Notes from the Resistance Bed

I resist Donald Trump and his administration and encourage others to do the same in smart, practical, legal ways. I'm the author of "Altitude Sickness" (Future Tense Books). Seattle Metropolitan Magazine named it one of the all-time "20 Books Every Seattleite Must Read". My essay "After the Fire" was selected as one of the "Most Notable Essays 2011” by Best American Essays. The Seattle Weekly named me one of "50 Women Who Rock Seattle". I'm an essayist with The Washington Post and my work has appeared in Esquire, New York Magazine, NPR, and in myriad publications and anthologies. I've had Myalgic Encephalomyelitis for 26 years. As such, each word I've published has been written from bed.

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So, Trump got Boy Scouts to boo Hillary and...

…Obamacare a few hours ago.

I was out grocery shopping when it occurred and read about it when I got home.

We can never, ever drop our guard for a second because he is unremittingly vile.

The fourth Trumpcare vote is tomorrow, Tuesday, July 25, 2017 and I hope it dies faster than a cockroach beneath my boot heel.

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U.S. Senate switchboard: 202-224-3121

Trumpcare comes up for a vote yet again on Tuesday July 25, 2017, i.e. in two days from now. As a person with a disability, I'm literally begging you to call again. As long as these codpieces keep putting it up for a vote, we have to call and make sure our Senators know: We don't want to die. And fuck this administration for making us beg. Also? If you're a tool who asks, "Why should we have to pay for healthcare?", your idiocy is amusing. You're paying for your own healthcare. Will you die at 105 in your sleep? No, you will not. Your body will do something beyond your control long before then and you will need help. Welcome to adulthood and common sense. Everyone else, we're in this together and I hope you and your loved ones are as healthy as possible.

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Happy Six Month Anniversary of the Hellscape! THIS HAS BEEN THE LONGEST HALF-YEAR IN RECORDED HUMAN HISTORY. Toilet paper above available here in Seattle. Half of the proceeds go to Planned Parenthood. I bought two rolls: one for display and one for use.

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I'm genuinely sorry John McCain has brain cancer...

…I just want all Americans to have healthcare coverage, too.

When my ex-fiancé and I were together, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. It took 10 days to determine it was benign and they were excruciating. We got lucky, as such, and the tumor was a benign aural neuroma, but it required a complex surgery, lengthy recovery, and physical therapy.

A year later, one of my best friends was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor–a meningioma–and he also required a complex surgery. He lives with ongoing complications and after-effects.

So, I’m thinking of Senator McCain and his family and friends tonight. *Any* brain tumor is terrifying.

Which is exactly why it’s immoral to repeal ACA: Americans shouldn’t fear bankruptcy as they fight to stay alive.

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Trump hating Jeff Sessions is like...

...Satan's dumber brother hating Boss Hogg's smarter cousin. Tomorrow makes six months since the Inauguration. Dear god.

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Trump Hulk asks, “Why can’t stupid puny document leave Trump alone? Why? WHY?” as he’s ensnared in the Constitution. Sticker art in my neighborhood in Seattle. Perfect as we head into Comey’s testimony tomorrow, June 8, 2017.

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"I'M A PRIVILEGED STRAIGHT WHITE MALE AND EVEN I'M OUTRAGED". My favorite sign at Seattle's March for Truth on Saturday June 3, 2017, part of the nationwide march.

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On the Paris Accord: Fuck Him Straight to Hell

It's official now. June 1, 2017, it became clear the Oval Office tenant is trying to destroy the planet and all carbon-based life forms on it. Because there's no more accurate or genteel way to put it: Fuck him straight to hell.

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Watching Trump and His Senior Staff Kowtow to the Saudi Royal family...

…is an argument for both green energy and feminism.

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I Know Some Think We Underestimate Trump; I Think He Underestimates US

It speaks to his unfettered batshit craziness that he didn’t anticipate resistance, particularly its force, depth, and vastness.

Which renders this evening’s New York Times report grimly bemusing: Trump told the Russian Foreign Minister and the Russian Ambassador that Comey is “a nutjob” and that his firing him the day prior would make things better for the Russians.

Shortly thereafter, MSNBC broke the news that Comey will testify in a public hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee after Memorial Day.

SO much work lies ahead, but I firmly believe we can safely and legally prevent Trump from completing his first term.

Nutjob this, Agent Orange.

Day 120, May 19, 2017

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1) Former FBI Director Robert Mueller is Special Counsel and 2) Roger Ailes is Dead

1) Good.

2) Good.

(On deadline tonight; keepin’ it brief.)

Day 119, May 18, 2017

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Trump Could Take a Shit in the Rose Garden and Eat It and When the Rest of Us Recoiled in Horror, He Would Say...

"I just invented a new food and the fake news and the hypocritical Dems attack me! Boy, let me tell you, folks, the liberal media sat there and applauded when Obama, who is sick, oh, let me tell you how sick he is, but they applauded when he ate food from the table. But I invented a new food and it comes out of your body, which is a great thing, a very great thing. But do they give me credit? Does the liberal media give me credit like they did for that normal food-eating Obama? I tell you, folks. I see some awful things in the world. Some very awful things. But all that's going to change. It'll change right now because I will make sure you and all the good people and everyone outside the media elite and Washington--I'm a politician now, hoo boy, can you believe it?--will get to eat shit, too, and trust me, folks, you're gonna love it." This is basically what he said at his commencement address to the Coast Guard graduates this morning. No joke. Day 118, May 17, 2017. Comey has a memo.

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Trump Asked Comey Not to Investigate Flynn and Comey Documented All of It in a Memo

Today the New York Times broke the bombshell story that Trump asked FBI Director James Comey to drop any investigation of Russian-colluding and recently resigned National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Comey refused. Trump then fired him. And now we know Comey documented all of it in a memo. As if that's somehow not enough, this morning NBC News revealed the ally whose classified information Trump shared with the Russians in the Oval Office (please see yesterday's post): Israel. Trump shared Israel's classified information about what we now know is an Israeli secret agent embedded in ISIS. Senator John McCain invoked Watergate at an event tonight and finally, finally, FINALLY Republicans are starting to break ranks. Maybe they're realizing they don't want to lose their jobs because Trump will soon lose his. Comey has a memo.

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Still More Treason: I Hope Each Idiot Who Told Me, "Give Him a Chance!" Eats Smoke and Shits Fire the Rest of Their Lives

So, the scurrilous fuckstick who falsely accused President Obama of faking both his birth certificate and his Harvard grades COMMITTED STILL MORE TREASON LAST WEEK, THIS TIME IN THE OVAL OFFICE, The Washington Post revealed this evening.

Shortly after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey last week, he met with the Russian Foreign Minister and the Russian Ambassador in the Oval Office. Pouring salt in the wound and upping his Asshole Score by a factor of 10, he only allowed in Russian press and forbade the U.S. White House press pool.

Then Trump bragged about highly classified intelligence that a Middle East ally only shared with a few high ranking U.S. officials about an ISIS plot.

He literally bragged to the Russians the way he bragged to Billy Bush on the now infamous “pussy grabbing” Access Hollywood tape.

A few Republicans are finally, but far too timidly, starting to speak out about this monster of their creation.

But either both parties band together to impeach the traitorous and profoundly dangerous skull-dented cretin or the U.S. as we’ve known it ceases to exist.

Nation must always come before party.

We need an independent investigation and he absolutely must be impeached.

Keep working the phones of your Senators and Representatives and keep showing up at their town halls.

We will prevail.

Best to each of you.

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Sincere Thanks to All the Men Who Understand That You Don't Get a Prize for Not Grabbing Pussy

For months now, a number of my female friends and colleagues and I have been noticing an uptick in sexism we get from guys on the left. (Obviously, many guys on the right have become an utter nightmare.)

It’s been a long, awful day.

So, I’ll just thank all the men who are actual allies and who understand that being a good man requires more than not grabbing pussy.

It really does mean a lot that you’re fighting alongside us.

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What Will It Take for the GOP to Put Nation Before Party?

Please remember that during Watergate, it was a Republican, Senator Howard Baker, who infamously asked, “What did the President know and when did he know it?”

Whereas most of today’s crop seems more than willing to let this spreading conflagration turn into an all-consuming fireball.

Maybe they’ll put nation before party if Trump launches an assault on their dicks or their cash.

Because so far, those are the only things they seem to care about.

May 12, 2017 (but it feels like like so much later).

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On Trump's Batshit Interview Today with Lester Holt

This is the "dog ate my homework" Presidency. Dumb excuses, no learning, bad lying. The ineptitude would be comical IF NOT FOR ALL THE FASCISM. Keep calling, texting, and emailing your U.S. Senators and Congressional Representatives, urging them not to cooperate with Trump on anything at all, ever. The man is both compromised by a foreign adversary and out-of-his-skull, dangerously batshit. I firmly believe we'll get him impeached. The GOP soon must run their midterm campaigns tethered to the least popular POTUS in modern history. Which will force them to go down with him or finally speak up and distance themselves from a traitorous monster. The Boomers brought down Vice President Spiro Agnew and President Nixon AND ended the Vietnam War. We can bring down the Furor.