follow and they just got one
• Trump starts threatening Elon's government contracts
• Ian Miles Cheong calls for Trump to be impeached immediately, and for JD Vance to become President. Elon Musk quote retweets this with "Yes"
• JD Vance was mentored by Peter Thiel
• Steve Bannon takes to Fox calling for the immediate deportation of Musk, and making SpaceX a public company
• Musk also called for formation of a Third Party in the U.S. representing the "80% in the center" (Lmao). This has Centrists, establishment Dems, and GOP who are fed up with Trump SALIVATING
• There's a serious chance that they could form exactly such a coalition, which would lead to a massive shakeup in US Politics, its hard to say how exactly itll end up, but I daresay we wont end up with the same Dem/GOP structure we had before
• Also Kanye tweeted the funniest fucking thing ever
I am going to point out that we know Musk is the kind of guy who accuses people he doesn’t like of being pedophiles (see: Vernon Unsworth, the cave diver who saved those kids in Thailand), so I am going to caution anyone who says “oh, Musk must know something because he was in the government!”, which is a sentiment I’ve seen start to pop up already.
Also, even if Musk did know it was true, that would mean he knew about it and didn’t leak the files or go public about it, stop associating and supporting Trump, or do literally anything else until after their spat started.
Additionally:
Alex Jones has implied it’s suspicious that Trump hasn’t refuted Musk’s allegations, which is fascinating given his previous defense of Trump and that stunt Pam Bondi pulled giving the big Epstein binders to conservative influencers like Tim Pool.
Catturd is calling Jones a sellout for apparently siding with Musk instead of Trump.
Trump accused Elon of only disliking the Big Beautiful Bill because they took out tax breaks for electric vehicles.
This is all happening after a NYT article revealed what we all knew already, which is that Elon is addicted to ketamine (and other drugs) to the point that it’s affected his bladder.
I could never believe in eugenics because such an overwhelming majority of the people I know are perfectly sensible if not downright brilliantly smart, and were also birthed and raised by some of the dumbest fucking people I have ever heard of.
DOGE was never about "efficiency." It was about gutting regulatory agencies and removing guardrails so billionaires like Elon Musk can siphon off even more of the economy's gains at the expense of everyone else. Know the truth.
Shout out to those two Senate maintenance workers who locked up the transmission room and took the key up to the security office and who were obviously in on it.
When you're dealing with fascists, play dumb. Be slow. Meticulously follow procedure to the letter in the name of 'proper protocol'. Lose files. Get in their way.
I am hopeful that those of you who know me will vouch for my credibility in the days to come. I stand this morning with a difficult message...
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