Really heavy ones

Cf.: Jasmine Crockett's "unelectability".

Been working on this:

My high school co-workers - Improper use of the price gun 😂😂

We're all living a strange, schizoid existence where everything around us is shit, but or own little lives carry on. Like, I don't even know anymore how to answer a friendly "how are you?". Anyway, Mom's in the hospital and Bestie finally got her knee replacement and is moving in to recoup.

Despite how fucking insane the past week or so has been, Senate Democrats got a war powers resolution through from the minority & House Democrats got a 7th discharge petition through & are about to pass extending the ACA subsidies with a sizable chunk of Republicans despite being in the minority.

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It is really useful right now to understand the history of Greenland, from settlement to its role internationally. Highly recommended. youtu.be/mmhg6Eunl2Q?...

Wouldn't it be awful if millions of Americans took the MoCA and shared their results on social media? You know - the test trump *keeps* bragging about passing? For no particular reason, this is a link to a PDF download . . . championsforhealth.org/wp-content/u...

I got some texts today from 2 of the high school guys I work with. One shared his playlist with a few indy bands he thought I might like. The other let me know he found some of the Yergachef coffee I'd raved about and he was eager to try it - and wanted to give me some of it. The kids are alright.

When my then 9-yo son had a comprehensive neuropsych eval, the Dr. explained what he would be up against - that very few people possess his intelligence. Just so, our country is facing a crisis: how the hell we're going to deal with rampant and willful stupidity. Schopenhauer studied this.

I love it!

I can't get through a paragraph - hell, a sentence even - without one.

Who prosecutes the prosecutors? Who enforces the law against the law enforcers? The brand slogan for this administration should just be "Nyah nyah, make me."

For example: when I was 20-something, my friends, my family, my community - most of them my age - were dying all around me. And almost no one even wanted to acknowledge it. Those who did? Celebrated it.

I have other things I should be working on, but I had to get this out of my system.

This is quite literally the only way I can bear to hear him. Because he's always been an idiot - but now he's a demented idiot.

My wife lost her job and did what you're supposed to -- filed for unemployment. It's been over a month and she hasn't received a single check. They can't tell her when she can expect to get any money because "they have a tremendous number of cases". Government out here working for Americans.

Just got back from the "opening the gifts" part of my girl's bday. Her friends insist on this ritual -- because she unfailingly receives each gift with such sparkling enthusiasm, and adores every single one. It's super nice to give a gift when the recipient will make you feel so damn good about it.

The Kidnappings Must Stop!

This has ALWAYS been about endng the civil war era amendments. The white nationalists firmly believe that's when America turned the wrong way. And that's what they mean when they say "make America great again" - make this a country only for white Christian men while all others "know their place".

I would adopt her in a heartbeat - but my own housing is a big precarious right now.

My daughter - my baby - is a quarter century old today. Which makes me something like half a millennium. She's reached that stage of adulthood that, when she comes to town, instead of staying with her moms and visiting her friends . . . it's the other way around. I'm just gonna go weep quietly.

This isn't going to help a single person. It doesn't protect anyone and, in fact, just means more women who don't conform to others' notions of femininity *will* be harassed. But then, it's not meant to protect anyone; it's meant to hurt people, to enforce patriarchy. Harassment is the point.

It's not as though he has anything better to do

It is our constitutional right not to present ID unless the officer has reason to believe we have committed an crime - an *articulable* crime. Not vague suspicion, not profiling, not fishing. Brown shirts demanding papers is not American. If this is allowed, we might as well tear up the document.

My cat's been stalking a mouse downstairs since yesterday. My just wife called up to my room to tell me, "Yep, she got it - has it in her mouth". Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a tiny dark blur streak under my bed. Dear Carmen apparently brought it upstairs for me… and dropped it.

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

Okay, things changed in the last half hour . . . But I hope Dems take at least this lesson: No uncontested races. Some races will be hopeless (we shouldn't kid ourselves about those or waste money on them). But there can be no more easy layups for them - make the GOP bleed money into every race.

Everything. Every single thing we use in our daily lives is falling victim to corporate enshitification. I have this occasional fantasy where something like 1 in 3 of us just up and decide to go completely off-grid, unplug, unsubscribe - and fuck all these greedy assholes into bankruptcy.

I'm very glad to hear the Quilt has been preserved in this way. Nothing - and I mean nothing - can ever compare to the impact, the absolute gut punch, of walking amidst all those squares; the enormity of it, of how many are represented there. Loved ones, family, community. But it's something.

She was COOKING. This is why I vote blue.

back in the old days rich ppl would support artists it was how they tried to stay connected to humanity now you weird bitches use ai

Two articles quite literally side by side in my feed. So, what I'm understanding from this administration is: Rich drug kingpins > pardon Small-scale, part-time alleged mules > death?

My family members are always trying to throw out my apple cider just when it's reached perfection. "But the jug is about ready to blow!" "But it's gone all fizzy!" Yes. Exactly. Anyone else love cider that's turning hard the way it was meant to?

Whew! Lovely and unseasonably warmish weather yesterday - but just this moment, the predicted blustery, snow storm has arrived. It's like being in a still swirling snow globe. The video just doesn't capture it.

Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.

Last week (you know - the week before Thanksgiving) my wife was fired from her job. It sucks, but that's life. Meanwhile, imma keep doing what I do - working as a cashier and making art. Just . . . maybe a bit more of both. #art

I hope y'all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Did everyone get pie?

Social battery: way past empty. Family gathering: super loud and nowhere near winding down.

2 pies done, 2 more in the oven. Pies are *the* thing in my family. Typically, we fill an entire dining table - with both leaves in place - with pies. But... in this "hot" economy, we all cut our lists, and I couldn't bring myself to buy pecans, so we'll probably fill only half the table.

Jane Goodall (y'all remember her?) shocked many activists when she went straight to oil companies in Tanzania and (gasp!!) convinced them to create a preserve. Together, they set a world record for the number of captive apes transported there. Did it fix everything? No. But it saved a lot of apes.

Commissions still open! Art for the holidays = art forever. Portraits in pastel or pencil. DM or linktr.ee/nleighdarts #art #gifts

Truly, the only thing new is that white Americans are getting caught up in it. Turns out, they like it less that way.

Screw Black Friday - the crowds, the commercialism, and "Little Drummer Boy" burrowing into your brain to bag a clutch of stuff no one really wants. Get a loved-one something truly special - a portrait. People, pets, and people *with* their pets - in pastel or pencil. DM or linktr.ee/nleighdarts

This is so goddamned infuriating. Viola Floyd Fletcher: She held on *FOR ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN YEARS* and Tulsa (and the rest of this country) still managed to wait her out without giving her any measure of justice. youtube.com/shorts/FMLAw...