White Supremacist Evangelical Nationalists have found a new messiah and have started the Church of Kirk. As Kirkians, they adhere to the teachings and sayings of Charlie Kirk, because, you know, the sayings and teachings of Jesus are too woke.

The United States is in a crisis of performative masculinity driven by vanity instead of vision, grievance instead of gratitude, and retribution instead of rehabilitation.

There will be a new day we can call Independence Day, but today is not that day. #NoKings

Codes of ethics: If a profession develops a code of ethics, the governing authorities of that profession should abide that code of ethics. I’m tired of seeing professions and institutions pay lip-service to codes of ethics, holding the powerless accountable while giving leadership a pass.

When I check Bluesky, all I see are posts by people who have platforms. I have to scroll a lot to find posts from people I actually know. When I post, it feels like shouting into the ether. Not very social.

So, since Jeff Bezos caved to Trump and will not be showing tariff impact on Amazon prices, might there be a case for taxation without representation? I mean, why be so secretive?

Pope Francis was a man of humility, unlike so many leaders, both religious and political. We need more like him.

Sharing classified information on a Signal chat with an unvetted reporter in the group is just another day at the office. But a transgender service member is a threat to national security, no matter their top secret clearance, and their years of dedicated, professional service.

How I feel about Republicans: Do not ask me to build a bridge to you after you burned it down toward me After you have taken my ability to stand equal before the law After you have taken my rights to pursue happiness 1/4

I bet Elon Musk has spent more on gender affirming care than I have.

Are you getting them, too? Emails and texts soliciting money to support democratic candidates and/or Democratic organizations say,”We need to save our democracy!” just like the deluge of messages we received last year. But too many Democrats are not working like they really believe those messages.

Boycott Tesla, Defund Starlink, Cancel SpaceX contracts, Fire Elon Musk (who is unelected, unvetted, unconfirmed, uncaring, and unAmerican) These are measures the Democratic Party should be pushing. Defang the Muskrat!!

This happened, today! It’s nice to get an affirmation like this, especially nowadays.

In Trump world, a Ukrainian “good faith effort toward peace negotiations” is total capitulation to Putin’s Russia. The United States and Russia are now working together the way the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany did when partitioning Poland in 1939.

Why isn’t this guy properly dress for a visit to the White House?

How does the devil dress? He wears a suit and tie with an American flag pin on the lapel.

Our current leadership is full of men who are afraid of defeat, who will not strive on their own merits, who are trying to orchestrate a permanent victory through despotic means. They lack courage and conviction, using power to bludgeon the truth and baffle the facts.

Elon Musk, JD Vance, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz: all men who are obviously insecure in their masculinity. As a trans woman who once had a flight into hypermasculinity, I know how over-compensating men behave, how they perform their lives. They may not be closeted LGBTQ, but they are predictable.

When I see an ad about Jesus, “He gets us,” I am suspicious because I know the creators of that movement do not get Jesus. 1/6

Sometimes I wonder if I had fallen into a temporal distortion, like an alternative history in a Phillip K. Dick novel.

Remember when FOTUS said he’d be a dictator for a day on day 1? Well, we know dictators NEVER cede power willingly. FOTUS: Day 17… still behaving like a dictator.

ELON MUSK IS BREACHING THE PAYMENT SYSTEM FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. HE IS STEALING OUR MONEY, EFFECTIVELY MAKING HIMSELF THE GOVERNING KING. TRUMP IS HIS PUPPET.

Hey MAGA, you turned the United States into the unequivocal villain in world affairs. Take that bitter spoonful of exceptionalism. No sugar. And I hope it rots in your guts.

Ours is no caravan of despair. — Rumi

1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them. It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests. I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights. Find the EO here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Trump is seeing what he can get away with, this time with more fervor than his first administration. Democrats and freedom loving people must oppose every step of the Trump agenda like they really believe the rhetoric that Trump is an existential threat to Democracy.

Lately, I’m having a hard time concentrating. Nothing like an existential threat to perk up the hyper vigilance. It’s going to be a long 4+ years.

The MAGA response to Bishop Budde and the executive orders issue by Trump tell me they are neither Christian nor patriotic. They are something insidious, the betrayers in our midst, antithetical to freedom and humanity.

“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” Being someone who has been declared illegal for merely existing, I have no choice but to resist. This makes me a criminal for the first time in my life.

This week has demonstrated how the people could pick Barabbas (Trump) over Jesus (Bishop Budde).

So far, Oklahoma is proposing 20 anti-trans bills in the State Legislature. A lot of them focusing on the official erasure of trans people, prohibiting documents, the use of pronouns, preferred names, and another drag ban.

Trump and his cohort do not understand grace and mercy. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s words are antithetical to their world view, which D.H. Lawrence summed up quite well in 1923. “The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”

Merrick Garland had to live up to one major expectation: hold Trump accountable. So, why did it take so long for him to launch pertinent investigations into the January 6th insurrection? What a milquetoast legacy!

Rachel Maddow referred to Elon Musk’s salute as a “Roman Salute.” She has surrendered some of her integrity. No more MSNBC for me.

The first executive order addressing trans people just came out. Trump disregards the 2020 U.S. Supreme Court Bostock Decision that gives trans people protections from discrimination. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Laura Ingraham gave this salute in 2016. Elon Musk today. People cannot contain themselves when it comes to their beloved orange man.

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr Day I’m thinking about the words, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." I do believe this, but today it’s a matter of faith, which, after all, addresses things believed despite the lack of evidence. 1/2

I don’t post on TikTok very often, a few of my poems over the last year. I just made a short video declaring my resistance to Trump 2.0. The algorithm immediately sent me to Facebook when I posted it. It seems the shutdown last night retooled the algorithm for Zuck, Musk, and company. WTF!!!

I’m seeing reports that TikTok is coming back. So, how convenient. Looks like Trump is in bed with China. How long before he and Xi Jinping fall in love with each other? 1/2

Does anyone remember the so-called Arab Spring in 2011, the remarkable series of revolutions that began in Tunisia and swept through much of the Arab world? The civil war in Syria that only recently ended with the ouster of dictator Assad started in 2011. 1/12

Tech bros are fascist like 12 year olds who lost a bid for class president. They want to exact their revenge for being unpopular.

My resistance is existence. I am not going back to the closet. They may take away my gender marker, but that reflects their confusion, not mine. I know who I am. I will continue to be authentically me as I have done for nearly 25 years.

I don’t understand how the oligarchs can reduce employment via automation while, at the same time, dismantle the socioeconomic safety net. Who will buy their products? It’s a disaster in the making. Billionaires are not job creators. They are job destroyers.

I wish the United States could have been like South Korea. They know what to do with an impeach president.

One reason I moved to Bluesky was to avoid the trolls and bots so pervasive elsewhere, most of whom had obviously made up names. I delete comments and block accounts that are platforms for abuse. Disagreement is a part of healthy debate, but abuse cannot be tolerated.

It seems Anita Bryant’s most enduring legacy is her hate campaign and a pie in the face. May JK Rowling have a similar fate. Maybe there’s a pie with her name on it?

I came out as trans 25 years ago. Over the years, I have seen a lot of progress toward understanding and accepting that gender identity is not a binary. However, it is painful to watch the vitriolic rhetoric against us coming from MAGA, Trump, and Musk. 1/5

Oklahoma City and its police department have discriminated against people with behavioral health disabilities, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday after …

I feel the same way. All the pre-election angst followed by the post election malaise. WTF? Democratic leadership is lacking as we slip into the abyss, probably because they’re focusing on their own golden parachutes rather than the welfare of our country. What a wasted legacy!

Tomorrow, we’re on the ride of 2025. I don’t think I have ever dreaded an upcoming year more than I am now. Generally, my attitude is f’em. I will seek and find joy however I can, finding my own liberation.